The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 617

Chapter 617

“Really going back? today?”

“huh.”

“I don’t think there is anything so urgent, but… … . I can’t help it.”

Ellen had nothing to call Jim. When Ellen came here, she only brought a cage with a cat in it.

So when I went back to the Allied garrison, I just went back to my normal clothes and didn’t have anything else to take with me.

“It just stopped snowing… … .”

Louise couldn’t help but feel bitter when Ellen told her that she would return right away, even though the heavy snow had stopped overnight and the weather had improved.

After returning to rest, I was caught up in a strange incident, and in the end, my heart only became heavier.

The Demon King took control of the Knights Templar and the Five Great Main Religion.

And you can’t even touch it.

In the midst of the rapid change of the times, there is no good group, and we must choose a group that survives.

Something drastic was about to begin, and it was sure to cost immeasurable amounts of blood.

Dark clouds hang over the empire’s future, and the time has come for everyone to make a choice.

Now, rather than the imperial road, the Allied Garrison side will be more peaceful, and it is a path that will not get caught up in ominous events. That’s especially true for Ellen.

If you can’t choose anything, you’d rather go where it’s invisible.

There are only problems that cannot be solved.

No one knows how these things will end.

If the empire collapses and the demon king takes its place.

What kind of fate awaits Ellen, who should be the opponent of the devil?

And what position should Heinrich take there?

no one has an answer

Everyone is doing something while fearing the future. Everyone agrees that the gate incident must end, but the things that were built while hoping for that were making the time after that even more frightening.

Is it really right to make the world hell for the sake of one absolute good?

Then, what happens to the world after that absolute good is achieved?

It is more dangerous for Ellen to remain on the ecliptic.

That’s why I leave the ecliptic.

But the idea had been there from the beginning.

“Take good care of the cat when it comes back.”

“… … okay.”

But at some point, the cat suddenly disappeared I was going to touch it for a moment and leave, but the cat was waiting for me.

However, he doesn’t show up at the end, so Ellen leaves, leaving the job to Heinrich.

Ellen felt that it might have disappeared altogether, as if it was a gut feeling.

Even if we were together, I kept getting that feeling that I would leave someday.

Like I’ve always felt that way from someone someday.

I don’t know why, but I thought it couldn’t be helped if it suddenly disappeared.

I just wish that we would pass each other, stay together for a while, and pass each other like this sometime.

It’s a pity that I can’t say goodbye.

at last.

Ellen couldn’t be too obsessed with something too small.

“I’ll go.”

Ellen quietly left the Temple dormitory, being seen off by Louise and Heinrich.

Looking at the back of Ellen as she leaves, Louise says.

“I think we might as well go back.”

“… … It seems like it should be.”

It’s dangerous anywhere in the world, but it was clear that the imperial ecliptic had become the most dangerous place in a sense.

* * *

The heavy snow that had fallen so far stopped as if it were a lie, and of course melted at once.

The snow had accumulated for a very long time, but it only took a few days for the accumulated snow to melt.

The days were warm enough to make me wonder if it was strangely hot.

Ellen walks through the snow-melted streets of Temple.

There is nothing to do in the Allied Garrison, but in the Imperial City, you learn too many things you don’t need to know.

If the purpose was to fight anyway, I’d rather live without knowing.

I decided that it would be better to spend this winter knowing nothing than to get lost in things that are difficult to think about and difficult to decide.

How long can I hold on to the will that seems to be broken?

how is the world

If I couldn’t go anywhere, I didn’t want to see any road anymore if I was going to be forcibly dragged along as if I was being led by something.

If a ship is going to sink someday, should it be abandoned?

Both the empire and his own consciousness.

I’m just holding on to things that will collapse someday.

Ending the gate crisis would be the top priority right now, but everyone was thinking about the aftermath.

The Templars, the Empire, and countless other groups were already rolling the situation after that in their heads.

one by one.

Louise von Schwartz found out that the great axis of the allied force, the Knights of the Temple, had fallen into the hands of the Demon King.

What will happen if even Kernstadt, the first vassal state, is on the side of the devil?

An empire whose two main axes have fallen off will no longer be called an empire. The other vassal states are also forced to make a choice the moment this becomes visible.

which side to be on.

The Empire has already lost its legitimacy, and the Demon King is the one who caused the gate incident.

Both forces are groups that should disappear. However, there is no such thing as a gigantic force capable of defeating the two.

What if the empire is isolated?

The Empire has an immortal army that can be used even if everything is lost.

We have an army more powerful than ever.

Even if the empire on the verge of collapse makes a fuss, or if the empire tries to slaughter those who sided with the demon king in order to stay healthy.

Either way, the fact remains that war will break out once again.

“… … .”

And Ellen knows where she stands.

Whether victory is assured or fall is foreordained, they will stand by the Empire’s side.

Another will that will take the place of the will that will disappear one day will want the death of the demon king, so it will inevitably be like that.

So I’d rather not know.

There is no point in trying to figure out something because the path to go is fixed.

In the end, it is destined to become a being no different from the immortal army and be swallowed up by something.

Now you can run away even if someone pushes you to fight, but one day you won’t even be able to do that.

Like it or not, with or without someone’s coercion.

Destined to become an adversary one day, Ellen returns to the Allied Garrison to escape the spirit of division and war in the ecliptic.

There is only goodness there.

The one and only absolute line to end the gate crisis.

Ellen, who was walking along the snow-covered streets, reached near the entrance of the temple.

There is still no such thing as people coming and going.

But there are no people there, but a small animal.

“… … ah.”

A black cat could be seen sitting on a nearby bench, curled up in the beating sunlight.

The cat only turns its head to see Ellen approaching.

-Cat

Ellen sits on a bench and approaches the cat who seems to be enjoying the sunshine for the first time in a long time.

it is a strange animal

It disappears somewhere in a flash, then suddenly appears in a flash.

The moment I gave up and was about to leave, thinking that I was not coming back, I was waiting at the entrance as if I knew it.

If you wait, it won’t come.

If you give up, it will appear somewhere.

so nasty

Somehow I can’t deny it.

Ellen is squatting in front of a bench, eye level with the cat watching her.

Conversation doesn’t work

But Ellen somehow always had the feeling that the conversation was going well.

You seem to understand my sadness.

You seem to know my pain.

It seemed to feel my pain.

I think it’s an illusion, but I don’t think it’s an illusion.

Even now.

Doesn’t it seem like he’s waiting for Ellen to come at the temple entrance like this, as if he knows he’s about to leave?

Do you really know or not?

Could it be that I am giving meaning to things that are just coincidences?

But when coincidences overlap, they say it’s inevitable.

This cat seemed to know his whole heart all too casually.

“I am going.”

-Aang

Ellen says a plain farewell.

can i come back

If you come back, what will the ecliptic look like then?

It’s hard to think that you can come back with good things.

Will this little animal be safe from the winds of war?

It is true that the Allied Garrison is dangerous, but the Imperial Capital and the Temple are also dangerous at this rate.

Small beings are always swept away.

Just as people were only swept away by the Gate Avalanche, so has always been the fate of small beings.

but.

A small presence in front of your eyes.

Smaller beings than small beings.

Maybe because it’s small, as the wind blows, as the waves do.

Rather, it may be that it is too small to be safe.

Ellen looked at the little black cat staring at her.

Recalling the moments when I found great comfort in a small existence.

“Bye.”

Saying that with sincerity, she quietly kissed the cat’s nose.

“And go early early.”

-After

pretending to hit the chestnuts playfully for the last time, Ellen headed for the temple gate.

After leaving the gate, Ellen looked up at the sky.

It is a warm day that has come early, as if it is said that the cold winter will end now.

But there was too much snow.

It has piled up so much, but can this snow melt for about a day on a warm day?

I’ve come so many times

In some shade where the sun doesn’t shine, there will still be full of accumulated snow.

Who will melt the snow in a shaded place without sunlight?

Ellen quietly holds the amulet.

A talisman in the shape of the moon and sun.

I hold it in my hand and carefully roll it.

tired.

tired and exhausted

Shouldn’t it be okay to let go now?

If you are forced to fight your fate anyway.

Wouldn’t it be okay if everything ended like this?

If the malice and hatred of this world create a situation in which one must fight in the end.

What is the need to endure? No matter what you do, you will be forced to fight someday.

The moment you feel like giving up.

The moment when the gap in the weakened heart opens.

Ellen’s eyes sank deeply.

Or was it already at its limit a long time ago?

As if it had reached the critical point of the given time beyond the limit of the limit.

The sandbar of the ego is submerged under the raised water surface.

-Tuk

The amulet’s string, made of leather straps, was cut off the moment I pulled it lightly.

It seems like when was the last time it was hung around my neck so that it wouldn’t fall apart.

As if the shackles were finally released.

As if announcing the beginning of something that is finally being liberated.

Ellen throws away the amulet she’s been wearing like trash and starts walking somewhere.

As if it had become something completely different from before.

As if she were now irrelevant to all the past, Ellen left without looking back.

-… … .

The black cat carefully put the round talisman on the ground in its mouth and disappeared into an alley.