267. Temporary Alliance
Aria often had such worries.
‘Did this happen in the previous episode?’
It wasn’t a side effect of regression. It’s just déjà vu or memory confusion that we all experience from time to time.
Just about that much.
That doesn’t mean that the incredibly great memories are confusing.
Did you eat this menu last time?
Who heard this joke?
Have you already taken this subject?
Very trivial and simple things like this. Types of things that are not very important and can be overlooked as we go through life.
The girl was born with the qualities of a warrior who would save her continent, but she was not the type of genius who kept all her memories neatly organized in her drawers.
There were many times when I rummaged through her memories, as if organizing tangled clothes.
And now.
– This is my paedo.
“Ah.”
Eleanor, who had suddenly become her best friend, was with her and her words were piercing her own heart.
Aria, who was lying down in the dormitory, was unable to fall asleep and sat on her bed and looked out her window.
The sky with a crescent moon was refreshingly open.
– Aria Rias, if you only pursue the peace that is immediately in front of you.
“You said that back then.”
– Get out of the way, don’t block my path with your foolishness.
Aria is calm, closes her eyes and reminisces about that time. The academy’s main building was already occupied by students who had been brainwashed by Eleanor’s propaganda.
Eleanor looked down at Aria from her rooftop and warned her with her cold voice.
– It’s to protect the kingdom. Having to sacrifice small things for big things can be called the violence of the majority.
Even though she was still young, she did not know the weight of the path she had to walk and the amount of blood that would flow beneath her feet.
– However, even though I knew everything. Avoiding sacrifice by saying it is for something small is also just violence.
– I don’t care if you call me the second coming of Herald Hazard, I can handle it even if you call me a villain who murdered my blood relatives.
She stretched out her hand and boldly declared.
– I’m going to Greypond, my brother is not fit to sit on the throne.
The students showed their determination to truly bring change to the kingdom as thunderous cheers spread out.
If Eleanor had been missed there, an army several times larger would have been gathered thanks to her resourcefulness.
It was none other than Aria who achieved early suppression.
“It’s difficult.”
Aria still remembers Eleanor’s heartbeat coming through her sword held in her own hand.
Eleanor Luden Griffin looked up at herself with her heart pierced and covered in blood.
– Hmm.
Her eyes, filled with Eleanor’s intelligence, gradually became cloudy.
– Aria Rias…… My path of defeat is blocked by you.
Eleanor, who lived solely as a royal, bows her head and speaks her honest words only at the end of her life.
– Thank you.
Aria bows her head as she dries her face. At that time, she couldn’t sleep, just like she does now, thinking that for the first time she had heard Eleanor’s true feelings.
“Ha.”
Why did she say that?
She still doesn’t understand to this day.
When I asked Deius Verdi about this, he simply replied that he was blunt and did not need to know.
Wait a minute.
“Sseu-eup, did you ask the professor this during the first session?”
Have you asked the professor for the second session yet?
Aria started to get confused.
Although she thought she should have asked while she was still there, Arya’s thoughts naturally led to Deius.
In the first round, he was always impatient.
Lying in a hospital bed, he sent himself around the continent like a chess piece.
The result.
I developed a kind of obsession that as long as I had a professor, anything was possible.
In the end, Aria was broken by the sight of Deius mixed with failure and disappointment.
So, in the second episode, he showed an obsession that bordered on distortion.
The professor in the second session was like a different person. Eventually, after solving several cases, Deius gave Arya her freedom.
From the sticky past of the previous episode and the future where we are destined to save the continent.
Complete freedom.
Aria Rias is now an ordinary girl.
The ordinary life she so desperately wanted.
But the emptiness contained within.
Funny enough, people’s greed is endless, and even in the ordinary life she had longed for, Aria still wanted something.
She wasn’t ashamed of it.
She didn’t blame herself for being greedy.
This is a greed that has persisted since her time as a warrior, not after she found freedom.
Flattered by her unchanging feelings, Aria jumped to her feet.
Open the door and go outside.
She knew it was quite late, and the housemaster was walking around outside her, but it was no wonder she bullied Aria like that.
Aria Of course, the place Rias arrived at after running down the hallway, even using her walking skills.
Boo! Pop!
Snap!
“Eleanor!”
This was Eleanor Luden Griffin’s room.
“Ommayaat!”
Eleanor is surprised as she looks at Aria who opens her door and enters. She had obviously locked the door, but Aria neatly broke her doorknob and entered.
“…… “What are you doing?”
Aria sits in her chair and looks at Eleanor, who is drawing a picture, and wonders.
It was already late, but Aria realized that Eleanor was also in deep trouble as she was not sleeping and was like this.
“Well, you’re drawing! “I drew her original hair like this when it was a bit complicated.”
What Eleanor was drawing was Aria, the man she had seen for the first time. She didn’t look like she was from a griffin, but for some reason, Aria felt a strange excitement towards that man.
“No way is this…” ….”
When her Aria asks cautiously, Eleanor responds with annoyance at the thought of her own treasure being discovered.
“It’s Kim Shin-woo.”
“…… “This is the real professor.”
Seeing Aria unable to take her eyes off her painting with her mouth wide open, Eleanor immediately blocks her painting with her body.
“Only I will see it!”
I have shared Deius’ paintings, but I have not shared Kim Shin-woo’s paintings with anyone.
This was a jewelry box for Eleanor that she could not show to anyone.
“Show me something too!”
“No! “What are you doing by suddenly visiting me?”
Two people suddenly started arguing in the early morning. In the end, Eleanor, who gave her all, won.
“I’m going to scream and call the housemaster!”
It contained a bit of an ambiguous threat, but anyway. The storm passes by as Eleanor returns the painting to the wall.
The two people face each other.
“Why did you come?”
Aria boldly shouted to Eleanor who asked her bluntly.
“You! “Can you kiss me if the professor asks you to?!”
“… ….”
Static.
Eleanor, who had been staring at her aria with her mouth open, looked at her as if her world had stopped for a few seconds and then cried out:
“Damn it!”
Rarely, harsh words poured out of Eleanor’s mouth. But otherwise, I couldn’t express my current feelings.
“Rather! I’d rather lick Deius’ shoes, you crazy b*tch! Why am I like that with you…… Ouch! Wow!”
Eleanor says she doesn’t feel well and immediately covers her mouth and pretends to vomit. In front of him, Aria boldly declares.
“I can!”
“Wow… ….”
“It’s possible! Although, it would be better to walk around the academy naked than to kiss you! But if the professor asks me to do it, I can do it!”
“… ….”
“You idiot! Why not you? “I won!”
“Hey, don’t say anything weird! There’s no way Deius would ask for something like that!”
“Ha! I’m scared because I can’t do it! “How dare you attack me with such determination!”
Aria added, “Jjolshik” And confidently crossed her arms.
When Eleanor saw that, her face blushed and she cried out.
“You can do it! Deius can do anything he wants!”
“Well, the professor won’t ask you to do something like that.”
“This is real!”
Eleanor is slowly getting tired and wondering what he is doing by suddenly visiting her. To her, Aria is bold, so she declares.
“It was like this before, but in the end, I am the one who stands in the way of your defeat!”
“…… Even before?”
I wondered what she was talking about, but Aria continued to say what she had to say.
“In the end, you will be defeated by me who came from beyond time! “When you spend your first night with your professor, put your ear to the door and be a loser!”
“hehehehe, hehehe.”
Eleanor lowered her head.
Her hands twitched as she saw Aria suddenly come and provoke her.
“Come here you b*tch!”
Immediately, the two enter the second round. The two people started hitting each other and fighting all morning.
There were times when it got a bit intense and my hands felt strong, but at some point.
The two fell to the floor, exhausted, and watched the sunrise slowly coming in through the window.
“Oh, I spent all night.”
“Si, I couldn’t sleep a wink.”
Although they were grumbling, their expressions showed a strange sense of joy.
While he was staring blankly at the ceiling, breathing heavily, Aria spoke first.
“Hey, what if?”
“Can’t I just not talk to you?”
“You rebelled.”
“Is she really crazy?”
What are you going to say in front of the princess of a country? This was not a joke; it was a remark that had nothing to say even if he was immediately taken to the execution site.
The fact that I was lying around with the princess like this in the first place felt like a death sentence.
“Different from now. “In your opinion, your brother is not qualified to be king.”
“…… “Is my body possessed by an evil spirit or something?”
At Eleanor’s muttering, Aria suddenly turns her head. She wondered how she knew, but Deius and Orpheus had previously explained to her the secret behind her royal family.
“That’s right. “That’s why he rebelled, but he was stopped by me.”
“Me? To you? “That’s funny.”
Eleanor snorts her nose. But even so, she does not listen to Aria’s story in vain.
I know that Arya and Deius have a unique relationship.
Because she often shares things she doesn’t know.
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Eleanor thought that perhaps the story Aria was talking about was of the same type.
“You got kicked.”
Actually, I had a hard time, but whatever.
Who knows that now?
“Anyway. If you were to die in such a situation…… “What do you think you will leave behind?”
Even as she spoke, Aria actually didn’t really expect her answer. No, more accurately, she knew that she could not come up with the same answer as Eleanor in the first episode.
Just personal greed.
A question that cannot be explained other than that.
“It’s really bad luck starting this morning.”
Eleanor sighs despite her frustration. The answer already appeared in her head.
“What can I say? He must be so angry because he lost to you. I’m so angry…….”
And.
“I guess I said thank you in the end.”
“… ….”
“They say the state of the kingdom is not good enough for me to cause a rebellion. I may have rebelled because of my duties as a princess, but from the perspective of a woman named Eleanor…… “No matter how bad I was, I wouldn’t have wanted to kill her brother.”
She rebelled because she was a princess.
I express my gratitude because it is Eleanor.
“Yes, I see.”
Although it felt a bit complicated, Aria smiled at her relief.
“This time, I will help you walk the path by your side.”
“Really? “You’re linking me and Deius?”
Eleanor was startled and turned her head to look at Aria. Aria smiles mischievously at her close friend.
“Instead, you help me too. “The professor and I will be connected.”
“…… “What are you talking about?”
“You idiot, how many other women are there with you, professor? Do you think we, who are still students, can be competitive one-on-one?”
“I’m a princess, so wouldn’t it be okay to start by locking me up somehow?”
Scary habits don’t go anywhere.
Aria sighed and shook her head.
“Will that break the professor’s will?”
“…… No.”
Eleanor immediately realized that this method was a shortcut to losing Deius, even though she had said so.
“First, let’s seduce the professor together. Surprisingly, the professor has a weakness for single-minded people.”
She remembers that in episode 1, she married Erica Bright, who was always with her.
“Hmm, will that work?”
“Mr., Are you just going to let go and watch? Do you want to just watch Finden Eye attack the professor? Are you just going to watch Professor Erica enjoy her first night as a newlywed?”
“…… No.”
“Right? I hate it too. I really hate it so much. “Let that world be destroyed.”
“It’s a rebellion.”
I really like rebellion.
Aria thought to herself.
“Anyway, let’s take down the professor. Unlike other kids, we are young and green. “After 10 or 20 years, we will ultimately win.”
“That’s… that’s right.”
Even though Deius is in his 40s, they are still in their 20s.
“We are forming a temporary alliance to defeat each other.”
“… ….”
Aria quietly extends her hand to Eleanor, who is contemplating with her mouth shut.
As they lay together, Eleanor eventually let out a sigh and held her hand.
“It’s really just a temporary alliance. “Just before going to bed.”
After saying that.
Eleanor turns her head again and looks at her ceiling. For some reason I didn’t feel like getting up.
“Hey.”
Is that why?
Eleanoa suddenly called Aria again.
“Why?”
Aria’s sharp answer.
“You must be coming back, right?”
Aria was unable to answer the heavy question.
In fact, I know that the chances of winning the fight against Raizer, the god of lightning, and returning alive are very slim.
From the beginning, survival could not be guaranteed no matter who we brought from this continent.
But.
“Of course.”
Such a possibility.
Aria answered firmly ignoring the question.
“That’s right.”
Eleanor closed her eyes and nodded.
After a while, the two fell asleep with quiet breathing sounds.