Episode 105
Allen left the dormitory early in the morning.
The flower garden built around the dormitory gave off a moist smell that can only be smelled in the twilight hours.
The training room where Gaion was waiting came out after a while past the northern entrance that crossed the academy.
As there are many high-rise buildings and unusual objects in Elpis, it could be said that building a training room in the basement was relatively easy.
‘still… , I can’t believe I used that much of Orekalcos.’
only for armpits.
The scale of the training room was enormous, with both walls and ceilings covered with Orekaltos alloy, a collaboration between alchemy and blacksmithing.
From the dormitory on the east to the main boulevard north exiting the academy.
Unlike the residential districts of the west and the commercial districts of the south, which were busy preparing for the morning, it was less lively.
While many were preparing breakfast, they heard a murmur as they crossed the academy.
“I couldn’t stand the psychological shock of being expelled… .”
“One survived, but two broke their necks right away… .”
“Ttt, let’s go. So it’s okay, isn’t it?”
Allen remembered the scene he had seen yesterday.
Three boys who were embarrassed by one girl.
Allen’s steps, without realizing it, were breaking through the crowd. I didn’t know why. All I could think of was that I had to see it.
“… Still, there must be some talent, but suicide… Oh, who is it?”
“Please step back. After a while, the academy will sort it out… student!”
Passing through people’s crevices, sometimes forcibly digging in, and even evading the guards blocking access.
At the end of the crowd that came out, there were two corpses.
Don’t save what you can’t save.
because it can’t be helped.
An inexplicable exclamation came out. The pupil shook violently.
Two boys, a small sized boy and a large sized boy, died.
Allen had to choose, and they were not chosen.
“I have less concentration today than yesterday. Do you have the heart to do it?”
“This is the special training you want to do. not me Next time, if it takes you to divert your mind to something else… .”
Gaion’s yellow pupils sharpened and looked down at Allen.
“Then don’t regret it.”
“We will make sure this does not happen.”
“Hey, who can’t put it into words? Don’t listen to the old man for nothing.”
Allen couldn’t help but appreciate Gaion giving him one more chance. In fact, it was hard to concentrate after seeing those two deaths.
Was it because I found out about them yesterday?
Or is it because you decided not to recruit them?
In fact, none of it could be made clear.
just a little… , okay. I felt a little dizzy. It wasn’t like anger or sadness.
Just, something piled up in my heart.
It felt like it was piling up.
Allen sighed and moved on. The place her feet touched was not the dormitory, but the place she had visited once yesterday.
“Careful, careful! Move slowly!”
“The internal structure is… You don’t need to fix it, just trim it as it is!”
Perhaps it was thanks to the fact that they finished training earlier than usual, the workers were still working.
Among them, Soned wandered here and there, decorating the upper branch.
“Ah, Confucius! What are you doing!”
“Is Arcanthus up there?”
“Yes, there is. Would you like to call me?”
Allen shook his head and walked towards the stairs.
“No, I have a story to share, so I’ll go up.”
“… If you ever need me… .”
“It’s a personal matter, so you don’t have to worry about it. Oh, you’re still sending things to the place I said last time, aren’t you?”
“Oh, yes, yes. I definitely paid attention to it.”
The promise to the Queen of Shadows is being kept.
Allen checked a few more simple things and knocked on the door on the top floor.
“Can I come in?”
“Yes, come in.”
Allen said nothing for a while after entering. He didn’t even know why he had come here.
Is it sympathy for the dead?
Or to what they felt yesterday’s decisions made their deaths?
Allen stopped the complicated thoughts and opened his mouth.
“… after. Thank you for waiting.”
“no. Why did you come here… .”
Arcandus, who had been watching them in many ways, would not be unaware of the news after half a day had already passed.
“You can’t recruit, can’t you?”
Allen’s question had several meanings. It’s not a question of whether it’s true, but a question close to lamentation.
But, unexpectedly, Arcanthus nodded.
“actually… I thought that Confucius might ask, so I’ve sorted out those who are not awkward at all, even if they catch Julius-sama’s eyes.”
What he handed over was the only piece of paper different from yesterday.
“This… Is there one surviving?”
“Yes, my name is Noah. I am a sophomore from common people. and… .”
Arcandus pulled out another sheet of paper. There was a sentence familiar to Allen’s eyes engraved there.
Roaring blue lion.
“… Reinhardt.”
“One of the students supported by the Reinhardt family.”
[Do I really need to go?]
[Let me go this time.]
[Isn’t it more natural for family members to see the students they sponsor?]
[That’s right, but… .]
Allen pushed aside Arcanthus, who said he would deal with it, and went on his own.
Not only because of the deaths of the two boys, but because we really needed to see them again.
‘If I knew this would happen, I would have followed Rachel’s advice.’
At the beginning of the school year, she asked if she would like to meet some of her family supporters.
At that time, I just let it go, but it will come back with this result.
‘Then the familiar face is because of that?’
He might have glanced at the documents about him in his father’s office.
Allen stopped walking when he reached his destination.
“This is right… ?」
Bestla opened her mouth suspiciously. Allen, too, doubted whether the building in front of her was truly a place for a man to stay.
The old wooden wall was painted with mud everywhere, and although it was five stories low compared to other buildings, I was worried that even that would collapse.
However, according to information received from Arcanthus, he has been staying here since he was kicked out of the dormitory.
With the two remaining male students who are no longer there.
He said that after surviving alone in the morning, he was treated by the academy and sent back here.
Allen pushed the wooden door and looked inside. The inside was reinforced with logs, so it looked stronger than the outside.
“welcome! This is a 130-year-old tradition… .”
“Is there a student named Noah here?”
Allen interrupted the noisy innkeeper and asked a question. He glanced at Allen’s outfit for a moment, then answered with a stern look on his face.
“Oh, you are welcome! If it was that student, whatever happened in the morning, she would go out with her friends and come in alone in the afternoon.”
“How many rooms are you staying in?”
It rolled around in his eyeballs. Allen seemed to understand the reason why other nobles were running rampant here.
The residents of this place were not afraid, perhaps because the academy was absolutely protected.
Allen was too lazy to wrestle, so he threw in a couple of silver coins. The innkeeper took the silver coin like a ghost and smiled broadly.
“I’m staying in room 201, right upstairs.”
Allen went up the stairs without a word.
It wasn’t popular because it was a place where so many people stayed.
The front of Room 201 arrived after passing the old stairs and hallways.
Allen knocked on the door.
Allen secretly showed his senses. Allen’s mind drew a picture of the creature in his room 201.
How many times have you tapped like that? Just as I was wondering if the old door leaf might be smashed first, I heard a voice.
“… … Yes, do whatever you want.”
A room with an old bed, a chest of drawers and a small closet.
Above the bed, the blunt-looking boy I saw yesterday was drooping without even looking at Allen.
It looked like a living corpse.
“So, what did you come here for?”
“I want to help.”
He smirked at Allen’s words. Then he raised his head with a sign of seeing the face of the person who came in.
“Are you going to help? that’s what… Son… .”
eyes wide open
A question engraved on Allen’s face.
“What’s wrong… .”
“Reinhardt? come now?”
His face was distorted as if he was the devil of hell.
It stimulated Allen’s memory. It was definitely a face I had seen. A face that is blurry but engraved in memory.
‘If you get a little older and change stronger… .’
He cried out with a face wet with anger and sorrow.
“why! Did you just come? When I went looking for it, I never saw it, so why!”
The floor stained with blood, the altar of skeletons, and the magic circle of five mangseong decorated with six pieces. Bloody screams and rebellion.
“why… !”
And death, the faces overlap.
A memory came to mind.
When did Allen stop having nightmares?
Immediately after returning home, nightmares were so close to everyday life that there was not a single day he did not have nightmares.
Those who were sacrificed to summon demons.
Linbell lost her mother in a fight over Julius.
Kim Woo-jin pretends to be the real Julius and approaches.
It was after the subjugation of the Chimera Magician that I no longer had such nightmares.
Their sacrifices were buried in the missing past the first time, but from the moment they vowed not to forget them, they stopped having nightmares.
In that sense, Linbell was somewhat special to Allen.
Because it showed hope and possibility that we can change the future. She and her Inelia are not dead, and she holds her important post as Allen’s handmaiden.
Kim Woo-jin in Julius is the same.
An existence that could not be resisted even after the entire 1st round was devoted. The only clue that is the one he wants to kill, but also has contact with the real Julius soul.
He was the root cause of Allen’s actions.
If so, what about the others?
I can’t even remember how many tens, hundreds, or even humans I sacrificed for summoning demons.
So I wasn’t thinking about it.
Just because I remembered their sacrifice, my present self couldn’t do anything for me.
So, Allen did not assume the situation as it is now.
“Why, why are you here now? It’s already over! why!”
He convulsed as if he knew Allen’s face.
Allen calmed his agitated heart. She forced her to keep her rating sim. But she couldn’t hide her trembling voice.
“Because your Reinhardt didn’t meet you! He didn’t even show his face… .”
His mind didn’t seem clear. He had mixed emotions such as tears, resentment, and anger.
“What are we to Confucius?”
“It’s a deal.”
Allen answered briefly. For him, sponsorship was more of a give-and-take relationship.
“I was hopeful for us! Hope that you have chosen me out of many and many commoners! If you are going to invest like that, could you not do more?”
He burst out in anger as if to blame all the blame on him.
Yes, that figure showed injustice as if it had to be blamed on someone else.
“Do you know how many times we go to ask for help when we suffer from her?”
I didn’t know at all. At first, Allen was the first to hear from Rachel that it was her patronage.
“Always blocked by that damn little maid!”
little maid… , Linbell? Originally, there was no need to believe these words, but seeing Linbell’s serious face, he could not make hasty conclusions.
“And now you are here. Mark and Louie are both dead… .”
He then asked with disgust.
“After all, you… How is it different from Julius?”
Allen’s mouth closed.
I couldn’t answer anything.