71. Witch Hunt (2)
“Hey Lenny. Do you know who he is?”
“I don’t know either. I’ll see you first.”
Are you a student who came here by chance? I looked down at the girl who had passed out.
Purple hair. Pale skin. Small body.
First of all, I am not a heroine. Because there was no purple-haired heroine in my memory. It may be that I simply don’t remember, but… I just can’t remember. From my experience so far, when I hear a name or see a face, I think of it roughly.
But what is this unpleasant feeling?
“Hey, try carrying it on your back. There won’t be a place to rest in the building here, so let’s ask the professor if there’s a place to lie down.”
That’s right. Since you are a patient, you have to lie down.
As Lenny said, I carefully hugged the girl who smelled like ammonia. She is light… And her hands are damp. She felt a little like that as her hand propped up her wet ass with her urine.
“Even though you look a bit nasty, it’s not to the point of fainting… Even a coward doesn’t have such a coward.”
I had no choice but to agree. Since I also have some ugly scars on my face, isn’t it too much to treat me as a monster? Karina, Lenny, and Milia didn’t say anything when they saw my face. Even though it looks a bit scary objectively, I don’t think it’s a very ugly face.
A hand came up on my shoulder, as if I had shown my emotions on my face. Of course it was Lenny. Lenny patted me on the shoulder and said.
“Don’t be too sad. Of all the men I’ve ever met, you’re the best.”
Is it embarrassing to see you stutter? I didn’t know you had such a shy personality.
“Thank you.”
“No, what. Yes.”
The hallway suddenly became quiet. All that remains is the sound of our shoes tapping on the floor. The awkward air created by Lenny and I didn’t go away until they knocked on the lab door.
“Professor Lennon! We are here!”
“Come in!”
When Lenny opened the door, the laboratory she had seen once about fifteen days ago was revealed. There didn’t seem to be much difference from then, but the box placed on one side of the lab showed a presence that could not be ignored under the bright lights.
“You have one more guest today.”
“Oh, yes. You are my successor now.”
“Huh, the successor… What a good time.”
“Do you have a place to lay someone…?”
At my words, Professor Lennon belatedly turned his gaze to the girl I was holding and let out a sigh. Judging by her reaction, she seems to be someone I know. Although it is unlikely that the people who enter and leave these buildings do not know each other.
“People? Huh… Elisa? You fell again.”
Again? Didn’t you fall down once? I looked at Professor Lennon inquiringly, and Professor Lennon gave me the answer I wanted to hear.
“You are my disciple. Because of his weak body, he often collapses. However, I was lucky this time. The other day I even got the flu from being left unattended for close to half a day. Poor thing.”
Professor Lennon looked at Elisa in my arms with complicated eyes. It is an eye mixed with complex reasons that cannot be easily read. I hadn’t met many people, but I was able to notice it because the color was distinct.
“The room at the end of the hallway to the right of this lab is the child’s room. Take me there And let me change her clothes too…”
“John, hand it over to me.”
“I will go too.”
I’m awkward by myself, so don’t leave me here. However, Lenny ignored my desperate eyes and left the lab alone.
“There is a chair there, so sit down.”
“…Do you have somewhere to wash your hands before that?”
“There must be a sink over there.”
I went straight to the sink and washed my hands thoroughly with soap that smelled like cucumber. Now the awkwardness is gone. Where’s the chair?
Oh, that’s it.
I pulled out a chair and sat down. Professor Lennon had cut his attention from me, opened the box of the cursed objects we had brought, and went back to work. Seeing as he had completely turned his attention away from me, he didn’t seem to be interested in me very much. I silently crossed my arms and leaned against the backrest, staring blankly at the ceiling.
Witch.
A witch.
Entrance Ceremony, Hell Hound Appearance, and Demon Summoning Episode.
What was the next episode? There are quite a few memorable episodes, but it was difficult to recall the exact order. If you include the main story and the sub story, it was a game that would take about 80 hours to see the ending. Of course, there were a lot of main quests as well.
The reason I was able to immediately recall the demon summoning episode was also because it was a pretty impactful episode.
The episode where the actual first bad ending branch of this game exists.
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Even though the Hell Hound appearance incident has a bad ending, it was difficult to see the bad ending unless you are a beginner because the difficulty level was close to the tutorial in the original work. In fact, so many people cleared it that the achievement rate of Team X reached close to 78%.
However, the demon summoning episode is 50% more difficult than the previous episode.
Stronger monsters, cumbersome gimmicks, and time limits. Shall we say that there are scattered elements that make clearing troublesome?
So, although it was notorious for the newbie weeding episode, it was still based on newbies. A deceased person like me remembers all the information about that episode… Uh… Come to think of it, I don’t remember much?
First of all, if you look at the big flow as you remember, it is an episode in which traces of a strange ritual are found in the school, several students go missing, and in the end, a demon is summoned through a certain student. ‘Witch’ was a word referring to a student possessed by the devil.
…If you weren’t wearing a school uniform, you’d come across them deformed and twisted to such an extent that it’s hard to determine their gender.
When the ‘witch’ she met like that is manipulated and killed, the episode ends with Karina feeling sorry for her victims. It was notorious for being a pretty bitter and unpleasant episode, so there were a lot of likes and dislikes.
So, at one time, the deceased people dug for a long time to find out the circumstances behind the episode.
However, even the deceased could not find out who the victim was who turned into a witch.
There was no information as strange as if someone had erased it.
The only information the deceased people found was that the student who became a witch did not have a good relationship with friends, and that ‘witch’ blood really flowed.
…But you have to find the witch first and get to know her?
“…There is no one like this.”
Did you give me some hints? Why do you want to make my life on the hell difficulty because it’s not enough on the hell difficulty?
It’s fine if you’ve suffered for 10 years.
f*ck life…
“Look, sleep.”
“…You mean me?”
“Who else is here besides you?”
“…That’s right.”
Why did he stop working and talk to me? Did you care that I was talking to myself? I looked at Professor Lennon questioningly, and the professor asked me, wiping his glasses with a cloth.
“Do you know about curses?”
“I don’t know.”
“Curses are a collection of intense hatred. You can curse someone only if you truly hate them. That is why, in order to use a curse, even the person himself must swallow the curse of hatred.”
Hate… Is it?
Well, unless you’re obsessed with that much, you wouldn’t even think about cursing normally.
But why are you telling me this story?
Perhaps my face showed some doubt, Professor Lennon kindly explained to me the reason for his comment.
“It’s a story that escort knights should know. It’s also a small talk to take a break.”
The topic of small talk is really professor.
“Is that so?”
“Back to the story… Hatred is fueled by curses, and curses have been taboo since time immemorial. It was not uncommon for someone to use a curse to blow off their head right away. So those who use curses hide in the shadows. The leaders of the Calon Church wanted to completely remove the curse from the world, but they failed every time.
They were as persistent as weeds. How they survived goes back hundreds of years…”
Maybe I was more thirsty for conversation than I thought. Professor Lennon’s lecture on the curse went on and on. There was so much information crammed into my ears that it was hard to keep my mind up. At this rate, it might be better to fight the Hydra again.
Lenny…Come quickly. This is a crisis I can’t get out because I’m alone!
In the end, it was Lenny, our brown-haired tanned woman, who saved me from danger. Lenny opened the door and appeared, looking at the professor and me with a puzzled face.
“Professor. I’m back. But what’s wrong with your expression?”
“…It’s just that my head hurts because it’s been a long time since I’ve taken a class.”
“Ah…”
Lenny nodded her head as if he understood my feelings. It seemed that Renido had been plagued by Professor Lenido’s sudden lecture time. Well, maybe it wasn’t just me.
“Is Elisa okay?”
“What…I just passed out, so I just washed and changed my clothes.”
“Thank you. I’m a man after all, so when that happens, I’m very embarrassed…”
It’s definitely awkward.
“…I want to see Karina-sama soon.”
“Okay. Come follow me.”
We followed Professor Lennon through the door in the corner of the lab and entered. Judging from the faint smell of medicine, it must have been a room being used as a hospital room. After a long time, I found Karina lying on a bed in one corner of the room.
Karina is sleeping like a sleeping princess.
…When will I be able to wake up?
If Karina doesn’t wake up, everything will go wrong.
“Lady Karina…”
At some point, Lenny took Karina’s hand and gently brushed the back of her hand.
“Most of the curses have been removed, and now only the core of the curse remains. It’s been delayed because the core is in the heart and can’t be easily removed, but… I’ll bet my honor to break the curse that’s eating the saintess.”
Professor Lennon’s words came from behind.
The heaviest words I’ve heard today.
Thoughts about the witch and Karina came to me randomly, so I just nodded.