Chapter 17.
#17.
Flutter–!
The wide-open wings soared vigorously into the sky.
Like the light of dawn illuminating the darkness, the surroundings of the cabin where the darkness descended were surrounded by bright golden light.
The light was visible beyond the Iron Mountains.
But.
Surprisingly, the wings that emitted light like the hot sun were not dazzling at all.
It warmly cares for each corneal cell of the eye.
Never provoked.
Literally heavenly light.
It was the light of the goddess.
“After…”
With a deep breath, the tears that rolled down met the light and rose to the sky.
Pad–!
The tears soon split in all directions and turned into golden powder.
Softly.
It shimmered and wrapped around me.
Brilliant.
Ariera, who had been watching her with bated breath, swallowed her gulp and said.
“Iris. You have to fly very far.”
“Yes. I will definitely fly away.”
“Yes. If possible, it would be better to go to a kingdom where the emperor cannot pursue.”
Relax.
Ariera smiled and pointed with her hand.
Following her hand, she turned her gaze and saw the Steel Mountains.
“If you cross that mountain, there will be a kingdom. Since it has a friendly relationship with the Empire, it will be difficult to find it easily if its location is discovered.”
“Ah…”
At Ariera’s words, I nodded her head.
‘A person I am grateful for.’
A very grateful person.
She thanked her for her kindness from the bottom of her heart.
From the first time I came to the academy until now.
Without her help, I probably wouldn’t be alive.
He must have hanged himself and died somewhere.
Her kindness saved me.
But.
‘I have to leave now.’
My heart felt bitter that I had to leave my benefactor here.
My eyes drooped.
Ariera, noticing the change right away, approached me.
Then she said, gently sweeping her cheek full of tears.
“Why? It’s what you’ve been wishing for fly away Have no regrets.”
“But…”
“Iris. Her sister is fine So laugh. Are you going to remember her last appearance with a crying face?”
“But… hahahahaha…!”
Gangbang.
Tears welled up at her words.
I shouldn’t cry.
As Ariera said, I want to show her a smiling face at the end.
No matter how hard I tried to make a smiley face, only a ruined smile came out.
The tail of the eyes that draws an arc.
However, the tears that flowed between them were bizarre.
“Ugh…”
Ariera sighed as she watched.
The hand that was running down her cheek wiped away the tears that flowed down her eyes.
Ariera said.
“Stop laughing. Gotta go now I have to stop and fly away. Yes?”
“Ooh, ugh… Ugh…!”
“Iris.”
As instructed.
She wiped away the tears that continued to flow.
I had to endure it.
Kuk kuk.
I suppressed the cry that reached the top of my throat and swallowed it deep in my chest.
Then, like water flowing from a broken dam, the tears that flowed down to the level of a stream.
“He is a good boy.”
Ariera stroked my hair.
If it was normal, I would have avoided touching her because it was embarrassing.
I wanted to feel that touch as much as today.
Damn it.
I felt her touch for a moment as I closed her eyes.
After a while like that.
“I’ll go… I’ll go.”
“Yes. Go carefully.”
I opened my eyes and said to Aira.
Her eyes were full of determination unlike before.
‘I have no regrets.’
Even more lingering.
The terrible bad relationship with the emperor ends here.
Huung–!
It spread its wings and flapped them.
A strong wind blows in front of the cabin.
My body started to float.
“Ugh…”
I was anxious.
It was unstable as if it would fall at any moment.
But that’s only for a while.
‘I think I understand.’
Is it instinct?
My wings have stabilized before I knew it, and I was able to balance my body even in the sky.
Above the sky.
I took a deep breath as Ariera had to raise her head to see me.
“Sup… Ha…”
Cold air rushed into my lungs, and my heart, which had been burning hotly, quickly cooled.
I muttered as I gazed at the distant Steel Mountains for a moment.
“I’m going.”
But before that.
I flapped my wings and came down to the ground again.
Then he stood in front of Ariera.
Because of her short stature, my head was on her chest.
Ariera looks down at me as if wondering.
“Huh..? Iris?”
Her head tilted.
Looking at Ariera like that, I bit her lips tightly.
Exciting.
My heart was beating wildly.
“Uh, sister..”
“Huh?”
Ariera’s voice resonated in my ears.
My face heated up like a lie from the sadness I felt a moment ago.
I’m a guy…
Suddenly, I had an idea.
But then she shook her head.
‘I’ve already made up my mind.’
Last goodbye.
This is something I will never do again.
I closed and opened her eyes and took a step forward towards her.
I could feel my heart touching Ariera’s chest.
I felt that sensation and at the same time lifted my tiptoe.
Her vision and mine became the same.
Ariera’s golden eyes fluttered right in front of me.
Gulp.
I swallowed once.
As if that was a signal.
I closed my eyes again and leaned over.
I lifted one foot and shifted my center of gravity completely forward.
Leaning against her chest, she relaxed.
At the same time.
Side…!
Their lips overlapped.
Ariera’s agitation was felt through her trembling lips.
“Huh…”
Looking at the nursery rhyme, it seems that it worked well.
Slowly, when I opened my eyes.
Then, Ariera’s flushed face immediately caught my eye.
The hot breath that no cold wind blowing from the Iron Mountains could cool, squeezed between her slightly parted lips and flowed out.
She focused her gaze for a moment on those lips.
Ariera’s cherry-like lips repeated several times.
There must be countless thoughts running through her head.
I just wanted to wait for that thought to be sorted out.
Because it’s the last time.
But she couldn’t wait to leave.
“Thank you.”
So after I said that, I flew up into the sky.
And then flew away without looking back.
To the Iron Mountains.
‘I’m leaving.’
I looked down.
I could see the academy where I had lived until now.
He flew quickly over such an academy.
The feeling was new.
The vague word “Freedom” Is finally starting to come to life.
Kung kung.
My heart raced.
Like the engine of a car.
The faster my heart beat, the faster I flew.
Before anyone knew it, the academy had become a bright spot.
Then.
The cheers that were hidden deep in my heart.
“Yahoo—!!!”
It burst out.
Flutter!
He flapped his wings vigorously.
I flew above the clouds and also flew very low, right above the trees.
‘Lucia, the Emperor and Ariera.’
After the kiss just now, I left the me from 3 years ago at the academy below.
Now it’s a new life.
‘Kingdom.’
I’m going to the kingdom.
‘Because there are many jewels.’
Originally, I would have built a cabin in the mountains, but before I left, Ariera gave me magic stones and jewels.
With that, I can somehow buy a house in the kingdom.
Then I will live.
Not the slave Iris.
As an ordinary citizen, Iris.
No, I live as myself.
As me, not Iris.
“Let’s go.”
At the top of the Iron Mountains.
After catching my breath for a moment, I spread my wings again.
That was the moment.
“Ugh..!”
Above the sky.
I staggered as I grabbed her throbbing chest.
At the same time, it began to fall rapidly to the ground.
Wedge liquid—!
The sound of the wind, which I had felt only with freedom and hope, felt so frightening at this time.
‘Why…!’
The wings did not move.
The land was rapidly approaching.
It was too fast.
If you fall like this, you might die.
Even if you live, it won’t be good.
I saw an orc.
Right below where I fell was the Orc colony.
‘No..!’
Die.
He loses his life shortly after gaining freedom.
Alarm bells went off in my head.
But there was no way.
Round and round.
Like a helicopter with its tail cut off, the body began to spin.
I was completely out of my mind.
As the world started to spin, I felt dizzy even more.
“Kwaaak!!!”
She screamed.
Even if I try to spread my wings somehow, it won’t budge for some reason.
‘Come to think of it…!’
The light of the wings disappeared.
The wings that fluttered in gold had returned to pure white.
Then…
I hurriedly reached for the pocket hanging from my waist.
I was in such a hurry.
It took a lot of time to even put my hand into the wide open pocket.
In between.
Wedge—!
At some point, the land came close.
It was really dangerous.
He pulled out a magic stone from his pocket.
And then I grabbed it strongly.
Puff!
The magic stone broke and black magic entered the body.
“Please..!”
Unleashed divine power.
Intense divine power swallowed my body in an instant.
But the bridle.
It was on a different level from the last time I was fixing my wings and spraying it in the cabin.
Until now, whenever I covered my body with divine power, it would spurt out uncontrollably.
But.
‘Studying wasn’t in vain.’
Regarding the use of divine power, I have become no different from other professors.
It was an achievement made in just two days.
The result was a result that no one expected.
Pad–!
The light was retarded.
At the same time, the wings where the darkness fell began to shine brightly.
“Okay..!”
It flapped its wings.
“Geuuu!!!!”
Boo—!
The orc’s club passed in front of his nose, making a creepy noise.
It was a short cut.
If I hadn’t been able to fly, I would have been crushed by that stick.
Gulp.
Feeling cold, I hurriedly flew up into the sky.
Simultaneously.
Crisp–!
There was a sound of something breaking behind my back.
“What..?”
Hearing that sound, I stretched out my arms and touched my back.
Then something got caught.
“What is this..?”
There was only a lot of magic stone powder coming out, but I couldn’t figure out what it was.
I brushed it off.
‘Because you don’t know when you’ll fall again.’
Let’s hurry and head to the kingdom.
Phew.
I let out a sigh and started my journey to the kingdom again.
* * *
The next morning.
Ragrasha’s eyes narrowed at the words of the knight who had come to report.
“…What? Are you saying that now? No, wait.”
Ragrasha grabbed her forehead.
Her hands shook like an earthquake.
Her voice was the same.
Her throat trembled with much restrained anger.
“So… You mean Iris disappeared.”
“…Yes.”
“That’s right now!!!”
Bang–!
Ragrasha hit her desk.
The thick desk was split in half with one punch.
The intense life began to fill the principal’s office.
The knight who stood in front of that terrible life breathed in vain.
Tuktuk.
Blood flowed from Ragrasha’s hand.
It’s not like the pain of getting stuck in a tree is less.
Ragrasha, who didn’t care about that, said quietly.
“Immediately…Come to me immediately.”
“Chung..!!”
After saluting, the knight ran out of the room as if running away.
Kung.
The door is closed.
Left alone in her room, Lagrasha sighed.
“You let go too much.
She thought of running away herself.
“After…”
Ragrasha let out a big breath.
Even so, her heart did not settle.
I felt like I would be relieved if Iris got down on her knees in front of me right now and begged for her fault.
By the way.
Her desk, where Ragrasha was broken, she looked beyond it.
There was no one there.
Not even the iris, not even a speck of dust.
“……”
Irritability surged out of control.
You have to be patient.
It is not possible to destroy all of this academy.
But I couldn’t stand it.
I can’t.
Ragrasha moved.
A small pillow placed in a corner of the principal’s office.
Ragrasha walked toward it and roughly picked up her pillow.
She then hugged her tightly.
Sniff.
I even squeezed her pillow so hard that it would explode.
A pillow made from Iris feathers.
A pillow that I always hugged while sleeping or working.
Normally, most people would disappear when they smelled Iris.
But not this time.
She was so upset that she dared to leave her.
“Iris…”
She puts her leash around her neck when she comes back.
Her wings pluck all her feathers down.
Thinking so, Lagrasha once again buried her nose in her pillow.
She then inhaled her breath deeply.
She savored and savored the scent of Iris.
Ragrasha has been like that for a long time.
Then, news reached her ears.
Within the academy.
The news that there is no Iris.