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Mahoyaku Mainstory 2 - 6.3

Snow: Oz dear, the future we prophesied isn't one that has to do with your fate.

White: It's about Arthur's fate.
We came to tell you out of compassion.

Snow: If you don't want us to deepen your sorrows, we will stay quiet and go home.

White: Forget all about the child who grew up in this castle.

Oz: ……

Oz: What have you prophesied about Arthur? Are there ominous perils ahead?

Snow: Arthur will be summoned as a Sage's wizard from Central country.

White: And then, during the fight with the Great Calamity, he will die and turn to stone.

Oz: ……

Oz: Arthur will…

Oz: …Turn to stone…?

Snow: Yes.

White: Yes yes.

Oz: …
…How is that believable?
I refuse to believe your words.

Oz: The fight against the Great Calamity is nothing but a ritual.
There is no way one would lose their life.

Oz: A while ago, you were the ones who said that !

Snow: However, that is the prophecy.
A fate foretold cannot be changed.

White: You don't have a long time left.
Make sure to spend it without any regrets.

Oz: ……

Oz: …Arthur will die…?

Oz: Arthur will, to the moon…

Oz: …Like I'd accept that…

Snow and White: Our prophecies can never be changed.

Oz: …I can't accept that…!

[ Granville Castle ]

Arthur: …Hm?

Arthur: I thought someone was calling me but, it must have been my imagination…

Arthur: Today was a good day.
It gave me hope that one day, I can have a heartfelt exchange with my uncle.

Arthur: There is a trust you can obtain only by showing that you are willing to make sacrifices.

Arthur: …Even though I ended up getting scolded by Master Oz…

Arthur: The voice he scolded me with, it was so nostalgic.

[Oz's room]

Oz: ……

Lightning could be seen in the darkness outside, the fire in the fireplace gradually burning out.

After Oz finished speaking, I sat shocked.

Thinking about it, Oz was telling me about the twins' unpleasant prophecy from the day I came to the Magic Headquarters.

Akira: (So that was about Arthur…)

Even if my brain understood it, it still hadn't reached my heart.

I mean, that sweet prince's smile, out of every living thing in the world, would die.
It felt so wrong.

Smiling in a easy going way, the boy who flew into the sky.
I thought of Arthur as a friend even before I met him.

I heard about him through the twins.
I felt so close to him through everything in the previous Sage's book.

No matter how Snow and White's prophecies can't be changed.
A future where Arthur dies, I definitely don't want to believe it.

Akira: …Oz, even if they're prophecies, they can be changed, right…?

Oz: …The twins' prophecies can never be changed.
Fate is always determined by the path laid by the stars.

Akira: …That…But…

Oz: I also tried to change fate.
Without even knowing the reason, it interrupted me when seizing power over the world.

Oz took another deep sigh, and loosened his fists, trying to pry his fingers apart.

Looking down at his hands, he muttered.

Oz: …My attempt should have been successful.
I got chosen as a wizard from Central.
Even a crest appeared on my body.

Oz: I thought I could become a substitute for Arthur's destiny but the new sage summoned Arthur.

Akira: That means…!

Oz: That was you, Akira…I couldn't overwrite fate.

At a loss for words, I remembered a scene I once saw.

The words Oz muttered when he saw the crest on Arthur's hand that time we went to pick him up in the North.

Why?

Akira: By successor, did you perhaps mean substitute? Of Arthur? Of a Central wizard?

Yes. Mithra also said it. That I was a genuine Northern wizard.

It's strange, for him to be summoned as a Central wizard.

Oz: I guess that can be said.
I didn't think it would hurt me in any way while fighting against the Great Calamity.

Oz: I overwrote my destiny.
But you changed it back.