Avoid Former Co-Workers

53 – 53. Infidelity (1)

The rushed surgical environment. The skin of the anesthetized person was cut off and something was attached to it for several tens of minutes.

Intestines, which could not be healed with magic alone, have been restored cleanly through the grafting of Western medicine and healing magic.

The final suturing process. Soon, the bloody surgical instruments fall from Professor Dahlia’s hands.

“I had a hard time.”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

The operation is over. My former colleague’s dying surgery.

“I assure you, I couldn’t have saved it on my own. The area where I had to use healing magic was so deep that I had to remain open for a long time.”

I was actually continuing to open the split vessel as Professor Dahlia instructed.

If you ask me if I only do that, I will answer that this alone is a serious responsibility, so I have to focus on it.

I had no choice but to focus all my attention because even the slightest deviation from the affected part affected the recovery of the internal organs.

In the end, it seems that the surgery went well because he did it well.

“You saved this girl. Not me.”

“…Why do you say such nonsense?”

If you say Professor Dahlia, the doctors all over the Principality of Ardelion will jump.

It is absurd to say that I saved Erika.

Professor Dahlia chuckled and threw off his surgical gloves.

“They didn’t have a particularly good relationship, didn’t they?”

“…Yes?”

“You’ll know when you see it. It’s not just once or twice like this.”

What are you talking about?

“Doctors can tell a relationship between two people just by looking at the caregiver’s gaze at the patient. From that point of view, you don’t seem to have a good relationship with a girl named Erica.”

“I see.”

I think that might be the case. How many people has that green-haired middle-aged woman saved?

Several years of experience and expertise cannot be ignored.

“…”

She slightly turned her head to look at Erica.

I don’t get along well. That’s right.

I only came forward because I had no choice but to help Erica and save her life.

I don’t care if she opens her eyes right away and gets up and looks at me with those contemptuous eyes.

Thembris party members must be alive without exception.

That’s why I helped, so the principality won’t collapse.

If you guys solve the things that eventually explode inside and outside the Principality of Ardelion, it’s okay to waste a little bit of my feelings.

So, keep the principality in your own hands. I will try to have no contact with you until the end.

‘Now there are more important things left.’

Now is the time for me to speak.

“I’d like to report the status.”

“See?”

I plan to organize a series of events that have happened so far and deliver them to Professor Dahlia.

I’m going to blow a little bit in the process.

I’m done talking, and Professor Dahlia is making a mysterious expression.

“May I ask?”

“That’s not difficult, but…”

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Why would you do that? It was that kind of look.

“I’ve helped you, so can you protect this much?”

“I never said I wouldn’t listen. But don’t you feel a little strange when you say it?”

Of course it feels strange. But, I have to do this so I can get insurance.

“There’s a reason for that.”

“…Okay. I’ll let that happen.”

I left the words that I would go first and set foot first.

The smell of blood comes out in the dark night air.

It’s not blood from my body, nor is it stained with blood on my clothes.

That doesn’t mean that people died here, so the reason for the bloody smell is probably because of the clothes.

– Sniff.

“Oh, that’s embarrassing.”

The smell of blood on your clothes keeps coming up, so it would be very difficult to run into someone.

Students around me also turned their heads as if they were running away when they saw me.

Since I saw Professor Dahlia enter the room earlier, I can’t help but be concerned. Knowing that now doesn’t change anything.

There are several things I have to go through alone anyway, thinking about the future, but I didn’t have to worry about these things.

As soon as I put it down like that, my sleeves were gently grabbed, as if he was going to deny it right away.

“…Sylvia? Have you been waiting?”

Looking at the nod, that’s what it looked like.

“You must be tired, why aren’t you going home?”

“I’m not the only one who’s tired. Ugh…”

When I turn around, I immediately frown. It looks like he’s in charge too.

“You hate the smell of blood. Go first.”

It was Sylvia who turned her head while gagging at the sight of the pieces of meat she hurriedly bought to feed the beasts.

More than that, the scent of human blood will permeate my body, so it would be better to let Sylvia go first.

I didn’t want to make him take it now, and I didn’t want to ask him to go back with me.

“…Are you really okay?”

“Yes.”

But I just shook my head and saw her a few times, but Sylvia wasn’t going to leave my side.

Sylvia walked with me until the road split between the male and female dorms in the direction of her dormitory.

She seemed disgusted by the smell of blood. She walked away without speaking, but she felt sorry for Sylvia.

She got involved because of me and had to take on things that weren’t very good mentally.

She went so far as to hand it over as if she were entrusted with some important position, so it can only be said that it was a huge debt.

As she walked down the street thinking about that, she came across a road where the male and female dormitories diverged.

“Thank you, Sylvia.”

“Huh?”

“In the end, thanks to you, the other guys listened to me. If I had told you, there would have been no choice.”

“That’s probably because the kids don’t know much…”

“My perception is that it’s like that anyway. More than that, if you want something, tell me. I’ll listen to it next time.”

It hurts my conscience to just skip it. Sylvia didn’t just go through hardships because of me, but because she went through all her hardships.

“You want…?”

“Yes. I’ll listen to everything as long as it’s not too ridiculous.”

“Hmm…”

Sylvia seemed to remember something about her with her flushed face, and then she was about to say something, then she grabbed her head again and seemed to think.

The way she thought about what to say was very cute.

With the words to think about it later and let me know, I broke up with Sylvia and headed to my dormitory.

The fuss must have ended, and now it was time to go back to my daily life.

I’m tired. I wanted to quickly wash off my body, which was tainted by this fishy and unpleasant smell, and lay down in bed.

***

It is said that there were no deaths in the defense of Osoptera, but there were many wounded.

As the damage to ordinary citizens and civilians was extremely minimal, the injuries were the responsibility of the academy students.

One of the two most seriously injured opened his eyes.

“Eup…!”

The magical energy flowing through the circuit was spinning with the momentum to warm her skin, and Aris woke up to the pain.

“Breathe slowly. If you hold your breath, the magic won’t circulate properly and the pain will last longer.”

“Whoop… Whoop…”

“That’s right, you’re good. Keep doing that.”

“Professor Dahlia… Are you?”

“I thought that other people would be buried because they were so famous. Thankfully, there is someone who recognizes me?”

Aris felt strange looking at this ceiling. She also saw a female professor in a white coat standing right next to her.

This situation itself was foreign, as if he had been injured and brought to the hospital.

“I… How…”

Aris must have wanted to ask if she was here. Dahlia, who had been sipping a cup of coffee, immediately opened her mouth.

“The Osoptera have all been sorted out, and all the students are safe. You and Erica, who suffered from mana exhaustion there, have been treated and are recovering.”

“She’s recovering…? Erica is…?”

“Finally, when I arrived, I was able to operate at just the right time. Although I actually came close to dying.”

Then Dahlia put her mouth to his mug again and drank the coffee.

“That’s… That’s it.”

The number of Osopteras did not decrease, and they retreated one after another, but even that did not improve the war situation.

The power wasn’t enough, and in the midst of that, the guys who ran away caused a terrible situation in which Erica, the ace of the continuous battle, suffered.

The situation has changed with the arrival of reinforcements at the end. Aris couldn’t help but think so.

“Me, but Professor.”

“Yes, I’m listening, so tell me.”

“I belatedly say the first thing I should say. Thank you.”

Aris caught her breath and let out her words of thanks to her for saving her and Erica.

However, Dahlia, who heard this, was not happy even though she heard the most comforting words for a patient as a doctor.

Because these words were not meant to be conveyed to him.

‘I wasn’t the one who saved you.’

According to the circumstances, it was a male student who saved Erika and Aris.

A black-haired third-year student who is full of enemies at this academy, and no one is happy because his awareness is crawling.

It was the weakest vanguard, Junon, who was called class E’s idiot.

So Dahlia passed it on without receiving Aris’s thanks. Someday, these words should be conveyed to him, not to himself.

It is questionable whether the person in question would be willing to do that when Aris and Erica noticed it and found out that their benefactor was Junon.

“Whoa. First of all, Aris. Listen to me carefully.”

Now it was my turn to do what Junon asked for.

“You were chosen as the person who contributed the most to the Osoptera defense this time. You will probably be listed as such in the report or the announcement side.”

“Yes? That’s…”

“Why. Hate it?”

“No. Rather than hate…”

You can’t help but think it’s strange.

Although Aris led her students to fight, she couldn’t be said to be very effective.

After announcing the contents to be written in the next form, Dahlia left Aris’s hospital room with the words that he should know that.

Young did not feel relieved.

‘Actually, I don’t want to make an announcement like this either.’

Dahlia looked at the apprenticeship process and saw that too.

The students who remained at the academy were not 4th or 5th graders who had ever played a real game.

It was all about the 3rd graders who only had a taste of it by participating in the early semester evaluation and the Tvesar joint practice after barely having a mock battle, the 1st graders who were still new students who didn’t know anything, and the 2nd graders who were still lacking.

It wouldn’t be strange to be massacred if there wasn’t someone skilled in leadership, system, layout, and situational awareness.

It seems that it was maintained for a while because Aris was there, but traces of retreat were prevalent.

Even if Aris held on to her chain of command and led the students, it was possible to guess that she would not have given the right instructions.

It was assumed that her chain of command changed during her retreat, and if she took the Hasirt 3 formation instead of the Kennik 6 formation from the beginning, there would be no situation where Erica would be seriously injured.

The most curious thing is who could have thought of holding a sit-in in the Alkaid Hall.

Perhaps someone intruded along the way and led them there by changing formation and creating a gap.

The person who lasted as long as possible by writing the Blassure Ark, and led the Alkaid Hall siege while rotating as a team.

‘That must be you under the circumstances. Junon.’

Few people know that Junon was the one who ordered it. Students who need mental and physical treatment even want to forget this nightmare, so it is correct to say that only Dahlia is fully aware of it.

‘But why do you want to hide it?’

-‘Today, I just followed Aris’ instructions. Please spread it like that.’

Junon asked you to hide his whereabouts at the end. That wasn’t very satisfying, so I kept craving coffee.

“…When did you finish drinking?”

I drank a cup of coffee before I knew it. I finally realized that I was holding an empty cup after sipping coffee, which Junon had asked me to do.

During the surgery, the face of a male student who couldn’t even see a single wave came to mind.

Those eyes that calmly used disinfectant and stared at the patient’s abdomen while wearing latex were somewhat creepy.

It is a situation where a person is dying, and it is a surgical procedure. But there is no commotion? Aren’t you saying you want to run away with your eyes closed?

Isn’t it more than once or twice that you’ve seen human organs and blood?

…Really? That child who has just entered the age of adulthood?

-Gulp.

I know it’s nonsense, but the thoughts I want to have don’t leave easily.

“I can’t. I need another drink.”

Usually, I would have passed it on, saying that there must be such a child. Why are you thinking so deeply?

Today, for some reason, I have to drink bitter coffee.