Chapter 650 – Impact and Heroes

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“That Schrödinger… Like this?”

Quon, who seems to have calmed down a bit, opened her eyes wide after hearing Aisha’s explanation, Aisha nodded her head after explaining her situation.

“You may find it hard to believe, but the doll really turned into a human in front of me.”

She is the person she saw right in front of her, which is a bit hard to believe even for herself, but just by hearing the story-

“I see… It would have happened if the evolutionary leap was used.”

However, Cleon nodded at Aisha’s words and trusted her words.

“That’s right… I can’t believe it- Eek!?’

Watching Cleon accept her reality so easily contrary to her own expectations, when Aisha raises her voice in bewilderment, Cleon replies as if she is surprised why her expectations are gone.

“I’ve seen the scene where the evolutionary elixir is used before. Something physically impossible happened. Because creatures and machines have merged into one.”

“That’s right…”

What kind of life do you usually lead? Aisha feels the same way, but feels like she shouldn’t dig into it, so Aisha spares her words.

And, although she was having a normal conversation like this now, Aisha felt like she was sitting on a cushion of thorns.

‘I could never have imagined that the people who fought against the regressors Schrödinger spoke of were this person…’

Of course, Aisha had a history of trying to take her belongings from Cleon before, and she clearly remembered Cleon’s promise to her.

Of course, he reflected on himself many times that he had done wrong, but he wondered if Cleon had forgiven him.

But Schrödinger, thinking that he might be pursued by Darwin in the future, said on the way that he would do well to be with them.

She herself needed to explain to the others about what she had been through with Schrödinger, so she sat in front of Cleon and his companions.

By the way, when Kuon saw Schrödinger naked for the first time, she seems to have thought to Kuon, ‘Could Cleon have been flirting with girls again?’

The mindset of thinking that it was a big mistake, although Quon was slowly giving up.

Anyway, to bring a naked girl into a house where there are children like Emma (young because of the curse) and actually young Gonzalez.

Because her education was not good, she had been nagging Cleon all over the place.

How many more sermons would have followed if Aisha had not stopped her on her way.

By the way, while Cleon was being punished, Layla said “Oh, then I’ll bring you two” And left.

Everywhere she looked, she was running away from the enraged Quon, but thanks to her, she couldn’t help but resent that she had no one to explain to her.

By the way, the girl who collapsed- that’s why, the girl called Schrödinger is now lying on Cleon’s bed because there were no empty rooms.

No matter how angry Quon was, she couldn’t preach a sermon leaving a girl on the porch who everywhere seemed to have problems with her health.

“To be captured by Darwin must have been hard. Perhaps, if it were her, she might target you again. I have to think of something, a way.”

When Cleon looked back at Aisha while talking like that, Aisha looked a little taken aback by Cleon’s words, so she met Cleon’s eyes.

‘Couldn’t it be… I don’t remember?’

At that time, he had a kind voice and an impression that was completely different from the one who made an oath to himself and made an angry face to never bother people again. I almost mistook it.

But if you can’t remember, things might be fine as they are.

If he noticed that he was that nobleman at that time, he would surely say that he could not trust Aisha.

He was trying to rob… He was trying to beat someone up.

It must be a good situation…

‘…’

For some reason, Aisha felt a bit of a tingle in her heart.

It’s not angry, it’s a little… What can I say.

Her own life has changed greatly because of it. It must have been a change in a good direction.

If she hadn’t met him at that time and had lived her life the way it was, there might have been a moment of comfort, but in the end she would have lost control of herself.

If that happens – they will be captured by the government forces or subjugated by the knights.

Perhaps, at that point, Darwin might have come to pick him up, like this time.

Before Aisha fools around and the precious blood for the experiment disappears.

Then Ayesha could have followed Darwin without any suspicion, took the sleeping pills she handed her and fell asleep and never woke up again.

So, to Aisha, Cleon was no different than her lifesaver, Aisha thought on her own.

It was a bit sad for Aisha that a person who had such a big influence on her could not remember her.

However, it may be unavoidable.

For her, the meeting that would change her life might be nothing more than a routine for him—just one of his usual troubles.

──That’s right, she thought for a moment.

“So- Aisha, it was.”

“Ah, yes…”

When Cleon calls her own name, Aisha nods her head awkwardly.

“I’m glad you seem to be keeping the promise you made with me before. I’ll talk to you so you can stay in the empty lodgings at the shop. Bring the other two with me.”

“To…”

At Cleon’s words, Aisha widened her eyes in surprise.

She made no reply, and Cleon scratched her head as she looked at Aisha in surprise, covering her wide-open mouth with her hand.

“…Did you say something strange? Me.”

She must have, as far as she remembers, she had a colleague whom she preferred to call her two subordinates—or rather, her family.

She knew she was living with them, keeping her promise to herself.

She had met the two of them not too long ago.

“Did you remember…?”

Then, as if Aisha was completely unexpected, she asked Cleon a question.

“… Of course. The fact that they made an oath meant that they had to carry a huge burden on that person’s life after that. You can’t forget it.”

“…”

It was because Cleon thought that it was the responsibility of changing someone’s life.

As for Aisha, upon hearing Cleon’s words, ‘crying’ in a different direction than before welled up in her heart, so she stood up from her seat.

“Thank you… I will definitely repay you for this grace… Then, I’ll call the other two. Please…”

Watching her run out of her room in a bit of a hurry, without even listening to Cleon’s answer, Artis and Fleur, who had been observing the situation near her door at some point, followed her with their eyes.

“It’s gone… Well, it’ll work out somehow.”

When Cleon talks as if he doesn’t know the reason for Aisha’s reaction, Artis sneaks into the room and talks to Cleon.

“Cleon is a bad boy… Unwittingly flirting with a girl.”

“…Not even jokingly…”

If Cleon spoke like that, both Fleur and Kshat would say “Eh” In a surprised voice, but Cleon tried to ignore them.

“What? That being said, I can’t believe this is the Schrödinger that we loved so much that he changed into a cute girl like a cat? Rather, it feels like I lost my individuality.”

“Individuality… It’s because I had no choice but to use the elixir of evolution to survive.”

Normally, he would have warned him that it was a careless remark, but seeing Artis’ face, Cleon did not dare to continue with his next words.

“Well, I know that, but…”

Artis himself approached as if nothing was wrong and ran the back of his hand across Schrödinger’s cheek.

Then, the warmth felt there – ‘body temperature’ created by blood circulating throughout the body was transmitted to her hands as well.

“You really have become a human.”

An evolutionary leap that can transform even beings that were originally inanimate objects made of fluff into living beings called humans—

It was created by Darwin, a man from the same family as Attis – a renegade who is also called the family stain.

Looking at the efficacy of her near-miracle elixir, Attis seemed to be a bit confused.

After all, it’s true that she was in danger because of it, but thanks to it, she was able to survive.

Of course, aside from that part, it was an undeniable fact that Darwin was quite clumsy in many ways.

“Huh…”

It was then.

Perhaps thanks to Artis’ cold hand on her cheek, her voice came out of Schrödinger’s mouth, who had lost her mind.

“Schrödinger! Do you come to your senses?”

As Cleon speaks while holding her as she slowly opens her eyes, Schrödinger finally manages to open her eyes and recognizes her group.

“Haha… Sorry hyung… I was trying to be helpful to you…”

Roughly thinking she knew what she meant, Cleon shook her head and took her hand.

“Don’t worry. Thanks to her, she was able to save Aisha and ruin one of Darwin’s plans, right? …A hero, Schrödinger. You…”

“A hero… Is it? It’s not a bad sound…”

Having said that, when Schrödinger closed his eyes again and was about to fall asleep, Cleon turned to Quon who was sitting next to her and spoke.

“Quon, healing magic. …Something’s wrong with this guy. No matter how much he saved people, his mana hasn’t recovered at all.”

When she thought that she might have been hurt somewhere, Quondo nodded her head in reply.

“Uh, yeah… I’ve been doing it since before.”

Even before Cleon asked for it himself, he had been casting a weak healing spell on Schrödinger’s seemingly weak body.

However, if you think that Quon’s recovery spell that manifested like that flowed straight into Schrödinger’s body-

As it is, before it takes effect, it slips away and disappears.

“The healing magic… Doesn’t work?”

“Huh. It’s like a person with incredibly strong magic resistance in their body…”

Hearing Quon talk like that, Cleon himself borrows Quon’s magic with the power of his imprint and tries it himself, but just like her words, her mana is properly united and disappears as it passes through her body before the magic is formed.

“This is a replacement-“

“That’s right, it’s not like that.”

When Cleon was confused, she turned her head at the voice she heard from behind.

Then, standing there, Lyla, who had returned home with Amelia and Sasha, was standing there.

“The reason why Schrödinger became a human was also because of the leap in evolution. But what… He only became human, he didn’t become fully human. Her body is still in the state of a homunculus… In order to move alive, she needs magic power.”
Saying that, she strode into her room and took off a little bit of Schrödinger’s blanket from the bottom of her neck.

So, if you look a little above where her chest makes a trough, there is a black orb embedded in her body with no light.

“This…”

“It’s her magic core. If you break her here, she can stop her.”

And her blueprint- you could say. ‘, Layla puts her finger on top of the core.

Using her magic as a key, open her locked door and knock it back.

In front of Cleon and her party, something like an illusion created by magic appears.

The reaction of the party that seemed a little surprised by the sudden incident.

“As expected – thanks to being forcibly turned into a living being, everything I needed wasn’t prepared at all…”

Even in such a situation, Lila, who was watching her visions, muttered.

“Things that you need?”

“Okay. In other words- it’s an organ that creates magical power. If it’s an ordinary ‘human’, there won’t be any problems with or without it, but…”

She took on human form, but was a homunculus.

Her body naturally consumed her mana.

That was fine when she was in her true form—that is, a cat doll.

In other words – good value for money.

There was no such thing as an organ needed to produce magic on its own, but the magic needed to maintain Schrödinger’s body, which was all about flying around while talking, just had to be replenished in the natural world.

Schrödinger in a puppet state was able to cover the mana needed to maintain himself as if breathing just by existing.

But now she is different. She became a human, and in order to maintain the body she needed as a human, it was not enough to simply touch the surface with magical energy and absorb it bit by bit.

The engine is the same, but should I say it feels like I switched from a small car to a large car.

“With her spherical magic stone, it is impossible to attach an additional magical power organ. So, in order to prevent the depletion of mana, I have no choice but to use the passage through the mana connection and continue pouring the mana of others.”

After Layla’s explanation was over, the eyes of Cleon, Quon, and her companions crossed with her.

Listening to her and having that kind of relationship is like-

“It’s like the relationship between a familiar and a wizard.”

“Well, it’s supposed to be similar- some of the familiars will disappear when the owner’s magic power is gone.”

When Layla shrugged her shoulders and returned her gaze to Cleon, Cleon spoke to Layla knowingly.

“…I know how to open the passage. I’ll do it. That way, if Schrödinger can happen.”

“…What. I thought so. Then I’ll prepare it. I can’t even start right now.”

Anyone with some knowledge of magic would have a good idea of ​​what Cleon and Layla are trying to do here.

That’s why, while some blushed, there must have been others with carefree faces because they didn’t know anything.

Even if they didn’t know anything about magical powers, there were people who could roughly tell by the atmosphere.

After all, the thing about her is that she’s waiting for Lyla’s side to be ready.

Leaving her unconscious once more behind her, Cleon and her party left her room.

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Smart. Then there was a knock on the door of Cleon’s room.

“Is it Lila?”

“Huh.”

Then, as she opened the door and came in, she waved at Cleon the vial she was holding in her hand.

After all, after that, even during dinner, the atmosphere was not so bright.

Originally, he wanted to invite Bourbon to a meal and tell him about Herti, but it seemed that Bourbon was preoccupied with working with Dazawa.

Then, shouldn’t Sasha and Amelia still be at the forge? I think so.

Now, it seemed that the golem Layla had created was guarding the smithy in order to protect it in place of the two of them.

It’s a metal golem that jumps over steel and is clad in flames, so even if it’s that bald, brawny guy, it’ll give others time to get there.

“It’s a drug that temporarily increases the mana conduction rate. It will help open the magic passage between her and Cleon by lowering Schrödinger’s body’s magic resistance.”

When she told her to share the drink in half, Cleon nodded her head and drank half of the pill he had taken.

When the bitter taste passes through your tongue and goes down your throat, lower your head for a moment.

After pouring the other half into her own mouth, she lowered her head as it was without passing it down her throat, and brought her mouth to Schrödinger’s mouth.

When Cleon’s mouth touched the gap of Schrödinger’s slightly open mouth, the liquid she had been holding in was blown out along with air, and she swallowed her medicine.

“Now… Then, you know what to do next. Well, I believe that Cleon will do well. To the point of asking me to be careful not to do too well.”

To her words, which had some thorns somewhere, Cleon nodded her head without giving any answer.

“Haa… I never thought I would do this to Schrödinger.”

When Cleon said that while letting out a sigh, Layla blinked her eyes, then said ‘Hot’ and burst into laughter.

“Still, there is such a thing as fidelity, right?”

“Of course…”

“I thought it was a word that wasn’t in Cleon’s dictionary.”

Cleon looked at Layla talking like that without saying a word.

“Huh.”

But then, with her arms outstretched and looking at Lila, who seemed to be asking for something from her, Cleon approached her and gave her a hug.

“Because it doesn’t matter.”

“…Huh.”

When Cleon forges a new relationship with someone, against his will—or voluntarily.

Members like Layla, Quon, and Sasha didn’t say anything about the physical relationship.

Because there are definitely people who are saved by such actions.

Just like they did

“Properly… You have to do more for us later.”

“Okay.”

Lyla’s weak figure, talking with her face buried in Cleon’s belly, was so much that she did not know how long it would take to see it after coming to Asteris.

After stroking her back a little, Lila falls from Cleon with a pat.

“I will go to my room. Tell me when you’re done I’m going to check Schrödinger’s condition.”

Thinking that she was entrusting her with a bit of a difficult task, Cleon nodded her head, saw her leave, and let out a sigh.

“…I’m sorry bro.”

Then, at the sound of Schrödinger’s voice, heard in her room, which had been engulfed in silence for a moment, Cleon looked at her.

She is still lying on her bed, only slightly opening her eyes and looking this way.

“I’m also now… I’m awake… I’ve gone out… So I can’t talk for a long time. In the end, I only cause trouble for my older brother…”

“It is not so. Schrödinger.”

Cleon approached Schrödinger and grabbed her slender hand.

It seemed as if the atmosphere was about to hear the last story of a patient lying in a hospital room, but Schrödinger was talking to Cleon while helping himself with his situation.

“…Me—as expected, with my own hands. I want to make a decision with the regressors. So- I don’t want to stop yet.”

To Schrödinger who said so, Cleon nodded her head.

“Because I won’t stop- hyung too…”

After that, her consciousness, which had been briefly restored, disappeared, and Schrödinger’s voice cut off with the face of a sleeping girl.

Cleon seemed to know what she was trying to say.

That’s why – she thought she wanted to make her wish come true.

—It looked like it would be a long night.

Both to herself and to her.