122. Erea Blainclet (2)
5:30 P.M.
I was walking in the opposite direction from the dormitory.
There is no Marie around, and no Claire. I am alone.
If you look around, there are very few students. Should I say that there are strangely few passers-by?
5:00 PM is the time when the last regular class of the academy begins,
6:00 P.M. Is the time when employees at the academy leave work.
Therefore, 5:30 p.M., Which is the middle value, is a time zone that can only be quiet.
He must have called me because it was such an exquisite time.
“Welcome, boy.”
A voice came from above.
Let’s peek up. Lapiska sits on top of her lamppost and looks down.
And Erea is standing under the lamppost.
Silver hair that retains a golden color in the glow of the setting sun.
Quiet yet cold eyes like dolls are looking at you.
“I’ll just double check one thing. Just having a last talk with Erua? No matter what conclusion I draw.”
When I asked that, Lapiska looked at Erua, not at me.
Er Ah quietly nodded her head.
“Yeah. I won’t bother Ariel again.”
“…I can’t believe what you say.”
It’s because I can’t understand the language.
I let out a sigh.
“So where can we talk?”
What came to mind was the memory of the days when I was playing the game.
[Lucius] “Senior Lapiska, please make me her sister.”
It is an event right before the summer vacation of the first year begins.
After all the courses of the first semester of the first year are over, Lucius visits Lapisca that day.
[Lapisca] “It’s good for me, but it’s a strange thing.”
[Lapisca] “I’ve sent love calls many times over the years, and it’s from Junior Lucius, who hit the iron wall.”
[Lapisca] “Why did I have a change of heart only now?”
[Lucius] “…Because Marie Ruhelif is dead.”
[Lucius] “If I had been stronger… I wouldn’t have let Marie Ruhelif die.”
[Lucius] “Rose, she could have kept it from ringing.”
[Lapisca] “Don’t get me wrong, Junior Lucius.”
[Lapisca] “Even if you form a soul mate, you won’t be able to obtain dramatic strength.”
[Lapisca] “There was no way to save Marie Ruhelif junior from the beginning.”
[Lucius] “I know.”
[Lucius] “I want to reduce even one drop of tears, senior.”
[Lucius] “I don’t want to kill anyone with my own hands anymore.”
After such a conversation, Lucius forms a soul bond with Lapisca.
Of course, Marie survived in this world, but Lucius still tried to cut her down.
Because he couldn’t stand that powerlessness, Lucius must have shared a soul mate with Lapisca in this world as well.
It doesn’t mean that much to me.
It is possible to gain practical benefits by forming a marriage of souls, but I do not yet know if there is more significance than that.
Will I find meaning through this conversation?
If you can’t find the meaning, will you give up on making a relationship?
Or will they be forced to form a relationship in pursuit of profit?
No conclusion has yet been reached.
“Here.”
Er A, who was walking ahead, stopped her steps.
It was a building that looked like a shabby warehouse.
The height is only about 3m, so it looks small, and the width is also slightly wider than a studio.
The shabby building had a slanting sign attached to it.
Training Ground 0.
Among the countless training grounds in Philea Academy, it was a training ground that only those with excellent grades could use.
“Let’s go in.”
Era lightly opened the door. She then waits as if she sees me and she tells me to go inside first.
That’s not particularly considerate.
Training Ground 0, which looks like a warehouse, is ‘started’ by opening and closing the door.
That’s why they’re probably waiting for the door to close before I step in.
Understanding that, I nodded and went inside.
Pure white space.
Outside the building, an unimaginably vast white sea spreads out.
There is no distinction between the walls, the ceiling, and the floor, and it seems as if it is floating in the air, but at the same time it seems to constantly fall down.
– Knocked up.
As the door closed behind, Erua walked in.
“Training Ground 0 is a training ground made with the trainee’s imagination.”
With those words, as Erua stirred her hand, a chair came to life.
According to the settings, Training Ground 0 is said to be a building itself.
It is a training ground where registered users can create a virtual space in a building and achieve creation by exerting various imaginations.
She can make a chair just like Er A did.
You can make something like a target for training.
Monsters or even humans can create them. All lies, of course.
In other words, training ground 0 is like a training room.
Call up the monsters or NPCs you’ve dealt with so far and use them as a deal meter, or check skill combinations.
Sometimes, while practicing skills here, there are times when you gain enlightenment and achieve special growth.
Because it’s such a place, it was a place I often came to for lunch when I played Unknown Saga, but
The level of vividness was different when I stepped directly into it.
While being a bit overwhelmed by the scenery of training ground 0,
Er Ah sat down on her chair first.
“Shall we talk…?”
Erua had said that in a rare voice that stopped her a little.
Yes. Today’s purpose is to tell a story, not to train.
I sat down on an empty chair.
“…….”
The distance is very short, about 1m.
At that distance, I face Erua.
Moonlight-like eyes are looking at me with a little trouble.
“Lapisca-senpai… Told me to tell you a story about me.”
“Lapisca?”
“I heard that Ariel would understand.”
“Hmm…”
Come to think of it, I still don’t know much about Erea.
Erua, a character who has played Unknown Saga for 1532 hours, but has not yet been resolved.
I don’t know why she wants to form a soul bond with me.
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At least a few things I know about her.
It is a kind of hidden heroine, and the place and time of appearance are all random, so the difficulty of raising the bond level is the highest.
Fortunately, it has a high probability of appearing in dungeons, and if you meet in a dungeon, it will give you items like a golden goblin or help you fight as a helper.
As the only disciple of the one who stands at the pinnacle of adventurers called the Adventure King, Erea is also the idol of the academy.
He was educated in the family of Count Blaine Cleat, but he was actually a commoner.
“When I was young, the village I lived in was attacked by demons.”
Then she started talking about her ‘first’, of her own.
“Everybody’s dead. Except me.”
“…….”
It’s a story you know.
That’s why I couldn’t be surprised.
“I should have died then, too, I think.”
However, what he said next made me doubt my ears.
I know about Erea’s past. In her original work, it was a story that you could hear her once if you were trying to increase her liking.
But she said Er Ah wanted to die, a story she had never heard of before.
“I survived because a master who happened to be passing nearby saved me. Master took me in saying that I have excellent magical aptitude.”
“…….”
“Master raised me to be an adventurer. Master said that the most important thing for an adventurer is ‘survival’.”
Listen carefully, Era. For adventurers, the most important thing is to survive.
I wasn’t at the pinnacle of adventurers from the start either. In the past, there were adventurers who were stronger than me.
But they all died. That’s why I’m not dead and I’m called the adventure king and I’m standing here.
It is not the strong who survive, it is the survivor who is strong. Even if you are weak, if you survive, you will have a chance to become stronger, and then the day will come when you reach the peak.
“But Master said that I lack the will to survive.”
It is said that the mind that thinks that she will die in case of emergency is imprinted on her body.
Do you throw your body to protect your comrades when the magic strikes, or do you devise other means?
When your limbs are cut off and you can’t move, do you give up your life toward the approaching enemy or give up until the end?
When you are falling 100m above the ground, do you accept your end or find a way to live?
Of course, having the will to survive and the ability to resolve the situation are two different things.
However, that small difference has a big effect in critical situations.
“But I failed to have the will to survive.”
“…Failed, you think it’s okay to die?”
“Yes. Even at this moment.”
Having said that, Erua is still looking at me with eyes like moonlight.
I don’t see him as someone who wants to die.
However, it seems that there is no lingering attachment to this world.
As if it would disappear anytime soon.
“Master said to increase his own definition so that he can cling to life.”
“I see…”
People do not commit suicide.
There is something I want to do.
Because there is something I want to become.
There is something I want to protect.
Because there is joy I want to enjoy.
Because I’m afraid of disappearing.
Even so, the reason why there are people committing suicide is that they choose extreme measures because they have no way to overcome the harsh reality.
According to my clumsy knowledge, Erea seems to be empty from the beginning.
It feels like only the body has grown without containing anything.
Perhaps Era didn’t want to die.
She wondered if she couldn’t find meaning in living.
“Ariel, why did she want to live?”
Only then did it seem to make sense.
Why did she chase after me, why did she cling to me.
She said “Why did she want to live…”
When she asked me why she didn’t want to die, she had nothing to say.
Do I have attachment to my current life?
… Well, I’ve recently developed an attachment. When I started dating Marie, I started to think that I wanted to live together.
But Er-Ah saw me before she did. She
As the only male student, she has been persecuted and even betrayed by what she thought was a fellow student.
Nonetheless, I have chosen to live.
From the first day I came to this world.
Why?
“I don’t know.”
To be honest, there is nothing I want to do. She has been thinking of becoming a cartoonist, but that was a dream she abandoned early on.
She had nothing to do or be.
There was no particular joy I wanted to enjoy.
She said, “She just didn’t want to die, that’s my all.”
“……Is that all?”
Erua looks at me as if he doesn’t understand.
Well, it must have been a difficult answer for myself to understand.
She had nothing she wanted to do, and nothing she wanted to be. Why did I work so hard to live and die?
What I vaguely feel is because I’ve experienced death once.
I lived once as Kim Il-hwan.
I don’t know if my current life will be more difficult than Kim Il-hwan’s time, but in the end, wouldn’t it be possible to live a better life than Kim Il-hwan’s?
As for death, it was enough to experience it once.
“Still, I think I did well to survive now.”
From the first day of admission, there must have been an option to commit suicide, saying f*ck it whether or not humanity perishes.
Thanks to not dying, I went through many difficulties, but recently I have something I want to protect.
Kim Il-hwan died after living as a single mother for 28 years.
Compared to that, Ariel is living a much better life than Kim Il-hwan in that she has a lover.
“If you continue to live, you will have a lot of joy.”
“That, I don’t know.”
“That’s true. There’s nothing we can know about the future. Rather, we may be more miserable than we are now, but in the end, humans are beings who chase hope.”
Is there anyone who thinks that he will die because he has reached the peak of his life and is going downhill from now on?
Conversely, after reaching the lowest point in life, wouldn’t you think that it would be better from now on, so let’s live on?
Well, it must be because I have lived my life for the past 28 years.
There was an examinee who committed suicide after ruining a test in his previous life.
That’s because test scores were everything to the test taker, and if it collapses, it means losing everything in the world.
As narrow as one’s own definition is, when the narrow-minded world collapses, extreme choices are bound to be made.
In that sense, having already lived 28 years and experiencing a second life, I must have a wider self-definition than other students.
That’s why I’ve been living.
That’s why I think it’s what I want to live on.
“……I don’t know.”
Era immediately said so.
That face, for some reason, looked hopeless.
Perhaps the adventure king is everything in the current world to Erea.
She was raised by the Adventure King, and was given many things by the Adventure King, including teachings.
That’s why I’m obsessed with the homework given to me by the Adventure King.
It feels like I finally got to know her a little bit.
Erra is just a child.
“I’ll tell you in advance, but I don’t have the time to worry about anyone other than Marie.”
Me and Marie. That’s it.
On the day Lucius defeats the Demon King, if Mari and I are still alive, I think that’s fine for now.
There is no time to solve Era’s worries.
“So if you still want to welcome me as your sister, there are conditions.”