192. D-day
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Time goes by quickly.
Even if someone was conscious or not conscious of the flowing time, time just flowed steadily.
Two days passed and it became ‘Thursday’.
clap.
Outside the academy, leaving the inn where she was staying, Anastasia checked her clothes once.
She was wearing a blue dress, not the officer uniform she was originally wearing, and Anastasia felt strange about her appearance.
“I really can’t get used to it.”
Sarak.
While carefully caressing the dress, even the sheath worn around the waist felt unfamiliar.
The officer’s uniform that he usually wore attracted a lot of attention from instructors and cadets in the academy, so he said that he had been living in everyday clothes for the past few days, but he was unfamiliar with everyday clothes other than officer uniforms.
I feel like I’m wearing clothes that don’t fit me.
Even so, even the purpose of going out was subtle.
‘no way… .’
I never thought that there would be a day during my vacation where I would have to spend such a long time with someone other than Glesia.
However, the promise that was made was a promise, and the day I made the promise was today.
‘Cadet Han Chun-seong definitely told me to protect him.’
Even now, thinking about it, I didn’t quite understand the request.
In the previous meeting, when I was told to ask for something from me, Cadet Han Chun-seong spoke to me in a serious voice.
Protect yourself for just one day.
I believed it because I didn’t feel that there was any other intention behind the words.
There was no way that a mere cadet could deceive that heart against me, so I had to take the words to protect me as they were.
‘But what will really happen within the academy?’
In fact, the academy with many excellent instructors could be said to be safer than any other place except for the imperial castle.
Even assuming that there were only a few apostles, it was a place where there were so many high-level people that the instructors could lightly subdue them.
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As he took a step forward, he gently shook his head.
‘If that’s all the conditions asked of me, it’s rather easy for me.’
I ate my heart lightly. I just had to keep the word to protect what I asked for.
I just don’t let anyone touch the fingertips of Cadet Han Chun-seong. I had absolute confidence right now.
“And even thinking of Glesia…”
Cadet Han Chun-seong needed more attention.
For Glesia, the one who can be said to be more special than the other cadets is the cadet. Over the past few days, I’ve felt that way, knowingly or unconsciously.
If Glesia had a little more strange feelings for the cadet Han Chun-seong, then it would have been a much bigger benefit to build a relationship of trust, even if it took me some time.
‘Because this can be said to be a kind of investment.’
If it was helpful to Glesia, this much was really nothing to me.
*
The first floor lobby of the academy building.
Arriving on time for the appointment, I could see the cadets exiting the classroom just in time.
“Where shall we go today?”
“I want to see a rabbit. How about you?”
“Are you going to the break room because there are animals?”
“yes. I want to see you again and again, so you will like it very much.”
The cadets moving in groups of twos and threes were very energetic.
The intensity of the battlefield was not asked, and the brightness was prevalent, but I also liked the look.
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Jeopardy, again… … .
Watching the cadets pass by one by one, I leaned on one side of the lobby and waited for Cadet Han Chun-seong.
How long must I have waited, calmly accepting the stares of the cadets who occasionally glanced at me?
that buck
I saw a Cadet Han Chun-seong coming down the stairs.
“…!”
When our gazes coincidentally met, I raised my eyes as if in great surprise, but I nodded slowly.
Shortly after, Cadet Han Chun-seong quickly approached, and a small smile leaked out.
“Then I will fall.”
“Oh, no. Mr. Anastasia. Were you waiting for me?”
“Yes. I didn’t wait that long.”
“okay…”
Looking at Cadet Han Chun-seong, who was surprised as if he hadn’t expected me to wait, I asked calmly.
“Then shall we go straight to the training ground? Or if there’s a place you’d like to go to, let me know. I’ll listen to that much.”
“…no. I want you to go to the training ground right away.”
“Yes. then.”
that buck
While keeping pace with Cadet Han Chun-seong, who was moving his steps, he raised his spirits even more.
I tried to detect negative energy, thoughts, or existence aiming at the cadet, but I didn’t feel anything.
‘I don’t feel anything.’
Then, when the cadet around him disappeared, he felt a gentle gaze from his side.
Gently turning my head, our eyes met again.
“Um… Miss Anastasia, by any chance. Is there any other reason why you waited in the lobby instead of in the park?”
“It’s not a big reason. Did you ask me to protect you? Then I waited in the lobby because I thought there might be something on the way to the park.”
“…So that’s what you thought.”
“You might think it’s excessive, but I’m the type to keep my words.”
“Oh, no. I am grateful.”
He looked surprised, but it was only natural for me.
Originally, the main meaning of the word ‘protect me’ was to prepare for an unexpected accident.
And since Cadet Han Chun-seong would be most vulnerable when he left the academy, I aimed to prevent that from happening.
I was waiting like this on purpose so that we could face each other in the academy, not in the park where we were promised.
And even if you think the chances are slim.
‘If there is really a possibility of an accident, as Cadet Han Chun-seong said… .’
I had no intention of letting go today.
***
grounds within the academy.
There was definitely something about the two men and women walking down a fairly large boulevard that would attract someone’s attention.
A sharp-looking man with red hair and a woman with a languid expression between long black hair down to her waist.
Both of them had a mysterious atmosphere.
Even so, the two did not catch the eye of most people at all. Even if it was an existence that gave me attention, I didn’t have any doubts and just passed by.
They took the two of them for granted, saying that everyone deserves to be in the academy.
It was all due to the influence of Azazel’s power called ‘the boundary of cognition’.
It was Azazel’s unique ability to reduce her presence to the extreme and make it faint, to make her not feel any doubts like a naturally existing natural sight.
They, too, were waiting for something, looking at each of the cadets passing by or in front of them.
After some time passed, Sekhmet looked at Azazel beside him with strange eyes.
“Azazel. It seems that all the people who are Class A cadets have been confirmed, but why are you not saying anything?”
I just checked all the Class A cadets, who could be called the most outstanding cadets.
Still, there was no response from Azazel.
It was Azazel who said that he had imprinted the target of the cadet who would later become the ‘main axis’ of the Empire, not Sekhmet himself.
“… It’s hard to believe, but I don’t think there’s anyone among the A-class cadets that I consider to be the main one.”
And Azazel, who answered him, was also surprised.
Through the apostle Leteia, she clearly remembered the presence of a human who would become the main axis. However, among the class A cadets who are known to be the best… there was no cadet that responded to their energy.
“Isn’t there some kind of misunderstanding? I definitely sensed ‘possibility’ in the person named Leonhard who had just passed by, right?”
Sekhmet turned his head and caught Leonhard passing nearby.
Even though they passed right by, they didn’t notice them at all. Even so, Leonhardt’s presence was clearly different from that of other humans to Sekhmet.
An ‘overwhelming presence’ unique to humans who can become extremely strong. That was what Leonhardt felt.
“… … .”
Azazel, who turned her head without a word, also kept her eyes on Leonhard, who was slowly moving away. Then he hesitated… and then nodded.
“I was not mistaken. Because the presence is definitely engraved. you can be sure of that But… I can’t deny that that human has potential.”
I could feel it because I had killed so many people over the centuries.
It is said that there is something special about humans who will rise to a higher level in the future from childhood. And Azazel, too, clearly felt that possibility in Leonhardt.
So she couldn’t understand more.
‘Even though I’m not the person I imprinted on, this level of presence… .’
She was troubled as her chest was stained with great horror.
Two existences with the potential to become the main axis in the future. It was a fact I never thought of.
“It’s not even half a century since two more humans who will become the main axis appeared… Azazel, whoa. Then let’s act separately.”
“…okay. I will find the human I imprinted separately.”
that buck
At the end of the short conversation, Azazel had to feel a sense of danger as she looked at Sekhmet’s back to Leonhard.
‘Heroes always appear in humans.’
It is not an exaggeration to say that the power of the Nine Apostles reached its heyday at the time.
It soon had to be revealed through the great world and engulf the human empire.
However, if the timing was delayed by being careful in proceeding with the succession… the entire execution could be distorted.
Sarak.
Even as she moved in the opposite direction to Sekhmet, Azazel’s sense of danger in her heart did not disappear.
‘There are two humans who will be the main axis… .’
Currently, there are four strong people who can be called the main axis of the empire.
However, if there were two more, the battle situation would have drastically tilted at once.
Everything must have tilted without a second hand. No matter how much the number of apostles was increased, it was meaningless if the number of humans who would be the main axis increased.
“Even though Leteia seems dead.”
Looking back now, it was not at all regrettable.
It felt rather like a small sacrifice that Leteia’s signal cut off after years of hard work.
If only we could cut off all the humans who will be the main axis… … .
Thinking, Azazel gave a small smile.
She suddenly laughed at herself for making such an assumption.
“Because I must kill you.”
That was not an assumption, it had to be a fact.
Of course, the mind to kill.
That’s why they came all the way here… … .
Well Leonhard finally got his time to shine huh