Emotion Taster

Arc 4 New Stage: Chapter 65 - The Magic of Amalia

The law in playing the game is fair. There is no such thing as cheating, only there is such a thing as management and efficiency. Everyone just needs to find their own way to be a winner, find their own skills and make the most of it.

When power is given, there must be a fee. Like buying and selling, like foreign exchange, like chemical equilibrium, follows all the rules under which the world is stable and fair. And so, Amalia must be like that, giving up something for the power she receives.

From the beginning the power of witches was an abnormal thing that humans could accept. Its existence that gives something peculiar becomes characteristic if the power is not for humans alone. So, indirectly, the humans who became witches have stopped being human.

I heard from Pero's explanation little by little, a factor that, if thought deeply, is horror.

From the case of Geza, Pero recounted that his corpse turned to dust and disappeared into steam, fusing with air. That is, their bodies are not human, they have become magic and not human anymore, just like creatures that happen to be human.

Strange enough indeed, I believe my memory of him while fighting is still clear. The lobster witch bringas boy has a body like a human who has a pulse, he can still bleed when injured.

If indeed his body is purely made of magic, would it not make more sense that every body is empty like light. However, in fact they do not, they only decompose into strands of magic when completely dead.

The answer I got was the same thing. The clumps of flesh, blood flow, bone shape and even his entire human metabolic system turned out to be just an illusion. Once a magician receives magic power, his body is also reshaped by magic in the same way, replacing his old body and ceasing to be human.

Their world would change, they would not be remembered as human, his death was only considered as something mystical. The bodies of the dead witches would be lost, they would no longer be acceptable as humans later.

That bad side should not be a mild side effect. The human side of a person will certainly defend if he wants to have the honor to be treated as another human being, even after death.

I asked Peter again if he had told Amalia about it before signing the contract.

Peter answered without hesitation. He talked to Amalia like a resourceful figure. Of course, all these things are clearly told. In fact, Pero told me moments while doing the contract, Amalia did not hesitate in the least when she heard that she would stop being human. Something that did not make him tremble to realize his wishes.

Peter said Amalia was desperate. He started giving up on his life and just let things go. The loss of her father and mother leaves her confused as to who she lives for, and where to go for her now.

Instead, being a witch according to Pero gives a special emotion in the middle of his emptiness. Her hollow body may have turned to magic, but Pero believes leaving Amalia in the void of a purposeless life has only made things worse.

“...”

That's the whole point of my conversation with Pero. While down the hill, bringing home a banana stem turned out to be not tired by telling stories.

I do feel that Amalia's life is not as bad as if she has lost her humanity or indeed she regrets making a contract with Pero. What he lived now had more of a clear purpose to gather where true happiness was for his later plea.

Then, the last question that tickled my curious heart.

“Pero, actually what application will be the purpose of Amalia later?”

Aye, right. I had never heard of it from Amalia, but at the same time I did not have a chance to ask. I have always shied away from him because of the effects of emotional waves. So, as much as possible privacy matters or anything that can boost his emotions I stay away from.

“If it's that, don't you want to ask Lia directly? It just so happened that he was only two hundred meters ahead,” replied Peter slightly turning.

“I now know he's an orphan. It's a little complicated if I ask him now. But, if the answer is taboo, I will not ask again.”

Information like this could probably be considered privacy by Amalia herself. The hesitation to ask pressured me and gave me a reflex to back off in conversation.

“Yes, the situation is a bit strange. Maybe he had no intention of that. Under the influence of her magic, Amalia told me straight through the mouth,” I replied explaining succinctly the results.

“It looks like you're a little misjudged, Kaivan. Lia's magic does make her represent the nature of those emotions while harnessing her new powers. But, the new nature does not mean out of Lia. Something he uses is his emotion, and it's still inside him.”

“I don't know where it is, Pero.”

“The bottom line, once Lia told me, whether it was in magic effect or not, Lia was still Lia. His consciousness is still the same, from the deepest heart he has allowed you to hear the story.”

“...”

It might calm me down because Amalia still trusts me. Sentences and words can still be used as a benchmark because it remains a part of him. After all, I should also be able to tell, he who used the emotion of anger to fight alone could now keep his self-awareness intact.

But, at the same time there was something sinister. If indeed it is still in the control and desire of the subconscious. That meant that his action that attacked me in the room was not an accident, but was planned.

Well, I don't want to bring any more strange feelings in my relationship with Amalia. So ....

“Pero, can you tell me what Amalia requests?” I keep the topic.

“Of course, I guess the current Lia won't be evasive either if you ask her. Indirectly, you can also find out. What Lia dreams of is actually very tied to the condition and background of her parents' death.”

“What does that mean an extraordinary plea to be willing to live behind his dead parents?”

“No, magic can probably do many magical things. But, that power still cannot be used to revive the dead. Life is only one, death only happens once.”

“Hoo .. so magic also has a limit, yes,” my mumble was loud enough to respond to the statement just now.

“Magic was used to create miracles, not to fix such taboo stuff,” explained Pero who replied to my mumble just now. “But, magic can grant such requests in different ways.”

“Ma-means ... livin' the dead using magic it's still possible?”

“Iya.”

“...”

Glucose.

My gulp was a little tense with Pero's reply.