Mission No.4 Reunion (05)
Time passed tediously.
Zelena, who was almost mummy-like in bandages with blood seeping out everywhere, was quietly breathing.
Ewald brought her chair to Zelena’s side and silently looked elsewhere. I wasn’t looking at anything in particular, I was just raising my eyes blankly…
Even when he scolded and worried that the person who had been stabbed in the heart a while ago wasn’t working too hard, Ewald couldn’t hear such words.
Ewald’s gaze returned to Zelena.
“… Master, Master.”
Ewald didn’t even respond to Usbel, who was very downtrodden, calling him that.
Instead, Balt opened his mouth in a cracked tone.
“Everyone go in and rest. This is where I will be watching.”
I’m going to go in and rest. Everyone just didn’t think to move with that expression.
Even the dwarf girl Lafon stood by Ewald’s side.
It’s quite stuffy when there are close to ten people in a small room.
“Because it’s okay. I’ll take responsibility, everyone go in and rest…”
“Ha…”
Ewald, who had been talking while looking back at the crew, suddenly raised his head and looked at the place where the sigh came from.
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There, Zelena, who had just opened her eyes, was staring at her ceiling with her unfocused eyes.
Seeing that, Ewald felt his heart sink. But before that feeling, Ewald’s lips opened.
“Selena…”
“… Ewald?”
Zelena’s eyes, which had managed to find focus, quickly moved toward Ewald.
It was a look that didn’t contain any emotion, but Ewald’s body, facing that look, completely stiffened.
However, Zelena’s eyes quickly moved away from Ewald.
“It’s fun.”
Zelena threw out a random comment and she closed her eyes slightly.
“… Being alive is amazing, but how can nothing change?”
“… It would be long to explain.”
“You always had a long back story.”
A weak laugh escaped Zelena.
“How have you been doing?”
“… Maybe just fine.”
It was a very mild conversation for a conversation between a man with a dagger stuck in his chest and a man who had just passed the brink of death.
Ewald also started to talk in a warm tone somehow at Zelena’s story.
“Has it already been 30 years?”
“… Maybe that’s enough?”
Zelena gave her voice a half-sigh.
“Time flies so quickly. When did you become so old?”
“I’m sorry I’m the only one who doesn’t grow old.”
This time she let out a blank laugh from Ewald.
“… Did I stab you?”
However, Zelena’s words put Ewald’s laughter to rest.
Balt nodded his head as he couldn’t help but turn away from the gaze of the crew members who were expressing their anger intact.
Confirming Ewald’s gesture, Zelena let out a sigh of relief and pulled herself up.
Ewald hurriedly tried to stop her, but she had already raised her upper body completely, and with her short moan, she raised her hand to block Ewald.
And Zelena, who somehow sighed with relief, opened her mouth with her slight smile.
“Then the magic must be broken now.”
Magic?
Ewald frowned and asked again.
“Are you a skuldbindingar?”
“I don’t know because I don’t know magic at all, but I know that Lasser gave me magic.”
“… Lasser.”
At that word, a serious darkness came over Ewald’s face.
But Ebalt, who had driven away the darkness by shaking his head once, drew a troubled smile.
“I don’t know if you heard, but I can’t die right now. Sorry. But when it’s done…”
“I have no intention of killing you, Ewald.”
At once, Zelena cut off Ewald’s words and entered.
Her words didn’t make sense at all when I thought of how she stabbed Ewald with her dagger in the chest with her killing spree. But her face, looking at Ewald with her clear eyes, was even resolute.
Ewald looked at Zelena for a moment with an expression of incomprehension, but when he recalled their conversation about magic, he shut her mouth.
Zelena threw a weak voice.
“When I see you again, I just cast a spell to put a knife in your chest, and since I actually put a knife in your chest, the magic must have worked. If not, I still have to stab you.”
“… But it’s clear…”
Zelena suppressed the pain that crept over her and smiled lightly.
“It was 30 years ago. No matter how grievous I was, I no longer have the energy to resent you all that time.”
A bitter expression formed on Ewald’s face.
“And it’s not all your fault.”
“… I have nothing to say.”
“I’m sorry if it hurts.”
She was much more seriously injured than Ewald, but Zelena, who sent her calm gaze with her sincere voice, was quietly brainwashed.
“But I really forgot about it a long time ago. No, should I say that I seem to have forgotten? As soon as I saw you, the memory came back to me.”
Zelena, who had bloody bandages all over her, put her hand on Balt’s head as she sat low and smiled benevolently.
“Really… Time is short.”
* * *
“Ah, Felix. Come on.”
“I heard you found it.”
Yannick opened his mouth to Felix with a rather bright face.
“The interpretation is almost finished.”
“You are suffering.”
Felix bowed with the same polite gesture as before.
Yannick cleared his throat once and then began to speak.
“I may be able to materialize the biometric information you mentioned, but I don’t know if it will be complete because biometric information tends to become rarer over time. Furthermore.”
Yannick tilted his head.
“The biggest question is whether it will last for a long time even if it contains biometric information.”
“How much do you mean by duration?”
“It’s a question of how much to concentrate, but if magic waves are included… At most, within a month or so.”
“It’s been a month…”
The duration of biometric information is shorter than Felix expected.
Unknowingly, Felix frowned.
Felix’s head began to throb as he calculated that he would have to search as far as he could during that month.
“Can we extend the period?”
“There are many methods, but it is useless without the main body. So, it seems difficult to increase the duration at this time. Or, I think fixing the storage container will solve the problem to some extent, but if that happens, the search range will decrease, so wouldn’t that be troublesome?”
“… It’s troublesome.”
Having agreed, Yannick nodded slightly.
“The best thing is to inject a part of the body. Then, the mana pattern is stabilized, so the biometric information lasts for a long time.”
Felix quickly turned his brain.
He’s scrapped all the clones, but if he still collects the remaining bio-shards, he might be able to help with the stabilization Yannick talked about.
But for now, you must not reveal the existence of Klona to anyone.
That dilemma bound Felix’s actions.
“You said it was a piece of a living body, but would something like hair or blood be useful?”
Felix’s words made Yannick’s expression strangely change.
“It may have some effect, but I can’t guarantee it. However…”
Yannick’s eyes sharpened.
“Ewald Kitska has been missing for almost 30 years, can you get some blood?”
Oops!
Felix clicked his tongue, realizing that there was something wrong with his word choice because he cared so much about Clona’s presence.
“I heard at first glance that the person who led this project is keeping Ewald Kitska’s blood for research purposes.”
“… Is it?”
Yannick tilted his head very slightly and continued.
“No matter how well it is preserved, there is no guarantee that biometric information and mana patterns can be stabilized with blood that is over 20 years old.”
The question of fresh blood stuck in his throat, but Felix couldn’t get the word out.
“Or not.”
Yannick threw out an alternative.
“If there are more magic circles or magic formulas made by Ewald Kitsuka, you will be able to find mana patterns with high purity. After all, there must be a difference between having one sample and having several.”
But Felix shook his head.
To take Yannick’s method, he would have to travel all over the continent.
As long as Ebalt didn’t spread magic circles or magic formulas all over the place…
“Ah…”
There was.
Felix shook his head, then suddenly raised his head.
“Maybe we can find it.”
“Ewald Kitsuka’s magic circle?”
“It’s not a magic circle, but there is a place where the magic unique to Ewald Kitska is permanently preserved.
“Really?”
Felix nodded lightly.
“Obviously there is. If I remember correctly, maybe…”
“What kind of magic? Did you use magic stones? If it’s permanent preservation, you mean simple magic?”
Yannick’s eyes are shining brightly.
Embarrassed by Yanick, who had come right in front of his face, Felix took a step back and let out a short cough.
“It should be about 100,000 lumens.”
Yannick nodded cautiously. If it’s 100,000 pole lumens of mana, maybe…
“That would be close enough, but it might be worth a try. It doesn’t matter if it’s single magic or multiple magic.”
“I’m glad.”
“But we need to extract biometric information soon, so we need to get the sample quickly. If I can get it for sure, I can wait, but right now, Ebalt’s magic itself is in a very excited state, so I can’t guarantee stability.”
“You don’t have to worry about that part.”
Felix, who had a somewhat confident expression, smiled strangely.
“Three days is enough.”
* * *
After getting out of the room where Zelena was lying, Edwald came down to the lobby on the first floor and started drinking his hard liquor. Sipping sips of alcohol were already leading to the second bottle.
I guess it’s fortunate that I didn’t blow Nabal with the whole bottle.
“… Uncle, you drink like that and you get sick. What is the man stabbed through the heart doing?”
Concerned crew members gathered around, but most of them went back to their rooms at Ewald’s words that people should go in quickly and grow up.
Except for Usbel and Fionir.
“Usbel.”
“… Yes, yes, master.”
“Don’t worry too much. I’m glad I didn’t kill you because of your personality.”
“Honestly, honestly.”
Usbel looked at Ewald with a cautious face.
“I don’t care. Not even one. As much as this I will not use it.”
“… Usbel.”
“If someone touches the master again, he will not cut his sinews, but his bones.”
Ewald, who already knew that he had the personality to end his life, not his bones, let out a sigh and nodded his head.
“Then let’s make sure we don’t get attacked in the future.”
“Is it so. I hope you will.”
Uthbel, who had returned to a stunned look, looked at Ewald somewhat.
“By the way, by the way. What the hell is she like?”
“Zelena?”
Usbel nodded her head. Ewald, who was staring at her eyes filled with curiosity and resentment, worry and pity, carefully put the glass aside and carefully opened his mouth.
“An old colleague.”
“Do all your co-workers use swords like that? Are you stabbing me?”
“… I have some reasons.”
“Eh, um, ah, um, can I ask?”
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Ewald stopped talking for a moment, poured the full glass straight down his throat, and let out a breath full of alcohol.
In response, Usbel hurriedly opened her mouth.
“No. No. If you don’t want to talk, you don’t have to…”
“I will tell you without hesitation.”
Ewald lightly set the glass down on the table.
Then he opened his mouth in a voice that had never been heard before.
“I killed her child.”