Avoid Former Co-Workers

94 – 94. Scheduled Encounters (1)

Goden was convinced. The person who sent the signal, which can only be seen on the battlefield, and the person who dealt with the contaminated spirits must be the same person.

“You can see how bad the situation was inside just by reading the newspapers and bulletin boards. It was true, right?”

“Aren’t you going to ask me to explain the situation further?”

“Ah, my focus isn’t on that side. When that happened, the important thing is that everyone who escaped was there.”

In that kind of environment, I would usually give up after entering the stage of frustration and resignation, but isn’t the result the exact opposite? They even brought the spiritists on the third floor and succeeded in rescuing them.

If you don’t bring out the morale that has plummeted to the bottom and enlighten them, this result will not come out.

In short, a person who has both literary and martial arts skills, and even has leadership skills.

A person like that can make up for what can be called the only blemish in Tembris.

The vacant center position is said to be occupied by him, and Goden is full of expectations.

“Tell me now. Huh? Who is it, who is it?”

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Inflated expectations demand urgency for Senia. However,

“You’d better not take it.”

“… Huh?”

Senia cut off Goden’s expectations with a single stroke.

“We already tried to recruit him. And that’s when Erica stepped in against her.”

“What…Then the guy I’m trying to recruit to our team is…”

“If I have to tell you one more thing, the person said that he has no intention of entering a team or anything like that. If I said this much, I can get a rough idea, right?”

“…”

On the day Tembris was promoted to the official team, the name was called once.

And the good atmosphere that overlapped with the festival was completely overturned as soon as the name popped out.

There was no way Goden, the team leader, wouldn’t remember this.

“Was that guy…?”

sh*t, Goden licked his lips in regret. Senia put her mind at ease, saying that she would give up looking at Goden again.

But… Goden’s reaction was quite different.

“Wouldn’t the story be a little different if I went there myself? hehehehe.”

“What? Don’t…”

“I’m coming!!”

“Hey, Goden!!”

Senia immediately followed Goden wearing a hospital gown and slippers.

She thought to herself, ‘I’m in trouble.’

***

A day at the hospital is very boring. Can’t do anything

Still, the thing that soothes this boredom is that there is a person who came to visit me in the hospital.

Color- Color-

‘…You.’

The kind junior, who had been restless while asking if he was hurt until just now, fell asleep with his head on the bed.

“hehehe…”

As I brushed her uneasy hair to the side, she let out a strange noise, perhaps in a good mood. Still, sleeping like that would be uncomfortable.

I was hospitalized because I was a patient, but I wasn’t really sick. So, she lifted Rhenias up on the bed and put him to sleep.

But after covering her with the blanket, she tried to remove her hand…

“Don’t go…Don’t…”

“…”

Rhenias immediately grabbed my hand and dragged her. What is certain is that he did not wake up.

It could be said that he was talking in his sleep, but… Why is he making such a pitiful voice?

“Yes, yes. I’m not going anywhere.”

“…”

Let’s hold her hand again so that she can sleep soundly. Now, Rhenias relaxes her expression and falls asleep again.

I can pass it off as if I’m having a bad dream, but that word suddenly comes to mind.

-‘As an old friend of Lenny’s, please. I hope you take good care of that poor child so that he doesn’t gnaw at himself anymore.’

Princess Ophelia’s request, as if something had settled in Rhenias as well.

Looking at the various faces during the festival, I wondered if it was just a mistake, but recently I’ve had this strange thought.

She is this girl who always smiles brightly. Has she ever said that she is having a hard time?

‘…There is none.’

If you ask me how many times I’ve seen the face that still holds my hand pitifully and won’t let go… I’ll be honest, this is the first time.

Recalling the request of the princess, who was her old friend, I suddenly thought that Renias was pretending nothing was wrong.

From some heavy load.

“Aww…”

She is rubbing her eyes, still dreamy. She hadn’t shown any awareness that she had done anything until earlier.

“Are you awake?”

“Eh… Senpai…?”

“You can sleep more.”

Rhenias jumped out of her bed in a fright.

“Well, you can’t do that! Senpai is sick! Why am I here… Ugh…”

“I put him on the bed myself because he seemed to be sleeping well.”

“Why are you doing that, really…! I’m like an idiot… Go back upstairs!”

Then he pushes my back onto the bed, erecting the antenna.

Even if you were a patient, you would know that I wasn’t hurt that bad, but I wonder if the reason why you pushed my back was because I was exposed to my embarrassing appearance.

Seeing you so shy makes me want to tease you.

“So, did you sleep well? They even drool while sleeping.”

“Chi, he sleeps without drooling?!”

“Why, seeing the white marks on the corners of his mouth, he seemed to have slept well while drooling.”

Then Rhenias said Hoop! She tried and rubbed her own mouth. Just like I said, rubbing it vigorously in case he drooled, in fact, he must have been unsure.

“Quack cu cu cu.”

“Ugh… Senpai…!”

“Okay, okay. I’ll stop teasing you.”

Even though I told him to stop teasing me, it was quite embarrassing, so Rhenias tapped my arm several times with both hands before he stopped.

The atmosphere must have calmed down a bit, I wonder if it’s okay to talk about it at this point.

“Sorry, Rhenias. Didn’t I try to eat it raw back then?”

“Huh? What?”

“Magic manifestation. I asked you to teach me. I just bought you a meal and asked you to tell me. Now that I think about it again, it’s a very bad thing.”

“…”

“There will be no such thing in the future. I have to spend some time worrying about myself so that when I achieve results, it will be meaningful.”

Rhenias stared blankly at me with his plump eyes and burst into laughter.

“Ahahahaha, what is it? You were still keeping things in mind?”

“Yeah… It’s kind of like that. You must have worked hard in your own way.”

“I said something else. It’s not like that.”

Then what is it? She was about to ask that, but she didn’t want to put out her smile, which had been filled with tears from her wide smile.

‘I should put off the question of asking if I had a strange dream while sleeping.’

I’ll let you smile broadly today.

─────.

It is not often that a hospital is quiet except for the emergency room in the evening, so it is not often that you hear sounds from the hospital room.

But… In this quiet hospital, the voices of people seem to be getting closer little by little.

Besides, it seems I’m not the only one who felt that.

“There must be people visiting other hospital rooms. They are very active.”

The voice gradually gets closer.

This… The problem seems to be that lively person coming this way…

-Let’s see, over here!

– Hey! It’s a shame to do this. Do we just go back?

-Please wait. I will convince

“I will!”

Unsurprisingly, a large man burst through the door and appeared. I see another person pressing his temple behind him.

…How do the ominous feelings fit every time?

“Are you Junon? Nice to meet you!”

Why is Goden visiting my hospital room?

Senia behind her put her hands together and said this with her mouth.

I’m sorry. Called.

And I expected it, but Goden…

“Are you thinking of joining our team?”

Then and now, he speaks very straightforwardly. But now I have to walk a different path.

“Oh. I won’t go in.”

It’s almost time to leave the hospital.

***

Southeastern part of the principality, Mir Park Province.

Even though it is a night with deep twilight here, the light is often brighter than during the day.

However, the light here is never the light of a bright and warm image.

“That’s right, that’s Cain!!”

“What are you doing Zed!! Stand up quickly! Stand up and keep my money!!”

The two spaces separated by the black bars are completely different places.

A fierce bloody battle ensues inside. Outside, cheering and jeering, only raising their voices enjoying this game.

The place where the darkness was driven away was inside the black iron grate. There, only the light source to illuminate the splattered blood shines.

“Hey, hey…”

“Whoa… Whoa…”

The two boys grab their swords again.

The two sharpened swords give off the fishy smell of each other’s blood, but the two boys still crave each other’s blood.

Caught in their respective shackles, they had to wield their swords to defeat the other somehow. Even if the body is torn apart.

“aaah!!!”

“Ouch…”

“That’s right!!”

“What are you doing!! Why can’t you win just once!!”

Finally, the match was decided by one accord, and the joys and sorrows of those outside the bars were divided in two directions, like a mixed match.

“The winner of this match is Cain!! The payout is 1.6X!!”

“Okay!!!”

“You goddamn Zed!!! How much did I spend!!”

The moderator steps up, takes the loser, and starts first aid. Inside the bloody bars, it was safe to say that in fact there was no victor.

A victory that only hurts. Meaningless defeat.

There is no life in their eyes.

“Unfortunately, today’s Octagon ends here. Thank you so much to everyone who watched.”

“What, moderator! Next match!”

“Give me more soon! I’ll take all the money I lost here today!”

“Please calm down. We appreciate the boundless love of the nobles, but shouldn’t we open up the game more to live up to this?”

─Oh!!

“From tomorrow, the long-awaited tournament will be held!!”

─Wow!!

Today’s Octagon ended like that.

“Now, Cain. Will you be able to work harder tomorrow?”

“…”

When Cain glared at the moderator with fierce eyes, he snorted and made Cain into a plaything again.

“Oh dear. It’s sad to look at it like that. I’m buying what you need in my own way.”

“…!”

“If it continues like that, I’ll let go. I’m not sure where I can find that rare thing.”

“I will do it!! I will do it… Please keep what you promised.”

“So then. Don’t worry. Everyone is enthusiastic about your status as an academy student, so the down payment is being filled up well.”

This is a place of transgression, created to avoid the eyes of the grand duke, strictly for the amusement of the nobles.

All sorts of unholy acts prohibited in the principality. Gambling, drugs, and all of that is done away from prying eyes.

And the culmination of this transgression was a fight between humans.

It was a gamble sweetened by the fierce battle taking place in that arena called the Octagon.

Cain almost gave up his academy life in the Octagon, all he wanted was to earn money and buy something.

‘In the world… When will I be able to save it…’

Rumia was in high spirits at the time when she was taking the end-of-semester evaluation at the academy.

In order to cure her illness, she had no choice but to visit this place called the Octagon.

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A product with an exorbitant price and even a rarity. When she heard that the route to get it was here, she had no choice but to head to the Octagon.

“Oh.”

“Oops, are you okay?”

“…Yes.”

When Cain looked up, what he saw was a celebrity from the academy.

In the past… He was famous for a bit of a bad side, but now he’s really famous for a good side.

“From next time on, look straight ahead. He just looked down and walked.”

“Yes. Sorry.”

After she apologized, she was on her way. Then, all of a sudden, I felt strange.

‘This road is wide, so there’s no chance of bumping into it…?’

Thinking of that, I looked back, but the person Cain had just bumped into was nowhere to be seen.

“Is it because of my mood…?”

But Cain soon realizes that she is not to blame.

By a few days later she runs into the black haired senior she bumped into today again.