I Got Reincarnated as a Minor Character and I Won’t Give Up on TS – Chapter 547: The Most Magnificent Magician in This World 1-12
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“—So then, as for how we move forward from here: we just need to interfere with each of them so their consciousnesses wake up, right?”
“Yeah. Their consciousnesses are already tending toward awakening thanks to the power of the Harmony Insignia. With your interference added on top of that, they should wake up soon.”
“Right, understood. So we can just leave that hopeless liar over there alone, yes?”
Where Kei directed her disdainful gaze, there was the Conductor, trussed up in silver chains like a rolled-up mat. Behind the Conductor was the hole she had been embedded in until just a moment ago.
“Come oon. Please believe me. I only teased you a little because I wanted us to be friends, that’s all.”
“...Tch.”
Bound round and round in her underwear like that, Conductor even looked sensual. But that didn’t matter to Kei. Because of this girl, Kei had been forced to suffer humiliation she never should have had to endure.
“U-um, Kei-chan... are you okay?”
“Toa-chan.”
Kei turned to Toa, placed a hand on her shoulder, and told her with a serious face.
“Nothing happened. Right?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s right. That’s all it was. Now then, let’s begin.”
“Wait, please—am I really going to stay like this? Even after I gave it my all first thing after waking up for everyone’s sake? The moment it’s over, I’m tossed aside? ...That’s just like those people.”
The words murmured with downcast eyes and a sorrowful air carried genuine emotion. Kei stopped moving and turned back toward the Conductor.
“Those people...?”
“Kei-chan, that’s probably a lie too.”
“Yes, it’s a lie.”
“...Doctor, can I kill this one? What ‘Harmony Insignia’? What exactly are you trying to do by deceiving people just for your own amusement?”
“Kei-chan, you’re so very pure, aren’t you?”
“—!”
“(A gentle burst of laughter like dappled sunlight and a babbling brook coming to mind)”
Kei leveled her scythe at the Conductor, who was laughing elegantly. Magical power had begun to converge on its blade, and if she swung it, the Conductor’s head would likely go flying.
“Whoa, wait, please. You can kill me later, can’t you? There should be things to do right now. Please don’t get your priorities wrong.”
“Just whose fault do you think it is that this got so complicated?”
Doctor, exasperated, reluctantly stepped in to mediate. The Conductor’s personality was beyond help, but the fact remained that her Insignia was powerful. They couldn’t afford to lose her here over a lie.
“Kei, let her be. The Lecturer’s scolding is waiting for her later. For this one, that’s more terrifying than death.”
“...Just this once, for Doctor’s sake, I’ll overlook it.”
“Hehe, thank you. Though even without that, you couldn’t have killed me.”
The Conductor said that and stood up as if it were only natural. The chains wrapped around her unraveled like thread, becoming golden particles that adorned her. The world was harmonized so that this state was as it should be.
“Then want to test that?”
“If I gave you the wrong impression, I apologize. What I meant was that I haven’t finished harmonizing that child’s dream yet, so you should keep me alive.”
“So Nameless still hasn’t been done.”
“Yes. I only peeked a little into her dream, so I haven’t yet play—...harmonized it.”
“She said ‘play’...!”
The Conductor gracefully ignored Toa’s remark and headed to Nameless’s side. Then she lightly tapped the flesh-colored wall beside her with her index finger.
What appeared was a place familiar to Kei and Toa. The old school building, the usual members. The everyday life of Fectom Comprehensive Academy existed there.
『Honestly, Toa-chan, you’re as gluttonous as ever, aren’t you?』
『You have to chew properly, okay?』
『When I realized everyone was alive, I felt so relieved that I got hungry...! It’s so good!』
Nameless was heartily eating in the cafeteria while Kei and Miroku watched over her. The scene before them was so full of déjà vu that it felt as if that exchange had actually happened in the past. For them, it was an ordinary everyday scene. But for Nameless, it was already an ideal.
“Nameless...”
“It seems she has her own circumstances, doesn’t she?”
The Conductor sat beside Nameless. Then she placed Nameless’s head on her lap and began stroking her hair as if combing it.
“The reason I left this child for later is that even with my Harmony, the dream didn’t seem likely to break easily. If the ideal is that strong, she must have kept thinking of it day in and day out. What a brave child she is.”
“That’s right. Nameless loved everyone more than anyone else, after all.”
Kei also drew near and stroked Nameless’s head. Precisely because she had fought her, Kei understood that feeling painfully well.
“U-um, Conductor-san. Could it be that you’re going to do that kind of thing to Nameless’s dream too?”
Toa broke the quiet atmosphere and timidly pointed toward the Seeker. On the wall beside the Conductor, the Seeker was displayed being held up high at the front of a car barreling wildly across the wasteland with a huge convoy of trucks.
『Waaah! I’m sick of being the strongest already!』
Even for a nightmare, it seemed bizarre and left a bad aftertaste.
“...Could it be that every dream harmonization up to now has been like that?”
“It is, yes.”
The Conductor nodded with a smile at Kei’s question. Hearing that, Kei frowned.
“Including when my dream suddenly became strange?”
“Hmm? Surely nothing happened? I wouldn’t know anything about that.”
The Conductor’s smiling figure as she stroked Nameless was like that of the Madonna, and for a moment Kei almost believed her.
“Hehe. If you have any requests for the harmony of this child’s dream, please tell me.”
“What’s your goal in all this?”
“It’s my thanks, because I was very much entertained. And also—”
Even during this exchange, the Conductor did not look away from Nameless. She stared intently, as if trying to see even a little of what lay within Nameless.
“Because the radiance of this child’s dream is steeped in false adornment and is exceedingly beautiful.”
“What is this ‘dream radiance’?”
In answer to Toa’s question, the Conductor pointed to Nameless’s chest.
“We of Silver Twilight can each see the color of people’s souls corresponding to our Insignias. For Doctor, it’s the pursuit of knowledge; for Professor, it’s the heart that trusts in others, and so on.”
“That’s fact, for once.”
Receiving Kei and Toa’s gazes, Doctor nodded. With the endorsement of a decent person, the two finally listened seriously to the Conductor’s words.
“In my case, I see the degree of a soul’s stability as radiance. But the way it shines differs from person to person. There are all kinds of radiance, but... this child’s is very beautiful. She desperately tries to stabilize her own soul, deceiving herself. Hasn’t she lived her life up to now while pretending about many things?”
“...Depending on how you look at it, that might be true.”
“Of course it is, of course it is! After all, it is such a bleakly beautiful radiance. It is like a blue rose blooming at the center of a frozen spring. I find myself admiring this radiance that must never exist. I would never do something so boorish as to paint my own picture over a beautiful work of art. I respect people’s dreams and lies more than anyone.”
“Then what is that?”
『Waaah!』
“(A quiet, gentle burst of laughter like the faint light of a moonlit night)”
The Conductor said “Well then,” and looked at Kei.
“You seem to be especially important to this person. In that case, I should leave the direction of the dream’s harmony to you.”
“...Then I want you to make her wake up as happily as possible. I don’t want this child to experience any more partings. Even if it’s only a dream.”
“Yeah, this child has already done more than enough. So please let her wake up feeling good.”
“I see, I see...”
The Conductor listened to their opinions and nodded earnestly. Then, in a gentle voice, she quietly proposed this:
“Then, how about this: the shameless you appears in her dream, and she wakes up from excitement? (After-the-fact consent)”
“Wha—what are you trying to do!?”
“I don’t do well with damp, sentimental things. I prefer things that are dry and crackling.”
“Whoa, this is bad, Kei-chan! That’s how she sent me into a dream earlier too! Th-the shameless Kei-chan is going to appear in her dream!”
“(A huge laugh like a hymn echoing through a grand cathedral)”
『Shameless Kei content from over there!? If I get used to this kind of passive-income content, I’m gonna be done for!』
『Hey, why is her shamelessness fine but my super-lewdness no good? What kind of logic is that! I find that regrettable!』
『If she’s shameless, does that mean her thighs are thick and plump!? That’s it, isn’t it!?』
『Wait, Will of Heaven. That’s a hasty conclusion. One can be shameless even without being plump. Especially in social games—』
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