Chapter 111: Luna
Edric has had an awful lot of troubleso problems lately.
From the Eastern Union's blatant movents in Bernhardt, to the Twilight Troupe that had recently shown itself even in the Demonic Realm.
It was to the point where he even worried if he should move up the eting with her, which he had postponed and postponed.
‘Even so, that’s not it, though.’
As Edric, who was thinking about her, was shivering, soone knocked on his office door.
Knock knock knock─
“Co in.”
The person who appeared in Edric’s office was none other than a guard.
“Sir Edric, there is a guest at the East gate looking for Sir Edric, is it perhaps soone you know? She said her na is Luna.”
“Luna? Hmm, I don't know.”
If it had been anywhere else, the guard wouldn't have co to ask directly, but Winter Castle Kreutz, due to its nature as the backwoods of the North, rarely gets outsiders.
That's why Edric also thought for a mont, then rose from his seat.
Because if she was really a guest, he couldn't just turn her away absurdly.
“I'll go and see for myself.”
“Will you be alright?”
“I don't have anything else to do at the mont anyway.”
Of course, there was no need to ntion that it was all thanks to entrusting the training schedule to the newly appointed Squad Leader.
Arriving at the East gate with the guard, Edric could see a familiar face.
“Ah, you’re here.”
“You are……”
“It’s a relief you rember. Can I go in now?”
At Luna's overly confident attitude, the guard looked back at Edric with a reluctant expression, and Edric reluctantly nodded his head slightly.
“Should’ve done that from the start.”
Edric's gaze, watching Luna confidently pass through Winter Castle, trembled roughly.
It was to the point where he wondered if he had been this agitated recently.
“……What business do you have in Winter Castle?”
“Huh? You told to co, didn't you?”
“That's true, but……”
He had said to stop by Winter Castle soti, but it was just a courtesy, not a real invitation.
It couldn't be helped, even if she was his savior, who would want to let such a suspicious and dangerous woman into their ho?
At that ti, Edric thought he was sowhat possessed, and that thought was even stronger now.
“Don’t feel too burdened, I just stopped by on my way. It seems what I'm looking for isn't in the Demonic Realm.”
There was no need to ask what exactly wasn't there.
That strange woman had been desperately searching for soone since the first ti they t.
“Can I go in and look around now?”
“……Aren't you going to do as you please even if I stop you?”
“That’s right. You’re pretty quick-witted.”
Luna smiled faintly.
“In that case, I will guide you, since it's probably your first ti in Winter Castle.”
“It’s not my first ti. I’ve been here a few tis before. Anyway, Winter Castle is still the sa.”
“……You’ve been here?”
“Yep. It has its own charm, don't you think?”
He never thought there would be soone who would ntion charm in Winter Castle, where battles of life and death took place every day, but Edric knew the woman in front of him fully had the right to say such things.
Because, that woman looked like she would elegantly sip tea even in the middle of a war where blood and flesh splattered.
“Anyway, I’ll be going now?”
Half of war is justification.
But now Edric had lost his justification, so there was no way he could win this war.
“……Understood. If you ever need help, co find the 4th Special Task Force.”
“Got it.”
“And I doubt it will happen, but please refrain from causing a disturbance as much as possible.”
“What do you take for? I told you I've been here often before. I hate troubleso things too.”
“……I'll trust you.”
As Edric stood blankly watching Luna's back as she leisurely entered Winter Castle, the guard stealthily approached and asked.
“Is this alright? Is it okay to let in a woman whose identity is unclear?”
“If she wanted to enter anyway, she wouldn't have needed to pass through the gate. It must an she doesn't want to make things troubleso.”
“What does that……”
“Just understand it as that.”
Edric briefly considered tailing Luna, but soon shook his head.
Even if he did tail her, he wasn't confident he wouldn't be discovered by Luna, and if he was discovered, it was possible he would greatly get on Luna's nerves.
There was no need to needlessly stir up trouble.
‘For now, it’s right to just watch.’
This is Winter Castle Kreutz, called the shield of the Empire.
Although he didn't know the extent of Luna's skill, there were powerhouses in Winter Castle stronger than Edric.
Therefore, even if the worst-case scenario occurred, it wouldn't be impossible to handle it.
It's just that a considerable sacrifice would follow.
Of course, the best thing was for nothing to happen at all, so he needed to exercise extre caution in dealing with Luna.
“I’ll be going now too.”
“Ah, yes. Take care.”
“You too, take care.”
Edric moved his steps.
It seed he would have to et Margrave.
***
Ah…….
I'm sick of it.
Sotis, I, Luna, would think about wanting to end this boring, endless ga of tag.
Even while knowing I could never do that, thinking about the reality I faced.
I sotis think.
Perhaps, as many say, Cain isn't in this world?
Is what I'm chasing just a shadow Cain left behind long ago?
When such thoughts slowly creep up, I try hard to shake my head.
“……No. He must be here. I'm sure I can et him. It has to be that way.”
I repeated it to myself pathologically.
Because if I didn't, I wouldn't be able to bear it and would end up collapsing.
anwhile, there was no special reason for visiting Winter Castle.
I just needed a place to rest for a mont during this long, long journey.
I, Luna, planned to stay in Winter Castle for a suitable ti, replenish my food and water, and then, when my fatigue was relieved, leave this place again.
In the first place, to Players, Winter Castle was just an outpost for traveling to the Demonic Realm; I had no interest in whether it was the shield of the Empire or whatever.
“……Huh?”
But why?
From the mont I entered Winter Castle, I, Luna, felt my heart pounding without even realizing it.
A feeling that was sohow familiar, yet strange.
‘What is this?’
In that feeling, I, Luna, moved my steps as if possessed by sothing.
The pounding of my heart didn't stop.
No, the more I moved my steps, the stronger it beca.
As if it was calling , Luna, myself.
“……Don't tell .”
Luna's steps, having received so strange feeling from that, gradually quickened.
“Don't tell , don't tell , don't tell ……”
I, Luna, know that my intuition is not just a simple intuition.
This feeling that had led , Luna, so far was developed to an abnormal degree, to the point where it could be called a kind of foresight beyond simple intuition, and that's why I, Luna, was feeling a strong conviction now.
That here, there was sothing I, Luna, had to find.
“Finally, finally……”
Hope gradually colored my, Luna's, voice as I moved my steps.
“I can live.”
***
“Kkeueuk……! How long do we have to keep doing this? He's worse than the captain.”
“You still haven't given up? That Vell bastard is much more vicious than the captain.”
“Kkeung.”
An anomaly always cos suddenly in the midst of peaceful days.
No, in the first place, that's why it's called an anomaly.
‘What is it?’
Just as I was conducting the 4th Special Task Force's training in place of Edric as usual, sothing touched my senses.
Familiar, and at the sa ti, strange.
At first, I thought it was just my imagination, but as ti passed, that sensation continued to grow.
As if sothing was approaching.
I didn't know exactly what it was, but it was certain that sothing was continuously touching my senses.
‘It’s not my imagination. Sothing is coming.’
Haima's Pendant, hanging on my neck, trembled brrr and cried.
Originally, Haima's Pendant was not an item that conveyed warnings in this way, so what was reacting now must have been the Destruction Dragon's Demonic energy dwelling in it.
I couldn't tell if that was a good or bad thing, but I couldn't give it a very good evaluation, at least in the sense that it was an elent that would shatter the peaceful daily life.
Because, it seed to have already reached the vicinity of the training ground where we were training.
Clack, clack─
The sound of heels that shouldn't be heard in the training ground made of dirt floor is heard.
I already knew what this phenonon ant.
‘Imaginary Number-ification.’
High-level spatial magic that makes the body exist simultaneously in reality and the imaginary dinsion.
The Players who can use this are few enough to be counted on one hand, even from what I know.
Even more so, one who has extrely lowered and tuned the magic's price to the point of constantly being wrapped in this Imaginary Number-ification.
‘Who on earth is it?’
Amidst the questions, the person who appeared on one side of the training ground was a woman exuding a sohow strange atmosphere.
Seeing that appearance, I sohow felt like I had seen her sowhere before, but the fact that I had a feeling of familiarity was highly likely not good news.
This was because it was true that among the figures involved with Cain in the past, there were overwhelmingly more who did not have a good relationship than those who did.
“Wait, soone’s here?”
“A woman I’m seeing for the first ti.”
“……”
Conlan's, Albino's, and Alicia's gazes turned in unison toward the side of the training ground.
“What is your business? This area is off-limits to civilians.”
I approached to try and talk with the woman first, but the woman's condition was sowhat strange.
“Th-that can't be……. It, it should be here…… Why, why, why……!”
The woman muttered strange words to herself, then soon shifted her gaze to .
Trembling pupils look at .
I don't know what on earth is making a powerhouse of that level so agitated, but it was certain that it was not good news for .
“It clearly, should be here, but why on earth, why……”
I felt it instinctively.
This woman, is dangerous.
“You, what are you?”
I urgently tried to pull my body back, but a formless energy had already grabbed first.
It's not ntal interference.
An energy of pure power seized my physical body.
“Wh-what? Suddenly, what……”
“Vell!”
It seed the task force mbers' movents were also bound, as flustered voices burst out from here and there.
The woman's gaze sees .
I also t her gaze.
“Why do you have that?”
“What are you talking about?”
“That, it’s not yours.”
The mont the woman's hand reached out, as if to grab my neck at any second.
“Stop! Stop right there.”
With a welco voice heard from sowhere, the force that was suppressing loosened a little.
I didn't miss that gap and quickly threw my body back, and with that, countless silhouettes cut in between and her.
Edric and the knights of Winter Castle.
They were all skilled individuals exuding extraordinary auras, but it was doubtful whether they could block the woman in front of them.
“Didn't we agree not to cause a disturbance? Why are you suddenly doing this?”
“Don't interfere.”
“I don't know what's going on, but do you have any intention of resolving this through conversation? If you cause any more disturbance, I can't just stand by and watch.”
Edric quietly added.
“Luna.”
……Luna?
The mont I heard that na, I felt the blood in my body turn cold before I even knew it.
At the sa ti, I rembered.
Why I had felt an unexplainable feeling of familiarity upon seeing that woman.
It couldn't be helped, because that appearance was remarkably similar to soone I knew.
「Today too, the 18-year-old high school girl appears!」
Yes, remarkably so.
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