84. Did you think before you spoke?
It’s only been a few days since the incident, but the academy is once again trying to forget the wounds of the past and move forward.
Most of the messy facilities have been cleaned up by the golems, but the special arena, which was split in two by the Mine, is still under construction.
Miraculously, there were no casualties at the academy.
Professors responded quickly… It was because the shadows appeared before the situation got serious and sorted out the situation in an instant.
The most injured was Lucia Russell.
She tried to run away after committing the crime, but she fought back against the Sword Saint of the Clover Kingdom, but she was severely injured by the Sword Saint’s attack.
Looking at her external scars, it was surprising that she was alive.
The burns all over her body were shallow and could be cured without leaving any marks, but doctors thought it would be difficult to recover when they first saw the scar from her shoulder to her abdomen.
Injuries caused by aura blades have the characteristic that the higher the level, the harder it is to cure, but the injuries suffered by Lucia were not expert, but injuries caused by the master’s aura blade.
She thought that her muscles and internal organs, invaded by the thick aura, would have a hard time functioning properly, but the doctors were surprised that she recovered quite well after receiving the treatment.
It was as if someone had removed all of her toxin, the aura of the Sword Master, that remained in her body.
It was a strange thing, but considering that Lucia’s family was Russell, she thought it was possible.
Although Lucia barely came back alive from the threshold of her death, she had no regrets about what she had done.
Because she was currently enjoying the greatest happiness of her life.
“Now, try it.”
“Ah… Ah….”
Atlas held out a spoon to her Lucia’s face.
The spoon he held out contained steaming porridge.
If you just stretch out, the length of the bed is slightly short due to the height of the bed.
It’s cute how she holds her head up when approaching with a spoon.
-Gulp
The porridge had become so mushy that it was hard to recognize, and the porridge passed quickly down the throat at the slightest mess.
A light smile appeared on Atlas’ face when he confirmed that Lucia had swallowed it safely.
That smile is also one that is hard to see normally.
I thought it was very fortunate that what I was eating was porridge.
If it wasn’t for that, I would have looked at her frantically and bit her tongue.
“Isn’t it hot?”
“Eh.. Not at all… thank you.”
“What is this?”
After saying that, Atlas put the porridge on a small plate and stirred it to cool off, then scooped a little out with a small spoon and put it on the back of his hand.
I nodded to see if the temperature was right and took a spoonful of properly cooled porridge from the plate in front of me, just like a mother feeding her child baby food.
It’s been two days since Atlas visited the hospital.
It is now the second day that Lucia has been injured.
On the first day, River, Amy, and other people came, but today, only Atlas came.
For two days he volunteered to attend to Lucia’s illness, and it seemed to her that he would continue to do so until she was discharged.
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‘Is it okay… To be this happy…?’
If you think you want to drink water, Atlas pours it for you.
I told him to eat only porridge because he was seriously injured, and Atlas cooled them down and fed them.
He became my horse partner.. I took out a board game or something to pass the time.
For all that long time, just the two of us.
Lucia said she had never been this happy in her life.
‘… Doesn’t exist.’
She didn’t even think about it.
In my family, there was always only training and study, and the head of the household.. My father always told me to live a celibate life.
I have no friends and no entertainment.
It was an environment where you could really concentrate on the sword… No, it was an environment where you were not allowed to focus on anything other than the sword.
Because she was oppressed by an environment where she couldn’t even say she liked what she liked, she lived in the academy’s dormitory… She expected a life free from family oppression.
It was a little different from what I imagined, but it was a happiness that the family couldn’t even dream of.
“..Atlas..It keeps coming like this..Isn’t it annoying..? Me… I can move alone, but…”
It is true that I feel uncomfortable.
Because of the sword wound that is still healing, my left arm can’t move properly, and when I try to raise my upper body, I suffer from severe pain that makes me break out in a cold sweat, but that’s about it.
After raising the upper body, you can walk alone, and your right arm, which you use often, can move normally.
Although it was inconvenient, I was able to get up on my own, go to the bathroom, and eat alone, but Atlas didn’t allow that.
It was like being treated like a child, but I didn’t hate it.
Because she felt that she was getting a lot of attention and that she was loved.
When he ran away from the sword saint, he regretted his actions for a moment, but now he doesn’t think about that at all.
If I did something wrong, I could have died or had aftereffects for the rest of my life, but I didn’t even think of that.
I even thought it would be nice if I could continue to be sick like this.
‘No… I need to recover quickly…’
I was happy, but I didn’t want to put myself in the same situation again.
When I came to see Lucia lying in bed after the treatment, Atlas was very sad.
He looked sad as if he was going to cry at any moment, even though he wasn’t hurt.
It’s good to take care of her, but I didn’t want to see her sad like that again.
Atlas, who was arranging the empty dishes, heard that and opened his eyes wide and put the tray down.
“It doesn’t bother me at all. And… “
Atlas raised her finger and pricked Lucia’s left shoulder.
Then Lucia shook her body.
“Wow!”
“It still hurts. They say that this condition is still inconvenient.”
Atlas put on a worried look on her face as Lucia touched her tingly left shoulder.
“Or do you hate doing this?”
“No..!! It’s not like I never hated it or hated it… I thought you were spending too much time on me…”
Actually, I wanted to say that it would be nice if it would continue like this, but I couldn’t bear it.
I feel like I’m spending too much time on myself.
“I first discovered it, remember it… At that time, there was nothing strange about you dying right away. On that subject, they said that River was kidnapped by the swordsman.”
“My… Did I?”
Atlas said vaguely, but Lucia couldn’t remember that part.
After she was caught in the attack of the Sword Master, she had no memory of anything.
When Lucia said she couldn’t remember anything, Atlas sat down beside her bed and she took Lucia’s hand.
“I thought my heart was falling… I’m glad you’re okay. I know that because I’ll keep coming back to see if you’re okay until you’re completely cured.”
Hearing that, Lucia was relieved.
‘Atlas is… The same as me…’
I was like myself who saw him sad and wished it would never happen again.
Lucia was very relieved by those words.
He didn’t bother to say it, but at least this could be considered more than just friendship.
Inadvertently, I spit out the words I had been holding for a long time.
“…Then… I have a wish, can you grant it?”
“Wish?”
As soon as I said it, I was taken aback.
It’s something I’ve been thinking about in my head, but it was a story that didn’t come out of my mouth when I met him.
“That… That… That’s not weird… That’s not…! It’s something I’ve been wanting to say for a long time…”
“Anything I can listen to.”
Lucia decided to just think of it as an opportunity.
Now, if it’s not really overbearing, I think everyone will listen.
She closed her eyes and said.
“So… Then… When I’m all healed, would you like to… Go outside the academy together… On the weekend?”
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After the sun went down, I went outside after watching Lucia fall asleep.
The dormitory curfew was long past, but it didn’t matter.
It’s because I didn’t do a separate roll call.
Sometimes I went in while trying to figure out something like that..
As I was leaving the hospital and passing the dormitory, someone spotted me and was waving.
It was River, whose golden eyes were still bathed in the moonlight in the aftermath of the moon not yet waning.
River ran up to me, took both of his hands, and threw me into his arms.
“I haven’t seen you all day, so I’ll be like this.”
“… How are you going to enter the dormitory now?”
Unlike the men’s dormitory, women’s dormitories have defense magic at night to block outside intrusion.
If I was out at this time, I wouldn’t be able to enter, so why am I out there?
River, who was leaning his face on my forehead, said brazenly.
“You can enter the men’s dormitory.”
“Isn’t it?”
“I’ll take care of you tonight.”
He grinned and grabbed both of my hands.
I looked up and saw that her eyes were sparkling with gold, within a distance of each other’s breath.
It was like a beast looking for prey.
‘I’ll have to be vigilant for about two days before and after the full moon.’
Laughing, River blinked as if he remembered something.
“Right, Mr. Russell, how are you?”
River also cared a lot about Lucia.
He knows best that the two of them aren’t that close.
It must have been a great shock for Lucia to step out to protect her river.
“I’m recovering smoothly. But is it really okay for me to visit the hospital by myself?”
“Yeah.. I said thank you yesterday. That’s fine. Mr. Russell will definitely want that.”
River visited the hospital on the first day and went out with Amy quickly.
You said that it would be better if I just kept going alone… In my situation, I hope to get closer with you on this occasion, but I still feel a lot of distance.
Looking at his expression, he seems a bit dissatisfied, but he says he’s okay.
“It would be nice if we could get to know each other better this time.”
“You say it’s not your business… It’s not that easy…! Do you know how much I can give in??”
“Ouch! It hurts!!”
River asked for the back of my hand with a difficult expression on his face.
The fangs were very sharp, probably because the werewolf’s characteristics had not yet been exhausted.
“Russell cares about you a lot, so treat me and Amy just as you did when you were hospitalized.”
“You’re doing well.”
“… That’s right, you’re so kind… Uh okay. This story ends here! It’s cold, so let’s go in quickly.”
“Speak as if you were entering your room.”
River smiled, untied one hand and put me in front.
At that time, an incident suddenly came to mind.
“Oh right.”
I really had no idea.
I just said what came to my mind.
“After I recover, I decided to go out of the academy on the weekend.”
“… What?”
At that moment, the chilly air froze.
‘Oh shit I said the wrong thing.’
I regretted it only after I said it.