The Ice Age Came And I Just Got Married - Chapter 90

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Episode 90
That evening. Eve House.
I sat in the study Logan had made for me, racking my brain.
The Management Committee was a problem, and I still didn’t understand Logan’s missing memories or the identity of the Black Mana Stone he’d absorbed.
Then, suddenly, I remembered Julian’s research journal that I’d brought from the naval base.
With one crisis after another crashing down on me, I’d never had a proper chance to look through it. Now seemed like the right time.
Most of the content was filled with incomprehensible terminology and formulas, so I flipped through it quickly.
‘I’m curious how Julian even learned about the Frost Heart in the first place.’
That was when I found the section about Seolkwae.
[Rosebrook Naval Base Classified Research Log]
Research Director: Julian Wesley Everhart
Research Subject: Unidentified Life Form, Code Name “Seolkwae”
This was it.
I held the page steady and began reading through the content carefully.
[
First Record.
A massive life form was discovered beneath the seventeenth barrier of the Northern Glacier Region.
At the time of initial discovery, the subject was completely sealed within an ice layer approximately thirty meters thick.
After surveying the surrounding geological strata, we estimate the subject to have existed within the ice for at least three thousand years or more.
Cross-referencing with ancient texts, the subject is likely to be a Seolkwae.
It appears to be an ancient life form artificially created by ancient mages. For unknown reasons, it was sealed deep underground by the mages themselves.
We estimate that other specimens of this species likely exist, but so far we have been unable to even identify the sealed locations.
Current estimates suggest these creatures were distributed widely across ancient times.]
[
Fifth Record.
Successfully extracted the heart.
The Seolkwae’s heart was entirely unlike anything found in humans.
At the center of the heart was embedded a black crystal unlike anything I had ever seen.
A mineral?
No.
Not biological tissue either.
It was pulsing.]
[
Twelfth Record.
In forbidden ancient texts, I discovered a record of a Mana Stone called the “Frost Heart.”
According to the texts, the ancient mages created the Seolkwae simultaneously with their creation of the Frost Heart.
In other words, the Seolkwae’s heart appears to be a Subordinate Mana Stone derived from the Frost Heart.
I wanted to read further in the texts, but they were stolen from me. Damn the White Veil.]
A Subordinate Mana Stone derived from the Frost Heart.
Then that would also explain why Logan is being controlled through my Taming.
I absorbed fragments of the Frost Heart into my body, and he absorbed the Subordinate Mana Stone.
‘Could it be connected to the fact that Logan keeps using Regression and falling into corruption because I die over and over?’
It seems like a stretch, but…
For some reason, I kept drawing connections in that direction.
And Julian’s final sentence was also worth noting.
‘Damn the White Veil.’
That seemed to be what he meant.
The problem was that most of the research journal was torn apart, so I couldn’t find any other useful information.
‘Why would the White Veil want to take the texts?’
Since Julian’s research journal had been left behind, it seemed they considered it unimportant. Perhaps because so much of it was torn.
Maybe the records about Seolkwae weren’t considered important enough to take…
I decided to examine the remaining records.
[
Eighteenth Record.
While researching a black Subordinate Mana Stone extracted from the Seolkwae’s heart, an unusual case was identified.
One test subject who had been exposed to the Frost Heart for an extended period began showing abnormal symptoms immediately after coming into contact with the black Subordinate Mana Stone.
Initially, there were no noticeable changes.
However, as time progressed, portions of the subject’s memories began to gradually fade.
What is interesting is that the memories did not disappear randomly.
The first thing forgotten was “the person most precious to them and the most precious memory they held of that person.”
Precious memories are special compared to ordinary ones, and their loss has the same effect as the erasure of the ‘self’ that makes humans most human.
That was it.
The Black Subordinate Mana Stone was in the process of eradicating Logan’s humanity as it was exposed to the Frost Heart.]
I found it.
I finally understood why Logan had lost his memories, but how was I supposed to restore them?
[
Record Twenty.
That said, the Black Subordinate Mana Stone extracted from the Seolkwae’s heart wasn’t entirely useless.
If I allowed the Frost Heart to absorb it, this enormous Mana Stone would grow stronger.]
Rather than absorbing the Mana Stone extracted from the Seolkwae’s heart directly into myself, it would be better to keep it and have the Frost Heart absorb it instead.
‘I was curious about how to extract what’s already been absorbed into my body.’
Of all places, that section was torn. Damn.
It seemed like I might need to find the Frost Heart itself in order to extract it.
‘Since it said the Frost Heart could absorb it…….’
That was when it happened.
Knock-knock—
Someone rapped on the study door.
“Eve, it’s me.”
Logan’s voice came through. He was calling me by my name now, and he said it well. It was an odd feeling, somehow.
It felt like we were building our relationship from the beginning all over again.
It even felt like we’d returned to our Academy days.
“Yeah. Come in.”
Click.
Logan opened the door and stepped inside. He was wearing the Acorn Sweater. Now that I thought about it, I’d promised to knit him a new one.
“Isn’t that sweater uncomfortable?”
“It’s warm. And the wool texture feels good.”
He ran his hand down the sweater as he spoke.
“I knitted that for you.”
At that, his expression shifted to one of surprise.
With an odd look crossing his face, he gazed quietly at the sweater, then reached up to the back of his neck and approached me.
“Thank you.”
“I already received your thanks last time.”
“I don’t remember it. So I’ll thank you again.”
I laughed.
“Alright.”
The atmosphere eased a little after that.
Logan drew closer to me, pulled up a chair from across the desk, and sat down.
“I was wondering if there might be any clue about how to recover my memories.”
Logan said that Marcus had given him a rough explanation of what had happened between us in the meantime.
I don’t know how a story can continue with my existence conspicuously missing from all those events.
I showed him the notebook I’d been holding.
“I was just looking at something for reference.”
“A research journal? Your brother’s?”
“Do you remember our brother? Or did Rutland tell you?”
“No. It just said ‘Everhart’ here.”
Ah. Right.
I nodded, lifted my gaze, and then faltered at the sight of Logan’s face, now so close to mine.
He was leaning over the desk, bending toward me.
As he looked down at the research journal, he felt my gaze and lifted his head.
A breathless silence fell between us. Logan’s crimson eyes held mine steadily, then tilted slightly to one side.
His eyes traced slowly across my face.
It was only a look.
Yet why was my pulse racing like this?
I bit down gently on my lower lip. At that, Logan’s gaze, descending in its leisure, lingered at my lips.
“Your face really is my type.”
Then he reached out and brushed my lip with his thumb.
“Enough to make me want to kiss you.”
?!
I jerked back in surprise, pulling my body away.
“Sorry. Did I upset you?”
Thump-thump. Thump-thump. My heart was racing again.
I pressed a hand to my chest for a moment, then shook my head.
“…No, wait. You’re Logan and my husband. There’s no reason for me to feel upset about this.”
Logan’s eyebrows twitched slightly. He straightened his posture.
I answered while trying my best not to show any sign of agitation.
“But I don’t want my first kiss to happen like this.”
“Wait, what? Your first kiss?”
At Logan’s startled voice, I looked up at him in surprise as well.
“We’re married, aren’t we?”
“Huh? Y-yes. We are married.”
“And you embraced me without even kissing?”
“W-what are you talking about? An embrace isn’t — !”
“Good heavens. I never touched you at all.”
Logan stood motionless, one hand at his lips, his face frozen in shock.
Now that I thought about it, he seemed to have no memory of the Regression either. Perhaps that too was an important memory tied to me, and so it had vanished.
“Never mind. Sit down and read the log.”
The moment I spoke, Logan dropped into the nearest chair.
Again. My words were forcing his actions.
‘A Subordinate Mana Stone, they said….’
I wished I could use this to forcibly recover Logan’s memories as well. Unfortunately, such a thing was impossible.

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