“Ah, thank you.”
Alice Blesbuck, holding a cup of hot coffee with both hands, let out a weary sigh.
“good night… I think I’m going to live for a while now. To be honest, it was a little chilly and I was tired.”
I sat across from her.
She put down her mug only after sipping coffee a couple of times in a row.
“Well, first of all, I apologize for coming here late at night without saying a word. Excuse me, but I needed to hurry up a bit. Do you even know what happened to Jihyuk?”
“About Natalia Milited, and Milited’s seal?”
“answer.”
Alice nodded her head.
“Actually, it would be nice if Jihyuk could come in person, but… Because I’ve heard that it’s not a good situation for you to leave right now. Well, it must have been difficult to find in the first place… Anyway, that’s why I came here myself.”
The mug was hot, she said, rubbing both hands that were wrapped around it.
“I can connect my mind to others. To be precise, you share your senses with me. So, in case you are concerned… I can assure you that nothing bad will happen.”
“Are you connecting your mind with your professor and sharing your senses?”
“yes.”
At Alice’s words, the most important question immediately came to mind.
The reason she came here was because it was difficult for me to visit after all.
But wouldn’t it be meaningless to share your senses with her who is in the same position as me?
When I talked about it, she smiled and replied.
“Oh, you don’t have to worry about that. I have prepared a homunculus in the lab. I connect with that homunculus, and Jihyuk shares your senses with me. OK?”
As she spoke up there, she giggled.
“It’s like a train game when you say this.”
“… … .”
As I was about to reply, I shut my mouth.
I nodded my head, thinking that the thought that had just come to my mind was just a question in my heart.
“Then there is no need to wait, so let’s do it right away. Oh, before that… .”
He grabbed the pocket he had placed on the table and handed it to her.
Reaching out her hand in the ice, she grabbed my pocket and asked me.
“What is this?”
“Open it.”
Alice immediately pulled out her pocket.
And as soon as he saw what was inside, he let out a hoot, sat in the chair, jumped and looked at me with surprised eyes.
He noticed what was in his pocket.
“I recently got it. It will definitely be of great help to you and Ryle-senpai.”
“That, but… ! It’s just a gift and it’s definitely not something to be handed over!”
“… We are colleagues fighting for the same goal.”
If it were her, I knew she would reject me in that way.
As she uttered the words she had been thinking about persuading her roughly, she made an expression on her face as if she had realized something, as if she had been struck by lightning.
She then nodded her head solemnly.
“… Yes, Jihyuk understands what you mean.”
Then she carefully put it in her arms and cleared her throat.
She held out her left hand to me and took a metal pen in her right hand.
“Then take my hand now. My power will touch yours, so don’t resist… Well, you better close your eyes if you can.”
“Eyes?”
“Yeah, I guess it’s because I have two eyes, so it’s pretty dizzy the first time.”
She smiled lightly and stabbed the back of her hand with a pen, injuring it.
Using the blood that had flowed from the wound like ink, he drew something like a magic circle on his hands.
“I’ll start.”
I closed my eyes obediently as she advised me.
For a moment, it was as if a strange tinnitus had been heard.
Immediately, it felt like someone grabbed my body and shook me violently, and I felt a sense of floating as if I was falling from a high place.
“… do you feel it Can you hear me?”
At that, I slowly opened my eyes.
No, I just thought I had opened my eyes.
There was a mirror in front of me.
me in the mirror No, someone of unknown gender, resembling Alice Blesbuck, was sitting on the operating table.
“Okay, it looks good. Jihyuk, can you hear me? It’s me, Alice. Remember what I said earlier? You said you shared your senses with me.”
I tried to answer that I remember, but no words came out.
She was confused for a moment, but she seemed to understand enough.
“Yeah, if you just say it like that, you don’t have to worry about it because everything is understood.”
She got up from her seat and smiled softly.
“Actually, if you make it a female body, it’s easier to control, but Jihyuk thinks you’ll be embarrassed… I made it as*xual on purpose.”
After saying those words, she relaxed for a while and then walked straight to somewhere.
As if watching a movie, I looked around.
It was quite large, and it was a place that showed signs of putting a lot of effort into it.
“Let’s see this first.”
When she arrived somewhere, she beckoned as she looked at the golems waiting like a watchman.
The golems swayed aside with a heavy sound, and soon after, a woman caught on the cross was caught in her eyes.
The woman had one ankle amputated.
“I am the shell of Natalia Milited.”
Alice muttered quietly.
“… All adjustments are done. Fixation and stabilization have been completed… Now, I have to take it to the World Tree territory tomorrow and leave it to the head of that country. We have taken care of preventing any evil spirits or other beings from entering the empty body, and even if we recover our original body, it will be meaningless.”
Having said that, she turned and looked the other way.
There, in an unidentified aqueous solution, what appeared to be Natalia’s ankle was floating in a glass tube.
“Jihyuk was a huge help from you. Thanks to Natalia’s body part, I was able to figure out a way to neutralize her by using it as a vehicle and a catalyst.”
After finishing those words, Alice looked at Natalia Milited’s body without saying a word for a moment.
Then he nodded and left the room and headed to another place.
I asked her where Cass Lyle was.
“Oh, Lyle? Lyle is not here now. At Myung-jun’s request, I went to help him for a while.”
Saying that, she smiled as if not to worry.
“Ah, just in case, you don’t have to worry about the defense here. Some have their own guards… Above all, the members of the Ten River are staying in rotation. By now, Ose Evans will probably be staying here. He doesn’t show his face at all because he likes to be alone. Laura, though, often talked about baseball and had fun.”
She was the only one who did not belong to a guild with the name of a magic swordsman in her mouth, and she explained many things to me.
“Me and Lyle, Evangeline Lohengrin and Jin Jeong-jeong are all being careful. Me and Lyle, of course, Evangeline and Jin Jeong-jeong’s bodyguards are also perfect. Probably, one of them will stick together as well.”
The last room we arrived in was somehow different from the other rooms.
Alice opened the door without hesitation and entered.
“… … .”
“hi?”
Inside, a young girl who looked like a mixture of Alice and Cass Lyle was sitting on a chair.
The girl, wearing a dress and shackles connected to the wall at her ankles, was staring intently at this side.
As soon as I saw the girl, I knew she was formerly known as Natalia Milited.
“Did you sleep well?”
The girl did not answer Alice’s question.
It was unexpectedly quiet, and I thought it was unexpected, so Alice answered.
“It was very noisy at first. But after training a few times and putting the necklace on, it quickly became quiet.”
“… … .”
At Alice’s murmur, the girl rolled her eyes as if looking around.
He didn’t seem to even notice that I was there.
The body in which she settled was really nothing more than a body that had no powers and was inferior to that of ordinary people, as Alice said.
“What… I will dispose of it soon. Once you’re done with Milited, you’ll have to deal with it properly. With my own hands.”
At those words, the girl’s eyes fluttered for a moment.
Since it was not my part, I was silent, and Alice bluntly threw it at the girl.
“Tomorrow is going to be pretty hard, so why don’t you get a little more sleep? Let me tell you in advance, it will be really difficult.”
Not as much as you did to me.
With those words, Alice turned back and walked away.
The girl kept staring at this side to death.
“… … .”
After moving away from the room, she stopped walking and opened her mouth quietly.
“… It takes four alchemists to break Milited’s seal. And there must have been two or more.”
Isaac McDowell.
Landsh Milited.
And the dragon hearts that Randsh had collected for hundreds of years.
“Additionally, according to the information I found through Natalia’s head, Randsch had an extremely rare space-based ability. There is also a way to activate the magic circle remotely in alchemy by interlocking it from a distant place.”
Alice was silent for a moment, then nodded.
“The reason I called you today was none other than that. Because it was necessary to find and kill or stop him beyond simply protecting him. To do that, I had to.”
“Ji-hyuk, you have the power of the World Tree, and you are also closely related to the Seven Evil Orders. If my guess wasn’t wrong, I’d be able to handle some of the spirit’s powers. Plus, you’ve just met my mother in person, making contact with Isaac McDowell and all the other Milited children. This is the condition.”
When I asked her to explain in detail, she nodded.
“Now Jihyuk says that you can become a catalyst. If I trace you back using you as a vehicle and catalyst, I might be able to locate the magic circle they are preparing to activate remotely. I need you to do this tracking.”
“… … .”
I had no choice but to remain silent.
It wasn’t because she was afraid or reluctant to be a catalyst, she said.
It was simply because her and I had deviated from their goals from the beginning.
Alice Blesbuck wants Milited’s seal to continue.
So, with my help, I pursued Randsch and tried to kill him.
If you kill even Randsh, there will be no one else to try to break Milited’s seal.
However, I need to defeat all the Seven Evils and gather their elements in order to meet Ahriman, so I had to somehow break the seal of Milited.
That was the crucial difference between her and me.
“Professor Alice.”
After thinking for a while, I quietly spoke to her.
In any case, the existence of Alice Blesbuck and Cass Lyle was essential to unlocking Milited’s seal.
“The professor already knows.”
“What?”
“The seal of Milited will be broken anyway.”
At that, Alice shut her mouth.
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Of course, she already knew that.
Among the six seals except for Ariman, if three or more of the seven seals collapse, the rest will naturally collapse.
And so far Margo, Svengalli, Minerva.
In this way, the seals of the three seven evils were broken.
It was said that it was only a matter of time before the remaining guys were released.
“But I can buy time.”
she added quickly.
“Maybe during that time, we can build a tighter seal. There… .”
“Anyway, it’s just a workaround. Eventually Milited will wake up, and the other Seven Evils will be freed.”
“then.”
Alice asked in a cold voice.
“What are you going to do? Are you telling me to just let go?”
“Remember what happened with Minerva? The professor wasn’t there, but at least you’ve heard the story.”
At that, she shuddered and trembled.
“… no way.”
“Yes, that rumor is correct.”
That was the only reason he helped Alice in her struggle to prevent Milited from being released.
When a Milited is awakened by an imperfect catalyst or method, it is released with weakened powers.
It was similar to how Minerva forcibly woke up from the seal before regaining all her strength.
Help her to wake up Milited while keeping the seal as low as possible.
That was my purpose.
And Alice, who finally noticed it, shouted in an angry voice.
“You, you are really out of your mind… ?!”
At that moment, I felt a rough pressure as if someone was hitting my head.
When I woke up, I saw that I was rolling on the ground.
No, to be precise, something was holding my body right before I hit the ground.
It was Minerva’s tail.
Her tail wrapped around me as if it were a seat belt.
“… !”
A painful moan was heard.
It was Alice Blesbuck’s moan.
“… I can’t stand it anymore because you’ve been listening to me since a while ago.”
Minerva muttered in a cold voice.
Alice Blessbuck, who was caught by her neck and hung in the air, struggled in the air.
Alice Blesbuck is seen.
It seemed that the connection was cut off due to an external shock and returned to its original body.
“Uh, uh… .”
She tried to get Minerva’s hand off somehow with both hands, but it was impossible.
Minerva slammed her to the floor like lightning.
Alice Blessbuck, who had fallen to the floor, exhaled harshly.
“Big!”
“Who does the lowly mongrel dare to flirt with now?”
A bloody sound came out of Minerva’s hand, which grabbed Alice’s neck, along with a rumble.
“Even if it is a hybrid, it seems that he has certainly inherited the blood of a vampire. You inherited your mother’s snake-like tongue.”
“Minerva, calm down.”
I said quietly, calling her name.
Minerva looked at me.
“Dear, maybe something has happened to you?”
“Yeah, I’m fine. More than that, I’m fine, so let him go, come on. That person… .”
“I know.”
Minerva nodded.
Then, while still holding Alice Blesbuck’s neck with one hand, he slowly raised the other hand.
“I knew you were having an important conversation with this mongrel, so I tried to take it easy, but I couldn’t stand trying to make fun of you with a cunning tongue, so I did this presumptuously.”
Then she murmured.
“Don’t get me wrong, because this girl who smells of Milited is not doing this because she shares her senses with you in your room by connecting magical powers.”
[That’s the reason, but what… .]
Sbangali’s voice, which had been heard for a long time, was more annoying than pleasing.
“Dear, this girl was trying to use you as a bait.”
“bait?”
“okay.”
Minerva nodded.
“The real woman knows the magic that this hybrid just talked about. But if you could track Milited’s reverb in that way… .”
Suddenly, a growl came from her throat.
“It sounds like it can be used as a sacrifice to unlock Milited’s seal. Or as a sacrifice to make the seal stronger.”
“Come on, wait a minute… .”
Alice Blesbuck said with a call, breathing hard.
“I, I mean… A little bit, listen… I know it’s suspicious, everything. However… Please… .”
“Do you have to pull out your tongue to keep your longing mouth shut?”
Minerva growled, revealing his sharp teeth.
Her eyes split vertically, and Alice Blessbuck trembled under her momentum.
“How dare you mock him and try to throw him into the abyss.”
“Well, that never meant… .”
Seeing Alice Blessbuck slurping hard as if it was unfair, Minerva snorted.
She raised her hand as if there was nothing more to see.
“That sin deserves death over and over again.”
Looking at her sparkling eyes, it was not difficult to recognize that she was sincere.
I quickly opened my mouth.
“I knew.”
At those words, Minerva’s arm, which was being shot at Alice Blesbuck, stood tall and stopped.
“… Baby, what did you say now?”
“Minerva, I already know what you are worried about, but… I barely noticed everything you warned me about.”
“My dear.”
“So, Minerva. please let her go He must not be dead yet.”
I quietly opened my mouth.
“Because I still have something to talk about with that person.”