“In less than half a year at most, a total of seven people have gone missing.”
Esmeralda entered the empty classroom, looked around for a moment, and spoke up immediately.
Eventually, she returned to her original form.
“Originally, it would have been an indicator that could have been skipped over saying it wasn’t a big deal… Judging from the fact that all of them were wizards and had special skills, the story is different.”
“But how did you find out?”
In response to my question, she made an exaggerated gesture as if she didn’t know.
“I don’t know either. It’s me, I’m just passing on the boss’s message to you. He is also in the association, so I think he may have been secretly talking about it.”
“Well… .”
“Anyway, above all, they all had one thing in common: they all went to Urea as exchange students.”
Urea.
Another urea
He seemed to have frowned at the names of them that have been heard these days.
“What, do you have any bad memories of Urea?”
“… Don’t worry about it because there’s no such thing.”
As soon as she glared at her as if she was looking straight away, Esmeralda muttered, kicking her tongue as if to hear her.
Anyway, even if you try to find cuteness, you’re a little kid who doesn’t have enough eye mucus… .
“Anyway, it’s good to be careful. Urea’s behavior is very suspicious these days. And in their walks, contact with the Big Watch is being found frequently, and the intersection is… .”
Isaac McDowell.
that’s the man
“There is a man named Isaac McDowell, the chief professor of urea and also a magnate in psychics. Remember it.”
When the expected name appeared, I nodded slightly.
Esmeralda tilted her head slightly as she looked at this side and continued speaking.
“Anyway, it’s good to be careful. Nothing is certain, but as he climbs up, traces of him keep coming out little by little. It’s also a sign that you’ve been working to hide it. In this case, it means that there is always something.”
“Is that person one of the faculty members coming here this time?”
“Yeah, I’m smart in this regard. So, be careful.”
She nodded, pulled something out and handed it to me.
two pictures.
There was a picture of Alice Blesbuck in disguise with her hair blonde.
“And I happened to catch the traces of her you asked for. It disappeared like smoke right away… .”
“Details.”
“The date was four days ago. She was found on the side of Penoscandia.”
“Phenos, what?”
“There is also Penoscandia and Scandinavia. I think it’s just the Nordic side.”
“… So, is there a Baltic Sea over there?”
She looked surprised at my question.
“What, you don’t know Scandinavia, but you know the Baltic? right. I have. But why?”
“… … .”
I closed my mouth.
It was because the seal of the Seven Evil Orders was hidden in the Baltic Sea.
It is also the seal of the Seven Evil Species that is most closely related to Alice Blesbuck.
I thought that her disappearance was not something to be taken lightly, but just in case… .
“… Well, anyway, we’re doing some more research.”
She glanced into my eyes and murmured.
“Actually, we are in a very ambiguous situation right now, so what do we do to move around recklessly? So I can’t guarantee that the results will come right away.”
“Ambiguous situation? Ah, obviously it was a civil war because of the split.”
“Uh… Well, I don’t mind telling you. The boss told me to help you as much as possible.”
She soon followed the Red Case, the Thorns Cross, and the Big Watch.
In this way, he began to narrate the current situation of the three factions.
“First of all, the civil war has come to an end and a truce has been signed. It was largely divided into the forces gathered around the SS, the forces gathered around our boss, and other scraps.”
“I mean, it was torn to shreds.”
“right. Most of the former have a small sphere of influence, but strong abilities, so-called ones who played in the field. Our side has a large sphere of influence and many people, but most of them are chaff. rest of it… No need to worry.”
“Hmm.”
“Well, the Thorns Cross Society is over. Leaders died, and almost all of the executives called apostles were killed or arrested. Some idiots are collecting them and rectifying them or privatizing them, but… .”
Here she glanced at me.
“Because your terrifying older sister is really chasing these clenched people and uprooting them. Perhaps within a few months, they will all become the dew of a death sentence and disappear. Maybe that’s why they’re running more like moths, but in the end, it’s going to shorten their lifespan.”
After listening to the story, it was inevitably a situation in which the power of the Big Watch had to be strengthened.
But immediately she uttered something unexpected.
“The Big Watch is stagnating these days. A new force has appeared that actively checks them.”
“New forces?”
“okay… We don’t know anything about them yet. What the hell are they doing and what their purpose is.”
Esmeralda murmured, blushing as if embarrassed to even speak for herself.
“I haven’t figured out anything other than that they call themselves Milited’s children.”
“… Wait, what? who?”
“Children of Milited.”
“… … .”
“What, why again?”
This time, I was really at a loss for words.
Milited’s children.
It was a name I knew well, but it was a name I thought I would never hear.
Milited’s children are none other than the sequel to Clouds on the Horizon… .
So, it was because they were the main villain group that appeared in the next work, which was nothing less than garbage, enough to blow away all the remaining fan hearts.
The problem was that I barely touched the sequels, so I literally only knew the names of them.
“… No, let me know when you gather more information about them.”
In the end, all I could say was that.
First of all, we should gather information about them and make a judgment.
“okay. But don’t expect too much. They’re so rookie guys… .”
“Besides, is this the end of the story?”
disappearance of graduates.
The balance and current status of the three existing powers.
Alice Blesbuck’s journey.
And a new force that suddenly appeared, the children of Milited.
A lot of information poured out of her mouth in just a few minutes.
It’s still a pain in the ass, but it’s time to take a small breather as the things you need to be concerned about are pouring in.
“I have one last thing to tell you. Perhaps this is the most important information for you right now.”
“… What else?”
“The secret card that the association is preparing to contain the world tree clan.”
I looked at her and she smirked.
Then he sat down on the empty desk and looked at me.
“But I must have listened to the boss clearly, I wonder if he remembered it?”
“What kind of joke is that again?”
Esmeralda looked down at this side and smiled.
Then he blinked his eyes and looked at him with a glance that seemed to scan each one of them.
“I’ll let you know if you promise not to approach the boss any more.”
“What?”
“I told you, don’t approach him anymore.”
Esmeralda said in a serious voice.
“As before, I will deliver the information. I won’t do anything in vain along the way. If necessary, I’ll do whatever you tell me to do. You just have to promise that you’ll never see him again. It’s not much different from now, right?”
“Let me ask you why.”
“… I believe in superstition. That’s great too.”
She looked at me with cold eyes.
No, it wasn’t cold eyes.
Those eyes were reluctant to the point of not wanting to have anyone by their side.
“I can’t shake the feeling that if I keep hanging out with you, that person is going to die.”
So, please don’t approach that person.
Hearing her desperate words, my feelings were, frankly, absurd.
“Without approaching you, I don’t even know where your boss is, and I don’t know what the association is doing. Above all else, you must have already forgotten that I always came to you from there first.”
“So what I mean is I don’t want you to try to meet me first. If you want, the boss will come to meet you right away.”
Esmeralda said so and looked over here.
“therefore? Promise or not?”
“Yeah, are you saying that we don’t just want to meet you in person here?”
“right.”
It wasn’t a very difficult request, so I said yes.
Esmeralda then gave a look on her face that made her feel reassured.
“Okay, then I’ll tell you. What the association is preparing now is… .”
* * *
– Yes, got it. I’ll call you there so you don’t have to worry about it anymore… .
Through the phone, Yeeun Lee’s tired voice could be easily recognized.
Contrary to what Rev Dunkinson said that he could not be reached at all, Yeeun Lee answered my call before the ringing went twice.
… When I talked about the business, her excited voice calmed a bit, but after hearing my story, she added, “Don’t worry.”
– Oh, I heard the story. Do-hoon Ahn, you said that you had an overwhelming victory in a match with that person?
Yeeun Lee muttered in an excited voice with the words of congratulations.
―As far as I know, he was definitely an S rank, then the fact that your junior is no less than an S rank, along with everyone there, the whole academy… !
“How the hell do you know I had a fight with him and I won? It was a private duel.”
– ah.
A cracking sound was heard over the phone.
she hung up the phone
When I called once, I heard a notification that the call could not be answered, and I texted her right away.
It was a text message saying that if you don’t call me right away, I won’t call you again.
Shortly thereafter, she called again.
“The communication status is very bad.”
– Yeah… Yes… .
I could tell without looking at the fact that her face would be dyed bright red.
I laughed a little and muttered.
“Somehow, I thought that I see a lot of Seon Kang-kyung around me these days… .”
– Oh, uh. no. It’s not like that… .
“Well, I’ll talk about the details later, and I’ll start with the main point.”
It would be nice to talk to her, but at least not now.
I brought her out the story I had just heard from Esmeralda.
“In addition to the association, there are some factions that are preparing to check that side.”
– Yes, what. It always happened. Don’t worry too much… .
“It’s a bit risky this time. It will have to be dealt with quickly.”
I interrupted her in the middle and said.
“Sbengali, whom we defeated, his seal was hidden in one of the roots of none other than the World Tree. The man who was the head of the Thorn Cross found it in the literature and released it. Am I right?”
— … Yeah, I don’t know where you got that, but you’re definitely right.
“The spirit of Svengali will still remain there. The seal is not properly destroyed, so it is leaking its energy.”
— … Yeah?
I don’t know how the association smelled it.
Maybe it was just a random shot, but it was a story that was definitely mentioned in the original, so I couldn’t laugh.
First, we had to deal with urgent matters.
“The Seven Evil Bells were sealed in the World Tree, and that energy is still there. Those two facts alone would be quite a blow. The truth won’t matter. If it is roughly woven and pulled out provocatively, it may cause irreparable damage in an otherwise unfavorable situation. Maybe the association will give me an opportunity to actively interfere with the world tree clan.”
— … … .
Yeeun Lee was silent.
A moment later, she heard the sound of her getting up from her seat.
– Thank you, junior. I’ll get back to you later.
“Yes. Please, I hope I’m misunderstood.”
— … Thank you so much for your concern. I’m serious.
With those words, Yeeun Lee hung up the phone.
I paused for a moment on the way to the restaurant and sighed.
“Whew… .”
I was throbbing and my head felt like it was going to explode.
It was time to contact Choi Hyeon-woo and Han Soo-young, pressing her forehead with the palm of her hand, saying that the story was over, and that they would leave soon.
The phone rang.
“What else? This.”
It was the first number I saw.
I immediately declined to receive it.
After a while, a text message flew in.
[hello. I don’t know if you’ll remember, but I say I’m Jinkyung. I saw you last time at the banquet hall hosted by the World Tree clan.]
“for a moment… .”
expected to be.
It was obviously the name of a person who was Jin Ye-seul’s older sister.
As soon as I looked at the text for a moment, another text flew in.
[If it’s okay with you, can we have a separate meeting? I will go to the Academy’s reception room on your preferred date. And, to tell you in advance, I am telling you that there will never be such a request or talk that you are worried about these days.]
Boo Woong.
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One last text message arrived after that.
And when I saw the contents, I had no choice but to call her.
[I want to share a story about my younger brother, Yesul. I will be waiting.]