Enigma :
Beatrice, the Great Spirit. An artificial spirit, created by the Witch of Greed herself Echidna. Before she passed from this world, Echidna gave Beatrice a single order: to watch over the Forbidden Library, a vault of all her knowledge, and to wait for “that person” who would one day come to take her away.
She entrusted Beatrice with a book that claimed to reveal the future. But Beatrice did not know the truth… “that person” would never come, and that the so-called Tome of Wisdom was empty. It was all a test, a final curiosity of the Witch of Greed: who would Beatrice choose in the end?
So four hundred long, lonely years passed. No one came. No one worthy. And Beatrice, unable even to take her own life, fell deeper and deeper into despair, believing her day would never come.
Until one day a boy appeared. A black-haired boy, who had no power, no promise, no reliability to speak of and yet he found his way to the Forbidden Library. Day by day, this boy defied her every expectation, until at last the fateful moment arrived.
That boy, Subaru Natsuki, stood at Beatrice’s door. He begged her to abandon her promise to Echidna. He pleaded with her not to give in to despair, but to choose him instead. To choose to protect him. To choose to cherish him. To choose to stand by his side, no matter what.
He was not “that person.” But in the end he was exactly who she needed.
2025-07-01 08:11:49