Chapter 1044 My True Name Is Morgan
Mash, who had been so shocked she'd forgotten how to speak, finally regained her composure.
"That person... could it be Mr. Beryl?"
"Correct."
Cnoc na Riabh answered frankly.
"It seems you had already guessed as much."
She glanced at Mash, then at Eiji who remained silent.
"Beryl, who came to this Lostbelt, summoned a Servant for his own amusement. Coincidentally, the Servant he summoned happened to be the Fairy Queen Morgan from Proper Human History."
"While Beryl was asleep, Morgan analyzed the Chaldean magecraft on his body and successfully deciphered the Spiritron Transfer technology. Then, she converted everything about herself—knowledge, experiences, memories, and more—into spiritrons and transmitted them to her past self living in this Lostbelt six thousand years ago, during the Fairy Calendar."
Spiritron Transfer has its limits.
Not only can it only reach temporally unstable points, but two identical individuals cannot coexist simultaneously.
The Fairy Queen Morgan could only choose to output everything about herself as pure information and deliver it to her past self in this world.
By doing so, she effectively died.
Leaving behind only one hope.
The hope that her past self could change the future where the Lostbelt Britain would be destroyed!
"The past Morgan who received everything from her, having learned about the genocide in advance, took advantage of the chaos to escape Orkney and began her pilgrimage."
"A happy childhood, and the entrustment of another version of herself, made her decide from the very beginning to betray her mission, determined to protect Britain."
Cnoc na Riabh closed her eyes.
Then opened them again.
All color seemed to drain from her eyes.
"Cnoc na Riabh is merely a borrowed name. As a Fairy of Paradise, I possess a true name bestowed upon me from the very beginning by the Inner Sea of the Planet."
"My true name is Morgan, Morgan le Fay."
"The very one you speak of—the iron-fisted, cold-blooded queen who ruled the Fairy Kingdom with ruthless policies 2400 years from now, who never cared for the lives of fairies, and who did nothing in the face of calamity."
At that moment.
Everyone was rendered speechless.
This answer had long been revealed.
Whether it was Eiji and Mash from the future, or Ector, Habenyan, and Grimm from this era.
Everyone had already guessed.
Cnoc na Riabh was Morgan.
Morgan was Cnoc na Riabh.
On the night the Rain Clan was wiped out, Cnoc na Riabh, having received the memories of her Proper Human History self, escaped Orkney amidst the chaos.
Since then, she had been dedicated to protecting Britain.
She fought against calamities for a thousand years, yet was still regarded as a witch by the fairies.
Renaming herself Cnoc na Riabh, she struggled with her companions for over two thousand years, yet failed to change the nature of the fairies. Even her last hope—Uther—was taken by the island's own self-destruction system!
"Ahead lies the location of the Fantasy Tree."
The party of four crossed Orkney and arrived at the foot of the towering Fantasy Tree that reached into the clouds.
Cnoc na Riabh stopped.
"Let us part ways here."
"Based on the future you've told me, I will remain inside the Fantasy Tree for 400 years, draining all of its magical energy. Once that happens, the Lostbelt nature of this Lostbelt will completely disappear."
"Four hundred years from now, when the Fairy Calendar reaches its end and the fairies of Britain are destroyed by the Great Calamity, I will use the magic of the Fantasy Tree to resurrect all the fairies. Then I will march south from here, conquer the four clans of Wind, Earth, Fang, and Wing, and become Morgan, the Queen of Winter who would rule Britain for two thousand years."
"After that, to ensure this world—deprived of the Fantasy Tree—continues to exist on Earth, I will envelop Britain with a Wall of Light. In doing so, this world will transform from a Lostbelt into a Singularity."
All of this.
She had already deduced it long ago.
It was just that she had been unwilling to accept it before.
Unwilling to accept that her closest brush with success would end in vain.
That was why she wanted to defy history.
Unfortunately, she couldn't even protect Uther, let alone the kingdom!
In the end,
history would completely revert to its original course.
From the very beginning, the will of this island was not to be challenged.
"Eiji, give me a medium."
Cernunnos turned around, and only when she looked at Eiji did a hint of color return to her gaze, her expression softening.
"A medium?"
Eiji was puzzled.
"Yes. After you leave, history will erase all traces of your existence. No one will remember you anymore—even my memories and Totrot's will be altered."
Cernunnos explained carefully.
"I will use magecraft to create a backup of my memories from this period, but I don't even know how much of it will remain intact by then."
"That's why I need you to give me a medium. When I see it 2,400 years from now, all my memories of you will be restored in an instant."
She would store the backup of her memories deep within her soul.
With a medium as the trigger, she would recover every memory related to Eiji.
"A medium... then let's use this."
Eiji pondered for a moment.
Then it dawned on him.
He summoned his Mystic Code and transformed it into a jet-black holy sword.
A reversed holy sword.
Although Eiji had purified it, its past form was still recorded in his soul. So if he wished, he could wield a holy sword in one hand and a demonic sword in the other.
"Isn't this...?"
Cernunnos looked at him in surprise, completely unaware that he still possessed such a thing.
She stepped forward and carefully recorded the model of the reversed holy sword, engraving it deep within her soul.
"Totrot, you come too. Use Mash's shield as your medium."
"O-oh, yes, I understand."
Habietrot was momentarily stunned but stepped forward as well.
She allowed Cernunnos to inscribe the memory-backup spell onto her.
"Alright, I have nothing more to say to you all. Let's part here."
Cernunnos looked at the three before her.
Suddenly, a wide smile spread across her face.
Then she took a step forward.
And threw herself directly into Eiji's embrace.
"I'll be waiting for you."
With those words,
Cernunnos walked toward the Fantasy Tree without looking back.
Even as she disappeared from their sight, she stubbornly kept her back turned to them.
"So, the gentle and kind Cernunnos of the past will vanish, replaced by the cold and ruthless Queen Morgan?"
Habietrot gazed at the spot where her friend had disappeared, her eyes suddenly brimming with profound sorrow.
"Ignoring the lives of any fairies and humans, is that truly Tonelico? She was so gentle even to a useless one like me!"
"Miss Habbycat..."
Mash didn't know how to comfort Habbycat for a moment.
"No, I shouldn't complain anymore. After all, it's not Tonelico who's wrong, but this world!"
Habbycat wiped her stinging nose and laughed heartily at Mash.
"Alright then! I'll take my leave now! I won't say goodbye forever, since we'll surely meet again someday! I'm off - Sheffield 2400 years later, I'll remember that!"