#18
that time.
“What are you doing! Freeze!”
“Order, don’t, don’t!”
I’ll take care of it! The girl with the pale pink hair who responded with a shout- Rubia eventually stretched out her palms toward the hordes of demons that crowded the wide passage, and quickly licked her lips.
──Awesome.
cold cold air gathers Rubia’s internal magic drains away. Contrary to the chill of the magic circle embroidered in the air, Rubia’s magic circuit was burning hotter than ever.
There were well over ten monsters rushing together. Corpses, skeletons, ghosts, and all of them break and break their limbs with gloomy screams, and nevertheless run without stopping. Measures and calculates the range and distance where the monsters gather, and starts calculations.
“Hey–!”
Mew, who had been posing with an old sword in front of Rubia, turned around and shouted swearing after the monsters’ charge was not stopped for a long time.
The monsters became more vicious as they shed their crimson eyes one after another. After the moon was dyed red, the monsters that became more vicious and strengthened were a bit difficult to deal with alone when there were more than five of them.
Of course, it would have been Mew to win in the end if they faced ten at the same time, but now that they are temporarily cooperating with Rubia, it was much more beneficial to receive Rubia’s support in terms of efficiency only.
‘So, I’m singing right now-!’
More than half of his magical power was already gone. Rubia’s magical power, which was like a fountain that never dries up, would not know if it would reveal the bottom if she used magic of a higher hierarchy in succession. But I can’t help but use it. At the end of the last stanza, Rubia exclaimed loudly as her magic circle began to glow with a magnificent blue light.
“Penet through, ice– Ice Field!”
jittery.
The cold air that crawled on the ground became sharp crystals and began to surge toward the sky.
The monsters on the frozen ice wanted to slide all at once, pierced by the soaring thorns of the ice, and then became frozen like ice by the eerie cold air that wrapped around their limbs like vines.
No, it really became ice.
The demons took on the shape of a statue in the middle of winter, and each of them had their movements sealed and they only screamed with their only open mouths.
“Hey, go now!”
“Do not order!”
you do it first Rubia, who was dizzy for a moment due to the use of the 4th rank magic, took a breath and looked back. high and steep walls. Careful that the race might come out, I turned my head again and looked forward.
He pulls out his knife and hits the floor.
Although he clearly shows ferocious hostility, his whole body is frozen and he cannot move a single fingertip. Mew ran towards the monsters that were erected like figures on the ice, tearing the wind to pieces.
──Woo much
While holding the hilt as if it was about to be crushed, a strong wind was released. While Rubia, who narrowed her forehead in the gust of wind, covered her view with the back of her hand, a streak of light rushing out like a wall was drawn in a straight line.
rip and break
quagga gaga–
A truly destructive swordsmanship unfolded.
It was no different from hitting with a blunt weapon.
break the ice Frozen bones and flesh shattered into the air like bombs exploding. From the monsters that were relatively in front of them, the crying starts to stop. Mew continued to swing his sword. Fragmented ice shards bounce off the wall, break and shatter non-stop. Mew didn’t hit any of the fragments.
‘Really, it’s creepy… ‘
I was familiar with the strength of Mew, and I had a history of fighting with all my powers, so it was not surprising, but it was not just that she was terrified of Mew’s performance and stuck her tongue out.
On the pile of remains of what was once a monster, Mew quietly exhaled his breath with the tip of his sword obliquely lowered. Because there was a cold air around. In the blink of an eye, all the demons returned to the earth. Mew, who stood loosely after trampling on the heads of the monsters with his feet, turned his head and looked at this side.
The reddish moonlight descends. In the middle of the dark passageway, the appearance of Mew, with a pale face and a faint gleam of purple eyes, looked even more creepy than the monsters from a different perspective.
“… After all, have you ever killed a monster?”
I couldn’t help but wonder. Mew shook his head at the implied question.
“No way.”
“I haven’t been scared at all since I met you, and it doesn’t look like it’s the first time I see you… … ”
“Do a quick search in your nonsense time.”
“So, don’t order–”
“Goes.”
“… … Come on, wait. I’m a little dizzy right now.”
When Mew turned her back without looking back, Rubia hurriedly put her hand against the wall and lowered her tail.
At that pathetic appearance, Mew twitched the corners of her lips.
“Are you just being so shy?”
“… What do you know when you can’t even use magic?”
“It’s not that I can’t write, it’s that I don’t. because there is no need to write When it comes to magic, I’ve learned it and I know how to use it to some extent.”
“Anyway, they must be basic magic.”
“Yeah, I was only interested up to that point, well. The magic above it didn’t really interest me. It was more fun to cut the knife back then.”
“… Depending on the interpretation, it sounds quite arrogant.”
“Are you arrogant-? I’m just telling the truth.”
Mew glanced down at the hilt held in my hand. It was a cold weapon of a shamefully inferior quality compared to the dedicated sword he had been carrying, but as long as it was in the hands of Mew, it was a useful item.
“I don’t know about you, but when I was in the swordsmanship club, the magic department professors secretly stabbed me with a criminal record. I think magic suits me better than swords. Of course, it must have been something I just did without knowing anything.”
woo woo woo-. It quietly infused magical power. A gentle trembling was transmitted, and the elongated sword that had faded was softly wrapped in blue light.
The act of instilling magical power into a weapon was never something anyone could do. Even if an unskilled or inexperienced person tried to tinker with it, it would fail immediately, far from maintaining the state filled with magical power. That is, it was a skill that required a significant level of mana sensitivity.
At the same time, Rubia knew. How well refined the air current of magical power that formed on that blade. how pure it is. Even if you compare it to your own, it may not be much lower than yours, but rather at a similar level…
“Why are you afraid that even magic will overtake you? Are you afraid that the only weapon you can offer will disappear?”
“… Who said that?”
Mew seemed to have no doubts that if he had constantly honed his magic without holding on to his sword, he would have achieved high achievements without difficulty.
Mew, who had been tapping the corroded blade after gaining magical power, looked back at Rubia and smiled a very small smile.
“Don’t overreact. I just poked this too, but if you give me such a nasty tee, you think it’s real, right?”
“… … Also, I hate you.”
“It’s a coincidence. So do i.”
Mew cleverly shrugged.
Unlike her usual appearance of being consistent or ignoring others with a blunt attitude in front of others except for herself, Rubia shows her words and actions when she stands in front of herself.
At the same time, he tells Ezio, like a heavenly girl, that he is helpless. Rubia doesn’t like the way he treats others so clearly and doubles. Maybe Ezio too… …
“… … I don’t know if I’ve just shown the same cynical face to Ezio.”
stand tall.
Breathing and movement cease to exist.
He didn’t respond to the provocation. It was simply because he heard words that he had no choice but to react to unconsciously.
“… … Why is that name here?”
Mew’s brow furrowed. Rubia hesitated for a moment at the very unpleasant impression, but at the thought of taking the initiative, she embraced her pounding heart and continued speaking.
“… Ezio doesn’t like people like you who easily ridicule and ignore others. You didn’t show that double look in front of Ezio, did you? So you didn’t win Ezio’s heart, did you?”
“… … ”
Rubia has no idea how Mew and Ezio dated. They did not know anything about how they met and what conversations they had inside the Larsen Academy.
But there was only one thing that seemed to be vaguely known.
Mew must have trembled with a double face in front of Ezio.
So, Ezio, who was inherently uncomfortable with that type of person, would have been able to accept her.
To say that he is someone who easily ridicules and ignores others, Rubia had a history of refusing to say that he knew what he knew when he couldn’t even use magic.
Like the usual Mew, Rubia did not know how to take a position of zero sociality that did not even respond to anyone except for those who had a one-sided favor, and could not do it.
Mew looked at Rubia with her mouth shut. The emotion in those purple eyes was of a kind that was hard to fathom.
“Are you doing that now as an insult? … ”
The soft words he vomited had a dazed look, as if he had gone beyond the realm of understanding in his head for a long time.
“First of all, it is disgusting to say that you know everything about Ezio, and the appearance of pretending to know about someone else’s past you don’t even know is secondarily disgusting, and why is it that a person who knows Ezio so well knows Ezio until now? I have a lot of questions about whether I couldn’t maintain a deep and deep relationship with… … ”
“… … 👌”
The last words penetrated quite deeply into Rubia’s heart. At first, it was a topic brought up to provoke Mew, but once his name was mentioned, it was no longer possible to pinpoint anyone and call him a winner.
“This convinced me that you and I are completely different. … Yeah, because you always looked like that, so I really hated you.”
“… … What are you talking about?”
Kicking the corpse of the monster with his feet, Mew grinned.
“Didn’t I say that I would never show my duality in front of Ezio? To be honest, it’s the opposite. I showed Ezio my everything. without missing anything.”
past, present, future.
Talking about the long story from birth to falling in love with you, talking with a smile on how happy you are now with being in love with him, Promise that I will be by your side forever, even if countless hours pass.
If it’s short, it’s short, if it’s long, it’s for a long time—-That’s why, while recalling the memories of the days I once mistook for eternity, Mew continued.
“I never listened to other people if I didn’t like it, I chose only what I wanted to do, and I was completely arbitrary. He also did a lot of things that Ezio didn’t like. He teased me a lot next to me. There were many times when I was scolded by Ezio, but most of it ended in a happening–or rather, it was an opportunity to grow stronger. Ezio nevertheless accepted me.”
“… … No way.”
“Just because you deny it doesn’t make it a reality.”
Mew was the exact opposite of Ezio that Rubia knew. How the hell did these two ever get along?
Silently, Mu murmurs.
“It’s not entirely wrong to say that Ezio was reluctant to me. Even though I knew it, it was me who kept coming. And then… … I even thanked you a little bit.”
“What?”
Self-help, or with a sarcastic smile.
With a look on the face that may have implied both of them.
“Thanks to you for kicking Ezio coolly, I was able to squeeze into that empty spot.”
“… … ”
Those were words that directly penetrated Rubia’s regretful memories. It can be said that this was the beginning of the entangled relationship between him and them… …
“Are you thinking that I should have accepted it then? … Don’t even think about denying it. You can’t take care of your facial expressions.”
“… … ”
“You too… … it’s kinda Frankly, I’m tired of being human. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a woman as stupid as you.”
In the midst of direct criticism, Rubia did not open her mouth.
“Did I say that you and I are completely different? Do you know why?”
“… … ”
I can’t answer.
“I said I would only do good things to the people I like, but it’s wrong to think that it’s not good.”
Mew hits the ground with the tip of her sword.
tuk, tuk.
“If you treat everyone with a smile and an equal attitude without discrimination, of course, you will win the favor of everyone.”
“But tell me.”
“Why?”
“Why do you have to be liked by everyone?”
“Are you afraid that other people hate you? I’m afraid that someone who turns into an enemy might say or do something that hurts me, just because I’m afraid of such a thing, so that no one hates sleeping? Why the hell?”
“No matter what you do, people who hate you will always hate you.”
“For example, someone who envy you.”
“The more you do to others, the better you are, the more poisonous you are in your reputation that is increasing day by day. You may have been trying to ignore it, but would those people always be around you?”
“Ah, of course, the celebrities of the Ministry of Magic must have embraced even such people broadly. If I approached him with sincerity without a single lie, he must have had the pure belief that he would respond with sincerity.”
“Such a childish thought, I really hate it.”
“Are you old enough to know the reality? You must have already realized that the world never runs the way you want it to, right? what kind of bastard is a person? Would you like to feed me, wag my tail and follow me? … Misunderstanding is also oily, don’t try to cover up disgusting cowardice with purity. I keep saying, you’re not innocent. If I told you this, I think you would know.”
“I will not force my values on you. I’m just thinking that you’re a pitiful, pitiful child.”
“So—you and I are different.”
After finishing his Japanese speech, Mew drew the floor with the tip of his sword.
Kaga Gaga.
It was so hard that it didn’t leave a single scratch, but the line was clearly drawn in a straight line.
Pakang- When I gave strength and pressed the ground firmly, the blade, which had already had incontinence drawn on it, could no longer withstand it and shattered.
He looked down at the sword that had only the nose and handle left, and threw it like garbage on the corpse of demons.
“I don’t understand if it’s really something to be reproached for that only one person in the world is special.”
Societies, reputation, what’s the use of all that?
For Mew, true happiness is… …
‘Now what?’
“Come to think of it, we had one thing in common, even though we didn’t get along so well.”
Mew raised her head and looked at Rubia.
Rubia’s expression turned into a picture worth seeing.
“… … That we were both so disgusting and ugly that we couldn’t even open our eyes, holding onto the crotch of someone who had already left.”
in fact.
Some of the words he had said to Rubia came back to him and stabbed him in the chest like thorns.
In the end, the truth didn’t reach me.
“Ah, isn’t that what we have in common now?”
“… … What?”
Then Rubia responded.
Without hesitation, Mew spit out vague words.
“I am going to give up at this point.”
When I turned my back, long long hair fluttered.
Whoop, whoop… …
In the end, Rubia couldn’t follow Mew’s pitch black shadow, which began to seep into the darkness.