The Academy’s Weapon Replicator - Chapter 61

Academy’s Weapon Replicator Episode 61

Chapter 16 Attack (6)

The Chimera passed by Frondier and reached Fili. It stopped right in front of her.

──The chimera’s feet stopped earlier than the body. He simply slipped in front of Fili with the same momentum he had been running with.

“…lie.”

Philly felt the same way when he heard Elysia next to him murmur.

Fili looked to the left of the chimera. A frighteningly long stab wound. The chimera’s body is split as much as Frontier has cut it.

I am so scared of that obvious fact.

“Okay then.”

Frontier’s dry voice. Elysia took a deep breath. The eyes that looked at Frondier were full of fear.

“Mr. Elysia.”

It’s still a cheeky title. However, Elysia took a step back without even thinking about pointing it out.

Frontier’s lazy face looks different now.

“Did you finish your talk with your mother?”

“I, I… I’m not…”

Elysia hesitated. My lips moved unintentionally.

My head is spinning, but nothing is coming out properly.

After all, it was Frontier who dragged Philly all the way here. Nonsense doesn’t work.

I had failed to persuade Fili in the first place, so there was no way lying would work on this man.

“What will happen to Mr. Philly and Mr. Elysia?”

“…the death penalty.”

Fili said in a calm tone.

All other sins can be overlooked, but he tried to kill the empress. There is no other option.

“You won’t die comfortably. “You will feel such pain that you will feel like it would be better to die.”

Elysia trembled. Frondier glanced at the figure.

“Then how about showing one last act of mercy as a mother?”

“What do you mean?”

When Fili asked again, Frondier spread his hands. Black water droplets gathered in his hand. When I held my hand, the water droplets formed into a dagger.

Fili and Elysia stared blankly at the strange phenomenon that even magic could not do.

Frontier handed the dagger to Fili.

“Use this. “Be careful with the blade.”

“What is this?”

“It is a dagger containing extreme poison. Even the slightest touch will definitely lead to death.”

Fili held up the dagger and swallowed.

In other words, this is the mercy that Frontier spoke of.

Let your daughter go without pain.

Kill it with your own hands. Stab it with that dagger.

“I told you. I won’t tell Mr. Philly who the real culprit is. “Mr. Philly will know.”

“…I did.”

“It’s the same this time too. “It is up to Mr. Philly what to do with Elysia.”

Fili stood for a moment holding the dagger.

His expression was blank and I couldn’t tell what he was thinking. That made Elysia anxious.

“…mom.”

Fili looked at Elysia as she heard her voice struggling.

“Elysia, you know that, right?”

“….”

“The empire is hell for you now.”

Elysia lowered her head.

It was as he said.

Elysia has undeniable evidence and two witnesses. One of them was her mother, Empress Fili, who had a higher status than her.

A life worse than death. That’s all she has left in the empire.

The ambition that once stood on top of the empire and looked down on its citizens has now vanished.

“…Tell me one thing, Mom.”

Elysia, who opened her mouth softly like that, looked a little younger. No, it looked like her original age.

“Did you love Aten more than me?”

“….”

“So you put Aten at the forefront and saved our family’s image through Aten?”

Fili closed his eyes at Elysia’s words.

Fili recalled. As Elysia said, she did most of her external activities with Aten.

I can’t forget what Aten, who was young at the time, said.

-I hate it, mom.

-I am being used as a signboard.

-What does mom think of me? Do you think she’s your daughter?

-If my mother doesn’t love me, I…

…Politics is all about dealing with people.

Philly is a person who entered the political world from a young age and survived.

Of course everyone thought they could do that. Her daughters could too.

However, one envied what Fili did to his daughters, and the other thought they were treated as tools.

The reason I brought Aten to the forefront was because I believed it was the most correct decision.

Because I thought Aten was the best in terms of appearance, skills, and personality.

However, of course, it was Elysia who succeeded to the throne.

Just as there was no hesitation in using Aten as an image.

I had no hesitation in entrusting the empire to Elysia.

“Elysia. “You always said that.”

Fili said. He smiled sadly. His face was different from when he faced other people.

Philly was always like that in front of my daughters. To show a side different from politics and to be honest.

I thought that alone would convey my true feelings.

“I love you all differently.”

Elysia blinked her eyes at those words.

Every time I closed and opened my eyes, there were tears in my eyes.

As soon as tears flowed, Elysia closed her eyes tightly. Tears leaked out between them and flowed down my cheeks. Elysia’s shoulders trembled and sometimes she lifted her face.

…Elysia made up her mind.

Fili slowly raised the hand holding the dagger. The trembling hands were also visible through Frondier’s eyes. I couldn’t fathom the feeling of killing my own daughter.

But if this could let Elysia go with the least pain. Philly must be doing the right thing.

…There is a way for Elysia not to die.

If you hide everything that happened in this tower.

Elysia will not die.

She committed many other serious crimes, but she is the first princess of the empire.

Of course, this is assuming that Constel responded well to the monster attack.

This fact will be well known not only to Fili but also to Elysia herself.

But Elysia did not say it out loud.

I made no attempt to escape.

She chose death herself.

He decided to repent for his sins.

Fili placed the tip of the dagger’s blade on Elysia’s collarbone. And then he stabbed me. The tip of the knife slightly scratched Elysia’s skin, and droplets of blood like dew soaked from the tip.

…I didn’t have any more strength in my hands than this.

“…What are you doing, Mom?”

Elysia felt the sensation of being stabbed and smiled with her eyes faintly open.

“It doesn’t even hurt.”

like that.

I ended with a few words that were too bland to be called a will.

Elysia collapsed.

“…!”

Fili looked at that from afar.

A dagger with extreme poison that can cause death with even the slightest swipe.

Human life is so meaningless.

“Ha ha…! hot…!”

Fili’s breathing became heavy. I blinked countless times. None of the masks that had been hiding my face stuck properly.

Killed Elysia. With this hand. By her own choice.

“Ahhh…!”

It can’t be said that he didn’t harm anyone else in his life, but his daughter was a completely different matter. I only realized it after killing him.

“Elysia…!”

Fili touched the fallen Elysia with trembling hands. I hugged that body.

The wound barely shed a drop of blood. Just that.

This time, Fili shed tears, as if she had swallowed the tears of Elysia who had been crying a while ago.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Mom. “I’m sorry, Elysia…!”

Fili would do anything for her daughters.

But if the ending ends up killing his daughter, then for what purpose?

After killing it, you realize it all. I didn’t want this.

Fili just can’t accept this reality-

“Do you regret it?”

The dry voice heard at that time.

Fili looked at the frontier. Frontier was no different from any other time. A drowsy voice, a drowsy face. That made me very angry.

Why is that man so calm even in this situation? How could he say that because it wasn’t his business?

“…I regret it! Of course! “Because she’s my daughter!”

“…then.”

Frontier paid no heed to Fili’s cries.

“Let’s go to the hospital. “To detoxify.”

He was talking nonsense.

“…Ah oh? yes?”

Fili was about to say something again, but stopped. I couldn’t quite understand what Frontier was saying. Tears welled up.

“What do you mean?”

“If you’re regretting it, shouldn’t you save Elysia?”

Fili looked at Frontier as if he were looking at something so strange. He took one look at Elysia in his arms and then looked at Frondier.

Fili asked, barely trying to understand.

“I heard it’s an extremely poisonous poison that will kill you even if it touches just a little bit?”

Yes. So, he stabbed Elysia with that dagger. With the determination to kill.

Frondier calmly nodded. That sight is truly disgusting.

“yes. “It is a paralyzing poison that will definitely kill you if you do not treat it within 24 hours.”

paralysis?

24 hours?

So, Elysia, who is currently lying down, is just paralyzed?

her. Fili sighed. That was the biggest reaction. I didn’t know if I would laugh or get angry any further than this, so I just quit.

I just wanted to say something, so I glared at Frontier.

“…Do you by any chance know the meaning of ‘humiliating the imperial family’?”

“I don’t know. “I think it’s a very difficult word.”

Huh.

That’s all that comes out of Frontier’s extremely shameless reply.

* * *

‘Slev’s gruesome dagger’.

This is the dagger I gave Fili.

A weapon that made me tremble in the dungeon. It is a weapon that ‘definitely’ kills you if you get hurt by the blade, but it does not mean that you die ‘right away’.

There are times when it is useful to have this kind of death deferral. Like right now.

To me, it was very important what Philly chose.

More precisely, I wanted to make Fili experience what it was like to kill his daughter with his own hands.

Fili is a character who is infinitely closer to gray.

From the player’s perspective, it felt like Aten was a collection of Fili’s white parts and Elysia was a collection of black parts.

In other words, Fili could become another Elysia if she wanted to. More powerful and more brutal than her. And in some cases, that hand reaches Aten.

No matter what happens in the future, don’t let that happen.

It was necessary to lock my mind.

In the game Etius, it was rare for Fili to kill Aten, but it definitely happened.

However, after all that process, Philly inevitably regretted it. To the point where I literally shed tears of blood.

But now Philly knows what it means. I clearly felt what it was like to kill my daughter. Even if Fili changes his mind, no harm will come to Aten.

anyway.

The chimera was defeated and Elysia also fainted.

Now, the magic circle ‘Rafflesia’ on Constell will also lose its effect.

Just then, the phone in my pocket rang.

When I took it out, it was Malia, as expected.

I held the phone to my ear.

[Frondier, frontier!]

Malia’s voice. She shared my perspective through ‘sense sharing’.

In other words, I have seen everything that has happened here with my own eyes.

You must have confirmed that this matter is over.

“Your mother. How about there? “Has the monster gone?”

I asked, concerned about Malia’s urgent voice.

At first, I thought the voice was excited to congratulate me, but the atmosphere was not like that.

In the meantime, I could hear Philly muttering something like ‘heo chaam na heo wa jiinjja’.

[Okay, it seems like the magic circle has disappeared. But that’s the problem!]

…What?

While my face was frowning because I didn’t understand, Malia said one more thing.

[The monsters whose magic has been released are running away from Constel! However, there is a village in the direction of escape]

“…!”

I froze at the unexpected story.

I couldn’t imagine it. I just wanted to stop it. After blocking it, I didn’t consider it at all.

It was incredibly stupid.

[Elodi and the other mages are trying to eliminate it as much as they can, but the scale is so…others can’t chase after it!]

Malia explained the situation diligently, and the contents clearly entered my mind.

My body was frozen and I couldn’t think of moving.