259. East, Cheonseon Academy (24)
[ What is the bondage… Something that even a brute can’t do… There’s nothing you can’t do in front of a teacher…! ]
At my strange question, honey chestnuts pour with Sierra’s Igal.
Honey balm was painful, but it still had an effect.
A slight crack, a momentary agitation.
I was satisfied with that.
“Ah, a bondage…?”
Kaen’s sword, which was aimed at me, shakes little by little.
There was no way I could miss that shaking, so I immediately cast 2 Reverse Heavens.
[ This, where is this guy running away…! The teacher’s instruction has not yet ended…! ]
The moment the world stopped and only Sierra’s voice resounded, I quickly ran towards Kaen.
ㅡ Chaeeng.
I lightly pushed away Kaen’s white blade, which was shining like the moon floating high in the sky, and gently turned Kaen’s shoulder just before the inversion ended.
ㅡ I’m sorry!!
In time, time returns to its original flow.
In an instant, Kaen’s sword returned, and Kaen’s body spun and her back clung to me.
“Uh, uh…”
Kaen, who couldn’t do anything about it, panicked and flinched.
Shortly, a red sword blade hung around her neck.
“So… You don’t like chains?”
I smiled and whispered in her ear.
“……”
At the same time, Kaen’s ears burned bright red.
“Kaen, what the hell are you doing?!”
“No, that’s… So sudden…”
Kaen lowered her head at the cry of Yuri, who was stomping her feet, coming from the other side of her at the accident that happened in an instant.
I gave a word to help them understand the situation.
“Now, you choose. Will you burn me with Miss Kaen like this… Or will you set Miss Kaen and me free and create a situation where no one will die…”
“Ugh…”
Yuri gets nervous and thinks.
However, as long as the premise of this battle was ‘joint training’, her answer was fixed.
Anyway, it’s only me and Kaen in this fire prison. If it was Yuri’s handshake, it was Yuri’s handshake that blocked the approach of others in preparation for my escape.
If it was a real fight, Yuri and Kaen should have worked together a bit more to keep her from getting caught in the flame prison.
But Yuri also made a mistake as the situation became urgent.
Actually, if Kaen was able to beat me inside this flame prison, Yuri wouldn’t have made a mistake or shaken my hand, but anyway, the result was this.
“You’ve made some pretty mean moves. Cadet Jetto…”
Caen leaned her neck back at the slowly approaching blade and whispered as she looked at me.
Looks like she noticed it too.
That the ‘sensational remarks’ I had made caused her to lose her concentration.
“hahahaha, I’m the type of person who does my best in anything… I can do anything even if it’s a mean bestiary, as long as it avoids the worst. It’s been that way.”
ㅡCoooung!
Soon, Amon, who was waiting in front of the flame prison, dropped the gauntlet wrapped around her arm into a chunk of rock and released it, then spoke to her toward the glass.
“Release Zeto. As long as our allies have become hostages, there is nothing we can do right now. Even if this were a real war… Comparing the lives of our friends and enemies to the value of this Amon Kali Goose can’t tolerate it.”
It was a remark worthy of the Caligus family.
They take the lead on the battlefield, neutralize the enemy’s attacks pouring down on their allies, and take the damage alone.
On the battlefield, they valued the lives of soldiers more than anyone else.
There was such a thing as a joke.
It is said that the number of soldiers saved by Maxim Caligus, the father of Amon Caligus and head of the Caligus family, may be greater than the number of saints.
“……”
Yuri closes her eyes tightly and is lost in thought.
“It’s true that Zeto is the key to the opponent’s strength, but we’ll have to rescue him later. Besides… Our side is not without losses. For now, we don’t even know where the opponent’s main force is, protecting our flag is the key. It comes first.”
In response, Amon looked down at Sehwi, her Namgung, who had fainted on the floor and said.
“Hmm…”
I nodded lightly as I overheard their conversation. Things seemed to be going the way they wanted.
Kaen, who had been hugged by me, stared blankly at me.
“Cadet Zeto… Have we ever been like this…?”
I was able to guess what the question she was talking about, who was looking vaguely vague, from her memories that just happened to flow into her brain.
‘Here you are, Dohwa.’
‘Hey… Did you find me?’
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But I don’t know if it was a similar situation.
“…Well.”
Wasn’t it more romantic back then?
***
Kaen, who seemed to be regaining memories of her previous life as time passed, looked very distraught.
Perhaps it was natural.
She lost her way.
And that was the case with me too.
Concerns such as whether I should treat my previous life as just a previous life or whether I should accept it as destiny since there is a relationship with it right in front of my eyes made my head complicated.
“Aren’t you hungry?”
“Haa… It’s okay.”
Kaen let out a sigh.
Soon after, the girl, who was far away, comes up to her and bumps her shoulder and touches me.
“Is it okay to treat hostages like this?”
“You tied it to a rope?”
Yes. Kaen was now tied to a rope.
She said the ropes that tied her arms under her huge breasts meant she was her hostage.
I was able to safely get out of Yuri’s flame prison by using Kaen as a hostage.
My ‘Sierra’ was threatening Kaen’s neck, so they couldn’t catch us as we disappeared through the clouds of the Valley of Clouds.
Since then, Kaen has been bound.
She had everything in her space bag, including a rope.
When I took out the rope from the subspace pocket, ‘Why did you carry something like that…?’ Kaen, who had such doubts.
I answered her question with a smile.
‘It’s my taste.’
Actually, it’s just a preference, I’ve been preparing to use it when escaping from high floors or capturing poor enemies, but Kaen’s reaction was so cute that she ended up teasing me a little.
“That’s a slack rope… Maybe it’ll loosen that rope?”
Certainly, if you strengthen your body with mana, it’s not that difficult to untie a rope like that.
If you pour mana into the rope, you can tie it more firmly, but…
“…You prefer tighter compression. I didn’t know that.”
“No… It’s not like that…”
Kaen blushes.
I don’t know if it’s because of her clothes with her subtle nudity, or because she’s tied with a rope, but she’s a lot more shady than usual.
Well, anyway, since our hostage is dissatisfied, shouldn’t we do what he wants?
As I pulled up the loose knot of her rope, the pressure on her rope became stronger.
“It hurts…It hurts, Cadet Zeto…”
“Then I’m glad.”
There was a hint of contentment in Kaen’s frown.
I turned her head away and tried to ignore her reaction. I had to endure it because I thought that if I watched more, I would get a dangerous reaction.
It was around the time when the signs of our team members reached the end of Gigam after walking through Ungwigok.
If Kaen had any questions, she stood in front of me and stopped my steps before she opened her mouth.
“But Cadet Zeto, why did you avoid battle?”
“What do you mean?”
“Alone was enough.”
“Ah…”
Come to think of it, she hadn’t explained it to Kaen yet.
“…We had to avoid situations where blood was shed. The crosshairs are aiming for our blood.”
“Piraño? Wasn’t Guanzhu not a blood mage?”
“After further investigation, it seems that there was a huge bloodstone in Cheonseon Academy. I can guess where it is kept, but I can’t openly set foot in it… For now, provide blood to feed the bloodstone. I’m trying not to.”
“How did you do the investigation? Cadet Jeto was in the infirmary.”
“My informant just arrived.”
“Informant…! Then, Cadet Zeto’s lost coat…”
“…Yes, our informant took care of it.”
I scratched my head for no reason.
She was Kaen, as always, putting together even the most unknown puzzles.
“Anyway, I don’t know what will happen in this joint training. Our group defeated the group of bandits that Gwanju presumably prepared earlier, but I think this won’t be the end. It’s better to move with more caution. I think that would be good.”
Kaen nodded at the new information about a group of thieves.
“What’s more than that? Bloodstone.”
“……”
Thousand Peninsula condition.
I was thinking about it.
“I don’t know exactly, but considering that I have to go through such a cumbersome process and collect blood, it’s expected that there will be quite difficult conditions.”
However, the exact answer is unknown.
This is because Cheonbando has never appeared as a bloodstone in the game, and the recipe for bloodstone is truly limitless.
‘The only thing that’s relevant is that the students of the school building swore an oath in front of Chunbando when they were graduating.’
Could it be the blood of warriors who are outstanding enough to safely graduate from Cheonseon Academy?
However, if you look closely, the conditions were easy to meet. And hadn’t the head of the government already issued an order for the monsters to attack the academic hall?
If even that was the process of collecting blood, it could be seen that all the students and cadets of the academy were the targets.
“I don’t think it’s a problem that will give us an answer no matter how hard we try. There will be one blood mage who is close to the gwanju.”
“Is it okay if I catch him?”
“Yes, preferably before it explodes.”
At the mention of her body exploding, Kaen tilts her head and draws a question mark on her face.
Blood mages are terrible.
This is even more true of Blood Religion, a group of fanatics.
When the danger of capture comes, it will explode without hesitation.
‘It’s a bit tricky though…’
It’s different depending on the part where the spell is engraved, but let’s assume it’s the ‘tongue’, the same part as the group of thieves we saw before.
Excessive bleeding is also a problem when cutting off the tongue, but isn’t there a possibility that you won’t be able to speak properly even if you treat it somehow?
Of course, that’s what they were aiming for.
Maybe it’s time to try dealing with weaknesses in new ways.
***
I walked and walked along the valley with Kaen, and I was able to arrive at the place where Joe, the white dog, was evacuated in time.
“……”
Eisel gazed intently at Kaen, who was tied up in a rope, with her sullen eyes.
She was very dissatisfied with what happened before. And she knew very well that the reason why the five generations were able to find me was because of Kaen, who was now in front of her eyes.
“What is that?”
“First of all, I’m a hostage.”
“No value as a hostage. Send them back.”
“…Miss Eisel?”
“Are you covering the enemy?”
“No, I can dig up information about the opposing group…”
“Then let’s get the information and kick it out.”
“……”
No matter how much I thought about it, there was no need to send Kaen, who was the only one who could track me down, back to her opponent group.
“I-I know where our group’s flag is hidden…!”
But even more so, her opponent, Kaen, didn’t have to step out.