Omega

Overview

An Ethos of immense age and power, Shun's teacher, and the only person alive who calls him Little Shun.

History

She drifts rather than walks, with emerald eyes and a playful, teasing manner that hides something absolute. Shun's warning to Yumi was blunt: no matter how childish she seems, do not make an enemy of Omega. The aura around her sits like a storm over open water — what falls on you is entirely her choice.

She is Shun's teacher and he is her disciple. Decades of work pass for her like a single afternoon.

It was Omega who confirmed that Ryuji carries the identical Reincarnation Curse, and Omega who proposed the theory of how: that at the moment of conception the curse, seeking another vector for its own survival, divided and embedded itself in the child's lineage. She slapped Shun across the face when he collapsed under that knowledge.

Archmage and teacher

Omega is an ancient archmage who taught Shun Sato to realize his magical potential. She appears as a black-haired, green-eyed woman in a purple-and-gold rune-woven gown and broad hat. She levitates continuously, moves faster than Yumi can follow, and treats ordinary distances and lifespans as trivial.

Her affectionate performance is deliberately destabilizing. She calls Shun “Little Shun,” introduces herself as his mother despite his objections, and calls Yumi Raijin his playmate. Shun warns Yumi that Omega sees humans as pets or possible specimens rather than moral equals. Her humor therefore coexists with a capacity for casual dissection and overwhelming violence.

Omega is working on an unnamed assignment for Shun that she estimates will require fifteen to twenty years. She says it is possible but reminds him of the price of his ambitions.

After Ryuji's curse awakens, Omega confirms that it is the same Reincarnation Curse carried by Shun. Her theory is that the spell did not recur independently: it divided during conception, treating an unborn child as a survival vector and embedding itself in the bloodline. She explains that curse magic is extinct, psychologically complex and sensitive to even tiny interventions. Although she grieves with the household, her analysis also makes Shun understand himself as a cause of Yumi's death.