Editing Tosho Meikyuu:Volume1 Chapter7 (section)

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''Psst psst psst.''	
	
With the sound of paper being torn apart, you leap across the strange rupture in your memory.	
	
"—Okutsuki-san."	
	
"Huh?...! Erika, what about my memory?"	
	
"I have torn out your memory as per the strategy you had inscribed. Now even the demon king's blood perception cannot take away your strategy."	
	
Erika, who had ripped out the ‘Last Prayer of a Thousand and One Pages’ without your knowledge she knew it, puts the page in an envelope, sealing it tightly as she replies.	
	
The tears have disappeared from her ultramarine eyes, suggesting that some time has passed during this period of memories that have been removed from you.	
	
"…Erika, are the measures to defeat the demon king inscribed in my memories?"	
	
"Yes. And I have replaced the information retrieved from your memory in the form of a '''timed memory''' that will be replayed due to certain circumstances during the battle with the demon king."	
	
"… So you mean the memory I’ll need in battle will pop out the moment I need to recall?"	
	
"Yes, it is a strategy to counter the demon king's bloodsucking after all."	
	
It appears that some part of your memory has been sealed away to prevent you from recalling. No matter how powerful the demon king's bloodsucking, and how outstanding her wits are, a strategy that doesn’t exist cannot be robbed or countered.	
	
"…The True Ancestor (Arteria) gave me the ‘memory tampering book’ as a defensive measure against the talent eater. Erika, since you locked my memory, that means the other preparations..."	
	
"They are complete. All I have to do now is to return to you the knowledge that can be allowed to be sucked away."	
	
Erika says, turns away from the desk, and hands over a document to you.	
	
"…'Prediction of the Demon King's Expanding Forces and Actions'. Father’s posthumous draft…!"	
	
"According to the information in this document, the demon king will need a certain number of human undead army (Immortals) to successfully implement a surface invasion. If they can get inside the barriers, the demon king will be able to attack."	
	
"So basically, a wall of Nosferatus is needed as a sacrificial shield for the demon king?"	
	
"Yes. And she’ll have to seek out the troops she needs for the surface invasion in the Labyrinth. Then the demon king's target is obvious. The ‘Floating Peak Library’, one of the most densely populated areas of the Labyrinth."	
	
Erika's fingertips point to a map on the document indicating several levels.	
	
"The ‘Floating Peak Library’ is an aerial ‘library’, and the only way in is by elevator. From this level, you must climb several kilometers up a steel-supported shaft, past the elevator hall guard."	
	
"A shaft of several kilometers…but if there are footholds around, I should be physically able to climb them up, right?"	
	
"You have to. If the demon king reaches the bustle of the Peak and deploys 'Silver Night', it shall be impossible for you to defeat her when she absorbs so much knowledge. Humanity's defeat will be final."	
	
In a low, cold voice, Erika informs you of the defeat conditions in this battle.	
	
The decisive battle against the demon king is also the decisive battle against ‘Kathédra’, and the moment you, the only power in the fight, are defeated, ‘Kathédra’s domination of all humanity will begin.	
	
"…But I have a victory condition."	
	
"Yes. The memory written down is sealed in this envelope."	
	
Erika gently hands you an envelope containing the page she has just torn out from ‘Last Prayer of a Thousand and One Pages’.	
	
The envelope is unmarked, unaddressed, and contains a trump card that will surely rewrite the ending of the story.	
	
"It’s the ‘Bladeedge Storm Spear’. If you can hit the demon king with the disarming spell and snatch the ‘Vampire Tale in the Labyrinth’, you can save the demon king from the darkness of memory tampering."	
	
Erika says with a serene voice as she takes a step towards you, standing there.	
	
The approaching ultramarine eyes cower with fear of death, but still look straight up into yours.	
	
	
"…Okutsuki-san…this may be the last chance, so please listen to me."	
	
	
Realizing that your memory capacity is running out and you are about to die, Erika says, 	
	
She wants you to live, to fight, and to die without worry, and so she puts on her best front.	
	
"Even if you die, I won’t forget you. Even if you are defeated by the demon king, the meaning of your life will not disappear. I’ll prove it to you."	
	
Erika says this decisively and holds out her slender left wrist before your eyes. This is for you to absorb the curse in her blood, ‘the ability to petrify one’s blood’ (Badblood).	
	
"So I shall entrust this to you. Please use my cursed blood and blessings for the end of this story."	
	
"…Yeah, I understand."	
	
You lace your fingers prayerfully on her outreached left hand, and bite on it with your vampire teeth.	
	
''Pssh'', the thin skin is torn open, and blood oozes out of the wounded capillaries, moistening your oral cavity with the smell of iron and a faint sweetness.	
	
You gently slurp up the blood to take away her uneasiness.	
	
"Chuu, ahh…alright, Erika, I’ve borrowed your humanity, your abilities, and your insecurities. On this blood and on Father, I will stop the demon king's story (scenario)."	
	
"… Yes. I believe in you. "	
	
Erika replies with a quiet smile in her ultramarine eyes, and backs away from you as though to sever any reluctance.	
	
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Now, you’re ready for battle.	
	
You tuck the envelope you received into your pocket and quietly turn on your heels, looking back through the open door and into the endless maze of endless bookshelves.	
	
"…."	
	
Somewhere in this endless darkness, there is a vampire whose memory has been tampered with.	
	
You are a character whose memory has been implanted with the truth in order to save the vampire.	
	
You are a half-human, half-demon whose memory will run out after your battle against the demon king, causing an Altered Shock that will destroy you, and had survived and will die thanks to the True Ancestor.	
	
And you’re the protagonist of this story, existing only to save Arteria from the darkness.	
	
"…Suu, haa…."	
	
Inhaling the jet-black atmosphere that seems to have been dyed with ink, you let out a long breath.	
	
And so you exhale long and hard all your longing and regrets you have left in this world.	
	
"…Arteria."	
	
You whisper the name of your beloved, and the memories engraved in the ‘Last Prayer’ respond to your feelings for the True Ancestor.	
	
‘By your feelings for Arteria, you shall surpass your physical limits and become stronger’, the tampered memory enhances your immortality and physical capabilities, sharpening your nerves and Magitzkveins, and slowing everything in sight to the limit.	
	
	
"I exist to save you."	
	
	
You are now a single hard stroke.	
	
The tip of a pen to rewrite the ending of the story.	
	
The memory of a line that True Ancestor inscribed on her beloved kin to oppose the demon king.	
	
You clutch the talisman at your chest, recall the True Ancestor's love that’s imbued into the crystal, and swear.	
	
	
"I will become—the mage (Doctor Magna) who can save you."	
	
	
Now, let's begin the endgame (climax).


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