"Gagarin?!"
Olga Marie flipped through the book in her hand that was written in crooked handwriting that was definitely not beautiful, and opened her mouth in surprise.
Although it goes against the ladylike etiquette she has adhered to since she was a child, it just proves how unexpected the content in the book is for her.
After all, it was Gagarin.
He is the first human being to enter space.
It is also a landmark event that has been regarded as a serious decline in the history of magic and 'mystery' since it entered modern times.
Therefore, Olga Marie had extremely complicated feelings about Gagarin and the human aerospace industry that he represented behind him.
On the one hand, as a member of the human race and a qualified 'noble', she sincerely admires that great deed and the people who accomplished it.
However, on the other hand——even if she and the Animusfia family had actually been excluded from the core of the Magic Association centered on the Clock Tower a long time ago, they only maintained a vague relationship. Despite her so-called "monarchy" status, Olga Marie is a magician after all.
A magician whose mystery will be whittled away by the constant advancement of science.
"It would have been better if humans had never developed science from the beginning." This kind of thing always came to Olga Marie's mind when she was a child.
In the end, the magician will eventually embark on the path of "inhumanity" and become a creature that abandons all beautiful emotions and morals and spends its entire life just pursuing the roots, a creature that looks like a human but has completely lost its core.
Although he claims to be rational, in a sense, magicians are more like beasts that act purely on desire.
Therefore, magicians do not desire to understand humans, but rather hope to completely separate themselves from weak humans.
————That’s how it should be.
But perhaps because she was forced to take over the legacy of her father when she was a girl, Chaldeas, which was supervised and managed by the United Nations and was a combination of science and magic, Olga Marie did not transform into a complete woman. A magician in the sense of the word.
However, just looking at Olga Marie's social circle, although there is only one person in her generation who can control an entire monarch family like her, there are still many people who still retain basic human common sense.
…………Maybe it’s just that they, including her, are still too “young” and haven’t lost their innate human appearance.
Although she did not understand why he committed suicide, Olga Marie respected her father, Marisbili Animsfia, who founded the institution Chaldeas.
Therefore, it has always been Olga Marie's goal to continue operating Chaldeas and use it to allow the Animusfia family to return to the core of the Magic Association and explore its roots.
Not only does he want to show his talents to others and seek recognition, but he also wants to fulfill the long-cherished wish of the Animusfia family for thousands of years.
However, if one wants to put aside the status of the monarch’s family and ask her why she is seeking the root——————
Olga Marie couldn't give that answer.
Regardless of her short-sightedness or limited abilities, Olga Marie has always focused on the operation of the organization after taking over Chaldeas.
As for what kind of future she should pursue as a magician, Olga Marie, who was overwhelmed by the pressure of complicated affairs, had long forgotten it.
Looking back now, Olga Marie can only rate herself as an unqualified magician.
After all, if she really had to choose, becoming an astronaut and launching into space might be more attractive than exploring the source of the mystery.
"Gagarin...ah..."
Olga Marie sighed deeply, tucked a strand of her silver hair between the pages and closed the notebook.
In any case, the owner of this mansion definitely does not have good reading habits.
Olga Marie searched almost all the rooms she could enter but could not find even one item that could be used as a bookmark.
But Olga Marie cared more about the details she saw in the book than her own hair.
She really didn't expect that Gagarin, who was on the scientific side, was actually qualified to become a Heroic Spirit.
If I had not been betrayed by Leif, would I have had the opportunity to understand such a unique existence?
"It's really incredible."
"What do you mean by this? Comrade."
An untimely, even somewhat abrupt voice sounded from behind Olga Marie.
"……………………"
Olga Marie was silent for a while, and then turned around helplessly.
Although she was almost used to it, she still couldn't completely accept this kind of person suddenly appearing behind her.
It's really scary, this kind of thing.
Looking at the man in front of him who was slightly thin, even shorter than herself, and wearing a dark green military uniform, Olga Marie said:
"If my guess is correct, you are probably Mr. Yuri Gagarin, right?"
Hearing Olga Marie's words, Gagarin's eyes flashed with surprise, and then turned to relief.
"I didn't expect you to know my name, miss. But you don't need to use the word 'you' to me. I'm just a child from an ordinary farmer's family."
"Then let's call him 'you'. Even though I say that, you don't seem that surprised?"
This time it was Olga Marie's turn to be surprised.
"Well."
Gagarin took off his military cap and flicked it a few times before putting it back on his head.
"I'm famous after all, aren't I? Ever since I returned from space."
"Well, that's probably it. After all, you have visited more than thirty countries around the world. People who lived in a modern country at that time probably at least know what you look like."
Olga Marie vaguely confirmed Gagarin's words, but this aroused Gagarin's doubts.
"But Miss, you don't sound like you know what I look like. Could it be that you are an American? No, even if I have not visited the United States, people living in the United States should know what I look like."
"Colonel Gagarin, do you realize that you have died and become a heroic spirit?"
"...I still realize this. Although it is incredible, it is a fact after all."
"I thought a materialist like you would firmly deny this."
"Materialists do not simply deny things like God and magic. If these things really exist in the world, then affirming them is what materialists should do."
Gagarin showed a meaningful smile.
Gu Ming "The premise is to first confirm the existence... Is it based on doubt rather than trust... It is because of this that science is contrary to mystery."
Olga Marie sighed, and then continued:
"Pushing the topic a little further, but I really don't know what you look like."
Gagarin expressed disbelief at the words coming out of Olga Marie's mouth.
"Really? Miss, do you really not know me?"
"How should I put it... Although you were as popular as a top rock star during your lifetime, probably since Lieutenant Gagarin died in the aviation accident, you have lost your exposure. Even aerospace enthusiasts basically only know Know your name, not your face."
Gagarin lowered the brim of his hat in shock, and then murmured to himself:
"Well, even though I was so popular at that time, I quickly became a name in the history books that no one cares about in the decades after my death..."
"No, no, there are still some monuments and statues."
Olga Marie quickly comforted Gagarin, who could not accept it because he had expired too quickly.
However, compared with vampires or Roman emperors, Gagarin, who is just an ordinary person except for his identity as an astronaut, is obviously easier to get along with, and Olga Marie has lost the pressure to face the heroic spirit for a long time. .
"But if you have only heard of my name, how do you know that I am Gagarin himself?"
After a brief moment of disappointment, Gagarin asked Olga Marie.
"Although we are already inseparable, let's make sure just in case - Colonel Gagarin, you came here from the singularity, right?"
Gagarin observed Olga Marie for a moment, then nodded.
"Yes, although my consciousness did not stay in that singularity for too long, it is true that as you said, I returned from the singularity and came here."
"Then it will be the same as before————————"
Olga Marie handed the note in her hand to Gagarin.
"I learned everything about you and the Singularity from this book."
"oh?"
Gagarin took the book from Olga Marie's hand with great interest, and then started to read it.
After a while, Gagarin closed the notebook Olga Marie handed him.
"This is really interesting. After all, even I don't know what happened after that singularity."
Gagarin thought so.
"Huh? Have you finished reading it?"
"No, I just read a little bit about the parts that are related to me. Besides, the opening part also contains your deeds, Miss. It's not my preference to pry into other people's hearts."
Olga Marie was moved beyond words.
How could there be such a normal heroic spirit?
She originally thought that the sultan of Octavian and Osman was already a normal person among heroic spirits.
Now it seems that there is someone outside the crowd.
Gagarin handed the letter back to Olga Marie.
"Thank you for sharing, Miss. Although that guy Laika said he would not help humans, he did it in the end."
"Did Colonel Gagarin foresee that it would do that? That's why he gave up the dominance of the spirit base."
"It can't be said to be a foresight. In the final analysis, although the guy and I have some connections, we have never had a close relationship at all, and his original owner was not me. It's just that I owe that guy a favor, even if it ends up I don’t intend to sacrifice myself, and I should give it the right to ‘live’ again this time.”
Gagarin shrugged helplessly.
"But it did such a noble thing this time, and the favor is even more unclear, isn't it?"
"Why would Laika or Colonel Gagarin choose such decisive self-sacrifice?"
"You can't just ask me this question - didn't Jason and Hercules also achieve self-sacrifice in a certain sense? In the end, there has never been anything like this in human history. It lacks the word self-sacrifice.
However, if you really want an explanation, I might be able to explain it to that Laika guy on my behalf.
The reason is very simple, just the word "worthy".
People who are greedy to the extreme can give up their lives because of wealth, and parents who love their children can also willingly dedicate their lives to their children. Whether they are people considered noble or vulgar by others, they are people who are willing to make sacrifices after all. They all died for something they thought was more important than life.
As for me, from the moment I witnessed fighter planes flying above my head as a child, I may have been doomed to the final outcome. "
"Are you willing to die in a flight accident?"
"Yes, no matter what it takes————————Besides, in the name of the first human being to enter space, I assure you that the beautiful scenery in space and the wonderful experience of zero gravity are definitely worth devoting. Something that takes a lifetime to reach, Miss.
As for that guy Laika, even though he said he hated humans, and even though he was a dog and eventually died of high temperature and terror, I still believe that he finally gained intelligence and recalled the bright starry sky again. You will definitely not regret it.
I will never regret arriving from the cold snowy night in Moscow to the starry sky that contains everything. "
Gagarin ended his recollection and opened his eyes that he had not known when he had closed.
"But is it really okay to end your life like that? You must have been disappointed because of the decline of your reputation just now. If you never fly again, if you don't die in a flight accident, if you can live a long life as a living legend, Wouldn't it be better if it were 2 years old?"
Recalling that she would most likely never return to the institution left by her father, and that it was even unlikely that she would be reborn, Olga Marie asked the astronaut who was willing to sacrifice herself some incomprehensibly.
"If I were asked to choose between 'living my life in obscurity on the outskirts of Moscow' or 'making a heroic sacrifice in the human space industry,' I would be the kind of person who would choose the latter without hesitation, Miss.
Besides, I don't actually feel too disappointed about my declining fame, miss. After all, doesn’t that just prove that after me, the human space industry has not stagnated, so that people like me have become mediocre? "
Gagarin stretched out his right hand and smiled sincerely at Olga Marie.
"I can't even find time to be happy, miss."
Olga Marie looked at the relieved Gagarin in front of her, and involuntarily held the right hand he handed over in a daze.
It has nothing to do with the debate between mystery and science. She just sincerely thinks that the man in front of her is great.
Then she was driven by Gagarin and shook heavily.
Just like what Gagarin did cheerfully to the first person he met after returning to Earth that afternoon.
