While they were walking, Haruka said:
May I ask you again?
Yu replied: No, thank you.
She said annoyed: Damn you, I'll ask anyway.
He interrupted her, saying: If you're going to ask anyway, why do you ask for permission then?
She continued, ignoring him, saying:
Is there magic for time or space?
He replied: Of course, there is spacetime magic.
She answered excitedly, truly happy: Where? And who uses it?
He said: Yes, it exists, but only within the royal family, because they are the only ones who inherit the yellow eyes.
She replied nervously: The royal family? Do you mean the king? And what does eye color have to do with power?
He answered: The current king does not have those powers; they were taken from him.
She asked in confusion: How is that?
He began explaining to her:
In truth, this kingdom has a long and complicated story. In ancient times, this kingdom would give birth to only one heir, whose eyes were always yellow, and who inherited the power of spacetime. But one day, I think about 549 years ago, twins were born: a girl with yellow eyes, and a boy with purple eyes.
The king ordered the boy to be killed, because only one person can inherit that power in each generation, and the other becomes the one who destroys the kingdom.
After years passed, the girl grew up and inherited that power, but something unexpected happened. A revolution arose, and the rebels managed to overthrow the royal family, as well as the girl, and they executed them all.
In the end, it turned out that the one leading that revolution was the very boy the king had ordered to be killed.
She replied: H-how is that? Didn't he die?
He said: No, he was saved at the last moment, and one of the opponents of the kings took care of him.
She said: Bu… but how did he manage to subdue them? And his sister possessed spacetime magic— isn't that considered one of the strongest types of magic ever?
He replied: That's because her brother possessed a power far stronger than hers… stealing the magic of others.
She said: W-what? Is that even possible?
Then she added: Even if such a power exists, isn't it considered forbidden??
He replied: Will you let me finish, and enough with the questions!
She said: Alright…
He continued:
Where was I? Ah yes… his power was stronger than hers, so he stole her power and intended to destroy the kingdom. But he failed, because his cousin stopped him and sealed him.
In the end, rule was offered to him, but he refused and handed it over to his brother. And his brother ordered the killing of everyone born with purple eyes.
The end.
She said: Huh? What do you mean "the end"? What does this story have to do with my question? I asked you: who possesses the power of spacetime now?
He replied with a smile: No one.
She said in shock: What do you mean no one? Why did you tell me that story in the first place?
He replied:
No one possesses that power now, because the power that once existed was stolen by someone who had purple eyes, who was the last of his kind and has died. And in this generation, twins were born as well— one girl and one boy.
She said in shock: W-what? Isn't this just a repetition of what happened before? Did they kill the boy like before?
He replied: No.
She asked: Then the girl?
He replied: No.
She asked again: Then who?
He answered: No one died.
She said: Then what? Explain it to me!
He replied: The twins who were born in this generation…
The boy possessed yellow eyes.
She asked: And what about the girl??
He said: The girl possessed, in her left eye, an eye of yellow color, and the other eye was blue.
She said: Whaaat? Didn't you say that only one person inherits that power?
He replied: Don't shout…
Yes, I said that, but we don't know who inherited it exactly. They were left alive only because they were afraid— if they killed the girl, and it later turned out she was the heir, then those powers would never exist again.
She said: And if the boy awakens that power, what will happen to her?
He replied: She will be executed immediately.
She said: And if she awakens it?
He replied: The boy will be executed.
She said nervously: That means that in the end, one of them will die… but how will they know who awakened it?
He said: Well, that's because during its awakening, the person's eye transforms— how should I explain it— it's as if the numbers of a clock and its hands are drawn inside the person's eye.
She said: Ah, I understand, but isn't that a bad ending? The siblings will now have a bad relationship and divisions between them.
Then he said: We've arrived… at the capital.
To be continued