155 – Ice melts (2)
“You bastard…”
“…!”
Kasha hurriedly blocked Ceylon’s way.
In an instant, the inside of the screening room became the polar opposite of the cold.
Meloin’s chilling rage froze everything except Kasha and Ceylon.
As if an ice sheet was cracking – there was a crackling sound, and then a tall, long-haired beauty carved from black ice appeared above Meloin.
“Lishia…”
It was another reason why Meloin was the ideal Hanahan.
The incarnation of Lysia, the Great Ice Spirit who shared her contract with Meloin, manifested in anger at the insult that her Meloin had been insulted.
“You’ll have to choose your words carefully from now on, Ceylon. What did you mean by what you just said?”
“Oops, I was just saying this to clear up a misunderstanding between the two of you. I guess I made a mistake again. It’s embarrassing, really. I just hope that there is no seriousness in the cadet qualifications.”
Ceylon seemed to be talking nonsense like usual, but she laughed meaningfully.
“Sir Meloin. I didn’t mean much. I didn’t mean to insult you, much less. I just told you what I heard from him.”
“Oh-“
Ceylon grabbed Katya’s left hand and released her clenched fist.
The white marble ring that had been tightly hidden inside was revealed.
“…You talk nonsense.”
Meloin’s composure was disturbed.
“My dear, do not listen to the words of insignificant beings.”
Lycia stroked Meloin’s chin and glared at her Ceylon.
“Did he… Say that Kasha is better at black magic than I am, and she said that with her own mouth…!”
“My dear!”
Meloin shook off Lycia’s arm.
Clang!
“…!”
Licia’s long icy arms shattered and scattered.
It was restored as if the scattered pieces were being led straight away, but-
The expression of shock on her black and transparent face did not return to its original state.
“…”
Lycia looked at Meloin for a while with her mixed feelings, then she turned her back on him.
Then she disappeared. The temperature in the place rose again.
Meloin didn’t care.
“Tell me, Ceylon. If what you just said is a bit of a lie or exaggeration-“
“It is true, Sir Meloin.”
“Bullsh*t!”
“…”
Kasha was embarrassed.
She was completely unfamiliar with the existence before her own eyes.
Is that person who shows all kinds of emotions really the person he knows?
“Miss Kasha?”
“Uh. Huh!?”
“Excuse me for a second.”
Ceylon picked up the white marble ring on Kasha’s hand and put it on her finger.
“Now, hold on-“
The moment when Kasha blushed at her shame for no reason.
“Uh…?”
Kasha felt a strange sensation coming from her ring.
Before Kasha could ask why, Ceylon put her index finger to her lips with her meaningful smile, and she cut her off.
After taking a letter from her bosom, she approached Meloin and handed it to him.
“…”
Even if Ceylon didn’t say anything, Meloin hurriedly snatched the letter and studied it closely.
“This is-“
It was different from the letter that Paraden asked for, but at least it was the same in that the letter was protected by a black magic barrier.
Just. The level of power contained within the barrier was terrible. Should I give it at least 4 stars?
Meloin immediately tried to break her barrier with a laugh that she was ridiculous.
“…?”
But it’s strange.
“This is-“
Meloin’s analysis was not wrong. Obviously, the level of power contained within the barrier was poor.
But-
“…”
Meloin had a terrible headache and missed her letter.
It was at this moment that she infused mana into her letter to destroy the structure.
“What the hell is this…”
The structure of the barrier was extremely difficult. Although she had seen countless black magic barriers like Meloin, she had never seen such an elaborate black magic barrier.
She was only a 4-star black magic barrier, but she knew that she would have to spend a lot of time and effort to destroy this barrier.
“…That’s interesting.”
Meloin’s corner of her mouth was slightly torn. He realized that this letter was a test given by Ronin.
“Five hours- no, I’ll try to destroy it in three hours.
As Meloin confidently declared, Ceylon picked up the letter that Meloin had dropped and put it in Kasha’s hand.
Before Meloin could even ask what he was doing, Ceylon put her index finger to her lips again with a meaningful smile and cut him off.
“Miss Kasha? Do you want to destroy the black magic barrier attached to this letter?”
Kasha opened her mouth in embarrassment.
“I-“
Kasha was born with one lineage and despite constant efforts, she was only able to achieve two stars.
There was no way that she would have had the opportunity to devote her attention to anti-dark magic, and she would not have been gifted with the skills of anti-dark magic, which was unfamiliar and more difficult than cold magic.
She tried to say that she couldn’t.
“Miss Kasha can do it.”
I heard his encouragement at that time.
“…”
She involuntarily smiled with shy joy.
This is it. Right now at this moment. She herself was definitely Kasha, not a mutant of Hana Han.
“Okay.”
Kasha resolutely bolstered her courage. She
She worked on breaking the barrier.
“Ugh-“
She felt hesitation and fear that far outweighed her resolute courage.
Magic.
Kasha was more desperate than anyone else. She worked harder than anyone else.
Even more than melodrama.
But, as expected, Meloin made her best achievements in magic.
Kasha couldn’t achieve anything in magic as it was natural.
Just because I was born that way.
That injustice. An unjust environment that forces you to overcome that injustice.
Kasha’s life has been a struggle against injustice.
“…?”
That’s why she was a very strange sensation to Kasha.
It was definitely magic.
And I didn’t want to.
She didn’t even try.
However, as soon as Kasha got to work on the letter, she came to a realization as if it were natural.
When it comes to her magic, Kasha has been a victim of injustice all her life.
Now.
Kasha became the first beneficiary of injustice.
Like Meloin.
Like Meloin acquired the qualities of a wizard just by being born.
As for Kasha, it was only because she wore the White Marble Ring that she acquired the qualities of great dark magic.
Ceylon.
It was her that he passed on her great dark magic qualities to her through the token she left on her ring.
Great black magic was also possible because it was a part of black magic in a big way.
“What is this…”
It was bleak.
It was the feeling I felt every time Kasha treated her magic.
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For example, if magic is to create furniture.
Everything was given to Meloin.
Materials for furniture and all the tools to process them.
On the other hand, nothing was given to Kasha.
The materials for the furniture and the tools to process it.
For the first time. Materials and tools were given to Kasha.
We now have the means to properly deliver to our goals without wasting our will and effort.
“Ha ha ha…”
Kasha’s eyes, working on the barrier, shone like a child getting a toy for the first time.
Looking at Kasha, Ceylon’s expression was both anticipation and worry.
The amount of water in the cup he gave to Kasha.
It was equal to the amount of water in Meloin’s cup.
They set the stage for Kasha to compete with Meloin on equal terms.
Of course. The equality may not be perfect, but-
At least, she would be more equal than the circumstances she experienced in Kasha, who was forced to produce the same results as Meloin even though she didn’t put any water in the cup.
Time passed in suffocating silence.
Around the time when the distance the minute and hour hands of a watch have moved past one hour reaches two hours.
“Oh.”
The sealing wax on the letter has come undone. The barrier is broken.
-Rumble!
Meloin, who was sitting in the seat, came to Kasha as if running out and snatched her letter.
“What have you done!”
Meloin shouted at Kasha, her eyes glinting.
No matter how hard she tried to imagine, there was no picture of herself destroying the barrier faster than Kasha.
“I-“
Kasha couldn’t answer otherwise.
I think I outperformed Meloin in magic?
She couldn’t even believe it herself. As Meloin said, she wondered if there was ‘something’.
“Lord Meloin already knows, but she asked, so I have to answer. Miss Kasha broke the barrier.”
But Ceylon says there is no such thing as ‘something’, and that Kasha is the result of being superior to Meloin.
“Everyone, you talk nonsense.”
Melloine gave a cold smile. It was a very precarious form.
“Surely, it must have been concocted beforehand to humiliate me. Do you want me to fall for a trick like that? And- do you think I’ll get over it after being insulted like this?”
“What? Sir Meloin? How- you don’t look happy at all?”
This is strange.
Ceylon gave the most mischievous smile.
“Miss Kasha proved why she is a Hanahan by demonstrating the qualities of great black magic that goes beyond Lord Meloin. Shouldn’t it be something to be happy about?”
“That’s-…!”
Meloin took her words very hard.
“That’s not his ability! It’s not his achievement!!! He hasn’t done anything!!!”
“Hmm. That makes sense. By the way, with that logic, what happened to Miss Kasha being persecuted for being a mutant of Hanahan?”
“…What?”
“If it’s because Miss Kasha didn’t do anything, if it’s not Miss Kasha’s achievement. Isn’t it supposed to be Miss Kasha’s fault that she didn’t have the qualities of a wizard and walked the path of the sword?”
“…!”
Meloin looked like she had been hit on the back of the head.
The injustice Meloin is feeling right now.
It was something Kasha had been through all her life.
And it was none other than Meloin and Hanahan who forced her to do that injustice.
“Oh.”
A lament with many things.
“hahahahaha!!!”
Continued the madness.
“How instructive! These trivial things go to great lengths to humiliate me. How likely was I to play in such an insignificant skit!”
It seemed that Meloin was determined not to accept this situation.
“Ha ha. A trivial skit of trivial things.”
Ceylon faced such a meloin.
Ceylon is her Kasha’s Ceylon is standing in front of her and standing with her back.
He revealed the pupils hidden under the eyelids in a place where Katya couldn’t see them.
“…!!!”
At some point, Meloin was under the night sky.
And a pair of yellowish moons were rising in the night sky.
The moon rolled away-
A pair of golden arrowheads were pointed at Meloin.
It was the eye of a reptile, not the moon.
A night sky like an abyss-
The eyes of a very gigantic and mighty being that cannot contain even the endless void located on the other side.
Those eyes turned to Meloin.
“You-“
Meloin realized the identity of the snake.
It was a ronin.
He looked at himself through her Ceylon.
“Ah…”
A trivial skit of trivial things.
Meloin felt the words she had uttered come back to her.
The huge ice inside him was melting.
***
Ceylon’s face could not be seen from Kasha’s point of view.
Instead, I could see Meloin’s face facing Ceylon.
Meloin’s eyes and mouth were wide open.
And what the hell are you looking at-
His pupils lost focus and light and shook mercilessly.
As if being sucked into something.
“It must be heartbreaking to hear of people who have prepared diligently. Now, let’s try it. A delightful rebellion.”
It was the moment when Ceylon, whose voice felt eerie for some reason, had finished speaking.
Puffed up.
Meloin, her legs weak, fell behind her and smacked her on the buttock.
“Ha ha ha…”
A dejected laugh escaped from Meloin’s mouth.
“Ha ha ha!”
Ceylon laughed cheerfully in response.
“Lord Meloin must have been quite happy that Miss Kasha showed her superior black magic qualities and proved why she was a Hanahan! Come on- Miss Kasha let’s laugh together! Ha~ Nahanhanhanhan one!”
“…”
Kasha, of course, couldn’t match Ceylon’s terrible laughter.
She was still bewildered.
“I really-“
You beat Meloin Hanahan in magic?
Meloin- Achieved an achievement that Han Han had no choice but to acknowledge?
I couldn’t believe it.
But Meloin is smiling dejectedly-
If Kasha of the past had seen her, she would have mistaken her for someone other than Meloine, that shabby figure-
He helped Kasha understand.
“That’s…”
That melodrama, Hanahan?
This moment.
The absolute emotion that Kasha had in her heart because of her Meloin and Hana Han-
The huge ice melted.
“Ha, ha ha.”
Kasha let out a leaky laugh.
I was so refreshed, relieved, and happy.
However, I did not know what words to express those feelings.
–
Her Ceylon muttered something to her.
“Ha ha ha ha ha!”
Kasha burst into a very honest and bright smile, unlike her usual cynical sneer.
Kasha After holding her stomach and laughing like that for a while.
Toward Meloin, he smiled mischievously, resembling a Ceylon, and spat out playfully.
“An inferior thing.”
[Achievement cleared!]
[Achievement: Ice, Melt]
“…”
Meloin lowered her head helplessly.
[Achievement cleared!]
[Achievement: Melted Ice]