596 – 7. Jealousy is my strength (96)
Many memories floated like stars in the air.
Injury, collapse, collapse, despair.
It was pitiful to see the man holding the sword while shedding tears. Also, he has a strange flaw, so me and ‘Elsie-senpai’ enjoyed the man’s memories for a long time without saying a word.
How much time has passed.
I couldn’t stay like this forever, so I cautiously opened my mouth. There must be a bloody battle going on outside.
“Does it look right?”
“No.”
It was an immediate answer.
Inwardly, I let out a sigh. Well, if you’re looking right, there’s no way you’d be so calm.
In my memory, at first glance, women with unusual relationships appeared. No matter how much ‘Elsie senior’ is said to be on the more mature side, since the original was Elsie senior, it was obvious what kind of reaction she would show.
Actually, I couldn’t even see all my memories.
Some images were only reflected like blurry afterimages. One memory in particular was to the point where even a blurry image could not be reflected.
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It was a flashback that made me feel a particularly deep sadness.
Even if Elsie was a senior, she couldn’t afford to read all of her company’s memories.
My conjecture was soon proved.
“I can’t see detailed images. Maybe it’s because it’s a memory that’s not allowed to me? But the general feeling is conveyed. Very sad, painful… Even so, the sense of duty that must happen is hopeless.”
The voice of the girl reciting sentiments like that seemed hazy and lonely at times.
It was the memory of a bereaved lover. I couldn’t imagine what the woman’s heart would be like when she found out that his life had been such a thorny road.
I decided to remain silent.
Because there was a time when silence was the best language.
“Why couldn’t I stand next to you?”
Short question.
Whether to answer or not.
After hesitating for a long time, I vomited a clumsy consolation.
“If it wasn’t for the senior, his fight would have been over.”
“I know. But, why am I… Next to me, it hurts like that…… !”
Crying, the woman’s head bent, unable to control her emotions. The watery and sobbing tone mixed with her voice, and I slipped away without saying a word.
The one left behind.
The man continued to fight so lonely and tough, but she couldn’t be comfortable with those who had to watch it.
And the one who let go.
Clear water drops dripped from Elsie-senpai’s eyes. As if she was genuinely resentful, her small fists were tightly gripping the hem of her dress.
“I, why… hehehehe, from there, I can’t even hug you. I can’t even comfort you At least you did a good job, it’s okay to rest a little… I wish I could have told you that!”
It was an appeal filled with desperate emotions.
The face of a sobbing girl looked so pitiful.
I inadvertently reached out.
“Senior… ….”
“Don’t touch me!”
A woman’s arm that shakes my hand vigorously enough to make me tingle.
The girl’s eyes were still red as she gasped and suppressed her tears. Even so, the girl never relied on me.
“…… The person you need to comfort is not me.”
I put on a stupid expression for a moment after hearing that.
After that, I carefully withdrew my outstretched hand. The woman’s face was very lonely as she licked her lips again.
“I am already late. The person you love, no matter how hard and painful it is, you can do nothing but watch it like this… But, not you.”
While doing so, senior Elsie looked up at the sky once more.
Even though it must be painful.
Will there ever come a day when you understand that feeling?
I hoped that such a day would never come.
“…… Come on.”
A word I spat out while holding back my tears.
The girl was pointing in a certain direction with her index finger. The road continues, and a faint light shines at the end of the increasingly narrow passage.
“To where you need to go… And, protect your world.”
My feet started to take slow steps. Just before I could see the girl completely.
What I was thinking, I turned around and shouted.
“I will definitely make you happy!”
The girl’s bewildered gaze turned to me. She was still wet, but she couldn’t hide the doubts in those blue eyes.
So I had to promise again.
“My ‘elsie senior’!”
Then the girl put on a bewildered expression for a moment, then she smiled dejectedly and tugged at the brim of her hat.
“What are you saying, you idiot… ….”
My path continued like that.
With each step I took, unfamiliar memories tickled my eyes and ears. It was the story of a girl I didn’t know.
[Elsie, the world is not kind to the weak. As long as you are a member of the Rainella family, be sure to keep this in mind.]
[Are you stupid? Of course you are being bullied because you are weak. I don’t know? Even dogs bite weak dogs.]
[Sister, sister… dogs, dogs… Hey profit! Buy, save me…… !]
Through childhood memories.
[Should I live like a dog?]
[Okay, I’ll be your dog as you like… The fighting dog of the Lynella family? That’s cool.]
After the memories of several years ago.
[…] … Elsie, it’s a dog death.]
[Puch, ahahahaha… ‘Dog death’?]
[Doggy!]
Through the memories of a few months ago.
[Receive this staff.]
[Live your life, Elsie… Like Lynella.]
[Even that old man can’t kill me… Did you know what you could do with me, pet dog?]
In the end, the memory arrives recently.
I stopped when a small lantern appeared in front of my eyes. The girl was weeping while crouching down.
With the jet-black stick dropped on the floor.
“It’s scary, it’s scary… hehehe, it’s scary…….”
I thought about human strength.
Crash, collapse, despair.
Nevertheless, there were those who raised their bodies. Wasn’t that the case with the memory of the man I saw? The unrealistic sight of holding the sword after being broken and covered in blood several times.
But not everyone can do that.
No, rather, the majority of humans weren’t that strong. It was common for people not to realize the weight of people’s fate at stake or to save the world.
Or was it crushed by the weight?
A weak human was crying. A girl too small to carry the fate of the entire continent.
“I, I mean, I’m not such a great person… I’m not a great wizard like my uncle… I hate it now.”
Shivering, the woman clutched her head.
“Scared, scared, scared… Me, not me okay! There are plenty of strong people besides me! Instead of me, if someone saves the world…… !”
“No.”
“hehehehe…… ?!”
At my sudden assertion, the girl’s body jumped up.
As if he didn’t even notice her presence, her form dragging her body backwards with her buttocks on her back made her look very embarrassed.
The girl screamed with dew on her eyes.
“You, you… what! Isn’t she the bastard who got kicked out last time?!”
“Why is it ‘the guy’? It’s such an insincere title.”
“…… Heh, what?”
The girl crossed her arms like that and pretended to be calm. The way she puffed out her cheeks with a snort, she looked pretty curt.
“It looks like he came to take me again, but don’t waste your time… ‘Cause I don’t want to go back yes?”
The voice at the end of her voice seemed to be an attempt to create a threatening atmosphere. Even so, she didn’t look particularly scared because of her watery eyes.
I slightly knelt down and sat down to meet senior Elsie at her eye level. The girl stubbornly avoided my gaze from her.
“Why don’t you want to go back?”
“Ah? Didn’t you hear me? In the first place, why should I put myself through such hardships? It’s just painful and hard!”
“I have to save the world.”
“So far in the world, heung. You know how to save it.”
And then the girl bit her tongue and teased me with a bee.
It was the same conversation as before. In fact, I only knew at the time that this was for the best.
Because I have to save the world.
I thought everyone would agree with this cause and nod her head. My colleagues, all the people I led, were under the illusion that everyone agreed with this premise.
But that wasn’t true.
Maybe everyone was overdoing it.
Until now, I hadn’t noticed because I was running out of breath. How hard and painful it is to run side by side with me.
Seria, Celine, and even Elsie-senpai.
I wasn’t that strong, so I tried my best to avert my eyes from that fact and run away.
What ‘Elsie senior’ said was really right.
You asshole.
Why didn’t I know?
“Is that the end? Now stop fooling around…….”
“The senior Elsie I used to know.”
Cutting my words, I moved my lips so swiftly.
“I was a person who pretended to be strong. It’s timid and timid, but it’s noisy… To be honest, there were many times when I thought it was annoying.”
At my plain confession, Elsie’s eyebrows naturally narrowed. Then, the girl’s voice fell low.
“What are you talking about…… !”
“But it’s not.”
The assertion that was spat out in succession, Elsie-senpai had no choice but to make a more confused expression.
There was no time to wait for the girl’s words.
“Actually, she was a person who could become strong as long as she put her mind to it. She was someone who knew how to follow my convictions instead of the will of her family. You want to protect it, right?”
“What, nonsense… I told you! I, like the world…… !”
“A precious person.”
Chin, doing,
The girl was speechless for the first time. Those dazed eyes stared at me for a while without saying a word.
How long to do that.
“…… Me, I don’t have anyone like that.”
Senior Elsie let out her stammering voice as she looked away.
With eyes shaking aimlessly.
“Really?”
“That, that, that’s right! So get out of here, because there’s no reason for me to go back!”
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“Let’s go back.”
“What the hell, why am I…… !”
The girl could not calm her trembling heart and gently raised her body. The distance between me and the girl narrowed, her rough breathing overlapped, and her sweet smell tickled her nose.
So I gently pulled the girl’s shoulder.
I didn’t even feel like talking.
I couldn’t tell if I had kissed her or bumped my teeth. I had only guessed roughly by looking at the bulging blue eyes in my field of vision.
You did it right.
It was right after that that I felt the shock of hitting my stomach with a puck.
I tried to step back with a choking sound. Even before that, Elsie-senpai just rode on me like she was attacking me.
Her tiny hands grabbed my collar and shook it. Her girl’s face was already red, to the point where steam spurted out.
Because it’s a reaction like a senior Elsie.
“This, this… What a dog! You just stole the girl’s lips…… !”
“Because I love you.”
I swallowed a small smile and said that.
“Hoo, I stole it…… !”
“It’s too late, senior Elsie… No, Elsie.”
Tears begin to flow in the girl’s blue eyes.
The pupils resembling a sparkling lake shimmered. The altitude of the fist that was raised as if it would blow my cheek right away is slightly lowered, and the hand that was holding my collar slightly loses strength.
“Hmm… ….”
“Let’s go back, Elsie.”
And then, without saying a word, I held the crying girl’s shoulders in my arms. Then, naturally, the girl’s body came out and was placed on top of my chest.
The sound of whimpering, the sound of resentment.
Listening to all that, my hand stroked the girl’s hair.
It’s been a while.
“Hey, this… hehehe, you bad bastard…….”
“Yes, yes.”
“My, how scared and difficult I was… Your sister’s b*tch is crazy, her uncle’s dead… But you want me to take over that role? That’s ridiculous… Do I have to go through that hardship again because of you?”
“Yes, yes.”
It was not supposed to be a grumbling, hoping for an answer anyway.
I just enjoyed the soft weight of Elsie-senpai while repeating short words. The girl who had been weeping for a long time said, “Heung,” As she controlled her tears.
“…… We will be engaged when we return.”
With a wife, it’s an engagement.
It was something that the heavenly god would be angry with, but what can I do? Right now, the fate of the world depends on it.
While making such a ridiculous excuse, I gave more strength to Elsie-senpai’s arms.
“Let’s go back now.”
At last, one puzzle was put together.
“To our world.”
A puzzle to save our world with our own hands, not others.
There was only one thing left.
**
Outside the barrier, the forest south of the academy.
There was a thrilling chase going on there.
“Kyaaa!”
The one pursued is a girl with dark blue hair.
Her tears were dripping from the corners of her eyes, leaving traces. Even while she was running, she bent her upper body several times, and jumped with her arms to dodge the bloody spears that were stuck one by one.
Unusually, behind the girl, a woman was tied to her blue thread and dragged along. The swordsman’s eyes with her gray hair were gloomy, as if she had lost all hope.
And those who follow him.
“Blood, blood, blood… Give me your bloodaaagh!”
Once boasting an elegant beauty, now it was a monster that looked like a giant bat. The bloody veins in her eyes showed how desperate she was.
Tuk, tuk, tuk.
As Seria was dragged along, each time she bounced, her bluish-white threads broke one by one. The threads were caught on rocks or tree branches and played the role of announcing the girl’s whereabouts.
The girl with dark blue hair, or the princess, raised her screams even louder.
While clutching the mysterious stone in her hand.
“Kyaaagh! Help me, Sir Ian!”
The chase was planned for a while.