Chapter 5 Part 1
"Haa haa haa ..."
In the forest, soone wielding a katana. In front of him, there were demon beasts with countless red eyes and countless black humanoids with smoke raised like a miasma.
Those black humanoids wield swords, spears, axes, halberd, and other weapons in their hands and attacking him.
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Nozomu’s POV
Avoid the blade swung down from the front and pass through the side of the opponents, and cut through their side.
From the right side, another black humanoid with swings its greatsword sideways and tries to get rid of along with the black humanoids that have just been cut.
"Kuh !!"
I see through the trajectory of the greatsword, crouched down and lowered myself to avoid the greatsword, and put my strength on my bent knees.
The mont the greatsword passed over my head. I released the power stored in my knees, swing my katana up while jumping, and slash the black humanoid in front of .
A black humanoid with a spear rushed in from the opposite direction, but I thrust the blade of my katana into the opponent and cut it off.
"Damn......"
Even if they was slashed off, mowed down, and knocked down, the black humanoids reappeared one after another.
Before I knew it, my surroundings were covered with black humanoids, and there was no way to escape. The black humanoids surrounded and I backed away to put so distance between and them.
The difference in number was inevitable. Before I knew it, I was trying to release the invisible chain that bound .
The next mont, the surrounding black humanoids jumped at all at once.
With my left hand, I hit the ground with all my might against the black humanoids that were approaching from all directions.
Qi technique *Light of Extinction*
A pillar of light erupted to cover my surroundings and burned away the black humanoids that jumped in, but as I though, it can only stop them temporarily.
"Gaaa!"
The black humanoids who couldn’t be defeated launched a counterattack at which was full of gaps and pierced my body with the weapons they had in their hands.
My consciousness turned white due to the severe pain, and blood oozed out of the wound. As the blood bleeds all at once, it gets cold rapidly and my field of vision becos pitch black.
"A, aa......"
Chills felt all over my body. A presence of death that slips into my body.
(No, I refuse......)
Even though my body was already cold, the feeling of not wanting to die swelled in reverse proportion and suddenly started burning my heart.
The flas blazing with attachnt to life shook the limits of my body, moved my hands, and tore apart the chains that bound .
In the next mont, my whole body was full of power, and an overflowing stream of power blew away the black humanoids.
My strong will for not wanting to die.
Blood was still flowing from all over my body, but I didn’t care about that. I cut the black humanoid who was about to attack and hit it with a bisection slash using Qi technique *Phantom*. And I hit the scabbard into the flank of the black humanoid who was charging from the other side.
The black humanoid’s ribs were crushed by the scabbard and its body was bent into a dogleg shape, and several black humanoids were involved in it and were blown away.
Furthermore, I sent Qi to my feet and activated *Instant Move -Curve Dance-*. Before being surrounded again, I slipped past the black humanoids in a high-speed curve movent and activated Qi technique *Phantom -Clad-* onto my katana and cut the black humanoids.
I broke through the encirclent and swung my katana while running around inside a group of black humanoids.
The black humanoids couldn’t follow my movents and were one-sidedly slashed.
Finally, all the black humanoids had been cut down, and I took a deep breath and let the chains wrap around again.
However, by the ti the chain finished wrapping . The scene in front of changed completely.
"Eh?"
I was supposed to be in the forest, but before I knew it, I was in the ruins.
A familiar building that collapsed and caught fire dyed its surroundings red. It was the sa red dream I had before.
"U, Ue ..."
A trendous feeling of nausea ca from the depths of my chest.
The countless black humanoids that had just been cut and fallen had turned red before I knew it.
No, they are not black humanoids.
The familiar white-based uniform.
They wear the sa uniform as , they were also Solminati Academy students.
They were slashed with sharp blades without exception. What was happening in front of was my own work and it hits hard.
"Gu, ge e ~e~eee~e!"
I can’t bear it anymore and spit out what is in my stomach.
I crouched while holding my head like a child. I didn’t want to admit it, the person who caused this tragedy was , not "that guy".
"A, aa"
However, no matter how much I close my eyes tightly to deny it, the sll of blood that fills the surroundings, the sound of sparks erupting, and the rumbling sound of buildings collapsing continue to point out the tragedy that I have caused.
When I crouched down, I could see the face of soone in front of .
"U~ !!"
In the darkness with almost no light, that face ca to my sight. I’m familiar with that face. However, instead of a face with a sun-like smile, only a pure white expression of death appeared before .
Obviously, her body, from her neck down, is gone. Because I already cut it off.
"Uaaaaaaaa !!"
While my scream reverberated across the bloody and crumbling Arcazam, my outstretched shadow suddenly changed, forming six wings.
My shadow kept changing, forming a shape, a light lit up in my eyeballs and began to pulsate, but I didn’t notice it and kept screaming.
"Uaaaaaaaa !!"
I jumped out of the futon and imdiately rushed into the bathroom.
"Ugu, eu, geeee "
I desperately thrust my face into the washbasin and tried to vomit what was in my stomach, but there was nothing in my stomach, so only gastric juices ca out.
However, the feeling of nausea did not disappear, and I drank the water in the jug and imdiately spit it out.
After repeating it several tis, the feeling of nausea finally subsided, but this ti an overwhelming sense of malaise enveloped my body, and I just sat on the floor and leaned my back against the wall.
It had been two weeks since encountering that black demon beast. But my condition is getting worse.
Sohow I managed to get up and get ready to go to school.
The morning sun was warm and enveloped Arcazam.
"Fuu ..."
Before leaving the dorm, I took a deep breath and cald myself down.
To be honest, my current complexion is not great.
After the incident with the black demon beast, Iris and the others beca sowhat worried about .
I t Lisa and Ken just before going into the forest and at that mont my wicked impulse rose within .
I didn’t want my wicked impulse to explode, so I ran to escape from that place.
Mars, who was with at the ti, told Iris and the others. So, after , Shīna, and her friends defeated the black demon beast, and after finishing the report to the school, I was questioned by Iris and the others.
However, in the end, I could only give them an ambiguous reply.
"......Is that so"
“.....................”
I rember.
Irisdina and the others looked sowhat lonely. Mars silently glared at without trying to hide that he was dissatisfied with for not saying anything.
On that day, we were feeling awkward the whole ti.
Furthermore, even during training in the forest, nightmares and wicked impulses flashed through my head and it bound my heart, and even if I tried to grab and tear the chain of Ability Suppression, my hands couldn’t move any further.
"Good morning. Nozomu"
"Good mo~rni~ng!"
I was called and when I turned around, Iris, Somia, Mars, and Tima were there before I knew it.
"Good morning, Nozomu-kun"
"Yoo"
Tima and Mars also greeted after Iris and Somia.
"Good morning"
I forcibly put the dream I had last night in the depths of my heart and tried to pretend to be calm and return the greeting.
However, my voice was also a little stiff.
"That’s why Lansa-chan got angry and scold the boys with all her might."
"Well, I don’t know how she feels, but I think they’re both at fault."
"Is that so? I think the boys just reap what they sow ..."
"Hahaha......"
"Well, the cause is those boys, the girl nad Lansa wouldn’t suddenly scold them for no reason..."
We had such conversations on our way to school early in the morning.
Somia-chan was talking about her classmates.
There was a girl nad Lansa who was giving a warning because the boys had forgotten their class duty, but the boys didn’t reflect on it and started to lose their temper, and Lansa also got heated up. It seed that it later developed into a big quarrel.
Iris said that both were at fault, and Mars said that the boys reaped what they sow.
Tima smiled bitterly at the two of them.
I couldn’t talk about what happened in the forest, and for a few days after that, our atmosphere beca awkward. Our facial expressions are a little stiff, but recently we can finally speak normally.
Another thing that has changed is...
"Ah! There he is! O~i! Nozomu-kun !!"
A voice like the sound of a bell resounded in the surroundings.
Seeing the person who made that voice, three people wearing the sa Solminati Academy uniform ca here.
The first was Shīna Yuliel, an elf girl with long blue hair tied with a black cloth headband.
The other is Mimuru, a Wildcat girl with cat ears and tanned skin.
And behind her was Tom, Mimuru’s lover, who was smaller and thinner than the other two.
It was probably Mimuru who called out to . She waved her hand to show off her existence, just like when she found her close friend.
This is another change around . After that incident, they started talking to from ti to ti.
"Good morning, Nozomu-kun. Sorry. Mimuru suddenly shouted like that."
"No, I don’t mind about that..."
"That’s right! He’s not soone who minds about such things. Shīna is still very stubborn~~"
"It’s because you are too soft like a cream, so I have no other choice."
"I’m in trouble. If I look so delicious, I might get attacked by Shīna and get eaten by her. It’s hard to be so popular~~."
“I assure you, Mimuru, you are very popular right now. Everyone rember about your cooking skills, what you put in the soft cream was not sugar but salt and chili peppers. Such a aningless dish. No one should be able to eat it."
"Wha! It’s not that terrible!! Of course, I’m not good at cooking, even so, my only mistake was the salt !! "
"It’s no good either way ..."
Mimuru retorted and didn’t aware of Shīna’s sarcasm.
Tom’s face next to turned pale... Yeah, let’s pretend not to see it. At that ti in shisho’s hut, it might be right for to cook.
"Good morning. You three are the sa as usual."
"Good morning, Nozomu-kun. Even in class, Shīna and Mimuru are still like that. Well, that’s a good thing though."
Tom smiled as he said so.
Shīna and Mimuru were sarcastic about each other, but despite such an exchange, their facial expressions were very bright.
The bond between those who overca that incident grew stronger.
"O, yaho Somi~chi! How are you doing ?!"
"Yess! I’m fine today too~ !!"
When Mimuru found Somia, she smiled and gave a high five after she arrived beside her.
After that incident, Iris and the others started talking to Shīna, Mimuru, and Tom as the chances of our eting increased.
"Ah, good morning Mars-kun. About the knife I gave you yesterday, how was it?"
"Oh, I was able to develop the technique quite easily. But the power is the problem. If you carve a formation on the blade, the power will drop."
Tom was talking with Mars and Tima about magic.
Mars was studying magic with Tima, but it was still difficult.
Mars did his best, but even if he managed to learn the technique, it didn’t work when it ca to practicing it.
Mars was tactless when it ca to magic, as Mars had only used Qi techniques, and that was the only way for him to fight.
When he tried to use magic while fighting or wielding a sword, the control of his Qi technique that he applied to himself beca unstable. In addition, Mars is by no ans good at controlling magic.
Therefore, Tom proposed a thod of using alchemy to draw a formation in advance and then pouring magical power into it to activate the magic. This can reduce the burden on Mars instead of activating magic from scratch.
By the way, Iris sotis joined their conversation.
"But Mars’ weapon is a greatsword, right? If it’s for magical developnt, I don’t think you need to think too much about strength..."
"That said, I’m a vanguard. There might be occasions where I need to change my weapon to counter the opponent’s attack. Well, I will not use this knife though ... "
The knifes depicted with magic formations were comrcially available, but it seed this ti it was just an experint. Perhaps Tom was thinking of adding it to his lover’s knife.
"Hmm... It’s hard to carve a magic formation directly onto the blade... but, I guess there’s no problem with trying..."
Tom is an alchemist, not a blacksmith. Although he had no problem with the application of magic, he was a complete amateur in terms of the power of the weapon and how to handle it.
"Hmm. As I thought, I need to think about it a little more. Thank you, Mars and Tima."
"No, you helped too. To be honest, I had a hard ti using magic while fighting."
"N, no. I’m the one who should be thanking you...... I’m not familiar with adding magic to weapons..."
Tima had various kinds of magic that could be learned, such as attack magic, recovery magic, and auxiliary magic, but having the ability to learn it and whether it could actually be used was a different matter.
She is only 17 years old. She could not cover thousands of years of magical history and wisdom.
It can’t be helped, especially when she wasn’t familiar with the magic she didn’t usually use.
"Speaking of which, Shīna-kun, you have long hair, so I wonder how you take care of your hair?"
"Well, I wipe my hair thoroughly after washing it with water, I try to make it feel as natural as possible so as not to apply strong force. Besides, it seems that my hair gets damaged easily if I wipe it right away after washing... How about you, Irisdina-san?"
"Umm. My maid does it for , but sotis I try to do it myself. But I’m still worried. It seems my hair has been a bit damaged lately..."
After saying that, Iris brushed her own hair with her white hands.
Iris and Shīna were talking about sothing very girly.
Her hair is black and very shiny, and to be clear, I don’t know where or how it got damaged.
"Well, that’s right. A lot of things have happened lately, so my hair was a little damaged."
Shīna also pinched her long blue hair and showed it to Iris. They show each other’s hair the sa way, but I still don’t get it.
"Hey Nozomu. You think so too, right?"
"......Eh?"
"See, this hair. It’s a little damaged ..."
"Yes, this one too ..."
They suddenly talked to .
It seed like Iris and Shīna were pinching the ends of their hair and showing them in front of , which seed to be about the hair quality they talked about earlier.
Black and blue. The colors are different, but both hairs are very beautiful. I feel that Shīna’s hair is a little lighter, it seems that Shīna’s hair is thinner than Iris’s.
I saw their hair presented in front of , but I still couldn’t get it at all.
"Ummmm ... I’m sorry. I don’t know ..."
"" Ha~a ... ""
The two shocked and sighed, they frowned with dissatisfaction.
"Nozomu, you have no sensibility"
"Yeah. You lack sensibility."
"Ummm ... I’m sorry ..."
Perhaps they didn’t like my answer, they complained, and their voice strangely pierced .
"Hmm?"
I was feeling depressed, but suddenly I felt soone’s gaze, so I looked towards the source. A girl with red hair looked at from within the crowd.
"Lisa?"
It was quite far away, and I couldn’t read her expression.
When Lisa noticed my gaze, she quickly averted her gaze. There were so many people coming and going that she imdiately disappeared among the crowd.
"Nozomu! Co on, quickly!!"
"Y, yea!"
Mars called my na.
Lisa was in my head for a mont, but Mars urged again and I hastily started chasing after everyone.
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Lisa’s POV
"Nozomu ..."
I saw his figure when I was on my way to school. At that mont, the inside of my head turned bright red, but at the sa ti, I rember sothing.
About two weeks ago, when I was leaving school with Ken, I t him.
I glared at that traitor. At first, he was facing his head down and he was a bit different than usual, and the next mont he glared back at .
At that mont, I felt a pain as if my chest was pierced by his gaze that seed to return my anger.
When I noticed, he was looking at . He was so far away that I couldn’t see his expression clearly.
However, when I saw him with Iris-san and the others, I got angrier and my chest hurt.
He betrayed , and he abandoned .......
Naturally, I clenched my fists and teeth tightly.
"Good morning, Lisa. What’s wrong?"
" !! "
Ken’s voice was heard from behind and I hurriedly repaired my expression, turned my back to his gaze, and turned my face towards Ken.
"No, it’s nothing. More importantly, you’re so slow!"
"I’m sorry, It takes so ti to prepare."
Ken’s smile was the sa as usual. I felt the pain in the depth of my chest healed by his smile that hadn’t changed since 10 years ago.
......Let’s forget about him. Ken is here now. Even without him, I’m not alone...
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