250 – Final Chapter (3): Dessert Research Club
Poor performance of the dessert research group.
Lina sat blankly alone in the club room.
“……”
I followed Sylvia’s words.
After each club member went to their hometown for a moment to say hello, they asked us to gather in the club room.
Because Lina’s family home was near the Great Forest, she was able to see her younger siblings’ faces for the first time in a while and arrive at her club as quickly as possible.
“…Silvia, that kid is really.”
Lina took a look around her club room.
She was clean and without a speck of dust.
She was obviously Sylvia, who had sent them here to take care of the poor management, but she was just using it as an excuse to give her staff a break.
[Let’s take a short break]
There was a note written in neat and elegant handwriting on the table.
She was completely caught up in Sylvia’s plan.
Lina, who was leaning on her table, thoughtlessly knocked the note on the table.
—Talk. Talk. Talk.
When she came into the clubroom.
She felt at ease, as if she had come home.
The table where we ate together, the sofa where we gathered and chatted.
This place, where she lived half of her life, was already a memory in itself.
“……”
That’s why her empty space was so big.
Now that Lina is here alone,
The empty space and silence loomed large.
She prayed for the vacancy of her colleagues and at the same time…
—Talk. Talk. Talk.
It was also because Ian was not present.
Ian.
Now, the part he occupied in Lina’s heart was so big.
A savior who caught me as I was running down a dead end road.
Just being around her makes me happy and she is a good person.
She still wishes that he could press her neck like that time at least once.
It is difficult to cope with Ian’s empty position with anything.
“… I miss you.”
I felt like crying.
Lina tightly clenched her hand on the table.
It was not time for her to cry yet.
Lina was determined to do both laughing and crying after Ian came.
Yes.
Now is the time to look ahead and make efforts, not the time to be sad.
Lina shook her head to get rid of the bad thoughts.
“Let’s rest a little.”
It would be a good idea to follow Sylvia’s advice.
She said she might go to war with the Shale Church.
You have to reserve your stamina to be able to fight properly when fighting.
Moreover, Ian had talked about Shaleam Bridge in passing from time to time.
The leader of the Shaleam Church must be an incredibly strong being.
Whenever he told that story, Ian’s eyes always burned coldly. As if thinking of a way to beat him.
“Huh…”
A sigh that comes out of nowhere.
I was feeling particularly mixed today.
It may have been because of the academy’s atmosphere, which felt like there was a thick fog for some reason.
I looked out the window to see if it was raining, but there were no raindrops falling.
There are just dark clouds covering the sky gloomily.
It might rain soon, Lina thought.
— Knock, knock.
Should we say it instead of the sound of rain?
A knock was heard.
“Yes. Just a moment!”
Lina reflexively answered and stood up.
She then stopped right where she was.
‘…Who is it?’
Everyone at the Academy knows that Ian has been kidnapped.
If it’s Danya or Elena, there’s no need to knock because they have the key.
It means that no one else will come.
(Old) Magic-dong.
This is especially true when it comes to this building, which has a bad reputation as a haunted building.
— Knock, knock.
But when the knock came again, Lina opened her door as if possessed.
There stood a man who could only be seen by her if she lifted her head slightly.
“Is this a place called the Dessert Research Club?”
Is he slightly taller than Ian?
His eyes were deep, but slightly closed as if he was bored.
The pure white hair was impressive, but rather than having faded, it seemed closer to pure, as if it had no color whatsoever.
To summarize, he was a man with the exact opposite impression to Ian.
“Please sit here.”
Lina led the man to a table in her poor living room.
She was right to refuse the visit, but it didn’t seem right. Somehow, an instinct was warning Lina. This means that you should never go against this person’s wishes.
“It’s a pretty comfortable atmosphere.”
“Thank you.”
“Are you also a member of this department?”
“Yes.”
“That kid, you have good friends.”
Lina bowed her head.
She pretended to be calm, but the fingertips she was holding were trembling. She has never been so afraid in front of people. She didn’t even know who the other person was and she did it for no reason.
Taking a gulp of her saliva, she carefully opened her mouth.
“I’ll prepare something to drink.”
It wasn’t until she entered her kitchen that Lina let out a sigh of relief.
She was holding her hand so tightly that her palm was pale white.
‘Who the hell is it?’
Numerous thoughts appeared in her head.
But she soon shook her head.
I am a visitor to the club.
Let’s treat her like she treats her guests.
After making that decision, Lina looked into her kitchen.
Fortunately, there was high-quality black tea that Sylvia seemed to have recently purchased. A dessert worth serving with it is…
“I’ve arrived too!”
Suddenly.
Elena’s voice was heard along with the sound of the club door opening.
Luckily, she came straight to the kitchen.
“Did you have a good time at Sister Lina’s house? But why are you suddenly making dessert?”
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“Shh. A guest has arrived.”
“Guest?”
Without any time to catch her, Elena rushed out into the living room.
A small sound of greeting was heard.
– Ah… Hello.
– Yes.
Soon Elena returned to her kitchen.
Her complexion was pure white.
“Who… Who are you?”
“I don’t know, but he’s definitely not an ordinary person.”
“He seemed greater than any person I’ve ever seen.”
Even though Elena looks like this, she was a priest of the Deus Church. Although she is from a minor sect, the number of people she has met is quite large.
“Elena, would you like me to bring you some tea first?”
Lina said as she took out the ice maker. A magic engineering tool designed to create snowflakes without an eye. Elena nodded her head.
– Boom!
– Crush!
Elena, who was going out, must have twisted her foot and there was a sound of hitting her forehead somewhere. Fortunately, she seemed to have hit the wall and not a customer, as the sound was quite hard.
Lina poured mana into the ice maker and prepared fruit. There were some fruits that Sylvia had bought. Wash it off thoroughly.
The damaged part was removed and stored in another container.
Usually older men are reluctant to eat sweets.
Lina started making snow fruit mainly from less sweet fruits.
The snowflake sugar was not applied too much.
She carefully placed the snow fruit she had made on a plate.
Fruits that are properly packaged without any mess.
After handing her ice pack to Elena, who had a red forehead and tears in her eyes, Lina walked out with her plate.
She then carefully placed it on the table where the man was sitting.
“This is a dessert called snowflake fruit sold by our dessert research group. Try it.”
“Thank you.”
“No.”
Nodding.
After lowering her head, Lina returned to the kitchen.
“Huh…”
A sigh that flows out as if the tension is collapsing.
‘I think I should go and talk to him…’
No matter how friendly she was, there was no way she could speak well to such a monster-like expert.
“What should I do, sister?”
“What should we really do?”
… Should I run away?
Lina, who was thinking about that, shook her head.
If you were that expert, it seemed pointless to run away.
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“… I’m here.”
Drur.
The door to the clubroom opened and Danya came in.
The presence of Lina and Elena can be felt in the kitchen.
Danya’s steps toward that direction stopped for an instant.
“…?”
She turned her steps towards the living room.
There, a man was leisurely savoring snow fruit.
“…….”
Interlude eye contact.
Danya bowed her head and sat down.
She was sitting across from him.
“It was the right thing to do, but it turned out well.”
“Do you like the food?”
“Yes. It would have been nice if it was alcohol, but this isn’t bad either. Are you a beastman?”
“I’m from the Catsnesia clan.”
“I know it well. They are a clan that produces talented people one by one from generation to generation. I guess it’s you in this generation.”
“That’s it.”
A new crescent moon-shaped earring was hanging on Danya’s ear.
It was a sacred relic of the Catsnesia clan.
Danya silently pointed to a snowflake fruit.
The man also just nodded his head.
Danya put a snowflake tomato in his mouth.
“So. Why did you come here?”
“This is a place I’ve heard about dozens of times. I was curious what kind of place it was.”
“…….”
“I was curious about what kind of life that child lived. It was quite simple. If I wanted to have it, I could have had it endlessly.”
The man glanced around.
Then he looked away as if nothing had happened.
Rather, his eyes as he looked at Danya shone.
“You got a person instead.”
The man finished eating the snowflake fruit.
Danya asked him.
“How did it taste?”
He nodded his head in satisfaction.
“It was a good dessert. It’s modern. It’s not common.”
“I use similar words to Ian.”
“Is that so? That kid seemed pretty thorough, but I guess he didn’t hide it well.”
“Are you related to Ian?”
“Maybe so, maybe not.”
The man smiled inexplicably.
Danya asked.
“Then why don’t we just release Ian?”
“You think I took that child away. Who do you think I am?”
“Byoju. Shale Bridge.”
The religious leader laughed at Danya’s words.