The whole point of Frederick Melvin is for this nightmare "with Justus".
Seen from nightmares.
From the very beginning, the student that Professor Gray was interested in was Justus... not Frederick, who had reached the Silver Level at a young age.
Because from that time, Professor Gray already knew.
——Frederick Melvin will eventually be killed by himself.
So teaching him is pointless.
Murdering Ingrid in front of Justus.
and the later murder of Frederick.
Everything is done to create an extremely real nightmare that can be confused with the real one...and this is to make Justus lose himself in the nightmare and confuse dreams and reality.
"Justus confused reality and dreams, and saw another possibility of 'Frederick' in his nightmare. As the story develops, the butterfly effect caused by Ingrid being rescued, 'Frederick'
Derek's fate still came to an end...and Justus was so furious that he turned to his trusted teacher, "Grey Professor" Seti.
"He was 'sent to the past' by Seti. In other words, he thought he was in the past. But that was actually just the 'plot' of Frederick's nightmare...Justus entered a dream within a dream.
"He killed Ingrid. Returned history to the 'correct' position, and still became the unfailing shield. Together with the living Frederick, he came to the Coal Barrens to perform tasks - this is exactly what happened.
It was the unfolding he expected."
From the very beginning, what Justus had hoped for... was that when he came to the Cinder Barrens, he would not come to collect the corpses of his friends.
It is this "unwillingness to admit" that allows Professor Gray to confuse his reality with his dreams.
But the longer he stayed in the Cinder Barrens.
The uneasiness lurking in Justus' subconscious became more and more obvious.
He gradually realized that he seemed to be dreaming. That's why the town suddenly became deserted.
But in fact, he was not the one who woke up.
But the "betrayer".
——While they were walking on the street, Frederick was suddenly killed.
Of course Justus was furious.
He will rush over and kill the attacker at all costs - even if that person is his other self.
"That's because Justus subconsciously realized that...maybe he was the one who killed Frederick."
And he has to fight with his "other self".
No matter what the outcome is, there will only be one person left in this unmanned world.
That's "Justus".
If a person dies in a dream, he will of course be resurrected on the surface.
He exists in a dream within a dream of Frederick's nightmare, and can only wake up from the upper level——
The characteristic of this nightmare is "re-enactment".
Once you die, you will lose your memory [Replay].
——That is, a tragedy that repeats itself infinitely.
"Do you remember," Annan said to the Delicious Wind Goose, "Nefertari said that in her nightmare, 'Frederick' died three times in total.
"The first time was when he was crushed to death by a building while saving Ingrid; the second time was when he was killed by another Justus on the street. What about the third time?"
Annan stared at the void in front of him and said slowly: "The third time, just after waking up from a dream within a dream.
"That's when Justus woke up from the dream of the 'Dream Eater' Trissino Seti. That's when Ingrid didn't die, but Frederic was just killed.
Wire.
"How would Justus make a decision when he lost his memory and returned to the beginning?"
"...He will know nothing and go back to the past again."
Delicious Wind Goose's voice was trembling.
Go through the exact same cycle again.
Back to the Cinder Barrens again...
Just like the motto left by Justus.
[A brief moment of anger. Eternal regret.]
I'm afraid that the Justus who "betrayed" Frederick was the one who truly realized everything from countless cycles...
That is Justus, the "Enlightened One".
Realizing that this was just a nightmare, Justus recalled the first words of advice left by Frederick——
【Life is the prison of death...Death is the hymn of life.】
This is the motto Frederick left for the Purifiers at the beginning of his nightmare.
To understand it literally, it means... when "life" comes to an end, "death" will break free from its cage. Its existence is to praise the "life" that imprisons itself.
So who are the living?
Justus.
Who is the deceased?
frederick.
His meaning is simple - as long as Justus dies, "Frederick" will be reborn.
But Frederick's soul has been completely used to construct the nightmare.
There is no way he will be resurrected.
Only the name "Frederick" was resurrected.
But unfortunately, Justus, who was confused between reality and dreams, did not hear this prompt.
In other words, he didn't care after hearing it.
The moment Justus saw Frederick's death in his nightmare and became furious, seeking strength to try to kill Ingrid and save Frederick... it had already led to a deeper tragedy for Frederick.
And the only "enlightened one", Justus, hid the fact that he had recovered his memory and asked Trissino to "go back to the past."
He wanted to kill Frederick in his dream.
Let Frederick be the [die] party.
Then the imprisoned self will be freed and given a new life——
This is the [exit] to the nightmare after Frederick's death.
That is, [Kill Frederick].
But this exit was blocked.
By himself.
This "enlightened person" Justus has lost the most important piece of memory due to the nightmare nature of "re-enactment".
...that is, he was killed by another "Justus" countless times.
Why did Justus and Frederick suddenly enter the "deserted alley"?
Because Justus the Awakened came to the Cinder Barrens.
He is also Justus.
And he already knew that this was a dream.
So he wants to kill the false Frederick and release himself.
His own awakening became the last piece of the puzzle of the infinite loop paradox.
This is a scene... an incomparably grand tragedy that can be repeated endlessly.
Frederick and Ingrid are just props on the field.
This is a [one-man show].
The hero and the devil are basically the same person.
Annan said slowly: "Do you still remember?
"I told you before that the power of the idol wizard will follow the title. At that time, we thought... 'Professor Wolf' Frederick would call himself this in order to steal the power of 'Professor Gray'. And we
We have learned that Professor Wolf is Professor Gray."
Why did Benjamin not give a similar answer when Annan asked Benjamin, "Is Professor Wolf stealing the power of the man in the mirror?" but gave an ambiguous acquiescence?
In fact, all the truth is already hidden in that sentence——
It was actually Professor Gray who stole the power of the man in the mirror. But after Professor Gray stole the power of the "mirror"...
"Part of him" - the part that was the "Grey Professor", woke up in Frederick's body and became the Wolf Professor "Frederick"!
Why did Professor Gray suddenly lose the power of his elements?
Because the power of the elements has been transferred to "Professor Wolf"!
Why did Professor Gray change his name to "The Bone Healer" and Professor Wolf became a believer in the tragedy writer?
Because the original purpose of Trissino Seti was to use the nightmare of the [mirror] attribute to separate the "Bone Healer" as a wizard from the "Professor Wolf" as the Pope!
The reason why Professor Wolf became the mentor of werewolves.
It's not for revenge.
But to actually improve the status of werewolves.
Because the tragedian himself is the werewolf god - he is the pope of the tragedian, and this is the right thing to do.
"And this scene [The Tragedy of Infinite Reincarnation] is a tragedy that Triscino Seti dedicated to the tragedian - in order for the tragedian to help him and steal power from the future gods, he directed and acted it himself.