“Half of my body is full of vampire blood.”
Alice Blesbuck opened her mouth quietly with her head bowed deeply.
“I inherited it from my mother. And there were dozens of brothers and sisters like me, half vampire blood, as far as I can remember.”
Me and Cas Lyle just silently listened to her.
“But not a single one of my brothers and sisters I remembered is still alive. It’s useless, because she was disposed of by her mother with a single word. They were all powerful children. But, paradoxically, the reason why I was the only one with weak human blood to survive until the end… It was none other than alchemy.”
A mixed race of heterogeneous people who are proud of the alchemy that they risked their lives for.
The phrase describing Alice Blesbuck made sense now.
Literally, she honed her alchemy to survive.
“My, my mother wanted to go beyond the forbidden realm… He ordered me to conduct a similar study.”
Her words reminded me of the rumors that once made the academy noisy, that she was experimenting with humans and that she was an evil alchemist.
She denied that she conducted human experiments, but never once denied that she had researched a field related to it.
“My mother’s name is Natalia Milited… He was one of Milited’s henchmen and a founding member of ‘Children of Milited’. I also inherited that name and was called Alice Milited. But I had no idea. At that time, I was just ah, surviving. Because I just thought that I could live on. However… .”
Alice carefully raised her head.
Tears were dripping down and wet the floor.
“Lah, Lyle… I met you.”
“… … .”
Cass Lyle didn’t say anything.
for human experiments. Even at the moment when it was revealed by others that he was a homunculus created for the purpose of Milited of the Seven Devils, he was simply listening to her confession.
“Lah, Lyle… you… In that tank, my eyes met you… me, i… just… .”
With a shriek, she began to tremble.
“I am a coward.”
Her voice was filled with guilt, disgust towards herself, fear, fear, and regret.
“I was afraid of dying, watching my brothers and sisters die, and, equally, I committed an unforgivable sin against you because my life was so precious. Even so, making cowardly excuses that I have no choice but to live… Then, my eyes met you… .”
She was clenching her teeth, trying to swallow the sobbing.
“It wasn’t until then that I realized how badly I had done… .”
“From now on.”
Cass Lyle cut her words softly.
“From now on, I will explain.”
At those words, Alice looked at him in surprise and surprise.
He just smiled as he looked into her tear-stained eyes.
“I’m sorry, Professor. You said you don’t remember the first time we met. That was a lie.”
“What… ?”
“How would you forget that?”
He quietly closed his eyes.
“You just told me that you were made by your own mistakes, so you will take responsibility for me. And, looking at it, it seems that he was trying to say that again… .”
Then he turned his head and looked at me.
“I don’t know about anyone else, but Margot, Svengalli and Minerva. You’re the one who defeated three of the Seven Bells, so it doesn’t matter if I say this.”
“… … .”
Cass Lyle… .
no.
Cas Milited looked at me and smiled slightly.
“I am an artificial creature created based on the body of Milited of the Seven Devils, the one and only homunculus that can be said to be a replica of the Seven Devils species.”
“ah… .”
Alice sighed in disbelief.
In the meantime, Cass Lyle muttered to this side with a small laugh as if it was ridiculous.
“What… Since you were a member of the World Tree clan and had that kind of energy, I thought you might have noticed it earlier, but seeing your reaction, it seems that you were right.”
He asked me with a bitter smile.
“right?”
I nodded my head without saying a word.
“How much more do you know about Milited? If you understand it, I think it will be convenient when I explain it a little later.”
“… The Chilak sect has many names and is the only Chilak sect that has gathered power by claiming that it is the only chilak sect. A person who possesses numerous talents, including alchemy, and has no fixed form. And all I know is that, in addition to paying great attention to ‘time’, they are also targeting the heart of Minerva.”
“uh… .”
Cass Lyle rarely showed a sign of embarrassment.
“You knew more than I thought.”
Having said that, he glanced at Alice Blesbuck, who was still kneeling.
“I don’t know what the purpose was, but at least it was a homunculus created by Milited with clear intentions. It was, to be precise, one of the seeds of the homunculus.”
“A seed?”
“Yes, seeds. A seed that cannot grow unless it is cultivated and nurtured.”
He frowned slightly, as if trying to bring back memories, and continued his speech.
“I should have woken up at least a few hundred years ago. But after Milited’s sudden disappearance, I too had to live as a seed for hundreds of years. Because no one else had the power to awaken the seed homunculus.”
“then… .”
“okay.”
He nodded.
Then he slowly walked in front of Alice Blesbuck and looked down at her.
“It was Professor Alice who woke me up.”
he said in a whisper.
“I didn’t tell anyone, but I still remember when I was a seed. So I know everything.”
Then he slowly knelt down to eye level with Alice Blesbuck.
“You woke me up.”
“all… .”
Alice looked at him with blank eyes.
“You knew everything, everything.”
Cass Lyle nodded.
Alice opened her mouth, avoiding his gaze with an expression as if she wanted to cry profusely on the spot.
“… Yes, I woke up this kid. I had no idea. I’m not making excuses… At that time, I did whatever my mother ordered.”
“… … .”
“By the way, when my eyes met this child who had barely woken up in the tank… .”
She closed her eyes as if she could not recall the memories of that time.
“When I woke up, I was already running away with her in my arms. Because I knew very well how this child was going to be used. Knowing that, I have been ignoring you until now.”
She continued to speak.
That’s how he ran away from the chase with Cass Lyle.
Meanwhile, he met Lee Myung-jun, a young boy, and received help from him.
At the time, 20 years had passed when he found a way to calm Cass Lyle’s body while receiving the protection of Lee Myung-jun’s father, who was a teenager at the time, and to protect himself.
“After that, the tracking became less. It’s only recently that I’ve been able to live as if I was just settling down. Myung-jun followed his father and became a teenager, and he took care of us a lot… .”
“At the same time, how about teaching the children to Professor Alice? And there was talk about what it would be like to become an academy student.”
Cass Lyle followed, and Alice Blesbuck nodded quietly.
Then he bowed his head deeply and said to him again.
“… Yes, like I said before. I’m the one who ruined your life You woke up because of me, and the countless experiments you went through before I found you… All of that happened because of me.”
“… … .”
“You have the right to get me the price.”
She confessed her sins and said that she deservedly pay for it.
“I will do anything you want. you deserve me If you die, I will die here, and if you ask me to become a slave, I will gladly become your slave. If I ask you to bring my mother’s neck, I will do it even if I die. If not… .”
“Professor Alice.”
Cass Lyle interrupted her in a quiet voice.
“No, Alice Blesbuck.”
He opened his mouth quietly, but with a voice of rage that I could feel even from a distance.
“Do not insult me.”
Cass Lyle said looking at the person who could be called the creator who created him.
“Do I look that stupid? Yes, I resented you at first. Why did he wake me up, so I let him taste the pain, and he fell into self-pity on such a subject and ran away with me without any countermeasures. Thanks to him, he made me suffer even more, when I tried to die, he stopped me from dying, and I couldn’t even remember what I did. did you?”
Each time he spoke, Alice flinched as if being beaten with a club.
“So, I was so obsessed with them that I forgot the important things.”
He gently reached out and patted her shoulder.
“In the end, you risked your life to save me, and for over 20 years, you did all the bad things for me, and you showed me how good it is to live in this world.”
“I, I… .”
“And I forgot to say this.”
He forcibly lifted her body up with a careful but forceful motion.
“Thank you, Alice Blesbuck. Seriously, thank you so much for saving me. Thanks to you, I was able to live as a person, not a test subject, without dying.”
“ah… .”
“Thank you very much.”
“I, I… I… !”
Alice Blesbuck didn’t say anything and just started sobbing, and Cars Lyle remained silent as she hugged her half-collapsed.
And as I was watching the scene from right next to me, I heard Sbangali whisper in my ear.
[What should I say… .]
He made a hard, beak-banging sound.
[It’s a very moving scene, but I wonder if there’s any need for you to be involved here.]
“… … .”
[Let me be honest. Are you very shy right now?]
I didn’t respond to the guy’s words.
And, knowing that silence was an affirmation, Sbangali just giggled.
* * *
“okay… .”
Professor Grossman looked at Yuuna who was sitting in front of him.
It was a class with few people from the beginning, and even that one person missed out, so I thought that I would rather have an interview that I couldn’t finish until now.
“How do you feel about being a caregiver?”
Lee Yu-na answered her question with a smile as always.
“Yeah, it’s fine. The horse is the caretaker, and it’s just like playing next to each other.”
“Well, you look very tired for that kind of thing… .”
“I really am. It’s not that Jihyuk just does weird things, and he doesn’t have that kind of personality… .”
While saying that, Lee Yu-na suddenly remembered what had just happened and put on a gloomy expression without realizing it.
And Abel Grossman, who didn’t miss it, flinched and then asked calmly, pretending he didn’t know anything.
“Now that I think about it, Jihyuk seems to have improved a lot, right?”
“Ah yes. It’s really improved a lot. Ahn Joo-hyuk is also really a miracle… .”
“… Then, wouldn’t it be okay if Yuna didn’t have to take care of you by your side? Because there will be the eyes of the children around you. You’re technically a student, so you won’t have time.”
“uh… that.”
Lee Yu-na was clearly against Abel Grossman’s words, but answered without even knowing why she felt that way.
“However, when Jihyuk looks at it, there is something strangely clumsy about it. Last time, when I went to the bathroom, even though the floor was full of water, I almost fell because I went barefoot… Besides, he was eating without even knowing he was allergic to cucumbers, or he had a bad sleeping habit, and if he made a mistake, he almost fell over the bed. Well, I mean, I’m worried until everything gets better… .”
“… … .”
Abel Grossman immediately recalled the appearance of the female lead in the drama at the appearance of Lee Yu-na, who spoke like an excuse.
She was a very frustrating female protagonist who said, ‘It can’t be me’ while devotedly caring for the poor male protagonist.
When I saw it in the drama, I just laughed it off because it was stupid or something, but now I can’t help but laugh when I see that kind of thing in my favorite disciple.
“There… Well. Jihyeok has a side of being able to get along well.”
“… Does he say he has a good mood?”
“yes. There is also a point of being more honest than necessary.”
Yuna nodded her head.
And he said it with an oddly confident expression on his face.
“You will say no.”
He even added,
“I don’t know if there is someone who can control me well… I’m really worried about being alone. To the extent that the appearance he showed at times was colorless.”