717 – 8. Last Words (91)
The snowstorm rages without stopping.
Like a child struggling for food, the bad weather showed no sign of ending. A pure white ordeal descended on the dark red tumors that gradually invaded the marble forest and the footsteps of students coming and going while wearing hoods.
On top of this pale landscape painting.
A girl wearing a pure white hood was walking quietly. While following the cold north wind like midwinter sunlight.
It wasn’t far to the destination.
This was because the scope of the academy where the ‘contaminated tumor’ had spread was extremely narrow. No matter how far away a place was, it could be reached within 10 minutes on foot, and places further away had been abandoned for a long time.
In other words, it means that more than 10,000 people are concentrated in this cramped space.
Nevertheless, the academy was as quiet as the artery of a terminally ill person.
Maybe that’s the fault.
The place the girl eventually arrived at gave a somewhat foreign feeling. The ward, filled with noisy sounds and a mixture of shouting and moaning, was the only space in the academy that produced light and heat.
The girl naturally blended in with the crowd and moved on with her steps. Walk, walk to someone’s hospital room.
There wasn’t even a knock. The girl’s hand jerked the doorknob, and a loud scream came from inside her hospital room.
“Ooh, wow?!”
It was the voice of a weak boy.
The girl silently entered the room and locked the door, and the boy on the bed looked at the uninvited guest with frightened eyes.
Anyway, the girl just glanced at the boy’s features in silence.
Brown hair, eyes resembling blue sapphires.
Her pure white skin and delicate figure, befitting her timid personality, caught my eye one after another. He was a master who gave the impression that anyone who saw him had lived his life without knowing a single hardship.
Only one thing.
Except for the bandages wrapped all over my body and the scratches that I couldn’t get rid of.
She was short-sighted and it was proof that she had been in a difficult situation.
Now, he was just a timid boy who trembled and trembled.
“Who, who…” … !”
“Shh.”
Before there was a fuss, the girl put her index finger to her lips and lifted her hood.
Then, dark blue hair falling down like the night sky.
Moreover, immediately after encountering the silver-gray pupils that were like a symbol of a certain person, the boy was so startled that his heart let out his own heart instead of screaming.
“I’m Shien…… !”
“Shh!”
Lips tightly shut again.
The boy, Lupine Lynella, looked at the girl’s face with an even more frightened expression than before. To be honest, she didn’t know why she came.
What is it?
Although she had helped him the last time he met ‘Ian Perkus’, it was almost like meeting Shien and Lupine for the first time. My older sister, Elsie, wouldn’t know.
It was too sudden to be called a hospital visit.
As Lupine trembled, unable to guess the true intentions of her noble blood, Shien stared at the boy with her deeply sunken eyes for a moment.
How much is that?
“…… “You did something stupid.”
It was a brief impression.
Lupine huffed, swallowing her breath and shrinking her body even further. Even without doing that, her small body became so weak that it even gave her a feeling of wretchedness.
“Are you crazy to apply for the search team even though you have no skills? “If Sir Ian found out, he would hit you.”
“Well, that’s…” ….”
In fact, Jo Ji-won had a feeling that Shien had guided her, but Lupine, who did not know this, just bowed her head.
I would be lying if I said I didn’t regret it.
“Now you are injured. “Even monsters are wandering around these days, right?”
“Well, recently we’ve been able to narrow down the search scope considerably… ….”
“How long have you fallen?”
Lupin, who was stuttering and looking for a rebuttal, was once again speechless.
The mesmerized gaze turns to the princess, and her snake whispers.
“And how much longer must I fall?”
“Your Highness, but… ….”
“I heard. “My motivation has collapsed.”
Lupin’s gaze naturally fell down. However, the atmosphere was a little different from before.
A look of resentment rather than nervousness.
There was no way Shien didn’t know. Because it was one of the main reasons why Lupine applied to the search team.
Nevertheless, the girl just let out a small sigh as if she had just heard it.
“This is crazy. “No matter how serious the issue is, you’re putting unprepared students in danger!”
There was no response to appeals made as if they were frustrated.
But the princess knew. The fact that she didn’t need to react in the first place.
Lupin would have agreed with her wishes more than anyone else. Isn’t the fact that she joined the search group proof of that?
“If this continues, I don’t know how many more people will have to sacrifice.”
“Still, I can’t help it… ….”
“If there is?”
At that moment, the princess’s silver-gray pupils sparkled with an insidious light, but Lupine, who lowered her head, was unable to notice this.
However, he just raised her head as if he was possessing her.
Shien pretended to hesitate slightly, but then she quietly revealed her secret plan.
“Actually, I’m telling you this because I think Lupine-senpai noticed it a little bit, but… “The man now called ‘Sir Ian’ has a bit of a mental problem.”
“Is this a problem?”
“Should I call it a type of personality disorder? The accumulated mental fatigue has created another personality as a refuge… “I think it can be seen as such.”
“Okay, then!”
Lupin’s reaction was dramatic. As she swallowed her dry saliva, her eyes sparkled, showing the hope she thought she had lost a long time ago.
“If Ian comes to his senses…… ?”
“This crazy thing will end.”
“Oh, how!”
Lupin’s voice, exhausted from his sorrow, naturally rose.
“How can he come back? “Isn’t there something you came to see me for?”
Hmm, I swallowed my sleep.
Shien intentionally paused. Until Lupine gave me a pleading look.
After a long period of silence, Shien’s lips slowly soften.
“That personality is like a shield created by the inability to bear the pain of loss. But what if that personality is wrong? “What if I experience another loss?”
Lupine moistened her dry lips with her saliva.
“If so, it will definitely affect the subconscious. As it happens, ‘Kyung Ian’ has been absent-minded for a long time recently. Maybe there’s something mentally wrong… “Now is the time.”
“Then what do I…… !”
Instead of answering, Shien searched in his arms.
Soon, a small medicine bottle appeared in that slender hand.
The snake laughed.
“It’s poison.”
Wretched, yet mean-spirited.
Even if the snowstorm becomes harsh and the sun is obscured, those light gray pupils will not lose their light.
“Lupine Lynella.”
The girl decided to become evil. Definitely, if it is a role that someone must take on.
Isn’t it rightfully my responsibility?
This was a sin and atonement.
“Only you can do it.”
Lupin was silent for a while. Silent, silent.
I carefully handed over the vial.
What happened one day?
It was the first variable.
*
The expressions of the search team walking through snow piled up to their ankles were tired.
It was because I had an unreasonable schedule every day. At least it was rewarding, and I should say I was fortunate that I was able to narrow down the scope of my search to a meaningful level.
Now the high point is in sight.
Once the core of the ‘contaminated tumor’ was destroyed, it was safe to say that there were no remaining dangerous elements inside the barrier. Also, students suffering from infectious diseases will be able to receive appropriate treatment by generously using the remaining resources.
This is a time when the shoulders of the search team inevitably become heavy in many ways.
The incident occurred at that time.
“Hey.”
At the low call of a knight, the eyes of the rest of the search team turned to the epicenter. The eyes of the knight who called the others were staring blankly at a specific point.
“Have you ever seen that?”
The search team’s gaze immediately followed the knight’s eyes. Beyond the driving snowstorm, something huge shining in the fog of a snowy field with unclear visibility.
Should I call it a bloody cocoon?
What was originally a dark red tumor had expanded greatly and was pulsating like a heart. A monster that gives the impression that its volume is growing every time the bright red liquid inside it bubbles.
The search team had one answer.
“No, this is…” ….”
One of the priests who was part of the search team slowly walked forward. It definitely looks like something I’ve seen before.
He was one of the guards dispatched by the Holy Kingdom. He naturally had more knowledge about the events taking place at the academy than students or other people.
That’s why his face soon turned pale.
“It’s a relic of the Seven Sins! How…… !”
The priest’s eyes, which were exhaling in astonishment, immediately turned to the bottom of the monster that had settled down like a root. The existing information is scattered like fragments, and begins to fall into place one by one, like a puzzle.
“Well, the ‘polluted tumor’ has already found the relics of the Seven Sins… They’re digging up relics of the Seven Sins like roots from underground! I have to go back right now…… !”
“No.”
These were the words of the knight who first sensed the abnormality.
He spoke in a tone that was still mesmerizing and even fearful.
“It’s late.”
Because, every time the ‘Relic of the Seven Sins’ pulsated, a blood-red magic circle was engraved in the air.
It was a very complicated diagram. Nevertheless, there was one fact that everyone could know.
That technique is already on the verge of completion.
Quad.
Like an egg breaking, a crack appears in the magic circle. Flames fluttering and swirling beyond it.
The knight screamed.
“Let Sir Ian know somehow! This is where I somehow…… !”
Paak, and do it.
The knight, who had been shouting with all his might, was completely speechless. His eyes looked down at my chest in disbelief.
There was a blade sticking out from behind.
It was a waiting attitude. There were not many skilled people who could throw such a unique weapon from a long distance.
More than anything else, the fire burning immediately afterwards.
“aaah!”
A heartbreaking scream rang out, and the knight turned into a ball of fire rolled across the snow. Those who remained could only step back with eyes filled with fear.
I’ve heard that notoriety well.
Wud-duk, wud-duk.
After the black half-gloved hand appeared, the cracks in the magic circle suddenly became thicker. The time needed for complete rupture is only a moment.
A girl with black hair appeared from the other side of the collapsing space.
“Wealth, anger…… !”
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With an expression as dry as a desert.
When the girl snaps her fingers, the attitude that burned one of her articles naturally returns to her hands. Celine’s expression as she looks at the snow-covered earth is even colder than that.
“Tell Ian Perkus.”
The arsonist who was once on humanity’s side said.
“I came to reclaim the Hastur family’s fair share.”
The pulsating blood-red monster let out a strange cry. As if responding to those words.
It was the second variable.
*
You flinch, and the muscles in your fingers contract, awakening your consciousness.
I stumbled and coughed out the wet sand that felt in my mouth. Gradually, my mind came back and I was replaying the memories I had seen just before.
Yes, it was.
With a jet-black stick, a crack was created under the sea. This is the place where the tremendous water pressure swept away everything at once, and the fall fell repeatedly.
It was a beach.
As I staggered to my feet, the sound of shooting hit my eardrums. It seemed like water was still dripping from the hole I fell into.
Stand against the backdrop of a waterfall falling from an infinite sky.
Across from me, a man, also drenched in water, helped her up.
“Let’s finish this now.”
Looking at those golden eyes, I strengthened the hand holding the sword.
It was the final battle.