039. leap to you (2)
“It’s Aren… … ?”
The thin, quivering voice was like a delicate stringed instrument.
“Siana.”
I emerged from the shadows cast.
As I took a step closer, Shiana began to panic.
Siana hurriedly gets up. Then he turned his head left and right, as if he was looking for a place to escape.
Eventually, unable to find a place to hide, he collapses.
“Oh, don’t come… … .”
Sianna told me to stop. Her eyes were filled with unknown fear.
I hurriedly covered myself with the school uniform jacket I had taken off.
What are you so afraid of?
Seeing Sianna trembling like a deer, I couldn’t let her go even when she was told not to come.
I strode towards her.
‘Don’t come, don’t come.’ Even so, Siana couldn’t move. No, it didn’t move.
Like the person who wanted me to come.
I look down at Cyana, who is sitting on a rock.
His eyes were moist and looked like stars.
“Why are you crying?”
“… … .”
Siana is speechless.
He lowered his head and rolled his eyes as if he were still looking for a place to hide.
At that time, I could see the scars spreading all over Sianna’s body.
‘That’s… … .’
Traces of magical exploitation and all sorts of experiments.
He always covered his scars with magic, so this was the first time he’d actually seen them.
To be honest, it was shocking. I never thought it would be this serious.
“quickly… … !”
Cyana urgently tries to use magic. Maybe it’s magic to cover the scars.
Smooth scars disappear.
Shiana hurriedly put her jacket back on and bowed her head.
Seeing that he doesn’t intend to run away, has he calmed down a bit?
I sat down next to her, trying to figure out how to comfort her.
As I sat down next to her, Shiana slightly dodged to the side. I don’t know if they were trying to make room for it.
An awkward silence prevailed. I don’t know what to say since Ciana, who always chatted first and talked to me, is silent.
The sound gap was long.
woo- woo-
Suddenly, in the woods, I heard a bird chirping as if it was mocking me. I wake up. Five minutes have already passed.
‘Let’s ask what’s going on.’
Once you open the door, the conversation will be easy after that.
“what… … .”
“Aren, don’t you hate me now?”
The moment I was about to speak, Shiana opened her mouth first.
‘You hate me now?’
Cyana asked me with handfuls of tears in her big red eyes.
I could see the fragile hands trembling uncomfortably.
Even though it was temporarily covered with magic, those terrible scars just flickered in my eyes.
Oh yeah… … .
I think it’s a complicated character with a pitiful setting.
How many times have you struggled alone, did your eyes swell like this again?
As I thought about this, I suddenly found myself pushing away the people around me, including Siana, by saying that they were just characters in the game.
It was as if he had left Siana who was trembling so pitifully.
What kind of mindset did I treat this character, no, Shiana, who must have been sincere to me from the beginning.
I looked straight into Shiana’s red eyes, who were still wandering.
I thought it was because it was simply described as red eyes in the game, but when I looked closely, they were much prettier, resembling ruby jewels.
“under.”
He sighed.
All this time I thought of myself as someone special off this goddamn world.
I am a person and game characters including Ackerman… … .
It was a complete separation.
‘It’s stupid.’
I am just a person who bleeds here and dies if injured.
It was arrogant.
Only then did Shiana appear as a human. Not just a game character that belongs to this world, but someone who really breathes with me.
I turn my head and look at Siana. I couldn’t feel so sorry for Shiana, who was careful even with her head down and even breathing.
Guilt also knocks on me.
I want to offer consolation, but honestly, I don’t think I’ll be able to do it well.
so I-
“Are you stupid?”
Pong!
I took out the Winsorbing tears that I always carry with me.
“Yes… … ?”
Seeing my face, perhaps surprised to hear that Shiana is also an idiot. Eyes are still moist.
“Drink this.”
Siana has been abused since she was a child and has been subjected to all kinds of restraint magic. A state in which both the body and mind are subordinated to the witch.
Even though she is much stronger than the Witch of the Mage Tower, she must not have the slightest thought of going against the Witch.
The same goes for the scars of magical exploitation. It’s a scar that can be healed quickly with Siana’s magic regeneration, but she can’t think of removing the restraint magic she received as a child.
When you start to treat him as a person, that kind of background looks so pitiful.
“this… … What?”
Ciana asked cautiously.
In his hands were Winsorbing’s tears, which glistened like hers.
Unknowingly, he accepted what I gave him.
“Holy water. Drink it and you’ll feel better.”
I didn’t want to ask the kid who was trying to hide the scar what the hell it was.
Let’s just hand over the cure without a word.
If it was holy water, it would cleanly get rid of those traces.
After staring at me for a while, Shiana closed her eyes and swallowed the holy water when I invited her to drink again.
“… … !”
As if the effect appeared immediately, Cyana groped every nook and cranny of her body. He wanted to say something, but the atmosphere was still awkward, so he seemed to swallow the words.
Tiny Siana’s lips twitched.
You must have a lot to say.
‘You hate me now?’
‘How did you know this place?’
It is clear that you want to pour out all the timid worries, including the thought of
In fact, even saying such a thing would hurt Siana and destroy her self-esteem.
It must be something she tells me from the edge of a cliff in her own way.
I’ll take care of it.
It might have the opposite effect if you clumsily comforted her with unreasonable words.
Just casually, I want to show that we are still friends.
“How come there is not a single letter during vacation? to a friend.”
I playfully tossed it.
I don’t know why, but strangely, I remembered Viktor’s dog drip and threw it as it is.
A complacent thought, ‘Well, it’s a drip made by an insider, so it won’t work.’ … .
“Yes? letter… … ?”
It was also dog drip. Shiana’s face, which was already dark, turned into shock. He is restless like a person who has committed some great mistake.
“Yes, a letter. I kind of waited.”
I do not know. I’m also not good at this, so I’m just spitting it out.
I just want Sianna to feel comfortable with me.
“That, that… … !”
It felt like the air around Siana was slightly relaxed.
Confused, but relieved… … seems to do
“It’s a joke, a joke.”
half success.
I took Winsorbing’s tears again and said.
“Siana. Do you want to go eat Warriors Pitzza tomorrow? A new menu came out.”
said calmly.
Promise, don’t forget.
At this point, I thought that Siana was also relieved, but again, tears welled up in her eyes.
“Why are you crying again?”
“Aren is really me… … Don’t you hate me?”
Well, it seems that I have to nail it down for sure.
Well, I’ve suffered alone for days and days, and the words of calmly going to eat pit jjana may not come to my mind.
How many brave people would say I hate them when they are crying with such a pretty face?
“yes.”
“I, I… … Even if you did something bad?”
“You can’t do that next time.”
You have to be patient even when you are angry.
I don’t want a bed ending because of Siana.
As a person to person, he intends to lead Siana to the right path.
Was it an empty answer that made all the worries I had been thinking about?
In the end, Siana burst into tears.
It was a silent cry, a truly worldly sorrowful cry.
* * *
“I won’t cry anymore. stop playing… … Hing.”
Sianna, it will be very nice to see you when you wake up tomorrow. No matter how much I cried, I think I cried to the point that my eyes didn’t have enough moisture to make them sore.
When I thought of what a child like this had to go through, I felt very sorry. It’s a feeling you’ve never felt while playing a game.
I want to help get rid of the witch right now.
The story of Syana’s salvation appears as a side quest in the second half of Act 3.
It’s literally a side quest, so stop even if you help, stop even if you don’t help. Looking back now, I thought the game story itself was too much for Sianna.
Since the Shiana Salvation episode takes place independently of the main story, it didn’t seem like a problem for me to intervene.
Since I made Ackerman less close to me in the first place, it would be better for me to take care of Siana’s salvation as well.
For now, I plan to be by my side and help Sianna become emotionally independent during the semester.
After that, I need to come up with skills and a plan so that I can rescue Sianna when the semester is over.
Even if the time is slightly advanced, I stare at the upcoming vacation.
I must be prepared to borrow the power of others if necessary.
I made up my mind and turned to Siana.
“So, are you going to eat pitja tomorrow?”
Maybe she’s still embarrassed by this situation, but Siana can’t see me properly.
“Is that so… … ?”
Siana treats me more awkwardly than before vacation. It seems we still need more time.
Well, I guess I can calm you down step by step.
“yes. And there are things I want to ask you.”
“What do you want to ask?”
Cyana raises her head.
“Leap magic. I want to learn.”
The corners of Siana’s mouth went up slightly. It was like an arctic fox smiling happily.
“Okay… … I’ll tell you everything I know!”
“Thank you, Siana.”
Seriously. Thank you.
I’m sorry… … .
After speaking, I felt ashamed and my whole body itched. I’m so embarrassed I can’t sit still.
I jumped up from my seat.
“Shall we go? too late. I’ll take you.”
Looking at the time, it was curfew. I had to wake up to take her to the girls’ dormitory and come back.
Shiana checked her watch and was startled. I guess I must have been sitting on this rock for quite some time.
“Yeah, that’s right. It’s late… … Aren, if you take me, I will be late.”
“it’s okay. If you go from now on… … .”
Before I could finish my words, Shiana grabbed my wrist.
“… … ?”
And then
–!
made a leap
The landscape has changed. The cadets were passing by one by one. It was a dormitory.
“uh?”
“Yes, Aren.”
Shiana put her hands together as if she was slightly embarrassed.
“that… … Nope! See you tomorrow!”
She seemed to have something to say, but Shiana was speechless.
Pong!
Siana greeted her in a formal manner and then disappeared.
“Oh yeah.”
I only let out a dejected laugh.
It was a greeting like Siana.
* * *
I went back to the dormitory and Viktor was standing at the door as if he was eagerly waiting for me to come.
She said she barely held back from wanting to open it right away after seeing the things I left in the room.
If you know Viktor, who loves alcohol, you can only say that it is really great patience. Honestly, this is an acknowledgment.
Viktor frantically opens the package only after I give him permission.
‘Wow, Mr! What else is this! Lorena 19 sample!?’
It wasn’t enough that Victor received Lorena’s new drink, and the moment he saw a sample of another new work, he knelt down as if he had been greeted by an angel.
‘I-I’m going to save this forever!’
Anyway, I paid off all my debts to Viktor, and I solved all of Siana’s problems.
It was a perfect day in many ways.
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The problem with me was the class the next day.
“I’m going to have a sparring class for a surprise inspection.”
A sudden visit from Zeros.
He was so energetic, just by looking at his face, I could tell that Zeroth’s plot was working properly.
The surprise inspection by Zeros means that an episode of an external mission will soon begin.
It must have been around this time that Ackerman and Cain had an argument about Zeroth.
‘That person is so unfair. Why are you suffering!’
Ackerman and
‘Tell me a few times that it’s our family problem. It’s none of your business.’
Cain’s confrontation.
Ackerman, who does not understand the complicated interests of the aristocratic family, is only frustrated with Cain.
Cain also sharpens the blade of revenge. just waiting for the right time
In any case, based on the results of this surprise raid by Zeroth, the members of the outside mission are decided.
Regardless of the results of the sparring, Zeroth will send Ackerman on the most trashy mission.
For now, it is just an excuse to have an assortment.
“Are you all gathered? I still don’t like your eyes. There aren’t many decent guys.”
Zeros stood on the podium and grunted. It was his own method of education that touched the pride of the cadets and burned their desire to compete.
The likes and dislikes are greatly divided, but it is still a trend to get a favorable response from passionate cadets.
Zeros looked at the cadets. Then my eyes met for about 3 seconds, but it was a strangely unpleasant look.
Why are you paying attention to me?
Well, do you feel a sense of kinship with the same villain? I’m sorry, but our family lost everything immediately.
Zeros looked around at the cadets and opened his mouth.
“Hmm. As you all know, I will be going on an external mission soon. We will grade your midterm exams based on the results of your external assignments.”
“Yes!”
It is a thrilling answer to the first outside mission. After all, he was like a freshman who didn’t know anything yet.
“then… … Let’s announce the bracket.”
Zeros said while turning over the documents.
“The first match… … Ackerman Breed.”
“Yes.”
Ackerman answers with a hard face. A spark seemed to fly between Zeroth and Ackerman.
Zeroth’s blue eyes suddenly fixed on me.
‘no way?’
Suddenly, an ominous feeling overwhelms me.
Zeroth’s mouth opened right away without me even having time to prepare my mind.
“and… … .”
Why is there always a bad feeling,
“Arren Blackfire.”
Am I not wrong?