7. Two Possessors (Side Story) (2)
Side story 5. A story that could have happened
A back alley with rain pouring down. Under the gray colored sky, there was only the sound of rain hitting the ground, as if it was resentful of the ground.
Not all raindrops wanted only the ground. The raindrops that were dangling under the intricately intersecting wires that looked like they were tangled on a telephone pole eventually couldn’t overcome their growing size and slipped, hitting my umbrella loudly and bouncing everywhere. Vibration transmitted through the umbrella spokes.
In response, I used my magic to stop the raindrops in the air as if I were catching a playing child, then released them as if forgiving me and checked my watch.
The minute hand pointing downwards was tilted to the left.
“Elia, you’re late…”
About 10 minutes later than the originally promised time.
I felt uncomfortable. It was even more so because I knew how much time 10 minutes was.
How on earth do you handle things like this?
That short sentence soon grew like a snowball. Thoughts that had been buried in the past raised their heads, and thoughts that passed by like the wind swirled around, creating a gust of wind.
The moment I was about to become more deeply immersed in the flow –
“Wow!”
Thin arms hugged me from behind. A crunching sensation on the back.
I felt my suddenly tense muscles gradually relax.
I didn’t turn my head. I could see it even without turning it.
So I just lowered my head and smiled enthusiastically.
“You’re here. “Elia.”
She smiled brightly at my calm greeting mixed with passion.
Her name is Hisprinity Elia di Mioris.
She is now better known as ‘Saint Myoris’ and is one of the giants who move the world.
He was my most precious friend.
“Yes! Long time no see! “Yooyoung!”
Nevertheless, the voice is always the same.
It brought me to hedonistic peace.
*
I immediately brought Elia to her nearby cafe.
The cafe was a space that was quite far from its purpose of selling coffee. There was only one counter seat, and the interior design was very different from the tastes of ordinary people, so it was more like a private space.
It was natural. This is a space I created just for Elia. I, too, am a Stella Academy graduate and have recently reached the 5th circle, so I have the ability to do so.
Elia probably recognized it too, as soon as she entered the cafe, she looked around and admired it. Would it really be worth it to hang on for nearly half a year?
Elia took a seat at her counter, meticulously enjoying the space reserved for her. As soon as she did that, this is what she said:
“Sorry. “You’ve been waiting a long time, right?”
It was true that I waited a long time. Did you come early and wait for about 2 hours? I had to do a final inspection of this cafe, and Elia always had a tendency to come excessively early than the scheduled time. I couldn’t see Elia’s time being wasted waiting for me, so I used to be competitive and come early and wait.
＜BR＞ It just didn’t hit me a little today. But I didn’t blame Elia at all.
This was because he knew Elia better than anyone else.
“No. She didn’t wait much. And it’s not your fault that you’re late.”
“That-“
“Schedule management team. “Are you still not working properly?”
“…”
I clicked her tongue because I read the affirmation implied in Elia’s silence.
“I knew it would be like that. “How strict is her schedule that even a saint makes her late for her appointment?”
“Ahahahaha. I can not help it. My position within the Church of Eden is not yet strong. “I need to do a lot of external activities and expand my scope step by step.”
“That’s a problem too. No, even though she is a saint, who on earth has power over her?”
“… “Not everyone in the Church of Eden is clean and good.”
While consoling Elia, who acknowledged the fact in a casual tone, a different image suddenly appeared.
While doing her part-time job, she was shocked to see someone who did not follow Eden’s teachings at all, even though she was a follower of Eden.
Her trials and pain back then were the nutrients that made up who she is now.
“Of course, there are other reasons. This generation is the generation with the largest number of candidates for sainthood in history. It’s not just ‘a lot’, it’s really strange. Moreover, recently there has been talk of world unification-“
She was released and startled as she spoke. She looked like she had said something she shouldn’t have said.
I caught it quickly and laughed.
“Are you okay. “I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it.”
“Sorry. Even in the religious order, it is still a secret shared only by the highest level…”
“Don’t mind. This can happen if you are too relaxed. Take it easy. Now, when you come to the cafe, you should order something to drink first. “What do you want to drink first?”
“Then first, please give me a cup of espresso ristretto!”
“Yes, I received your order~.”
I made coffee skillfully. From the beginning, Elia anticipated this and roasted the coffee beans to suit espresso, so there was no flaw in the taste.
At the same time, I made my own cafe latte. It wasn’t roasted for Americano, so the taste was a little off, but that didn’t matter. Anyway, the taste of coffee varies depending on who you are talking to while drinking it.
So I served two drinks and chatted happily with Elia across the counter.
This distance between me and Elia was just right. A relationship closer than a friend, but farther than a lover.
I didn’t think that way before. Because I really liked Elia. Of course, I wanted to be the closest relationship in the world.
But one day, I suddenly saw Elia’s gray eyes and had a hunch.
I will never be able to be this person’s lover for the rest of my life.
From then on, I gave up my love for Elia. Of course, it wasn’t something that could be explained simply in one sentence.
I can only talk about it briefly because it happened in the past, but the process could never be short.
The process of letting go of my affection for the person who was once my everything.
There was a lot of trial and error. At first, it was difficult to control myself, but as I separated my love for love and my longing for idols, the balance was achieved to some extent.
＜Br＞ I did not completely abandon my love. Because that was literally impossible.
I also had the support of my parents who supported me through all the trials and errors.
How reassuring it is to have one place to rely on.
It was not easy to receive that help. First of all, the problem was convincing people of the fact of possession. It would have been nice to have at least a notarization from an agency like the National Intelligence Service, but I was just a high school girl. So I had to be really persistent.
Because you worked so hard.
I finally succeeded and was sitting with Elia.
“Isn’t this really going too far? “No matter how much I am still not good enough to be a saint-“
“Yeah, that’s harsh.”
The story about Elia’s current situation suddenly degenerated into Elia’s complaints.
I was willing to do that.
Because this was proof that I was successful.
I don’t blindly take Elia’s side, nor do I blindly criticize her.
You can always open your heart and complain, and if you make a mistake, he comes before anyone else and gently points it out.
As a friend you can rely on.
That’s why I will try harder. Because I also depended on Elia a lot.
So that we can continue to support Elia. So that you can keep your field of view wide, which can be narrowed by being closest.
That way forever.
So that I can remain the best friend worthy of Elia.
Side story 5. A story that could have happened – END
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Side story 6. A story that shouldn’t have happened
It’s already been a year since I was possessed.
My relationship with my parents took a turn for the worst.
It was something that could not be helped. I had no intention of playing the original ‘Eugene’, and I also didn’t want to confess that I had been possessed.
Doesn’t that mean the original Eugene is dead? It would be too cruel to say that directly to Eugene’s parents, over Eugene’s body. I know that much too.
So, now we are running parallel lines like this on the phone.
From Noble mtl dot com
-If you really keep doing this…
Pop.
I didn’t want to hear my mom get angry, so I just hung up.
I know I’m doing this wrong. But that doesn’t mean there’s anything else to do.
More than anything, this was comfortable.
If you just live like this forever, you don’t need to be unreasonably courageous, and you won’t get hurt.
That’s enough.
“This is really the end…”
Since I just hung up on the phone, my relationship with my parents has completely ended.
I became a completely abandoned child. It had been a long time since I stopped paying for living expenses, and I was surviving on scholarships. Now, I’ve just cut off contact for the last time.
Now there was only one person left for me.
Elia.
You won’t abandon me, will you?
Side story 6. A story that shouldn’t have happened – END
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Lunch hour.
Seo-yeon and Si-woo sit on a bench in the playground.I continued studying leisurely.
In an atmosphere of fatigue from the spring breeze and a feeling of fullness, the loose conversation we had while studying was in itself like a ray of sunlight that healed our minds from studying.
At that time, Yooyoung and Elia, who had finished eating a little later, entered the playground track. In a quiet playground used only by a very small number of students, the two walked towards Si-woo, chatting amicably.
Of the two, it was Yooyoung who found Siwoo on the bench first. She lightly waved her hand and asked Siwoo without hesitation.
“Have you guys not eaten?”
“Huh? Did you eat it? “Why is that?”
“No, you guys usually eat the slowest.”
“It’s not easy for you to eat slowly.”
“That’s right.”
Seoyeon and Siuna, Yooyoung and Eliana.
Both couples were famous for eating slowly while chatting.
“So why did you eat so early today?”
“I just ate a homemade burger today. “I ate quickly and left.”
“Ah, you have learned a lot. “I ate pasta outside.”
“Could it be Lactychinia?”
“Uh, what is it? Have you been there too?”
“We were there a long time ago. “Isn’t the cream pasta there delicious?”
“Admit. “It was on a different level from other houses.”
Yooyoung then took Elia with her and walked away from Siwoo. Seo-yeon, who had been quiet all this time, asked as soon as Yoo-young left.
“What happened?”
“Huh? “What’s going on?”
“… Never mind.”
Seoyeon then glared at Yooyoung as she walked away with suspicion.
Yooyoung was the one who was blatantly avoiding Siwoo until recently. But one day she suddenly changed her name from Yujin to Yooyoung, and from then on she began to treat Siwoo much closer.
Moreover, those eyes that appear at first glance. It was something that deeply stimulated her sense of being a woman.
But since she couldn’t ask Si-woo about it, Seo-yeon changed the topic instead.
“Anyway, how is your study of analysis going?”
“No…”
When the topic of studying came up, Siwoo touched his forehead.
I should have looked into it when I first learned the epsilon delta argument. As a school for the elite, learning even non-magical subjects was anything but ordinary at this school. Because 3rd Circle Magic is a college course, college math was necessary, but even taking that into account, it was severe.
If it weren’t for the help of other Siwoos in the chat window, Siwoo might have passed out a long time ago.
“Ugh. “What part do you not understand?”
“From the integrability of Riemann integrals-“
As if he had been waiting, Si-Woo spoke about the part that was blocked right away.
And while doing so, I close the chat room that was floating next to me.
At that moment.
Jureuk-
“… Uh?”
Siwoo wiped his mouth with his hand and looked at his palm.
Bright red light.
Siwoo looked at it blankly.
His organs were twisted as if they were being squeezed, but he didn’t feel any pain.
Distorted cognition whispers sweet words in Siwoo’s ear,Reality has become a stage for a cruel carnival.
Blood red color covers the sky.
“This… What…”
Soon, Siwoo’s vision also turned red. Consciousness moving away.
Siwoo saw waves there.
The sea creeping up from beyond.
As it grows.
As it grows.
As it gets bigger and bigger.
The black waves of the deep sea, strong enough to shake everything in the world –
“… !”
That moment. Siwoo opened his eyes in surprise. Then I rolled my eyes and looked around.
He realized that he was lying down. Also, this is the nurse’s office.
Siwoo looked down at his clothes.
The dark red blood stains there.
It looked like a scar proving that what happened a moment ago was real.
Abduction 7.
Innsmouth waves.