I Became The Academy Necromancer chapter 192

192. Claire’s General Store

What was the standard in the end?

I couldn’t figure it out clearly.

Just to guess, she thought that Ophelia herself truly loved her, and she also wondered if the execution would begin if she judged herself that the love had cooled.

In the end, creating a situation where Ophelia immediately abandons her narcissism, even for a moment.

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That was exactly how I summoned my daughter, and it worked just fine.

My daughter didn’t say anything.

She remained in a pitch-black form, slowly approaching her own mother with only her red eyes shining.

“Sa, save me! Help me!”

Ophelia screams as she approaches her daughter.

I was driven by the urge to leave it alone, but the reason I called her daughter was not to kill Ophelia.

“Do you know anything about the Claire General Store?”

She asked the back of her daughter’s head calmly. But her daughter showed no reaction.

“After.”

I didn’t want to do this to my daughter, the victim.

Black chains rise from the floor and from the table, binding both of her daughter’s hands.

It was a skill often used when dealing with evil spirits with a technique named the chain of the necromancer.

[…] ….]

My daughter’s neck is gradually turning.

After turning 180 degrees like that, the girl finally looked at me from behind.

It’s hard to even call her a girl.

Only the pupils were congested with red in a form simply painted black.

As I said before, the shape of the soul comes from the mind and will.

For example, Stella, who lost her eyes, left hand, and lower body, is fine in her soul state.

In the end, if you can keep your spirit intact, you may not have to take the wounds of your body to your soul.

But in most cases, the wounds sustained in life were passed over even in the soul state.

The reverse situation is also applicable.

“I’m sorry.”

I couldn’t help but apologize when I saw a girl who had scars she didn’t wear in her present life, but still had them in her soul.

How painful and how painful it must have been to destroy his soul so much that he couldn’t even recognize its shape.

Did you hear my apology?

The girl who kept twitching her hands as she let her chains loose came to a halt.

The girl’s already ruined soul gradually calmed down, so she waited for my words.

“Can you answer my question from now on?”

[…] … Why?]

A sound that gives goosebumps just to hear, like scratching a blackboard. I wondered if this kind of voice would come out after my throat was burned.

I knew that the questions to be asked from now on would be painful memories for a little girl, so I asked carefully but firmly.

“It is to avoid making victims like you. And.”

[…] ….]

“To avenge you.”

Her red eyes trembled for a moment, so the girl clenched her fists and gave her a courageous nod.

After receiving permission, I first asked the most background question.

“Claire General Store. You know that?”

[…] … Yes.]

The girl’s body trembles as if she is afraid just thinking about it.

At the same time, the sound of the chains that were restraining her hands was heard.

I reached out and sent the chains back to mana to set them free, then continued my question.

“Who was the owner of that place?”

The Claire I knew was a short, lively man who at first glance seemed like a child.

As for his characteristic, his nose was on the large side.

[Tall man.]

‘As expected.’

I thought he was a different person from the Claire I knew, but the answer was incomplete.

[Scary woman.]

‘Two?’

[Little child.]

“… ….”

[An old man with a strange voice, a man with a twisted hand, a woman without one eye, a scary-looking man, a big man…….]

Answers keep pouring in.

I wondered if there was some kind of unspeakable magic about the grocery store, but when I checked, it wasn’t.

Indeed, the girl was listing the owners of the general store she had seen.

“That’s it.”

[…] ….]

If you think simply, there really can’t be that many people playing the role of general store owners.

‘Perhaps she’s changing her face.’

This is a common trick.

It must be his own determination not to reveal his true identity.

“What did you do to that owner?”

[Ah.]

At my point, the girl said that she stiffened as if she had been beaten somewhere, and then she squatted down and began to tremble.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to say it, but from the fact that he suffers from thinking about it, I can understand why this child’s soul has changed in this way.

‘It gave her mental pain to the extent that even the outer appearance of her soul was damaged.’

Or it could have been dealing with necromancy or something that actually damaged the soul.

“Sorry, forget this question.”

I put my hand on her shoulder and try to soothe her.

However, the moment I put my hand on her, the thread that builds the child flows into me.

It starts to stretch out and wraps itself around my hand, then cuts it off with a bang.

“This.”

The thin thread that had come off from her body was trying to go back to the child.

And I realize that this is the way to get to the Claire General Store that this kid gave me.

Since her soul itself was sold and belonged to the Claire General Store, she meant that if she went back, the thin thread in my hand would guide the way.

“Thank you.”

I can’t give you rest right away. But I can’t leave this child outside like this.

I needed to go back to the general store to save this child.

For that.

My eyes calmly settle on Ophelia.

At the same time, her child’s neck turns back to her original direction and glares at her.

“Turn it off! Shut up, monster!”

I didn’t bother to ask what the child was feeling. After all, she herself was sold to the Claire’s General Store and needed to complete a given task.

“I guess I can say it’s fortunate.”

“What, what?!”

She calmly responded to Ophelia who asked me what was good about her.

“If this child goes back to the Claire General Store, I will find it and rescue him.”

“Well then, tell them to go back quickly!”

“But the child cannot return unless he takes your life.”

Because the contract hasn’t been fulfilled yet.

Leaving Ophelia, who was momentarily contemplative, I took out one of the bottles that came into my hand.

A bottle of cold sake that had been soaked in ice. When I opened the drink, a faint smoke flowed out, and I poured it into a glass.

At least, it seemed that the bitter sight would be less regrettable if alcohol was wet on the tongue.

The parents who sold their daughters without hesitation.

In the same way, he is killed by the touch of a child without hesitation.

“I don’t like it!”

Soooooh!

The shape of her daughter unwinds like a skein and pours into Ophelia’s eyes, nose and mouth.

Then she took Ophelia’s soul and put it inside her own body.

Is it because it was that way that only the soul disappeared without any trauma?

Maybe things that turned out to be accidental deaths were like that, but unfortunately things happened after death in a way that the body was unlucky.

It wasn’t a very nice sight.

Whether you wanted it or not.

Even if it’s revenge, it’s a situation where her daughter stole her mother’s soul.

But at least.

“Be content with the fact that your death is an opportunity for her daughter to rest.”

I don’t know if you’ll be satisfied with finding the Claire General Store and rescuing the soul of the daughter who was sold there.

That was the only thing I could do for mother and daughter.

Quang!

Then the door breaks down and the waiters come inside. There are so many incidents in a store like this that men who use their fists pour in behind the store owner, Porten.

“What is it?”

After I came in, I saw that I was standing there, not drunk, and Ophelia was sprawled on her floor, and I asked in bewilderment.

Without much thought, I answered.

“He suddenly collapsed. It’s a heart attack.”

Perhaps you, too, answered the death you gave me in this way.

It wasn’t a very pleasant feeling.

* * *

“Quaaang!”

Aria, who has been gathering firewood in the chilly cold that should still be called winter, roars as if complaining.

My hometown returned after almost a year.

Not only did I help my parents, but I also piled firewood for the elderly in the village.

For some reason, he kept trying to give me something as a reward for doing things as a favor, but I sternly refused, saying it wasn’t necessary.

“Why are you screaming? You said you would help.”

As Arya’s mother scolds her, Arya pouts her lips.

“It’s not because of this. I want to go back to the academy as soon as possible.”

“Hmm? Isn’t it usually said that vacation is better?”

“I am not.”

She picks up some firewood that fell on the floor while she was putting it down, and Aria, who has piled them up, stretches her.

“Hmmm! What’s for dinner tonight?”

“Stew. It’s a healthy stew with lots of broccoli.”

“…… I’m going to catch the wild boar I saw earlier.”

It wasn’t strange that wild boars, who were running out of food because it was winter, attacked humans, but rather they ran away when they saw Arya.

He must have realized that he shouldn’t attack with his animalistic senses. Sometimes I thought that animals are wiser than humans.

“Mom will go first and heat up the stew, so stack the pho on top and come. Don’t let the snow come and get the firewood wet.”

“Okay.”

After covering the firewood in the center of the village with a big gun on top so that those who need it can take it, Arya goes home again.

How long does it take for her to spend her vacation as an ordinary schoolgirl like this?

With that thought in mind, Aria hummed as she headed home.

“Hmm?”

A small cabin where she lives with her family.

Beside the door leading inside, there was another door attached to it.

“What?”

It’s definitely a door that didn’t exist until this morning.

A luxurious atmosphere in purple, with nameplates hanging loosely in front of it.

– Claire General Store.

“Claire General Store?”

Thinking that she’s heard of it somewhere, Arya tilts her head in front of him for a while, contemplating, then claps.

“aaa! It’s a secret shop!”

A shop run by a merchant named Claire who travels all over the continent.

Originally, she met her once in the first year, but she didn’t know anything about Aria in the first round, so she just passed her by and we haven’t met her since.

She didn’t have time to stop by because she was busy again in the second episode.

“I had bad luck in the first playthrough.”

In the first playthrough, Deus even told him what to do when he saw the Claire General Store, but unfortunately he never met the General Store.

“Use it, but if you set up a store like this next to someone else’s door, you can use it.”

I heard that the shop owner is a nice person but has a weak spirit, so I thought I could use this as a bargaining chip.

She goes into the house and grabs a heavy purse of adventure slush funds hidden under the bed, then goes straight to the Claire General Store.

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Kikiiik.

“…… Hmm?”

The dark interior gave me an unpleasant feeling from the moment I stepped into the store.

Did you originally say it was a place like this?

I had such a question, but I headed inside first.

But the more she did, the more Arya became convinced that there was something strange about this place.

‘I feel bad for my energy?’

I can’t exactly explain it, but I felt the eerie feeling of dozens of pupils staring at me in the darkness of the store.

In addition, the stalls where the products were supposed to be displayed were not placed, and only dust was piled up.

The end.

A man sitting at the counter.

I couldn’t see his face because it was covered in darkness, but his white gloved hand was as clear as it was, so I could see it.

“Welcome to the Claire General Store.”

“… ….”

It’s suspicious, but in this situation where you don’t know anything, it’s a bad idea to argue.

Arya looked around and asked.

“You don’t have anything?”

“We ran out of stock.”

“… ….”

I’m about to say that I think I’ve left the stalls empty for too long to say that, but I turn my horse the other way.

“Then what do you sell?”

Aria asked with a tilt, and for some reason, the corner of the woman’s mouth in the dark felt like it was tearing.

‘Woman?’

No, a man who has become a woman.

Arya concentrates her mind on the strange aura that secretly flows through her ears.

Unbeknownst to you, a man becomes a woman. The woman had become an old woman.

As far as the hand in the pure white glove, he still picked up an object from the spot.

“I have prepared something customized for you.”

You know who I am.

At the old man’s words mixed with her wild laugh, Arya suppressed her irritation and confirmed what was in her hand.

“…… Uh?”

What she held in her hand was a small ‘soul’.

It also has the appearance of a soul that she knows very well.

Unknowingly, Aria felt her lips quiver. She has lived as a warrior and has had many experiences, but this was her first such bizarre and fearful experience.

It stabbed like tacks had been driven into the soles of her feet, and it was so tight that she couldn’t breathe properly.

Her feelings, which she thought were well buried, were sprouting from her heart like a new sprout.

“That’s a joke.”

The moment Arya saw the spirit, she instinctively recognized who he was.

The shop owner dared to put the product name in her mouth.

“This is the soul of Kim Shin-woo in the first playthrough.”