138 – Academy Competition_24
The long confrontation continued.
A paladin that cannot go beyond a certain distance.
I do not enter more than a certain distance.
In the meantime, the number of hostages raised by Rei Hozumi only increases.
Paladin tried to rescue them by attacking, but he couldn’t attack directly as long as he couldn’t get out of a certain distance.
So, as the next best thing, mana was materialized and flew with the power to cut the mountain, but if you use the hostage as a shield, it will scatter on its own, so there was no need to avoid it.
“Save…Help…Please…Save…Please.”
“Paladin…”
As the hostages were untied, loud sobs were heard.
I wanted to stop it because it was so noisy, but there was nothing better to shake the paladin’s mentality than this.
“Isn’t this how citizens call?”
“…”
His body trembled when he saw the paladin’s spirit, which did not even hide his intention to live, but I continued to speak calmly.
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“Well, it can’t be helped. Because the lives of countless people below will be more important than one or two people like this. Also, the majority is better than the minority. It’s the right choice. Originally, all people are like that. Regardless of whether it’s a hero, the third sword of the Holy Empire, or an S-rank, it’s all the same.”
“…”
“No one will blame you for this. You are making the right choice. For the sake of a great cause, even a small sacrifice should be lightly ignored.”
“…”
“Of course, it would be another story if I were involved in a small sacrifice. People are all like that. So…”
“Shut up.”
As I kept scratching my insides, the paladin glared at me with a terribly ignoring expression, probably tired of not responding.
“Don’t you want to hear it? Then you just have to step forward and cover my mouth. You can’t. You won’t. Because you are making the best choice for the best outcome. Still, even if it is a choice for the best outcome, there is no choice but to throw away the choice.”
I gathered my mana and lifted one of the hostages, grabbed it by the neck, and broke it.
“aaa…”
Pain, screams, bones breaking, breathing gradually stopped.
The man who had been able to breathe hard and open his mouth just a moment ago had cooled down.
“You bastard!!!”
“There is nothing sadder than unreachable anger. However, I will give you a chance to make up for it. Healing is possible even at that distance, right?”
Then he threw the man who was about to become a corpse right in front of the paladin’s range of motion.
“Come on. How much longer can that man’s life hold on…”
It takes a lot of mana to heal wounds.
Especially if it’s someone other than yourself.
This is a way to reduce the paladin’s mana.
That fact was known to Paladin as well, but he had no choice.
He had no choice but to treat the man because that was the way he lived his life as a hero.
Even though he knew that the outcome would apply to all hostages and that he would be at a disadvantage, he had no choice but to act.
Light gathered in Paladin’s hand.
Then it flew to the man in front.
Foreshadowing of recovery, which is an advanced magic only for the healing world.
-Percussion.
It was then.
I switched positions with the man after doing a finger snap.
Then, the healing magic wrapped around me.
Paladin’s expression distorted.
The hostages also just stared with their eyes wide open.
“Thank you. I didn’t know you would heal me. Even if Iya is an enemy, I am always moved by the kind heart of Paladin-sama who heals me when I am hurt.”
Small abrasions heal as if time goes back.
It was a possible expedient because, rather than designating a target and using magic, the crab’s healing magic was designated and used within a range.
If it was the highest level of healing, I would have specified the target.
The number to minimize mana consumption became a handshake.
The remaining mana stays in the body after healing small wounds.
A feeling of being energized.
I bowed my head to Paladin and thanked him.
“Yeah… Bastard…”
“Ah, that man seems to be out of breath soon. Should I treat that too? Right this time.”
“…”
“Aren’t you going to? Really?”
-Awesome.
The sound of teeth grinding could be heard from here.
Thousands of dollars will fly in the paladin’s heart right now, but what can you do?
This is the battleground I chose and decided on.
In other words, it is a fight that only benefits me.
If the Paladin gave up everything and ran, I would be defeated.
As long as he can’t get rid of the nightmare of the past as a hero, he has no choice but to be dragged around.
That’s why I don’t know why they reveal their past history through interviews or how they are related to someone.
Poor LA Governor.
Poor Beverly Hills.
Poor cadets.
I want you to think about why heroes or the side of justice in creative works hide their identities and wear tight suits.
I’m going to die.
People are dying again.
Nightmares, nightmares of construction sites, regrets over things not reached out, all of these entangle Paladins over and over again.
The end of trouble.
The not long agony brought light.
Unleash the highest level of healing magic.
The man’s broken bones were put back into place and his breath began to return.
“Good job. Let’s do it 100 more times.”
Hope does not come at the end of hardship.
How greater hardships come.
Did they say that trials that do not kill me make me stronger?
‘That sounds funny.’
Trials only break people.
It only wears out the invisible.
“This time the heart.”
Through the heart of one of the hostages.
Blood splattered on the mask, but it didn’t matter.
As if time goes back, the light stays and the heart finds its place.
“Brain this time. Wouldn’t this be a bit difficult? Please give me strength.”
Light, light, light.
Stay, stay, stay again.
“Simple artery this way, vein very easily that way.”
The name of justice is broken.
Did that make him stronger?
It didn’t look like it to me.
He steadily broke down.
“Lady Paladin…”
“Sorry…Sorry…”
And people just looked at him.
At some point, no one gave up their lives, even though they were induced to keep them from leaving this place and set them free.
If they were truly sorry, if they knew the cause, they would have had to take their own lives.
“This… Demon…”
“You will be punished…”
Then it just looked at me and screamed in fear like a baby bird with its mother bird on its back.
They didn’t even know that in front of them was a huge snake.
“Great…”
“Are you tired? Are you having a hard time?”
Anyway, whether they do it or not, I opened my mouth as I looked at the paladin who was breathing heavily.
I was consuming more than half of my mana to keep this island from falling. He used top-notch healing magic several times, and unlike the first time we met, he looked haggard as if he hadn’t slept for a month in a row.
“It’s easier to give up.”
“…”
But he was not broken.
Seeing him even swearing at his finger full of energy, it seemed like he was saying that he could handle this no matter how much he did.
‘Hope…’
I know.
Time is running out.
Now, if the magic tool in the shape of a wireless earphone in his ear announces the end, he must be judging that it can be done somehow.
“No matter what happens to others, you just have to be safe. It’s a corporation that doesn’t matter what happens if you’re comfortable with yourself. Why are you struggling to buy it? I don’t know.”
“I don’t know if it’s not a human…”
“I am human too.”
“You are…not…human.”
“Okay. From my point of view, not all humans in this world are human. Have you ever seen the truth? Have you ever realized what the truth is?”
“What…?”
“It was a long talk. Then continue…”
As my emotions grew unnecessarily, I spit out strange words.
It’s a corporation that should be able to exclude these things.
I must have been human inevitably.
Anyway, it was around the time that I was about to start working on the paladins.
The paladin’s expression…
“No… That damn… Ends here.”
-Coooooung!!!
A roaring sound rang out, and the light gathered and blurred vision.
I felt my body blow away from the paladin’s fist.
[Brother. It’s time. Ines is…]
Ah, it seemed like the time was wasted because the chatter was so long.
[Really? Too bad.]
I caught a glimpse of a freed paladin rescuing the hostages.
Since the mana that supported the island was gone, you could see soil and stones falling rapidly to the ground.
Glide in the air.
It would be difficult for me to fall from this height, so I used teleportation to escape.
-Quaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How long has it been since you left the place like that? A roaring sound echoed in my ears.
It was a defeat, a defeat.
“It’s too bad…”
It’s so sad.
How many…
“I hear those sentiments in the dungeon.”
– Bang!
Something grabbed me and pinned me to the floor.
A haggard old man entered the blurred vision.
Paladins.
It seemed that after leading all the hostages to safety, they quickly followed me.
“Do you think you can catch me with this?”
That’s why the moment you try to snap a finger to escape.
“You can catch it.”
The paladin subdued my hand.
Perhaps it was an ability he had shown several times, so he seemed to recognize that this was a necessary preceding action.
“You will surely die by my hand.”
“I don’t want to be loved to death by an old man.”
Even if you tried to escape by concentrating your mana on the attack, it was impossible.
It was because the paladin’s physical condition was not normal, but I was tired because I had a place to spend mana.
It was a defeat, another defeat.
“Is that the end of the struggle?”
He seemed confident of victory.
“Couldn’t you loosen up a bit? Didn’t we get along well on our island?”
“I will make sure to chew you well so that you think that being alive is a luxury.”
“I don’t think that’s something a hero would say… I heard that all heroes are those who do justice and do good to the weak… But you’re disqualified from being a hero.”
“This is not a name for you to bear.”
“That is true. But…”
The island crashed and the dust that soared into the sky was gradually roughened by gravity.
Then it wasn’t the blue sky that made the sky spicy.
The color red caught my eye.
I could see the sky and the red sky again.
“Not even you.”
Vampires have many weaknesses.
In fact, if you put a human and a vampire on the same level, the winner will usually be a human.
So the vampires lost the battle with the humans and the kingdom was destroyed.
Then I will ask.
How did Natasha Karzodrea get into the first 15?
Because she’s a genius?
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That’s right.
She was faster than anyone else in handling mana and handling her superpowers, and she got used to it quickly, so it’s not wrong.
But that’s only half the answer.
The other half.
This is the situation.
The situation called the Great War. It was possible because millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of people died and their blood filled the earth, the sky, and the sea.
“What…?”
“Did you check that communication correctly? Who sent it and who was communicating with it.”
Blood covers the earth.
Indeed, the blood of tens or millions of people gathers.
“Because I know.”
Didn’t I tell you?
Even if I lose, I have no choice but to win.
It was the Paladin’s defeat.