71 – 71. Festival (10)
“So, even if you don’t want to die in this lifetime, don’t enter Thembris. Just keep this in mind.”
Questions and answers end here. This is where you can express your opinion. No longer did he want to recall these complicated and disgusting memories.
Renias, who brought the food he ordered again before he knew it, asked, placing his arm on one side of his waist.
“Senior, are you done talking?”
“Yeah. You didn’t secretly listen to it through magic, did you?”
“Wow. Do you know that’s too much? I keep what I promised. Besides, I deliberately watched it a little longer so I wouldn’t listen, and then came out.”
Even seeing injustice is something I wouldn’t let go of just because of my personality, but I noticed that he didn’t like it because he even gave me time to talk about his circumstances.
“Sorry to keep you waiting. Let’s go.”
“Wait, I was talking about…”
“Go there. The time allowed was until I came out, right?”
Erika hurriedly tried to grab Junon, but Rennias stopped her.
That chilly voice reminded me of the situation where he was about to attack with a vast amount of mana.
With Rhenias’ threatening threats in her mind, Erica had something to say, but she couldn’t help but shut her mouth in shock.
“…”
When Erica stopped chasing him, Rhenias hurriedly followed Junon.
Either way or not, Erica is watching Junon walking away. And then he mumbles softly.
“You were killed… By a member of the Thambris party?”
The death of a man who seemed to have survived even at the cost of others, terribly and tenaciously.
She couldn’t help but be agitated by the ambiguous words.
***
In the meantime, at the same time.
“…”
“Hello, Aris?”
After Erica’s visit, it was Senia’s turn.
Unlike Erica, who seems to know why she came, she has no idea why she came here.
“What’s going on? You and I don’t get along very well.”
“Do you have a good relationship or something to argue with? They are on the same team.”
“Even if it’s an empty word, it’s very strange because you say it. You know what?”
As Aris replies with disgust, Senia asks back.
“You’re the weird one, Aris, aren’t you?”
“What am I?”
“I looked it up and found out that Aris, your written grades are so bad. Among them, you’re so lagging behind in formation theory that I wonder how you knew it was Hashirt’s 3rd formation.”
“That’s it, if you study a little…!”
“That’s right. You can do that. Since you have much more practical experience than I do. You could actually have skipped the defense of Osoptera that way.”
Senia shrugged her shoulders and seemed to pass. But,
“By the way. The statement that two splash outs cancel each other is in a lecture called Magic Topology? I haven’t listened to your lecture at all. How are you going to explain this?”
Senia, who deeply investigated her work in Ripole Gorge this time, stabs Aris in the lungs.
The neck of Aris, who had stabbed her lungs, fell heavily.
Aris said that she shouldn’t be found out like this, and she responded to Senia’s point with her shameless face as much as possible.
“I knew I was lacking in the written subject, so I studied separately and found out. I have a bad personality.”
“Studying secretly? That’s such a lame lie.”
“…What?”
“In that case, you should have pointed it out to me earlier. The fact that the two splash outs only cancel out if they collide in the opposite direction, not forward. This confirms that I haven’t touched magic topology.”
“…!”
In fact, Junon also split the four wagons full of mana stones into two and asked them to hold the magic in opposite directions to explode the mana stones.
Aris’ excuse was too poor to support her meticulous theory, and Senia, who properly saw through it, smiled as meanly as her fox.
“The point at which the formation changes is before entering the Alkaid Hall, and around that time you collapsed from mana exhaustion. And someone appeared at the right time?”
Aris’ lips trembled at Senia’s confident tone.
As she said, Senia’s unique magic reads the solid line of magical power, so it was possible to cull people out.
“The four people who seem to have appeared out of nowhere are Sylvia, John, and Noel. And… Junon, who received the top score in the Magic Topology lecture. . What do you think about it?”
From the last punch to the knockdown.
Aris was shaken restlessly by Senia’s tight reasoning, which seemed to stop her from making excuses.
Now there is only one left.
“It’s all as you said… Senia…”
“Ah, Aris? What are you doing all of a sudden?”
“It’s a request, so don’t tell others… That’s all…”
Aris sat down on her floor and bit her lips.
Even on her knees, hanging on to her feelings, she had to hide this fact.
“Hoo. Calm down, okay, so stand up. Our team, you know we have to tell each other our secrets, right?”
“I know that, but…”
“I know, Aris. You don’t want me to reveal it. I’ll keep it a secret, but I don’t think I’ll have to help you. Other people might find out.”
Senia read Aris slowly and promised to keep her secret.
However, Aris shook her head saying she would never understand. Well, there would be no point in trying to explain the end of Thembris, where she didn’t even become a party.
Still, Senia said it was okay, she would believe everything, so she asked me to tell her, and she continued persuading me for a long time.
In the end, Aris tells Senia everything she knows.
“…That’s all. That’s why I’m doing this to cover up Junon’s actions.”
“Hmm…”
Senia is carefully organizing her thoughts, but she doesn’t understand a single thing.
‘It’s really hard to accept since those memories aren’t something I experienced…’
The problem is that this is not a lie. There is no reason for Aris to mix lies with this story she earnestly confesses.
Moreover, it is a story that can only be believed even if it is doubtful because the correct sun will come out only when this part is inserted.
And isn’t the conclusion already out there?
“Let’s do as you say, Aris. If you don’t want Junon to come to Thembris… I don’t think it’s right for me to force it.”
Of course, it is not right to forcefully recommend something when the person concerned does not want it and even the people around him reject it.
***
“Whoa.”
“Why are you sighing like that, senior? Did you get hurt by what he said earlier?”
“It’s not like that, don’t worry.”
“Again, you talk like it’s not a big deal. You can see how many sighs you’ve been sighing since earlier.
From a while ago. It seems that I spit out more than I thought.
Seeing how he counted each one with his fingers to see if he had heard Rhenias sigh next to him.
If you get the same disease again, you will get immunity. However, it doesn’t seem to be so.
Looking into the past is something I’ve done many times, but there’s nothing different between the first time I told Aris and now when I told Erica.
That said, it’s not like they’re calm when other guys come after Aris and Erika, though.
So I wanted to ask.
“Renias. Can I ask you one question?”
“What is it?”
“If the principality is destined to have a heinous villain appear soon, and you are the only one in the principality who knows about it. Then… What will you do?”
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“What are all those weird questions?”
“I’m just asking for fun. In a novel I read a while ago, the main character was in that situation.”
Actually, it’s not for fun.
Who will be next after Arisuna Erika? Wouldn’t the rest of the guys appear one after another and think that way?
After going through today’s work, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. So you’re asking
My position is firm, so there is no room for thinking about other people’s positions. So why not ask someone else?
It would also be quite helpful if you knew what Rhenias, the judge of the wicked, would think and what attitude he would take.
After waiting with tension, Rhenias finally opened his mouth.
“…I don’t know. A novel is a novel. You have to think differently from reality.”
“What? It’s not fun.”
…Such a bland reaction. It was to the point of being nervous.
Well, anyway, I think I’ll have to finish my day here. Where would I have the energy to eat a snack in this situation?
“I’ll have to defer the snack recommendations until later.”
“…”
You can eat it next time with a cheerful voice! He would accept it with positive power.
Uncharacteristically, Rhenias remained silent.
“Come to think of it, Rhenias, why are you so angry today? It’s no big deal.”
“Senior.”
I finally understood why the silence continued.
“What’s wrong with being fit for someone else? Do you know how frustrating it looks from my point of view?”
I made a mistake.
Rhenias was showing his displeasure with his eyes narrowed.
“Look at this. I don’t know why he doesn’t get angry when he’s been unfairly treated by someone else. Of course, I’m in a situation where I can get angry.”
“Hmm…”
Yeah… It’s because he’s also a member of Thembris, though.
It seemed that my behavior was quite frustrating. Well, it’s not strange that he looks like that because he’s the one who judges injustice and the wicked with that bright light without hesitation.
“From now on, just go somewhere and get beaten up. I’m going to be very angry with you.”
“…Okay.”
The time has come to send Rhenias away with this festive night.
Because I started to see a luxurious wagon stopped at a crossroads.
After just a few steps away from Rhenias and wanting to do something, he suddenly called me.
“…Senior.”
“Why is that?”
“Do you want to go to the festival tomorrow too?”
After calling me, there was a short period, and he seemed to be thinking about something, and he seemed to want to convey that.
I smiled once and then said while patting Rhenias’ head.
“If you work hard tomorrow.”
“Really? You promised!”
“Uh huh, you can’t skip it. Rhenias.”
“I know.
“Yes, yes.”
Are festivals that good? Rhenias, who had been angry until just now, had returned as a rabbit.
Rhenias got on the carriage and, just like during the end-of-semester evaluation, he pulled the upper body out of the carriage and shook it until I couldn’t see myself.
“It’s a festival… This is fine too.”
I could end up going back and forth between the dormitory and the Mizar building over and over again, but it’s better to go in and out of the streets than to just keep going.
It might be possible to check the price of Mana Stones, which are slowly rising.
Things to prepare began to emerge one by one.