265. Romeo and Juliet (2)
Thump.
Heavy footsteps echoed in the dark room.
In the back of the room, a small girl wrapped in bandages looked towards the door.
There stood a one-armed man with a displeased expression.
“Does that all heal, Tilpitz?”
“No problem.”
“It felt like every bone in his body was shattered.”
“No problem.”
Moving his lips with difficulty, Tilpitz was irritated.
I didn’t expect this to happen at all.
I never thought I would be beaten like this by that kind of human.
Without Durandal, he would have been dead.
What’s more, now that Durandal’s power has been exhausted, he can’t separate dimensions, so if the same situation comes, it’s impossible to escape.
“Hey, but is my right arm growing again?”
“Schlus Heinkel. Did you catch it?”
“No, what about my right arm?”
“Did you catch Schluss Heinkel? Tell me about that first.”
“Killed him. Undoubtedly. He killed his heart by bursting his heart with his right hand. His arm was cut off right after that. So, is this arm growing again?”
“·······.”
My heart exploded…
Tilpitz let out a sigh of relief.
No matter how strong they were, no matter how well they mastered magic, there was no way to restore their broken hearts.
There may be a way to barely survive, but he will die soon.
“What kind of lizard are you? Let your arm grow. If you bring the severed arm, you can attach it.”
“Damn······. Do we have to live with one arm for the rest of our lives? That’s damn right, really. Disguised as an ugly human and sneaking in between… Cowardly attacking from behind…. . . f*ck.”
“So you won in the end.”
“Winning is not important!”
The madman immediately gave up and screamed.
His pride had never been hurt so much in his entire life.
He was a madman who always enjoyed fair and equal fights.
He was the one who enjoyed taking down opponents simply with the difference in strength.
But this time, I had to do all sorts of unsightly things to kill just one human.
“Winning is important… Otherwise you wouldn’t have come back alive.”
“Damn it. He could have escaped even if both of his arms were cut off.”
“No, you can’t run away from Schluss Heinkel.”
“Aren’t you overestimating Schluss Heinkel? It’s not as big as I thought. Of course, I’ll admit the mental strength to wield a sword for a while while still conscious even after my heart is shattered.”
“It wasn’t a big deal? Did you make me like this?”
“That must have been because you were careless.”
Tilpitz let out a sigh in frustration.
It felt like the conversation didn’t mesh well.
Clearly, the Schluss Heinkel she met was far superior to her devil’s physical ability.
However, the madman’s Schluss Heinkel felt no different from any other human being.
“No way…”
Schlus Heinkel is only strong in certain situations…?
Those thoughts passed through Tilpitz’s mind.
“What is it?”
“No. I don’t need it anymore.”
However, such doubts were no longer necessary.
Because Schluss Heinkel is already dead.
***
“Ah… Ah…”
Raising her body from her bed, Iris moaned as she wiped away the cold sweat.
It was a terrifying dream.
She arrived at the island, and inside her carriage was covered in blood, and inside lay a schluss with a hole in her chest.
She panics and pushes Erica who can’t say anything.
“No. No…”
It wasn’t just a dream.
It was clear that it was a precognitive dream that future poetry shows.
After Iris came to that conclusion, she hurriedly developed a communication magic technique.
He sent a brief message asking how he was doing, but-
“Please. Please…”
There was no reply for a long time.
Iris hurriedly drew another spell and sent it to Erica and Trier.
I put my hands together and waited another five minutes.
Iris’s hands trembled, wondering if even those two were wrong.
-Lee, Iris······.
“Erika? Is that Erica? Schluse isn’t receiving calls. What’s going on, right now? She’s just busy, right?”
-Iris······. It’s a big deal…
Her heart seemed to sink.
It’s already too late.
Iris closed her eyes tightly as she felt something tingling inside her. She
She couldn’t even scare Erica because she cried too.
I also had to stay as calm as possible.
“Schlus, are you in serious danger?”
-The heart… The heart burst… First of all, I did my own first aid, but I don’t know if it worked.
“How long has it been?”
– About 20 minutes······. I’m riding on a carriage heading to the island right now…
“Are you breathing?”
– Barely. But my consciousness keeps repeating going off and coming back… I’m scared to death, Iris. What should I do?
20 Minutes······?
Iris’ expression became strange.
To think he was still breathing 20 minutes after his heart exploded.
It was physiologically impossible.
What the hell did Iris mean by ‘first aid’?
I was going crazy wondering about it, but I didn’t have time to check it out now.
“Erika. I’ll go there. I’ll meet you in the middle. And is the bleeding good?”
“Hemostasis? I wrapped it roughly with a bandage…”
“Listen carefully. To properly stop the bleeding, in the case of the chest…”
Putting on only her outerwear, Iris hurriedly left her room.
I had to run out immediately.
I couldn’t repeat the future I saw in my dreams.
This time, he must have saved Schluse.
*
“Here! Erica! Here!”
The halfway point between the desert frontier and the islands.
Iris waved her hand at the carriage that was running at full speed.
Soon the carriage came to a sudden stop, and the door creaked open from the inside.
Iris’ hand was twitching.
I was afraid that I would see the same scene I saw in my dream.
Iris, who barely opened her eyes as her teeth clashed-
“Iris! Quickly! Come in quickly!”
She was able to spot Erica screaming in haste.
Erika is in a hurry.
She’s not panicking at all.
This alone seemed a little reassuring.
Iris hurriedly stepped on the tread and boarded the wagon.
Without a chance to say hello to Trier, who guards her seat, Iris immediately clung to Schluse.
The carriage set off for the island again without a break.
“The ceremony?”
“It’s been an hour since it was disconnected…”
Looking at the bandage on his chest, he seemed to have properly stopped the bleeding as instructed.
The bleeding was not severe.
Looking at his pulse, he was still beating, albeit feebly.
He is breathing lightly on his own.
Iris took a blood bag from her bag and began to transfuse her blood.
Then she felt her red-stained area and examined her condition from the inside.
“Ah…”
It was empty.
There was nothing there because the place where the heart should be was empty.
Instead, what settled there was a strange-looking lump of magic formula.
Iris looked at Erica as if asking for an explanation.
“It’s an artificial heart·······. It maintains blood circulation······.”
“That, that alone doesn’t explain it. How the hell are you still alive?”
The heart does not only play the role of a pump that circulates blood.
In other words, it is the core of the internal circuit and the organ where the mana supply is located.
No matter how much artificially pumped blood, if the core of the internal circuit was absent, the entire body circuit collapsed, leading to death from shock.
“I artificially implemented the core of the internal circuit. That’s why I prevented the collapse of the circuit…”
“How did that happen-“
“I was lucky. With Schluse… I read a paper. I copied what I saw there…”
Erika shook her head and whimpered.
She couldn’t afford to comfort her.
Iris immediately turned her head to check Schluse’s condition.
Thanks to Erica, she’s keeping her breath, but she still has a lot of work to do.
Iris stopped her internal bleeding with her healing magic, drained her stagnant blood, and also cast her purification magic to prevent her infection.
Until her magic power was empty, until her carriage arrived at the imperial palace, Iris gave every treatment possible.
After finally arriving at the imperial palace, the party eagerly knocked on the door.
Soon, the guards and Holy Knights rushed in from inside to escort Schluss and bring him in.
As soon as the emperor’s permission was granted, he took the elixir out of the storage room and fed it to Schluss, only then did his condition stabilize somewhat.
In the precarious state of not knowing when to stop breathing, I felt a little relieved.
“But… When do you wake up?”
“I don’t know, that is. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Or…”
You may not wake up forever.
Iris couldn’t bear to let the words out of his mouth and pursed his lips.
***
Siraksarak.
A pleasant sound came from behind.
A large window that lets in warm sunlight.
And a soft bed.
I knew right away where this place was.
This was my room.
My room at the residence of the president of the Imperial University.
“Ugh…”
As I tried to get up, a tremendous pain in his chest overcame me.
She barely turned her head and found Iris sitting in her chair reading her book.
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She thought something was heavy on her legs, so she looked down and saw Emilia sitting on her knees under her bed and sleeping on my legs.
“I couldn’t sleep for three days and took care of her. Let her sleep.”
“Um…”
I’ve been asleep all three days.
I liked that Iris calmly addressed her.
For not making a fuss about her.
It felt like her mind was at peace.
I struggled to get her hand out of the blanket and stretched it towards Iris.
Iris stared blankly at the hand, then grasped it and she brought it to her own cheek.
Then rubbing her cheeks, stroking and repeating.
“How does it feel?”
“Feels whole. Warm and soft.”
“I’m glad…”
Iris gave a bright smile.
Even though she looks so calm, Iris must have been quite worried about her.
She was a bit sorry.
“I lived thanks to you.”
“No. This time it’s all thanks to Erica.”
“Erika alone couldn’t save me. You saw the future where I die, right?”
“·······.”
Iris pressed her mouth shut.
Then she trembled.
I beckoned her to come closer to her Iris.
I wrapped the head of Iris, who was crying and leaning her head towards me, and gently hugged her.
“I had a lot of trouble.”
“No, heheheheh… What am I…”
“Thank you for saving me.”
“I didn’t do anything-“
“There’s nothing you haven’t done. I’m going to say thank you to Erica too, so don’t get me wrong.”
“Huh… I’m so glad…”
With her face buried in my shoulder, Iris began to cry quietly.
It seemed that Emilia was deliberately muting her voice for fear of waking her up.
She decided to wait until she stopped crying.
Anyway, her physical condition was strange.
Once all of my senses were the same, there was no big problem except for a slight weakness from lying down for a long time.
However, I couldn’t feel her magic power at all in her body.
It is impossible to connect even to the internal circuit…
I can no longer use magic or internal circuits.
In other words, it has become a body no different from that of a normal human being.
“But what about that book?”
“Oh, this.”
After I stopped crying.
Iris lifted her book, which she had just been reading and which was on her lap.
It was a familiar book.
The cover read ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
“Miss Yulia lent it to me.”
“Yulia? When did she borrow it?”
“I’m joking. I asked him to give it to Schluse. It’s a book he treasures, so he said he would pray for Schluse’s recovery with this…”
“Huh…”
“Isn’t it cute?”
“Sure.”
In the eyes of others, it’s just an innocent and cute 11-year-old.
But it was even cuter from my point of view, knowing that she was a reincarnated person no different than a hundred-year-old grandmother.
It’s Julia’s favorite book.
Thank you very much.
I was able to wake up thanks to this book standing by my side.
“But why are you reading that?”
“Isn’t it okay? It sounds like fun…”
“It doesn’t matter if you read it… Have you read everything?”
“Yes. I’m reading it for the third time. A man and a woman who can only meet each other in their dead form. It was so heartbreaking that it broke my heart.”
It seemed like he didn’t like it.
You’re reading it for the third time.
I was about to ask to see the ending because I was suddenly curious about the ending of Romeo and Juliet.
“Iris! I can hear you talking? Why do you keep talking to yourself… What?! Schluss! Are you awake?!”
The door slammed open and Erica opened her eyes wide.
Why is he here?
“Ooohhh? Oh brother? Are you awake? Are you okay? Where are you sick?”
“What? Schluss woke up?”
“Where, where?”
Emilia also woke up, and I heard a rumbling sound coming up the stairs from below.
It seemed like there were more than one person downstairs from my house.
I was soon surrounded by Emilia, Iris, Erika, Trie, Einz, and Fellain.
“Are you feeling better, Master?”
“How many of these do you see? Huh? Huh?”
“Friend! I thought I was going to die because I was worried!”
I was dizzy because the place was noisy.
Perhaps it was because my body wasn’t in perfect shape yet, so my head started spinning and I got a headache.
As I frowned and raised my hand, the surroundings became quiet.
I feel better now.
“I’m fine. Right now.”
“All right now? Brother, what does that mean?”
“Erika, how much time do I have left?”
“·······.”
Obviously Iris did that.
Erika saved me.
Guess there was.
At that time, the paper she looked into with Erica.
Thanks to the method of artificially implementing the internal circuit I saw there, I’m still paralyzed and alive without dying of shock.
“Ah… Uh… Uh…”
Erica looked me in the eye and mumbled in surprise before she dropped her head.
Einz, who was watching Erika and I, smiled as if it were absurd.
“Hey. Why are you doing this? You ate a lot of Elixir. Then you’re fine, aren’t you?”
“It’s not that simple, Einz. It’s just that the core of the internal circuit and the short circuit are artificially implemented to forcibly sustain life. No matter how elaborate the artificial heart technique is, or how much mana is poured into it, there will be limits. I have no choice but to live. Life would have been much shorter.”
“How much do you think it gets shorter when it gets shorter? Will it survive for the next 40 years? Huh?”
“One week.”
“Ah, Schluss. There’s no way it could have been that short… Ah, isn’t it? Huh?”
I looked at Erica and gave her notice.
It was the turn of the doctor who performed the operation.
My exact life.
“If it’s long, it’s a week… If it’s short, it’s about three days…”
The atmosphere in the room froze in an instant.