“I can’t see Marika… Could it have been that she was kidnapped by the denominations?!”
As her whereabouts become more mysterious, Aris, unable to hide her embarrassment, frantically looks around to find her who will not be seen.
“Calm down, Aris, although Marika isn’t here yet, it’s not certain that they’ve been captured, so calm down.”
Talk about the situation as positively as possible and try to dry her out a little, who is becoming more and more distracted.
“But Harold…! But what if they really get caught…?”
“……”
I can’t answer Aris’ question clearly, so I end up being silent.
To be honest, her worries were probably natural, and Marika was highly likely to be sacrificed as a capable person.
Actually, I had been kidnapped once before, and thanks to an unknown phenomenon, I was able to help her.
If you think about it, what were the memories that came to mind at that time?
A strange feeling, as if a forgotten memory, for some reason… I don’t know how she came to mind, but thanks to her coming to me in a moment of crisis like a joke of fate, I was able to save her without delay.
In retrospect, Marika was probably on the verge of being sacrificed… It could have been dramatic in an exquisite moment that was close, as if she had calculated all the future, if she hadn’t thought of it a little bit later or was in a little bit of a hurry. Marika may have been offered as a sacrifice.
“I’m sure it would be easier to find her… but I don’t know where she is, so I’m at a loss…”
As if muttering, I too, like Aris, caress my chin with a slightly troubled expression.
I made an analogy by considering various situations such as a place where Marika might be, but there was no particular place that came to my mind.
It was a place she liked or where she would normally be if she was at the academy… But even that was unpredictable because today’s event is an exceptional situation.
“If you’re worried, I’ll help you.”
As if to solve our troubles, Ms. Arsia nodded her head with a confident look, then pulled out a scroll from her desk and handed it to me.
“What is this?”
At my question, she smiles slightly and explains this paper.
“The members of the Church have prepared several secret facilities in the academy like parasites, and this is a map and manual that contains all the details, including the locations, uses, and sizes of those facilities.”
Unknowingly, I am amazed at things that will be more useful than I thought, and I close my mouth in a circle.
“Oh… thank you! This should work!”
I take the scroll and open it right away. Whether it is actually the material provided by the church members to provide them with information, the direction or location of the passage designed like a maze, where the entrance is located, and even the emergency escape route is drawn. It was a map.
“Then I’ll go ahead and check it out.”
With those words, I am about to leave the principal’s office, which has become a mess right away…
“Wait! Let me go with you…!”
Arsia-san suddenly stopped me and asked if I would like to accompany her.
“yes?”
“I got your help, so I want to help too. If you face the heretics, battle will be inevitable… it will definitely help.”
Ms. Arsia suffered from constant unfair treatment and half-forcibly sacrificed herself for Aris.
“And… their goal is to resurrect the old god Lusria, who can be said to be my original… In a way, it started because of me, so I want to finish it.”
It seemed that he was trying to fulfill his duty as well as breathing in to them.
“It’s over, but… I don’t know if it’s a situation I don’t know, so I might be ahead of the curve.”
To be honest, there was no reason to reject the increase in power.
However, another strength that can be said to be my specialty is extraordinary speed.
I don’t know where I heard it, but it might be a little difficult for them to follow because she was a wizard and her speed was rated as a first-class swordsman.
I was wondering if I should go first, but…
Thump… Thump… Thump…
For some reason, I felt anxious about my heart beating fast.
I don’t know why, but my heart continues to rush…. There’s no certainty, but if I don’t hurry now, my instinct is screaming that I can’t go back.
“Okay, then, I’ll follow you, so please take a look at the situation first… May I ask?”
At that question, I smile confidently and gently nod my head.
“Okay, then I’ll go first.”
Leaving those words behind, he ran at full speed.
They quickly start moving away from sight, and I sprint through the ground with more and more speed.
thump… thump…
It may be because of vigorous exercise now, but the heart keeps beating like crazy and at the same time I feel a sense of fear.
I can’t say it’s a tension stemming from mental anxiety… I even wanted to ask someone why I was in this state.
I feel like I need to find Marika quickly…
With that thought, I now cross a quiet hallway.
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“……”
A girl was kneeling silently in the middle of a large room, in an unknown basement, whose exact location was unknown.
rumble…
Because if you move even a little…
“Ugh…! Uh…!!”
The black chains around his arms give him a painful experience.
“Now the time has come.”
“eww….”
The dignified man in her sight looks at her with a cold eye and pulls out a light purple crystal from his arms.
“Marika.”
The Crown Prince, who prepared everything to sacrifice his own younger brother, obviously shared blood, but their feelings towards each other were too one-sided.
“Brother, please stop.”
One side was earnestly begging and begging, but…
“Weak…”
The other was utter contempt and disgust.
“Your essence is so weak that I fell for it… I don’t feel any hostility, let alone anger, at the person who is trying to kill me right now…”
He was the lowest in the line of succession to the throne, and was pushed by his younger brothers, and his talent was so disastrous compared to his bloodline, that he was kicking his tongue out with contempt.
“It’s the natural instinct of the weak, and it’s not about pulling down the beings who are standing on top of them and oppressing them with unfair treatment, it’s just the weak essence that creeps helplessly from below…”
He closes his eyes and gently raises his head as if reminiscing on the past, amplifying Marika’s anxiety in her expression distorted as time goes by.
“The more you look back, the weaker you remain, a category that I hate very much.”
Then, he placed the light purple crystal he was holding in his hand on the altar and opened an old book.
“Still, I am grateful that I have a usable body compared to the common people.
While still looking at her with a cold gaze, he confesses his cruel true intentions as a last gift.
“Our ancestors held power only through strength, and historically, strong countries ruled over weak ones.”
“It’s a natural cycle… A weak person like you is always victimized or survived by gushing around, and I’ve always hated them.”
From an ethical point of view, his very twisted ideology may be a by-product of being born and growing up without deficiencies in any way.
“The same is true of the gods who rule the world today… everything is flawed, they pretend to be at the top of the world and fall for all hypocrisy, but in fact they fear the return of the truly strong ancients… “
As he began to mumble something, the pages of the bookshelf began to turn quickly, and stopped at a certain page, emitting an ominous light.
“With the beginning of today, I will make all of them descend… I will culling from the world the weak, who get sick even just by looking at them…”
He smiles maliciously and prepares for the ceremony by uttering suspicious words that he does not know who he is talking to.
“I have heard the story, I dared to welcome you as a companion, so please see the light of the world again…”
◆◆◆
“Huh… huh…”
The underground passage is so complicated that I can’t even figure out where I am right now…
“I think I’ve looked back almost…”
I went to all the places indicated on the map that Arsia gave me, but Marika was nowhere to be found, and somehow I didn’t come across any members of the church.
“after…”
Just wipe the sweat dripping from the repeated exercise and slowly grasp the situation.
If I didn’t find it after looking around like this, I wonder if it was cause for concern… Maybe Marika is sleeping somewhere on campus right now…
On the other hand, Marika was nowhere to be found, to the point where I wanted to vaguely conclude that she was safe.
However…
“Why do you keep getting anxious?”
On the other hand, to the point that Marika was so worried that she would turn around… It was confusing when negative and positive coexist.
Why couldn’t she shake off her worries… It’s not even confirmed that she’s in danger…
“Why does it feel like Marika is in a moment of crisis right now… If I haven’t looked around all the facilities, it probably won’t be…”
It was difficult to properly explain how I feel right now, and the core of my heart that somehow builds up makes me uncomfortable all the time.
“Isn’t everything on this map… If so, should I look for another way…”
He manages to calm his trembling feelings and devises the next plan.
Let’s think… how can I get rid of the unpleasantness that is bothering me right now…
“Ugh…”
However, despite this, I feel frustrated at the answer that doesn’t come to mind.
“Let’s think… think… there must be another way…”
Rotating my thoughts to the point where my head heats up, I become obsessed with this facility to the point where I can’t even understand myself, and I long for Marika, which may not exist.
“think….”
“eww…!!”
ㅡㅡ
When I tried to consider all the cases until my head was throbbing…!
Quick!
“?!!”
A stimulating current passes through my head.
“What?!”
At the same time, the unfamiliar memories that come to mind as if something is being drawn in my head…
“…..!”
It was definitely an experience I had never experienced before.
Disparate memories that come to mind clearly are imprinted in my mind once again, as if they were telling me about things to come and their solutions…
“sh*t!!”
I started running like crazy on the first road.
A fragmentary memory that suddenly passed by without even having time to understand the situation… I had to see it…
“Please… don’t be late…!!”
Is the sky really helping? Following the instinct to clearly indicate the future as if it were telling the future, I run with hope even though it may already be too late.
A place not far from here… there must be Marika in bondage…
“please!!”
It runs like crazy without a moment to sort out the complicated brain.
Because now…
“Marika!”
Because now she was literally on the verge of losing her life…
“You have to go a little faster!!”
Even the slightest hesitation was a luxury.
She scours her body and traverses the dark passage at a speed she has never shown before.
A secret passage that is not even shown on the map, step by step… I run fast beyond my limits.
“…..!”
When you surrender to your instincts, the secret door that begins to appear at the end of your field of vision…
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Now I could guarantee that Marika was doing something strange over there.Maybe it’s too late… How should I deal with the enemy beyond this…
I can’t shake my anxious thoughts, but…
“It’ll probably be fine…!”
On the one hand, in the memories that came to mind, I was relieved because I was able to safely rescue Marika.
Somehow, it came to the front of the door
Tickle!!
I open the door roughly, and I cry out loudly.
“Marika!!”
Calling her name, I quickly check the scene unfolding to me.
“Harold?!”
Marika calls my name in a voice mixed with embarrassment at the unexpected appearance
“Ha… Kak…! Goddess… Why the hell…!!”
But something was strange…
“Marika…?”
The situation unfolding in front of me now is such an ironic situation… The Crown Prince, who should have greeted me as an enemy, was bleeding and fell, and Marika’s body, which should have been bound in black chains, seemed free.
“Huh? Why are you calling me?”
He tilts his head as if he doesn’t understand my fearful atmosphere.
She must have had blue eyes like a sapphire…
“What’s going on?”
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Now she had purple eyes.“Who are you…”
As if by stimulating nerves all over her skin, Marika gives off a creepy, sinister atmosphere…
The heightened vigilance makes her take a step back, but…
“I wish it was a little later…”
shudder!!
“Kaaaa…?!”
A chain of darkness that appeared from the air soon… Marika, who was smiling for some reason, came to me with a sad voice.
“I was going to surprise you a little… Did you arrive before you even cleared the situation?”
An unidentified existence approaching me with leisurely steps
This was something I couldn’t remember…
“It’s been a while, are you going to meet me for the second time? I’m sorry I didn’t recognize you the first time.”
fast!
“!!!!”
The moment he tries to resist the oppressive force… Perhaps the chain is reacting to his refusal to kneel, he forcibly lowers his view until he twists his bones.
When pain that cannot be expressed comes rushing in… When you feel like you are out of breath and dizzy from the agony you’ve ever felt…
“Found ♥”
Unlike me, this suspicious entity blushes with Marika’s body and hugs me tightly.
Based on the fragmented memories I had acquired earlier, I was able to instinctively know who this person is who is sending me twisted emotions.
“The day I reappear in the world… I rule the world with my companion.”
An ancient being who murmured in a somewhat dreamy voice, as if retelling a prophecy he had kept…
“Now it’s our world!”
Lusria whispers to me.