70 – 70. Festival (9)
How would most people react if they were suddenly slapped on the street?
It’s normal to start off with anger since you’ve suddenly started a fight.
But he doesn’t. No, I couldn’t.
“I guess you cleverly turned the words around and breathed your breath on the kids?”
“…What are you talking about?”
At Junon’s statement that he didn’t know the English language, Erika let out a blank laugh in embarrassment.
“You’ve been consistently fooling others with that face. It’s disgusting.”
Erika’s face was locked in deep anger when she said that.
‘f*ck, what happened?’
It is more important to know why you were hit than to feel a tingling sensation from being slapped on the cheek.
For Erica to show hostility like this, it must be obvious what happened.
But her head, which was spinning too much, is overheated and can’t answer like before.
A body with accumulated fatigue. An exhausted mind to the extent of that.
I didn’t want to accept other stress anymore because the fatigue that was filled up was tightly covered on both sides of my mind and body.
“Let’s talk about the details tomorrow. Right now, I’m too hot to talk about it…”
-Chack!
I stopped talking at once and my eyes closed for an instant at the cold thing that was being splashed on me.
I know even if I don’t open my closed eyes. The cold water manifested by magic from the opponent in front of him flowed down from his face to his upper body.
Before the sound of water dripping down her dark hair stopped, Erica opened her mouth sarcasticly.
“Are you feeling a bit cooler now? This should have cooled down a bit, don’t you feel a little inclined to talk?”
It was someone I never wanted to meet again. But she thought that if it was her way, Junon wouldn’t have met her either.
It’s the world’s logic that things can’t go their own way. It was part of that logic that Erica, whom she thought she would never see again, was right in front of her.
But among the principles of the world, there are also right and wrong.
“What are you doing?”
A junior has appeared who will never let go of the wrong behavior.
***
“My lady. You eat better than you look?”
“Ehehehehe… It was delicious.”
“Ha ha! That sounds good. I’ve been cooking for 10 years, but I’m happy to see that a pretty person like a lady happily eats it.”
Then, secretly, secretly adding more food to her wife, who is washing dishes behind her, lowers her voice.
“Hmmm. It’s a secret. It’s been a long time since I saw someone who eats deliciously like a young lady.”
“Honey, do you want to see a hole in the ledger this month?”
“Bo, were you watching? Uh hmm hmm…”
“Oh, really. I can’t get angry in front of customers.”
Seeing the couple’s close relationship, Rhenias naturally ate and laughed.
“Huh? Miss… That’s what they say, it’s okay.”
“That’s right, young lady. It’s a service I gave you because you ate deliciously, but it’s kind of hard to get paid like this.”
“Please accept it. That will make me feel better.”
“”Anyway, this…””
The amount Rhenias handed over was quite substantial, so the couple just noticed.
She said that students who come here during the festival are normal students, but she refused, saying that she had a conscience problem to receive such money.
Rhenias had no choice but to show the family mark, and only then did her husband and wife understand and express their gratitude.
“Rather than that, where did the man who came with you go? I think we did the calculations earlier.”
“Senior is waiting outside. I came back to pack.”
“Aha. Was it like that? Ho-ho.”
While the food was being packed, Rhenias had a short chat with the shop lady.
By the way, as soon as the packing was over, they went outside! Isn’t that what you hear?
“What do you mean…?”
The couple clicked her tongue as if they were used to the sound.
I heard that this is a place where couples often break up and come together.
It is said that it is usually divided into two types.
“The sound of a man with eight arms slapped on the back or the sound of a bad guy having an affair getting slapped on the cheek by his lover. It’s probably one of those two.”
“Hmm… I see…”
“Come to think of it, isn’t that what the young lady said?”
“Ohhh, that’s right. Really?”
“Yes? What do you mean…”
“Pretty lady. Didn’t you like that senior?”
“Yes, hehehe?”
At those words, heat suddenly rose from her face.
The couple continued to try to hook up with him, saying that there was no law telling her to hold on to Junon or telling him not to confess that she was her woman first.
“Mu-mu-mu-mu, I don’t know what you’re talking about… Ahahahaha…! I-I’m going!”
In the end, Rhenias couldn’t stand it and left the store as if running away.
“Ugh… Why is it so hot? It must be summer… Ahahahaha…”
Actually, even in summer, I don’t sweat a drop.
For some reason, this heat that came from my whole body was fanned out, and even when I came out and was blown by the evening breeze, it did not cool down easily.
Why it radiates heat from its entire body, and how well-ripe cheeks look like apples to others. I have no idea how each of my actions will be reflected.
It was a bit early for a clumsy girl who had just begun to awaken to new emotions.
“Huh… I should go see my senior.”
I must have been waiting all this time. I didn’t want to keep waiting for a senior who looked tired unlike usual.
I looked around, wondering what kind of bench the senior was waiting for, and found him.
And.
-Chack!
I shifted my gaze to the sound of water coming out of nowhere.
I didn’t know what they were talking about after that, but I had no doubt what had happened to the man standing in front of the bench.
The carefully packaged food fell to the ground, and the girl instinctively ran to the wet man, taking out a handkerchief.
It’s a view that can only be seen by the silhouette reflected in the night view, but that looks like it was hit by water. But there is no such source here.
It’s not even raining. It doesn’t even look like water was scooped up with a bucket somewhere.
Rhenias, who took out a handkerchief and wiped off the water, turned to someone who could bring out the water with a stiff expression.
“What are you doing?”
Unlike before, the heat surged from my body for a completely different reason.
However, the heat shows no sign of cooling down.
As fierce as the heat, eyes were chasing the target who attacked Junon with magic.
“No thanks. Don’t tell me.”
“Wow…!”
Anyone who saw it would have closed their eyes tightly to this magical wave and called for someone.
Now there are only two of them, but the target of Rhenias’ hostility is fixed.
I just didn’t ask you to do something like that to a senior who couldn’t even resist because he was having a hard time right now.
Rhenias had already finished one shot at an invisible speed.
“What firepower…”
Pass-
It deflected one of the flashes it fired, but the smoke rising from the sunken ground reminds us of its power.
And as if this was just a threatening shot, countless formations were drawn in front of my eyes, and more shots were about to be fired at any moment.
Even the atmosphere creates air currents due to this tremendous magic power, and the wind blows away.
It was a force that people could not help but shrink from.
“Renias. Calm down!”
“I’m sorry, senpai. I can’t stand it anymore.”
In spite of Junon’s request to calm down, Rhenias was ready to attack Erica.
The bow string is all pulled. If she ejects with only a little of her magical energy deflected, she will be shot at Erica in an instant.
As a member of Thembris, Erica will also endure as long as she can, but if her opponent is Rhenias, her aspects will be completely reversed.
That’s what the difference in rank is.
“Renias, I’m fine, stop it! Rhenias!!”
I endured it.
How many times have you endured it?
I don’t like the fact that bad labels are attached to that kind-hearted senior.
Even when he invited himself for other students, he wanted to dispel rumors about his personality by telling this fact.
When I got hurt somewhere after the evaluation at the beginning of the semester, they didn’t ask me why I was hurt, and they turned a blind eye to me, and even when my grades at the end of the semester fell through, I barely convinced myself that it was the right thing not to intervene when I thought about the future.
He has been patient with hearing swearing or gossip, distorted evaluations, or being cut or deleted, but this is not the case.
Would it make sense to unilaterally pour water while sitting on a bench and waiting for someone from common sense?
And the sound I heard outside was definitely the sound of being slapped on the cheek.
Summarizing, doesn’t it mean that he was getting slapped in the face without being slapped in the face? And that, too, with the body that came rolling over from somewhere.
It was frustrating. The feeling that something stuffy is stuffed inside and can’t get out.
Eating a hundred sweet potatoes didn’t seem like this kind of stuffiness would arise.
However, the flash that she tried to fire with her girlish frustration in her magic lost its way to Erica.
“Uh… Eh? Senpai?”
“Please. I’ll have a good talk.”
It was because Junon was standing tall in front of an angry junior while holding his hands.
***
How did this happen?
Meeting Erica was bad luck, but I had to step in even if her head was pounding because something worse was about to happen.
“Sir, senpai… A hand, a hand!”
“If you let it go like this, it will shoot. I’m catching you not to do that.”
“If you don’t get out of the way, I won’t be able to shoot anyway! That, so… My hand…”
“Sorry. I won’t let you go until you promise me that you won’t attack Erica.”
Your expression I saw earlier must have been so scary. Besides, wind pressure is created due to magic power, and if you shoot with that firepower, a real catastrophe will happen…
I couldn’t let go of Rhenias’ hand unless I answered clearly that I wouldn’t.
“Oh, okay! I won’t shoot you…!”
“Really?”
“I promise… I will…”
As if the promise was not a lie, the flashes that were just before launch lost their light and disappeared.
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Looking at the protruding lips, it seems that he is dissatisfied with something, but… It seems that the catastrophe has been prevented.
“Then could you step aside for a moment?”
“Senior. Even if you say that…”
She is glaring at Erica with her cold eyes, unable to lift her suspicion. That wasn’t too much of a stretch.
I just saw something, so it’s worth it if you’re in Rhenias’ position.
But I also need to find out what has happened since I met Erica.
“Please.”
As I said that, I held Rhenias’ hands once more and said.
The result of holding Rhenias’ hand and asking for it.
Renias allowed me to meet Erica alone much sooner than I expected.
I felt like I could barely hold her hand and be embarrassed, but I wondered why she allowed it right away… Anyway, what is it?
I set a condition that it was only while I ordered the spilled food again, but that was enough.
For some reason, Erica never stabbed me again. Rhenias firmly warned that if he did something like that, he would not put up with it this time.
“You cunning bastard… Did you say that to him too?”
“You seem to be mistaken about something. I opened up the opportunity to talk. I ask questions.”
“…”
“And don’t get me wrong. He just wants to improve his stamina, so I’m just teaching him.”
I cut it off and brought it to the point.
“Erika. On the last day I met you, it seems like you did everything in front of Michelle. What’s so dissatisfying?”
“Of course I’m dissatisfied! Because you teased the other members with your tongue again!”
Are you talking about that again? I can’t quite understand
“Hah… Then I’ll tell you what I’ve been up to.”
“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t come to Thembris just to trick me? Then you brazenly breathed on the other kids!”
Erica whimpered and she yelled at me as if in protest.
“Goden said he wanted to recruit you as a team member when he saw you, who should have never met you. If you didn’t secretly appeal to me, then what?”
“Goden said that…?”
“Yeah! All of a sudden, today, when Tembris has been promoted to an official team, I suggested you join!!”
What happened?
As Erica said, I hadn’t even met Goden yet. So, did someone else recommend it?
“The most incomprehensible thing is that everyone wants you to join Thembris. Three people agreed to sign you without going through a single procedure that everyone has gone through, and even one person who remained neutral treated you as if they were on your side? How are you going to explain this?”
Can’t that be?
If it’s Michelle, I’ve made an arrangement in the underground waterway beforehand so that it has nothing to do with me.
She didn’t come back after that because she had a precedent for talking directly to Charlotte, and she could have been caught by Senia, but she did everything with Charlotte.
Finally, Aris. She said she wouldn’t even get into her and she wedged herself. How the hell did you get three yes votes?
No. Even people who, if you listened to them, were neutral, took sides, she said.
So… Virtually all four agreed.
She wondered when she heard that she breathed in, but why the hell did it go that way?
“I couldn’t have imagined that you would try to get into Thembris by slapping me in the back like this!”
No. Let’s not think further.
Hold on to the clues and try to find the answer, but only Erica knows that.
Then there is only one way.
“Hey Erica.”
I have no intention of ever doing that. You just have to convey it properly.
“Isn’t that right? As soon as this festival is over, the magic stone will run out.”
“What?”
Yes. The answer is easy if you don’t know.
Just like Aris, Erica only has memories of her being cut off.
“Because the Lewen Merchants failed to procure the Mana Stones, there will be a shortage of Mana Stones to be used for the next Magia Conformity Test. The price will soar because some Merchants who are aiming for it have hoarded the Mana Stones.”
“You. What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
Yes. You can’t tell. Because this is a story that only I know.
“It’s up to you whether you believe this or not. But let me be clear. This will happen sooner or later.”
“Are you kidding me? You think I’ll believe you even if you say nonsense because I have a back stomach?”
“The person who told Michelle not to drink the flowing water from a cave in the province of Magritta, Sirach. Do you know who it is?”
“…!”
Erika’s pupils dilated at those words. Now, you must have guessed that what I said was no joke.
Because I was the one who ordered it, and Erica was the one who shouted for it.
I was referring to what might happen in the future by pointing out some of her memories that Erica now knows.
“I said that there was no way I could enter Thembris, so I was planning a scheme, but don’t worry. I won’t enter even if I die.”
You might want to ask why. I immediately proceeded to speak as if I were an advisor.
“I was murdered. At the hands of a member of the Thambris party.”