THE ACADEMY’S WEAPON REPLICATOR

I asked,

“Did you fight a war against God with other humans, Jeanne?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Then was it God who forbade you from speaking?”

“…”

Jeanne remained silent and kept smiling.

Was this already forbidden from here? Moreover, I couldn’t tell whether it was a yes or no from her expression.

But even this alone told me something important.

‘Whoever did it, the way they’re forbidding it is clumsy.’

At this moment, even though I couldn’t hear the answer, I clearly knew which answer was ‘forbidden.’

This strange silence was definitely Jeanne giving me a sufficient answer.

“The reason you used the term ‘we’ is because the word ‘giant’ is forbidden, right?”

“…”

Still silence. Forbidden. But silence here was as good as a yes.

In other words, if it was about confirming my deduction rather than unknown information, the speech ban was almost meaningless.

I fell into thought for a moment.

It was impossible to know what kind of statements were forbidden.

But if I believed that Jeanne was on our side, she would give me her own hints, just like she had just signaled the speech ban.

I asked,

“Were you waiting for me, Jeanne?”

“The question is inaccurate.”

Jeanne shook her head. But there were no further words. Did she mean that the current answer was sufficient?

“…Were you waiting for ‘Frondier de Roach,’ Jeanne?”

“No.”

This time she shook her head.

“Were you waiting for someone with the Weaving skill?”

“That’s part of it.”

Still a slightly ambiguous answer. But it was definitely a yes.

She wasn’t waiting for Frondier, but she was waiting for someone with the Weaving skill.

There was no doubt. Weaving was a skill that existed since ancient times. But Jeanne didn’t know that the person with that skill in this era was Frondier.

The rank of Weaving was ‘Unique.’ The Unique rank was only possible when there was only one person with that skill.

Then how did Jeanne know about Weaving? And if she knew that such a person would appear someday, why didn’t she know it was Frondier?

My head was spinning. But the question came out simply.

“…What exactly is Weaving?”

I assumed that the answer to this question would also be forbidden. If it was God, I thought they would have forbidden it.

But Jeanne said,

“Really.”

With a satisfied smile.

“Good question.”

“Isn’t it forbidden?”

“God can’t forbid this statement.”

Jeanne chuckled and put her finger to her lips.

“Because they don’t know.”

“…!”

“They only know the danger of Weaving. Because it replicates their weapons. But they don’t know its true nature.”

“…Do you know, Jeanne?”

“Not completely, but to some extent.”

Jeanne said so and cleared her throat with a cough. Then she asked me,

“If I were to ask you in return, what do you think Weaving is?”

“…Literally, I think it’s the ability to replicate objects.”

“That’s right. However, as illusions.”

That’s right.

Weaving replicates, but it replicates as illusions. Illusions that have no effect on reality, that only I can see with my eyes.

In other words,

“It’s fake, right?”

“…Hehe.”

But Jeanne laughed at my words.

“Fake, huh. Well, it’s natural to think that way.”

“Isn’t it?”

“You’re not wrong. But you’ve actually used Weaving to get this far, haven’t you?”

She was right.

No, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Weaving was almost all of my power.

I had learned various training and weapon techniques over the years, but it was absurd to think that I could defeat strong enemies without Weaving.

“…Yes, I have.”

“The owner of Weaving has an acquisition condition.”

“…Excuse me?”

“Isn’t that usually the case with skills? You learn, train, and study to meet the conditions before you acquire a skill. Weaving is the same.”

…?

I tilted my head, not understanding even after hearing a rather long explanation.

Weaving has an acquisition condition? Frondier had it from the beginning, didn’t he?

‘No, I can’t be sure. I possessed Frondier’s body midway. Maybe Frondier met the condition first.’

I finished my own speculation and asked again,

“What is the acquisition condition?”

“Why do you think the illusions created by Weaving are actually like that?”

“…I don’t know.”

I took it for granted that Weaving replicates objects, and that they don’t become real.

You can’t make something out of nothing. It was just common sense.

But the illusions of Weaving, which clearly exist as images. What principle do they operate on?

“The reason Weaving creates illusions is not because they’re fake. They’re like ghosts. Ambiguous whether they exist or not, untouchable, visible only to those who see them. But they definitely exist there. Just like me now.”

“…I see.”

I answered that way, but I didn’t quite understand.

I couldn’t tell the difference between the two. Weren’t they ultimately fake?

“Ghosts actually exist, right? Have you ever met one?”

“…Well, I’ve actually seen evil spirits and demons.”

“How did you meet them? They’re invisible and untouchable.”

“It was during the process of accepting Helheim’s mana.”

There.

I understood why Jeanne brought up the topic of ‘ghosts’.

Jeanne smiled faintly.

I lost my expression and muttered,

“…Another world.”

“Yes, that’s it.”

“Because it’s another world, it can’t be touched and exists as an illusion.”

“But since you created it, you’re the only one who can observe it, even though it exists in another world.”

A chill ran down my spine.

Jeanne said,

“The acquisition condition for Weaving is to have already experienced another world.”

Then she pointed at me.

“It wasn’t ‘Frondier de Roach’ who met the condition.”

With that gaze that seemed to look beyond my eyes, into my pupils and irises, and beyond.

“It’s ‘you’.”

[T/N: It seems there’s no accurate spelling for this character Joan of Arc/Jeanne d’Arc, so I’ll be leaving them as they are translated by ChatGPT]

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