The Academy’s Weapon Replicator - Chapter 216

Episode 216

Chapter 69 Antidote (4)

“….”

Angus kept his mouth shut. Frontier brought his face closer.

“Can you count?”

“…It was an unavoidable sacrifice. It’s an old saying, but sacrifice is necessary to achieve big dreams. “You have that much ability and you still don’t know it?”

Angus’ shameless answer.

Elin, who was watching from behind, saw Frondier’s hand.

Frondier’s fingertips tremble faintly but clearly.

‘Hold on.’

It may not be visible from Angus’s line of sight, but that’s why Angus can stretch out like that.

Now Frondier is controlling his anger with superhuman patience.

Elin somehow felt like she knew what he was enduring.

Frondier soon completely controlled his anger and smiled boldly.

“Of course I know. “I just want to make sure.”

“check?”

Frondier’s smile deepened at Angus’ question.

Frondier raised his right hand.

He repeatedly clenched and unclenched his right hand as if doing magic.

“…?!”

At one point, there was a syringe in his right hand.

It was a syringe containing the final mana liquid that Angus had created through experimentation and research so far. In Angus’ eyes, it certainly was.

“Unless you are truly willing to sacrifice for that grand mission.”

While Frondier was speaking, the number of mana injections in his hand increased to 2, 3, and 4 at once.

“You wouldn’t have any complaints even if you sacrificed yourself, right?”

“What are you talking about? That’s mine…”

“Does it matter whose it is? “If this research progresses, you will take one step closer to your grand mission.”

Angus’ eyes widened at Frondier’s words.

“Stop saying this bullshit! That’s my achievement! It is the culmination of my knowledge that I have created over a long period of time and research! “Something like you can take as you wish.”

“Even if you say that, they have already taken it. You’ll know when you see it. This is my ability. I will put to good use the research you have done. Angus, please rest in peace now. “In prison.”

Angus’s stomach seemed to turn over at Frondier’s words. Should he give all his research to this brat? No, that doesn’t make sense. However, the syringe Frontier created now was completely identical to his final version.

How on earth did they steal that item? If it wasn’t stolen, Frondier really——

“Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Nonsense! I can’t give it to you! “It’s mine!”

“So what’s the big deal about that? I will complete your research. Then, humans will become stronger and be able to push out the monsters outside, reclaim the territory, and your dream will come true. This is truly a win-win strategy. Oh, do you know what win-win means?”

“Shut up! Human weapons are a huge business! The development of weapons must be driven by capital! It only makes sense to use appropriate side effects and addiction symptoms to make people come back for their mana injections! “You idiot!”

“──As expected, it was an excuse to talk about restoration of the human realm?”

“Do you think I invested this much for something like that?”

Angus was struggling, almost struggling, shaking his body tied to the black cloth.

Frondier looked at that for a moment and then scratched his face.

“I’m just asking because I don’t think you know what win-win means.”

Frondier took out his phone.

“Do you know what ‘recording’ means?”

“…her?”

* * *

After arresting Angus, Frondier found an antidote and gave it to Dier and Elin.

There was no need to threaten Angus. I had already looked into all that information through analysis.

“Sobbing. “My strength is disappearing.”

Dier muttered in a joking tone. After receiving the antidote, Dier’s mana gradually disappeared.

Frondier said with a grin.

“I can give it back to you if you want.”

“yes? how?”

“Angus said it earlier. If you remove all of a person’s existing mana and receive this mana injection, you will be able to increase your mana without any side effects. Since it’s the same mana anyway, you can keep injecting mana.”

Of course, regardless of the side effects, you should only put in as much mana as your body can handle. Frontier added:

After hearing those words, Dier thought deeply and then shook his head.

“I don’t like that.”

“why?”

“Because my mana is mine.”

“That’s true.”

Frondier nodded at Dier’s seemingly simple answer.

But in reality, it won’t be that simple.

‘A person’s mana does not exist simply to use power.’

All creatures on this continent, no matter how big or small, have mana. If it were just to use great power, a creature that didn’t need it in the first place wouldn’t have mana.

So mana is essential for living things. Dier probably instinctively knows that losing it all is very dangerous.

Elin, who was listening, asked as if something suddenly occurred to her.

“But Dier. “How did you get the mana injection you received in the first place?”

Dier was captured by Elin and received the same injection as Elin after coming here.

Thanks to that, I was able to release the restraints and corner Angus, but I had no idea how he got there.

Dier answered as if there was nothing special.

“Oh, it was stolen.”

“…Steal?”

“I hate to say this, but I’m good at hiding.”

Dier heard from Frondier that a helper would come. Of course, that helper was Elin.

Dier didn’t know that his helper was Elin, but he thought about it when he heard about it.

There must be a research lab somewhere in this Constel.

“I have a simple movement route. I just go back and forth between the dormitory and the classroom. There are no club activities yet. Senior Frontier said he would meet a helper in that short period of time, and Senior Elin actually came to me. That means even the enemies know that they can easily bring me back, right?”

Well the answer is simple.

The research center is not far from Constel, but it is more likely to be located there.

There is no place around here with better facilities than Constel.

“So I came here a few days ago.”

“You said you came?”

Elin asked back in an absurd voice.

Dier shrugged his shoulders.

“Well, I’m not the only one who came here. Hiding the lab within Constel and making it look like an ordinary lab means, on the other hand, that you have to pretend it’s an ordinary lab until you get caught, right? So I looked around all the plausible labs within Constel. Under the pretext of a field trip. “If it were a respectable lab, it wouldn’t be able to just block student Constell.”

And in the meantime, he lowered his presence and stole a syringe from inside the lab.

Of course, what Dier stole wasn’t just the syringe. Because I didn’t know which lab was the winner. So, I stole everything that looked suspicious from each lab.

“I was lucky in the end to get caught in one of them.”

Dier smiled bitterly. Even though he had prepared in advance, in the end he was in a miserable situation and had to leave it to luck.

But after hearing that, Elin’s doubts deepened.

Elin asked Frondier.

“So it wasn’t your fault that Dier had the syringe?”

“yes. “I never thought Dier would take the injection himself.”

“Then how could you call me a helper? “If he hadn’t been injected, Dier would still have been detained there.”

At those words, Frontier tilted his head as if wondering what he was talking about.

“Of course, my senior would have saved me.”

“….”

Frondier looked at Elin with innocent eyes.

Elin honestly wasn’t confident. At that time, even if Dier had not turned the situation around by getting stronger on his own through injections, would Elin have saved him?

Of course, Frondier believes that will be the case, but I don’t know what Elin herself will think.

“Then let’s go back now. “I’m tired.”

After saying that, Frondier walked straight away. There was no hesitation in his steps and he did not look back.

“Frondier is always cool.”

Dier looked at it and said.

“…No, I don’t think so.”

But Elin thought a little differently.

Rather than looking cool, Frontier just looked very tired.

* * *

Before I knew it, night was falling and I was up on the rooftop of the Constel building. There was no particular reason, I just wanted to get some air.

I told Elin and Dier as if it was over.

Actually, I still had tasks remaining.

‘I haven’t found the monster yet.’

Of course, by analyzing Eden Hamelot and Angus Mason, I knew the location of the monsters. A monster that humans trade with to dispose of corpses.

But even if you try now, you will only run away. Now that they don’t know yet that the lab is damaged, they will show up at the meeting place where they always meet. If you want to attack the monsters, that is your chance.

…but.

Why am I so tired?

‘I don’t think I felt this tired even when I fell asleep after clearing the Indus.’

At that time, the fatigue of my body continued to accumulate due to the continuous battles and work. In the end, there was even a situation where people fell asleep while tied to a chair.

In comparison, the only time I’ve done anything properly this time was at most today. However, an incomparable fatigue weighed down my body.

The fatigue from the Indus day led me to sleep.

Now the fatigue is trying to break me down.

“Frondier.”

I turned around when I heard a voice behind me. Elin was standing.

“…senior.”

“You said you were tired, but you didn’t go home.”

Elin’s light voice trying to brighten the mood.

“…I see.”

I tried to smile accordingly, but it didn’t work.

After that, Elin didn’t say anything for a while. However, his eyes were in the air as if he was getting some air next to me. I liked that. I still needed time to talk to Elin.

And how long has it been?

Was my heart ready or had Elin’s waiting stopped?

At some point, when I wasn’t sure which one, Elin’s words flew out cautiously.

“…Why did you save me?”

It was a familiar question. This time, a truly natural smile came out. Elin was again asking me questions about the golem incident.

“Senior is someone who should not die.”

Therefore, I simply give the same answer.

Elin’s lips came together slightly.

“I thought about that the other day, but you know I couldn’t answer, right?”

“As I said last time, you are like a child thrown into the water. “There are not many people I worry about.”

Elin had nothing to say. I actually had an accident.

I smiled at Elin’s silence and sighed.

I realized for myself that somewhere at the end of that sigh, my tone was trembling a little.

“senior.”

“…huh.”

“Today I”

raised one hand and placed it near my eyes. It wasn’t because I wanted to cover it up. I just wanted to close my eyes.

“—Do you know what you did?”

“….”

Elin did not answer those words.

An excessive reaction to the word ‘death’ that I accidentally saw today. The anger I endured with all my might in front of Angus.

Elin probably knows what I mean.

But she didn’t answer and didn’t ask any more questions.

Is it because I thought it would make things more difficult for me, or because I know the reason better than anyone else?

“I did something very cruel. “I did something so reckless that it can’t even be compared to anything I’ve done so far.”

I said.

Something that had been tightly blocked inside my body slowly began to flow out.

I lowered my hand and looked straight at Elin.

Finally, I let out the words I had been holding in.

“It’s all my fault.”

Elin opened her eyes a little wide.

Then he immediately deepened his eyes and answered with a faint smile.

“…huh.”

“Because my senior is dangerous, I end up doing such things.”

Elin’s smile calmed down and her eyes slowly began to tremble.

Before I knew it, she spoke to me with watery eyes. The most sincere voice I have ever heard from Elin.

“huh. Sorry.”

I turned my head after hearing Elin’s apology.

I could see the students still remaining under the rooftop.

At this time, I had a strange feeling.

“Never again try to sleep alone, suffer, and die alone. “If anything happens, run to me right away.”

Because my enemies treat me poorly, they mess with the people around me.

My coworkers don’t ask me for help because they don’t trust me.

So, to solve it all, I killed people, threatened them, and deceived them.

I spoke in a swarthy voice after putting all of that dirty experience together.

“I will solve everything.”

I don’t know what kind of expression Elin made when she heard this. She could have been dumbfounded or embarrassed.

But it didn’t matter what her reaction was.

This was my decision.

This is what happens next.