Chapter 93 The dead talk a lot.
“Haa, for such a thing to…….”
Veridian looked at Professor Keller’s lab and shook his head.
“The items are perfectly cleared away, but sothing is a bit strange.”
Allegri, having looked around the room here and there, tilted his head. He pressed the empty wall firmly with his hand.
Olivier, who ca together, said, ‘I’ve already looked around. Nothing cos out.’
“Even if there was a problem, he wouldn’t be a person to leave as if fleeing like this; sothing is strange.”
“Since he made such a deal, wouldn’t leaving like this be the only way?”
Allegri, receiving Veridian’s words, stared intently at a thin line in the corner of the room.
“Hmm?”
“What is it?”
“The line here feels sowhat awkward. There’s also a feeling that sothing smudged on the ceiling and floor.”
Veridian, hearing Allegri’s explanation, stroked his beard and carefully examined the line in the corner.
“It’s a distortion. Hmm…….”
He placed his finger on the spot where the color seed slightly smudged and infused mana. At that mont, a thick wavelength spread throughout the entire room.
“Soone cast distortion magic.”
Veridian moved his hand along the line.
Pazzzt.
As if a veil was burning, the distortion of light sparkled and gradually disappeared.
“What is this?”
At the unfolding scene, Olivier let out a scream of astonishnt.
Allegri also couldn’t help but be surprised.
The truth they faced was grueso, itself. Blood was scattered in every corner. Furniture, books, tools, and such were torn, broken, ripped off; it was hard to find anything intact.
The climax of this sight was Keller’s corpse. He hung on the wall without even being able to close his eyes. His hands, forehead, and feet were fixed with things like giant awls. A sharp sword was stuck in his left chest where the heart is.
“No, what on earth is this?”
Veridian tried to touch Keller’s body with a trembling hand.
“Principal.”
Olivier blocked Veridian.
Allegri also nodded as if Olivier’s action was correct.
“Principal. We don’t know what kind of magic might be cast. If you touch it rashly, you might suffer a mishap.”
“……Right. That is correct. I must have been too shocked and let my feelings get ahead.”
Veridian swallowed his bitterness and raised mana onto his palm.
Blue light spread widely and slowly caressed dead Keller’s body.
“There is nothing that could be a danger. So let’s take Professor Keller down.”
Olivier and Allegri pulled out the awls stuck in Keller’s body one by one. Keller’s dangling body.
Veridian looked at it pitifully.
Keller’s body, with hardened blood plastered on it, was moved to the floor.
Veridian swallowed a sigh and closed Keller’s eyes.
“My friend. What exactly did you do to end up like this?”
Olivier and Allegri bowed their heads at the words where pain could be felt. Because they knew well why Veridian felt sorry.
The general manager of the martial arts tournant where Keller’s son had an accident was Veridian. That tournant had an unusually high number of accidents. But Veridian did not stop the martial arts tournant. The reason was that it was a golden opportunity to make Saint-Denis Academy’s greatness known to the King and nobles. And the result was…….
Veridian had knelt and apologized to Keller. Saying he was blinded by performance and did sothing he shouldn’t have. The apology didn’t end that day. Veridian repeated the apology whenever there was a chance. Saying that although he couldn’t be forgiven, he would still beg for forgiveness with all his might.
“I should have paid more attention, I am sorry. I am truly sorry.”
A solemn atmosphere continued.
Veridian put his hand on Keller’s body saying he wanted to bury him personally. It was then.
Flash.
A subtle light twinkled from Keller’s mana circle.
“P, Principal?”
“Did you do sothing, sir?”
Receiving the questions, Veridian shook his head. And he placed his hand on Keller’s mana circle.
“The mana circle is broken but…… don’t tell ?”
Veridian infused mana into Keller’s body. The mana that beca a white line drew lines following the broken mana circle. The lines beca a pattern, and the pattern made a fra.
And within that fra, Keller’s face blood.
Veridian reversed the flow of mana and stopped Keller’s face from flowing.
“It is the mory of Oblivion. We need to transfer this…… let’s find if there is a crystal in the room. If it’s a crystal of appropriate size, we can transfer it.”
Olivier and Allegri started searching every corner of the room.
Veridian looked at Keller’s lifeless face with pity. Saying, ‘I will surely listen to your words. I will do at least that for you.’
***
I sat in the waiting room and moistened my throat.
Although the ti spent fighting Egbaldo was short, the consumption of mana was significant, so I needed to put everything down and rest for even 10 minutes.
But…….
“Why are you acting like that here?”
Egbaldo is looking at with fire in his eyes. Literally, he is looking only at .
“I won’t get a hole in just because you look like that, so could you go over there?”
“No. There is sothing.”
“What on earth is there?”
There is no answer to the question. He just stares intently at my face.
‘Did he go crazy in the head due to the shock?’
His eyes seem a bit strange too sowhere…….
“This isn’t the Maxim I knew.”
“What you knew wasn’t everything.”
Egbaldo’s facial muscles stiffened. His pupils shook too.
‘He’s flustered.’
Should I call this honest as he looks, or say he’s an old man on the outside but a child inside…….
“Ma, Ma…… xim.”
Odekerkh, who entered the waiting room energetically, stuttered.
Well, he originally stuttered, but this ti he stuttered with a different feeling.
“Why is, that person…….”
“I don’t know either. Try telling him to get out.”
Odekerkh sent a look with the feeling of ‘How can I do that?’
Egbaldo looked at and Odekerkh alternately. And he tilted his head as if it was even stranger.
“Maxim! You went…… to the finals…… why?”
This ti it was Adellian. She opened her eyes roundly as if flustered and looked at .
“I’m curious about that too. Is Michelle okay?”
“She is here.”
Michelle, who was standing behind Adellian, raised her hand and peeked her face out.
Thanks to Adellian’s healing magic, large wounds couldn’t be found. Although it was a face that looked a bit tired.
“Really strange. The Maxim I knew didn’t mingle with people.”
“So that is…… no. Let’s just say I changed after surviving death.”
“Ah! You said you survived death. So it was because of that?”
Egbaldo opened his eyes roundly with an ‘Ah!’ sound as if he realized sothing.
Bang!
Along with the door opening, Piontek laughed loudly.
“I heard the semifinal was super bland, Egbaldo…… you are here…… huh?”
Even if you ask with your eyes, I cannot tell you the reason.
Because I am also extrely curious why he is here.
Anyway, I want to rest quietly for a bit and recharge mana, but I can’t because of these people.
“Can’t you give 10 minutes to rest? I want to be alone quietly.”
Since it’s a mont where frankness can be used as a weapon, I tried to wield it sohow.
But…….
“Wouldn’t it be difficult to put this guy in another place?”
Barthe, I don’t know when he woke up, is standing behind Piontek with his head bowed like a sinner.
A sigh ca out naturally. I should give up resting. Like Piontek’s words, if we put Barthe in another place, we don’t know what might happen to him.
Toot! Toot!
The sound announcing match preparation rang out.
All of us looked at Piontek.
“How long do you need to rest?”
“Huh?”
“No, you said you needed ti to rest. Is 10 minutes enough?”
“What are you planning?”
Piontek smirked toward . Then he took out bandages and started wrapping them around his arms and legs.
“Where did you get that? No, why are you wrapping that?”
“You just rest. I will take care of everything.”
I don’t know what he is thinking.
Piontek, with bandages wrapped, left the waiting room.
I looked at Adellian and Odekerkh alternately asking with my eyes what Piontek’s thought was.
The returning answer was shaking heads, ‘I don’t know.’
“This match is Cadet Dwight and Cadet Piontek!”
Don’t tell ?
“Catch him. Don’t let him go up to the arena.”
Starting with Michelle, Adellian and Odekerkh ran out.
I also ran following them.
“Stop it!”
I shouted toward Piontek stepping up to the arena.
Piontek waved his hand toward my direction. With a face full of remorse like an old man going to die.
“Piontek!”
“Do, don’t do it.”
Despite Adellian and Odekerkh’s shouts, Piontek didn’t budge. He stood in the center of the arena and waved his hand toward the spectators.
“Wasn’t his injury serious?”
“Right. Look, he’s wrapping bandages even now.”
“But he’s doing the semifinal? The opponent is Dwight?”
“He’d want to run even if he dies. It’s the semifinals. If he endures here, he goes to the Royal Guard.”
“Wow, damn. Worth risking his life.”
The voices of spectators chatting about Piontek’s appearance entered my ears.
I opened the path of mana wide so I could take out mana anyti.
‘This ti I go in imdiately and stop it.’
“Don’t mind it! What you worry about won’t happen!”
Piontek shouted looking at . He shook his bandaged arm vigorously as if telling to trust unconditionally.
“W, what is he thinking?”
“Shouldn’t we go and stop him even now?”
Odekerkh and Adellian said while approaching close to the arena.
At that ti, Michelle grabbed their arms.
I stared at Michelle. Not soone who speaks her thoughts strongly usually. But now she is acting, not just speaking.
“Trust him.”
At Michelle’s words, Adellian and Odekerkh nodded and stepped back.
I also lowered my sharply honed senses and looked at Piontek.
Piontek, reading our atmosphere, smiled and shook his fist.
“Greeting each other!”
Following the referee’s words, Piontek and Dwight shook hands.
Adellian swallowed a big breath, perhaps nervous.
Odekerkh also watched Piontek with a serious face.
“Hmm. He won’t be a match…….”
Egbaldo said tilting his head, I don’t know when he ca out.
“He knows too.”
“Then isn’t it better to stop him?”
“Since he said not to.”
“Hmm. Hmm. Hmm! Is that so?”
Egbaldo looked at with his arms crossed. Exuding a feeling that he might know sothing.
“Start!”
With the command, Dwight drew his sword.
Piontek also lifted his spear and shook it here and there.
“Wait!”
At Piontek’s shout, Dwight crumpled his face.
The referee approached Piontek and asked the reason for stopping.
“Well.”
Piontek glanced at repeatedly.
At this, I couldn’t help but burst into a hollow laugh.
“His tricks are really.”
I shook my head and headed toward the waiting room.
“Huh? Maxim. Where are you going?”
“You, aren’t watching the match?”
Piontek isn’t doing that to tell to watch the match right now. He’s doing that to tell to go to the waiting room and rest.
“I don’t have to watch.”
Bang!
I turned my head at the impact sound.
The floor was smashed by Piontek’s spear.
“Ugh.”
And he sat down frowning as if in severe pain.
With this, it beca certain.
“Cadet Piontek forfeits!”
That he went up to the arena intentionally to buy ti to rest.
Thank you. So I will definitely win.
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