Episode 89. 1st semester midterm exam (8)
Again, Emilia’s chest had to be opened and a magic formula was engraved into her heart.
Whatever it was, it had to be.
“What a crazy….”
I just realized I was stupid.
I just realized that
I expected that those who wanted to ruin my midterm would send a raven or a rook to try and harm me.
However, the contrast was incomplete.
I thought it would be enough for me to lock myself in.
I thought I would just have to go outside.
However, after thinking a little with this goldfish-like brain, I realized that the target was not limited to me alone.
hostages could have occurred.
even if it’s not me
And the person most suitable as a hostage at the moment is…
“Mr. Emilia!!!”
It was Emilia.
No matter how much I screamed after coming up from the training room, there was no answer.
You said you were going to the grocery store this morning.
It looked like he had already left the house.
I hurriedly ran to the front door.
“under······.”
A letter was rushing under the door.
An ominous energy suddenly came upon me.
I didn’t like to read.
I didn’t even want to hold my hand.
I wanted to do something I hadn’t seen.
But it couldn’t be either.
“Woo-eup… ha ha…”
I took a deep breath and opened the letter with trembling hands.
It was written in rough scribbled words.
– Your attendant is with me. If you don’t want to see them die, 31st Street…
“This f*ck….”
A bunch of hair was pulled out of my hand.
I didn’t even know I had a headache.
I was just angry.
to myself.
Stupid, no stupid myself.
to myself, who is restless.
f*ck. If I had put alcohol in my chest earlier, this wouldn’t have happened.
It was obvious that this was happening because I was greedy to go smoothly because my heart was weak.
“I have to go.”
There was no time to be embarrassed like this.
I just ran out of the mansion.
***
“Heh heh heh heh….”
humming
Emilia entered the market with the shopping cart on her elbow.
Soon, a view of the bustling street filled with people spread out before my eyes.
“Oh, Emilia! Are you shopping?”
“Ah, yes. The house ran out of food.”
Merchants recognizing her appeared in every store she passed.
A girl in a maid’s suit who always comes around this time to shop.
With her bubbly personality and unobtrusive personality, she quickly became a celebrity in the market.
“Well, you work in a big mansion, and the maid says you are alone? It’s a lot of trouble.”
“hahahaha. No….”
I said working in a big mansion over there.
I must have said that the maid was the only one in the store opposite.
The speed at which the rumors spread seemed to be staggering.
‘It’s seafood. Schluss Oh ㅃ····· Heinkel-san likes seafood.”
Looking into the tank full of fish, Emilia fell into trouble.
Obviously, Schlusus liked seafood.
When I returned from visiting the Imperial Palace before, I couldn’t resist seeing a seafood restaurant, so I stopped by and had a meal.
The problem was that Emilia didn’t know how to cook seafood.
“Seafood doesn’t come in often. If we go out this time, we’ll have to wait another two months.”
“Hmmmm….”
After hearing that, I was even more worried.
Do you want me to teach you how to cook?
But to whom?
There was no one around who would know how to cook seafood.
“Give me two.”
“When you go back because it hurts, you must preserve it with cold magic immediately.”
“thank you.”
eventually bought it
I said that if I do whatever I want, somehow it will be delicious.
Emilia used to always come out delicious even with the ingredients she touched for the first time if she cooked it according to her intuition.
I’ve never failed to cook in the first place.
‘Would you like to cook fish? Or should I make soup?’
A recipe using fish meat quickly came to my mind.
I’m sure Schluss Ob… No, Heinkel-san would like it.
‘No, but when will I be able to call you comfortably?’
The sudden thought of that made me a little annoyed.
The time we spent together under one roof was never short.
At this point, isn’t it time to call them in a comfortable, semi-speaking manner?
It felt like I was being distanced on purpose.
Was it because he found out that I was a spy for the spy agency?
If so, why the hell did you risk my life to save me?
Why did I say that I am the person I must protect…?
‘Shall I call you first? Schluss Oh…
I’ve only thought about it once.
Emilia’s face heated up in an instant.
No, no matter how much I thought about it, it was unreasonable.
There was still a lot of psychological pressure.
Maybe he wasn’t that close with Schlust.
With that in mind, Emilia forcibly calmed herself and walked.
“uh?”
Until you notice something strange around you.
Obviously, it was just a market.
How long did you walk into a dark alleyway?
Emilia dropped her shopping cart.
“Huh?”
Emilia, who looked back, was not a little perplexed.
back was blocked
with a high wall.
When I quickly exhaled and turned my head, the front was the same.
The road that had just been opened was blocked by bricks.
“Well, what is it?”
Magic?
No, I didn’t feel the activation of the spell at all.
Emilia pounded against the wall.
Even as she grabbed her hand that had been hurt by the rough texture, Emilia felt something strange.
it was a barrier
“ha······.”
Stepping back, she pulled up her skirt.
Then he pulled out a dagger that was stuck in his left thigh.
It was a thing called a magic breaker.
My brother gave it to me…
Holding the sword in one hand, Emilia calmly groped the wall.
It was to find the core of the barrier.
Emilia, who read the flow of mana and found the center, the core, through which all magical powers flow—
“It’s here!”
Without hesitation, he thrust the dagger into the wall.
The blade went in without resistance.
Then, the scene surrounding him began to crumble.
‘It was clever…’
It was a barrier that was implemented so well that it could be accepted as reality.
Emilia was holding the dagger as a reversal and focused on the other side of the vibrating barrier.
Two men, who seemed very bewildered, appeared in front of them.
“What, what?”
“How did you get out?”
“You’re doing some fun tricks!”
There was no time to hesitate against the wizard.
The only way to do that is to hit first.
Emilia quickly ran in and swung her sword.
The two men with their arms outstretched whether they were trying to cast a spell—
“Aww!”
“Ugh! My hand!”
He collapsed and spurted blood from his severed hand.
“Who sent it?”
“I’ll tell you that…”
Whoops!
The dagger pierced the man’s neck.
The blade that went half a turn along Emilia’s wrist was-
“Wooa!”
It was pulled out and the fountain of blood was opened.
The man fell to the ground for a few seconds, forming a puddle of blood, then drooped and became immobile.
When Emilia’s head was bent, the other man’s face turned white.
“So who sent it?”
“Hey! Black! My, please! Just save me! Please!”
“If you tell me who sent it, I’ll spare you…”
“Four, human flesh…”
quack
The dagger was lodged in his forehead.
With the sound of the skull cracking, the creature became immobile.
“Why are you screaming…?”
Pulling out the dagger, Emilia wept.
I thought that if I killed one person as an example, I would be blown away.
I didn’t know I was going to be screaming stupidly.
In the end, no information could be obtained, and only the bodies that were difficult to deal with continued to grow.
Holding the dagger cut with blood and brains at a distance between her thumb and forefinger, Emilia searched her pockets.
“no······.”
There were no handkerchiefs.
A pretty ribbon-patterned handkerchief that I always carry with me.
Emilia, who looked around once, confirmed that there was no one in the alley, and then gently rolled up her skirt.
“Oh really······.”
I felt like I should do this, and my cheeks turned red.
Still, he didn’t want to even die to bring a dagger stained with dirty blood to his thigh.
“hehehehe….”
He pulled down the white piece of cloth and lifted his legs one at a time and pulled them out.
Well, it was nothing different from a handkerchief in that it had a pink ribbon attached to it anyway.
Emilia, who wrapped the dagger and wiped it, roughly threw the piece of cloth away.
Emilia, who was about to put the shiny sword back into the scabbard—
“Uh. Cool….”
A sudden breeze brushed against my crotch and I felt empty.
It was said that it was done as a temporary measure, but it was not possible to do it again.
I’m so ashamed…
“Shall we go back now. Ummm… If we go over there, there will be a road.”
As if possessed, Emilia started walking down the alley.
There must be a way out of this alley somewhere.
Once you get out of the alley, you think.
But no matter how much I walked and walked, I couldn’t find an exit.
Rather, it felt like the same path was repeated over and over again.
“Is it because of the mood…?”
Nevertheless, I walked on without taking it seriously.
I hope someday there will be a way out.
I didn’t have any doubts.
It is natural for a road to have an end.
Because I just didn’t walk enough.
He said he would be able to go out if he walked a little more.
“Huh? But why don’t you have a handkerchief?”
Emilia, who unconsciously searched her pockets, tilted her head.
Obviously, the handkerchief was made of mana, so it would never come off my body.
Not having a handkerchief…
“ah.”
Being put in a mana environment controlled by others.
The moment she realized that, Emilia let out a sigh.
Confused, I looked around.
It was belatedly that he realized that he had been walking down an alleyway that had been repeated infinitely from before.
No, the fact that I hadn’t noticed it in the first place was absurd.
“Double barrier…!”
The teeth were sharply chipped.
I don’t know what kind of tactic he wrote in the barrier, but trying to think complicated thoughts gave me a headache.
If I hadn’t thought about the handkerchief, I would have been walking this road forever.
Feeling the chill, Emilia traced the wall to find the core of the barrier.
“Wow. How did you find out?”
“······································································!
At that moment, at the sound of a voice from behind, Emilia quickly drew a dagger from her thigh and swung it.
But no one was there.
When Emilia was looking around in a hurry-
“If you keep doing that, you have no choice but to put a load on your body…”
“Ah! Ah!”
A sweet, sweet, feminine voice permeated my ears.
The hand holding the dagger did not listen.
No, my body didn’t move at will.
At that moment, a small glass bottle came and touched his lips.
Emilia had no choice but to drink an unknown drug while still stiff.
“Ahhhh.”
drowsiness came
Despite the strong resistance, her eyes were tightly closed, and Emilia drooped as it was.
“Ouch.”
Someone hugged Emilia from behind.
At the same time, the view of the alleyway collapsed.
Suddenly, the two were standing in a gloomy space behind the shop in the bustling market.
The woman in the hood laid Emilia on her back, and confidently walked forward and closed the shop door.
He returned to the back and took off his hood, revealing the face of a woman with red hair.
“hehehehe. How do I do this…?”
Looking down at the sleeping Emilia, she put her hands on her lips.
She is from Schlus Heinkel.
How the hell am I supposed to do this?
How can Schlus Heinkel be deeply depressed?
How do I make him fall apart?
It was such a happy thought.