Beatrice's eyes were already wet. Although his face was completely different, she could tell who he was from the gradually clearing look in his eyes.
Geuse is back!
"Betty, it's really Betty? What are you doing here? And where is this?"
Geuse reached out and held his forehead.
"What, what's going on... My head hurts so much... Lots of things... I can't remember..."
Geuse now felt like his brain was about to crash, like countless pieces of information were flooding into his brain.
"Hey, it was this goddess who helped you! Someone put a curse on you that messed with your mind!"
Aqua walked up to Geuse, left hand on her hip, right thumb pointing at herself.
"You should thank me! If it wasn't for me, you'd still be a crazy person talking with your head tilted!"
"You were just happily imitating him a moment ago."
Satou Kazuma glanced at Aqua, then turned to look at Geuse.
He didn't sense any hostility from him, and from what Geuse and Beatrice said, he seemed to have really returned to normal.
However, to be on the safe side, Satou Kazuma still needed to ask this person a few questions.
"What's your name? Do you remember?"
"My name is... Geuse."
"What do you remember?"
"I... I was fighting someone... I was forced to use the slothful factor that the wise man told me to keep safe... Wait!"
Geuse seemed to remember something, and immediately stood up excitedly.
"What about Emilia? What about Fortuna!"
"Emilia? You knew Emilia before? What are you to her?"
Natsuki Subaru looked at Geuse in surprise.
Before, when he was Petelgeuse, he was going to use his evil claws on Emilia.
But now he can still say the name Emilia, which means Geuse knew Emilia before.
"I am her..."
Geuse didn't know what to say for a moment. After thinking for a while, he said,
"I guess I'm like an elder to Emilia. I used to take care of her. Are you Emilia's friends?"
"That's right."
"That's great. How is she now? Is everything okay?"
"She's fine."
"That's good."
Geuse nodded with a smile. There was a hint of happiness in the corners of his upturned mouth.
"Then what about Fortuna? She's Emilia's aunt. She must be by Emilia's side too! The two of them are so close that it's almost enviable."
When Emilia was little, Geuse and Fortuna played the roles of foster parents, staying by her side.
Natsuki Subaru frowned slightly when he heard what he said.
He had never seen the so-called Fortuna...
He had never even heard Emilia mention this name.
If Emilia really had an aunt named Fortuna by her side, he shouldn't have not heard of her.
"Wait, wait a minute, what does the Emilia you're talking about look like?"
Natsuki Subaru asked doubtfully. He suspected that he had recognized the wrong person and was talking about someone else with the same name.
But in this world, there shouldn't be many people named Emilia, right?
"Huh? She's a half-elf, so she should be easy to recognize. Silver hair, purple eyes, and an innocent and incredibly cute face."
"Then we should be talking about the same person."
"And about the same height as Betty."
"Wait, wait, wait."
Natsuki Subaru shook his head.
Emilia's figure is considered tall among girls, definitely not like Beatrice's child-like form.
Is he talking about Emilia when she was a child?
"Betty, have you ever heard of Emilia having an aunt?"
Natsuki Subaru turned to ask.
"Huh, Betty, do you know Emilia too?"
"Betty hasn't known that little girl for long. Roswaal brought her back directly. Besides her brother Puck, Betty hasn't seen anyone else by her side, and I haven't heard her say anything about it."
Beatrice replied.
"What?"
A look of surprise appeared on Geuse's face. He never expected things to turn out like this.
Fortuna, isn't by Emilia's side?
That's impossible.
"My head hurts, it hurts so much!"
Geuse touched his forehead in pain, and the body that had just stood up from the ground staggered and almost fell again.
Beatrice quickly cast a healing spell on him, but it had no effect.
The Geuse in front of him wasn't injured.
"It must be a symptom of recovering his memories!"
Aqua explained from the side.
"There have been similar cases before. Some people were controlled by demons, and after recovering, they forgot a lot of things. These memories will gradually return, but with them comes a headache."
At this moment, more and more clear memories flooded into Geuse's mind.
He desperately tried to recall the last thing in his memory.
He was fighting someone...
It was a girl, wearing only a thin white cloth.
But her face always had a smile, and her deep eyes seemed to be able to see through people's hearts.
That's...
The Witch of Vainglory, Pandora.
But Geuse only remembered fighting her. He couldn't remember the result of the battle.
He couldn't remember what happened after that at all.
What happened to Emilia later?
Where did Fortuna go?
Geuse couldn't remember anything.
"I, I'm going back to the Witch's Cult right away! I have to find out what happened!"
Geuse said immediately, enduring the discomfort in his body.
"Don't you remember anything about what happened recently?"
At this time, Satou Kazuma sat down next to Geuse and asked.
"That's right... It feels like I've experienced a lot of things, but I can't remember anything. I remember the last thing was that I fought with Greed, and then the Witch of Vanity, Pandora, appeared... After that, I don't remember anything... Can you tell me what's going on now?"
"Right now, you're leading members of the Witch's Cult, preparing to carry out some terrible activities."
Satou Kazuma replied expressionlessly.
But he didn't mention that their target was Emilia.
Judging from his performance just now, Geuse seemed to really care about Emilia.
It might be too cruel to say it directly.
"I, I'm going to do something like that?"
Geuse looked at Satou Kazuma in disbelief, then turned to look at Beatrice to verify.
The latter nodded.
"I... how could I, how could I? Why did it turn out like this? Didn't any of the other cult members stop me?"
"Geuse, the current Witch's Cult is completely different from the Witch's Cult you once knew."
Beatrice sighed. Although she felt sorry for him, she thought some things had to be told to the person in front of her.
"The current Witch's Cult can be said to be a notorious terrorist organization all over the world."
"How did this happen? What happened?!"
Geuse's voice trembled. He really couldn't believe Beatrice's words.
"Huh? Wasn't the Witch's Cult always like this?"
Aqua asked curiously.
She still vividly remembered being chased by dozens of fully armed members of the Witch's Cult.
"In the past, besides preaching, we also helped local residents solve various problems. Although there were some extremists in the sect, the Witch's Cult as a whole was just an ordinary religious group. What happened?"
"Betty doesn't know. It seems like without realizing it, the Witch's Cult has become what it is today."
Beatrice shook her head.
"Strange, Petel... Geuse, you really don't remember anything about what happened after that."
Natsuki Subaru asked.
"I'm sorry, I really can't remember anything now... But I'm afraid I've really done something irreparable."
Geuse lowered his head and looked at his hands. A wave of sadness and regret swept over him.
"Hey Betty, he can remember things from the past, so why doesn't he remember things from recently?"
Satou Kazuma asked Beatrice curiously about the situation.
"I'm afraid Geuse has had false memories implanted by someone else, that's why he's like this."
Beatrice said with a serious expression.
"Betty has read her mother's books before, and one of them mentioned that memories shape a person. Memories are like an important part of the soul, and can even be said to be the essence of a person. If you seal someone's past memories and then inject a false memory, then strictly speaking, he is a completely unrelated person. His personality, way of speaking, preferences, and so on will all change. And just now, Aqua probably deleted the tampered memories, and the seal on the original memories was lifted. Who can do this?"
Beatrice was extremely concerned about this matter.
There are only a handful of people in the whole world who can seal and modify memories.
And Aqua... can actually restore them directly.
Although Beatrice didn't see the scene of Satou Kazuma being constantly resurrected by Aqua in this loop, she had already determined in her heart that Aqua was an extraordinary existence.
"Where's Emilia? I want to see her now! Please help me take me there!"
Geuse said with great seriousness.
He didn't know what happened after that, so he had to go to Emilia to confirm.
At the same time, Geuse's heart was also very eager to see Emilia again, who he once regarded as his daughter.
How happy and joyful their life was with Fortuna in the great forest.
"I'm sorry, we can't do that right now."
Satou Kazuma shook his head and refused Geuse's words.
"How should I address you?"
Geuse asked very politely.
"Just call me Kazuma."
"Excuse me, Kazuma-sama, is there a reason why it's inconvenient for me to go to Emilia?"
"Um..."
Satou Kazuma didn't know what to say for a moment.
Geuse's eyes were extremely sincere at this moment.
But...
That face of his, combined with those eyes, was really out of place.
Under the green mushroom head was a face that Aqua would mistake for an undead. No matter how you look at it, he looks like a bad guy, right?
Even putting him in a village would scare the children to tears.
It would be a bit inappropriate to let him see Emilia now.
"Excuse me, Kazuma-sama, why do you keep looking at my face? Is there something on my face?"
"Um... does anyone have a mirror?"
Satou Kazuma searched for a long time but couldn't find anything suitable, so he had to take action himself.
"Freeze."
He cast a spell on a cup filled with water, and a cold wave instantly swept out, submerging the cup.
But...
The scene of the water instantly freezing into ice didn't happen.
"Um, what are you doing?"
"Wait a minute, just wait a minute, it'll be ready soon!"
Satou Kazuma said immediately.
"I say, Kazuma, you're not trying to freeze the water into ice, are you?"
Aqua looked at the cup on the table, and then a face full of mockery appeared on her face.
"Good luck, if you try a little harder, you should be able to catch up with the efficiency of a used ice maker!"
"Shut up, you useless goddess!"
Satou Kazuma said through gritted teeth.
He had clearly mastered some low-level magic.
But...
Is this all he can do?
Fire magic only makes people feel hot.
And ice magic can't even freeze a cup of water in half a day!
Damn it, damn it!
Can magic become stronger through practice?
After several minutes of 'cooling', Satou Kazuma finally completed his work and froze the water in the cup into a block of ice, which could barely be used as a mirror.
"Here, Geuse, take a look for yourself."
Satou Kazuma said, handing the ice mirror to him.
Geuse took the mirror and looked at it—
"A ghost!"
In the next moment, Geuse's eyes rolled back, his legs went weak, and he almost fainted again.
"Are you okay, Geuse?!"
After Beatrice grabbed his shoulders and shook him for a long time, Geuse gradually came back to his senses.
He took a deep breath. His mental state was already poor after just recovering his memories, and he had suffered repeated blows just now, and his will was already a little blurred.
"I, I seemed to have a hallucination just now, and saw a very terrifying guy appear in front of me..."
"Ah, isn't that what you look like now? That's definitely not a hallucination!"
Aqua had already returned to her seat, sat down, and was eating the food on the table while teasing Geuse.
"Even among the undead skeleton soldiers or zombies, you're considered ugly. The first moment I saw you, I couldn't help but cast Turn Undead."
"..."
"Geuse, wake up! Don't faint again!!"
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