====== V. From This a Miracle Renders ====== ---- ==== 5-1 ==== //"Teacher, in this tumultuous world...\\ Have you thought about your will?"//[(Spoken by Hyacine.)] It was just a joke,\\ But the scholar still at the Grove,\\ Answered with extreme caution. He has much to say about his posthumous affairs,\\ Exhausting all, fearing the smallest omission. //"Teacher... could it be that... you FEAR death?"//[(Spoken by Hyacine.)]\\ The assistant asks in concern.\\ It was a question needed,\\ Yet he gave no direct reply. //"Philosophy is the inquiry into death,\\ And I have always considered myself a philosopher."// ---- ==== 5-2 ==== The assistant recounts all of the scholar's final wishes.\\ Each mighty as a mountain, asking what seemed impossible. //"The tombstone must be made of my treasured rare stones,\\ Carved with dromas patterns."// But that stone is a miracle of alchemy,\\ Tough beyond measure, no chisel could have shaken. //"That's also his plan..."//[(Spoken by Hyacine.)]\\ The assistant softly reveals the hidden plot.\\ //"He hopes that instead of shedding tears over his death,\\ we will find it in us to smile, even in a moment of sorrow."// ---- ==== 5-3 ==== It's rumored that in the depths of the Grove,\\ The scholar left a teaching ingenium,\\ Imitating himself to the utmost detail. //"Go back. The living have not exhausted their thoughts."\\ "Go back. The dead have no desire to teach their words."//\\ The ingenium's words are cold and detached,\\ Like the deceased man himself. //"But if you have no one to talk to...\\ {{ :readable:saga:demised.scholar:anaxa5-3.png?200|}} Fine. You can sit and converse."// Now the Grove is no longer bustling,\\ And the scholar has returned to dust.\\ Thus, few in this world now know,\\ How he was also troubled by solitude in life. ---- ==== 5-4 ==== Someone once suggested —\\ //"Perhaps your ambition...\\ Should also find its place among your final wishes."//[(Spoken by Hyacine.)] //"Pointless notion."//\\ He dismissed in derision. //"Unveiling the countenance of the gods is a task for the living."//\\ Perhaps that is his haughty position. Such a melancholy topic,\\ Yet he insists on feigning a twist, avoiding it altogether. ---- ==== 5-5 ==== Perhaps these chapters should not be retained —\\ Most are from the scholar's handwritten drafts,\\ Shown without his permission. Yet there seems to be a voice there in remonstration:\\ //"It's just the past. What harm is there in revelation?"// {{ :readable:saga:demised.scholar:anaxa5-5.png?200|}} Even in passing,\\ His hubris still resounds in reverberation. //"The smaller a thing is, the more it shows its weight.\\ The more foolish my name is,\\ The more glory my achievements will be in comparison."//