104 – … Why can’t I see this guy’s future?
The second day of the subjugation festival.
The imperial family, which had been busy every single day, was quiet today.
The inner chamber of the second princess, who is intimidating just by her presence.
This is a space that resembles the Great Hall of the Imperial Palace, and various bureaucrats are lined up with a carpet in between that only noble beings can step on.
The second princess, Aurora, is sitting on her throne.
The reason we gathered here today was simple. It was because of the second princess’ wish to see the subjugation ceremony together.
But even a simple wind becomes a command the moment Aurora embraces it. The interior of the room looking at the records was quiet. Sometimes, only the second princess enjoyed making noise.
Of course, it wasn’t that the bureaucrats weren’t having fun, but there was no one who dared to speak out in front of Aurora.
Currently, the images of the knights terrifying Berkel were forming on the retina of the second princess.
“You look ridiculous.”
Aurora burst out laughing.
“It’s fun to see precious things rolling like that. Have fun Is this body bad?”
“How can it not be fun to see those who will be called heroes in the future show off their inaction.”
Aurora’s knight ‘Ban’ answered.
“I mean, it’s fun to be stumped because you don’t even have food. I am.”
“The food from the subjugation system has a short shelf life. Also, due to the local characteristics of Berkel, the body gets tired quickly….”
The fact that combat rations that can be purchased at the store have a fixed expiration date, and that the body quickly gets tired due to Berkel’s regional characteristics of absorbing energy.
All of this was something Aurora already knew.
“I know. I know everything. I know, but it’s just fun.”
Van nodded her head quietly.
“The princess.”
And this time, he held out something like a small wooden board. Aurora slowly turned her gaze, which had been fixed on her notebook all along.
“This is the score status.”
“Leave it.”
“It would be nice to see them together.”
“Is there a need for that? Just tell me your score in the Faculty of Magic. Because that is enough.”
Aurora’s biggest concern in the subjugation was the Faculty of Magic. No, it was flan to be exact.
Earning points by using the exception clause of the fog cliff, and revealing the fantasy map to everyone.
These unexpected actions were enough to attract the attention of the second princess.
“Currently, Tianchuk is number one. Faculty of Magic barely earned points on the first day.”
“Yes. I mean.”
Aurora blinked once.
“Your interest is growing. If you take your time, you’ll end up doing only good things for others, but it’s not easy to judge what this guy is thinking.”
“Probably no one knows but myself.”
The second princess nodded.
“Right. That’s what’s interesting.”
Aurora is said to have ‘mystery’.
To wield her sword well and master her magic with ease is her due. However, the reason why she says ‘she has a new spirit’ instead of ‘her talent is wonderful’.
“… Why can’t I see this guy’s future? I wonder how many points she has in her head.”
She is able to see the very near future of certain people. It is a force that cannot be expressed by general explanations.
However, that power was clearly blocked by Plan.
The same is true when looking at other people’s things. Although the future they experience minutes later is sparsely visible, the future involving the flan is not all painted black.
While I was thinking about that, I noticed the figures of bureaucrats holding papers of different colors.
After chasing the princess’ gaze, the class opened her mouth on their own.
“It is a prediction sheet.”
“Hmm.”
“By betting on something to predict the outcome of the match, it is a way to enjoy the Punishment even more.”
“Hmm.”
“It is said that ordinary people also enjoy this method quite a bit.”
“Hmm.”
“… Would you like to try the second princess?”
“Hmm.”
“….”
Making fun of the reticent knight, Van, is one of Aurora’s pastimes. With her delightful smile, she waved her hand.
“You guys must be having fun. I hate being childish. The third likes that.”
“Princess Yoo Shia has already achieved 10,96 times the result.”
“… What?”
Aurora’s eyes, which were soaked in her boredom, gained a bit of strength. The second princess slightly bent her head.
Then he holds out one of her hands.
“Put it out.”
“….”
Ban looked up at the aurora in silence.
The golden eyes look exactly like Yoo Shia’s, but if you look closely, they are completely different.
Terrible competitive spirit.
It was the name of the fuel that filled the eyes.
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Forest of Berkel.
“Run, run!”
Knight Vanessa shouted with all her might. At the side, one of the members was running as hard as he could.
“Keah!”
“No!”
However, it wasn’t long before I clearly saw Jo Won’s shoulder being pierced. Vanessa freaked out and swung his sword at random.
Cheak-!
The result was finally a success.
A notorious high-difficulty monster. He manages to defeat the witch’s spirit somehow, but even so, Vanessa is not at all happy.
I looked at the current situation with a confused mind.
Regular knights appear out of nowhere to take care of the seriously injured members of the crew. Everyone was eliminated from the subjugation system, but it would be a hundred times better than losing one’s life for nothing.
“Thank you very much….”
The regular knights had already disappeared without a trace, and Vanessa bowed her head at the place where they had just been.
“How did this happen?”
I let out a deep sigh. The joy of surviving was not great. After all, she was also a wreck.
“….”
To make matters worse, he growled and even cried at his belly button clock. Vanessa rummaged through the nearly collapsed makeshift shelter and pulled out a combat ration.
There is no time to be immersed in melancholy. Meal times are reduced to a minimum. Find a way somehow…. With that thought in mind, he was examining his combat rations.
“Huh?”
Vanessa’s eyes widened.
The combat rations that were supposed to contain something were empty. She wondered if she had seen anything wrong, so she turned it upside down and brushed it off.
But the result was the same. She was empty
“Ah….”
One of the provisions of the subjugation system came to mind only then.
─Battle rations in Subjugation will automatically disappear after 30 hours.
“Going crazy!”
Vanessa cupped his face in the palm of her hand. No matter how fair it is to evaluate the viability of the representatives, I thought that 30 hours was too much.
The strength of the beast, the strength of the other knights, the lack of food, and Berkel’s physical fatigue.
For Vanessa, who passed the preliminaries with a pull-up, it was too much trouble to handle.
“Ugh.”
Still, Vanessa had his heart set on him. Even for his teammates. He also needed to do his best until the end, even for himself in the future.
That’s how the people here started walking. The image of his illusory map in his mind was already dim, but he persevered, believing that the way he was going was the right one.
“… !”
She was walking steadfastly, but at some point she stopped. She opened her eyes at the same time and looked in front of her.
“Uh… !”
There was.
There was a box ahead of me that was well wrapped with a ribbon. Anyone can see that it was a supply randomly placed by regular knights all over Berkel.
But the joy was short-lived.
“Where shall we go from now on?”
“First of all, this place is dangerous. There is a witch’s spirit.”
The supplies were already occupied by other knights.
Vanessa studied their faces. It was Joe Chengyun, led by a familiar face, Qian.
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“What, isn’t that Vanessa?”
That’s when Qian found Vanessa.
“Why are you walking alone? Dangerously.”
The faces of the members of the Chungwoon crew were full of joy that they had secured supplies and a sense of superiority that they were ahead of the competition.
“Do you have any food…. Do you have any food?”
“Food? Of course there is. Do you need it?”
Vanessa nodded her head hastily.
“I’ll give you points. If you exchange it for food….”
“Oh, I don’t need points.”
“That’s quite a lot. She caught the witch’s spirit….”
Then. A knight next to Kian interrupted.
“Okay, haven’t you seen the Faculty of Magic?”
“Faculty of Magic… ?”
“Tianchuk is looking for the Faculty of Magic. He said he would give you a lot of points if you just share your location.”
“I’ve never seen it before.”
At the same time as he answered, all interest disappeared from Chungwoon’s face. The knight snared coldly.
“Leave here in three minutes. From then on, I will only ask after you with the sword, so I know that.”
“….”
It’s frustrating, but Vanessa had no choice but to obey. Because now I can’t deal with four people.
I walked and walked like that.
“Thu…. Don’t….”
Staggering, I just walked, hoping for a miracle.
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The morning of the second day of the subjugation festival.
From early morning, we moved diligently.
Louise prepares the ingredients with surprisingly good skill, and Becky is still dozing in the chair.
Trixie set out to clean the area.
After the scope was decided, I started working on it using magic in my own way. It’s still clumsy, but the nearby space is turning into a space for camping
“I feel better now.”
After clearing out everything that was Becky’s residence, Trixie put on a proud expression.
I made a long wooden dining table. Three people should eat here.
Trixie asked me.
“You must be doing something today, right? You didn’t do anything yesterday except catch a few cottonfish.”
He nodded.
Today’s goal is to go to a dangerous area.
The points that can be earned in dangerous areas are much higher than those in normal areas, and so far we have only waited for the magic circle of teleportation to be completed.
‘Just….’
I designed this magic circle in the form of a problem. It is a form in which the effect is activated when three representatives release it.
And explaining all this was a waste of time.
“First, have a quiet breakfast.”
“There is never a way to say it easily.”
“You will find out soon.”
“No, what….”
Just as she was about to ask something about her.
“This is how Mr. Teaching wanted it.”
“… !”
Trixie’s eyebrows twitched once.
After a moment of silence, Trixie stood still, rolling her eyes and coughing several times.
“Hmm. Okay? Then you should have said that.”
Watching Trixie quickly throw away her lingering feelings while singing hymns and hums, there was nothing to say.
“Everyone~ What are you talking about?”
This voice belongs to Lewis. He came with a basket full of trimmed food ingredients.
Trixie’s attention shifts to the basket.
“Did you polish it already?”
“Yes. Deciding on the menu was the hardest part. Thanks to the score I got at the beginning, the ingredients are so diverse.”
“Well, I guess so.”
The ‘desperate struggle to secure food’ is a story that does not apply to us at all yet.
In the first place, there were a lot of food materials secured from the store, and drinking water was obtained by myself by purifying the river water.
Sizzle─
Lewis started grilling vegetables and meat together. He has been diligently moving since dawn to hunt the ‘steel wild boar’.
“Wow….”
Becky appeared as if it had been created naturally. With the happiest face in the world, she carefully examines each and every food item.
And exactly twenty minutes later.
Three people gathered around the table I made. Meat and vegetables. It’s a common combination, but since it’s eaten at Berkel, it must have a special meaning.
… And in a way, it will be the last supper.
“I will eat well!”
Becky vigorously stabs a piece of meat with a fork. It entered the girl’s mouth in the blink of an eye.
Filth.
Becky’s eyes widen with each movement of her jaw. Her clenched fists tremble.
“Too…. You are so delicious….”
“Huh? The only thing I took out was the ride.”
“… ?”
Becky gulped down what she was chewing on, looking bewildered.
Looking pathetically at the bewildered Becky, Trixie picked up some of her washed vegetables.
What she is holding now is a carrot cut into rectangles. Chewing like a rabbit.
“… Eh.”
But after chewing on the carrot a few times, Trixie looked a bit surprised and asked Louise.
“Did you season this? Then you can’t.”
Lewis replied with a small smile.
“I didn’t. It just looks like Plan has been tweaked a bit.”
“… ?”
“Really. It only takes a few touches from the flan, and it makes the vegetables a little fresher.”
It was not particularly difficult to increase the cleanliness and freshness. I had no choice but to take care of my hands because it bothered me when I had an upset stomach.
“Looks like you learned from Mr. Gachim.”
Trixie started chewing her carrots again. Moving his jaw much faster than before.
While waiting for the meal to continue, Becky suddenly called me while I was looking at the magic circle on the floor.
“Uh, flan. But don’t you eat?”
I quietly nodded.
Eating with others was not to my liking in the first place, and now inspecting the magic circle was my top priority.
“Ha ha ha…. You should leave something like that behind.”
Louis pointed out Becky with a laugh.
Becky had already eaten all that could be called food on the table.
“Ah.”
Becky scratched his head, embarrassed. Trixie chewed on her carrot and said something.
“This makes me gain weight.”
“….”
“Louis is great too. That he hunted Becky and the Steel Boar without confusing them. Baked again.”
“Why are you doing this to me?”
But then.
I suddenly sensed some energy. It belonged to a weak and languid knight.
“Huh?”
And the next moment.
The three of them vomited suspicious deaths at the same time. Because something broke through the grass and made its appearance.
“What, what, what is that? Ghouls?”
“Are you a ghoul? It seems to be a knight of some kind.”
“Isn’t that a ghoul? It looks like a corpse….”
While Becky and Louise were talking, I checked its appearance. It was a knight with brown hair.
She staggered towards me, who was completely battered even to the point of appearance. She looked like a sleepwalker.
“Who are you?”
She sat down before I could finish my question.
“Water. Water. Please, just a sip of water….”
I snapped my finger once. In front of her was a water bottle filled with drinking water.
“Water?”
I opened my eyes to the girl who lives here and gulped it down. It was so pitiful to see that, so I threw one of my remaining combat rations. These are all things that need to be dealt with before time runs out anyway.
“… !”
When I saw the combat rations, I was shocked to the point of tearing up my mouth.
Sitting down, she alternated between me and her battle rations over ten times.
He held it up as if it could be a family home and asked.
“This precious thing, to me?”
“Think of it as the enemy ship. I really feel sorry for you.”
“But…. It’s so precious….”
I pointed to the back with my chin once.
The knight finally saw with his own two eyes the sight of the three sitting around a long wooden table and enjoying a meal.
“… ?”
Before long, she hardened like her stone statue.
it’s the girl from the previous chapter?
Basically an oasis in the desert lmaoo