༺ The Battle for Isaac (3) ༻
Atla Hall, before Luce summoned the Thunderbird.
Eva Hielov, a four-eyed female student, was sitting on a chair. She was utterly baffled about what was going on in Atla Hall.
Everyone’s mories were different and altered. More so, strange rumors about Isaac were afloat.
He’s a slob? He tries to flirt with any girl he can get his hands on? That’s ridiculous.
‘He took on a demon! A demons I tell you!’
How does nobody know what he did?
Whatever. In the first place, talented and skilled wizards were known for their lack of common sense. Trying to understand them was like trying to cover the entire ocean with a single human palm. Basically impossible.
She repeatedly glanced at the won Isaac had supposedly touched. However, Kaya Astrea… was nowhere to be seen.
Keridna Whiteclark, the girl with a pink bobcut, was asking people around her.
‘Isaac ca onto …? Why am I only finding out about this now? Show what you have seen now.’
It seed she didn’t know anything either. As to why she seed so urgent… this was indeed a mystery.
Additionally, Lisetta Lionheart with her orange ponytail was still devouring and ripping apart the at in front of her. As expected, she doesn’t seem to know anything either. More importantly, how much was she going to eat?!
Her whole body trembled in disbelief.
Isaac… has he been protecting people like this all along?
‘I touched soone I shouldn’t have.’
Realizing this, Eva stuffed her face into her hands and started to ss up her hair, despite the many eyes around her. She wanted to die.
[What’s wrong?]
“…!”
Suddenly, a familiar lady’s voice rang in Eva’s ear.
As if she heard sothing she wasn’t supposed to, Eva stiffened up completely.
A white cat with a pink ribbon hanging on her tail, Ella. Dorothy Heartnova’s familiar. It was a voice that she could never forget.
[Long ti no see, my friend?]
“Ah, ah…”
[Do you rember what I said before? I told you to keep what you found out a secret.]
“Sorry, I’m sor-!”
Ella used Dorothy’s mana to stop Eva, who was instinctively getting out of her seat and trying to escape.
Kkeuuu—
“Heuk!”
[Can you stay still for a second?]
A strong force was pressing down on Eva’s thighs. She couldn’t move an inch.
Eva looked at the white cat standing next to her in fear.
[It looks like sothing strange happened right? Everyone has different stories. However, you… You look completely fine.]
“Pl, pl, please don’t hurt …”
The strength that gripped her thighs felt like an unassailable wall. It was as if sothing impossibly heavy had its entire weight on just her legs.
Eva swallowed her tears and started pleading with Ella.
[Don’t worry. I don’t an any harm. More importantly, there’s sothing Dorothy is curious about.]
“I can’t say anything…”
[What?]
Ella ca here because Dorothy wanted to make sure Isaac’s information was not spread.
From what the students were saying, Ella assud that Isaac had co to Atla Hall.
Out of all of the students, the only one who looked fine was Eva which was why she approached her.
While all the other students seed like they were babbling as if their mories were fabricated, Eva looked terrified while sitting quietly in her chair.
Because of this, Eva, who was wrought with fear, paradoxically seed the most normal.
From inferring the situation at hand, it seed like a mysterious phenonon had occurred in Atla Hall. Isaac seed to have a hand in it.
Judging by the way he also forced Eva’s silence, it seed like it was Isaac’s intention to not reveal what actually happened.
[On the contrary… Isaac knew his information was going to be sold and he used it to his own advantage…]
Ella’s monologue was muffled so that Eva couldn’t hear what she was saying.
It may seem unbelievable, but Dorothy said that Isaac, who looked mild and weak, was much stronger than she was.
Dorothy was soone who could see through the essence of everything with the power of [All In the World]. There wasn’t a possibility of her eyes being wrong.
Therefore, it would not be weird at all if a man who has risen to higher heights than Dorothy were to play with the lives of ordinary people.
The force that weighed on Eva’s legs disappeared.
Eva was relieved with a tear-stricken face, but as soon as she heard Ella’s voice, she reflexively held her breath.
[I don’t want to disturb Isaac, so I’ll just let it go.]
“Ah…”
[Still, my friend, let’s not act out of line shall we?]
Ella took the form of mana before she disappeared.
Eva was unable to control her trembling body for quite so ti.
* * *
‘Let’s get this straight.’
What a ssy night.
I wonder if this is how a pilot feels when his fighter jet has no cockpit window. While enjoying the wind in my face, I was lost in thought.
In the skies above the academy, I was currently holding hands with Dark Kaya as we flew at high speeds with the power of wind magic.
Behind us, Galia and Luce chased us as if they were dogs playing fetch.
Kaya’s mories were altered when Marlog was defeated. I assud that perhaps in Kaya’s mory, I made an embarrassing show of affection toward her.
That was probably why she took from Luce and attempted to seduce .
‘It’s true I managed to escape captivity thanks to her.’
If it weren’t for Kaya, my wrists would’ve probably still been shackled to Luce.
Even so, it wouldn’t have been a big deal. All I would’ve needed to do was play with Luce for a bit and I would’ve been free in no ti. That was why I didn’t really take her handcuffs seriously.
Of course, I’m not saying I’m into restraints. That’s not my kink at all.
After the Elt Island incident, I taught Luce a lesson on ethics regarding how ‘It’s wrong to suppress the freedom of others’. As a wise teacher, I kindly taught my cherished student Luce, yet it seed like my lesson had gone in one ear and out the other.
‘Should I teach her with actions instead of words?’
I should probably teach Luce the aning of putting yourself in other people’s shoes soti soon. If I tie up Luce, wouldn’t she understand my feelings in the end?
‘…Maybe that’s a bit too much.’
Well, I don’t need to go that far I guess.
Luce was not in an extre enough state to be considering Extra Bad Ending No. 13 [Bird Cage} and even in ❰Magic Knight of Märchen❱, she didn’t keep the player captive after the ending…
…I’ll choose to believe that there will be plenty of ti for reeducation.
‘Anyway.’
Back to the current situation.
When it ca down to it, it honestly wasn’t that bad.
Both Kaya and Luce were overreacting because they were drunk on their feelings.
So for now, let’s get out of this ss and create an opportunity to talk to these two calmly.
‘I should clear up Kaya’s misunderstanding first.’
We reached a tall clock tower surrounded by nurous buildings.
Right after we passed the clock tower, we were briefly obscured from Galia’s field of view.
‘It’s ti to fall.’
「Ice Generation (Ice Elent, ★1)」
While trying to ti my fall perfectly, I stretched my remaining hand down and made a handle-shaped block of ice. I held onto it tightly.
From there, a mass of ice was added to the handle, creating a heavy block of ice.
This should be enough.
“Ahhk!”
Kaya let out a scream. Due to the weight of the ice cube I was holding, Kaya and I started to fall instantly.
Levitating your body with wind magic required a fine level of mana control.
So, hypothetically speaking, let’s say that a heavy weight was suddenly added while maintaining such difficult wind magic.
Kaya, who was accustod to considering weight when using wind magic, lost all her mana control.
After we started falling, I imdiately got rid of the ice cube and stretched my arms upwards, releasing icy blue flas with imnse force.
「Frostfire (Ice Elent, ★4)」
Fwaaaah——!!
“Sir Isaaaaaaaaac?!”
Since [Frostfire] could double as a booster, I used this thod many tis in the past to accelerate or decelerate myself.
As a result, Kaya and I fell to the ground at a frightening speed.
It’s cute when she gets so flustered. I unintentionally took my revenge with this.
It’s certainly true that it feels better to drag soone around than to be dragged around.
“…!”
When we suddenly disappeared, Luce and Galia were stunned. Galia stopped in the air, creating a strong gust of wind with a flap of its wings.
If one looked around for about 2 to 3 seconds, one could see us falling vertically.
However, there were too many buildings located around the clock tower. There was no space for Galia to squeeze his massive body between the buildings, and there was no way they would make the extre choice of demolishing the buildings.
During the ti Luce unsummoned Galia, I was going to take Kaya and run into the clock tower.
“Kaya, I’ll trust you with the landing!”
“Oh, yes!”
「Wind Generation (Wind Elent, ★1)」
Fwooooo——!
Imdiately, I extinguished [Frostfire] and trusted our landing to Kaya’s wind magic. We slowly approached the ground and finally landed safely.
“I was so surprised…”
“That’s it. Follow !”
“What? Oh!”
Luce was landing vertically while riding Galia.
Seeing that she was still chasing after us, I grabbed Kaya by the wrist and ran into the clock tower.
All I wanted was enough ti to have a conversation with Kaya. I needed to clear up the misunderstanding with her before I could talk to Luce.
‘Ah.’
I forgot because I was in such a hurry. I was pretty strong and could also run fast. If I clenched Kaya’s wrist this tightly while running, I probably caused her a lot of pain.
I relaxed the grip slightly and turned back to look at Kaya.
“Sorry, Kaya! Are you okay?”
“I’m not okay, I’m happy!”
“What?!”
[Kaya Astrea] Psychology: [The thought of getting forcefully dragged by you is making her very excited.]
I swear I’m going to lose my fucking mind.
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