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58 – 58. Denial (6)

-Sister. If anything happens, please talk to us.

An evil that should never be touched. As a result of touching it, it came at the cost of the collapse of everyday life.

Of course, considering the degree, the degree of disruption in daily life is insignificant.

I can still hear the resentful voice of a man who was once cornered, like an auditory hallucination. Is that a great price?

I can’t even comprehend his pressure and anxiety, which is greater than being driven to the edge of a precipice.

Because she owed her life to him, and was overcome with guilt for pouring out voluptuous words out of prejudice, her daily life was not easy. To the point that after that day she couldn’t even go outside for days.

‘Today is Charlotte…’

Outside, the members come and knock on the door from time to time and ask how they are doing. Several times, a different person would visit Aris’s room.

But in the room, only silence keeps guests at their doorstep.

A day or two passed, she didn’t even care how time passed.

‘If you wait silently like this, it will go by itself…’

Her members came to visit her several times, but the owner of her room never opened her mouth.

She had no doubt that this time, if she waited a long time in silence, she would send the visitor back.

-I mean. Do you know why you applied for this party?

Unexpectedly, however, Charlotte suddenly started talking about herself.

No. Maybe I heard a muttering voice from earlier.

Now I can only hear those words with my ears open.

-I heard it’s magic runaway. Since the color of mana is dark, I heard that when a human’s mana is used up, it will take actions close to that of a demonic beast. Because of that, she was recommended by Professor Meuniher and she came here.

I wondered what the point of all of that was. However, at the next word, the ears that were about to close again open by themselves.

-I… There was a time when I unintentionally tried to hurt someone with my own hands.

‘…What?’

As always, Aris, who had treated her other members silently at the door, listened to her in embarrassment.

I heard that Charlotte, the youngest member of the team, had tried to hurt people, so I had to focus on that.

-You don’t know how disillusioned I was, licking my lips at the person I see in front of me as prey, like a demonic beast without consciousness. But… You know what’s scarier?

Gulp.

A handful of liquid, containing her tension, ran down Aris’ throat.

-That person… Was a senior who tried to save me even by throwing himself. What… I’m a mean person, am I?

For a moment, Aris took a deep breath.

But that’s not the end. Her breath seemed to have stopped for a few seconds.

-The first meeting with her was very strange. On the day I set foot on the land of the principality, strangely, a certain memory flooded me with a huge headache. It was then that I met that senior.

No way.

Charlotte too?

I know very well that this is nonsense.

The identity of this revelation-like memory, not sure who sent it, is still questionable.

It is said that Charlotte also experienced it.

-Thanks to that memory, I had a prejudice against a certain senior… But when I met that senior, he was a completely different person. Rather, he tried to save me by throwing himself. Even though it was the first time I saw him that day, even though he was a stranger.

-But… The fact that the senior threw himself to save me remained like a trauma. One day, I saw that scene again in my dreams. That day was the day she spilled her sister’s coffee… Actually, I couldn’t sleep, so come on…

Every time I listened to this story, I felt something sharp in my chest poking my lungs.

Because the story Charlotte brings up is absolutely not someone else’s story.

At the same time, a question arose in the corner of my heart.

‘At the time of the evaluation at the beginning of the semester… It’s been quite a while…’

Charlotte didn’t seem to show any signs of it. Aris was curious about that.

How she overcame her psychological pressure.

“Sister?”

“…Come in.”

I didn’t care what state Molgol was in. Right now, I just wanted to hear Charlotte’s story to the end.

When she went into her dorm room and wanted to ask Charlotte what was going on with her, her voice didn’t come out.

Then Charlotte let out a deep sigh.

She then said that if she wanted to hear her story through to the end, she would have to listen to her demands.

No big deal, Aris nodded her head, and she told Charlotte that she would be out for a while.

‘Stay still until then…’

After a while, Aris could see Charlotte and the maids barging into her room.

“Everyone, please do your best.”

“Confirmed, Miss Charlotte.”

“This pretty colored hair…”

“Oh my God. The skin…!”

“The whole thing needs to be tinkered with.”

Looking at those eyes that looked like her eyes were burning as if they were on fire, Aris suddenly became impatient.

And for some reason, I sense a little bit of fear from them.

“We are going to take Aris’ schedule today.”

“So please ride gently. It will be a big deal if you run away.”

“Ah. You can run away. Instead, maybe the lady will tell you to hire someone to kidnap you?”

It sounds like he’s growling…?

Sensing her bloody aura from her maids, Aris secretly asked her Charlotte for help.

“Shah, Charlotte… Is this okay…?”

“Sister.”

Ah.

Once I noticed, Charlotte had the same face.

“…Okay.”

It was such a hectic time that I can’t even remember what happened after that.

With one of her robes on, she rode her carriage as if she was being carried somewhere, and her villa came out, and her maids took her to her bathroom smiling brightly. From a strand of her hair to the soles of her feet, nothing was beyond her reach.

After the skin was washed to the point where it sparkled, rows of luxurious nutritious meals lined the dining room tables.

To wash clean and eat heartily. Charlotte asked for these two things.

“Charlotte. I did everything you asked me to do, but… Do I really need to do this?”

“I don’t understand why? I think so. I was once frustrated like my sister.”

With a bitter smile, Charlotte said so. Now, the topic that had affected Aris’ daily life came up in the conversation between the two.

“How can I ignore it? It’s such a memory. It’s no wonder I can’t easily forget it.”

Is that the case? She’s had a similar experience, but she’s talking like nothing.

She coaxed her closed ears open, albeit for a moment, with her words, and it was no wonder that her goal was to convince herself.

But Charlotte didn’t mean to divert her words the way she thought.

“However, if it collapses like this, what will change? Even if I live my whole life with only guilt, nothing will change.”

This is why her Charlotte called her maids and took her steps to restore her broken body to her former self.

***

Tumbling.

A footstep that made it impossible to tell if he was walking or dragging his shoes.

Aris has been wandering aimlessly out of her dorm, unable to reach her teammates yet.

-‘So I decided to pay it back. To repay that person even with a small bonus. Then I made it a priority to return to my original state because I wouldn’t have to collapse.’

Charlotte was a very bold child.

She doesn’t know what to do. Unlike her, who used to be all alone in her room, struggling.

She was the youngest baron, and she had unparalleled determination as a lumberjack capable of leading an upper house.

However, even Charlotte couldn’t solve this easily.

-‘Actually, that senior coldly refused my help. Still… I can’t just give up like this. It’s my lifesaver.’

It was frustrating for Charlotte as well.

Nonetheless, unlike her, who was hiding herself in her room and avoiding her guilt, Charlotte, who was two years younger and three grades different, made a different decision.

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When she felt like there was no way to solve it on her own, she got advice from maids and employees.

She can’t help feeling guilty, but getting caught up in that guilt is the worst answer, she said.

Suddenly, I remembered that Senia pointed out that she makes too emotional judgments.

-‘You always react emotionally and screw things up. If you want to avoid the worst, you have to choose the lesser evil.’

‘Yes. I guess I’m just too emotional.’

She was alone, so she was Aris, who succeeded in admitting and accepting that nothing would change just because she was confined to that room.

Charlotte said she wanted to pay back. She’s been a little boon and she wants to repay him.

She even received a firm warning that she was caught paying for the victim’s hospital bills, but she did not hesitate.

At the beginning of her semester evaluation, she paid the school fees of a senior who saved Charlotte, and Charlotte was lightening the burden on her heart.

By using a clever trick called the scholarship system to lighten the burden so that the other party doesn’t notice and doesn’t notice it.

‘Can I… Too?’

I can’t think of anything right now.

Still, I wonder if there is something. It was the moment I thought so.

“It’s strange… The protagonist of the defense is… Junon.”

“Isn’t it? The contents of the board are zero…”

“Why is there no mention of Junon? Shall we report it?”

“Sure. Newspapers these days say there are many things wrong.”

A couple of students are talking about the misinformation of the defense of Osoptera.

Judging from the contents of the conversation, it seemed that the two of them had staged a sit-in under Junon’s instructions.

‘…That’s it.’

He is said to have played a leading role in Osoptera’s defense and Alkaid’s siege, but he seemed reluctant to be revealed.

At this rate, it won’t be long before his actions that he tried to hide will be revealed.

Just in time, two students walking around her whispered and questioned.

If those two revealed the truth, he couldn’t hide it as he wanted, so Aris was thinking of approaching the two of them, thinking of breaking them off somehow.

Then, a gray-haired female student nearby opened her mouth.

“Don’t do it for nothing. Junon didn’t want to be in the spotlight for nothing, so I just asked him to hand it over.”

‘That kid…?’

She was named Sylvia, and she was a female student who was known to go out often with Junon.

“Why? It deserves an Academy Award.”

“Among the students of the avant-garde, there is no one that has made such a name. You must take it unconditionally.”

“That’s what I mean. Why refuse such an honor? It’s strange, Sylvia.”

“Hmm… Actually, Junon’s personality is like that. He’s a kid who doesn’t like to know about anything.”

“”Yeah…?””

“Wait, I think he’s a bit of a mystic. Not a single thing has been known every time. I even punched Professor Kyoff, don’t you know?”

“Well… I’ve only heard bad rumors, I’ve never heard of anything like that.”

“There’s actually more than that… Junon really hates being known. Junon asked me to do it himself. Let it be known like that.”

“Hmm. I see.”

“If that’s the case, then I understand. I’ll just let the other kids know.”

“Then… Can I ask you a favor? There are so many of them, so I thought it would be impossible to visit them one by one…”

“Of course Sylvia!”

“You can ask for anything like this. Eoyu. As long as you’re being nice.”

“Ah, ahahahaha… Thank you.”

As the three moved away, the sound of their conversation gradually diminished.

“…You’ve already taken action.”

I never thought I would have prepared for this much.

In order not to harm Junon, he thought that it might be more helpful for him to stay still.

***

“That’s a pretty heavy story.”

“Isn’t it?”

“It’s kind of hard to believe.”

Muniher received a message from Dahlia that would make her fisheye dumb.

As the chancellor of the imperial family, as a strategist who ordered the subjugation and sweeping of Canola Castle, and as a single instructor.

“Honey. I know that’s nonsense. I’m well aware that it’s questionable.”

When her wife, Dahlia, came to visit, I thought it would be no big deal.

She only knew that they would inform each other about what had happened at the academy, submit reports, and exchange words of hard work today.

However, returning to Meuniher was a boy’s reaction that I couldn’t understand.

“…Where did that young thing get such an experience?”

There is a disease called hemophobia. A disease that causes fear and disillusionment at the sight of blood. It is a common disease that anyone can be born with.

Each person has a different degree, but in order to overcome this, the academy puts a curriculum in students.

When enough time has been spent to endure fear and various psychological diseases.

Only then will the students be able to adapt to the blood.

But if you ask me if there is anyone who can see real blood and intestines and not be shaken, I can’t answer right away.

Students who complained of aftereffects from this defense battle would be a prime example.

So it was.

Meuniher couldn’t help but doubt her ears after Dahlia’s testimony that she did not shake even an inch during her operation.

Dahlia, who has been watching Meuniher, smiles dejectedly.

“You have the same reaction as me. I don’t know if I had that expression at first too. Anyone who saw it would have thought I was dumbfounded.”

“…Dahlia. You’re probably not the kind of person who likes to joke around, are you?”

“Even if everything I’ve done so far seems like a joke, I’ll swear that this isn’t the only thing.”

It was a scary story.

The fact that a 19-year-old boy, who was only in the third grade, showed a calm reaction while undergoing surgery to see blood and internal organs.

The couple was wrapped in a strange sense of déjà vu as they looked at the one side of the Bleshuar Arc that had run out of magic power.

“For now, let’s watch. It may have a bad past, so don’t forget to be careful with it.”

Looking at the boy, the two thought of it at the same time. A man with the same hair color as him.

The two of them would never be able to forget that name.