Chapter 93 – Contradiction

000

During the day, when she returned alone to her mansion her, where no one else was present, Sasha felt a little guilty and awkward for some reason.

Although Quon and Layla were not the kind of people who would sigh or nag at the sight of themselves.

It was obviously her own fault her for not bringing the things she needed to use in class.

Both of them are excellent students, and they feel a little relieved that they are not in the mansion, as they are the figures Sasha has modeled for her.

While going back to her room her and looking for her things her.

[Suddenly! Click!]

An unusual dagger that glowed and made a sound whenever she swung it, came from her own box her.

The box containing the case of the dagger is a place to store equipment that is not usually taken out, or valuable items.

In addition, it is an object of unusual taste with a function that plays sound when you press the button on the lower part of the handle.

But for some reason, when Sasha wields this dagger, she feels a strangely familiar sensation.

It was as if I had swung it many times before.

Yes obviously

Holding this dagger, it’s as if the time spent with someone important existed…

“Ah, keuugh…!?”

Her headache that visits her suddenly. She dropped the dagger she was holding, but the dagger made a heavy `jaw…` Sound like a piece of wood, but did not stick to the ground like a blade.

What Sasha went through to duel her own people and knock him out.

And to put into practice what she learned from that experience, she—

Sasha felt pain as she felt the sensation in her eyes slowly getting hotter-no, the expression of the hunter’s imprint.

Hunter’s mark.

It was both a blessing and a curse from the hunting god of her tribe.

In terms of the level of curse, it is a powerful poison that belongs to the highest level among all curses, including the material world and the non-material world.

And that deadly poison, as long as there was an opportunity, would be strongly activated and try to devour the ‘devil’s curse, which is not equal to the true god’ within itself.

The magical power of the imprint that heats up her whole body is messing with her head.

No, to be precise, it would be more accurate to say that I am trying to restore my disorganized mind to its original state.

It was such a powerful shock and pain that she unknowingly shed tears and twisted her body as she fell to the ground.

The breath rises on its own, and each person tries to exert more power to return the host.

Was it 1 minute or 10 minutes?

Sasha, when the eons of suffering were over, the hunter’s imprint was more deeply entrenched in her eyes.

The ears were a little longer than the ears, and the tail was a finer one.

But more than that-. Thoughts Sasha, she picks up the precious thing she dropped and returns it to her waist.

Recovering her rough breathing her, she wiped the water droplets from her eyes her with the back of her hand.

She had no time to cry.

The one who is really sad is not you, but ‘him’.

“Miss Cleon…!”

The vision of her burning her her her imprint her, her her he guides her to where she is.

Classes were no longer important, unless I went to Cleon as soon as possible.

She changed into the blue armor she wore as an adventurer instead of a student uniform.

It was to run out of her mansion.

001

“Is it the giant tomb in the basement of the academy?”

Iona and Cleon are sitting facing each other under a parasol at a table seat at a stall.

Cleon, after speaking with her Senate her, exits her monad’s coffin and joins her waiting outside.

We stopped by the store we always used to talk.

“And the cursed room…”

Iona listened to what Cleon was saying, nodding her head as if it were very interesting.

She is also a person with a scholarly temperament like Lyla, so I thought she would be like that, but seeing that she does not miss every single word of Cleon and organizes it in her own notebook, the impression follows that she is also a person from an intelligence agency. .

“It seems that the cursed room was originally sealed. I lost three of my comrades, so I must have made sure no one entered by mistake.”

“A curse that strikes intruders in the ruins where ancient artifacts are stored… It’s a cliché development, to say the least.”

Iona nods her head and she tells her a few things about the curse of the ancient ruins she knows.

The ancient ruins themselves are like huge traps, and if you open the door, the curse will immediately go out.

Or, if you take the magic tool that was inside the ruins and go back, misfortune will gradually come and lead you to ruin without knowing it.

“The ancients had bad personalities. Can we sum it up?”

“Ahaha… It must be a defense system to protect the tomb. In fact, from an academic point of view, excavation of the ruins is meaningful, but from the point of view of the owners of the ruins, it is the same as robbery.”

Especially when it comes to graves. Adds Iona.

“Black Engagement… I don’t know how Rail used to find that room and whether or not it’s enduring the curse, but we need to be prepared for the curse if we want to go there too.”

To Cleon’s words, Iona answered with her chin resting.

“Should I prepare something like the Anti-Magic Talisman?”

“…That’s right, should I prepare all possible means. Then I-“

“What? Iona?”

A voice cut in from the side, as if interrupting Cleon’s words to her.

At that voice, Cleon and Iona had no choice but to harden her face.

Iona slowly turned her head in the direction she came from when she heard her voice her, and the head of the academy’s magic department there.

It was to meet her eyes with Lyla Flame Watch.

“Ra, Lila.”

She stuttered her words slightly and looked at Iona, who answered, as if it were strange, but it was Lyla who showed a smile.

“It’s been a while. You’ve been to the academy. Is it because of work?”

“Ah, yes, it is.”

It was Iona who answered so as not to arouse unnecessary suspicion, but her bewilderment was evident.

Originally, this was the time when the students’ classes were still going on, so I was walking around the academy with a little peace of mind.

Because she thought that encountering her was unlikely even under conceivable circumstances.

“And… This one?”

Layla’s gaze turns to a tall, dark-haired, black-eyed woman sitting in front of Iona, sipping a drink to quench her burning thirst her.

If Lyla was even a little suspicious of Cleon, and she cast magic poetry, there was a good chance that she would notice the polymorph hanging on his body her.

Cleon feigns composure and puts down the cup to answer.

“Leona. She’s with her for her work with her, but she’s on an adventure.”

After her light introduction of herself, Lila nodded her head while replying with a ‘hmm’. Fortunately, she didn’t seem to have much interest in her.

That made me feel a little lonely, though.

“That, more than that, Lila. Why are you in a place like this? Classes are still going on, right?”

After listening to Iona’s words, Layla replies as if she suddenly came to her senses her.

“Right! Iona, you. Have you ever seen Sasha?”

“Miss Sasha, is it? No. It’s time for her to be taking her lessons her too…”

Lila shakes her head, then she gets a little darker and she replies.

“That’s because she went back to the mansion to pick up something she forgot during class, and she didn’t return to class. She came to see me earlier because she was worried about her classmates.”

Cleon’s eyes wide open at those words, and he almost gets up from his seat without realizing it.

“I sent Innis to the mansion, but she it doesn’t seem to be there either. I’m looking for it myself.”

“She’s about her age… So maybe she’s enjoying the little deviations…?”

In response to Iona’s reply, Layla said, “I hope so…` And continues her story of her.

“Should I say that recently, I have no choice but to be on edge in many ways because of the escaped Enforcement Division… Because of those guys, I can’t concentrate on my research either.”

“That, that’s worrying…”

In any case, deciding that it would be dangerous to talk about Layla here for a long time, Iona stood up from her seat first.

“Then we’ll look for Miss Sasha as well.”

“Really? I’d appreciate it if you did. That kid, why can’t I feel her magic response her at all?

Layla raised her hand to her forehead as if it were a bit of a headache for her, but it was Cleon who responded to her words.

“…A magical response?”

Since her hunter imprint was always active, she would leave her magic response behind whether she wanted it or not.

If she does n’t feel the reaction of her magical power her, then she either deactivated the imprint or-

‘The imprint has gone through a bit more erosion, and it’s working like a bodily function.’

Cleon bit his lower lip and stood up as well.

“Of course Leona will help too.”

Iona looked at Cleon and talked to Laila, and Laila bowed her head as if thanking the two of them.

“Thank you so much! If you find Sasha, come to the mansion. I’ll treat you to dinner as a reward.”

Lila wasn’t completely relieved yet, but she let out a sigh of relief at the help of the two of them, and said something like, ‘Because Quon’s cooking skills are more than a cooking class’.

Iona and Cleon slowly walk away from Lila.

When she was too far away to hear her, Iona opened her mouth first.

“Do you have any idea where Miss Sasha has gone?”

“No… But, as Lila said, it’s not a normal situation. Not the other guy, but Sasha, leaving class and disappearing…”

While saying that, Cleon recalls Sasha’s behavioral principle of her.

She had a bit of timidity to her, but it was the influence of her tribe that had driven and bound her for so many years.

By nature, she is more decisive than she thinks, and she often surprises her opponents with her bold actions of her.

And when she takes such drastic action, more than when she is doing it for herself.

Basically when you move for others.

“She and I are connected by the imprint of dominance, so we can figure out the location to some extent. This way.”

Saying that, Cleon stood in front of Iona and tried to get out of her city and head towards a place where he could feel Sasha’s reaction to her.

The location indicated by the inscription was not too far from here.

However-

A cool sensation felt behind the two of them.

[Demiurge factor detected. The target is recognized as the target magic swordsman. Initiate suppression according to protocol.]

Hearing the voice that resonated simultaneously with the heavy steel sound, Cleon instinctively turned to face the automata.

“Automata!? These guys react to my factor…!”

“Cleon!”

In order to protect her body her from the automata attacking him with question and answer dance, Cleon stretched out her hand and changed Iona into the form of a holy sword.

It was to block the blade on the arm of the automata and click her tongue on her.

In the battle that took place in the city in an instant, passers-by and students sent around them curious glances, and some screamed at the sword being swung.

[To subdue the magic swordsman, deploy the anti-magic area-]

“Do something useless…!”

Right before the guy’s voice ends, Cleon swings Iona and cuts down the center where the guy’s core is in an oblique line.

A single flash so powerful that it seemed that a flash of white light had passed by.

The body of steel is unable to resist and collapses, collapsing on the spot.

[You did it!]

“No, automata are operated in pairs of two, so be sure to come around here-“

The moment Cleon quickly tried to find the next aircraft.

When the feeling of heavy pressure on the entire air momentarily passes through your body.

The polymorph hanging on the body is released, revealing its original form.

“Shit…!”

Cleon’s gaze she moved not to the street, but to the top of the nearby building.

There, an automata that seemed to be paired with the one he had just defeated was standing there, spreading the mana that protected the entire body and creating a magic anti-magic field that neutralized the mana within.

[Cleon! Throw it!]

“Ah…!”

Cleon catches her and throws her full power at her automata her, as Iona suggested.

It would be difficult to throw a long sword rather than a dagger in this way and hit the enemy.

Iona is a holy sword. To some extent, it was possible to fly by matching one’s own trajectory to the opponent’s.

Iona flew at high speed like a ray of light, and pierced the automata as it was. She returns to her human form on the spot and lands on the building.

Her anti-magic area her has been lifted, and since she can use her magic her, she can safely descend to the building by strengthening her body her.

Cleon recalls momentarily.

Who have they been with so far?

Right after that, a fireball flew towards Cleon.

It has high lethality with intense heat and the characteristic of exploding when it collides with something.

It was the magic of ‘her’ pride that she had seen again and again.

Quickly roll your body to evade the fireball, raise your head and look straight ahead.

There stood Lyla Flame Watch, her hair burning red and looking at her in disbelief.

“Can you explain how this happened… Iona?”

And that gaze was directed not only to Cleon, but also to Iona.

“Kuh, listen, Lila! He’s-!”

“Why are you with the chief of the Enforcement Division who escaped… So I can understand!!”

With a hysterical shout, something like a chain rises from Lila’s back her.

A chain of illusions with the flame attribute removed from the ‘Blaze Chain’ previously used by Cleon. In other words, it is magic for suppression.

Cheerureuk-! Chains flying toward Cleon like living venomous snakes with a clatter.

Iona quickly jumps at Cleon and takes the form of a sword once again to protect Cleon.

As far as the distance goes, it was Lyla’s magic that reached first.

Cleon bites his lip and gets on his nerves to avoid the chain in time.

At that time.

“Meteor shower in the blue sky!”

Another voice interrupts, and arrows rain down from the sky, knocking off all the chains on Cleon.

The arrows were not physical objects, each arrow was made of magic.

Cleon knew someone who used this type of arrow.

Previously, a hunter from the same tribe as her who fell to Sasha after being hostile to her own her.

An arrow of magic used by Mikacia Lufenwolf.

But just that voice.

“Mr. Cleon!”

When Cleon turned to the voice calling him, there was Sasha holding a bow, looking at Cleon and calling Cleon’s name her.

“”Sasha!?””

Cleon and Lyla call her name her at the same time.

It was true that both of them were surprised, but Lyla was shocked and Cleon was delighted.

“Sasha! What are you doing! He’s with the Enforcement Department…!”

“No! Mr. Cleon is not our enemy! Mr. Cleon is the most precious person to Mr. Quon, Ms. Layla, and me!”

Layla is visibly taken aback by Sasha’s words her, and she involuntarily backs off slightly.

It was as if her soul and body her, rather than her mind her, were responding to Sasha’s words her.

Without missing the opportunity, Sasha once again fires an arrow of magic at Layla.

Cleon’s eyes widened at the act, but the magical arrows that flew off split into four at the same time, and lodged in the ground in front of, behind, and left and right of where Layla was standing.

“…A shower that binds feet.”

In the next moment, the arrows of magic connect with each other and turn into a barrier that binds Layla’s feet.

“Kuh… Sasha, you…”

She looks at Lila, whose expression is almost on the verge of crying, and Sasha replies with her sad face.

“I’m sorry, Layla. I’m sure Layla will know.”

Cleon also looks at Lila for a while, then jumps with Iona and climbs onto the building where Sasha is and runs away with her.

After a while, with the caster gone, the barrier binding Laila disappears.

She sat down on the ground and stared blankly in the direction Sasha had disappeared.

“Sasha…Why…”