It was a dark space.
I didn’t feel anything.
Astina thought slowly in that dark space.
Like Rudy, he realized that this magic was a phenomenon related to hallucinogenic magic and was contemplating what to do with it.
As I was thinking about it, I felt a warm warmth in my hand.
“Well?”
This time he heard his own voice.
Touch and hearing returned.
It didn’t come back completely though.
He was in a hazy state, as if the anesthesia had lessened.
“eww… … .”
When that feeling comes back.
Kwok-
Something was pressing down on Astina’s nose.
“… … what.”
Astina barely opened her eyes.
I could see white and gold going back and forth in my blurry vision.
So my eyesight slowly returned.
“ah?”
It was Rudy who was holding Astina’s nose.
“ah… … Ahh… … !”
However, the way it was pressed was a problem.
Rudy was on top of Astina with her eyes closed.
His face is right in front of Astina’s.
It was Rudy’s nose that was holding Astina’s nose.
They were lying with their noses pressed against each other.
It was the convex hills in Astina’s chest that made it such an awkward place.
Rudy’s body was floating because of her chest.
So Astina and her nose were touching, and if Astina had small breasts, the place they were touching would be her lips.
“eww… … !”
Astia’s face turned red.
In front of Rudy, she often showed the image of a dignified senior, but she was a girl who knew nothing about men.
“line… … ship.”
Then Rudy opened her mouth.
Rudy’s breath reached Astina.
“ah… … .”
Astina’s face, as well as her ears, turned red.
In the meantime, he did not take his eyes off Rudy’s face.
Rudy couldn’t make up her mind properly and tossed and turned.
She shifted her body to the side, and her face moved to the side of Astina’s head, making it look like she was hugging.
“… … Wait a minute.”
Astina closed her eyes tightly and raised her hand.
Then he raised his hand and hugged Rudy wide.
“Hmm… … .”
Astina cleared her throat as if nothing had happened, but she couldn’t hide her expression.
The corners of her mouth hung in her ears, giving her a happy smile, and she stroked Rudy’s back with her hand.
When you have such a brief happy time.
“How long are you going to be like that?”
“────!!!!”
At the sudden sound, Astina threw away Rudy and got up from her seat.
In front of him stood a wolf with its silver fur.
“print… … Is it Lissilane?”
“I’m sorry to disturb you, but I have to clean up.”
“Hey, it’s a good time. Just trying to make Rudy a little bit more comfortable… … .”
“Yeah, that’s done. Catch that guy.”
Priscilla nodded and pointed to Jeffrey.
Astina covered her red face with her hand and looked at it.
Jeffrin was lying on the grass, looking old.
There were chunks of ice all around, and the guy’s stomach had been stagnant with ice.
“Are you alive?”
“It seems like they are stuck together, but I don’t think they will live long.”
Astina stared intently at Jeffrin like that.
A state of being spread out on the ground in an old form.
Dirt was clinging to his body.
“You can’t see the end like this. There are things I have been doing.”
Astina approached Jeffrin and pulled out a small mana stone.
When I took the mana stone to Jeffrin, the wound slowly healed.
Astina opened her mouth, looking at Priscilla with cold eyes and looking at Jeffrin.
“Priscilla, make sure the professors are nearby. If you’re not nearby, get me there as soon as possible.”
“i get it.”
Astina had no intention of letting Jeffrin face such an end.
Priscilla took Maguire to the place where Astina was.
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Maguire looked at Jeffrey, who was lying on the floor.
“Looks like you succeeded.”
“Yeah, Rudy did it.”
Astina greeted Maguire with Rudy lying on her lap.
“Rudy’s condition is… … ?”
“It doesn’t look like it’s bad. I just haven’t come to my senses yet.”
“That’s good.”
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Maguire nodded and looked at Jeffrey.
“I don’t think he will last long.”
Jeffrey was barely holding his breath, only exhaling heavily.
“No matter how you save it, it won’t make any difference. He must have gone out of his mind because he ran out of mana by himself.”
Directly running out of mana was actually suicide.
When mana runs out due to other magic, the defense mechanism inside the body protects the body to some extent.
However, if you directly run out of mana, such a defense mechanism does not activate, and the whole body as well as the mind is broken.
Jeffrin was practically alive but not alive.
“But, I don’t want to spend it comfortably like that.”
A story that I couldn’t tell in front of Rudy.
Rebels invaded the academy and Rudy said he could die.
In that situation, she laughed and passed it over, but Astina thought a lot about it.
The rebels kill themselves.
It may not have happened, but there was no reason to ignore it.
I had to prepare for this.
Astina trained to face fate.
He trained like that and got a little farther away from the people around him.
He didn’t even see the Rudy he loved so much.
He said that when he died in another world line, Rudy had turned for the worse.
Astina fell briefly with Rudy to prevent it.
When the body goes away, the mind goes away.
I will do my best to fight the rebels, but I also have to think about if I can’t avoid death.
He took a step back so that Rudy would not be ruined even if he died.
Even when she saw Luna and Rie walking around with Rudy, she couldn’t help it.
I endured it, thinking that if I could just pass the situation of my own death, I would be there.
Astina only devised a way to fight the rebels like that.
And now.
Astina clearly had a plan.
I got Jeffrin, and Astina saw the potential.
The Empire is currently fighting amongst itself.
Even if the rebels were active, they did not care much.
In order to protect themselves, the help of the Empire is essential.
Something had to be done to create that situation.
“Then I will ask for Rudy.”
Astina handed Rudy over to Priscilla and took Zeprin by magic.
“Astina, where are you going… … .”
“I will go to the capital of the empire.”
“capital?”
Astina pointed to Jeffrey and looked at Maguire.
“I’m going to put this guy on the bench.”
***
When it was time for Jeffrin to come back, he didn’t come, so he checked and found out that he had already been caught.
The rebel leaders held a meeting.
“What do you think the chief will do?”
“… … .”
Aryandor grabbed his head with his hands.
The rebels are currently unknown where Jeffrey is.
He knew until his defeat at the Academy, but he couldn’t figure out what happened after that.
I searched around the academy, wondering if he had run away, but couldn’t find it.
“For now, I will wait… … .”
All Aryandor could do was wait.
“Chief!!!”
Then a man ran to the meeting place.
“In the imperial capital… … A public execution is said to be in progress… … !”
“… … Public executions?”
“My, Jeffrin-sama’s public execution… … !”
Aryandor’s eyes widened at those words.
“What do you mean? It’s been less than a day since Jeffrey disappeared. It doesn’t make sense… … .”
The empire was basically immortalism.
He took the position of reincarnation rather than killing people.
Of course, he killed a lot of people behind the scenes, but it was said that he had this attitude to the common people.
Still, having a public execution meant that the meeting had gone through that much and that there was a reason to do it.
However, it was only one day that Jeffrey disappeared.
It didn’t make sense to do all these things in the meantime.
It takes only one day to travel from the academy to the capital.
I wondered how it went.
“Captain, what are you going to do?”
“… … I will go alone.”
The rebels are at an important point right now.
While capturing some power around him, he could not pull out the other leaders.
“Keep contact with Damon in the capital.”
Damon is currently staying in the capital because of the Astrian family and the work of a necromancer.
After meeting with Damon, Aryandor was going to monitor the situation and try to save Jeffrin if he had time during the execution.
But.
“under… … !”
Aryandor arrived in the capital on time and watched the execution team.
There were a lot of people in front of the execution table.
Executions don’t happen that often, so many people seemed to be curious.
On the execution table, an old-looking Jeffrin was kneeling in front of the gallows, with all his injuries, with Astina in front of him.
It wasn’t just that.
Next to Astina were Cromwell and the Imperial Chancellor Jason Ophilus, and Ian Astria and several nobles stood nearby.
The place where all the figures called the center of the empire stand.
Aryandor was not a guard that could be penetrated alone.
“Captain, are you here?”
Damon, wearing a hood, walked to the place we were supposed to meet.
“How did this happen?”
“I heard that Astina Persia came in during a meeting in the Empire and this was the case.”
“Astina?”
“Yeah, the academy caught Jeffrin and showed him to a meeting.”
Aryandor looked at Astina, who was standing on the highest point.
Even though high nobles were standing around, Astina standing there meant that she had accomplished something.
“That guy is Jeffrin… … .”
As Aryandor was talking to himself, it was time for execution.
Astina stepped forward and opened the scroll in her hand.
“The above criminal belonged to the rebel group and acted as its leader. He tried to destroy the center of the empire, and he committed numerous evil deeds. Therefore, I am sentenced to death for the crime of national rebellion.”
It was concise, and the content was deeply summarized.
The crime of rebellion is the most punishable crime among the laws established by the Empire.
So there was no need for a long explanation.
Astina read the charges and put down the scroll.
Then he looked at the multitude of people standing in front of him.
“This criminal started a national civil war and killed more than 100 people alone.”
Astina continued.
“Not only that, but with the magic tools he made, he killed countless people with the soldiers he led. Thousands of families have collapsed because of the liquidation of corrupt aristocracy. Some have lost their sons, some have lost their husbands, some have lost their fathers. They were innocent people. They were just fighting the rebels to protect their families.”
Astina reached out.
“I will ask the rebels who are listening to me somewhere. Do you really have the right to kill innocent people just because the world you’re trying to create is really valuable? Can you say that you are better than the corrupt nobles you killed? Can you say that the world you create is truly an ideal world?”
Astina investigated the rebels to protect herself and her surroundings.
And prepared.
To explain to the Empire how inconsistent it is with the dangers of the rebels.
I was able to seize this opportunity by preparing for it in advance.
Astina went to the Empire, barely risking Zephrin’s life.
Instead of riding in a horse-drawn carriage, he was able to fly at high speed using magic and arrive at the Empire.
It was to take part in a meeting that was being held in the Empire that had moved so hard.
Astina took part in the imperial council, and appealed at the meeting what she had prepared.
Now is not the time for the imperial faction and the aristocratic faction to fight.
The rebels plan to destroy the empire.
It’s not the time to just watch.
As a result, we have now met.
Astina’s efforts were not in vain.
Hearing Astina’s words, he decided to slay the rebels from the nobles and the emperors.
“This will be a declaration of war that your rebels and your empire will face head-to-head. People, don’t be fooled by the fact that the rebels are handing out some food now. They are murderers who killed your family and your neighbors. The bread I give you is the flesh of the family, and the wine I give you is the blood of the family. It’s not something that comes out of the ground. Never forget that.”
Astina said, looking at the public with sharp eyes.
“Astina Persia… … .”
Aryandor sharpened his molars and looked at Astina.
Then he looked at Jeffrey next to him.
He looked more exhausted and desperate than when he first saw him.
Jeffrey was already half-dead.
As he looked at Jeffrey like that, the soldier standing next to Astina exclaimed.
“I will execute!”
Hearing that, Aryandor turned around.
Damon looked at Aryandor like that.
“Are you going?”
“okay.”
Aryandor clenched his fists and recalled a name.
“Astina Persia.”