Episode 34. A terrible fate (1)
“Teacher! I missed you!!”
“Don’t come.”
“Pu-eg!”
I said, pressing the palm of my hand to Tina’s face. She felt a foreign body in her palms.
But as if he didn’t want to listen to me, he exhaled heavily and stretched his arms out to me. To be honest, it seemed a bit perverted.
“Calm down and let go of your excitement.”
“Me, me! You worked hard?! Even seeing you after a long time?! I think you deserve a hug!”
Tina grabs my wrist and pulls it toward her. She was helplessly drawn to Tina like a balloon doll for me, who had no powers.
It was then.
Just as I was about to shove her face into Tina’s chest, Iris and Maria came out at the same time and came in between me and her Tina.
“Oh! Why are you drying it!”
“Tina. Look at your face and tell me.”
“Ha ha. How grandly you did it…….”
Tina’s head turned under her at Iris’s point and Maria’s sigh. Take a look at her body condition.
“Is it clean?”
“It’s because clothes have cleaning magic. What is that blood on her head and face?”
“Ah! Teacher! Those guys from the 2nd Corps really gave me a hard time so I wouldn’t mess with them again! Good job Come on, praise!”
She spreads her arms wide.
Seeing Tina like that, she smiled bitterly.
No matter how much the opponent was a demon, the tension was too high for someone who had been fighting a while ago.
Seeing that she didn’t care even though there must have been countless corpses on the battlefield where she fought, it seemed that her mentality was not very good. I don’t know if I should like this…….
“Do you smell it too? Is it dirty? Shall I take a bath? I can’t seem to see the demons anymore!”
“…… The Legion has stopped it, but it’s not over yet.”
She has yet to deal with the 4th legion in the kingdom of Aium, and she has not yet been able to defeat the demon king, the culprit of this war.
I wanted to attack the castle right now and kill Blas, but I wasn’t ready yet.
She also had to receive the Stone of Purification from Ella, as well as relieve the fatigue caused by the battle.
Even if the corps invaded the empire, there would be countless remaining demons in the Pandemonium.
Most of the top demons died in this battle, but the demons were still alive.
“Tina, Maria. Give me the equipment you got from the Spirit King.”
“Oh, yes.”
“Here it is!”
I grabbed the ring and necklace that Maria and Tina had given me.
[You have acquired 「Handmade Ring with Orient’s Will.」
[The amount of mana increases by 200% when equipped.]
[The holding time is 12 minutes.]
[You have acquired 「Handmade Necklace with Naiad’s Guts」.]
[All magic resistance increases by 100%.]
[The holding time is 11 minutes.]
I gave it back to them. It was an item that must be equipped before facing the demon king.
If the three warriors linked these items, they would surely be able to defeat the demon king.
“Oh. It was just a necklace when I brought it, but I suddenly started feeling mana. Is this also the master’s ability?!”
“You could say something like that.”
“Oh! As expected, the teacher is amazing!”
He stopped Tina, who was running for her chance, once more.
“I’ll hug you later. I want you to look at this first.”
I looked at Ariel, who was next to me. She made eye contact with mine and walked slowly in front of Tina. Ariel shows Tina the broken sword she was holding.
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“…… Isn’t this the sword your master used often?”
Looking at the unshakable vengeance, I am puzzled.
“Can you feel anything?”
Originally, I was planning to go to the forge in the capital immediately after killing Peremus, but Ariel said it would take time to repair it, so she told Tina to see it before that.
She bet the possibility that if Tina had the eyes to see the essence, she might be able to see something.
“…… Is it because of Phasma?”
Tina was well aware that Phasma resided in this sword. She was known not only to Tina, but to all of her warriors. It was none other than Phasma who taught them the illusion swordsmanship.
Hold the sword and look over the whole thing. Tina’s head swayed from side to side after staring at her for a while.
“I’m sorry. I can’t feel anything. I felt a strange power even before I reached the state of the mind sword…… Now just…… I think it has become a lump of iron.”
I can’t feel anything.
For some reason, those words sounded like a death sentence.
I glanced at Tina’s words and checked Ariel’s reaction.
She had a resigned face, as if she already knew, but she couldn’t contain her emotions, so she shed tears. Biting her lower lip, she could barely hold back her sobs.
“Hey, Ariel…… Well, but she hasn’t repaired it yet, so I don’t know.”
Tina is restless, urgently comforting her.
“…… Huh. Right? It will. For sure… ….”
She tried to laugh at Tina’s comfort and answered.
But she couldn’t see that Tina, who had the eyes to see essence, had her ghost dwelling, which meant that there was a high possibility that she would not be able to see Phasma even if she repaired it.
“Once…… Shall we go fix it?”
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“Mmm. I think you’d better throw away this sword.”
Said the blacksmith, scratching her head in embarrassment.
“Uh, why?”
“…… Even if I repair it again, it’s hard to use it as a sword. A sword that has been broken once is easy to break again.”
“Didn’t you do that last time?”
She finds an artifact hidden in the capital city, she said, recalling her memories of entrusting him with an unbreakable past glory and an unshakable vengeance.
“I did. But at that time, even if it was broken, it wasn’t cut in this way, only the shape was broken, so I was able to do it. This… …. I have no answer.”
“…… I want you to do it anyway. It’s okay even if you can’t use it as a sword.”
“Hmm.”
The blacksmith rubbed his chin with a flinch. He looked around with his vengeance, saw me and Ariel’s expression, and nodded his head.
“Okay, let’s try it together.”
“Then can you postpone other tasks and do it right now?”
“I need more money to put off the work I’m doing—”
“How much more should I give?”
Asked as she pulled out her purse. The blacksmith glanced at the money bag and sighed.
“Do you think it will be enough for a gold coin to repair it?”
“Please take good care of me.”
I immediately took out two gold coins from my money bag and handed them over. The corner of his mouth raised slightly.
“Draw. But I’ll try my best, but don’t expect too much.”
“Okay, I want you to do your best.”
“…… It will take about a day, so you can come around this time tomorrow.”
“Not like that.”
As soon as the conversation was over, the blacksmith entered the workshop with a vengeance.
“Let’s go.”
After finishing my business, I was about to leave the smithy. The warriors follow. But Ariel, who came with her, was standing still, looking at the entrance to the studio.
“Ariel?”
“…… Ah yes. Go, go.”
I wonder if my feet won’t move, but my body doesn’t move even though I answer.
“Just because you’re looking at it like that, it doesn’t come out right away.”
“…… Prause.”
As I was about to open the door and leave, she called me in a low voice.
“A way to see Phasma again. Is there any way we can talk?”
“…… I do not know.”
Regardless of my intentions, a determined voice suppressed her expectations. She looked at me and pursed her lips.
“So, then, should I just give up?”
“Well… …. If I can’t find a way, I have no choice but to let it go.”
“Let go, let go… ….”
Even if I wanted to say something comforting to her, her mouth was always rational and calm as long as I couldn’t fully control her expression.
It can be said to be realistic in a sense, but it would be the worst word for the parties involved.
“A lot of Prause too…… You relied on Phasma. Are you still telling me to let it go so lightly?”
“…… I didn’t say it lightly. It just has to be.”
“No matter what…… !”
“Don’t believe that I can do what you cannot do.”
The world is changing. According to my actions.
Yes, just like in reality.
It’s been a long time since I thought this world was real, and most of the settings and predictions I knew had no meaning.
Just looking at the current situation, that’s the case.
Who would have predicted that Phasma’s vengeance would be broken?
Should I have prepared in advance when the hologram phrase that durability does not exist did not appear?
…… Now that it came, it was fine.
“If that was the case, why…… I brought you Why did you let me meet Phasma?”
“Not only to get your artifact, but also because I thought Phasma’s ability would be useful to me—”
“Prause…… !”
Ariel grabs me by the collar. She stares at me with tears in her eyes. Every time I heard the sound of sobbing, my heart beat faster.
“Ariel!”
The three warriors stopped Ariel by holding her body and arms. But the more she did, the stronger her hands gripped her by the collar.
“Do you really not have affection?”
“…… I was just trying to connect you a little more in exchange for using you guys.”
“I don’t want to hear that! What I want to hear is…… !”
“Don’t be stubborn, Ariel. You would have known that we should part someday It was just now that I wasn’t ready for that moment.”
Ariel didn’t say anything for a while as if he was shocked by the nonchalant voice that didn’t feel the slightest bit of warmth.
“Then it’s even worse… …. She wasn’t even ready yet…….”
Who would have predicted that the sword would break? How hard she usually manages…….
“That’s why it can’t be helped.”
In the first place, Phasma was already dead.
It may have been an acceptable cause and effect because it is a game world, but there is no way to bring it back to life in this world. At least that’s what I know of.
If I had known that way, I would have saved Leones too.
“Don’t be ridiculous… …. The reason you can say so rationally is because you’re not the person involved. Do you think you could say that if your family or any of these kids died?”
“… ….”
I didn’t say anything.
The expression management skill may have played a part, but like she said, it was something I could see rationally because I was the third person. Had I been the party, I would never have said this.
Ariel quietly let go of her collar when she saw her warriors on her left and right holding her. She then moves her steps first.
“…… Prause, don’t think that everyone can take reality for granted like you do.”
Ariel wiped away her tears and she disappeared.
“Haa… ….”
I looked at the place where Ariel was a moment ago and sighed at her.
To be honest, it wasn’t that there was no way.
It’s a possibility, but if you use that method, there’s a high probability that you won’t end up seeing Phasma again, but you might be able to revive it.
However, when that happens, I have to give up a lot. Maybe even returning to the original world.
That’s why I thought I’d keep my mouth shut for now. I still don’t feel the merits of making that choice.
“Do you think I did something wrong too?”
“Yes. It’s great.”
I couldn’t help but laugh bitterly at Tina’s honest words.