I Became a Blind Swordsman at the Academy chapter 180

180. Death, those left behind (1)

The death of Zeto.

Unfortunately, the first person to hear the sad news was Yuri Clementine.

When Zeto didn’t come back after going out, he left the academy to find him… And met Eisel and Edward on their way back to the academy.

“That’s a lie…? Jeto…”

Yuri burst out laughing.

She was in denial.

The Jetto that Eisel was carrying was wrapped in cloth because Edward’s fantasy magic had disappeared.

In Yuri’s eyes, who had no way of knowing this, it looked like Jetto was just sleeping on Eisel’s back.

“Jetto is dead.”

But once again, I could hear Eisel’s voice sounding so serious and clear.

Eisel’s clothes are stained with blood.

Zeto’s face is full of scars.

The silence of Edward, who stood by their side.

Everything felt strange.

“That can’t be…”

Yuri stepped out of her weak leg and approached Eisel and Jeto.

It was only then that the blood on the cloth that Zeto was wearing filled her eyes.

Yuri’s fingertips, which were reaching out toward her cloth, trembled violently.

Yuri wanted to deny it.

Because it was so unexpected.

But death always comes suddenly.

Yuri holding a piece of cloth.

In the end, her hands reveal the cruel truth.

“Ah…?”

A single word with a question.

The cloth was removed, and Jetto’s terrible scars were reflected in Yuri’s eyes.

“……”

Yuri’s trembling eyes were asking Jetto.

Why are you doing that?

Why is Zeto bleeding?

What is all this?

Yuri felt her head dizzy.

An excruciating headache she had never felt before.

She could hardly accept the cruel truth that Zeto had died.

At that moment, the orb in Yuri’s arms, Beno’s voice, was heard.

[ …Master, calm down. ]

Why did Beno say that… Yuri didn’t understand, but after coming to her senses and looking around her, she knew it.

ㅡ Hurray!

The whole forest was engulfed in flames.

Hot flames shot up all around her as she clutched at her head.

Eisel and Zetto were not affected by the flames due to Edward’s shield cast in time.

Yuri stared at Eisel with expressionless eyes.

She was feeling suspicious.

Isn’t Zeto dead?

Why can’t you be okay?

Why are you making such a nonchalant face when Zeto is dead?’

In the end, Yuri’s distorted mind reaches the wrong conclusion.

“Yes… It’s your fault…”

Yuri approached Eisel with flames.

Eisel was carrying Jeto’s body on her back, but that didn’t catch her eye now.

“It’s all your fault…? Jeto died…”

Yuri asked, reaching out her hand to Eisel’s neck.

Edward’s shield was slowly melting away.

Yuri remembered.

Why did Jeto leave the academy?

“Yes. It’s all my fault.”

Eisel did not avoid Yuri’s hand.

“Zetto died protecting me. If you want to kill me, kill me. If you want so much, I’ll die at your hands. But…”

Eisel, who had empty eyes, continued her words.

“…Even if I die, Zeto won’t come back.”

It was a theory.

Even so, Yuri denied it. She

She continued. She thrust her hand into Eisel’s throat.

That moment.

ㅡ Tak.

Her hand reaches through her raging flames and grabs her arm.

Yuri turned her head.

The owner of that hand was Edward.

ㅡ Chiiik…

Edward’s hand, which was blocking Yuri’s arm, was burning.

“…Cadet Yuri, I understand you want to find someone to blame, but… Let’s stop at this point.”

“…”

“Aren’t you just looking for someone to pour your anger on? Does Cadet Glass want Cadet Zeto’s sacrifice to be in vain?”

Edward, who did not groan even in the pain of burning his hands, said so in a calm voice.

“Cadet Eisel is the same. Please don’t encourage her anymore.”

“……”

Eisel turned her head away from Edward’s gaze.

“Think carefully. If we truly want to serve Cadet Zeto, what should we do?”

“……”

Unable to follow her words, Yuri looked at Eisel.

She looked into Eisel’s golden eyes.

What filled her eyes was not indifference.

A terribly deep-rooted emptiness.

Eisel had already been broken.

Soon after, Yuri drops her arm.

Yuri sat down on her floor and lowered her head.

She just realized what an ugly thing she was about to do.

“…Colour your emotions and come back. Those who are left behind have things to do as they are left behind.”

With those words, Edward picked up a piece of cloth that had fallen on the floor and wrapped it around Jetto.

Soon they turn away from Yuri.

Yuri didn’t follow them or catch them.

Left in the flames that engulfed the entire forest, she just stared blankly at their backs and Zeto’s backs as they left.

***

Arriving at the academy, Edward went straight to the principal’s office. He was there to report on this situation.

Edward reported what he had seen and the information he had grasped to his father, Julie Ut, who was also the principal of Innocence Academy.

“…Cadet Zeto’s body was handed over to Medical Officer Priscilla.”

Soon after listening to the report, Julius drooled.

“Hmm… Where is Cadet Eisel now?”

“She said she would stay by Cadet Zeto’s side…”

“…I see. Didn’t Cadet Jeto…Surely have younger sisters?”

“She was living with him in the academy’s dormitory.”

“For them…”

“I will deliver it myself.”

“…I see.”

Yuliut swallowed the confusion.

“For now, I’ll put off all the cadets’ schedules. Prepare his funeral quickly.”

“Yes.”

Immediately, the first year cadets were scheduled to go on a trip to the east tomorrow, but with Zeto’s death, the schedule was naturally delayed.

Anyway, Jeto died as a cadet, and since he had no other connections, the academy had to take care of Jetto’s funeral.

“…Is this all you see?”

I think I heard everything roughly, but Edward didn’t move his feet, so Juliut, who had doubts about this, asked.

Instantly, Edward’s mouth, which had been tightly closed, opened.

“Once this is settled… Instructor, I will quit.”

“…I won’t allow it.”

“Why? We don’t need someone to take responsibility for this.”

As Edward argues, Julius rubs his forehead and puts the glasses he was wearing on the desk.

“…I appreciate your willingness to take responsibility…But don’t try to run away, son.”

“…”

“My disciple was killed by demons. I wouldn’t think that this father would not know what you think…”

Juliut stared into Edward’s pupils.

“…Do you want to go back to the old days? Eddie.”

Edward, who was in front of Juliut’s eyes, had the same eyes as Edward in the past.

A look that only wants to slaughter the enemy, a look that wants revenge.

It was Edward who told Yuri not to look for someone to blame, but he was no different.

In the end, those words were also spoken to himself.

“You’ve already experienced it. Even if you slaughter all the demons around you, nothing will change. Above all, it’s different from before. Don’t you have people you need to protect now? Besides… I heard that you have a child….”

“…”

Edward frowned and turned his head away, remembering the face of his wife, Vanessa.

“If you can’t keep it, try desperately to protect what’s left. That’s the role of a father, and it’s a virtue you should have as an instructor.”

“…”

“If you understand, stop going.”

Edward quietly lowered his head and left the principal’s office.

Left alone in the principal’s office, Juliut stared blankly at the window where the raindrops were hitting.

The city, which had been pouring rain, was drowning in sorrow.

***

ㅡ Shoot ah…

It was raining.

The fire that engulfed the forest was long gone.

Water drops fall on the back of my hand.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t raining.

The heat felt from the water droplets conveyed this.

Water drops fall once more.

I decided to admit it.

No, I couldn’t deny it.

I had to accept it even for Zeto’s sake.

Jetto is… Dead.

Dazedly getting hit by the rain, I remembered Zeto.

I remembered Jeto’s appearance and the scent that emanated from Jeto’s arms.

I remembered his sweet voice that I could no longer hear.

What was the last conversation you had with Jeto?

It was definitely morning.

Jetto met on the way to school and was heading in the opposite direction of the academy.

When I asked where I was going, Jetto said he would bring Eisel for a while.

‘So when are you coming back?’

‘I don’t know about that…’

‘…Do whatever you want.’

I was a bit upset at the way he looked after Eisel, so I cut off his words and turned my back.

“…Sigh.”

The last thing he said to Jeto was just… That.

“Ugh… Heh…”

He pounded the damp ground with his chest tight.

The tears that flowed down my cheeks mixed with the rain.

“I must apologize…”

I had to say sorry.

I finally got up and ran towards the city.

Where did it go?

Jetto, where are you?

While frantically running through the city, I found Jetto.

Jetto, who was seen blurry in front of the restaurant with the lights off, was talking to me.

‘Miss Yuri is really good at eating.’

‘Poem, noisy…!’

‘hahahaha…’

As I get closer to Jeto, who was laughing eloquently, the images of Jeto and I disappear as raindrops.

‘Miss Glass…’

“Jetto…?”

I heard his voice again and immediately turned my head to look around.

‘…Miss Yuri, it’s strawberry milk.’

‘Oh…!’

Yes. It was a street he often walked with.

The whole street was filled with jeto.

I walked as if possessed.

I looked back on my memories and memories with him.

‘I’ll read you a fairy tale…?’

‘Yes, there is a children’s book that I really want to read to Jeto…’

‘Isn’t that nice?’

It was the first time.

Jetto was the first man outside of his family to feel comfortable talking to.

When I look away, I see Jeto and I sitting at a table on the terrace of a closed cafe.

‘How is it? This saint… Looks like Zeto, doesn’t it?’

‘Is that so…?’

‘Everyone, they look alike…!’

‘Then who is the princess?’

‘That… I don’t know.’

‘How about Ms. Yuri? Do you hate the princess?’

‘What, what kind of noise…!’

Really… He was a man like a fairy tale.

When you are with him, he is easily mistaken.

If the other person is Jeto… I wondered if pure love, like something out of a children’s book, wouldn’t be such a dream.

It was all pointless now.

I have been wandering aimlessly like that, but I can’t forget the streets that I can’t forget.

“…Ah.”

It was an ordinary street, nothing special.

But I couldn’t forget this street, this scenery.

My feet moved on their own.

I walked down the street just like that time.

To the beginning of everything, I was going back to the beginning.

At the side of the road, I could see myself in the past.

I focused my eyes on the corner at the end of the road.

Just around the corner… Zeto will bump into me.

“Stop…”

I chased the past me.

I had to prevent what would happen later.

However, the me of the past goes around the corner without hesitation.

Then the sound of Zeto falling is heard.

“Stop… Please…”

I sat down on the floor.

My whole body was losing strength.

My voice pierces your ears as I speak harsh words toward Jeto.

It was painful.

The fact that there were thorns at the beginning and the end with Zeto.

“Ah…”

It was only then that I remembered.

Jetto’s last words came to mind.

Jetto said that to me who turned his back.

“I’m sure… I’ll definitely come back…”

Jetto left me with those words.

“This… Is not a return…”

Jetto, who left me like that, came back to me as a cold corpse.

I wanted to protect Zeto.

I tried to be strong enough to protect him.

I hoped he wouldn’t overdo it.

I didn’t want him to leave my side.

But I wasn’t even given a chance to protect him.

It was just that it was so painful.