After comforting Kafni and Maria, Annan actually breathed a sigh of relief.
He still knows something about Salvatore.
Not just for Sal-senpai and "Vatore-senpai".
Annan is also generally confident about Salvatore's true character before the split between good and evil personalities...He is first and foremost a pure and kind person.
Maybe his temper won't be as soft as when he was a senior, but he certainly won't be able to stay angry for so long.
Or……
Fortunately, there were plants in that world that could relieve his anger. After getting rid of his anger, although Salvatore had a stern look on his face, he was actually not that angry anymore in his heart.
But Annan couldn't immediately go up and chat with him in front of other people, as he had to give the senior some face.
"Now, should I call you senior or senior?"
Annan leaned over and asked softly.
Salvatore crossed his arms and tilted his head.
He glanced at himself and asked, "What do you think?"
Annan thought for a while: "Probably only senior Vatore would ask me this question. But you are indeed the body of a senior..."
"Okay, okay, I know what you're worried about."
Seeing Annan's cautious words, like a cat with its back tense and ready to jump away at any moment, Salvatore couldn't help but laugh.
The serious face he had been trying so hard to maintain finally couldn't hold it any longer.
Salvatore said.
The black mud, which was like a living thing, kept pouring out from behind his shoulders, forming the upper body of Senior Sister "Vatore".
She said: "If necessary, I can be independent like this...the same goes for Sal."
After saying that, she collapsed again.
Salvatore continued: "But there is no need. I am the most perfect me now... In addition to the 'Senior Sal' and 'Senior Salvatore' you called Annan, I can also split at any time."
Come out with a brand new self. And there is no problem even if you leave the original body."
"...Can the Fire Bearer still do this?"
Annan was a little surprised.
Salvatore couldn't help laughing: "How is that possible?
"The fire bearer does not have this ability. I am in this posture... because I completed a forbidden refinement."
As he spoke, he became serious: "I use 'I' and 'I' as materials to refine it."
This is alchemical self-refinement of the highest order.
In fact, the very beginning of alchemy is related to the way of sublimation and self-refining.
Before the arrival of the era of bronze, silver, and gold, classes were divided based on carrying objects.
The extraordinary level is actually corruption, calcination, condensation, purification, dissolution, dyeing, sublimation... Those ancient extraordinary people used alchemical terms to describe the path that the soul passes through in the way of sublimation.
Use the "alchemy process" of "iron turning into gold" as a metaphor for the way to sublimation.
That is to say, later on, alchemy declined... It was used as a metaphor, but the metaphor was even more unknown than the ontology. This kind of statement finally came to an end.
But alchemy always has a fundamental issue.
That is "let yourself be as perfect as metal."
The Philosopher's Stone is researched based on this topic... It is also a product of "self-refinement". It is an invention made in order to gradually move itself towards perfection.
"...But this is too dangerous!"
Annan suddenly felt a little scared.
Self-refinement is obviously risky and extremely risky.
Just like when an alchemist fails to make alchemy, the raw materials will be destroyed; if you use yourself as the material to make alchemy, if you fail, you will be the one who is destroyed.
He realized that Salvatore had secretly conducted some dangerous experiments while he was away.
Annan, who was belatedly aware of this, began to rebuke Salvatore: "For you, Salvatore is no longer an unstable factor... There is no need to risk his life to put two souls together."
Become one again?"
"Then you have wronged me, Annan."
Salvatore shrugged: "In other words, you don't know 'me' well enough.
"The one who proposed to combine the two into one is the 'Vatore' you call it."
……What?
Annan was startled.
He quickly reacted.
It is true that with the senior's talent, he will definitely not be able to complete such a difficult taboo refinement. And his greatest advantage is that he has self-awareness.
Senior Sal, he will never do anything he cannot do!
In other words...this should indeed be a whimsical move proposed by Senior Sister Vatore.
What's outrageous is that Kaizi Sa actually agreed.
This fool never considered whether Vatore had concocted a conspiracy to kill him and steal his body.
It was precisely because Sal was at a disadvantage in the relationship between the two in terms of ability and IQ that Annan subconsciously did not think that this kind of thing would be proposed by Valtore.
After all, according to Sal's self-awareness, he should refuse this kind of thing that he is not clear about.
Annan asked doubtfully: "Why..."
"Because two divided souls are longing to be whole again."
Salvatore sighed: "I know that if I tell you this, you will definitely not agree. Because it is indeed risky...
"...But from another perspective, that's what 'I' actually thought at the time. Compared to the useless 'Saar', 'Vatore' is much smarter. Although she is a devil, she is also a good person.
Devil, if she has Thrall's consciousness, she should be able to make some contributions to this world.
"'Saar' at that time had such confidence. Even if Valtore really wanted to devour the personality belonging to 'Saar'." After she ate me, she would definitely be attracted by the kindness and enthusiasm in it.
Impressed.' Sal thought so.
Valtore and Thrall have shared memories from the beginning, and their social relationship will not be severed.
Salvatore's expression became a little complicated: "The ceremony itself was presided over by Salvatore throughout the whole process. Sal was worried that tampering would cause problems with the ceremony, so I didn't dare to move.
"It doesn't matter even if the personality belonging to 'Sal' disappears...she will continue to live well with the part that belongs to me."
"But when we finally completed the fusion, it was Sal as the main body. In other words, it was Vatore who took the initiative to give up the leadership of the ceremony.
"The reason is because of that pride."
Contrary to Salvatore's humility that bordered on inferiority complex.
Vatore's pride made her never allow herself to be given charity.
If Thrall competed with her for his body, then she would definitely take the initiative in turn and laugh at Thrall again; but Thrall didn't even resist and chose to give up, which made her feel boring.
"So in the end, 'I' was born, symbolizing the perfect fusion of light and darkness, the two souls wholeheartedly. I'm afraid this is a situation that even the seniors who invented this self-refining ritual have not considered."
A confident smile appeared on Salvatore's face: "Although there may be many changes in personality...but only one thing will not change.
"My goals and intentions have not changed.
"I am still the [Fire Bearer]. Just like what the teacher said back then... I will also bear the 'pain' that the teacher gave me in the end.
"Since it will be painful no matter what, I would rather choose to protect it and suffer."
The vertical pupil in Salvatore's dark golden right eye became brighter.
There was a proud and confident smile on his face that Annan had never seen before, a bright smile that was as burning as a blazing flame: "Look at it, Annan, my best friend.
"I will bear the curse that my master bestowed upon me in the past. I will become a good man, and I will continue the path of the Firebringer.
"At the same time, I will also live happily.
"Being a good person and being happy... This is really difficult. It is a wish that even my teacher, Victor Hugo, could not fulfill.
"But if a genius is like me, he will be able to achieve it perfectly."
Because I am Salvatore.
He put his hands on his hips and laughed cheerfully.