Raid The Academy Chapter 200 : Chapter 200

Chapter 200: New Phase

To summarize the situation at that ti briefly, the strategy of focusing fire on Zairo Zain was effective.

The mbers of the Evil Eradication Squad were five, including Zairo.

Among them, Dayle marked four through mana interference, and Clatter and I cooperated to target Zairo.

Right.

In vulgar terms, we gang-banged him, and it worked properly.

Especially, perhaps due to mories from his past life, Clatter drove Zairo as if he would half-kill him, and as soon as a rib thrown by Clatter pierced Zairo’s shoulder, they gave up the pursuit and switched their combat stance to protecting Zairo.

In that gap, we were able to escape the Academy easily.

‘It wouldn’t have been strange if I passed out as soon as I arrived.’

When I opened the door, I saw a newspaper that had fallen on the floor.

It’s today’s Royal Dream.

Judging by its considerable thickness, it seems to cover the events from last night to early this morning.

I was curious about what was written, but I just threw it into the room and ca out.

“Senior!”

Yuria, who was waiting in front of the male dormitory, makes a fuss as soon as she sees .

“Are you okay?”

“Huh? About what?”

“Yesterday! I am asking if nothing happened to you!”

Saying that, she checked here and there on my body, not even giving a mont to answer that I was fine.

“Lower your head for a mont.”

“Huh? Why my head…….”

I lowered it because she told to, but why is she lifting my hair to look?

“Phew. You look fine.”

“No. Why are you doing that?”

“You were attacked by a demon yesterday. n, whether professors or cadets, were all bewitched by her and beca slaves. But I thought you beca like that too, Senior…….”

“Ah.”

I smirked.

“Nothing happened. Fortunately.”

“How? Were you hiding?”

“I wasn’t hiding. Where should I start telling the story…… First, shall we go eat sothing? I just woke up, so I’m hungry.”

I naturally spun the lie I thought of while coming out.

“You rember we agreed to eat and watch a play in Icata but went to the Academy because I said I had an appointnt with the Dean, right?”

“Yes.”

“But I went there and ca back out again.”

“……Yes?”

“The Dean suggested we go outside. So I ca out to Icata again, and thanks to that, I could avoid the accident.”

“Ah…….”

“I was lucky.”

Yuria’s expression turned ambiguous.

Eyes mixed wildly with emptiness and doubt.

‘Is it weird?’

Well, honestly, I even think it sounds flimsy.

Even if I ca out to Icata, I wouldn’t have been unaware that an accident had broken out at the Academy, but the Dean and I didn’t show even a nose until the accident broke out and ended.

If one dug deeper here, there would be not just one or two suspicious parts.

But Yuria wasn’t going to go find Dean Bell Toro personally to ask, and even if she thought of doing so, he was such a hard-to-et gentleman that there was no worry of my lie being caught.

‘Also, Yuria isn’t the type to do that.’

As expected, Yuria didn’t probe further.

Rather, perhaps firmly believing my lie, she adds this guess on her own.

“It seems the Dean knew sothing. So he took you outside, Senior.”

“……Is that so?”

“It must be. The Dean took you out to save you from the demon’s hands, Senior. The Dean cherishes you especially, Senior.”

I don’t know about cherishing, but that human does think of specially.

But doesn’t that an he doesn’t care what happens to the other kids he doesn’t cherish?

It seed Yuria thought of Dean Bell Toro as a very cold-hearted and scary human.

“Is sothing like that important? What’s important is that nothing happened.”

To change the subject, I raised my hand, ruffled Yuria’s hair ssily, and asked.

“So. Were you worried about ?”

“Ugh. Of course. If you were bewitched by the demon, I would have had to fight you, Senior. Do you know how nervous I was thinking that might really happen?”

“Then it would have been fun?”

“It’s not fun.”

“Just tell a bit about what happened inside. Looking at Royal Dream, it seems Skull Mask played an active role again.”

Yuria excitedly told about the things that happened yesterday.

She also told about the various repercussions covered in Royal Dream, so thanks to that, I didn’t have to go back and read Royal Dream.

What we did after eating was Academy repair work.

Organizing and cleaning up the facilities damaged by the demon invasion.

While filling the hallowed ground of the training field, I recalled the events of yesterday.

‘Uriel.’

Nurous questions follow.

She knows my true identity from another place.

Furthermore, the ntion that she had been watching .

I had long abandoned the thought that this place was inside a ga.

I was aware that this was another reality different from Earth and I roughly felt that there were existences called gods.

‘Because only with such things do all these events make sense.’

However, I didn’t think a god would hold my fate in their hands and toy with it.

That all these processes where I struggled for survival after possessing Gerard’s body were rely entertainnt for them…… Ah. Honestly, this is hard to tolerate.

Of course, I can’t jump to conclusions yet.

These are problems I can only know by eting Uriel and talking to her.

Why and how did I co into this world?

Also, can I return to my original world?

If I see the ga’s ending. Thinking I would naturally know the answer if I caught the resurrected Great Demon and saved the world, these were problems I had just pushed back indefinitely.

At the ti, solving the survival problem right in front of my eyes was the urgent priority.

But not now.

Right. I had never properly pondered the primal problem of ‘how to escape this world’ until now.

A Master who must rebuild the thief guild called Shadow.

Navigating through various dangers is a natural procedure, and I am in that process now.

Saving the continent from the approaching threat of evil is the sa.

I am in that process.

And when I accomplished all this, I never thought about what I should do.

‘Did I really intend to just settle down and live here?’

Not as Lee Hyuk of Earth, but as Gerard?

I think I was thinking that way implicitly.

If there is no way to return, I would have to, but…… what if there is a way to return?

What choice should I make then?

‘I should think about it.’

Hmm. My head is complicated.

I wanted to et Uriel one more ti.

If I talk to her, many questions will be resolved.

However, to et her and have a conversation, there was sothing I had to solve first.

[Enter the Minas Forest and destroy the Dinsional Harmonization Device within it.]

This was what Uriel demanded of in exchange for lending power.

Not asking for my eyes, other body parts, beautiful jewels, artifacts, or my life.

In exchange for lending the power to save Reina, she requested a commission from .

[You must have many questions. But I cannot answer them now.]

[Roland will tell you the detailed story about the request.]

Well, for , it was a request I had no choice but to accept.

I don’t know where Minas Forest is or what the Dinsional Harmonization Device is, but she said she would lend the power to save Reina and annihilate the demon, so what is there to be picky about?

Rather, at that ti, I felt fortunate that she didn’t take my eyes.

But now that the job is done, I suddenly beco curious.

Minas Forest and Dinsional Harmonization Device.

Both keywords are words that even I, who cleared ‘Heroes of Frey’ over dozens of tis, have never heard of.

‘It’s not a damn difficult request, is it?’

I don’t know.

Still, since it’s a request entrusted by an angel, wouldn’t it be of high difficulty?

‘I can’t even cancel it since the paynt was made in advance.’

I felt I would get the rough picture only after eting Roland first.

Anyway, I had to go to the Cathedral to return the borrowed sword. I can drop by Lunatic later and then go visit him.

‘But, nothing bad will happen because I borrowed the sword, right?’

***

Underground secret chamber of the Cathedral.

Two n were facing each other there with a single candle between them.

One was a man with long flowing hair and a stylishly grown beard.

Judging by the fact that he was wearing the uniform of the Max Paladins, he appeared to be a Paladin of the Holy Kingdom.

The one on the opposite side had both eyes covered with a pure white cloth.

Similarly, he was also wearing a uniform, but the strange thing was that his hands and feet were tied to the chair.

He was Roland, who had been relieved of his position and detained in the Cathedral for committing blasphemy.

“Why on earth did you do such a thing?”

At that mont, the long-haired Paladin spoke first.

His na was Martin.

He was the Vice-Commander of the Max Paladins, just like Roland.

“Talk comfortably even now. It’s just the two of us here right now. You can talk to honestly, can’t you?”

“…….”

“Are you really going to be like this? I thought Roland, you and I, were quite special to each other. Was it just my own delusion?”

When Martin spoke with a voice full of disappointnt, Roland, who had kept his mouth shut until now, spoke.

“Didn’t I keep telling you before? I just entered there by coincidence.”

“That story again? You didn’t know Minas Forest was a sanctuary?”

“That is correct.”

Martin burst into a smirk.

“Don’t lie. If you are a Paladin, you can’t not know that Minas Forest is a sanctuary. Furthermore, if it’s you, Roland, you couldn’t possibly not know.”

“…….”

“To lie even to . I am really disappointed.”

“It is not a lie. Of course, I know Minas Forest is a sanctuary. However, I am telling you that I didn’t know the place I went to was Minas Forest. As you can see, aren’t I in this state?”

Roland, having finished speaking, thrust his face close to the candle.

As the reddish light illuminated Roland’s face, a dark shadow was cast on the sunken eye sockets under the pure white cloth.

“Ahem.”

Martin cleared his throat and frowned.

“If you could see, you would have known that place was Minas Forest.”

“Well, that could be true. But the Cult won’t believe those words. The Commander as well.”

Of course, Martin also didn’t believe his words.

Roland was soone who navigated better than people with eyes despite having none.

“They think you entered the sanctuary harboring wicked intentions. No, they seem half convinced.”

“…….”

“Listen carefully, Roland. I want to help you. Why do you think I ran all the way to the distant Icata? Wouldn’t it be to help you, my friend? Then you have to trust and talk honestly.”

“I told you honestly.”

“Right. Of course, I know too. But…… as soon as I arrived in Icata this morning, I heard an interesting story.”

Martin put down what he was holding in his hand on the table.

It was Royal Dream.

“The demon Lilith that appeared at the Academy. And the one who exorcised it was Skull Mask. I heard Skull Mask is a famous thief shaking up Icata recently?”

“…….”

“But there was talk that the sword that the thief was holding was a holy sword. Here, the article text says ‘a dazzling rope bound Lilith’. This, it’s the power of the Devil Slayer you possess. Also, there’s no way a re thief could have exorcised a demon.”

Roland is still silent.

Toward him, Martin asked.

“Roland. Where did the sword go? Don’t tell you handed the holy sword over to a thief?”