159 – December March
“What do you mean by thief b*tch?”
Isabella, who had become increasingly sensitive, frowned and said.
How dare you come here to steal Ed’s things and then justify it by saying it’s a sacred mission or something.
I cannot forgive.
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-Paaat!
In this way, Isabella released her negativity from her entire body.
At the same time, blue energy is released from Vanessa’s body, pushing away her negativity.
However, Enya took advantage of that gap and dug inside.
I aimed for Vanessa’s waist with a deadly strike.
“Huh!”
An incredibly powerful sword that will make your mind dizzy.
Vanessa quickly pulled her body back and opened her mana shield.
Even the mana shield was shattered and Enya’s sword energy penetrated inside.
I quickly strengthened my abdomen with mana, but I could not avoid the blow.
The abdomen is shallow and bleeding has occurred.
“······.”
At this, the revolutionary members looked at Vanessa with shocked expressions.
Barnessa is one of the strongest in the Eastern Kingdom.
However, he was hurt by the connection between academy cadets who were still just students.
A leader who does not shed a single drop of blood in most battles.
“Are they truly the strongest cadets in the empire? “I will do my best.”
However, the revolutionary members were reassured by Vanessa’s continued attitude.
This is because the manager is smiling as if he has met the right match.
In other words, the engagement just now was not done to the best of our ability.
As proof of this, when Vanessa truly raised her mana, an incomparable amount of blue energy erupted.
And then an enormous amount of blue energy began to form clouds and cover the space.
Using ‘referee’, one of Barnett’s trademarks.
-Kwaaa!
Dozens of flashes descending vertically from the mana cloud.
The sight of the God of Thunder spewing out lightning without hesitation, as if destroying the human world.
Barnessa’s ultimate skill, collectively called ‘Judgment’.
“Phew…!”
And this kind of large-scale wide-area attack with such crazy destructive power was something that Isabella, Enya, and Charlotte had never experienced before.
Unlike the girls who repeated minor training at the academy, Vanessa had several years of experience in actual combat.
Her ultimate skill, which she completed by crossing the line between life and death several times, was bound to be overwhelming for those who were still first-year cadets.
“Barnessa. “Just leave it at that.”
At that time.
A gentle middle-aged voice from behind stopped Vanessa.
Oliver Cromwell.
Her spiritual leader of the Kravel Revolutionary Group stood in her way.
“The goal has been completed. “Now is the time to withdraw.”
Cromwell said that and placed his hand on Vanessa’s shoulder.
Soon, Vanessa nodded her head and withdrew her outstretched hand, dispersing the mana cloud.
Then, the three women who were using all their mana for defense exhaled harshly and glared at Vanessa.
“Where are you going to take me out!”
Enya consumed most of her mana while blocking Vanessa’s attack.
However, Enya’s fighting spirit has not yet broken.
He charged at Vanessa, who turned her back to attack again.
-Shhh!
But then.
Ed, who had transformed into Kamen Rider form, stuck a card with the art of speed engraved on his belt and blocked Enya.
Before she could react, he planted his fist into her stomach and struck her on the back of the neck.
Enya’s eyes slowly opened and she collapsed.
Because her mana was focused on her attack, she could not pay attention to her defense.
“···Stop this meaningless war of attrition. “Will you let us go at this point?”
Cromwell, who had knocked Enya unconscious, carefully laid her down on the floor.
Isabella and Charlotte, who recognized that Cromwell was a man of enormous power, glared at him in a state of alert.
“You must not send it!”
At that time, club members came rushing in and started shooting magic guns at Count Cromwell.
However, when the Count waved his hand once, a barrier was formed in the air and began to block all physical attacks.
The club members looked at the scene with shocked faces.
“It’s a pretty good weapon, but it still has a long way to go. “It looks like you need to work harder.”
And the Count began to walk as he commented on the weapons made by the club members.
Step by step, he approached Isabella and Charlotte with a strange charisma.
Then he glanced at Isabella and said.
“Yes, you can fight whenever you want. But isn’t that power something that needs to be saved?”
“······!”
Isabella’s pupils got bigger.
This is because the essence of his power was understood by someone he had never met before.
“Edgar Fix. “Please give this to him.”
And the Count handed Isabella an envelope with a letter, without giving her time to compose herself.
Isabella, overwhelmed by the count’s familiar yet strange atmosphere, accepted her letter without realizing it.
“Okay then.”
After handing over the letter, the Count turned his back.
He stepped into the black hole of the portal with Vanessa waiting for him.
Soon the portal closed, and they disappeared without a trace.
***
“It’s a monster…”
Count Cromwell’s hideout.
Vanessa muttered that in a timid voice.
Then Cromwell tilted his head and answered.
“Who? “Academy cadets?”
“·····Yes.”
Vanessa nodded, looking at her trembling hands.
And then I recalled the battle a while ago.
A truly series of shocks.
Even though they were only first-year cadets, their potential was enormous.
Who would have thought that he, one of the strongest players in the Eastern Kingdom, would exert all his strength.
If they had planned a proper strategy and coordinated attack, victory could not be guaranteed.
Thanks to the fact that they were gathered in one place, he was able to condemn them as his ‘judgment’.
“···The world is wide, and there are many strong people. “It’s just one more reason to become stronger.”
And Cromwell comforted the discouraged Vanessa by telling her that she needed to become stronger.
In other words, there are more reasons to become stronger, so train yourself.
Barnessa answered with a grin.
“hehehehe. Okay. “It’s not the time to be this timid.”
“Okay. More than anything, isn’t today a day to celebrate? “We accomplished our mission perfectly.”
Cromwell said this and looked at the pile of steel piled up in the warehouse.
This amount was more than enough to build the 20 tanks that were targeted.
“Enjoy your success today. “It’s going to be busy from now on.”
Cromwell said that and told him to take care of the members who worked hard.
Then, Vanessa smiled and suggested that we go to the after-party.
The idea is to get acquainted with the members and have a drink.
“···I’m sorry. It’s ‘that time’. “I guess I overdid it a bit today.”
“Ah…”
But when Cromwell mentioned ‘that time’, Vanessa’s expression hardened.
Of course, ‘that time’ is the time when Count Cromwell, a full-body burn patient, heals his entire body to maintain his life.
In other words, Oliver Cromwell, a terminally ill patient, had to recover in a life support machine for more than 5 hours a day.
“Yes. Rest well.”
Barnessa smiled calmly and greeted Cromwell.
Cromwell nodded his head and then entered his room at a tired pace.
Barnessa looked at the back with a sad expression.
***
“Eve, nothing bad happened, right?”
Ed, who had put a Moon Knight suit that looked like Count Cromwell’s into a life support machine, asked that question.
Then Eve, who was wearing Ed’s guise, returned to her true form and answered.
“What do you think of me? “It was perfect.”
As Eve said that, she showed a video summary of what happened today.
Eve did everything perfectly, from leading a large-scale workshop with about 800 people to building bonds through various entertainment and games.
“Well done. “After all, he is my only younger brother.”
In response, Ed patted Eve’s head and praised her.
Ed, who had grown accustomed to this relationship as she continued to live as her brother and sister, regarded Eve as her younger sister.
Of course, Eve is looking for a relationship beyond that of his younger brother, but it is still too early, so she is just waiting for an opportunity.
“Then I’ll go out for a bit.”
At that time, Ed, who had been stroking Eve’s head, raised his body and said,
Eve responded by tilting her head.
“Where are you going?”
“I have an appointment. “I’ll come back tomorrow morning.”
With those words, Ed left the lord’s tent room.
He asked the guards saluting him what time it was.
“It’s 9 o’clock.”
9 O’clock.
In the first place, it is not late for an appointment.
I always met Isabella at the Academy Mountain at 10pm.
‘But today…’
Isabella looked strange.
Didn’t she come to her own territory before her scheduled time?
It also looks quite dangerous.
‘You’ll know when you meet.’
So Ed changed into a suit and leaped into the air.
She flew to a nearby exchange and then headed to the academy through the central exchange.
She soon went up to the hill and found Isabella already waiting for her.
With sunken eyes full of dark circles.
“······?”
Isabella looks more haggard than usual.
Ed approached Isabella with a puzzled expression.
Eventually, Isabella, sensing Ed’s presence, jumped up and went out to meet Ed.
And then
-Wow!
I hugged Ed.
She wrapped her hands around his waist with all her might, as if she wouldn’t let him go.
Then Ed said, holding her head with one hand and her back with the other hand.
“It’s more intense today than usual. “What happened?”
Isabella came to see her even before her scheduled time.
Isabella said, burying her face.
“I couldn’t see you all day… Today is the day I met you… I couldn’t see you… So I was anxious…”
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Ed, who has been going back and forth between the Revolutionary Group and this side recently, rarely appears at the Academy.
Because of that, Isabella was unable to take the time to control her mind by looking at Nama Ed from afar.
As she emerged as a powerful figure in the empire and a key person in power, she began to feel anxious, wondering if she had forgotten about herself.
That anxious mind made me impatient.
“There’s no way I could forget.”
Ed reassured Isabella.
She held on long enough for her heart to relax.
“Whoop…!”
After some time had passed.
Isabella’s seizure symptoms began to subside.
The skill of controlling one’s emotions is released, and the negative emotions that have been building up for so long run rampant.
“Wow! hehehehe! Huh…!”
Self-hatred, self-denial, guilt, anger, sadness. The resulting suicidal impulse.
All of her negative emotions were running wild inside Isabella, causing her pain.
She started pointing her finger at everyone she had ever hurt, and who had hurt her.
Their auditory hallucinations filled my head and took my breath away.
“It’s okay.”
But then.
Ed said it was okay.
The fantasy you see is just a mirror of the guilt you feel because you are a good person.
You kept telling me that you were a good person.
Thanks to those words, Isabella was able to endure the most painful moment today.
“Haa…Haa…Haa…”
“Well done. “You did well.”
Eventually, Ed hugged Isabella, who was breathing heavily.
As her emotional control slowly returned, Isabella gradually regained her stability.
Isabella, whose breathing soon stabilized, spoke.
“I think I was a little ugly today.”
“·····? What are you talking about.”
“I went to your territory. I’m worried you won’t be here, I’m anxious. And when I heard that you went to the workshop, I jumped up like a child.”
Ed, who had seen Isabella before when he was disguised as Count Cromwell.
Ed, who realized why Isabella was in her territory, said it was okay and patted Isabella.
Then Isabella raised her body and she said.
“And… Have you heard? “There was an intruder in your territory?”
Ed nodded his head.
If a security issue arises due to policy, the lord’s secretary. In other words, Eve was instructed to report to the hotline.
By the way, Edgar Fix needs to know about this.
“You stole my steel. “I heard you’re quite a talented person?”
Isabella nodded her head.
He said with a serious face, recalling Vanessa.
“That woman… I said I saw her somewhere, and she was the leader of the rebels in the Kingdom of France. “She must be up to something.”
“······.”
“And there was a man who looked middle-aged… I’ve never seen that kind of movement before. “He’s wearing a weird suit like you.”
Isabella said that and took out her letter from her arms.
He handed it to Ed and said.
“And I told you to give this letter to me… I’m sorry. I read it too. “But I didn’t know what it meant.”
Ed nodded and took the letter.
He wrote a letter to himself.
[You who know the secrets of the heavenly bodies, consider yourself the price of cowardice]
A letter written by himself to create a confrontation between Earl Cromwell and Edgar Fix.
Ed folded the letter and his expression hardened.
The groundwork for full-scale mechanization has now been laid.
“·····Ed, do you think you know what it means?”
And she asked Isabella if she could understand the contents of the letter.
Soon Ed answered with a meaningful smile.
“Well. It’s difficult to explain. “Only people cursed with knowledge can understand.”
“·····Curse of knowledge?”
“Yes. There is such a thing. “It’s like a riddle that only someone like me can understand.”
An enormous truth that can overturn the paradigm of this world.
Ed smiled brightly, ignoring the truth.
Because in exchange for this cowardice, she will be able to protect Isabella and her own precious people.
***
December.
War clouds were hanging over the Kingdom of France as winter approached.
After the escape of the leader of the revolutionary group, Vanessa, the inactive movements of the revolutionary group actually make them anxious.
Moreover, it was significant that all spies within the revolutionary group who had secretly provided information to the kingdom were eliminated.
In the past, they were able to use them to eliminate the revolutionary group or even capture the leader of the revolutionary group, Vanessa, but after she escaped, such news was cut off.
We have no choice but to wait for the beating without any idea what they are preparing.
“Corps Commander! “It’s breaking news!”
However, the Kingdom of France did not pay much attention to the revolutionary group.
Anyway, all they can do is agitate the common people who are nothing more than meat shields.
The military power was only a small number of troops capable of waging a guerrilla war.
They are nothing more than pests that bother them all the time.
“Breaking news? “What’s going on?”
The commander of the 1st Corps of the Kingdom of France did not consider the breaking news a big deal.
I asked with a sour expression, thinking that at best it would be a case of a takeover by a revolutionary group.
“Hey, this is all-out war…! “The revolutionaries are advancing with strange mechanical vehicles and large-scale military forces!”
However, the news the soldier delivered was a large-scale all-out war.
The corps commander was taken aback for a moment, but then smiled and answered.
“You must have come out to the field on your own? “It’s a novel method of suicide.”
The commander said so and drew his sword.
After gathering the soldiers who had been trained for this day, he gave orders.
“Prepare the cavalry! “The foolish traitor forces will be slaughtered today!”