Joint Combat Practice 2 (9)
The living and teaching buildings of Sylvania Academy are full of various facilities, but among them, if you have to look for one that stands out most often, it is the ‘plaza’.
Central plaza, student plaza, eastern plaza, and academic society plaza in the professor building. The main plaza of the living building, the plaza for each dormitory, the market street, and the entrance plaza.
From the grand and large plaza to the simple and small plaza. The reason this open space is full is to ensure that students have as many resting places as possible.
As if responding to that, there are quite a few students doing photosynthesis in the square, feeling the scent of late spring. Even the faculty and staff members, merchants in the living quarters, and outsiders are enjoying the peace of the day by walking around the square in their own way.
The entrance plaza here is like the face of the first school you will see right after you pass the Maxes Bridge and pass the main gate of Sylvania.
Ed and Clarisse were crossing the center of the square. Edgar was holding Clarisse’s hand and dragging it. Naturally, the eyes around him were drawn to him.
“Sir Ed. we… Time like this… I don’t have time for this… !”
The two knights escorting Clarisse tried to deter Ed in embarrassment. However, he could not use force, because when he drew his sword, Clarisse was angry like fire.
What is the use of force, and Clarisse seems embarrassed when he leaves it alone.
However, it is the position of the two knights that they have a mission to take Clarisse to the Trix Hall right now. I don’t know Ed’s intentions, but for now he saved me from driving the wagon out of school… I decided to keep an eye on the situation.
That didn’t mean that Ed was doing something great and special.
I dragged Claris out as it was, and set it down on a sunny wooden table near the street tree. And after putting down the drink I had bought from the student canteen, I sat down across from him and wiped my face a few times.
Ed is also in a sudden and bewildered situation. The information given right now is also limited.
Clarisse’s claim that time is repeating itself out of the blue. And proving that fact by calling the military number that was given to him in the distant past… At the end of this joint combat training, Sung Chang-ryong will resurrect and destroy Aken Island.
Once things have come to pass, we have to think on the premise that everything the saint says is true.
Needless to say, Clarisse’s behavior was very strange. Suddenly, he comes to Ed who was in front of the Glockt building, grabs his arm, pulls him into the wagon, and pulls the wagon out of the school saying that he must run away.
Unless you have a crazy brain, you won’t be able to leave yourself behind and do this kind of eccentricity.
“like this… There’s no time to rest, Ed. And then… I will die again… . This time you have to cross the bridge and run along the shoreline… . I’m sure if you head over to the continent and run along the coast, you’ll find a stronger, more remote hideout… . Of course, the chances are slim… If there was something like a coastal cave… .”
“Lady.”
As Ed sang softly, Clarisse swallowed a gasp as if he had come to his senses. Ed added:
“Calm down. Let’s take a deep breath first.”
“I don’t have time for that… ! now… I want to stop watching you die… . painfully… every time… To die protecting me… now stop… I want to stop seeing you… . So I have to go quickly now… . After the incident, Maxes Bridge is blocked… ! If not now… .”
“it’s okay.”
“It can’t be okay… ! If you don’t move right now, you will die painfully… ! That’s… You don’t like that… ! I don’t like it either… ! This time… Senior… I hope you survive… .”
“I said it was okay.”
After talking up to that point, Clarisse’s eyes flickered and the light returned and she looked at Ed.
Ed doesn’t even move, just keeps saying it’s okay… Clarisse then wakes up.
“… Sir Ed… .”
From the time I met Ed in front of the Glockt building until the end of joint combat training.
How many times have you struggled to find a solution in this short time?
It’s hard to understand from Ed’s point of view. It can only be inferred from the scratches on the saint’s body.
“I… Now I don’t know… .”
Clarisse lowered her head, and the tears flowed again. At this point, her tear glands dry up, but her emotions savagely continue to shake her composure.
“I did everything I could think of. I’ve tried to pull Ed sunbaenim forcibly, run away like this, hide like that, and try everything… really… I’ve tried all the small hopes and subtle possibilities, but nothing works… . Nothing really happens… .”
Clarisse spoke as if she was wiping away tears.
Students passing by the square looked at the strange sight and whispered to each other, and the escort soldiers, who had no idea how the situation was going, had no choice but to shed a cold sweat as if embarrassed.
Ed, who was looking at the frustrated saint… I stood up quietly and sat down next to him. Then he grabbed Clarisse by the arm, pulled out the wound ointment I bought from the student canteen, and swished it around.
“Seniors?”
“First of all, a saint must protect her body unconditionally with the highest priority. It is a fatal risk that the wound does not heal.”
By the time Ed brought Clarisse to the square, everything had already been sorted out.
From Ed’s point of view, the information given was infinitely limited, but he was able to grasp the situation to some extent by that alone.
First of all, it was strange to see the scratches all over the saint’s body. There was no way that a saint who would have come out dressed up to see Seonghwang from now on would go to the Trix Hall with her body full of scars like this.
“The protection of the Holy Law that the saint wears is the power to protect the saint’s body from any threats that are hostile to the saint or have an ‘attack intent’. Also, I heard that the saint who received the protection of Telos was resistant to all kinds of sacral magic.”
Archbishop Verdio, who always reads his heart like a mind-reader. It was said that he used the magic of penetrating other people’s feelings, but that was the reason why it didn’t work for Saint Clarisse.
Those who have been baptized by a saint are resistant to all kinds of holy magic. In the first place, with the sacred magic of the denomination, the act of trying to harm the saint at the top of the denomination itself is impossible.
“then… Do you know the meaning of these wounds… ?”
“The wounds… Meaning… ?”
Now, the saint is blocked by a dead-end wall.
He tried all the means he could mobilize, but he was frustrated because he could not escape from Seongchangryong Velbrok.
If so, what Ed has to do is to give such a saint a new direction.
“Initially, this phenomenon of rewinding time was realized by the Holy Law. Therefore, the memories of the saint receiving the protection of the Holy Law will not disappear, nor will the wounds of the body be rewound.”
“… … .”
“In the end, if we try to find the culprit of this incident, it is said that the official of the denomination who is using the holy law is the culprit.”
“that… but… .”
It’s not that Clarisse didn’t leave the possibility at all.
The magic circle that embroidered the sky in the first place was also Edda who found out and informed the fact that the magic circle was a mixture of holy magic and holy spirit magic.
However, no matter how much I search, I can’t find the whereabouts of the Holy Hwang and the Archbishop. The same goes for the alley in Gwak-dong, where the magic circle bloomed. If you go there for a hundred days, there are only students full of fear.
If you look around every building, every room, every place in Sylvania, you don’t know… If you’re going to do that for this short time until the joint combat practice is over… I can’t predict how many times I’ll have to face that hell. The Sylvania Academy was too wide even if it was wide.
In addition, if the two of them decided to hide, there is even a possibility that they would not be found even if they searched for hundreds of days with the hands and feet like the fern of a saint. If that’s the case, it’s really a dead end road.
“Yeah… yes… . In the first place, the Holy Emperor and the Archbishop must have entered Sylvania through the Maxes Bridge, so the route must be limited to the surrounding area… .”
“Yes that’s right. However, if you see something that is not easily understood, there is a high possibility that he must have disguised himself, used magic to hide his actions, or moved in a path that others do not know. Once the place where the chariot of the Holy Emperor is… It would be easier to investigate from the wagon storage at the entrance.”
“What was the reason for moving away from the eyes of others by doing that?”
“Looking at it, it must have never been a dignified reason.”
After talking so much, Clarisse’s wounds were already covered with drugs.
Ed shakes Clarisse’s arm and hurriedly tosses the rest of the ointment on the table.
When Clarisse came to her senses, her trembling voice had subsided and her tears were dry.
Then Clarisse noticed. Ed had noticed that Clarisse had already been cornered and was on the verge of collapse.
It is the same thing for those who have been banging their heads in the face of a dead-end road again and again.
“Do you see a new direction now?”
Ed was figuring it out to some extent.
If Clarisse was really repeating time, this would be the empty narrative part of Act 3 that remained unknown in ＜Failed Swordsman of Sylvania>.
This is also a story that is part of the love affair, but unlike the previous love affairs, Edgar does not fully know the truth this time.
However, we know only the results.
The holy spear dragon of the creation, sealed by the original sword castle, and maintained by the great sage Sylvania.
Breaking the seal embodied as a huge legal circle under the ground of Aken Island is not easy even for an Archmage. No, in the first place, most of them do not even know the existence of the seal.
In ＜Failed Swordsman of Sylvania>, there was no such thing as resurrecting the holy spear dragon Velbrok at the time of act 3.
Seongchangryong Velbrok is the final boss of the chapter.
It should not appear at this point, and even if it does, there is no way to stop it.
In the first place, the enemy was caught only in the final narrative of every story. If the saint caught or killed it here, the story doesn’t match.
If so… There is only one possibility left. In the first place, they prevented the resurrection itself, and returned it to something that did not exist.
So, there is only one direction that Edgar would suggest to St.
“Running away is not the answer. We have to find the root cause of the problem and eliminate it.”
understand it It is a mythical dragon that divides islands and tears the sky. Isn’t it a monster that turns the whole area into hell with just a few attacks?
When a criminal encounters such a thing, he can only think of running away. All human beings are the same in the face of a great disaster.
But now, it won’t work if I just do that. I had to remind myself of that.
“Even if we succeed in escaping, if time rewinds again, isn’t it the starting point? ? So what does that mean?”
“I know that… . still… I don’t know what to do… What you can do right now… The only thing I can do is run away… .”
“Once you calm down, take control. You’re too tired. She has been doing well enough so far.”
Clarisse’s haggard look. As he patted his back, Ed spoke softly.
Clarisse swallowed her breath… He fell into Ed’s arms again.
From Ed’s point of view, it was very embarrassing, and from the point of view of the people around him and the escorts, it was a shameful thing. However, Ed slowly brushed his hair away, hiding his embarrassment as best as he could.
“How many times did you repeat it in the first place?”
“I don’t know… . Obviously I was counting at first… Just going through ten times… I forgot… .”
“You’ve been through a lot.”
Clarisse, sniffing her nose, buried her head in Ed’s chest, and stayed still for a while.
* * *
There are people you can turn to for help. Ed clearly said so.
Claris wondered how much it would mean to ask someone for help in a situation like this… Ed already had some truth in his head.
“Listen well, Madame. In the end, the key to this work is to find the Holy Emperor and the Archbishop. Once you find them both, you’ll have to figure out the truth behind the time-rewinding horoscope, before anything can progress. Because there are only two people in the bachelor’s who can wield that level of sacred magic.”
Clarisse clasped her left hand into Ed’s right and followed, holding his arm tightly. He looked like he was holding her tight, afraid of where Ed would disappear.
From Ed’s point of view, it felt like a very sticky skinship, but considering the heartache of the saint, it was impossible to let it go.
“I’ve been looking for it a few times… . I have repeated that, but I have never heard of the Holy Emperor or the Archbishop. It’s weird too. How is it that the actions of such noble people are so veiled? Many eyes and ears must have been focused.”
The eyes around you are hot. The sight of Saint Clarisse hanging on Ed was a sight that was difficult to tell whether it was a dream or a real one.
From Clarisse’s point of view, he’s a colleague who has lived life and death together, but to the undergraduate students, he can only see him as possessed in a single day. Actually, it should be… The trouble was Ed’s.
Ed headed to the student center in a cold sweat.
The place Edgar strode into was the Nail Hall, where the first and second year students were practicing combat among the student union halls.
“Lady… You have to come down slowly… . Even if it’s only outside… It’s impossible to go to the training center where the students in practice are crowded like this… .”
Ed tried to persuade him, but Clarisse was crying and shaking his head.
In the first place, when this episode ends, Clarisse and Ed’s relationship will go back to the beginning. From Clarisse’s point of view, if it wasn’t this time, he couldn’t be pampered like this.
You have to make up your mind and you have to be strong. However, once the time allowed, there is nothing he can do about the desire to stick with Ed.
If this joint combat training is over, he will even die to protect Clarisse somehow.
“… … .”
Ed swept my face down once, and with a firm heart, he opened the door to the smithy in the nail salon.
– Kwaang! Aww!
-Wheeik, hwaah!
Act 3, Chapter 5, the joint combat practice episode is in full swing. On the dungeon, Wade and Taylor were exchanging sums.
Wade swings his sword to try to feed Tails a sword attack, but Taylor doesn’t allow Wade’s sword, which has already reached the growth trajectory.
But Wade’s defense isn’t too bad either. Eventually, the moment Taylor decides to manifest the basic swordsmanship ceremony, Wade will lose his will and drop the sword.
Ed could well have predicted what would happen after that.
The next opponent is probably Claude, the head of the pension department.
He puts pressure on Taylor through all sorts of psychedelic reagents and basic magic connections, but he will eventually be subdued.
And, unable to overcome the desire to compete, he will drink the banned reagents. Subsequent drawings were still going as Ed expected.
However, Ed’s purpose is not to watch the duel.
As it is a relatively large nail tube, the number of spectators is large. Just because the door was slightly open didn’t attract attention. Only a few students around the entrance were focused. However, when he saw the saint clinging to Ed and not falling off, he was astonished with his mouth wide open.
Time will go back anyway. Ed made his own suggestion like that, clenched his teeth and ignored his gaze.
I went through the students who were so focused on the duel, and finally found a student watching the duel with his back against the wall in the opposite corner. It was a girl wearing a dark red school uniform overcoat and a robe over it. As a second-year student and a student in Class A, this student probably has quite a bit of combat training.
Ed stood next to him, looked up at the dueling squad, and spoke softly.
“Sell some information.”
In response to the voice, the girl raised her eyes for a moment with a look of strange surprise.
In the first place, Ed wasn’t the kind of person to be here at this time. He is the person who should have gone to the Glockt building for the combat practice assigned to him. There was no reason to suddenly appear at the nail salon where the 1st and 2nd graders were competing.
“Oh.”
However, the girl did not ask for details. He simply looked up at the duel podium side by side and swept the reddish-brown hair neatly braided to one side.
“It’s nice to see you in a place like this. Have you ever had any money?”
“Well. I don’t know.”
The girl―― Lortel Keheln always smiles like a fox.
Even if it appears so suddenly, there is no reason to panic. The thoroughly rational aspect does not disappear in the face of any unusual events.
This young merchant, who only works in the dark, looks infinitely slender, but if you dig into the truth, he put this Sylvanian life in his pocket… It is the real power under the water.
All information flows in the living quarters go through the Elte Sangha.
And all the information of the Elte company goes through the ears of the deputy director of the company, Lortel Keheln.
― ‘Saint… Checkpoints are coming from the side of Maxes Bridge. Now, it is said that the trade goods of Elte Trading are crossing through the Maxes Bridge. I’m in a very dizzy situation because of the merchandise wagons and escort mercenaries, so I’m asking you to wait for a moment.’
Returning to the student center here from Maxes Bridge, Ed saw the Elte Company’s logistics procession filling the bridge. Considering the level of complexity, it was never at a level that could be sorted out in an hour or two.
In the first place, didn’t it say that the Holy Hwang and the Archbishop came through Maxes Bridge? The reason why the logistics flow of Maxes Bridge was so temporarily paralyzed was probably because the road had to stop for a while as the two distinguished guests passed the bridge.
then… The numerous merchants in the Elte Chamber must have seen the prosperous process with their own eyes.
Not only that, the staff at the wagon storage, who would have been in charge of the prosperous wagon, are also employees of the living area. In the first place, no matter where they went, they would not have been able to avoid the eyes of the merchants in their lives.
The commercial area of the living dong is completely Lortel Keheln’s area. In her lifetime, not even a single gold coin that rolls on the floor can escape her watch.
That’s what she asks directly. There is no way to find out more about the trajectory of prosperity faster than that.
so that… Ed was willing to give Lortel whatever he asked for. As I said, time will turn back anyway.
“I have someone I need to find urgently. We should at least find it before the joint combat practice is over. I’ll give you any money you ask.”
“What… It’s a bit sudden, but… .”
Lortel turned away from looking up at the dungeon, slowly stood up from his seat and turned to Ed.
Although it was a rather sudden request, he looked more relaxed. Yes, Lortel Keheln had a strong wick capable of maintaining composure in any situation, but… .
“… Eh?”
Seeing the saint who was holding Ed’s arm tightly and looking at him with splendid eyes… I couldn’t help but catch my breath.
Even after washing her eyes and checking her face again, Saint Clarisse, who was respected by all the followers at the top of the Telos Church, was right.
“… … ????”
No matter how cold a person with reason and insight, it was a little difficult to predict such a sight.
Ed knew that, too, so he wiped my face a few times… He waited for some time so that Lortel could accept the situation in front of him as it was.