Chapter 111 – Recovery

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The light appeared shining brightly in the sky like the sun that lights up the dawn.

If there is light that leaks in when you open your eyes, when comparing the form of that light, should it be called eye light leaking from open eyes?

It was a brilliant golden light that caught and passed through the gaps in the air, revealing itself with a sharp crackling sound.

The light had the same warmth as the light of the real sun, and was the light of mercy that healed the wounds of those who were wounded.

It is the manifestation of divinity with the power to burn uncleanness, purify evil, and embody justice.

Light sweeps through the academy faster than sound, erasing all uncleanness in between.

The traces of mud scattered on the ground, the army of the undead inhabited by specters, and the malice of the ancients consumed by the relics running rampant.

And swallowing even the small resentment left behind by a young man who had already suffered a lot and disappeared by his friend his the warrior.

It was to stay on this land like the ancients who used him and cut off the possibility of another tragedy.

The golden holy sword, the light of Caliburn.

The true power she possessed, which had never been shown in the hands of her original owner, Alban.

It was the control ability of a huge divine magic power that embraced everything to the extent that it was literally the light of salvation.

And divine magic is the purest magic with the properties of that star.

At the same time as closing the gap in the dimension that was open, it removes all the erosion that escaped from there and heals people.

The people at the academy, who were feeling their bodies getting heavier little by little, got out of that habit.

It was not difficult to see that the fight had come to an end.

“Cleon!”

The first to jump at Cleon was Quon, who was nearby.

In the fight against the undead, she played a big role alongside Iona, and when fighting them, she ran faster than she did and hugged Cleon.

Seeing this, Iona returned to her human form and sighed in relief.

“I’m glad… I came back…! What if I didn’t come back…!”

Watching her hold herself back while shedding her big teardrops, Cleon gives her a pat on the back of her.

In the next moment, Galatea, who was hanging from her waist her, changed from being a sword to a human and glaring at Quon for a while.

Even if she was in the same position, she didn’t show a strongly cold attitude, because she thought she would have reacted like her.

And the students and colleagues of the sex department gather by Cleon’s side one by one.

Either Trace, who went the other way and got hurt, or Sasha, who supports and brings him back, then runs as soon as he sees Cleon.

Looking at the situation, Beatrix shook her head and yielded to Layla, who asked if she didn’t have to go.

And after burying her precious friend her with her own hand, Aruru walks with his`Soul Capture ‘in his hand her.

Riomes just smiled while holding onto the backs of Pairu and Luzuri, who were about to run away while saying something like ‘Keep your promise!’ To Cleon.

“It’s amazing. It’s like the return of the hero.”

As Aruru approaches her and says so, Cleon turns to her with a bitter smile on her face.

She was well aware that what she said was pure sentiment, not malicious sarcasm.

“It’s the least appropriate modifier for me.”

When Cleon answered like that, Aruru shook her head and replied.

“No. Cleon, who did not succumb to malice and fought back with people’s hopes and regained peace, is a great ‘hero’ no matter what anyone says.”

At Aruru’s candid words, Cleon scratches her head with her cheeks blushing slightly.

After all, I’m not used to being thanked by others from the front.

Even during his childhood her in Elesia and later in his adventurer’s life, people’s basic gaze towards Cleon was far from benign.

‘Distrust’ ‘Doubt’ ‘Hate’

Because he was a member of the Dark Demon family and because he was a magic swordsman, he was able to endure all the scolding and contempt he received.

It was because deep in her heart her she had the past that her life her was saved by her her ‘hero’, Lesia, and the little faith in humans she had received from her her.

Even that belief was shaken once by Albain, but to Cleon, rather than being angered by ‘Alvein’ and making the heart he received from ‘Lesia’ meaningless.

Even if she puts her body in the darkness with Galatea, she protects Elesia and Luti, the city with memories of her with her, by means or methods that she can do on her own.

He chose the path of revenge by defeating Albein, who was intoxicated with the power of the holy sword and endangered the people around him.

Aruru was a warrior shining with golden light, just like the Lesia that Cleon had seen in his childhood her.

Hearing such a story from Aruru, who, as far as Cleon himself knows, is the closest person to a hero.

Along with the unfamiliar feeling, something like pride for one’s own actions came into being.

Perhaps, this is also an emotion that was created while interacting with the holy sword Caliburn.

[That’s different~ Unlike Alvein, who has a weak mentality, Cleon is not affected by the ‘light’ of the holy sword.]

At the languid voice that came from his waist, Cleon looked down at his holy sword for a moment.

It was obviously she who had told her not to talk about her Alban her, but she seemed fine with herself.

“Is that… A holy sword?”

Suddenly, Cleon nodded her head at Aruru’s question as he looked at the faintly glowing Caliburn.

“Then, Cleon really became a hero.”

Come to think of it, if a person who uses a holy sword is a ‘hero’, then Cleon, who reacted to Caliburn, could also be called a ‘hero’.

“Wait! Cleon is a magic swordsman. He’s not like a hero. Even if he uses a holy sword.”

However, Galatea denies Aruru’s words and pulls Cleon’s arm her.

“If you really want to talk about using a holy sword, say ‘demonic swordsman’.”

While saying that, watching her arbitrarily come up with a new class name and talking about it, Aruru and Cleon also smiled wryly.

[Demonic Prosecutor doesn’t have a good sense of language, so how about a Holy Demonic Prosecutor?]

Galatea slapped her hand at Caliburn, who was quietly trying to place the holy sword in front of her.

“…Anyway, is this really all over?”

“No, because we haven’t recovered everyone’s memories yet.”

When Cleon said that and looked at Beatrix, Beatrix nodded and moved closer to Cleon.

“The Demiurge factor that Reil possessed has now moved into Aruru-san. And since we have to retrieve the factor that everyone in the Department of Sexuality possesses… “

Hearing that, Cleon narrowed his eyes for a moment.

There are two ways to pass the ‘Demiurge factor’ that they know.

The first is how to defeat and steal someone who originally had factors like Aruru.

The second method is to weaken the barrier of the soul by mixing the body and transfer the factor.

“Wait. That means, with everyone who has a factor-“

At Cleon’s words, Beatrix also blushed.

“If it’s the sex department, I can do it once again with everyone, but the others should be left to instructor Cleon, right?”

“Eh!? We like the instructor too!”

The twins rebelled against Riomes’ words. And for some reason, Demis seemed to be looking forward to it a little.

No, wait, why is Demis…

“I have no complaints about mixing myself with Cleon, but… “

Aruru also clears her throat and blushes, but she smiles as if she was joking and hands over the object she was holding in her hand.

It is ‘Soul Capture’, an ancient artifact that takes the soul of an opponent in the form of a leather glove that Rail had.

“If you use this, you can take out that Demiurge’s factor, right?”

It is possible if you use it as Aruru said, but Beatrix is ​​in a state where her soul her is wounded by the artifact.

“…I see, then. After all, isn’t it the fastest way to be embraced by Cleon…?”

After hearing Cleon’s explanation, Aruru tries to take off her clothes her on the spot.

“What, what are you doing!?”

Seeing this, Aruru responds to Cleon’s dissuade her, who is horrified.

“No, I thought it would be better to do it a little faster… After all, isn’t this place a bit like that? The floor is hard…”

“I meant that there were many other people around! What’s wrong? You didn’t have common sense to that extent!?”

At Cleon’s question, Aruru said, ‘Hmm…’ And put her hand on her chin, pondering her thoughts.

“Ah, maybe. I think he lost a bit of self-control because he absorbed all of the 20% factor he had…”

At Beatrix’s words to her, Cleon sighed as he touched her forehead her.

“Haha. You look troubled, Cleon.”

“Really. I don’t like anything related to Demiurge-“

When Cleon turned around at the sudden, familiar voice from behind, but heard a long time ago.

A tall woman was standing there.

She was a head taller than Cleon, who had grown considerably taller.

Purple hair long enough to stop right before touching the ground.

Pants made of stretchy material and outerwear made of thin fabric.

Wearing a wide-brimmed navy blue witch hat, with amber eyes engraved with a cross.

“Teacher!?”

“Cow, Sofia…!”

Cleon’s reaction to her as if he had seen something terrifying in the world and the identity of the woman that came out of his mouth his stir up excitement around the area.

“Sofia…? Sophia, who defeated the Empire along with the hero in that war…”

“Great Sage Sophia…? Is that person?”

Ignoring such a commotion with an attitude that he does n’t know whether the person in question is familiar with it or does n’t care, he approaches Cleon.

“Yeah! It’s been a while since I met you, so you’re happy?”

Seeing Sophia smiling while holding onto Cleon’s shoulder as he tried to step back, Cleon let out a drool.

“Who’s your sister…! Don’t pretend to be friendly…!”

Neither Beatrix nor Aruru could question Cleon’s attitude towards the rejection that was close to hostility.

“What’s wrong~ I’m glad to see you after a long time. Mr. Talchek is dead too, and now the only 4 heroes left in this world are me and that kid, aren’t you? You’re the only one who can share the memories of your youth, Cleon~”

“…Is that really the only reason?”

When Cleon says something suspicious, Sofia nods her head and tries to stroke Cleon’s head.

“… Well. There’s that, but there’s also the one that came to retrieve my stuff. ‘Soul Capture’.”

At Sophia’s words, Cleon looks down at the gloves Aruru gave him.

“As expected, this was yours. Where did you spill it so he had it?”

“No, that… I made a mistake on a bet and got into a lot of debt… I put it as collateral at that time?”

The people around me are agitated by those words once again.

“The great sage Sophia bet… ? To the extent of going into debt… ?”

Cleon questions Sofia as he presses his throbbing temple her as his head her hurts.

“How can I use this to take out the factor of Demiurge without hurting my soul?”

“Ah, yes. If you want to know what it is, why not ask?”

Sophia smiles innocently and pulls out another pair of soul capture gloves that she retrieved, and she hands them to Cleon.

“Using these two at the same time increases the safety of the control. With this, you will be able to move Demiurge’s factor without touching the soul.”

Sofia’s explanation makes Cleon look suspicious, but even so, I don’t think that her famous sage her is conveying wrong information or lying.

When Cleon, equipped with both sides, looked at Aruru, Aruru nodded her head and held out both of her hands.

And when the hands of the two are held face to face, similar to when the body was mixed through Soul Capture, the passage of magical power- no, the passage of the soul is felt to be connected.

And in Cleon’s eyes, he could see ‘factor’ like impurities mixed in her soul.

Gently touching only that, remove the clinging ones and bring them to Cleon’s side of her.

Cleon, who had succeeded in recovering the factor from her body through a short spell, looked at the soul capture as if something were strange.

“Aruru. How are you feeling?”

“It’s okay. There’s no pain anywhere, and it feels a little lighter.”

The only thing left for Cleon to breathe a sigh of relief at her answer was to remove the factor from all the students in the sex department, just like before.

When that happens, a handshake-like situation arises because of the students of the sex department lining up in front of Cleon.

Students who come to Cleon one by one and shake hands with him to retrieve factors.

Meanwhile-

“Please touch me here! Is it okay to touch anywhere!?”

“Do it in moderation!”

There were students who made the same small commotion, but I safely retrieved the factors from them as well.

“Let’s talk after work, Cleon? Noona has so many things she wants to tell you.”

After patting Cleon’s shoulder, she followed Sophia with her eyes for a while as she walked down the street of her academy.

Again, she focuses on recovering the remaining elements from the students in front of her eyes.

And to the last person. When I finished collecting the factors that were scattered, I looked at Beatrix.

“Then… Is this how you can cancel the mind alteration?”

“Yes. Focus your mind. Inside your soul, the power of the factor will respond to your will.”

As advised by her, when I closed my eyes and stretched out my senses of touch toward the inner soul, I could see that a new throbbing magic imprint had come out from the factor and stuck to my heart.

Like a magic tool invading the body from the outside, if you pass magic there, you will know how to use this power.

The power that this devil possesses is the power to literally subdue human souls.

The five Demiurges divide and rule the five strong elements of humans.

Among them, the power of the devil that even changes memories with the power to control the mind.

If you think that some of that power dwells in you, rather than expecting that power, you feel the fear that you will be defeated by the temptation of this power even by mistake and wield it at will.

However, Beatrix held Cleon’s hand and talked.

“If you’re a senior, you’ll be fine. There must have been numerous temptations on the way here, but if you’re a senior who has endured all of them…”

He looked straight into his eyes her and smiled a little.

“And there are many people who are with you by your side.”

Eventually, Cleon is relieved by her words and slowly begins to turn his magic power her.

The Demiurge’s power is that of a demon.

However, even if it is the power of the devil, the result changes depending on the person who uses it.

Just like his own magic sword his.

“Demiurge factor, maneuver.”

A light slowly spreading from Cleon covers the entire academy.

Although it was the same kind of light that messed everything up.

This time it was the light that brought everything back to normal.

001

The next morning. Cleon was lying on his bed with bandages all over her body.

I remember having an experience similar to this one day.

Okay. After defeating Alvein, Galatea voluntarily swallowed Caliburn’s core.

This time, perhaps it was a side effect of using the power of Demiurge’s factor, it was said that he passed out on the spot with pain as if his skeleton his was being twisted.

Beside him were Lyla with a weeping face and Beatrix with a troubled face.

As the light that reversed everything swept through the academy, it was said that all those who were under the influence of mind alteration collapsed on the spot.

Everyone except Quon, Sasha, Aruru, and the students from the Sex Department who had regained their memories before that.

Of course, those who were not affected from the beginning, such as Iona, Galatea, and Beatrix, were excluded.

The group returned to Lyla’s mansion with Cleon, who had collapsed while suddenly spurting blood.

According to Sophia, there are too many types of magical powers in her body, and it is the effect that they rebelled against each other.

Cleon remembers laughing and saying that his body will gradually get used to it over time, but until then it will be a little painful.

And Layla, who naturally wakes up after a while, and as soon as she wakes up, without even grooming herself, she jumps at Beatrix, who was taking care of Cleon.

She buried her face in her chest and cried out.

Her little bit her has calmed down over time, but she’s still sniffing at her, clinging to her.

“Lyla. I don’t understand how you brought up about her friend her, and she thought she was dead, but she’s actually glad she’s alive. Didn’t Sophia-san say that Cleon is absolutely stable ?”

Quon, who has prepared porridge for Cleon, brings in food and talks to Lyla.

“Ugh. Bbm…”

Cleon, who can’t speak properly because the bandage is wrapped around her mouth her, tries to say something but gives up. Sasha, who was next to her, quietly lowers Cleon’s bandage to her.

“…No, it’s okay. It can’t be helped that this guy is like this…”

“That’s right. You don’t want to be separated from me and seniors…”

“Even when I saw Bea alive, I forgot about her… She must have hated her as she said a lot of embarrassing things even to Cleon…”

Lila was attached to the two of them with an almost infantile attitude, as if her mentality was shattered.

“Because I’m not that narrow-minded… And, I guess you’d say that when you lost your memory, you were a bit reminiscent of the old days.”

“It’s the worst…! Why did I not have the will of a star or a god…!”

“Ah, but it’s okay because I’m there. Master? I was the first to go to Papa~”

Her Innis her comforted Laila, but Laila glared at Innis once, and then she buried her face again.

“Umm~ It’s a bit complicated for a student to be popular with so many girls.”

And Sophia, who entered the room as if it were natural.

Cleon is unable to turn her head on her, so he only turns her eyes to look in the direction she is.

“In the end, if you’re going to show up, why didn’t you help me from the beginning?”

“That’s not possible. In the past, it was impossible to directly touch what was happening inside the academy due to the contract with the council of elders. That’s why I relayed this and that through Iona. Since the situation has been sorted out, I came out because I was wondering if I could show up soon.”

“Ah. Yes…”

Cleon answers her words with a sigh.

“Hey, hey… Sophia-san is Cleon-san’s older sister?”

Sasha raised her hand and asked if she was concerned about the relationship between the two.

“Nope”

“Right”

And two people who give contradictory answers.

“As a member of the dark horse family, there is no way I could have an older sister like that. It’s just that I used to spend time with her when I was younger.”

“I can’t believe we’ve been together for a while! Lesia is busy, so she left you with me, and we took a bath and slept together! How much I cherished you!”

“I dragged you into the bath because you didn’t want to wash, and I must be the one who put you to sleep after trying to stay up all night… “

Perhaps the relationship between the two was roughly drawn in their eyes, and everyone except Sophia and Cleon thought to themselves, “Whew…” .` And sighed. With a bit of envy.

“Hahang… Is it okay to say that~? Cleon. You must not have forgotten!~”

“What… No, wait. No way-“

Seeing Sophia with a smirk, Cleon, who has an uneasy feeling of foreboding, tries to raise her body her to cover her mouth her, but-

Pududeuk…!

It sag with the sound of making a noise.

“Cleon, the fact that I was the one who took off your virginity label…!”

“…”

“Eh, sympathy!? Cleon’s first experience!?”

At that, he almost drops the tableware he was holding, but he manages to catch it and avoid a major accident.

Cleon was limp and unresponsive.

“Yeah~ When I was young, he said, ‘Cow, Sophia. I… This is…’~”

“No, I really envy you! How old was Cleon at the time!?”

Iona overreacts to Sofia’s words her.

“Galatea.”

“Now, now. The patient really needs to rest now, everyone, go outside for a while!”

When Cleon muttered a little, Galatea appeared and threw everyone except Sofia out of the room, exasperated with her.

In the room that was finally quiet, Sophia looks at Cleon and talks.

“You’ve become really popular! Cleon. Lesia will be proud if she sees it.”

“What did you come to talk about?”

At Cleon’s words, Sofia was silent for a moment.

“…Uncle Talchek’s death. Your activity as an adventurer was all while chasing the traces of ‘Lesia’.”

“Then you, too, are said to have been wandering in the rift of the dimension. I heard from Beatrix.”

“In the past. Not now. No matter how hard it is in the country, it’s a little difficult.”

Cleon frowned and felt the reverberation of another dimension’s magical energy in her body.

Not as much as Talcheck, but she too suffered from that erosion.

“Are you going to continue?”

“Of course. It’s small, but I got a clue. It’s a Memoria Cube, it’s what Talcheck left behind.”

“I gave it to him. He said that he was free to check the contents… I only saw a glimpse of what was inside. I only noticed Lesia’s appearance.”

At Sophia’s words, Cleon shut her mouth for a moment.

“…Have you given up?”

“To be honest… Yes. I don’t think she’ll come back even if I follow Lesia any longer. Even as a sage who maintains the balance of the world, there are more issues to focus on.”

“Guardians are busy. I’m an ordinary adventurer, so I’m glad I’m not chased by such a duty.”

At Cleon’s words, Sophia smiles.

“Ordinary… I mean. Having both a magic sword and a holy sword, and building so many relationships, can you really be called ordinary Cleon?

“…Is it a prophecy?”

“Sages don’t prophesy. They only predict. Use the stone gun to check the contents of the Memoria Cube. That’s the turning point.”

“…”

At Sophia’s words, Cleon was silent for a moment. In her thoughts her running through her head, he had to find out what to ask of her.

However, the conclusion did not change.

“Even if all of you give up on her. You have things you must protect.”

“…”

“But all of her mine her is from her her, from her her. So I have to find her.”

After saying that, Sophia put on a sad face for a moment and approached Cleon.

He strokes Cleon’s head, kissing her lightly on her bandaged forehead.

“Good boy. Lesia will definitely be proud of you. And at the same time, she will be endlessly worried. She might get angry.”

“…”

“But you’re an adult now. It might be rude to call you a child if you’re able to follow your will, Cleon.”

Sophia said so, and soon after, she disappeared slowly. It was transfer magic.

“I’ll wait for you in the future. Cleon. When that time comes again, tell me your will.”

“Be it the future or the past. Even if it’s a different world, my will won’t change, Sophia.”

Looking at the place where she was standing before her figure her disappeared, Cleon quietly closed his eyes.

002

A room in a mansion that is covered with darkness as the sun sets.

Cleon, who spent all day lying on the bed, eventually woke up and blinked his eyes her, waiting for him to go back to sleep.

Then the sound of the door opening.

Ah. This pattern. And Cleon quietly opened his eyes.

There, Layla and Beatrix were seen entering together.

“As you can see, I’m an immobile patient.”

“Lee, I came to ask Riomes about how to untangle the tangled magic. That’s his specialty.”

“I think she’ll give you one answer.”

Beatrix also nodded at Cleon’s answer to her.

“Gwa, it’s okay! Senpai! The two of us will do something for you! I borrowed a book called Basics of Chinese Medicine from Mr. Riomes and read it all!”

“If it’s Bea, once you read a book, you’ll remember all the contents. There shouldn’t be any problem.”

Saying so, the two drink the bottle of magic potion they brought.

Puha… The eyes of the two exhaled, shining in the darkness.

“…Cleon♡”

“…Senior♡”

Watery voices are heard from both sides, announcing the beginning of the night.