I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 132
Tangled Fate (2)
The fragments of the chairman’s existence are rolling around.
Tates looking down at the young man’s body… no, the wreckage. Doomnorix approached him.
“Aren’t you going to chase me?”
Corin Locke and his companions escaped. Dumnorix proposed killing them.
“No, that’s it for today.”
“Hmm?”
The person who responded to those words was Ohad Breath, a handsome man with brilliant blonde hair. He fluttered his long hair and opened his hands exaggeratedly.
“King, please lend me the bottle of five hundred shadows. Then, I will personally bring the head of the lady who used the realm on a bowl.”
“I guess you liked it, Ohad.”
“How could you not fall in love with that peach-like skin and Cheon Uimubong’s sword skills? Of course, the people around that fateful opponent are all beautiful girls.”
Ohad did not hide his greed. It was the most sane-looking person on the scene, but the madness contained within it was no less than that of Dun Skies, the king of beasts.
“But I’m going back.”
“Ha~”
Ohad sighs sadly. Absolute obedience was revealed in him, who had questions but did not say them out loud.
Tates spoke as if he were giving him a reward.
“I will destroy the world. The precepts engraved on my body require appropriate enemies and crises. It is because those women are ‘intertwined fates’ with my opponents.”
If you try to kill it, you will be able to kill it. However, that much lessens the weight of the final fight.
The precepts demanded that the stage of the final battle be vaster and more mythical.
“I came here to say hello this time… It’s not a battle as warriors, but an assassination.”
That is the weight of the precepts that destroy the world. In other words──
“It’s not classy.”
* * * *
“………….”
“………….”
In the middle of the academy campus. We sat together and stayed in silence for a long time.
“Corin….”
Marie approaches me. I looked at the wound in my chest. I stop her.
“Rather than me, please look at Alisha first.”
As the precepts were amplified a little while ago, the regenerative ability was also amplified. My internal organs are still a mess, but I’m not dead.
“Ugh… Corin, I’m sorry…”
Among us, the one with the most serious injuries was Alisha. Even though it’s beyond Hwaran, he took Balthazar’s repeated hits…
“Marie-senpai, Hwaran… how are you feeling?”
“I’m fine!”
“……No problem.”
“Okay, that’s it.”
I carry Alicia, who has bruises all over her body, to Madame Joséphine.
“Professor, please move Alisha to the ward first.”
“……All right.”
Josephine also had a sad expression. However, she is not the type of person who will let her heartache ruin the before and after of events.
“Hwaran, you follow too.”
“I’m fine…”
“Follow me.”
“…….”
For a moment, she paused without answering anything. He’s probably having a silent conversation with Ran.
“okay.”
“……Corin. Then me too?”
“Senior… Please watch when Len and Ron come. They will be very surprised.”
“Uh huh…! Okay!”
Although it wasn’t said directly, they left the place one by one when the guests were ordered to celebrate.
A vacant lot where everyone has disappeared. He sat helplessly on the bench, wearing a shirt covered in blood.
“Haa……”
Let’s clear up the situation.
Magic Tower Jun-dong. Terror at the academy by Archmage Aedrin and the red and black wizards.
Admalek of the red faction was immediately suppressed and imprisoned, and Morshtan of the black faction was effectively outed by reporting it to the church.
It was unexpected that they targeted the wolf siblings as an easier target than Marie… but thanks to Princess Miriam’s tip, no one was seriously injured.
Ren, who had been addicted to poison, was purified by the power of the sun, and Ron, although barely a teenager, achieved remarkable growth.
The appearance of Tarthes Balthazar and his minions at the end was… something I didn’t even expect.
No one died.
Marie, Alicia, and Hwarando. No one died. No one was seriously injured.
[Legend of Arhan Heroes] No one survived the strongest last boss.
I was lucky. It is a remarkable achievement. That’s how it should be.
“Fuck…….”
Complete defeat.
And that’s just one person. Tates Balthazar was overwhelmed by one person.
It’s 740%. It was truly an unprecedented correction. Even after receiving that much correction, I couldn’t even compete with them.
All of the king’s minions are monsters, but among them, Tates Balthazar… is on a different level.
“Whoa…”
This level of failure and defeat… I should have gotten used to it.
Have you become arrogant due to continued victories and success? Just one loss is bitter.
I should have expected it.
By killing Permak Daman and stealing Klau Solas, you must have caught his attention.
Tactical success. Failure of grand strategy.
The destruction of my teacher’s avatar, Eriu Kassar, was that fatal to me.
* * * *
A week has passed since the start of the Magic Tower.
The aftermath of what the Magic Tower wizards did caused an uproar in the academy.
This is because the wizards of the Magic Tower, who were said to have come for research purposes, not only tried to capture the students as test subjects, but also raided the head professor, Josephine Clara, and murdered the director, Eriu Casar.
Death of the chairman. It had a huge impact not only on the academy but also on the entire kingdom.
During this process, Magic Tower officially denied this incident. He denied terrorist acts by the Red and Black factions and predicted a long battle.
This is the original history of affairs. The reason why Magic Tower was able to buy more than a year even after carrying out an unprecedented incident called the Academy Terror.
I tried to correct this history by defeating the magic tower lord, Lord Aedrin, but in the end, Lord Aedrin was nowhere to be seen.
After that, it’s trivial time.
A funeral was held for Chairman Eriu, who was officially declared dead, and representatives from each grade participated in the memorial service.
Marie, the 3rd grade representative, and me, the 2nd grade representative. We paid tribute to Chairman Eriu Casar by reading prepared sentences and threw flowers at his coffin.
“Ko Corin…!”
As I was leaving the place where the chairman’s grave was buried, Marie came running in a huff.
“Why are you running so much?”
“Hmm…! It’s nothing special…! I thought we’d go eat together after this…”
one week. There wasn’t much conversation with her.
There is a lot to discuss, including preparing for future one-sided enemies and dealing with captured wizards. But now…
“Later. Just a little while.”
for a moment. I just wanted to rest for a moment.
“Ugh… I’ll see you later.”
Even as I watched Marie retreating helplessly, I couldn’t think of a single word to cheer her up.
“Student Corrin.”
How much time did you spend in a place with no one around? A familiar voice is heard from behind. It was Josephine Clara who was conducting the funeral.
She comes next to me. He glanced up and down the black suit he wore for the funeral, as if he was concerned about exactly where the light spear had pierced it.
“It’s okay. The vent hole is blocked and I’m just cleaning it from the inside right now…” “
But that doesn’t mean there’s no pain.”
“I’m used to it.”
“…He is calling.”
That was… a little unexpected.
On the surface, I am said to be Balthazar’s disciple.
And yet you still want to face me in person?
“…….”
The space opens and we follow Josephine into it, and what we see is a large castle.
A deserted plain. A cold world filled with only darkness and emptiness. A huge royal castle lying there.
Shadow power.
It was once the banquet hall of the gods and the place where Ardri, the king of the gods… the Supreme King of Paradise resided.
Probably the only outsider who can enter this castle. As Josephine gestures, the huge door of the royal castle opens.
“Please come in.”
A dry garden passes by a broken stone path.
Until the end, the only light was from the night poles studded here and there on the walls. You can reach it by walking along the red carpet road illuminated by night lights.
That long road. Josephine opened her mouth.
“100 years ago. The world was more confusing than it is now.”
I start talking to myself. She began her story by recalling old memories.
“The religious order that changed its doctrines to suit its own taste hunted down witches and hung them on execution racks.”
“My teacher. He would sometimes stop by the witches’ village and teach me stories about hunting monsters and magic… This old friend tried to save us.”
“Tates Balthazar. He helped us with Master.”
“We defeated the church’s Inquisitors and defeated the evil wizards who were saving the test subjects.”
It is a major event that appears in the history books of this world.
The witch hunt followed by the witch revolution, religious reform, and the collapse of the Magic Tower’s magic monopoly. Establishment of Guardian Academy.
“We were heroes. We saved countless people and defeated legendary monsters. I believed we would stay like this forever.”
But I was betrayed.
To the disciple who wanted to pass on everything he had to his
brother-in-law, whom he trusted more than anyone else .
“Eighty years ago. We dealt with a traitor, and for a very long time… we believed he was dead. Until you told us.”
But actually he didn’t die. For 80 years, I held my breath and waited for an opportunity.
Soon we arrived in front of the throne room of the royal castle. The real teacher will be waiting here.
“From here on… I’m alone.”
“…Are you okay?”
“I was initially against it, but his will was firm.”
is it. This seems to have gained more trust than necessary.
I guess you should have been more suspicious, but…
“Corin Locke.”
The way into the throne room. Josephine’s voice behind me stops me.
“You must not betray her. The second time… it would be too miserable.”
The end of the red carpet road. A throne room where only the glory of the past shines softly. There she was on the throne.
Hair that looks like it was braided with melted silver and blue eyes as clear as aquamarine.
My benevolent and beautiful teacher. Erin Danua was waiting for me.
“…You’re here.”
A queen who doesn’t look any different from Erin of Nazrea. He looks listless, perhaps because of his long life in captivity.
“Would you like to come here?”
“I think it’s imprudent.”
“so?”
“You need to be more suspicious and cautious, especially now that you’ve lost your doll.”
“Yeah… that’s right. It’s going to be this much closer than that.”
“…….”
Why is this like this? Why is she looking at me in a friendly way?
In this life, you and I have not developed any bond.
“hurry.”
At her urging, I have no choice but to take a step forward.
Each step was heavy and scary.
“Let me formally introduce myself. I am Erin Danua. I am the last Danann and Ardri. I am the Queen of Paradise.”
“I am…”
“Tates Balthazar’s disciple. A young hero who betrayed him and swore to save the world. At least that’s not it, right?”
For a moment… I was at a loss for words.
“Sssssha~”
He got up from the throne and sat down on the carpet in front of him. Then he pounded the floor. Like telling me to sit down.
Just like in Nazrea.
“…….”
As I sat down next to her as if possessed, Master stroked my head.
“You tried.”
“You tried hard.”
Deja vu.
no way.
“Tates Balthazar. Do you know?”
“…At least he was your best disciple and betrayed you.”
The background of the two people is also explained in the game. But there was more between the two than what was expressed in text and a few lines of dialogue.
“He was more than a disciple. I discovered that child when I was exploring the secret lands left behind by our ancestors.”
Goriath, a secret place for druids and the location of the light spear Aradwa. An ark for Danan that existed there.
“Cold sleep… do you understand? Finding a child who had been asleep for a very long time… I was so happy. It was nice to see you.”
Tates was taken in when she was a baby and raised as if she were her own child. Her love for Tates was a feeling of kinship with a unique being in this world.
“I gave everything. Love, spear skills, treasures… If I had a biological son, I would definitely be like this.”
“That’s why I didn’t see it. I didn’t know it. I didn’t notice it. The hatred that child had for the world. That natural resentment.”
“That was my biggest mistake and the wounds and seals that child placed on me not only tore my heart apart, but also my body.”
Current humanity. Goidel’s descendants and Danan himself. Tates Balthazar realized the truth of that history and swore revenge.
Thinking of him falling from a hero to a villain, the Master speaks in a sad voice.
They blame themselves, feel sad, and mock themselves.
“It’s hard to trust others after being betrayed. The person who will succeed me as a disciple is that big… I’ve been carrying the hurt for too long.”
The gaze that had been looking at memories of the past turned to me in the present.
“Baby. My student. A child from the future who tries to carry everything on his own.”
I was caught through. She had noticed a hidden regression that she thought she could not believe.
Unless I’m Balthazar’s disciple in the first place. If you are a disciple of the future Erin Danua revealed in Nazrea.
If you are a student whom your current self has never taught.
From the information being revealed one by one, she guessed that I came from the future. And… she is not so irresponsible as to leave everything to future beings.
She declares, patting her head.
“Just because you know the future doesn’t mean you have to carry it alone.”
“No… no. You can’t.”
In the first place, I had no intention of meeting her in this life.
Because your life always ends up being related to the player.
Any route will cost you dedication and charity.
Saving, devoting, sacrificing… your end is the result of such self-sacrifice.
“You are… the queen. The only queen in paradise. When the queen dies, Balthazar will calmly take her place. On the chessboard, the king must be protected.”
He silences her with an extremely reasonable story. But…
“I have never been a king. I have never been a teacher. And I have always been a hero.”
“Not this time. Not like last time. You have to stay here. You can’t stop him.”
I’m asking you to please be quiet. Please don’t come out of this castle.
She looked at my desperate gaze and said, embracing my hand warmly with both hands.
“It is no coincidence that we met like this.”
“Fate is not something that blooms when you want, but a path that will bring you back even if you try to escape.”
“We met and reunited like this, and although we care for each other, we cannot reject fate.”
“No. You can change it. You can control it. You can control it. You just have to prepare in advance and change history. We’ve done a good job so far.”
“Yes, Corin. You will do well, and I will accept my fate even more.”
“Just as you were destined to save the world, I will teach you, protect you, and believe in you.”
“Just like Erin Danua did 300 years ago, and just like my future self did, my present self will also believe in and support you.”
My eyes wavered in front of that blind yet strong gaze.
He comes to me with a warm smile, stroking my forehead as if he knows me.
A face getting closer. While kissing my forehead.
“I will protect you. It is my duty…and my choice.”
She makes the same choice as always.