Academy’s Weapon Replicator chapter 216

Chapter 69 Antidote (4)

“… … .”

Angus kept his mouth shut. Frontier brought her face closer.

“Can you count?”

“… … It was an inevitable sacrifice. It’s an old saying, but it takes sacrifice to make a big dream come true. Do you have enough power and still don’t know it?”

Angus’s blatant response.

Elin, who was watching from behind, looked at Frontier’s hand.

Frontier’s fingertips tremble faintly, but clearly.

‘Be careful.’

It won’t be visible from Angus’s eyes, but that’s why Angus can stretch out like that.

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Now Frontier is controlling his anger with superhuman patience.

What he was putting up with, Elin felt like she knew somehow.

Frontier quickly regained control of his anger and said with a bold smile.

“Of course I do. I just want to confirm.”

“Confirm?”

At Angus’s question, Frontier’s smile widened.

Frontier raised his right hand.

Repeatedly clenching his right hand and bleeding as if he were doing magic.

“… … ?!”

At one point, in his right hand was a syringe.

It was the final syringe filled with mana liquid that Angus had created after experimentation and research. In the eyes of Angus, it must have been so.

“If you really don’t mind sacrificing for that great mission.”

While Frontier spoke, the mana shots in his hand increased by 2, 3, and 4 at a time.

“If you sacrifice yourself, there will be no complaints, right?”

“Wow, what are you talking about? that’s my… … .”

“Does it matter who you are? If this research proceeds, you will be one step closer to your grand mission.”

Angus’ eyes widened at Frontier’s words.

“Hey, don’t bullshit! That’s my achievement! It is the crystallization of my knowledge that I have put a lot of time and research into! Something like you guys can take with you.”

“With that said, I have already taken it. You’ll know when you see it. This is my ability. The research you’ve been doing will be put to good use. Angus, please rest in peace. in prison.”

Frontier’s words seemed to upset Angus. Should I give all the research he’s done to this kid? No, that’s ridiculous. However, the syringe that Frontier created now was exactly the same as his final version.

How the heck did you steal that thing, if it wasn’t stolen, Frontier was really–

“Wow, ah ah ah ah ah! Nonsense! I can’t give it to you! It’s mine!”

“So, what could be so important? I will complete your research. Then the human will become stronger and can push out demons from the outside, regain the realm and make your dreams come true. This is a win-win strategy. Oh, do you know what win-win means?”

“Shut up! Human weapons are a huge business! The bisexualization of weapons must roll with capital! It makes sense to get my mana shots back with the right side effects and poisoning symptoms! You idiot!”

“——After all, what about the restoration of the human realm was an excuse?”

“Do you know that I made such an investment for something like that!”

Angus shakes his body tied to the black cloth with a struggle that is close to throbbing.

Frontier looked at him for a moment and then scratched his face.

“I’m just asking because you don’t seem to know what win-win means.”

Frontier pulled out his phone.

“Do you know what ‘recording’ means?”

“… … her?”

* * *

After arresting Angus, Frontier found an antidote and gave it to Dier and Elin.

There was no need to threaten Angus. It was after I had already looked into all the information through analysis.

“Sobbing. My strength is gone.”

Dier muttered in a joking tone. After receiving the antidote, Dier’s mana gradually disappeared.

Frontier said with a smirk.

“I can give it back to you if you want.”

“Yes? how?”

“As Angus said earlier. If you drain all the existing mana a person has and get this mana injection, you will be able to grow mana without any side effects. Since the mana is the same anyway, mana injections can be continuously injected.”

Of course, aside from the side effects, you should only put in enough mana that your body can handle. Frontier added:

Upon hearing that, Dier thought deeply and shook his head.

“I hate that.”

“why?”

“Because my mana is mine.”

“That’s right.”

Frontier nodded at Diego’s seemingly simple answer.

But in reality it won’t be that simple.

‘A man’s mana does not exist simply to use power.’

All living things on this continent, large or small, have mana. If it’s just to use great power, creatures that don’t need it in the first place won’t have mana.

So mana is essential for living things. Perhaps, losing all of them is a very dangerous thing to do, and Diego knows instinctively.

Elin, who was listening, asked as if she had suddenly remembered.

“By the way, Dier. How did you get the first mana shot?”

After being captured by Elin and coming here, Dier was given the same injections as Elin.

Thanks to that, I was able to release the restraints and drive Angus in, but I had no idea how I got it.

Dier replied as if nothing had happened to him.

“Oh, it was stolen.”

“… … steal?”

“I don’t know what to say, but I’m good at hiding.”

Dier had heard from Frontier that an assistant would come. Of course, that assistant was Elin.

Dier didn’t know that his assistant was Elin, but he thought about it when he heard about it.

There must be a lab somewhere in this constellation.

“I have a simple way of moving. It just goes back and forth between the dormitory and the classroom. There are no club activities yet. Frontier-senpai said that he would meet an assistant in a short period of time, and Elin-senpai actually came to me, so that means he knows that even the enemies can easily bring me in, right?”

Then the answer is simple.

The lab is not far from Constell, rather it is more likely to be in Constell.

There is no better equipped place than Constell around here.

“So, I came here a few days ago.”

“Did you come?”

Elin asked in an absurd voice.

Dier shrugged.

“Well, I’m not the only one here. To hide a research lab in a constell and make it look like a normal lab, in other words, you have to pretend it’s a normal lab until you get caught, right? So I looked around all the plausible labs in Constell. Excursions as an excuse. If it’s a decent lab, you can’t just stand in the way of Constell’s students.”

And in the meantime, I lowered my standards and stole the syringe inside the lab.

Of course, it wasn’t just the syringes that Dier stole. Because I didn’t know which lab won. So they stole everything that looked suspicious from each lab.

“I got one of those, well, in the end, I was lucky.”

Dier smiled bitterly. Even if he had prepared in advance, he had to leave it to fate in the end, and his situation was miserable.

But hearing this, Elin deepened her doubts.

Elin asked Frontier.

“Then you mean it wasn’t your job for Dier to have the syringe?”

“yes. I never thought that Dier would get an injection on his own.”

“Then how could you call me a helper? If it hadn’t been for the injection, Dier would have been arrested there.”

At those words, Frontier tilted his head as if to say what he was talking about.

“Yeah, of course, your senior saved you.”

“… … .”

Frontier looked at Elin with innocent eyes.

Erin was honestly not confident. At that time, even if Dier had not turned the situation around by strengthening himself with the injection, would Elin have saved him?

Frontier believes it will, of course, but Elin herself doesn’t know what to do.

“Then let’s go back now. I am tired.”

After saying that, Frontier walked right away. There was no hesitation in that step, and he did not look back.

“Frondier is always cool.”

Dier saw it and said.

“… … No, I think.”

But Elin had a slightly different idea.

Frontier’s back was not so cool, it just seemed so exhausted.

* * *

As night fell, I climbed onto the roof of the Constell building. There was no particular reason, I just wanted to get some air.

He said it to Elin and Dier as if it was settled.

In fact, I still had a lot of work left to do.

‘I haven’t found the monster yet.’

Of course, by analyzing Edden Hamerlot and Angus Mason, I knew the location of the demons. A monster traded by humans to dispose of corpses.

But if you stumble right now, you’ll just run away. Now that they do not know that the institute has been destroyed, they will appear as a meeting place where they always meet. If you want to attack the demons, then this is your chance.

… … but

why are you so tired

‘I don’t think I was this tired when I slept after clearing the Indus.’

At that time, the body fatigue continued to pile up from the battles and work that had piled up in succession. Eventually, in the past, there was even a situation where he fell asleep while tied to a chair.

On the other hand, the only time I did something right this time was today at most. However, fatigue incomparable to that of that time weighed on his body.

The fatigue of the Indus brought me to sleep.

The current fatigue is about to break me down.

“Frondie.”

I turned around to hear the voice behind me. Elin was standing there.

“… … senior.”

“You said you were tired, but you didn’t go home.”

Elin’s light voice trying to brighten up the atmosphere.

“… … That’s it.”

I tried to smile at him, but it didn’t work.

After that, Elin didn’t say anything for a while. I just put my eyes in the air as if they were breathing the wind together next to me. I liked that. I still need time to talk to Elin.

and how long has it been

Was my heart ready, or was Elin’s waiting stopped?

At a moment when it was not clear which side it was, Elin’s words flew carefully.

“… … Why did you save me?”

It was a familiar question. This time, a really natural smile came out. Elin was passing the question back to me during the Golem Incident.

“A senior is a person who should not die.”

So, I also just give the same answer.

Elin’s lips gathered slightly.

“That’s what I thought about last time, but you know there’s no answer, right?”

“As I said before, a senior is like a kid who was thrown out by the water. There are few people I care about.”

Elin had nothing to say. I actually had an accident.

I laughed softly at Elin’s silence and let out a sigh.

Somewhere at the end of that sigh, I knew for myself that my tone was trembling a little.

“senior.”

“… … yes.”

“today I,”

He raised one hand and placed it around his eye. It wasn’t because I wanted to hide it. I just wanted to close my eyes.

“—Do you know what I did?”

“… … .”

Elin didn’t answer that.

An overreaction to the word ‘death’ that I accidentally showed today. The anger that Angus had endured with all his might in front of his eyes.

Elin must know what I mean.

But she did not answer, and did not ask any further questions.

Was it because I thought it would make it harder for me, or because I knew the reason better than anyone else?

“I did something very cruel. I did something outrageous that can’t be compared to anything I’ve ever done.”

I said.

Something that had been holding tight inside his body slowly leaked out.

He lowered his hand and looked straight at Elin.

Eventually, he spit out the words he had been holding on to.

“It’s all your fault.”

Elin opened her eyes slightly.

Then, he quickly closed his eyes and answered with a faint smile.

“… … yes.”

“Because seniors are dangerous, I even do things like that.”

Elin’s smile slowly faded, and her eyes slowly trembled.

Suddenly, she said to me with watery eyes. The most sincere form of Elin’s voice I’ve ever heard.

“yes. Sorry.”

I turned my head after hearing Elin’s apology.

I could see the students still remaining under the roof.

At this point, I had a strange mind.

“Don’t try to die alone again by secretly groaning and groaning alone. If anything happens, run to me right away.”

My enemies don’t make fun of me, so I touch the people around me.

My co-workers don’t trust me, so they don’t ask me for help.

So I killed, threatened, and deceived people to solve it all.

Putting all those dirty experiences together, I said in a dark voice.

“I will take care of everything.”

Hearing this, I don’t know what kind of expression Elin made. It could be absurd, or it could be absurd.

But it didn’t matter how she reacted.

This was my decision.

This is what will happen next.

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