＜ Let’s run away (1) ＞
Ending-!
A clear notification sound in your ears.
At the same time, the quest window that covers your eyes.
[Main Quest – Wedding Security]
Category: Required
Clear Condition: Entrust Karios and Jeniel’s wedding ceremony.
Reward: 1000 points
Status: Incomplete
Karios and Jeniel’s wedding next week.
There was a variable called a breakup between the two, but in the end it proceeded the same as the original. The time of the wedding, the place, the groom and the bride, nothing has changed.
This is definitely a good thing.
The separation of the two is an obvious handshake that breaks Karios’ will to grow. Because of the butterfly effect, Karios did not go to Kataracha, and in the end I had to deal with the warlock with my own hands.
If the wedding had been postponed, or had not been held, it would have caused an unmanageable butterfly effect in my line.
Also, to prepare for the ‘Imperial Academy Festival’, the wedding was a necessary quest. Because this is your only chance to earn points.
everything worked out It was going according to plan, without any hiccups.
But… why is it so complicated?
I should be happy, but why am I not happy at all?
It was a time when I was deeply immersed in passion for no reason.
“Leonard?”
A clear voice rushed in. It was a tone that awakened reality. I came to my senses and raised my head.
A restaurant in the southern part of the Empire.
Against the background of the luxurious interior, I saw Jeniel sitting across from me. Jeniel smiled and tilted his head.
“What are you thinking about?”
A smile without a shadow of an inch.
You look happy as always.
There was no worry or worry on her beautiful face. The same was true when announcing the reunion. It was a bride-to-be, full of anticipation and excitement.
While I was in Kataracha, it seems that the conflict with Karios was well resolved.
······Yes, that’s enough.
I don’t know what happened in the meantime, but it’s as long as the person concerned is happy.
I pointed to the teacup on the table.
“To savor the taste. It’s delicious.”
I tried hard not to reveal my current feelings.
Again, that’s a good thing. Besides, all these narratives were written by myself.
There is no reason to resent anyone, and there is no qualification.
You just have to humbly accept it.
“I was worried because Namhae Emerald Coffee had strong likes and dislikes, but I am glad that it is delicious.”
Jeniel gave a small clap of pride. Then I picked up the strawberries that came out for dessert.
Namhae arrived after traveling for a long time for two hours.
In this place where she was taken by force, Jeniel did not tell me what she wanted to do or what she would do. Even after a series of questions, he only showed a bright smile.
“So what are you going to do? Are you really not going to tell me?”
“yes? Um… yes! it is a secret.”
Every single thing this time.
I tried to eat the strawberry I picked up with my fork, but I showed my front teeth and grinned. If you personified a rabbit, would it look like that? It was so cute that it made my heart happy, but it was not a reason to continue to spend time on it. It’s not that it’s not, it’s because I was dragged in with the schedule delayed.
I said while tidying up my clothes.
“Then I’ll go back.”
I lifted my butt off the chair halfway, as if I were about to leave.
Then, Jeniel urgently grabbed my wrist. He pursed his lips as if it were unfair.
“Ah, where is this? It’s a wedding gift, so you should definitely go with it. You promised.”
A stronger reaction than expected.
Anyway, did I make a promise? I guess I didn’t say anything because I was lost in thought.
“·······”
I looked down at Jeniel gently. The longing embroidered in the deep eyes was shining like starlight. Those sad eyes caught my ankle.
Moreover, the thought of being alone in Namhae weakened my heart. I sat down again.
“Okay. It is a wedding gift.”
“Really? Don’t you want to say anything else?”
Only then did Jeniel let go of my arm. I put the strawberry that I had been holding back for a while into my mouth. By the time I finished eating all the strawberries, I asked indirectly.
“Are the preparations for the wedding going well?”
The wedding of the main character in the novel.
Just like at the engagement ceremony, there will be a terror attack by black magicians at the wedding ceremony. Like Gestaf’s suicide bombing, it was a ruse to ruin the wedding.
However, there was no need to be particularly vigilant. Their terror is doomed to fail even if they don’t take any countermeasures.
This time, the terror of the individual, not the majority.
Not only is he not a very dangerous warlock, but he is immediately stopped by Leonard in the original work.
Besides, I already know who he is. That’s why you should act according to the script, no, just according to the original story.
“Well······”
At my question, Jeniel raised his eyebrows. After thinking about it for a while, he opened his mouth.
“It’s almost done, but there are still some left. Actually, that’s why I called you today. I need some help from you.”
“Is there anything I can do to help with the wedding?”
I asked reflexively.
Besides guarding, Leonard has something to help with at the wedding.
What… do I have to grab the dress from the back? Or should I get a bouquet too?
Countless questions ran through my mind.
However, Jeniel did not give an easy answer. Instead, I looked at my wristwatch. I stomped my feet in time for the second hand, and when the time came, I jumped up from my seat.
“It’s time. Let’s go up now!”
He grabbed my wrist once more and led me somewhere. This time it was upstairs in the same building. I rushed up the stairs like a person who is pressed for time. Upstairs when I arrived there was a shop specializing in wedding dresses.
I stared blankly at the pure white dresses reflected through the glass doors.
“Why are you here…?”
“I haven’t decided on a dress yet. It was rather difficult.”
Jeniel brushed the side of her shy hair. Then he crossed his arms and entered the store.
“Welcome, customer.”
A bright and cheerful greeting was heard along with sophisticated incense.
The employee recognized Jeniel at once.
“uh? You’re here again, Master Jeniel.”
“yes. Now I have to pick out a real dress.”
“You said your wedding is next week, right? I hope you are perfectly fine I’ll take you inside.”
Following the guidance of the waitress, we entered a certain room. It was a dress fitting room for the bride.
“I’ll bring you the things you were worried about the other day.”
After saying that, the employee left the fitting room.
I immediately asked Jeniel.
“Why did you come here with me? What about Karios?”
“He doesn’t know much about fashion. Just looking at the way you usually wear clothes makes you much more helpful. Choose which one is pretty.”
After guarding her first love’s wedding, she had to choose a dress as well.
Isn’t this too cruel
······no,
Maybe I was too cruel to Leonard.
“·······”
I nodded silently.
Soon after, the door to the fitting room opened. An attendant brought in a hanger on wheels.
“These are the three types of dresses you were thinking about last time. The groom is also here today, so it should be easy to decide.”
“It’s fine.”
Jeniel didn’t bother denying it. I asked, pointing to the dress hanging on the hanger.
“What do you think would be pretty?”
“Well.”
I looked at the dress indifferently.
Then, regardless of my will, 「aesthetic sense」 was expressed. The three types of dress designs were analyzed in detail, and the pros and cons of each design were drawn in an instant, and they were naturally applied to Jeniel’s body type.
Jeniel is skinny. In addition, because the skeleton is thin and the style is delicate, the shoulder line falls beautifully. Therefore, an open-shoulder type dress would suit it well.
I pointed to the dress hung in the middle.
“I think this will suit you well.”
“okay? Then I’ll try it on and come. I will do this.”
“Yes, I will help you fit right away.”
Jeniel went behind the fitting curtain with the waitress. While putting on the dress, I sat in the chair set aside. I stared blankly at the floor and thought.
Dimensional teleportation magic book I found in my bedroom last week.
And Leonard’s grievances felt as he went through the episode.
No matter how hard I worked until my attack spellbook became a mop, even if I prayed on my knees in Kataracha as a child for days and days, in the end, I couldn’t master the attack magic.
The countless ridicule he had to receive and the archmage’s dream that never came true.
And even the first love that can’t come true.
I don’t have any clue yet, but maybe Leonard sent me a note saying, “Take it too, you fucking bastard.”
Wouldn’t it be revenge for the writer who wrote all these settings to let you suffer too?
It was at that time that my head was spinning with such speculation.
Cheer la la rock——
The curtains in the fitting room were drawn.
At the same time, Jeniel’s shy tone pushed through.
“What do you think?”
I looked up.
And I couldn’t say anything. I just watched in silence.
“·······”
A pure white dress illuminated under bright lights.
Her lofty white blonde hair that came down to her chest, and a perfect look befitting the setting of Gyeonggukji color.
The moment Jeniel’s image was captured in my retina, all the thoughts in my head disappeared.
It was such a distant moment.
“·······”
I couldn’t answer in the end, and silence lingered in the fitting room.
The waitress said as she pleated the dress.
“You look so good together. Normal people don’t even dare to try it because it’s a hard fit to digest, but how is it so perfect? You have a great eye for the groom.”
“Hehe, is that so? How does it look to you, Leonard?”
Jeniel, whose cheeks were flushed from the praise, looked at me. My heart fluttered at the beautiful eye smile. It seemed that the corners of his lips would rise on their own.
But… I couldn’t help but laugh.
Even if you are in front of me now, next week Karios will be standing next to you.
Because that is the decided ending of this novel.
I said it as nonchalantly as possible.
“It’s pretty, really.”
This time today is just too painful for me.
＊＊＊
shoot it- shoot it-
The sound of crashing waves. Jeniel walked on the sandy beach at sunset. I gazed at the emerald sea of the South Sea.
“·······”
Namhae came down recklessly like a deviation.
It was a place I ran to as if I was running away, as if I was escaping reality, but I liked every moment. For today, I was able to put down all the burdens of my heart, and I was able to laugh without thinking for a moment.
Thanks to only one person, Leonard.
Four trilogy- Four trilogy-
The sound of sand stepping right next to you.
Jeniel turned his head towards it. I saw Leonard’s face soaked in the sunset light. When our eyes met, I smiled innocently.
“·······”
a gentle wind blowing.
beautiful sunset.
And… to you, Leonard.
I wished this moment would last forever. I wished time would stop.
It would be nice if someone in the distant universe would allow that.
The wind blows silently, and the sun in the sky continues to set beneath the sea.
Our footsteps also continue endlessly.
Four trilogy- Four trilogy-
The world didn’t stop at anything.
Unlike the stagnant mind, it flowed somewhere without a break.
At this rate, I had to go back to reality. A place where multiple interests are intertwined.
Was it because he didn’t like it? Jeniel suddenly stopped walking. He pointed to an island at the far end of the sea.
“Leonard. Can you see the island over there?”
Leonardo stopped walking. I stared at the place where Jeniel’s fingertips were pointing.
“There is an uninhabited arrival outside the Imperial Territory. A place of freedom with no laws, no rules, no status.”
“·······”
“Isn’t it amazing? It’s not too far away, but it’s completely different from here. There are no restrictions.”
Jeniel looked at the island with slightly sad eyes.
If I ran over there, no one would find me.
You wouldn’t have to get married, you wouldn’t have to worry about your family, and you wouldn’t have to go to work at the Magic Tower every day, so you would be comfortable.
But… the sea was too wide and deep for that.
just like reality.
“Do you want to go?”
Leonard asked.
Jeniel answered right away.
“yes. very.”
“Okay.”
Then the son-in-law started to blur. Space was being cut by the rapidly spreading magic power.
A magical phenomenon that transcends the laws of physics.
The turbulence did not last even for a second.
sss
Jeniel closed his eyes.
And it floated again.
The blue sea stretched beyond the sandy beach, and a vast continent was visible where the island used to be.
It had moved to an uninhabited island in an instant.
“Wow······”
Jeniel tried to move forward. I tried to enjoy the uninhabited island with my whole body, which I had only seen from afar.
However, it was blocked by a transparent membrane and could not advance. It was the limit of 「Expedium」.
Leonard said.
“Sorry. That’s all I can do with my magic.”
A somewhat subdued voice.
On the other hand, a bright smile bloomed on Jeniel’s face. This time, it wasn’t pretense.
It was sincerity that came from the depths of the heart.
“no, that’s fine.”
I am grateful enough for being with you, for keeping a promise that could have been rude.
Jeniel smiled brightly and looked at the continent across the sea.
I enjoyed the freedom given to me for a while.
＊＊＊
same time.
Somewhere in a building in Mirvadiam.
A number of black magicians are gathered in an underground warehouse where unpleasant dampness and dirty dust are piled up. A single candle in the middle of the table was the only light in the storeroom.
Warlocks hiding like rats in the gutter.
The reason they gathered in the basement was because of a terrorist meeting.
“Do we really have to have a meeting in a place like this?”
“Recently, the empire’s security has become tighter, so there’s nothing we can do about it.”
“By the way, why doesn’t this ‘Wizek’ kid come like this?”
“That’s right. This is a meeting called by someone.”
“If the person in charge doesn’t come, I need to be able to proceed with something.”
It was a time when everyone was blaming someone.
Ki-Ik-
The door of the old warehouse opened loudly.
At the same time, a dark voice rang out.
“Here I am.”
It was Wizek, the warlock in charge of the wedding terror. Wizek stood in front of the desk with awkward steps.
Everyone looked at him at his appearance.
“So, did you come up with any good ideas while I was late? Is it enough to satisfy Luca Delos-sama?”
The current atmosphere on the side of the black magician was the worst.
Because all plans went awry.
At the engagement ceremony, he failed to commit a terror attack, and Lucardelos’ attack was thwarted by Leonard.
Warlocks who had infiltrated everywhere were arrested one by one, Kataracha’s Heize was also cut off, and Narsha’s acquisition was also temporarily suspended.
I needed something powerful.
A powerful shot to let people know that the darkness still exists.
It was a time when everyone was silent.
Wizek built Fisik- Arsenic.
“It seems like everyone is gone. But I have one thing.”
“What is that?”
“If you want to ruin a wedding, you have to ruin it properly.”
No matter how much terrorism is committed, it is enough to do the wedding again.
If the wedding hall is messed up, you can do it again elsewhere.
But if a person dies.
If either the groom or the bride is murdered, the wedding cannot take place again.
It will remain as a terrible nightmare in everyone’s memory.
“How about killing the bride? A wedding becomes a funeral. Nothing could be as shocking as that.”