Technicolor.

Memories painted in vivid colors.

"Hey! You ate my snack without asking again, didn't you!"

No, it was so brilliant it almost made me dizzy.

"Sigh, again? How many times does this make?"

Hateful, annoying. The person closest to me was always like that.

"You... I'm not holding back today!"

【The Master】
A sorcerer. They adore their two apprentices but are troubled by how poorly the two get along.

I remember how strangely heavy the hand placed on my shoulder felt as it cut through the wind.

Try to get along.

I thought you would eventually grow tired of this.

"It's impossible, because that guy..."

The master's hands were always wrinkled and large, and sometimes terribly frightening. Even that fear, even the curses directed at me, felt comfortable.

Then, let us do this.

You can keep it a secret from Guest, right?

You want to be special, don't you, "Kugutsu"?

The master, for the sake of their dear, sweet apprentices,

cast a gentle, warm,
and somewhat distorted curse.

May you be bound together across the cycle of reincarnation.
Hopefully, you may break this curse with your own hands.

May that which lies beyond death not be the abyss.

But it seems the master had grown a little too old. If you add too many knots to such a short string, it will eventually fray.

Ah, look.

The curse.

It hurts. It hurts. My head hurts.

【Kugutsu】
A child cursed by a dragon. His headaches subsided after becoming the master's apprentice. The younger apprentice.

Apprentices bound by fate. In truth, it was not meant to be like this... Please, in the next reincarnation, may you become close.

【Guest】
The master's senior apprentice.
Does not remember the moment of their own death.

【Evren】

A nation where various races intermingle.

Reborn in the same country across the cycle of reincarnation, the apprentices walk the land of Evren as itinerant merchants, their bond now more tightly fastened than ever.

Kugutsu was born into Evren as Guest's older brother, and Guest as Kugutsu's younger sibling.