“If there is anything you want to eat, you can do it.”
Suddenly, we were led into the restaurant by the paladin, Laura Hartmann.
Naturally, she sat in the same seat as us, looked at the menu, nodded her head and smiled.
Every time she spoke or moved, her silver hair fluttered beautifully.
My gaze was taken from her for a moment, and I was able to turn my gaze with difficulty and make eye contact with her.
The pale jade-colored eyes looked like jewels, but the strong will contained within them was the eyes of a hero who was praised as something no one could break.
“Paladin Laura Hartmann… right? That, ten lectures… .”
“Ah yes. It’s overkill, but it’s called that.”
She smiled shyly and took a sip of the water.
“Are you unfamiliar with your clothes or your tone of voice? It’s not like I wear armor all the time, and I speak hard words only with colleagues, subordinates, or public places… Somehow, my image was very rigid and was accepted as a principled person.”
She smiled and muttered.
“How could a person wear only armor every day? Then it’s hard and you die. Above all, it is very hot. Even after wearing it for half a day, aside from being tired, my insides are covered in sweat. It would be great if we could put a fan inside.”
She continued the story in a relaxed voice, as if singing a song.
I glanced around and noticed that the other kids were also listening to her.
“… … .”
member of the ten.
Guard’s number one.
Paladin, Laura Hartmann.
From what I heard, he was able to block the dragon’s charge by himself, and he was always the last to leave the battlefield to protect his comrades, a truly noble knight.
He also volunteers in his spare time, and his personality is so outstanding that he often donates to the underprivileged.
That is why people who admired her called her a paladin with awe, and because of her, she was listed as one of the ten dead by Minerva.
It was her last to endure and die to secure the escape route of her comrades.
“… Umm, then, let’s make an order like this.”
She smiled and handed the menu to the waiter who came to take the order and looked at me.
“Can we talk for a bit?”
“What story are you talking about?”
“Yeah, the slack I talked about earlier is related to Lee Myung-joon.”
“Then I think all the kids here should listen as well.”
She looked at me as if asking for an explanation.
Han Soo-young, Choi Hyun-woo, and Jin Ye-seul were looking at me as if they were quite surprised.
“I will take responsibility. These three are fine.”
“… I’m not really good at it.”
“Sooyoung, I’ll ask you a favor.”
“Ah, yes.”
Han Soo-young immediately created the old barrier where others could not eavesdrop on our conversations or see the shape of our mouths.
I took a more comfortable position and looked at her.
“It was because of these three that I was able to survive in the Battle of Sbengali, the Seven Devils that appeared in the territory of the World Tree in the past. Not even unrelated children.”
Laura Hartmann’s eyes widened when Svengali’s name came up.
“The contribution of Jin Ye-seul sitting here in seizing the Big Watch and Leys was absolute. She extracted the information, which allowed us to locate the Leys and their bases. In addition, Han Soo-young and Choi Hyun-woo… These three people are already involved. I will guarantee it.”
“You also know that this is not a story that will be passed on so easily, right?”
“Can I hang my neck?”
At my words, Laura Hartmann let out a small sigh.
“… The story won’t progress unless one side backs off. All right, this time I’m backing down.”
Suddenly, she continued speaking in a hard tone, just as she had said.
“First of all, I have no intention of insulting you or your colleagues. Trust is good. just… No, this was not an important story.”
She muttered in a slightly gloomy voice.
“Okay, let’s talk. Preparations for the interception of Minerva are almost complete.”
After that, I took a deep breath and asked.
“Did you come all the way here to talk about it?”
“Is it possible? This is my opinion to the end.”
She smiled a little.
“Are you going to explain quickly? As a result of checking the lei, it was found that it can withstand at least half a year, but it is in a state that is not strange if it collapses at any time after that. That’s why we’ve decided to unseal it by deliberately manipulating the Ley.”
“for a moment. Are you going to unseal it now? Seal of the Seven Evil Bells?”
When Han Soo-young asked a question, she nodded her head.
“… In the beginning, the remaining time was only a meaningless probation, and it is safe to say that the seal itself is a device that allows you to sleep until Minerva’s power is restored. So we decided to intercept him when his strength was less than a little bit.”
She drank a sip of water to see if she was thirsty.
“The preparations are almost complete. All of the Ten Rivers will gather within two days, and they will lead the elites they have chosen to participate in this subjugation. All citizens within a radius around five streets will be evacuated, as well as students from the academy.”
“What are you going to do?”
“Probably an evacuation order will be issued around tomorrow. The energy of the gigantic gate that emits distortion waves has been detected, so it is an evacuation order to evacuate in case you may get caught up in the process of handling this.”
“Then when are you going to open the seal?”
“Once the evacuation is over and the lockdown is over, but… At least we are holding it back for a fortnight.”
Sbangali whispered.
[That’s a lie. not after a fortnight Please anticipate at least a few days in advance.]
“… Rather than that, from what you said, it seems that the number of people participating in the battle is very small.”
“you’re right.”
“May I ask why?”
“The risk of this operation has been determined to be ‘impossible to measure’. The risk level cannot be defined. There is no guarantee of survival, and the strength of the enemy is also unknown. It’s cold-hearted, but people who are half-hearted get in the way.”
She nodded quietly.
“There is no way to ask the association for help.”
“Can’t you ask for help?”
“The association is now a formal place to the last. All those who already had the passion and enthusiasm of the past have long since been defeated in a political battle. The remnant is nothing more than a ghost of power and money.”
She muttered like a lament.
“The Sipgang, including us, were stepping out of the shadow of the association, increasing their power and continuing their activities in various parts of the world. We became heroes to protect people, not just to make money by appearing on TV and modeling for magazines.”
“… … .”
“They will see it as a thorn in their eyes. So that… Did you say fostering? The heroes of the six elite associations… .”
“Oh, I’ve heard of it.”
Hyunwoo Choi nodded.
It’s like a group of heroes newly selected and promoted by the Association as beings to fight against the Ten Rivers.
His explanation was that they appear everywhere when the broadcast is turned on, and that the publicity for them is huge.
“I don’t mean to disparage them, but if all six of them jumped at me, I wouldn’t do any harm.”
she said quietly.
“This is the truth,” Sbangali murmured.
“… The six members of the association’s strongest power cannot handle even one of them. In the first place, the association didn’t help either, and they nailed it as something they didn’t know about this time. I had no intention of helping. There was also a deepened emotional gap with us because of the last incident.”
It was definitely what she said.
The association had long since lost the noble meaning and meaning of the time when the association was first formed.
In fact, I remembered that in the original work, he only interfered in every way, and even stole his merits in all manner of tricks.
“It’s been a long conversation. Anyway, I’ll get to the point here.”
Laura Hartmann looked down at me and said.
“Yoo Ji-hyuk-kun, I want you to be absent from this matter.”
At her words, I also met her eyes without saying a word for a while.
“… Can I hear the reason?”
“First of all, I would like to say thank you. Myung-Jun Lee, he’s hiding something, but we weren’t fools, so we could barely spot it.”
She bowed her head to me and continued speaking.
“Thanks to you, I have been able to successfully complete many tasks or prevent catastrophic events. Especially in the guild invitation system, he found traitors and prevented the attack… .”
She paused here for a moment.
From that look, I could vaguely predict that there was a person close to her among the traitors.
“Anyway, that’s why I’m asking you. Please get out of this subjugation as much as possible.”
“Why, because I am a child?”
“Is it possible?”
She shook her head.
“It’s to ask for the next day.”
“What’s next?”
“yes.”
Don’t be a child, it’s too early to fight for you.
Well, asking me to do a later job, who had been thinking about such a reason, was something I didn’t expect at all.
“Minerva. The Seven Devils are relatively recently sealed. Therefore, descriptions and records of his strength are relatively reliable. Express yourself there… They put in firepower that could wipe several cities off the map, but they didn’t hurt.”
It was obvious because of her power.
An arrogant yet powerful power named perfection.
“Of course, I wasn’t careless or less prepared. The reason we have been meeting for a long time and have continued to hold talks is to prepare for the Chilak Bell. It’s been a long time since we’ve done everything we can to prepare. just… .”
She murmured in a trembling voice.
“You have to think when you fail.”
From her words, I could recall that half of those who had gathered to stop Minerva in the original story died that day.
And the liberation of Minerva is the catalyst, and the whole world is plunged into chaos.
“If we die, we need someone to take care of. Each of us has already marked and excluded those who are likely to be his successors. Myung-Jun Lee, Evangeline, me too.”
She looked at me with pale jade-colored eyes.
They were eyes with a strong will.
“It was meant in that sense.”
With those words, she got up from her seat.
“… I guess I just said something heavy. I’ll just go Enjoy your meal, everyone.”
I will do the calculations.
With those words, she walked away with quiet steps.
I looked at her back and turned my head only after she disappeared.
Han Su-young, Choi Hyun-woo, Jin Ye-seul.
The three of them were looking at me.
“What are you going to do?”
At Choi Hyun-woo’s question, I exhaled a little.
“You heard it, everyone.”
As if the timing was right, he murmured as he watched the dishes he ordered came out one after the other and laid out on the table.
“It’s been a full moon.”
Everyone smiled at that.
[You, too, are telling lies.]
No, I wasn’t planning on carrying it all on my own anymore.
As if responding to Sbangali’s words, I looked at Jin Ye-seul.
“Yesul.”
“yes.”
“It’s been a full moon earlier, is it true?”
“It is a lie.”
I nodded at her assertion.
“Then it would be good to see at least ten days in between. Realistically, it will take a week for all the people around here to evacuate and contain it.”
Everyone knows that and be prepared.
At that, the three of them each nodded their heads.
Then I noticed something strange.
All three of them were looking at me without touching the dish.
I raised my chopsticks with hope, and the other three slowly raised their chopsticks as well.
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I sighed and started eating.
Seeing the faces of these guys eating along with me like chicks, I felt a strange emotion.
And the next day.
As Laura Hartmann said, a massive evacuation order was declared.
* * *
– Yes, I’ll join the war.
Ye-eun nodded at Lee Ye-eun’s words and asked.
“The date is in a fortnight, no. So it’s two weeks later, right?”
– right. That’s correct.
Ye-eun Lee casually spit out a lie.
I nodded as if to understand.
[There must be very few people who can kill you, but everyone is anxious to protect you.]
What’s wrong with this guy
Sbengali’s tongue-tucking voice blew through one ear.
I guess I did, but Yeeun Lee also wanted to get me out of the subjugation battle.
I said to her as I unpacked my things.
“Then only the head of the family will participate in the war?”
― I’m going to bring in some pretty trustworthy people from within my clan. about twenty people.
“Who is Shin Woo-seok?”
– He’s looking after you right now.
As expected, I had entrusted him with my escort and surveillance.
I nodded and opened my mouth deliberately indifferent.
“You don’t have to. Because I now have someone to escort me.”
— … Oh right.
Feeling Lee Ye-eun’s voice getting colder, I smiled a little.
– I was still trying to talk. You said the first person you hired was a girl from your classmate? That too… He ate everything I saved.
“Yes. It’s Yoo Na-ra, and he’s a trustworthy and talented kid. Above all else, I am number one in the entire school.”
– Well… I want to dry a little.
Yeeun Lee muttered quietly.
― No matter how talented you are, you are just a young girl with no experience or experience. To have a girl classmate in the so-called closest candidate to hire for the first time there… To say this, but it won’t look very good in the eyes of others.
To her words, I replied with a hint of sarcasm on purpose.
“… Wait, so now my eyes are wrong? And what do other people think? No, more than anything, what’s wrong with being a classmate girl? Now, is it that I hired him with strange intentions?”
– Oh, no. Ji-hyuk. That’s not what my sister said… .
“If you look at it that way, your sister is also Shin Woo-seok.”
― Me and I have a different story! Besides that person, there are always a few by my side! No, I didn’t mean to shout. I mean, Jihyuk-ah… !
“That’s Okay.”
When I answered bluntly, Yeeun Lee asked with a trembling voice.
– Huh, huh? what… ?
“… I still had work to do. I’ll take this opportunity to walk around for a while.”
– Hey, Jihyuk… ? Well, I guess I’m a little flirtatious… It sounds like you’re not coming back during this temporary school closure… .
“Right. I will not go into the clan’s territory this time.”
– Ji, Ji-hyuk.
Yeeun Lee called me in an urgent voice.
― Your sister was wrong, huh? My sister had no idea. Jihyuk does what you want. But on this occasion, I came to the clan’s estate once and reflected on the people of the clan… huh?
“… … .”
– As you better know that I didn’t mean that… It’s really sad to hear you say that… .
“… I know.”
I sighed and answered, pretending not to win.
“I’m a little busy packing my things right now… I’ll call you back later.”
– Oh, yes! I’ll be waiting for you!
Lee Ye-eun, who shed a heh hehehe smiled, answered with a cheerful voice, as if she had regained her energy immediately.
After hanging up on her phone, I looked around as if to check the luggage I had already prepared.
A few simple things in your wardrobe.
A small tank for moving fish and a gift from Han Soo-young and Choi Hyun-woo.
Laune.
Raune’s household.
Laune’s nutritional supplements.
“great… .”
I’m sorry Yeeun Lee, but I had no intention of returning to the territory of the World Tree.
If you go in there, you’ll never be able to get out until Minerva’s case is over.
Probably, according to her orders, many people from my clan will watch over me and move around, almost as if imprisoned.
As if reading my thoughts, Sbangali muttered quietly.
[So, you were like that on purpose earlier. To make an excuse not to go back?]
“Well, that’s it. Even though it’s childish, it has a good effect.”
As Laura Hartmann said, the academy has also received a notice saying that it will return within a week and that schools will be temporarily closed for at least two weeks.
Unexpectedly, there was no objection among the students of the academy.
It was because he was well aware of the dangers of a ‘gate where the wavelength of distortion was detected’.
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On the other hand, on TV, it was not difficult to find news that dealt with the situation heavily, along with protests by merchants on five streets.
The silent association and the ten rivers who ripped off their swear words were a bonus.
“… First of all, there is a place to visit.”
I muttered quietly when I saw an advertisement featuring a female hero who was a member of the upbringing.
There’s still a lot of time left before I move out, so I’ll have to go back soon and find a place to stay, that’s what I was thinking.
There was a smart, knocking on the door.
When I opened the door, Hyun-woo Choi was standing in front of me.
“What’s up?”
When I asked, surprised, he quietly opened his mouth.
“Ji-hyuk.”
“Oh, Hyunwoo. Come inside first.”
“Do it with me just once.”
“What?”
In his hand was a sword wrapped in a black veil.
He said, glancing at it, fixing it so I could see it.
“I’ve helped you a lot during that time.”
For the first time, Hyun-woo Choi muttered in a voice that stubbornly clings to me.
“So, let’s fight with me just once.”