I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 97

[Sun – Klau Solas (5)]

Southern part of El Las Kingdom.

The kingdom’s breadbasket and economic center that controls trade across the Archipelago is tightly controlled by the Dunarev family, which has a long tradition.

As a result, large festivals held in the south are usually hosted by Dunaref and his blood relatives.

A spring social church after the winter festival and the event to pray for a good harvest. Marie massaged her stiff shoulders while wearing a new dress tailored for spring.

“Oh my gosh… my shoulder hurts.”

“Hmm? My daughter. Does your shoulder hurt a lot? Do you want daddy to pat you?”

“Um… that’s enough!”

“……!!”

Now nineteen adults. Marie’s father, Duke Mard, looked shocked, although she had already reached the age where her father’s touch was no longer a burden.

“Now, until last year, something like this never happened…!”

“Oh, my dear. Marie, it’s time to get to know men.”

“Honey? What do you mean?”

Mard’s pupils widened at the words of his wife, Duchess Elencia.

“It’s already been over half a year since our Mari started dating Korin-kun. It’s already been—”

“Mom?!”

Either way, Elencia has a happy expression on her face and doesn’t hesitate to say bad things to her daughter.

“You don’t have to use birth control——”

“Oh really! Mom, don’t say that! Oh, I’m still with Corin… That’s…!”

The girl, whose ears were bright red, poked her side in response to Ellencia’s scolding remark. But she wasn’t the only enemy.

“No, sister. Are you dating yet?

Yennefer Dunareff, the second daughter.

“Didn’t you say you have a nephew?”

Erik Dunarev, the eldest son.

“What are you talking about?” There are rumors that you’ve done everything you need to do?”

“Weren’t you going to get married when you graduate?”

Twin siblings Lily Dunarev and Robert Dunarev.

“Sister… are you marrying your knight brother?”

Third son Varg Dunarev.

“Kyaa. Scream!”

Even the two-year-old daughter, Hilia Dunaref. They were the three sons and daughters of the Dunaref couple, who were very good friends, but at times like this, they were often hit by concentrated fire coming from all directions. “Ahh, it’s so loud

! With Ko Corin… we’ll move up step by step, even if it’s not in a healthy way!”

“Daughter? Why can’t you say it in a healthy way? “You made a promise to Dad, right?”

“Marie. Our cute eldest daughter. Look at this mother.”

“Huh, mother?”

“A child should have at least this mother. Mom is very looking forward to her grandchildren.”

“There’s more Deok-gu…”

“Deok-gu is cute too. Come here.”

At Elysia’s words, Deok-gu, who was swallowing a wine fountain from afar, suddenly approaches on all fours. A 2.4m tall dog wearing a custom-made coat from a luxury brand rests his chin on Elysia’s outstretched palm. “Please make it for our Deok-gu younger brother quickly

. .”

“Ugh…!”

“Honey? What on earth are you talking about?”

Click your lips! Duke Mard immediately covers his mouth with the covering palm.

“There aren’t many friends like that. If you lose your mind, someone might snatch you.”

“Hmm…!”

It’s not that I don’t guess. It’s because a strong competitor has already appeared.

Hwaran.

A ginger city girl who is a magician like herself. She’s

somewhat aloof and interested in something. At some point, an insensitive girl who shouldn’t have started wandering around Corinne.

Of course, it must have been because of that incident. Because she did the same.

“You don’t like me, do you?” She

declared her love interest blatantly. After that fierce war of nerves, Marie and Hwaran understood each other as enemies.

‘Wait?’

The spring social event ends in four days. Corrin left a sign asking him to come visit her before the solar eclipse on February 8th, so he has to leave quickly. Of course, it will take about two weeks to arrive by wyvern, so it’s plenty of time. But there’s something

… An ominous chill came over her.

Marie, who had become a vampire, had acquired something beyond a woman’s intuition. Her intuition warned her that something big was going on.

Specifically, about her romantic relationship.

“Oh, Mom…! ”

“What’s going on?”

“Can I just leave?”

“Cheer up, my daughter.”

Elysia smiled and waved her hand. Before Duke Mard could say anything, Marie was already running.

“Wyvern… no! “I’ll borrow Hresvelg!!”

“Sure.”

“Oh no! Where are you going, Marie? The whole family spends vacation together!”

The brothers and sisters responded to Duke Mard’s cries one by one.

“Ah, you can make a family there, Dad.”

“You’re a brother-in-law of a first-class knight… You should brag about it to your friends. .”

Duke Mard’s side is nowhere to be found. Marie rode on Deokgu with the full support of her brothers and mother.

“Let’s go, Deokgu…! To find my dad!”

“Sniff…!”

Although it took a lot of time since it was a winter festival and a spring event, it was easy to get to by taking the Hresvelg.

“In the east… there’s only Arisha! Corin said she was busy, too…!”

Up until this point, Marie had never expected the news of the engagement of the eldest daughter of the Arden family.

* * * *

When did Arisha become motivated to learn the sword?

At first, she followed her older sister, whom she admired, and then took up the sword. I was possessed.

And on the day she first cut someone, she was smiling. She

got goosebumps. She was afraid of herself. She thought of herself falling into the black sea and struggling.

She, who had lived life killing her talent, opened her eyes again to a boy. Thanks to the advice and help of.

I picked up the sword again. I understood and accepted my demonic nature a little.

[Area Slash – Eight Hands Musou]

「KUKIKIKIKIKIKI──!」

And then I realized. There was a demonic nature in this world that was just as creepy as my own. There is another being with .

It is clearly a monster… A monster that uses swordsmanship. A beast that does not just swing according to its instincts, but wields a sword with a steady understanding of what swordsmanship is.

A sword demon.

I saw it at a glance and understood it. That is. It’s a sword ghost. It’s the same as you.

It’s not just that. It’s stronger than you. It’s a force that you can’t touch.

‘…I’m scared.’

I am afraid. I am even more afraid because I understand its talent and its magical nature.

Because it is a being that is fascinated by cutting. I sensed that we would inevitably encounter it again.

Even myself, who hates fighting, was drooling as I imagined cutting each other. There’s no way a beast wouldn’t look forward to this.

We must kill each other

. We must learn. How to cut him down. Otherwise, we will die.

-Ugh…!

“Ugh…!”

A sharp sword cutting into the side. Arisha stepped back, stealing the blood-soaked gi.

“Is it just this much?”

The wild man looked down at her with a vague gaze. Arisha looked at her grandfather with a fearful gaze.

He was like a mountain too big to face.

He was the older sister in the family. Next… or perhaps even more than that, he is a biological relative who cared about me, but even now, I get goosebumps when I deal with him. “You still have

terrible basics, granddaughter.”

“You’ve improved a lot…”

“The standards between you and me are different. Don’t think of it as the same.”

The Geomje’s gaze is directed towards the horizon. The width is different from the criminals’ field of view.

“But it was faster than I thought. “I never thought you would ask this girl to teach you how to use a sword.”

“Grandpa. That monster…”

“In my heart, I consider it my disciple. That bastard probably sees me as a stepping stone to his own growth.”

“Why don’t you kill him?”

“Because he’s a talented person who will reach the level of the Heavenly Sword.” ”

……This is the first time I’ve heard of it. ”

“That’s right. Because I made it.”

“…….”

“He who has reached this level! Be able to cut down the sky and cut down the world! Truly the god of swords! I want to see a prosecutor like that!”

The more I listen, the more bizarre my grandfather’s view of the world becomes. Is he neglecting such a monster for just such a reason?

“I… I don’t understand you, grandfather.”

“There’s no need to understand. Neither his relatives nor his colleagues… this is the stubbornness of an old swordsman that no one can understand.”

The Geomje aimed his sword at his granddaughter. His sword, which had just cut his granddaughter’s thighs and waist, was flowing with his blood.

“What can I say? In the end, the world is about strength and self-respect. Even watching on the sidelines is the preserve of the powerful.”

“Ugh….”

I get up while making a groaning sound. Even if I don’t understand the madman in front of me, I need his teachings.

“I will turn you into a ghost. Sword ghost! Pursuing a higher state by killing them and using them as food. My true successor…!”

“A senile old man…!”

“You’re starting to take after your older sister!”

The sparring begins again.

If you watch, it’s not a sparring, but a life-or-death decision.

* * * *

A starry night. Arisha led her tired body and headed to the clearing where the task was being performed.

“You’ve grown a lot.”

“Are you here?”

Corin Locke. He is watching the oak tree growing in the clearing.

The last task was announced. It’s been four days. The oak staff used as a sapling is growing rapidly, just as Uskias said that it will be able to reach the sky. ”

But it’s not enough. It’s a pity for Yuel, but the growth speed cannot be compared to the trees grown by Doomnorix.” ”

Then… what will happen?”

“Well, somehow it will work out. Don’t worry.”

Corin chews the preserved beef jerky that he received from the Druids of Findias. Naturally, he gives it to Alisha as well.

“Ah, thank you….”

“The old man, the Sword Emperor, doesn’t care about anything either. I’m going to die from excessive bleeding before I can even climb the tree.”

“…….”

Arisha looked at Corin’s profile chewing the beef jerky and was curious.

What on earth is this person fighting? Why is he crossing the border? Did he come to this point and carry out the druid’s task?

I don’t know the ultimate point, but what he showed over the past year. When I rewind it, one thing is clear. Helping

people.

Stopping the escape of a wild boar the size of a house and infiltrating the academy. Even when he alone stopped Professor Han Permak

, and when he faced the demon of the Diamond Buddha that he could not stand against.

In the end, it was all just a process of helping others, not himself.

Nowadays, he is a righteous man who only seems to come out of fairy tales. He was a boy like a hero.

This person… How can he have such a strong will?

He is someone I don’t know as well as my grandfather,

Geomje. “Thank you for your hard work even late at night.”

At that time, a cracked voice comes from behind. Arisha. He looked back in surprise.

A dark-looking old man covered in robes. Unlike the Sword Emperor, who was like a blazing active volcano, this one was like a forest in the middle of the night as dawn approached. “Dumnorix.

”

The druid and highest elder who assists Dun Skyth. One of the most famous legislators. He stares straight at Corin with a white-faced gaze.

“Corin Locke. Queen’s Spear. I wanted to talk to you at least once.”

“Because you want to persuade me as an ally?”

Even in the face of an enemy, Corin accepts the conversation like a friend of 10 years. That strange friendliness is also a mysterious thought to Alisha.

“That can’t be possible. Not now, but I have come to engrave the enemy we will fight next.”

The old druid looks down at the person named Corin Locke as if he is interested in it. What does the druid, who is like a rotten old tree, read from that gaze? “Yes

. ? Then, let’s think that we’ve become a little closer to each other later and ask one question.”

“You tell me. The Queen’s Spear.”

“A druid is something that loves the forest and spirits. Aren’t you a conservationist or something? But why do you want to ‘arrive paradise’? A lot of people will die.”

It was the first time she had heard this. Arisha was horrified by their unusual purpose. She was also surprised that Corin Locke was trying to fight such people.

“There is an absurdity in the expression of love. We druids are just beings in nature.”

“Why is someone like that…”

Arisha instinctively realized this as she met Doomnorix’s gaze, which was like a rotten old tree. The danger to life felt even though it was not particularly threatened.

“Forest and Why shouldn’t someone who loves spirits wish for humans to die?” ”

??!”

I feel a chill. Corin also furrows his forehead slightly.

I can’t feel any emotions or thoughts from Doomnorix. An old old tree old man. There is an incomprehensible providence.

“Humans are destroying nature, and that will accelerate as the days go by.” “

…I feel like a typical environmentalist.”

“That’s not wrong. It’s just a little more extreme and evil.”

Doomnorix twitched the corner of his mouth in an unsuitable way.

“Humans can die a little more.”

Arisha swallowed in horror. A solution so simple and clear that she called herself evil.

Nature and spirits and Is it such a broken logic that a bard who sings of harmony wishes for the extinction of humans?

My grandfather was also a madman, but these people were even more malicious. Even though they were aware of it themselves, they had no hesitation in their actions.

When he was even feeling fear of them, Corin was struggling. He held onto Alisha’s trembling shoulder and said,

“Take care, Alisha. These evil beings. I’m going to kill all of these guys.”

“Mr. Corin…”

At Corin’s murderous declaration, Doomnorix chuckles as if watching a young grandson’s antics.

“But that won’t be the case now. And you will fail, at least for now.”

“You are confident.”

The two people’s eyes glance towards each other’s wand saplings.

Corrin’s wand grew about 10 meters despite Yuel’s careful care. This alone is truly magical. It’s worth saying, but comparisons are always relative.

“…….”

It’s already 30 meters tall. If you look at Doomnorix, which has grown three times as much in the same time by simple calculation, you can see the end of this growth competition.

“The red fruits of the rowan tree . It’s a big deal that there isn’t an eclipse, but is this how we can make it to the solar eclipse in two weeks?”

“Why wait until the eclipse? It’s time to start climbing.”

“Hmm?”

Corin stands up triumphantly. To Doomnorix, who looks at him with a puzzled look, he takes out a bottle from his backpack. It was a bottle

filled with something finely ground gold… something like that.

“Uh . Mr. Corin. “Is this what you used during the wand task?”

I remember when I performed the second task. The hidden card Corin took out when I was wandering around unable to find the oak tree parasitic on mistletoe. “That…

what on earth is that?”

A being in nature that has lived for hundreds of years. I didn’t even realize its identity. That’s only right.

The golden raw material contained in this bottle has never been before or will be again… It’s the only hidden piece in history.

“Listen carefully. “I’m going to try some magic from now on.”

He opens the bottle opener and pours a generous amount toward the seedlings. Like a farmer in an orchard spraying fertilizer.

– Slurp! Grurp…!

The cane seedlings react immediately. The seedlings that absorbed the golden fertilizer It wriggled──

“A miracle created by golden Mandragora fertilizer. Let’s watch from now on.”

──It began to soar toward the sky, emitting strange growing pain sounds.

[Golden Mandragora Fertilizer]

-] Helps the growth of magic plants.

-] Forms an area-type magic recovery field. 185 per minute. Recovery.

[Sun – Klau Solas (5)] End