Damn Academy chapter 138

138 – Ghost of the Guardian Tree (17)

Damian stood still with the present.

Trisha was no fool. She could sense a stir inside him that she hadn’t seen before.

Eyes turned to the present in his hand, but his pupils were unfocused. An insensitive expression, neither happy nor sad. The face did not belong to a living person, but more like a dead person holding a present and stiffening.

What is the gift, and why does Damian react this way? With Trisha’s intuition, she couldn’t figure out what the story was.

“Damian…… Was it your birthday today?”

“….”

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Damian didn’t even move. Trisha’s face darkens a little. She said in a slightly nervous tone.

“…… Who is this?”

And at some point, Damian returned to his usual self.

“No, someone I don’t know seems to have misplaced it. My birthday is already over.”

The voice was the same as usual, but Trisha could feel it. He was lying His tone and behavior were all the same, but he seemed to have become a completely different person from just a moment ago.

Something invisible was clearly distorted.

Then, after recalling the words of a senior in the theater department, ‘don’t tease me more’, I didn’t ask further.

I felt like if I accidentally touched it, it would leave an irreversible mark forever. So, Trisha was afraid.

“Someone must have mistaken the room, but I will leave the present to the maid.”

“….”

As if to change the topic, he opened the door and entered.

“You missed it, right? Come in.”

***

After packing up at the Whitdruff House, Damian and Trisha walked through the fog.

Fortunately, the conversation between the two continued without interruption.

Trisha jumped ahead with her hands behind her back. She then turned around and looked at Damian.

“I’m still preparing for a play with my freshman year, but I’m getting more and more acting, so I heard that sooner or later I might be able to play a significant supporting role in the main play.”

“Looks like a good fit.”

“Right! If there was a god of theater, he would have been very angry that such a talent was rotted in a corner.”

Then, excitedly, they sprinted ahead again.

Trisha was struggling to get rid of the emotional core of Damian.

Fun experiences, daily life. Happening with people around you. A lot of things were poured out and the atmosphere between the two was not bad.

But that wasn’t enough. Even when we talked eye to eye, Damian was still far away.

“Until you get the lead role. I need to practice more.”

“I know! So, I have a favor to ask of you today.”

The fog lifted and I could see the Thorn Garden. Tricia stood in front of a thorny wall.

“What is it?”

“Help me practice the script.”

Then she turned her back on Damian and ran forward again.

However, after taking a few steps, I stopped.

Damian stood there without moving forward. She sensed right away that she had a different mind.

Tricia’s heart sank.

It bothered her that something else had a place in his mind. The uncomfortable feeling seemed to burrow deep into my flesh with every movement, like a small thorn in the sole of my foot.

Tricia looked back.

He didn’t enter the garden of thorns, he was still standing there.

“Not today. I’ll be back late, so go to bed first.”

“… Why? What are you trying to do?”

“I still have training left.”

Then he took the mask out of his arms and put it on his face. Then Tricia asked questioningly.

“Originally, you don’t practice at this time. And….”

Damian cut Trisha off and answered calmly.

“Sometimes I get whimsical. I’ll go, get some rest.”

And he turned around and left. It was clear that the purpose of coming all this way was to see Trisha off, and it was not meant to be together in the first place.

“… ….”

Tricia watched his back as he walked away, feeling helpless.

***

The sun went down and the whole world was dyed red.

Lilith gathered the remains of Plantera that were destroyed during magic training and built a bonfire.

The embers were still small, so it wasn’t warm enough. She brought her hands to her lips and blew on them, melting her cold hands.

In the meantime, a Plantera slowly approached Lilith. Then he held out a skinned hare.

“…… You want to eat?”

Plantera neither affirms nor denies. I just waited for Lilith to accept it.

She took it with both hands and said.

“… Don’t keep doing this I’m sorry to mess with you guys.”

Whether Plantera listened to her or not, having served her purpose, she stood up and she walked into the woods.

Recently, it seems that Plantera’s habits have changed a bit. I was confused whether she had this type of behavior originally or if he was treating her differently.

I don’t know if it’s because of my mood, but sometimes it seemed like she followed her words sometimes.

She thought about what to do with the huge rabbit meat, but in the end she clumsily inserted her skewer and started grilling it.

“I can’t eat this well….”

While grilling for a long time, there was a loud noise near the hill leading to Mount Grace.

Quang!

Startled, Lilith turned her head away. Mountain birds flew noisily into the sky, and a loud white light flashed across the forest.

She didn’t even know that the rabbit meat was burning, and she stared at the scene in awe.

It wasn’t until the acrid smell of her stung her nose that she realized the surface was scorched.

She gave up meat altogether and focused all her attention on the flashing light.

“That’s…”

Then, as if possessed by something in her, she got up and walked in that direction.

Her intuition was telling her something.

If you go there, someone you know will be standing there.

So she went into the woods.

Her heart pounded as if she was nervous as she went deeper.

Soon after, the remains of Plantera began to step on her feet. They weren’t arranged by Lilith. It was cut by someone who uses a sword.

The roar is getting closer. The sound of fierce battle resonates as if it came to a battlefield.

The remains of Plantera are large and thick. It was only then that Lilith realized that this area belonged to Plan Terra scouts, who even her upperclassmen shunned. It was made for killing, not for training.

She finally faced the scene of the battle. Planteras twice as tall as normal people were flocking to one place. The cudgels run wild without mercy. With a single gesture from Plantera, the ground was hollowed out and the trees snapped.

And there, a masked man was dealing with dozens of Planteras alone. Holding a sword that shines bright white.

Plantera rushed with full force. It was reckless enough to remind us of a herd of wild boars, but they were slaughtered mercilessly when they entered the range of a man’s knife.

It was like watching a madman. It was as if he would have bitten off with his hand if he hadn’t had a sword, or with his teeth if he didn’t have a hand.

To the extent that hair stands on end. And the magical pressure emanating from the surroundings was stronger than I could have imagined, and it felt like my heart was being squeezed.

After dealing with all of the planterra that were charging at him, the man stopped for a moment and gasped.

He was also not in good shape. Blood trickled down his head and forearms. The man didn’t seem to care at all.

Lilith bit her lip. Then he made a big decision and opened his mouth.

“I am bleeding profusely. If he doesn’t treat his wounds, he will eventually collapse.”

He just stood there with his back to Lilith, holding the sword so tight that the veins rose from his arm. He didn’t even pretend to know.

Are you listening? It felt like seeing a mountain beast that could not communicate. It seemed that if I took a step closer to her, I would cut her down mercilessly. So, I felt a sense of fear.

He walked deeper into the mountains as if he didn’t care about Lilith’s presence. Like a man hungry for a fight.

***

The door to the Thorn Garden Dormitory slammed open violently. Tricia heard the door and cautiously came down the stairs. Then she stuck her neck out of the railing and looked around the first floor.

Then he screamed in amazement.

“Damian!!”

He lay on his face in front of the gate, covered in blood.

Trisha came down the stairs as if she were about to jump down and hurriedly examined Damian’s body.

“Damian, Damian, by chance… !”

He fainted. His clothes were torn in places and full of wounds. He said that he was training, and he abused his body until he died.

First I had to move to a room.

She shouted it in a fit of anger out of nowhere.

“Damian is the most stupid person in the world!”

Trisha tried to raise his upper body, but it was too much for her to change her way and tug at her arm.

Damian was dragged like a corpse, holding only his arm. And where his body passed, there were long bloodstains.

In addition, his body was as cold as ice. He still had to check to see if he was breathing.

Trisha poured out nagging at Damian, who couldn’t hear because of the thousand dollars.

“Damian really needs to be scolded!”

I moved him to his room and hurriedly brought emergency potions. And she poured the potion all over her body.

***

He was holding someone’s hand and running away. Driven on the defensive, he continued to climb the high hill. A huge fireball deflects to the side. The hot sensation is vivid as if it were real. It was a terrifying moment.

He looked behind him as he ran. Knights in silver iron armor. And wizards in white robes were chasing them.

Oddly enough, they didn’t feel like people.

He ran away with someone to the hills.

And what we faced at the end was a high cliff with a river flowing underneath.

When we reached a dead end, Damian put the man behind him and faced the pursuers. And he drew his sword.

The knights and wizards spread out in a semicircle. Then, step by step, he presses forward gradually.

The wind blows like a blade. The hair of the person behind him touches Damian. Long thin hair. It’s a woman.

And only then do you realize that all of this is a heterogeneous situation.

Damian realized that he was in a dream.

The hazy dream that I met every night now appeared in a clear and distinct form.

Knowing it was all a dream, he let go of the menace in front of him and turned to the woman behind him.

Behind him was a beautiful woman.

A vivid sensation similar to having a precognitive dream.

The problem is that there is a face in front of my eyes that I have never seen before.

Soon after that, the dream collapsed.

The sense of reality gradually returned, and Damian woke up. Because she was so nervous, her palms were full of sweat.

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He was lying on a bed in Thorn Garden Dormitory. Through the window, the sunlight scattered through the fog came in softly.

I don’t actually remember anything since I returned to the dormitory the night before.

I feel a heavy sensation on my stomach. He confirmed this by slightly raising his head.

At the bedside, Trisha was asleep with her head on his stomach.