126. Adults
[There it is! Summoner!]
“Anna!”
When the fairies Pink and Sylphy detect the human aura and whisper their location, Ian quickly sends Anna to rescue the cadet from under the building.
… The cadets who were saved like that are already spirited. At this point, Ian thought that no more cadets could have been rescued.
‘If I had saved this much by myself… Other people must have saved this much.’
The academy wasn’t that crowded. There were barely over a hundred, including all the students.
It was decided that all the people who could be saved were saved.
‘Because the earth is now over… Hurry up and come down.’
Ian looked up at the sky. Dozens of starlights embroidered the blue sky caught my eye.
It wasn’t starlight. No other star can shine so brightly.
Those were the traces left by the Empress and the Demons fighting.
Aftermath that could be mistaken for a feast of stars. It was a battle of beings that transcended limits. The problem was that there were many such beings left in the future… .
‘I just don’t have time to stop in a place like this.’
Come down quickly, Empress.
* * *
Whoops-!
A wave of overwhelming magic is shot towards the demons. Clara let out a scream as she was attacked by Empress.
─Why the hell-!
“You’re persistent, I think it’s time to die.”
Empress thought so and raised her magic power once more. Now that she transcended her limits due to the buff of the blue bird, she was able to pump out infinite magical power.
The word infinity is extremely transcendent, and she didn’t know what else she could do with it until she even dealt with it.
‘Yes, transcendence is… .’
Empress cleared up a bit of realization and fired a magic cannon. An attack that is not very easy to destroy as it is made of pure magic.
How can Clara, who has just become a demon, stop it? I had no choice but to get hit with my body and hold on.
And that method was slowly reaching its limits.
—Kyaah!
Clara, whose body was shattered by a powerful energy projection, began to die, scattering her seeds.
As a demon, the last activism- However, Empress was not a summons to stand by and look at it.
“Where.”
Empress, who shot and burned the seeds one by one, even eliminated the possibility that she would be resurrected.
Hundreds of years ago, it was a habit she learned while fighting demons during her lifetime. All demons must be killed, and no trace must be left behind.
“Hey, then now. Shall we go back to the summoner-“
Empress, who was about to slaughter the demons completely and return to the summoner down there, stiffened when he saw the woman protruding from the demon’s corpse.
She was someone Empress knew very well.
* * *
A temporary ward.
Ian summoned Anna and Pink to relieve the pain of the patients and go around treating their injuries.
[Human, don’t be sick.]
“Oh God… .”
Pink, who regulates the release of brain chemicals, was literally a walking morphine, and Anna, the miracle worker, was a divine agent.
Who is dealing with both at the same time? As of now, he had the same power as a god. Everyone got down on his knees and wanted him to be healed first… … .
“… Summoner.”
“Oh, Empress. I’m back-“
And then, Empress came to the ward with someone. Ian, who greeted her with a smile, was astonished to see Clara in her arms.
Clara’s condition was serious. One arm and two legs were missing, and the bones of his body had been cracked, and he was gasping for heat.
As it turns out, in the emergency room, the person who is on the verge of death is saved first, not the person who entered first.
Ian immediately summoned a summoned beast who was healing others and healed her.
“… What happened?”
“I mean, it’s long… From treatment.”
After healing her lying on the bed and taking a few breaths, Ian left the ward with Empress.
Judging by the look on her face, it didn’t seem like a word she would say in front of others.
After leaving the ward and walking to a place where there were no people around, Empress carefully opened her mouth, setting a barrier so as not to hear the people around her.
“He… Clara, right?”
“Right. My childhood friend.”
“… Don’t be surprised to hear it, Ian.”
From the moment Empress said that, Ian nodded as if he had guessed to some extent. And again, Empress told me that Clara had been picked up from a demon’s corpse.
To be precise, when the demon was defeated, she jumped out of the corpse. What this meant was very simple.
“… Clara was a demon.”
“yes. maybe.”
“No, it didn’t look like that… .”
It was a blind spot. There is no guarantee that the seeds of evil will only be planted on the cadets.
As usual, and up until this morning – it was very bright and there were no problems.
It means that she has had a demon sprouted in her heart for a very long time indistinguishable from others, and it has now appeared.
“driving me crazy. Did no one say this but me?”
“Do you know what the teacher is going to be and tell you this?”
“but.”
If the fact that Clara was the culprit of this demon case spread widely, she could not survive.
Not only that, the pet will be taken away, and her family will be executed for being a member of the devil.
The wounded and surviving cadets knew hundreds or thousands of ways to torment her.
It was better not to reveal the fact that she was the demon in this case.
“… Empress. How about when you see it?”
“what?”
“A person who became a devil and woke up. Does it exist?”
At least it wasn’t a case in the game, so Ian turned to Empress for advice. A legend who lived hundreds of years ago, I wondered if there was a way for an Empress who had acquired all kinds of information from this era-.
However, the case of becoming a demon and returning to a human again even for such an Empress had never been experienced or seen in books.
“Maybe I won’t be able to open my eyes forever. That might be better.”
“… why?”
“Are you disabled? The arm with the summoned beast is fine, but other than that, all the limbs have been severed.”
And above all, she will remember that she became a demon. Whether he wanted it or not, becoming a demon and destroying the academy was a very serious crime.
When she opened her eyes, she realized what she had done and could have killed herself. In that case, it would be mutually beneficial to keep our eyes closed forever.
“… is it?”
“Yeah, don’t bother waking me up. Even if I wake up… .”
Life is more painful than death. Empress swallowed hard and returned to the back of Ian’s hand.
Well, she must be right. It was never known what happened to Clara as a demon or what kind of sadness made her into a demon, but… By the way, there is something called a beautiful secret.
With that in mind, Ian returned to the ward and found Clara with a blank expression on her upper body and Noah smiling in front of them.
“Oh, Ian!”
Noah, who discovered Ian belatedly, was slightly overpowered and boasted about his achievements.
I have a 5-star summoned Summon, and he has the healing power to bring people closer to immortality.
Since I couldn’t do anything when fighting the demons, I glanced past her for using healing to help with one hand, and met Clara, who came to her senses.
“Clara.”
“I, not… ?”
Clara lifted her empty eyes slightly, and began to shed tears as if she knew very well what she had done.
Ian wished she hadn’t said anything. That way you can cover it. That way, you can make it look like nothing happened.
However, Clara did not do that.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry… .”
“yes? What’s wrong with the teacher-“
“It’s me, I did.”
“So, what… .”
“The culprit in this case. It’s me.”
Noah, who was listening to Clara, tilted her head as if she did not understand what she was saying.
Clara then added another word to help her understand.
“The demon who destroyed the academy is me.”
* * *
No matter how much Ian, he could not defend or protect Clara, who spoke about demonization in front of people.
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Moments later, a group of summoners made up of teachers approached and arrested Clara.
Her hands were handcuffed to prevent summoning of the summons, and Clara was taken away.
And after the case was closed, Ian was able to have a one-on-one interview with her.
“Why?”
“… Sorry.”
“I’m not saying that.”
Ian looked at Clara with her head bowed and realized that she had some misunderstanding.
So, he said that he did not come to condemn the demonization, but rather the opposite.
“If I had hidden it there, I would have been able to hide it forever.”
At those words, Clara looked up at Ian with her expressionless eyes.
Are you trying to see if his words are sincere? It didn’t seem like that. After a while, Clara grinned and began to mutter that Ian was still a child.
“What?”
“It’s still a child.”
“what… .”
“Ian, I made a mistake. Regardless of whether I wanted it or not.”
In Ian’s opinion, demonization was more like an indiscriminate disease that did not contain any faults.
Just as the death penalty cannot be imposed for having a cold, demonization should be punished equally – I thought so.
However, Clara did not think so.
“I already shamed you. I didn’t trust you, people, and I fell for the whispers of the devil.”
“But that… .”
“You couldn’t help it? Even if so… Adults are responsible Ian.”
Clara said so and smiled straightly.
“I’m sorry, my older sister became an adult first.”
It was farewell to Ian, whom I knew as a child.