Love Letter From The Future chapter 9

1. The first letter (9)

On that day, Seria went home sullen.

It seemed to her that it was unexpected. No matter how hard it is, a junior bends his pride and asks for a lesson from a senior, but he is ruthlessly dismissed.

However, it was a very reasonable decision for me.

am i crazy Objectively, Seria was a better swordsman than I was, and there was nothing I could teach her.

There is nothing more stupid than wasting time on pointless things. If I could be of any help, I would have given time a few times out of loyalty to my academy juniors.

And again, it was also because the relationship between her and me was not so special that I deliberately found and taught her every point.

After spending days and nights with her, I might be able to point out problems she hadn’t discovered on her own. However, this took too long.

I wasn’t an idle person enough to sacrifice my time for a junior I wasn’t even close to. Actually, it was true that I was a free person, but it was clear that I would enjoy it more if I spent that time with close friends like Leto and Celine.

However, maybe it was because I rejected it too quickly, and I wasn’t comfortable with letting Seria go.

Seria’s appearance as she walked away with her shoulders drooping as if despondent gave off a more bleak feeling in contrast to her usual haughty and upright image.

It was to the point where Leto and Celine would criticize me.

“Hey, hey… No matter how hard you refuse to do so? You should have spoken more indirectly.”

“That, yes. Ian’s brother From what I can see, this was a bit harsh.”

Leto said that, but Celine, who acted as if she was going to quarrel with Seria at any moment, was dumbfounded.

Looking back, I thought it was a little too much, but I couldn’t help it.

Because the words that have already been spoken cannot be taken back. I shook my head and brushed off my thoughts.

“It’s okay, it’s already over. Rather, let’s go get something to eat.”

Since I, the person in charge, came out like that, Leto and Celine couldn’t blame me any more. Rather, as Celine pondered, she thought it was better that way, and she soon regained her smile.

Only Leto shook his head with a pale face. he lamented in a helpless voice.

“No, I don’t have time for that… I’m busy dying.”

“Are there that many assignments?”

“The Faculty of Magic is like that, well. I want to kill all the professors… … .”

Leto, who had been muttering terrifying sounds like a student at the Faculty of Magic in the midst of a busy period, soon let out a sigh and drooped his shoulders.

“I have to visit the lecture hall of the Faculty of Alchemy later, so what should I do? I have no energy to move anywhere.”

Then, Leto began to glance at me. It was an action that anyone could see clearly.

“Ah~ Who wouldn’t want to go instead… Come to think of it, Ian, did you take a liberal arts lecture near the lecture building of the Faculty of Alchemy?”

Celine tried to say something with a bewildered look, but it came to nothing when I gladly agreed to do my friend’s request. Deprived of the timing to tell me, Celine sulked.

“Yes, yes. I’ll go instead of you, so go back and rest… My eyes are very puffy.”

At my compassionate acceptance, Leto happily took out a piece of paper from his bosom and handed it to me. And I started to give a rough explanation.

“Those are the materials I need for my research, but I have to get help from alchemy students. The professor told some of the students, you should be able to find it if you go to the Faculty of Alchemy lecture building before this evening. Go see Emma.”

“Emma?”

It was a familiar face. In my third year of the alchemy department, if not close to me, it was a place where I could have a pleasant chat.

However, the reason I tilted my head for a moment upon hearing the name was because I felt as if I had heard the name somewhere recently.

The worry didn’t last long. Anyway, I had a little time left before I could find Emma. You can think about it later. With that mindset, I nodded my head once.

“Okay, don’t worry. I will tell you.”

That afternoon, I entered the lecture hall of the Faculty of Alchemy.

The lobby on the first floor was lined with strange experiment tools. It must have been an exhibit, but as a swordsman, I couldn’t even guess what it was for.

Looking at the note that Leto passed, the number ‘506’ was written at the top. It must mean that you can go to room 506 in the lecture building of the Faculty of Alchemy.

Climbing the stairs to the 5th floor, I knocked on the door with the sign ‘506’ on it. Then, a voice was heard from inside, “Come in.”

It was a familiar voice. I was sure I had come to the right place, and opened the door.

Then, there was a woman with red hair and a benevolent appearance staring at me with her eyes wide open. As if he had no idea that I would be visiting.

I grinned and smiled.

“Emma! Long time no see.”

“… … Ian? What are you doing?”

I took a seat at the reception table in the center of the study at Emma’s voice of surprise and delight.

And he spoke in a calm voice.

“I had an errand, Leto had a note to deliver to you. What research do you need?”

“Ahhh! It’s Professor Adriana’s lecture… Okay, I get it. Next time you see Leto, ask him to come back in three days.”

Emma calmly accepted the note I handed over. Her green eyes scanned the type slowly. It seemed to check what ingredients to prepare.

Meanwhile, I looked around Emma’s lab. It must have been borrowed from the school, but the alchemist’s laboratory always stimulated curiosity.

The pupils in the flask’s hands, the unknown silver powder, and even the by-products of the witchcraft, such as claws and hearts.

It felt like just imagining what kind of potion those things would be reborn with. Of course, I heard from Emma that it is actually quite a difficult task because it has to be carefully prepared based on complicated formulas and theories.

Imagination was free, so I looked around the alchemist’s laboratory with a light heart. And when Emma had read all the contents of the note, I asked her how she was.

“By the way, how are you today? I think I saw it for the first time last semester.”

“Yeah, it’s me, it’s always just like that. I’m going to and from the forest a bit these days. Surprisingly, there are a lot of ingredients.”

‘Forest’, as soon as I heard the word, I felt a tickle in a corner of my head.

A feeling that something is about to come to mind. I tilted my head and asked.

“If it’s a forest, that one in the south?”

“Yes, it is the place where the hunting festival is held.”

“Isn’t it dangerous there? There will be wild beasts too.”

At the voice of my question, Emma laughed. She looked at me as if she had heard a funny joke.

“Hey, wild beasts in the forest don’t come out of the outskirts. The deeper you go, the richer the food. Everyone doesn’t even go into the forest because they’re worried about wild beasts, so it’s good that I have a lot of ingredients.”

“… … Are you sure?”

At my question, which still seemed suspicious, Emma nodded vigorously.

“Yeah, don’t you know I’m a herbalist? If it’s a forest, I know best. Ian, you pretended not to be you and ended up being a noble boy?”

I cleared my throat at Emma’s words and averted my gaze.

I was only the second son of a rural aristocratic family, but I was nothing compared to a commoner like Emma.

More than half of commoners receive a scholarship the moment they enter the academy. Nevertheless, the ratio of commoners among the academy students was only about 1/3.

Nobles do not have to worry about making a living. It was enough to devote all day to training or studying. However, the majority of commoners were different.

Except for the restraints of some wealthy merchants, most commoners have to study and practice while saving time to eat and sleep. That’s how they managed to get into the academy.

No matter how much I grew up going through harsh training, it was because I had no choice but to give up in front of students from commoners.

I got a little embarrassed and started to pick up any excuses.

“No, all commoners know the forest well… I know because I am a herbalist. It’s not that I don’t know about the forest just because I’m from a noble family.”

At my voice, embarrassingly, Emma giggled. It was a clear laugh that resembled her heart.

“Yeah, I know. Ian didn’t look like an aristocrat, so I just did it. If you don’t, you’ll forget that Ian is an aristocrat.”

“You can forget about it, what? It has no meaning at the academy anyway.”

To Emma’s self-deprecating words, I replied as if it were nothing special. But I also knew that it was not such a simple matter.

Didn’t rumors that he made Seria into a super-corpse spread even if it was just me?

This was partly because I, who was only a middle-lower level, defeated the head of the grade, but also because the lower nobles of the empire broke the restraints of the higher nobles.

It is said that there is no discrimination based on status within the academy, but even the outside world was not like that. After graduating from the academy, commoners had to return to commoners and nobles to nobles again.

Even though she was the daughter of an herbalist, Emma was smart enough to enter the academy, so she must also know that my words were just to evoke the mood.

Still, she gave me a warm smile. With sincere thanks.

“… … Yes, thank you.”

She was a kind woman. It would be nice if I had a little more self-confidence, but I reserved my words, not until I could meddle in such a deep matter.

However, as I was talking with Emma, there was one memory that came to my mind.

The letter, the letter that was said to have come from the future seven years later, flashed through my mind for some reason.

“… … that, emma. Maybe.”

“yes? what’s the matter?”

Emma looked at me with a slightly surprising look, as if she had nothing more to say. It was about time that I had to leave.

But Emma was the only one to ask the question that suddenly occurred to me, so I asked her.

“Is it possible for a letter to arrive from the future seven years from now?”

Emma looked at me silently and tilted her head, probably feeling that my question was out of the blue.

Come on, that was nonsense. To hear a letter from the future seven years from now.

It must have been a letter sent as a prank by someone during the week when he lost his memory. As I said that, I shook my head.

“No, no. i asked a stupid question Then I’m just… … .”

“It is not impossible.”

However, Emma’s answer, which had been immersed in thought for a moment, was so unexpected that I froze as I was about to get up.

My puzzled gaze turned to Emma. Hmm, said Emma, her arms crossed and thoughtful.

And soon she headed to the corner of the lab. And when I pressed one of the buttons there, a hemispherical map unfolded in the air.

It was a map used in astronomical diagrams and all magic and divination techniques based on astrology.

“You know that each and every star in the sky contains myths and history, right?”

“Oh, I’ve heard of it… … .”

Emma waved her hand before I could finish my answer. With a hook, the seven stars in the center of the sky expanded.

“Apart from the sun and moon, these seven stars contain the strongest power among them. It is a star that symbolizes Delphirem, the first traitor to mankind, and the seven sins he committed.”

Delphirem, I stood tall when I heard the name.

In the dream I had that night, the man told me.

It is said that ‘Delphirem is coming’, but isn’t that just a mythical story?

“You know that too? That the concept of death did not exist for the first humans. But when Delphirem offered seven sacrifices to the evil spirit, sin was born, and death was born from it.”

“… … therefore?”

It was a hardened voice that I did not know. However, Emma, who was in trouble, didn’t notice my appearance, and she raised her hypotheses with her chin clenched.

“It’s a star with enough power to twist the heavens… If you have that power, it’s not impossible to go back in time. It was an incident that gave rise to a concept that did not exist in the heavenly plan no matter what anyone said.”

I, who had been frozen in a hesitant posture until then, sat back down on the chair.

An ominous foreboding prevailed. That night, the dream was so vivid. And even a letter that was too elaborate to be dismissed as a joke.

I suddenly remembered one of the contents of the letter. Yes, the letter had Emma’s name on it too.

He was attacked by a demon and fell into a coma. I jumped up in surprise.

And the moment I was about to leave a warning to Emma.

“Of course, that can’t be the case. Ahaha… … .”

At Emma’s mischievous voice, I was immediately taken aback and had no choice but to stare blankly at her.

Emma chuckled and laughed, as if my reaction was unexpected. As if everything he had said was a joke.

“surprised? But it’s theoretically possible, it’s just a story. There have been many attempts to manipulate the power of those stars, but none have been successful.”

“… … That, is it?”

Persuaded by Emma’s confident tone, I let out a sigh of relief and sat back down.

yeah, that can’t be A letter from the future seven years from now.

Apparently, I’ve been through a lot of strange things lately, so it seems my head has gone awry. With a wry smile, I shook my head.

Let’s brush it off now. The moment I made up my mind, Emma’s words strengthened my decision.

“Don’t worry too much. I don’t know where you heard that, but it must be nonsense.”

I sighed and nodded my head. I was wasting my energy on useless things. My body finally got up from the chair.

And as I was about to leave with a farewell, I suddenly had a problem and asked Emma.

“Emma, by the way, when are we going to the forest?”

“Well, I’m thinking of going there sometime this evening… why?”

Should I tell you what was in the letter or not?

I hesitated for a moment, but I soon smiled bitterly and left only one word.

“Just be careful.”

“He, again… don’t worry though Oh, look at my mind! Come to think of it, I almost couldn’t say this. I have a treasure trove.”

Tada, along with a cute onomatopoeia, Emma pulled out a small potion bottle. It was a potion with a gray tint.

“It’s a potion that erases signs. I succeeded in making it a while ago. If we start mass-producing this, we’ll be able to prevent hunters and herbalists from dying.”

Then, Emma dared to put a bottle of potion into my hand, telling me to try it. As an alchemist proud of his research achievements, he had a proud face.

Since her father was an herbalist, it must have been the potion she had long dreamed of.

Instead of giving it to me, I was reluctant to ask to use it when I go to the forest today. Anyway, the smell of the ingredients I’m going to gather today is so strong that it’s meaningless.

So, as always, Emma saw me off with a kind smile. and.

The next day, Emma is found passed out in the woods.

It was attacked by an unknown monster, and its intestines were spilled from its stomach.