Arc 24: The King is Busy in Many Ways

Chapter 227: Memories, and a Reunion with Mother

I am being chased. A man wearing a mask and black clothes (or maybe its a woman, I am not sure) brandishes the curved sword from his waist and cuts my back with a single stroke.

Ive fallen because of the shock to my back, but even so, my right leg is mowed down horizontally as Im about to try and stand up to continue escape. The cut from the knee downwards makes me fall down. I put up my right arm trying to defend against the blade that he swings down again and my arm is cut from my wrist up and falls down. Fresh bright red blood splashes in the back alley, dyeing my field of vision.

Ill die. Ill be killed. I dont want to. I dont want to die. I need to escape away to a place where these guys cant follow me. I must escape from here. If I dont want to die, I must escape.

The moment she thinks of that, Sakura instantly mutters the words that pop into her head.

(ED: This is a flashback of Sakuras memories due to [Recall]. Touya is experiencing Sakuras memories, and the pronoun I is referring to Sakura up until before this point. At this point of the flashback, Touya is now referring to Sakura in a third person view. Think of it like a flashback in some anime. In the first part, Touya is inside Sakura while shes having those experience. In this part, Touya is no longer inside Sakura, but hes now looking at Sakura from the sidelines, having a body of his own as he is watching. This whole flashback is somewhere along those lines.)

Tele-port

At the next moment, Sakura falls down into the water. She struggles with her limbs without understanding what has happened, but she cant do anything. Her body cannot oppose the current. Her breath is breaking up, and so, Sakuras consciousness fades away due to the pain and those injuries.

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I, who is holding both of Sakuras hands and who has invoked [Recall] after touching foreheads, experience her memories and open my eyes afterward.

I see. So was it like that?(Touya)

I remember. I amFarneseFarnese Forneus. That day, I was attacked along with Spica-san. Then I(Sakura)

Sakura spins her words as if shes confirming her own memories.

I have a rough idea why Sakura was in Ishen. Probably, she has unconsciously awaked her no-attribute magic from the fear of being attacked. The word [Teleport] is probably a way to transfer the same way as its name implies. By using that magic, she has transferred to Ishen and has fallen into a river. Have her horns disappeared for some time due to her exhausting her magic power?

Your memories have they returned?(Spica)

Spica-san timidly calls out to Sakura.

Its still vague butI know. About Spica, and my mother. Ive remembered. Various things(Sakura)

Farne-sama(Spica)

Spica-san sheds tears like a waterfall. Sakura, who saw that, make a tiny smile, but I, whos holding her hands, have understood that shes shivering slightly.

Sakura Is it possible that you are scared?(Touya)

HmA little Because I didnt want to remember that I was about to be killed(Sakura)

She stiffly smiles with a slightly pale face. Its understandable. Ive ended up making her clearly recall her memories of when she was about to be killed. She doesnt have amnesia, but those are memories she wouldve wanted to forget.

Its alright. Ill strike down every single one of those guys who will try to hurt Sakura. You dont need to be afraid anymore(Touya)

I gently pat Sakuras head like that and tell her to be at peace. It may not be a trauma that can be easily wiped off, but I want to somehow do something about it.

Hmm If its King-sama, I feel safe(Sakura)

Sakura faintly smiles and comes clinging tightly to me.

U-umm, Sakura-san? If you do something like that, you see, Spica-san, whos sitting in front of us, will show me a face that I cant describe in any way, so I would like it if you could possibly restrain yourself, but

Haa! I can feel gazes on me!

I look at the door of the room after hearing a sound of it opening, and I can see the faces of eight girls lined up vertically from the little open gap. Hiiii! What kind of totem pole is that!?

The ninth one, right?

The ones whose voices have muttered uniformly are my fiancees. Wait, stop that. Dont turn your faces as if youre shocked, saying [Aaaah] or something!

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[Teleport] is a magic which is hard to handle even among transfer magic. Frankly speaking, I think the ease of use of [Gate] is better(Rin)

Rin explains while drinking tea,

How exactly is it difficult to handle?(Touya)

First of all, you move to a [Location] you recall in your mind with [Gate], but to move with [Teleport], you must know the parameters of its [Direction] and [Distance], you see. You cant transfer to a location if it has another object on it, and only the practitioner can become the target of this magic to begin with. Though its possible to transfer together if you hold hands, but doesnt it mean that only two additional people can move at most?(Rin)

Then, when Sakura transferred to Ishen(Touya)

I suppose that the [Direction] was random, and she jumped as far as her magic power allowed her to, exhausting itself completely. Its just a good thing that the place she had jumped to wasnt above the sea(Rin)

I see. That couldve happened too. There are a lot of dangerous