Sophinea falteringly stepped back. To her, mana had been the devil inside her body and a force that popped out recklessly, clawing herself and people around her. Azriel could understand Sophinea’s heart. She approached her and held her hand. The girl’s hand felt small and fragile. Azriel slipped her mana through the connected hands. Sophinea flinched in surprise and slowly relaxed to the soft and warm feeling.
“Are you scared? Are you worried that you’ll get hurt?” Azriel asked.
“No, not at all. It’s, warm,” Sophinea answered.
“This is my mana. It’s a fundamentally same force as your mana,” Azriel said.
“But, mi-mine is…,” Sophinea’s face darkened. Azriel withdrew her mana and said as she took a few steps back. “Your mana is only wild because it doesn’t have a leash.”
“Can, my mana, be good… like, yours?” Sophie asked.
“If you succeed in naming it. So, let’s try it,” Azriel convinced her.
“But if, if we can’t, name it, it’ll be a problem…,” Sophie said in a worrisome voice.
“That’s why I’m here. I’ll block it, so don’t worry. I won’t let anyone get hurt,” Azriel said as if it was nothing. Sophinea looked up at Azriel like a god and said as she shut her eyes tightly. “I will, try it.”
“Yes. Let it all loose. Don’t hold back anything. If it’s hard, screaming might help,” Azriel encouraged Sophinea.
Sophinea inhaled deeply and loosened everything she had been suppressing all along like a habit. Azriel saw stars pouring out from the tiny body of the girl. The flow of mana that had gravitation automatically stimulated surrounding mana. Stars stormed groups after groups. A whirl of stars was forming around the girl’s body. It affected the flow of actual air. A severe wind clawed everywhere. The girl’s platinum blonde hair fluttered randomly. Bluish moss under their feet was swept up.
‘Come to think of it, the magic that a nameless wizard invokes is similar to dragon eye magic, not ordinary magic. She’s not moving the external mana directly, but it automatically becomes magic like this…’
When the wind stormed, Sophinea opened her eyes in surprise. It was so severe that it was even difficult to open her eyes. The ringing sound that filled the void was horrifying like a howling of a beast. Overwhelmed by fear, Sophinea tried to stop her mana. However, the man that gained momentum poured out ceaselessly. The girl looked at Azriel, trembling. “Az, Azriel!”
“It’s alright. Don’t hold back,” Azriel reassured Sophinea.
Sophinea was in tears. The whirl turned bigger and reached Azriel who was a little further away. Her hair and hem of robe also began fluttering frantically. Azriel observed Sophinea’s mana with narrowly opened eyes. As the blue luminescent moss was swept into the whirl, the girl was now being wrapped in blue light. Since mana looked like stars to Azriel, the scene looked like a glary star group in which red stars and blue moss mixed and spinned together. She murmured, staring at it. “Sophie’s mana takes this kind of form when it’s released.”
“What, what kind…?” Sophie asked.
“It’s quite splendid and pretty, too,” Azriel said.
Sophinea’s face turned vacant. The girl stammered as she pushed her hair back which blew in the wind and covered her face. “Wh, what, is?”
“Your mana, Sophie. It’s like a whirlwind, strong and free,” Azriel approached Sophinea, straightly crossing the whirlwind. ‘Rhema named my mana Esthera because he saw stars from me. Then.’
“Seara,” Azriel siad.
“What?” Sophinea asked.
“It means whirlwind in Lemm,” Azriel explained.
“That’s, my…,” Sophie said with uncertainty.
“Yes. That’s your spell. Let’s try it,” Azriel put her hand over Sophinea’s hand and lifted it up and moved mana. “Sophie, try focusing on moving your mana.”
Azriel’s mana caught Sophinea’s mana which was pouring out randomly without any arrangement. She pressed it down and twisted it to shape it. When she was done arranging it, she whispered to the girl. “Can you feel that your mana has been arranged? It’s magic that makes a little whirlwind.”
“…!”
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