207. One Month
“Hmm.”
When I came out and breathed in the laboratory air, I began to realize that I had really escaped.
Befitting the name Dream Demon, I felt like I had just had a long and painful dream.
First, I went out of the lab and tried to find a person.
Looking at the bright sun rising outside the window, I wondered if it was probably lunchtime.
‘The days are warmer than I thought.’
It was the end of January when I entered the Nightmare War. It was still the time when the spring cold was rampant, but now it is not colder than back then.
‘No way.’
The moment you try to go outside while ignoring the rising anxiety.
Kikik.
“So, first of all, I put in an inquiry to Claren City Hall. Just in case.”
“Good job. I’m releasing the connections I know.”
The lab door opens, and Owen, a pianist boy, and Per Petra, a woman with shaggy pink hair, enter.
Even though it had only been five days, a good feeling toward the two raised its head in my heart.
“It’s been a while.”
Since they are calm, let’s say hello to the two of them.
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
The two showed exactly the same reaction. Professor Petra dropped the bag of bread she was holding in her hand as if she was about to eat it for lunch.
On top of that, Owen’s sheet music book, which Owen always carries, is scattered.
And.
“Meet the spirits!”
“Professor Deius, I’m here!”
The two threw their bodies at me.
If they hadn’t strengthened their thighs and soles with mana before their rush hit, they would have passed.
I frowned as I looked down at the two people hugging me tightly from both sides.
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“What are you doing?”
Looking at the reaction, I can see that more than five days have passed.
Thank you for being nice to me, but I didn’t really like this kind of skin-to-skin contact.
“Wow! You are a true lord! That scary look!”
“Eerie tone! A bone-chilling voice! You are the real Professor Deius! Wow wow! You’re back!”
But even though they saw my displeased reaction, they rather like it even more while running around.
It seemed like the two of them needed some time to calm down.
* * *
“One month.”
If it’s short, it’s short, but if it’s long, it’s a long time. While I was in the nightmare, the end of January had become the end of February before I knew it, and it was the time when the cold gradually receded.
‘I don’t like it until the end.’
It was the moment when the goal of emotion toward the devil named Learic deepened once again.
Just as in a dream, no matter how long a time is, it is no different from an instant.
I thought that the five days I had spent had passed helplessly.
“That’s why everyone went crazy trying to find the memorial service commander.”
“Right. Professor Erica also passed away at her parents’ house.”
“… ….”
I can breathe deeply.
The fact that the academy is still in the middle of winter vacation is probably a good thing.
But at the same time, a person who seemed to make a pretty extreme choice immediately came to mind.
“What about Finden Eye?”
Now that I’m gone, I was naturally worried about what she might be up to.
It’s not Findenai, but the innocent people who are being swayed by her.
The two of them, who had just answered right away, couldn’t come up with a straight answer this time.
Is something wrong?
Has something really happened to Finden Eye?
Anxiety creeps up in my chest.
It was Professor Perr who finally opened his mouth to my urging gaze.
“That, Professor. It would be nice if you could listen a little more calmly.”
“Isn’t the spirit commander always calm?”
Owen sneakily added a word from the side. Professor Perr scratched the back of his head, saying that’s for sure, and took a deep breath to calm himself.
“Whoa, I mean. A lot has happened in the month that Professor Dayus disappeared.”
As far as the game goes, I know there is no big threat this vacation. However, it was a continent that was already on a completely different route from the game.
I was wondering if Dante had moved because he knew I was away.
What Professor Ferrer said was very unexpected.
“He has a person who claims to be the real memorial serviceman.”
“A real memorial service?”
At least this time, I needed to pause a little and ponder the words. So it meant that someone else was referring to the memorial service.
“Professor Deius uses black magic to show false illusions to comfort the soul… ….”
Swallowing a gulp, he sneakily looks at me.
It’s okay, so go ahead and say it. Let’s wink at him, Per continues talking.
“He claims to be a true soul healer and guide to the gods.”
“That is absurd.”
The only thing left for the dead is rest or extinction. There is only one of them.
Heaven or Hell, or the Reincarnation of the Six Paths.
There is no such thing.
I couldn’t know it in the previous world, but at least I could definitely say that it didn’t exist on this continent.
By the way, does it say that it leads souls to God?
“You are a cheater.”
At first, it was a little interesting, but I thought it was a joke to the point of being ridiculous. Because such people usually trip on my feet and fall.
But looking at Fer and Owen’s expressions, they were telling me that it wasn’t something to be taken lightly.
“Actually, people in the kingdom keep saying that we should appoint him as the new memorial service.”
“Poetry, even demonstrations. When I go out to the city, it hangs with a banner.”
“… ….”
Let’s get rid of me, who was chosen by King Orpheus himself, and appoint someone else as a memorial service?
It could have been seen as an act of directly challenging the king’s authority.
“It’s because I’m not here.”
The answer comes out with a sigh.
In the end, it must have been because I wasn’t there that they were able to move so actively.
“While criticizing and slandering the professor, if you have something to refute, come out…… That’s what I was talking about.”
But without me, they must have naturally run away.
“Ta, bad timing! I was out of luck!”
Owen said, making her fuss. Can we really dismiss this as being unlucky and move on?
Because you know I don’t exist.
To be precise, since he knew that I was in a nightmare, I wondered if he had done something radical like this.
At the same time, a man’s name comes to mind.
“Is the name of the man who refers to himself as a spirit warrior Mule?”
He is the one who summoned Romuleus, who lived in Room 109 and ate the Nightmare.
A man who killed himself by asking me to see him outside.
The two nodded their heads in surprise at my question.
“Yes! Yes that’s right!”
“Uh, how did you know?!”
“Whoa.”
I want to ask.
The mules in the dream show were fake. But he acted like he knew he was fake.
I don’t know what trick he played.
I felt like I was standing on the opposite side of a very intrusive being.
“The religious world is also taking that side. From the beginning, the professor…… It made me uncomfortable, too, because the fakes are nominally acting in the name of God.”
You’re right in the religious world. You must have helped Mule.
“At least, the saintess is blocking it, saying it was a hasty judgment!”
“Lucia… ….”
I thought of this and that, but anyway. First of all, it was necessary to return the words to the original subject.
I was asking where Finden Eye had disappeared.
The answer came naturally.
“…… No way.”
As he looked at the two of them with his fists clenched, Professor Ferr spit out words quickly while avoiding his gaze.
“Ta, the timing is so good. This, this poem, these bastards must have done something to the owner…… He cried out and left.”
“Whoa.”
Professor Per trembled, as if he wasn’t used to saying harsh words.
But Owen added that it didn’t end there.
“The Verdi family in North Sweden are also moving along. Everyone is very angry…….”
“Darius and Deia.”
Understand the mind.
Thank you, but.
“I feel dizzy.”
Dizzy was dizzy.
“Eh, just! Membrane! Just before the head split! He said he would find out even if he didn’t know, and he wielded an axe!”
Professor Per, who pretends to hold an ax with both hands and wields it around, probably reminds me of Finden Eye, who once caused a mess in the lab.
“Yes, I got it.”
I heard enough of the explanation.
First of all, it was necessary to contact the royal family and inform them of my return.
“Let’s go to the dean’s office.”
There must be a way to contact them separately.
They both looked curious about where I had been, but they knew I was in a hurry, so they didn’t bother to catch me.
Leave the two of them in the lab like that.
Walking through an empty hallway, the approaching spring breeze gently creeps in through the window.
[Huh?]
At the end of the hallway.
My eyes meet the woman with purple eyes wearing a black robe.
Her eyes were still covered with a translucent black cloth.
Comparing now to when I was 18, I could clearly see a more mature side from my body shape and atmosphere.
[De, De, Deus?!]
She calls my name with her fuss and comes running, startled by her.
[Lord, isn’t it dead? Didn’t you go into rest?! You’re alive, right!]
“Yes.”
Seeing her making a fuss about her, a soft smile forms involuntarily.
She wanted to say nice, but she didn’t quite get it out of her tongue.
[Deus!]
In her own way, she welcomed the black priest running towards me with tears welling up on her face.
“Long time no see, Jenny.”
[Foowaaaaa!]
Even though it can fly because it is a soul.
Seeing her slip and fall down the hallway, I forgot the current situation and laughed out loud.
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