“It’s an eerie liquid.”
Hearing the voice from behind, Manchas immediately wondered if he had heard it wrong.
However, as if I didn’t hear anything wrong, a beautiful voice came from behind my back that made me wonder if it was a real human voice.
“Yeah, so what were you going to do with it now?”
“Ugh!”
Manchas turned around without delay, wielding a dagger soaked in poison.
He grinned at the unique touch of the palm of his hand that penetrates human flesh.
“I can be sure with my actions now.”
“… uh?”
However, a woman with a dagger fastened around her neck, who was unpretentious, looked at him with indifferent eyes, as if she had embodied the word “beauty” itself.
“dare.”
When Manchas noticed that his black-red pupils, which were split vertically and looked like reptiles, were staring at him, his heart literally seemed to sink.
“I dare you to touch him… ?”
“ね… !”
Minerva immediately reached out and covered Manchas’s mouth with the palm of his hand.
He reflexively shot her memorized and at the same time tried to get away from her touch, but everything was just a pointless struggle.
“Shhh… He has been sleeping hard for a long time. I don’t want to wake you up, so keep your mouth shut.”
Manchas couldn’t even breathe, even though his lower jaw was crushed with a crackling sound.
No matter how much she tried, no matter how much she screamed, the only thing that came out was silence.
“… … !”
In that brief moment, Manchas drew another dagger and slammed it straight down at Yoo Ji-hyeok.
It wasn’t intentional, it was just an action that was close to a riot.
But his last struggle was absurdly and lightly blocked by the huge tail that had escaped from Minerva’s body.
“… ! … … !!!”
Manchas tried to get out right away, but he couldn’t.
It was because most of his lower body was being buried in the shadows as if he had fallen into a swamp.
Minerva wiggled his tail without a word.
She no longer cared about Manchas struggling to escape somehow.
He was just staring at Yoo Ji-hyuk, who was making an even breathing sound.
“… with what we are doing now.”
Minerva tidied up his messy hair as if stroking it carefully, and smiled with a happy smile.
“Your end has been decided.”
If I had stayed still, I would have played with it in moderation and tried to melt it with a handful of blood.
Minerva, who was looking down at Manchas, who gradually fell into the shadows, opened his mouth quietly.
“Sbangali, I already know everything, so don’t bother me for nothing.”
[…] What’s going on?]
Sbangali, who appeared from Yoo Ji-hyeok’s right hand as if he had no choice, opened his mouth with a trembling expression.
“Look through this man’s head. I can guess, but just in case you don’t know, I need to know the history in detail.”
Minerva raised a finger and added a spell.
“It would be even better if you make your senses sensitive while doing it, but make it so that you don’t die easily.”
[That’s crazy, very just.]
Sbengali grumbled like that, but immediately began to take control of Manchas’s mind.
He tried to resist, but Svengali literally took over his mind in the blink of an eye and was able to extract the information Minerva wanted.
[Affiliation of the Association, Manchas of Upbringing. His real name is Baroff Hugo. You came to Yoo Ji-hyeok to inject a special narcotic liquid that was created by mixing blood and body fluids by crystallizing her magic at the invitation of Seul-hye Yoon, a member of the same upbringing team. Looking back over Lee’s memory, I found that every single person who was addicted like that turned into Yoon Seul-hye’s puppet and died within less than a year due to withdrawal symptoms or internal rotting of the body. In addition… .]
“I had to stop. You always say things you don’t want to know.”
Minerva waved her hand as if she was okay with it.
“In short, isn’t this guy aiming for him?”
[right.]
“That alone is enough.”
Minerva said so, and bowed cautiously, looking down at Manchas, who now had only a part of his upper body and head protruding outside.
“My name is Minerva.”
The way she smiled softly was so unrealistic.
“It is the very seven evil servants who proudly shouted that you subjugated.”
“… … !!!”
Manchas knew instinctively that she wasn’t lying.
As he was about to swallow the self-determination poison he had kept in his mouth just in case, a terrible voice squealed from the side as if he was scratching iron.
[I rubbed my head so that I couldn’t commit suicide or anything else.]
Then enjoy it to the fullest.
With those words, Svengali disappeared again, and Minerva tilted her head as if incomprehension and stared at Manchas.
“Why are you making that face?”
A crimson pupil, torn lengthwise, was staring at him.
“Didn’t you proudly proclaim that you killed me? It wouldn’t be a problem to kill one more time, so come on and kill me one more time.”
“… ! … … !!!”
Minerva whispered, looking down at the man, now almost buried in the shadows, who was blinking frantically with a silent scream.
“You will forever regret not stabbing yourself in the neck with that cutlery just before.”
after a while.
After confirming that he was completely buried in the shadows, Minerva glanced at Yoo Ji-hyuk.
She, too, slowly began to disappear as if melting into the shadows, thinking that she was really lucky that her body seemed to be recovering.
The room was as quiet as it had been from the beginning, as if nothing had happened.
* * *
A chirping and dry guide sound rang out, and a window appeared in front of me.
[The seeds of the world tree have broken their shells and opened their eyes!]
The seeds of the world tree that Yoon Seul-hye had planted seemed to have just awakened.
If I give it a little more time and grow like this, I will be able to share what she sees and hears too.
It takes half a day at the latest to get the shape right, so it’s barely enough time… .
tyring.
“yes?”
[I can feel an unknown aura in my body.]
[The branches of the World Tree absorb the surplus energy!]
[The branch of the World Tree is activated!]
[As the branches of the World Tree are activated, the body’s recovery speed and magic regeneration speed increase temporarily!]
“… what?”
I tilted my head slightly at the contents of the notification window that I couldn’t understand English.
surplus energy?
I don’t remember seeing anything that could be called surplus energy.
After thinking for a while, there was nothing to point out, so I laid back.
Well, good would be good.
As I rubbed my eyes in tiredness, I suddenly felt someone tap my shoulder.
“Jihyuk, do you look like you’re not feeling well?”
“Uh, what… not a big deal.”
He smiled bitterly at Choi Hyun-woo’s words of a playful question, but with worries in it.
“I just had some nightmares. But it’s so vivid that I still feel a bit strange.”
“nightmare? What is it?”
“A dream in which someone you don’t know keeps running away.”
“Aren’t you?”
He nodded at his words.
“It was the first time I saw him. I wasn’t running away… It’s dark all around, so you can’t see anything, you run and run, but there’s nothing… He asks for his life to stay alive and runs away, shouting that he did something wrong.”
“Uh… .”
Seeing him moaning as if it was unusual, he shook his head.
“It’s so vivid that it still makes me feel bad.”
“I think I know why… .”
“really? What do you think it is?”
Hyunwoo Choi glanced around.
After confirming that Jin Ye-seul and Han Soo-young had not come yet, he whispered as he brought his head closer to me.
“Did you know that Sooyoung and Yeseul knew what happened yesterday?”
“What?”
“That, why? Yoon Seul-hye approached her when she and Yuna were alone.”
“… How do they know that?”
There was no way Lee Yu-na had told the two of them.
It wasn’t because he wasn’t that kind of person, and he asked me not to talk about it anywhere else for nothing.
‘Is Yesul even monitoring with a shadow?’
I immediately shook my head at the sudden thought that came to my mind.
Because she couldn’t be hiding in my shadow.
It was a fact that we noticed while walking into each other’s shadow last time, but when someone was in the shadow, I felt a peculiar sense of incongruity and could not be unaware of it.
Then how did it happen?
As he was immersed in such thoughts, Hyunwoo Choi shook his head slightly.
“Because he came to us first before going to you.”
“What?”
“He asked us where you are. And he casually told them that he was interested in you.”
“… … .”
Did you even pretend to want to die?
Choi Hyun-woo smiled as if he knew whether my thoughts were reflected on his face as it was.
It was as if he had mastered everything.
“It was fortunate that we were talking with the professor at that time. It’s a bit cruel, but it might have been a good thing for him that something like that happened yesterday.”
As he said, Seul-hye Yoon did not come to class today.
I heard that he left in a hurry with the people of the association who came early in the morning.
In fact, I thought it was natural for something like that to happen.
Perhaps thanks to that, everyone at the academy seemed to be busy talking about upbringing and Yoon Seul-hye here and there if they only had time.
Even the professors could hardly see them talking about it.
“Well, I guess I’ll just do that.”
Choi Hyun-woo, who was pushing the wheelchair with delicate movements behind me, murmured.
“Anyway, these days, the association has been promoting and promoting them like that, and starting with the upbringing, which is the pronoun, the corruption and dirty aspects of the main characters were exposed. Some of them were so big that I thought of rethinking the association… .”
He let out a shallow sigh.
“I don’t know what it is these days, I.”
There were so many emotions in those short words that I couldn’t even count them.
“It happens, and things happen one after another that I couldn’t have imagined before… Things that I longed for in the past now look different when I see them… I just have to say, I feel like I’m being swept away by a huge wave.”
“… … .”
I couldn’t give any answers.
At his words, I felt the corners of my mouth shut tightly.
Hyunwoo Choi, it was because it was rare for him to honestly reveal his feelings or thoughts to me in this way.
His inner self, which was hidden and revealed, was not a story to be taken lightly.
As I became more serious and quietly kept silent, he suddenly giggled and smiled and tapped my shoulder.
“After all, who will believe? If you say that you have survived the battle with those seven evil servants three times.”
“Hey, Hyunwoo. Outside of that… !”
He replied as if to be relieved to me as I looked around in amazement.
“it’s okay. There is no one around.”
Saying that, he muttered in a strangely remorseful voice.
“And what to say… Well. I didn’t mean to say this in the first place. I can’t speak properly because I’m not very talkative in this regard. Anyway, what was I trying to say?”
“… … .”
“I’m not that ignorant either… Jihyuk knows that you are hiding something from us, and he also knows that you look at us a lot. To be honest, I think we’ve known each other for a long time and we’ve talked about it… Did I say Minerva? After fighting the seven evil bells, I felt a little more desperate.”
The wheelchair moved smoothly with no noise.
After a while, he burst out laughing as if embarrassed.
“This doesn’t suit me a bit… Anyway, what I wanted to say was this.”
The wheelchair stopped moving and I could feel him leaning against it.
And I could also notice that he was choosing the words he was about to say very carefully.
“As the other kids do, I really enjoy being with you. So you don’t have to feel sorry for us like that or just ignore us.”
He burst out laughing out loud as if he was really embarrassed by what he had said until now.
“Aww, it’s creepy. If Sooyoung or Yesul had just heard that, they would have been kicked.”
I gently raised my arm and showed it to him.
“… That’s right. you were just so disgusting To the point where I want to jump out of the wheelchair and run away. Can you see me growing chicken?”
“Baby, I’m trying to give me a little energy while enduring my embarrassment, so watch what you say.”
He burst out laughing even louder than before, as if trying to hide his embarrassment.
And I could see myself smiling with him, whether it was contagious.
And again, it was around the time I was thinking that I had really depended on this guy and the people around me a lot.
“Oh, you were here.”
A man who appeared with a voice saying he was drowsy was making an expression as if he had let go of an hour.
He was none other than Rev Dunkinson.
“President?”
“Hey, hard what is that? Just call me senior.”
Rev Dunkinson.
He, who is also the student body president of Orge Academy, scratched his head and looked at me and Choi Hyun-woo in turn.
“Uh, so what… Would you mind giving me some time? I can buy you some coffee.”
He sniffed and sniffed.
“Jihyuk, as you know, has a little important story.”
It’s about the association.
He shrugged his shoulders weakly, making a face that looked like he was genuinely annoyed.
Svangali And Minerva Fun Torture Time!