73. Witch Hunt (4)
“Come on, don’t be afraid to tell me. What did you come for?”
Leni asked Elisa in a soft voice, as if soothing a child. Elisa must have been relieved that I was deliberately far away from her, so she slowly started bringing up her own business.
“That, that… this, this…”
Elisa pulled out a small box from her chest and held it out to Lenny. Lenny carefully took her box from Elisa and opened it. I couldn’t see her contents because of the lid, but the change in Lenny’s expression on her seemed dangerous. Lenny, who closed the lid with a snap, looked at Elisa and asked.
“Where did you get this? No, is it better?”
“That, it was found in a classroom near the cafeteria…”
Faculty of Magic? Faculty of Magic?
“Lenny, show it to me too.”
“What?”
“Quickly!”
Waiting time is not worth it. I walked right over to Lenny and checked the contents of her box. Chris? It looked like a model imitating the shape of a dagger with an impressive winding blade. The blade, about the size of a key holder, was scattering an ominous light at first sight. I left it outright.
Huh. Still, it’s not very conscientious, is it?
To throw hints like this.
I don’t know who the bastard possessed me, but it didn’t seem like he was going to leave me alone in an empty field. What Elisa brought was a small model knife that was left at the place where the missing people were last seen during the demon summoning incident. Did you say that all the text in the game is a kind of show-off, according to the ancient figures who searched and analyzed all the text?
A self-promotion that you guys can’t catch me even if I do this.
But I really couldn’t stop it in the story of the game. So I was very embarrassed. In the end, the witch caught by the player was like an apprenticeship after work was over.
Is it possible to solve something that couldn’t be properly solved in the game? No save and load?
“Where did you find this?”
Where was the first discovery? If my memory serves me right, the first missing was the Faculty of Magic-
“Poem, I went to the lecture room near the cafeteria because I felt a burning energy, but it was in the corner…Heh… heck….”
“Are you okay? Come on, take a deep breath. One, two, one, two…”
Isn’t it…? No, it certainly wasn’t near the restaurant. Because it was a lecture room used by the liberal arts department. Cancel the word no conscience. I don’t know who made the true ending, but it seems that my conscience was abandoned in the old evening.
They subtly let it go back to the happy circuit and then take it away. Is this hope torture?
A pup like a dog.
“John. Why are you not like you? Elisha is scared, so stay 10 meters away again.”
“I got it.”
“I think John is being punished!”
From noble mtl dot com.
Don’t talk about such sad things. I turned Millia’s head to the side, who was leaning side by side with me, and listened to their conversation.
“I know you found such an ominous object. But why did you bring it to us? Can’t you report it to the academy guards?”
Lenny’s words were the right theory. A guard in charge of not only Calon Academy, but also the city of Calon. There is a security force that is composed of elites who are recognized even on the continent, so why did you come to us? If I left it to those guys, it would have been easily solved?
…No.
Even in the original work, I don’t know if the guards were dereliction of duty or they were purely incompetent, but they couldn’t catch the guy who made the witch.
“That, that… I talked to the guards, but they said that they were going to be pushed back because there was not enough people to investigate because there was an incident outside Calon…..He told me to talk…”
An incident happened on the outskirts of town? Did the incident happen during this time? My memory is fuzzy. In the first place, it was a situation close to a miracle that I remembered this much, so I didn’t even know that I couldn’t remember the small things at all. Still, if it was a big incident, there would have been something that vaguely came to mind.
Perhaps the plot twisted during the Hell Hound incident changed with the butterfly effect.
“So they came to us…”
Lenny tapped her desk with her fingers and bowed her head. She seemed lost in thought. She must be thinking how to deal with this. She felt embarrassed to reject it, and when she accepted it, she seemed to be worried because it was ambiguous to raise the question since it was not our responsibility in the first place. But I have to intervene somehow in this case.
Because I have to become friends with the witch.
I don’t know why you’re asking me to be close. Like in the original story, “Is it too late…”? Is the person behind it related to True Ending?
No. Let’s stop thinking for a moment. Because convincing Lenny is more important now.
“Lenny. Let us solve this case.”
“We? Suddenly? We have to take care of Karina. We are Karina-sama’s escort knights.”
“I haven’t woken up yet, so I have time to look away. And I think… isn’t it strange that things happen at this timing, coincidentally?”
At my words, Leni put her arms around her and closed her eyes for a moment, then she opened them and she nodded.
“I heard and saw it. Coincidentally, when the guards vacated the academy, such a strange object fell? Even at first glance, something like a curse is attached to it?”
“That, so I, I also thought it was strange…”
“Then you investigate with Elisarang. I’ll just talk to the guards and do the work.”
Fortunately, Lenny seems to have been persuaded by my words. Things could have gone terribly wrong if Lenny didn’t allow it. Milia, who was listening next to her, suddenly shouted as if she couldn’t stay still.
“I’ll help too!”
“…How can I help?”
“Uh… I’m good at finding stuff!”
“It could be dangerous.”
“It’s okay! If I am in danger, I will run away right away!”
Can you escape… Me? I don’t know if I’ll be able to escape well in case of emergency. Did I even put on a skeptical face?
“Because I won’t worry about you. I want to help too…”
Millia grabbed my sleeve and looked up with her wet eyes.
Ah, don’t look at me like that. Your heart is weak
“…If I tell you to run away, run away.”
“Yes! Okay! Thank you! John the best!”
Don’t hug me.
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“I’ll go to the guard’s office and tell you about it. You guys investigate where the dagger was found.”
“I got it.”
I saw Lenny off in front of the gate of the Dawning Hall and walked towards the lecture room. Of course, Milia, who clung to me, and Elisa, who followed me from so far away that I couldn’t tell if they were companions or stalkers, were also there.
No, is it correct to think of this as being together?
I’m following you at a distance of almost 10 meters. People passing by are also staring at Elisha as if they were really suspicious. Maybe that’s why I’m being reported to the guards.
…But if I approach it, it starts a match, and that’s just as embarrassing.
After. Why the hell are you doing this to me When you get a little closer, you should ask me why you did that. If it was just looking at your face, I would really cry. It’s hard to say that he’s not popular with women, but he’s not very ugly.
“John, was he captured?”
“Oh no! I-I’m in a company with them…”
“Why do you and your party go 10 meters apart?”
At the question posed by the person who seemed to be the guard, Elisa hesitated, looked at me, and then looked away in surprise, repeating the process twice.
It seems like someone secretly wants my help because they got caught stalking me, but I feel like a yandere who can’t bear to say it because I’m shy. It seems more like that because of the gloomy atmosphere.
“That person is in my company…”
Honest words really don’t stick to my lips.
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Really! He was on his way to class with us!”
At Millia’s support shot, the security guard put on a worried face, then sighed and said,
“First of all, it seems that you didn’t lie, so I understand that. But you’re the first person I’ve seen… Where do you belong?”
“Dawning. Karina-sama’s escort knight.”
What. Why. What. Why are you looking at me in disbelief? Do you want to have your head split with a shovel? Why are you all flirting with me? Annoying
“Do you have an identity card?”
I took out my ID card from my pocket and showed it to the guard. The security guard looked at the ID card and said to me with an apologetic face.
“Ah…You are a newly appointed knight. I’m sorry I didn’t know.”
“…No…No. It’s okay.”
After the apology show by the two office workers, the security guard disappeared to patrol again.
That’s true.
“Elisa. Come a little closer.”
“Uh, that’s it.”
“Isn’t it okay not to look at your face?”
“Uh, not the face…”
Not a face? At that, I looked at Elisha. If it’s not your face, why are you even incontinent?
I really don’t know.
I looked at her asking for an answer, but Elisa didn’t answer without making eye contact with her. Should I say no?
…After. I need to investigate soon.
We diligently walked up and arrived in front of the lecture hall. However, what greeted us was a door with a piece of paper saying no entry.
“No entry?”
Did something happen in the meantime?
“Are we not allowed in?”
“It’s for investigation purposes, so you can go in.”
“No.”
At the sudden interruption of the voice, I turned around and looked at the owner of the voice.
…Guards?
A middle-aged man wearing a guard uniform with a stocky body and a cynical impression spat out words while glaring at me as if he were looking at me as a criminal.
“Go back. No one except the guards can enter. Even if it was the saintess’ escort knight. This… Is our territory.”
…What else is this human?