"Precht, I want to see Mavis's remains."
Just then, Yuri looked at Precht and said seriously.
"Impossible!"
Precht rejected Yuri's request without hesitation. He furrowed his brow, his expression serious, and said earnestly, "Although I'm sorry, I cannot allow anyone other than myself to go to the basement to see Mavis's remains! I haven't fully grasped the characteristics of ankhseram god's curse yet. If the curse erupts and I die, then you will have to continue guarding Mavis's remains until she is revived, do you understand?!"
"This…"
"We understand."
Although Yuri, Rita, and Warrod were unwilling…
They were all much more mature now than before and understood the principle that concern leads to confusion. All they could do now was follow Precht's arrangements and do their best.
"Phew…"
After Precht had made all the arrangements, he let out a slight sigh of relief.
Precht hesitated for a moment, then continued, "That's how it is then! Don't delay my research. Go on missions to your heart's content. Magnolia Town, the Fairy Tail Guild, and Mavis, I will protect them all."
"Alright."
Yuri and the others were silent for a while, then left with the list and materials Precht had given them. Their tasks were very heavy.
As for Precht, after he patiently coaxed Rita, Warrod, and Yuri away, he returned to the Fairy Tail Guild's basement, distraught and helpless. He looked at Mavis's remains in the magic crystal, and the baby in the cradle beside the remains, and spoke, unsure of what to do: "So what exactly should I do with Mavis's child?! This child, who defies all principles of life and was born from chaos, shouldn't even exist in this world, should he?"
After Precht thought for a long time, he finally seemed to have made a decision.
"Should I abandon him?!"
"If this child can survive…"
"Then it proves that this child is protected by the heavens and is not destined to die!"
"If this child dies…"
"Then it proves that even the high and mighty gods cannot tolerate this child."
After an entire day and night of internal struggle, Precht finally made a decision: to return this child, who should not have been born, to the heavens, and let God decide his fate.
And so, Precht abandoned this child in the wilderness, a child born with neither light nor darkness, born from chaos, who should not have existed in this world.
Precht said he was returning the child to the heavens, letting the heavens decide the child's fate, but in reality, he had no intention of letting this heavily sinful child live.
After all, this was the wilderness where monsters roamed…
Let alone a newborn, even adults or some weaker Magicians would face danger. Abandoning a newborn in such a place already indirectly explained everything.
Precht didn't want the child to live; he wanted him to die…
"Whose child is this? So cute~"
Just as Precht was about to return, he suddenly heard a baby crying and an adult cooing at the child behind him.
"Huh?"
Precht's face suddenly changed. He had just abandoned the child in this uninhabited wilderness, and the next second, someone passed by this deserted place and took the child away. Wouldn't that mean that even heaven couldn't bear to watch his actions?!
Precht thought, and he angrily turned around. He wanted to see who was secretly working against him.
As Precht turned around, what met his eyes was the senior Magician who had appeared on the day Makarov was born, the same day Mavis left Magnolia Town. This senior had suddenly appeared to save the dying Rita, and after telling them about ankhseram god's curse, had mysteriously disappeared again. He was the one who had not been seen for a long time, dressed in a white coat, wearing a clown mask, and behaving very strangely.
"Se-Senior?!"
Precht looked at the newcomer, his pupils trembling slightly. His voice shook as he tried to call out to the masked man in front of him. Because it had been so long, he wasn't even sure if the person in front of him was the mysterious senior from back then.
"Yo! Precht, long time no see…"
"The first thing I see when we meet is you throwing away a child!"
"You truly deserve to die…"
The masked man was, of course, Medivh. He looked over upon hearing the voice, greeting Precht while speaking in a cold tone.
"Senior! I have my reasons…"
"That child in your arms is not simple!"
Precht was still trying to justify himself. He looked at the infant in Medivh's arms with a fierce gaze, his voice sharp: "With your strength, you should be able to feel that the magic within this child belongs neither to light nor darkness, nor even to any known attribute in this world! He was originally someone who should not have been born into this world; his existence is one of the greatest variables and crises in this world! I am merely letting him return to where he should be, nothing more! I am not abandoning him."
"Sophistry…"
Medivh couldn't be bothered to say more. He held the young boy in one arm, extended a finger towards Precht, and said coldly, "Regardless, you need a lesson! Precht!"
"…"
Precht fell silent. He knew that everything he said was an excuse.
But how many people in this world understood his pain?!
What was it like to personally deliver your beloved's child? Do you bastards truly understand?!
Most importantly, the child he delivered had nothing to do with him!
That child's father was a scoundrel, and the child himself was a sin.
At least from Precht's perspective, that was the case.
Theoretically, he should have killed that child directly!
But this child was Mavis's after all, and he couldn't bring himself to do it!
Perhaps abandonment was the only thing he could do.
Everyone said, why would His Majesty's child not be loved?!
Then who would love him, Precht?
"Precht, less talk, take this!"
Medivh didn't bother to understand Precht's sycophantic mindset, which was inherently different from normal people. Someone like Precht, who was in the late stages of sycophancy, was even more vastly different from ordinary people. So Medivh directly skipped the understanding step and punched Precht hard in the face.
"Boom!!"
With a roar…
Precht was sent flying backward, silently shedding tears, unloved.
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