107 – Copy 3
Sarah rubbed her eyes. A handsome blonde haired man who couldn’t be here smiles brightly at himself. The dazzling appearance that even the sun would envy radiated brilliance even in the void.
Tears came out.
The moment I thought it was the end, the man I most wanted for help appeared like this, as if responding to his heart. As if he had read his own mind.
This man’s mystery knows no bounds.
‘Oh no! If that John is an illusion….’
Just like Arsha and Sierra, he may use his venomous tongue to confuse himself.
‘Then why did you just help me?’
It is full of doubts. However, wise people always prepare for the worst. Sarah wiped the tears from her cheeks with her sleeve and looked at John.
John smiles at himself.
If that John speaks harsh words, can he stand it himself?
John was a special being. She was the first to cross the fence set by Sarah Leoris.
At first it was just interesting. The performance he showed on his academy entrance exams intrigued me.
The interest in John’s abilities eventually turned into an interest in the person named John.
John was not afraid of the name Leoris. He didn’t even try to use the name.
There were two main types of people who had approached Sara so far.
Those who want to make their living from falling rice cakes, or those who have no interest in the human Sarah and only want to acquire magical knowledge.
There were very few exceptions like Arsha. John was the only person who paid attention to the name ‘Sarah’ among those who approached him.
To me now, Yohan is the most precious friend to me. No, maybe he’s more than that.
“Miss Sarah.”
John’s mouth opened slowly. Sarah was very nervous and focused on his mouth.
“Are you feeling well?”
John worries about his safety with a warm voice.
At that sight, Sarah burst into tears that she had been holding back forcibly. I felt the warmth that would melt my heart.
“John-kun… ! Are you really John!?”
To that question, Yohan answered with an ambiguous smile.
“Um…. Actually, it’s an illusion.”
“Fantastic? W, is that right?”
Well, there’s no way the real John could be here.
But, if it’s a fantasy, it’s a bit strange. If it was an illusion created by the magic circle, there was no reason to help him like before. Rather, he sabotaged himself by sabotaging himself.
If the magic circle had read his own thoughts, he wouldn’t be unaware that there was no one who could break his mind as easily as John. But why does the fantasy John not criticize himself like Arshana and Sierra?
It was John who answered Sarah’s question.
“The illusion of this place is created through the medium of Miss Sara’s memory and mind. It must be because Sarah thinks ‘I’ is so much more special than other people.”
It is true.
Sara was clearly aware of it. That John Baker is very special to him.
To see such a fact with your own eyes.
“Whoops. Yohan-kun helps me even as an illusion.”
Where else can you find a relationship like this?
Sarah again felt that meeting John was the good fortune of her life.
“Fantastic John? Should I call you like this?”
“Anything is fine.”
“Then, I’ll just call you John. Actually, there is something I want to consult with Yohan-kun.”
In reality, it’s an embarrassing story even for John.
However, fantasy is a different story. Sarah did not hesitate to release to John the troubles that had been in her heart.
“What do other friends think of me? Miss Swordhorn, Miss Sierra, and the new Miss Lire.”
I thought that even if they came from different families or ranks, they would all be able to get along. The person who informed him of that fact was John in front of him.
“I consider them all my friends. But, what will they think of me?”
The words spoken by Arsha and Sierra’s fantasy were the worries she had put in her heart.
“Won’t they think I’m playing friends? Wouldn’t you think that they are simply putting them around like ornaments to show the generosity of the great nobility? How will my friends accept my sincerity?”
If it’s John.
Even if it was a fantasy, it seemed like it would provide an answer to this concern.
“Okay.”
However, the answer that comes back is too plain. Sarah, who had been expecting a wise answer from Yohann, made a teasing sound with a depressed expression.
“What! What is the appropriate answer? Mr John. Well, I’m asking this seriously.”
“I am serious too.”
John met Sarah’s eyes. John’s blue eyes were reflected in Sarah’s sapphire eyes.
A vision that is just like the real thing John looked at Sarah with his blue eyes and opened his mouth. His voice becomes a smooth melody and flows in Sarah’s ears.
“You can’t know what other people think. There is also a limit to reading thoughts with magic. If you’re reading other people’s thoughts like that in the first place, what’s the point?”
“I am curious. What they think of me.”
“Didn’t Miss Sarah say she considered them friends?”
“Right. Miss Swordhorn and Miss Sierra. Everyone is my best friend. No, because there are two, friends without three? Ah, if it comes to Miss Lire and John…. Oh, anyway! You are a very dear friend!”
“I trust you because you are my friend. No matter what they actually think, no matter how they see Miss Sarah.”
“You believe?”
“Perhaps it is not the thoughts of others that Sarah is worried about, but her own. It’s to be on the lookout for a wavering in your confidence in regards them as friends.”
“But if you do that and get betrayed….”
The reason why Sara subconsciously distanced herself from people until now.
Like everyone else, Sarah didn’t like being hurt in a relationship.
“Then it would be painful. All the more since I trusted you as a friend.”
John spoke to Sarah like that.
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“But, Miss Sarah, a man who flies can always fall. He who walks on the ground is not like that. But he who walks never sees what he who flies sees.”
John said.
It is said that if you give up friendship because you are afraid of being hurt by people, you will become invisible.
“If Miss Sara doesn’t want to feel the pain of the fall, he won’t have any relationship.”
Sarah before entering the academy.
Aside from academic relationships, Sarah did not worry about this in those days when there was no personal social relationship. He didn’t even have to worry.
“Would Miss Sara want to do that?”
Sarah shook her head slowly at John’s question.
“……No.”
“Good. It looks like he realized what he should focus on.”
It was as John said. It wasn’t Arshana or Sierra that created the gap in her heart. It was a specter of her own making, not trusting them as her friends.
“And another one. Even if everyone else betrays Miss Sara.”
John’s hand touched Sarah’s forehead. Even though it is an illusion, it feels so vivid to the touch.
“I am on both sides of Sara.”
With that one word, all my worries melted like sugar in the rain. Sarah laughed. She could laugh
“A mysterious person….”
“Yes?”
“John-kun is a very strange person to me.”
Sarah approached John and raised her toes. There is more than one head difference between him and Yohan, so even tiptoe doesn’t match eye level.
“Ugh~! Yohan-kun should be a little more considerate of Lady. Please bow down.”
“You mean this?”
John slightly bent his knees and brought Sarah to eye level.
“Is John-kun my friend?”
“Hmm. You should hear that from the ‘real’ John, right?”
“Whoops. No, I do not want.”
Sarah brought her face towards John, who was level with her. It happened in an instant.
Sarah’s lips overlapped John’s.
“I think I will cry if I hear the answer that I am a friend.”
I realized this. That John is more than a friend to himself.
Even though it was an illusion, John’s lips were moved. Again, John is mysterious even in visions.
“This is rehearsal. Real next time.”
So Sarah smiled. John’s vision gently kissed his lips.
It disappeared soon after.
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[Copy of Sarah Leoris’s trait “Sage’s Eye”! [Sage’s Eye] Is strengthened with [Evil Eye of Truth]!]
[Congratulations! You have acquired the new attribute 「Evil Eye of Truth」!]
「Evil Eyes of Truth」 (SSS Class)
[You can see the crystal of wisdom that penetrates all things. The overwhelming wisdom that transcends time and space breaks the bonds of cause and effect and causes miracles.
Check the state of the existence that the evil eye of truth stared at. Also, you can analyze the skill you stared at and imitate it perfectly. The imitated skill is given an additional effect according to the user’s main ability.
The evil eye of truth searches for the opponent’s weakness. If you hit the weak point found in this way, you deal damage that ignores 100% of your physical defense and magic resistance.
Maintaining the Mystic Eye consumes mana and stamina every second. Also, once dispelling the magic eye, the magic eye cannot be activated for 24 hours.]
I finally copied Sara’s characteristics. As a result, the SSS-level attribute “Mystic Eye of Truth”
Befitting an SSS class, it was a trait that wrapped around all sorts of fraudulent effects.
100% Defense on skill copies.
This was like asking me to do one-handed boss raiding.
‘I came at just the right timing.’
This is a great trait to deal with Akmana. The operation to pretend to be an illusion was a great success.
‘To be honest, I didn’t even think about getting a kiss.’
I was planning to raise the impression moderately, but it seems that the impression was better than I thought. Thanks to that, I copied the third trait after Sierra and Arsha.
All that remains is to defeat Akmana and dismantle the magic circle.
I turned into a mecha by using the ‘Ring of Tradition’.