3. The lump in the heart
3. Lump in the heart
“…Did you say 5 years ago, now?”
Professor Sui opened his mouth wide. He said he couldn’t believe it at all.
This is a natural reaction. In fact, no Simma lasts more than a month.
Shimma is a disease that kills people’s minds. And mana is operated with a great influence on people’s psychology.
If the mind is twisted, the mana is also twisted.
Thus, those who do not overcome the heart attack quickly die within a week or two. That’s the principle.
Sui looked at me like a ghost.
“How are you alive… ?”
“Okay.”
I shrugged helplessly.
The reason why I fell into heartbreak in the first place was so vague and unanswerable, so even my close friend, who looked at me like an idiot in such a situation, didn’t give me a plausible solution, but only gave me medicine.
Basically, in order to survive, it was important to constantly drain the mana from within the body. Otherwise, the accumulated mana would have twisted along with my heart and killed me from the inside out.
So I rolled across the battlefield.
Eating and drinking were minimized, and mana was released outside the body without a single moment of rest. He released his mana, created his sword skill, raised his sword skill, sent it flying, and now that he thinks about it, he did all sorts of things.
Thanks to that, my skills have improved.
Since I risked my life on the act of releasing magic, I can say that I fought while burning my entire life, and as I built up killing monsters with the sword skill I created as a career, I was being called a hero before I knew it.
Around that time, I was able to control Shimma to some extent, so as long as I took the medicine at the right timing, there was no big problem.
That’s it.
However, after hearing my story, Sui still had a confused look on her face.
“…Then.”
“Yes?”
“Are you planning to wear Simma in the future?”
That’s what. I’ve been living like this so far, so it shouldn’t matter too much. The middle dimension is much richer than the original world, so you should be able to get the medicine somewhere and prepare it right away.
As long as the ingredients are properly mixed, there shouldn’t be any problems.
“…..”
So I was silent.
However, Sui seemed to have a different idea.
“I can’t. I will have to interview her as her professor.”
“An interview?”
“If you live in the academy in the future, there will be a lot of things to go out and hunt monsters someday.
Sui pointed out.
And I wasn’t wrong. No matter how much medicine he took, he said he would get better, but it was obvious that the moment the sealed magic was released, his temper would become a hundred times more wild and violent than he is now.
Because that’s how I lived on the battlefield. It was the reason why he didn’t have any other colleagues by his side after he got Shimma.
Sui had seen it that far.
“You have to heal, the disease in your heart.”
“…..Yes.”
I managed to nod my head, but couldn’t give a definitive answer.
Will the roots that have long been fixed in the image be torn off so easily? In terms of wood, it feels like it has deeper roots than a thousand-year-old tree. It has already become one with me.
However, Sui seemed to know about that and didn’t rush. Instead, she pulled the chair she was sitting on closer to the bed.
With him, the warm scent suddenly came closer.
I was startled and pulled back, but Sui, who came faster than that, pressed the back of my hand.
The transparent eyes penetrating me, gently frowning on the beautiful army. Sui fixed her eyes on me and only moved her mouth.
“From what I’ve said so far, the cause of Shimma hasn’t come out yet. Yes?”
“Yes… “
“And it didn’t seem like a story that had much to do with Eros origins.”
I feel like every single word from Professor Sui is flying into my heart and stabbing me. But the back of his hand was caught, so he couldn’t escape.
She pointed to the Eros pattern on the back of my hand. How the hell did she know, but those eyes already shared the sadness.
“This must be the root of Shimma.”
“…..”
“Could you please allow me to help?”
“…Professor.”
I asked in a trembling voice.
“Doesn’t I hate Eros?”
Waiting for her answer, Sui’s clear eyes stared at me without wavering.
“Not at all… I’d be lying if I said that. At least I know now that you are not like that.”
Clap.
Sui unzipped the scabbard she was wearing and showed it to me.
“I am also a prosecutor. A swordsman who came this far while experiencing a sense of achievement, frustration, victory and defeat. In the meantime, how many times must Shimma have been through this?”
I can vaguely feel the depth in Sui’s transparent eyes. Her transparent eyes, which only those who have grown to have confidence in themselves, can see them.
“Among the warriors from Eros who came in before, there was no such person. They were writers who only devised ways to exploit others comfortably with their bizarre abilities.”
She said.
“Shimma won’t come unless she pushes herself to the edge of her precipice. In a way, she is proof that she tried to forge her image to the limit in order to grow.”
What Sui said was simple.
“How can I doubt someone who has been going through such a heartbreak for so long?”
“Don’t you suspect that I am lying?”
“To be honest, when I held hands for a while, I let out a weak amount of magic power, but the blood flow of magic power was the most distorted among people I had ever seen in my life.”
“…..”
When the hell.
“To be honest, I almost threw up because I was dizzy just from feeling it indirectly, but you… “
It’s not at all pleasant to see her awe-inspiring eyes in a place like this. I tried to avoid my eyes and let out a small sigh.
More than that, she said she really wanted to hear about my past, so she was already at a loss as to how to unravel this story.
“…Do I really have to tell you everything?”
“Yes, I am ready to listen.”
Sui sat upright in her place and said gallantly. I had a strong will to sympathize with any hardships and adversity that came out of my mouth.
Will you be able to maintain that attitude even after listening to the end of the story?
“…..First of all, I am.”
I began to reassemble the lumps that were deeply embedded in my heart into type and bring them out. That would probably be a very painful task.
But it was then.
Hwaaah!
Suddenly, a golden torrent burst out of my arms.
“This, this?!”
It was a familiar magic that I had never experienced before. I immediately inferred its identity and was astonished.
Orien.
No, to be precise, the golden-edged bookmark that Orien had given me as a gift began to radiate power. He said it would help somehow, but out of the blue, I don’t know what the situation is.
“What is this?!”
Similarly flustered, Sui grabbed hold of my collar as it fluttered in the gust of wind. It seems that he knew that I was going to fly somewhere.
In the meantime, the golden airflow grew even bigger, and before long we were swallowed up by the light together.
**
“Ummm… “
After a while, Makia broke away from the school-library-café-dormitory route and stepped on her new path. It was a historic moment, but her heart was not at all anxious.
‘Is this really true?’
I’ve been avoiding them all this time, and yesterday we broke up in the worst way, but Makia was confused about whether visiting again today was the right choice.
Above all, that expression from yesterday.
A person who disappeared with a wounded face in the world was hospitalized again today like a ghost. I still don’t know why he was hospitalized, but Machia felt that it was because of him.
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At the root of all these ideas was the friendly attitude he had shown so far. Of course, it was a little late to notice because of the fear caused by prejudice.
‘Maybe I misunderstood.’
Eros is not all the same Eros, but isn’t there a special species like Orien? Maybe that person is that kind too.
And if this hypothesis is correct, Machia must have apologized to him.
So, just in case, I bought a coffee and went. It was the same menu he drank yesterday.
“…Um!”
Makia made up his mind and stepped towards the hospital building in the distance.
After a while.
After entering the building and safely finding the room, Makia cautiously stood in front of the hospital room. And that was the moment he was about to knock.
-…Ugh…
A small moaning sound came from inside the hospital room. It was only a subtle sound, but it was a woman’s every way.
Makia felt goosebumps running up her spine. Her back stiffened.
She was definitely told it was a single room, but the nurse couldn’t have misinformed her. Then, what was the true meaning of that moaning sound?
‘Oh, what should I do… ‘
Makia took her coffee carrier and rolled her toes. She goes like this, she goes back, and she does, and she opens the door, but if an embarrassing situation arises…
“…..”
As she imagined it, heat came to her face. She wanted to slam her head against a wall somewhere, but she couldn’t do this or that, fearing that she would be found out.
Makia, who had been screaming and covering her mouth, finally made up her mind.
‘…Wait a little bit, let’s see a little bit.’
It would be okay to slightly open her door and see. All the doors of hospitals are managed so that there is no sound at all for the emotional stability of patients.
Makia swallowed her saliva and put her hand on the locked doorknob of the hospital room.
Sure.
And she put her eyes through the slightly open slit.
“…..Professor Sui?”
She saw a very familiar woman’s back. The upper body of that silhouette was almost kissing another silhouette.
From all appearances, the situation was severe.
Machia screamed silently.