“How long will you be there?”
Ida did not answer Evangeles’ question.
“Here’s the bar, did your brother tear it out?”
“I don’t know. It seems like it was originally… No, when are you going?”
“Oh, you idiot. You only have to go before the roll call.”
I went up to John’s room several times, but there was no response even when I knocked. The nameplate was still marked as ‘absent’.
“What are you going to do if you get caught here?”
“You just have to keep the officer from getting caught. Even if they get caught, they say they’ve lost their way, well.”
“I will trust you.”
Ida sighed and snorted.
If you don’t believe me, you can fawn in moderation.
Ida, who was stuck in her brother’s dorm room, started to worry when Yohan didn’t come in until 7 o’clock. It seemed that the foxy, blond bitch was playing tricks.
Evangeles said with a sigh as he watched his younger brother staring out the window.
“Do you like John that much?”
“Lee Nam.”
“Hmm… , Yohan was definitely a bit strange yesterday and today.”
“How strange… Oh, it comes.”
I saw Yohan trudging from the dining room. In his hand is a steel lunchbox.
As she tried to wave her hand out the window, she felt something strange.
“But why is your expression like that?”
“How is it?”
“You seem to be worrying about the world alone?”
“okay? Doesn’t he look a bit strange to you?”
Ida suddenly looked at Evangeles with a charming face.
“Um, brother… .”
“Oh fuck. just tell me.”
“Ho Ho. Let’s go to my brother John’s room.”
I had to buy some wine for that. But I didn’t intend to take Ida with me.
“Hey, do you know about the dormitory penalty point system?”
“Oh. It’s my first day, so I got lost and entered the wrong building?”
“I am playing. I found the wrong building. Do you go up to the 12th floor?”
The two siblings patted each other, but Evangeles could not break his younger brother’s stubbornness. After leaving the room, the siblings started following Yohan as soon as he entered the dormitory.
And Evangeles was puzzled.
‘But what are you really worried about?’
They say they follow, but they don’t follow as if they were conducting a covert operation. But John didn’t even care about them at all. Like someone who is obsessed with something else.
until you reach the 12th floor.
And John stopped for a moment at the door of his room, and then banged loudly. Knocking before opening his room seemed odd to anyone.
Click.
When John opened the door with the key, Ida jumped out first.
She passed quickly between John’s armpits.
“excuse.”
“Uh, what is it? hey!”
Then Evangeles, holding a wine bottle, followed, leaning his other shoulder.
“me too. excuse.”
Soon after, the siblings who entered the room froze at the same time.
***
Looking towards the window of John’s room.
It took time for the siblings to calm their embarrassment.
After a while, it was Ida who spoke first.
“That, so.”
She brushed her cheek and continued.
“So… I… brother… I just came in, I’m sorry… In addition… .”
It was something she didn’t usually see.
Her cheeks were flushed with the color of her hair.
“Anyway! Respect my taste!”
Ida left just like that.
Evangeles also seemed to ignore me for a while, then coughed politely before continuing.
“Baby, man… . This is a gift.”
Then, Evangeles handed me a bottle of wine and left.
A room full of silence.
I washed my face dry in a storm-like situation that unfolded in an instant. Taking a few deep breaths, I locked the door I came in and said.
“Arien, come out.”
Beep-
Arien stuck her head out from under the bed.
“… went?”
Eventually, she came out and brushed her chest.
“Just now, why are there so many people knocking… .”
Her clothes and forehead were smeared with white dust. If you think someone is coming, hide under the bed.
It was what I had promised John.
After a while, her expression brightened dramatically. would not have heard
“how about it? It was like that, right? Was it perfect?!”
John shook his head slightly and pointed to the window.
Arien’s underwear was hanging there.
“Ugh!”
Only then did Arien guess the embarrassment of the siblings who left the room first.
“ah! Me, in the circus… Mo, unknowingly, out of habit!”
Arien was shocked, and Yohan held out the lunch box he had brought.
“Eat first. I haven’t eaten since breakfast.”
“ah… .”
Her skinny hands hesitated before accepting the lunch. The contents of the lunch box from the restaurant were scattered.
It was a lunchbox like his own heart.
***
Officers on duty in each dormitory are rotated at the executive level and change every time. And not everyone treats students badly.
The officer on duty who entered Yohan’s room looked at Yohan with a soldier’s eyes and said,
“Are you that John who beat Bastia?”
“… It didn’t knock me down.”
“At such a young age, contrary to what it looks like, it seems that martial arts are outstanding. The more deeply polished a field is, the more humble they are. Thanks to those like students, the future of the empire is bright.”
Instead of correcting the misunderstanding, Yohan only shrugged.
The officer on duty nodded and continued.
“In preparation for the march in Gulpi, I am free to do personal maintenance tomorrow. So there is no evening roll call. If you have a loved one, take a break and prepare for the next morning’s classes.”
“All right.”
The roll call ended early without a long pause. John turned off the lamp and opened the wine that Evangeles had given him.
The taste of the thick wine was not bad. Maybe it was because I was on an empty stomach, so I slowly got drunk.
When the voice of the officer on duty finishing the roll call echoed in the hallway, Arien crawled out from hiding under the bed. John slowly tipped the bottle of wine and spoke indifferently.
“Sooner or later you will be going somewhere else.”
“Yes, why?”
“Why? you said I can’t keep hiding like this anyway.”
“Stop, please… .”
“???”
After a while, her eyes widened.
It was an incomprehensible reaction to me.
“Am I being kicked out?”
“… Rather, it is a change of residence.”
“Because I hung pants?”
oops.
It wasn’t very funny, but her misunderstanding made me laugh. If something happens, blame yourself first.
This must be the nature of a person who was sold to a circus and lived a life of slavery.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry… . I get scolded if I don’t hang up after doing laundry every day… It’s become a habit… .”
I knew.
Because it was what you set it up for.
There is a superstition among circus troupes that if you hang a girl’s underwear, it will ward off evil. Although it is borrowed from the story of an African tribe.
John guessed the trajectory of her accident. An escape attempt for the first time in life, a murder scene witnessed for the first time, a bizarre cohabitation that suddenly started, the time spent in hiding… .
Psychologically driven into a corner, she must have needed a daily life. calm the mind
And John had a strange feeling.
John was the creator, creator, and developer of this place.
At the same time, he was a stranger, an uninvited guest, and a spectator.
A world you already know.
The story flow you already know.
Deviations from the story that arose within it made him feel a little strange.
It feels as if this deviation is a life about to start anew.
Life is like that. Many people prepare for the future in anticipation of success, but the beauty of life lies in the exceptions, not the expectations.
Like when he went to a specialized high school and went out with a girl he never thought of.
Also, like living with her and making games for 10 years.
A feeling of intoxication, which had not been felt for a long time, rushed in at the same time.
At the point where he didn’t know how many sips of wine he had tilted, Yohan fell asleep. It was a long-awaited, pleasant sleep.
***
“Miss Adrine. What happened?”
“just… You are a bit tired.”
Hoan looked at Adrine’s complexion, but Adrinne turned away from the guardian knight’s gaze. I didn’t feel well. This evening, it felt as if my life had been judged.
She remembered what she had said to John.
‘I wanted you to have chivalry and justice.’
It was also used almost like a rhetoric at court. Of course, in most cases, the attendants have solved all of her difficulties before using such rhetoric.
In the imperial family, it goes without saying that the protection of the imperial family is the top priority. There, depending on the threats posed to her, the attendants died.
Those who neglected to inspect the food she would eat, those who handed over information after accepting a small bribe, and those who neglected security due to personal circumstances and caused a security gap… .
I never thought that this was wrong.
Because they were originally hired to protect her.
But those who died here are different. The person who was framed for it is also different.
They were just people of the empire.
John’s point came painfully.
‘If you really want to speak justice, wouldn’t it be the first step to save the person who was framed for the assassination?’
For the first time in a long time, she felt hatred towards herself. It was something I should have thought of myself.
“miss. If you have any problems, just let me know.”
She looked at her guardian knight.
Joan Ashilisek.
She still didn’t know what practicality this man was running with. What is certain is that he has saved himself many times over the years.
In the first place, if there was no protection, it would have been impossible for the imperial family to come here.
Inertia is a scary thing.
“It’s funny.”
“What?”
“My death also started from someone else… Now my life also depends on others.”
Adrine looked around at her furniture in the room and said,
“I doubt if I really have anything mine.”
Adrin then smiled softly at Hoan, who pursed her lips.
This article did not back down even in the face of numerous assailants, but he was perplexed by such words.
I had no choice but to admit it while watching the Guardian Knight who had been with me for 5 years.
that he had become accustomed to such a life.
I was determined to protect my life on my own, but the only thing that left the imperial family was my body. He had been immersed for too long in a life in which everything around him revolved around him.
‘It has to change.’
Adrin slapped her on both cheeks with a snap.
She hated self-pity.
“ruler. Reflection ends here.”
She checked the things she had to do tomorrow. Naturally, I thought of Johann Esperts.
Everyone has a principle of action.
When she refers to a person as an insignificant person, it means that the principle of action is an insignificant person.
In that sense, Johann Esperts was no mediocre man.
He is neither swayed by temptation nor shrinking by privation.
And he moves for ‘justice’.
That’s why she was able to say that to herself who revealed that she was the princess. Even in front of a noble lineage, without shrinking, confidently.
Because justice is not exercised by covering the opponent.
“A boy named John, remember?”
“You mean the boy who came with me?”
“yes.”
And Johann Esperts asked for one more thing besides getting a man named Sabaki out.
“I made an appointment with him.”
“A promise?”
“yes. And you have to go with Hoan.”
“Where?”
“Clock tower.”
Then, she explained everything to Hoan. After hearing the explanation, Hoan became mentally similar to Adrin.
“It’s an incomprehensible request.”
She nodded and went to the window. In the distance of the fragmented landscape, I could see the artifact left behind by the archmage Ong.
‘Be sure to bring a guardian knight with you.’
It was John’s request.
Hoan is her guardian knight, and he is needed where there is danger.
But Adrine couldn’t quite connect the word ‘danger’ with the place they were supposed to meet.
Frustrated, she spat out like a complaint.
“No, by the way, what secret does the clock tower hold?”
***
I think I had a dream.
A fish monitor with pen sounds.
And the staff paper on the screen.
Miri placed countless notes on top of it and whispered a question.
how is it? do.
As I was about to answer, the song she had written seemed to sound a little clearer, and the next moment I painfully understood.
I think this is a dream
I opened my eyes. A familiar BGM was heard. In a slightly different version than I remember.
“Hmm. Hmm-”
It was not the orchestra of the original song.
What I heard was the hum of a circus girl.
And I know the title.
This is the title song of ‘The Savior Who Came to Another World’.
‘Yohan’s stage’.
When you run the game, the first song that plays along with loading describes the determination and feelings that Yohan feels when he comes to another world.
And originally, this song has lyrics written by Miri.