Chapter 127 Memory
The Place in Front of Baria's House
Xenon asked, curious about Seria's words.
"Wait a minute. If I remember correctly, isn't your house completely destroyed? Why did you say that?"
Seria looked shocked. "Oh, sorry, sorry. To put it simply, the picture of Seraph's brother, obtained from Baria,
disappeared, along with our house being destroyed, and Baria's mother missing.
This is an important point, so I thought I'd invite you here. Anyway, Zenon, there might be something important happening, so I invited you to be my friend. I was going to tell you, but I happened to be interested in these two."
Zoe drew her sword, ready to teach Seria a lesson.
"Playmates, you guys?"
Seria raised her hand to stop her before another argument could break out.
"Calm down, I'm not finished yet. From Seraph's Journey,
The picture should have been there, but it disappeared.
Seraph's journey
Try switching the two things.
There's no painting.
People walk back here.
I asked Brother Seraph who Barrier was traveling with. Do you know the answer?
Louis shook his head tiredly, not wanting to talk to the little girl in front of him.
"Sigh... hurry up and tell me. We're busy playing with you."
Seria pouted at all three of them.
"How boring. The answer was one old man and one child, Barrier."
Zoe was getting even more confused. "It doesn't make any sense. Is your brain out of whack!?"
Seria shook her finger. "Brother Louis over there has nothing to do with it. I just saw Sister Zoe's figure and it looked like the picture, so I just dragged her along. The back that she turned looked just like it was good, that's all. Sister Zoe's back looked exactly like the picture. If Sister Seraph knew you two were coming here, there must be something going on. The picture is of a boy or a girl. It's unclear. It's painted in black.
Zoe stood up, ready to attack. "What should we do? Will Senior Louis handle this? This is a ridiculous reason."
Louis raised his hand to stop him. "Wait, wait. I think this might be related to both of you."
Louis took out a black paintbrush and held it up, showing it to Baria. The shape that appeared, startled Baria.
"Where did you get this?" Seria looked at the black paintbrush in Louis's hand.
Zoe stood, holding it close, looking at the black paintbrush.
"I got this on my way here. I saw that it fell along the way. Senior Louis kept it safe, feeling the spiritual energy in it."
Seria reached out to touch the black paintbrush. "Then, let me touch it. I remember its shape quite well."
Xenon looked at Seria, wondering what they were planning. "What are you planning to do? Your memory is excellent." "I can remember shapes very well."
Serene took the brush and held it. "It's obvious." [A magical item, the Golden Notebook. The ability to increase memory to its limit. That's why I'm so smart.]
"IQ is used in duels against intelligent people. Whoever has the higher IQ wins.
Intelligence, IQ, AQ, EQ. Let's just say, having a good memory. That's the definition of intelligence. Bringing together things you can remember, intelligent people have excellent memories.
Stupid people are often called stupid. Why is that?
Did you know?
I don't seem to know the answer. Let me tell you. A stupid person has nothing on their mind. They only remember useless things all day. A smart person only remembers what's necessary. They're called intelligent.
Amnesia vs. a good memory
This is the difference between intelligent and stupid people.
Everyone can become intelligent by memorizing knowledge.
It's like taking an exam. Why aren't they brought into the classroom with their previous books?
Do you understand now?
Books contain the answers in their memory. Just memorizing an entire notebook.
Just this much, and you can call yourself smart.
That's why I don't really like being called smart, just because you have a good memory.
Zoe gasped, hearing Seria's nonsense.
"That's nonsense. So, do you know what it is? This brush, if you have a good memory?"
Seria twirled the brush back and forth.
"As expected. It's a black brush. It's Baria's. It was given to Baria by Seraph.
It seems something happened, so it fell on the floor."
Louie thought. "So, what do you think you're going to do?"
Seria thought. "Senior Louie, you're involved with brushes or art, like paintings or something, right? There must be something to collecting brushes like this. What?"
Louie sighed. "Actually, my family used to be involved in art, like paintings, so I collected them because I think there might be something.
"Something like that What is it?
Louie took the black brush back, keeping it for herself.
"I think this brush belongs to my family. It was lost for so long, and it reappeared so strangely, that I wanted to bring it back to my family."
Louie looked at Seria.
Zoe both looked puzzled.
Seria smiled happily. "Then, congratulations. I'll be joining the Koren School on your journey, as a representative to build relationships with them. Please take care of me..."
Louie was completely confused, and the other two were also confused.
"What!?"
"Are you old or something? I'm going to join you, so please take care of me."
Seria waved once in greeting.
Zoe looked displeased. "Seriously? "
"Of course."
Xenon looked at the old, collapsing house.
"What do we do with this old, old house?"
Seria stood up, stretched, and prepared herself.
"Of course we have to go in and search for items. What can we steal? It's time to temporarily put on the thief's spirit."
Louie stood up. "Seriously? What do you want?"
"Still don't get it? How do you learn to remember? That black brush is Barrier's. So, it'd be even stranger if you didn't search his house. I'm here to do this. Just a warning, for the safety of the four of us. Be extra careful."
Zoe pointed at herself. "Me too?"
"Of course. You're some kind of key to solving the mystery. Don't disappoint me. Number one in some school."
And then came the most confusing story. Seria had prepared to take three others to search the old, collapsed house for a vague goal.
The four of them looked towards the old house of Baria's mother, which had collapsed.
Even the thief hadn't thought of anything valuable.
What could be inside? If Seria's delusions were correct,
there would be clues about the disappearance of the old paintbrush. Seria thought that Baria was in crisis. [Seraph left a clue, meaning he had to go help?] At first, she didn't think it would turn out this way.
What was waiting ahead? It couldn't be a coincidence.
Seraph knew the movement here, so he must have known these people were coming.
And knowing that since I got the clue, she was trying to skip school.
I hid in the restaurant.
But as I was thinking about the painting, I saw the back of
Zoe, who was turning around, painting something.
I was intrigued and called her over.
And rightly so. In this old house,
there was something that needed to be used with Baria's black paintbrush.
There's a chance that this Louis came here for some purpose. Who stole the picture of Barrier? There's no clue.]