Chapter 185 – #40_Anomaly

#183

One.
As an apprentice witch, Raffy, who inherited her vessel from Duke Tippereth, and was about to inherit her stigma.

Raffy was a child who deserved to be loved.
Regardless of age or gender, everyone loved Raffy.
Birds, livestock, and even wild animals were willing to gather next to her, and when they walked in the fields together, wild dogs and birds flocked to her, to the point of showing off her charms.

As such, Raffy was always bright and cheerful, and she was a lovely child who gave everyone a happy smile.
With her charming personality, Raffy often carves a smile on Elroa’s blunt lips.
One day she said

“Master! I want to go to that world!”

Considering Raffy, who was curious like an apprentice witch and had excellent acting skills, it was a request that she expected to do one day.
At such a question, Elroa asks with her wry smile.

“What kind of wind suddenly blew again?”
“I just thought that an apprentice witch who would inherit the name of the great Duke of Tiphareth should know a wider world in order to broaden her knowledge!”
“Anyway, as far as words are concerned, liquidation is an easy process.”

Raffy responds bravely, and Eloah smiles broadly at her appearance.
The age difference between the two didn’t seem too great, so it would look like a pleasant chat between sisters to someone who doesn’t know anything about it.

“The present world is dangerous. There are a lot of vicious guys, especially targeting apprentice witches like Raffy.”
“At that level, I am confident! I can skillfully handle the magic Master gave me!”

True to her rants, Raffy was an excellent apprentice witch.
She received a vessel from Elroa that was only one stroke of hers, but she had the fighting power to be able to pull off her body even when compared to quite a few witches.

The ‘Contract of the King of All Byeongji (萬兵之王)’ that allows you to realize and execute the optimal number for any weapon.
Her innate sense of battle made her contract in her vessel her own, so to speak.
I can assure you that few witches can compare with Raffy when discussing pure martial arts.
Of course, it was a meaningless argument because magic was not missing in the battle of the witches.

“I’m Master… Yes? Please!”

When Elroa seems to be immersed in her troubles, Raffy catches her timing and showers her with her charms.
Jumping up and down, he approaches her and kisses her on the cheek, and swings her hand around her while clasping her around to tease her.

Stop.

Elloa’s mournful chant as she watched the spectacle never became her voice.
It becomes bubbling noise, becomes foam, and just scatters helplessly.

She has to stop
Should not be allowed
Eloah truly thinks so.

However, no matter how much you scream, plead, plead, the dream doesn’t change like a movie with a script.
This is because this dream is a memory of the past with an already decided ending.

“Hmm, I have something to do in this world, so would you like to accompany me?”
“Really? Yeah? Really?”
“Sure. When did I ever say nonsense to you?”

In this way, Elroa had no choice but to repeat the choice hundreds and thousands of times that her tragedy was predestined.

“Waaaaa!!!”

Seeing Raffy’s delighted expression, which he can no longer see, Elloa also smiled happily.
No matter how dangerous the current world is, Raffy can buy time and deal with it.
If she herself is by her side, no exploits will aim at her.
It was a decision I made because I thought it was.

“Instead.”
“Yes! I will listen carefully, Master!”
“Before you go, don’t neglect your magic training in excitement. Can you promise me?”
“Sure! I’ll do twice as much as I normally do!”
“You’re saying you’re going to do it without sleeping.”
“Ehehehe, that’s what it says. Words.”

Raffy’s appearance, which jumped up and down with joy, distorted.
Just like a torn and damaged film being played through a video camera.
Raffy’s wide-smiling figure, and Eloa’s, who looked at Raffy lovingly, were also distorted.

The crushed and scattered happy past became the smell of iron that pierced her nose and seemed to cut even her vision red.
Eloa looked down.

Below that is Raffy.
She lightened up a bit.
Chilled a lot
No longer moving.
There is Raffi.

Holding the body of Raffy, whose womb was removed while covered in her blood,
Losing the most precious thing in a moment of carelessness,
There is Eloah, who is foolish, arrogant, insolent, and arrogant.

Foolish Tiphareth Eloa.
Did you only think it would last forever because you thought it was precious?
Did you really not expect that your arrogance and carelessness would lead to such a tragedy?
Her own voice, like her giggles, rings in her ears like her tinnitus.

The cold rain hit my skin and the flowing blood made a red pond on the cement.
A scream resembling the howl of an animal echoed through the abandoned factory.

Witch of Aquarius, Ea Sadalmelik.
I swear by my name
I will kill you

I will tear you into a thousand and ten thousand pieces so that you can neither die nor live, and plunge me into pain and despair.
Yes, when you get tired of her loud screams, let her wicked body burn.
When your limbs are burning, writhing in pain and begging for her life, I will pour oil on them and laugh for the first time.

Remember me
I won’t forget you either

With screams and roars that pierced her ears, Duke Tipferret opened her eyes.
The cold sweat drenched his entire body as if he had been pressed by scissors, and his rapid breathing.

Eloah stuttered and reached her hand to grab her bottle.
It wasn’t until she gulped down her lukewarm liquor that she was able to let out the breath that was hanging in her throat as if she had pretended to.

Haha….”

Elroa’s magic usually places an enormous strain on her body.
If you condense the power enough to cut mountains and seas into your small body, even your spiritual body needs rest and recovery.
Therefore, Eloa’s body always required about 4 hours of sleep even though it was a spiritual body.

And it was like a curse.
Every time I fall asleep, a nasty nightmare comes along with the smell of blood that even a shower can’t wash away.
It is what she has done every single day for 100 years to face and confirm her own mistakes.

“……..”

Eloah calmed her messy head and got off her bed and put on her slippers.
One window in the dim room is full of the night view.
It was a hotel room that Mr. Sua gladly provided to Eloah, who did not have enough money.
It is a splendid scenery that will catch your eye for a moment.
Elroa didn’t even look out of the corner of her eye and headed straight to her bathroom.

As she threw off the thin nightgown that clung to her body, her eyes suddenly met the mirror.
Her frightened, bloodshot eyes, magenta pupils wandering in the middle.
Peach-colored hair that was as messy as her hair.

“Under…”

Laughter comes out for some reason at the appearance that looks so empty.
An empty laugh, not knowing who to turn to or why it came out, echoes dryly inside the bathroom.

If only Ea Sadalmelik could have been torn to pieces with these hands.
Is this damn curse that comes every night over?
Vain questions, now unanswerable, wandered about in vain as well, and disappeared.

Eloa washed away the sticky sweat with cold water.
I suddenly think about it in the stream of water that runs through my body like cold rain.

Literature books that try to preach the futility of this world and revenge are overflowing.
Elroa snorted at her every time he saw her work to send a message of her futility and frustration after completing her revenge.

Who doesn’t know such an obvious thing?
It’s an idea that any idiot can come up with with just a little bit of imagination.

Since the target of revenge is dead, it will be futile.
But now is the time to stop.
Rather than being hung up on the obscenity of the past, I should at least try to make sure that others do not suffer the same pain for the sake of the world.
She whispers herself

Elroa coldly shook her head.
However, revenge is not an emotion that can be rationally judged.

Revenge is like fire.
It is a race toward destruction that is achieved after burning not only enemies but also one’s own body.

Then, the target to burn together disappeared.
What should she do with herself who has been left alone with incomplete combustion?
Elloa sits down slowly and obsessively mumbles at the creepiness that comes unnecessarily.

“She’ll be alive,” She said. “She couldn’t have died so easily. It must have gotten out of there in a way I couldn’t figure out, perhaps using an artifact or something.”

Otherwise it is difficult
I hope you do.
She wanted to burn together in hellish pain rather than live helplessly in the empty void.

She longed for it

2.
“Master! I have a favor!”
“Master! We have a request!”

Albireo, who was watching his official duties, blinked at the sudden commotion.
Saying that he will meet his assistant, and that he will inherit the stigma sooner or later.
Odile and Odette, who were more zealous than ever in studying magic, suddenly opened the door and appeared.
She even opened her eyes as if she had made a big promise.

“What is that rudely? Go out and come back in Also knock.”

However, the twins, who had entered with great spirit, quietly closed the door and left when Albireo’s point was heard.

-Smart

“Master, is it okay if I go in?”
“Sure.”

After knocking, I get permission and open the door again and enter.
It was a repetition of earlier.

“”Master! I have a favor!”

Albireo inadvertently hid a smile when he saw the twins trying to say what they wanted to say while acting like an obedient puppy.
She scratched her forehead with the tip of the quill and briefly returned her pen to the inkwell.

“Yes, our spoiled twins. What happened to you today and why did you come here? Kicking all the way to the door.”
“I didn’t kick the door, Master…”
“Right! I just opened it with a little force.”

Odile and Odette became one after a long time and worked hard to appeal that they were not rude.

“Okay, be careful in the future. So what is a request?”

Albireo’s appearance is quite cute, and since he has been healed after a long time, he decides to listen to any request and asks.
However, unlike the initial momentum, the twins only hesitated and no one opened their mouth.
Odile pokes Odette’s side, who was standing side by side.
It must have been Odile who won the rock-paper-scissors game.

“S, Master… Do you know what day tomorrow is?”
“Of course you know, isn’t it our cutie’s birthday? I commissioned Kifusi Bakery to prepare a nice cake for you.”

Normally, the twins would scream with excitement just hearing the sound of the special cake made at Kifusi, but somehow their reaction was calm.
Albireo sensed it.
About what the twins came to ask for at night.

“Yes! Right! Uh, by the way… I have a present I want to receive on my birthday…”
“So? Let’s hear it.”
“Hey…That’s…”

When Odette hesitated too much, Odile, who could not bear her frustration, boldly stepped forward.

“Master! As a present for our birthday, we want to go play in this world!”

The request the twins had prepared was as expected by Albireo.
Perhaps, coming at this time was an arrangement to negotiate alone with the relatively lax Albireo, rather than the stricter Deneb.
After midnight, Deneb locks himself in the lab to do magic research.
Before negotiating, ask for a favor and attack the weak side… There were traces of quite a head roll.

Albireo calmly crossed his arms and asked.

“Do you want to go to this world? Or do you want to meet Assistant Shin Si-woo?”
“…Assistant.”
“I’m sorry for asking. Neither way.”

It was, of course, a firm answer.
The present world is dangerous.
When witches are bored, they are attacked by public enemies and homunculus and die one after another, needless to say about the twins who are only apprentice witches.
Didn’t even the Duke of Tiphareth lose his apprentice through a moment’s carelessness?

“Please… Master… We will never do anything strange! It’s okay if Master watches from the side!”
“Right! Not seeing my assistant for five years is too harsh… It’s so hard even though it’s only been 141 days.”
“A friend! Friend!”

Of course, the twins didn’t think that the permission would be easily granted, so they repeatedly asked for Albireo’s firm words.
It seemed that he had been preparing hard in his own way in advance, and words and words poured out to persuade Albireo.

Rather than leaving my thoughts as they are, it would be better to see her face and clear it up.
Rather, seeing your assistant’s face once can motivate you.
The present world has always been curious, and new knowledge will ignite the passion for learning.
I will accompany you not on your birthday, but when Master visits Korea.
How lonely must Josu-nim be alone in this world?

Etc.
He denounced nearly 50 reasons why we should meet the assistant.

“Please, Master… We really listened to you recently.”
“Right! If you listen to this request, I will work twice as hard as now!”
“Hmm…”

Albireo touched his slim chin.

“Go back at once. I’ll have to think about it some more.”
“Really?”
“Yes, it is not a matter for me to decide alone. I think we should discuss it with Deneb.”

Odette and Odile open their eyes wide as if they didn’t know if they would even reconsider while asking.

“It’s getting late, go back to bed. I’ll let you know the results before my birthday is over.”
“Yes! Thank you!”
“Thank you very much, Master!”

Odile and Odette were colored with satisfactory results.
I greeted politely like a job applicant after an interview and left the office.

“Hmm…”

In fact, allowing her twin to briefly go to the present world was a problem that she also struggled with.
Although it doesn’t show off, it can be seen that her twins are suddenly depressed, and more than anything, she feels a little guilty about forcibly leaving Siu, the benefactor of the county of Myrnai, in a lonely world.
It’s just that it’s too dangerous, so I can’t just nod my head gently.

“What, would it be okay if I watched from the side?”

If you have a twin personality, you might risk running away without saying anything.
In that case, I don’t think it would be a bad idea to give them some time off under supervision…
Albireo’s worries deepened.