Chapter 113 – 113. First Dog Slaughter

“It’s the sea! Ocean!”
“You’re back, Master.”

Yohan, who was resting in his hotel room, suddenly opened the door and looked at his teacher who came in and answered dryly.

I was concentrating on reading, so I couldn’t hear what my teacher was saying. John, who thought it was a nonsensical story anyway, didn’t even listen.

Perhaps she didn’t like John’s attitude, Evangeline suddenly put her face in front of John’s.

“It is the sea. John.”
“…… Master, I can’t see the book.”
“The book is not important – it is the sea!”

Sea, sea, sea.
It wasn’t a word to say in the middle of winter in December when it snowed.
It is often said that the winter sea is also tasteful, but there is no need to be so excited just to see it.

“The sea…… If you want to see it, you can bring it with Margaret.”
“Ugh—that’s not it! Let’s go swimming! John!”
“…… Is it this weather?”

John said and looked out of his window. At just the right time, the wind of winter struck the spear with a rattle.

When Yohan got up from his seat and opened the window, a bitter winter wind instantly covered the room.

Lying on the bed and wrapped in a blanket, Beatrice felt the cold and even let out a moan.

“I’m freezing to death, Master.”
“It’s okay! I found a place where I can swim even in winter like this!”
“Looking for…… Where have you been?”

Less than an hour had passed since my teacher left the room. It was incomprehensible to common sense that in such a short period of time, he had visited a beach where he could swim in the middle of winter.

When she was tilting her head, thinking it was strange, Evangeline smiled shyly and turned her head away.

“Um… There is such a place! Anyway, are you going? Gotta go, go!”
“…… No, if you like it that much. I’m not going to object.”

Seeing her already excited Evangeline, John tilted her head and asked.

“So, where is it?”
“Uh…”

Evangeline scratched her cheek and said.

“…… I don’t know either.”
“…… Yes?”

* * *

“Ah, yes. Okay. I will.”

Evangeline immediately called somewhere and found out the location of the beach. Hearing the voice over the phone, Yohan knew that it was the emperor’s voice.

‘Could this person…… In the meantime, did he visit the emperor?’

Hey, since she was away reading a letter from the emperor, it was very easy to guess that she had been to the emperor.

The problem was that I didn’t know what the hack he was doing…….

“Ruler! Yohan, I should have known the location. Let’s go!”
“No, can I just go? Didn’t you prepare a swimsuit or something like that?”
“They say you can borrow everything there!”

I don’t know where I heard it, but Master desperately wanted to lead her into the sea. It is the disciple’s duty to silently follow the master’s heart.

John quietly followed her. Then he glanced at his companions.

“So, who’s going with me?”

The witches seemed to know how crazy it was to go into the sea in the middle of winter. Thanks to that, no one bothered to go to the sea.

Beatrice and Rinne said they’d rather hang out at the hotel, while Regina and Rinna said they had other things to do and that they wouldn’t be able to go.

The same was true of Margaret, who was free to come and go between the sea and the hotel at any time, but she seemed to think there was no need to waste time on the train.

“Take this and go. I will go when I think of it.”
“Ah, yes.”

After giving John a small amulet, he left to enjoy his leisure time.

While most witches rejected the winter sea, Evangeline seemed already happy to be able to enjoy a sea date with John alone.

“I want to go too.”
“…… Yes?”
“I’m going too.”

He would have done so had Hecaterina not ruined the date. Watching her suddenly intervene, Evangeline looked at her as if she was serious.

Hecaterina shrugged her shoulders as if there was a problem and replied, and Evangeline responded in a trembling voice as if she was surprised by her attitude.

“No, why are you…….”
“I have never been to the sea.”
“For just that reason? The sea in winter?”
“It is my heart. Wherever you go.”

In the end, realizing that she was inseparable, Evangeline lowered her head with a grim expression.

However, not being able to remain depressed forever, she headed for the train platform with Johann and Hecaterina.

“…… Master, this.”
“Yes, this is the train we are on.”

Saying that, she pointed to the train waiting at the platform. Considering the times, it is an ultra-luxurious train that even the wealthy cannot easily ride.

To be precise, it was a military train.

“Are we riding this?”
“Yes!”

I’m unfiltered
John thought so and got on the train.

* * *

As befits a train for soldiers, the passengers were all male.

There was a bar and a kiosk in the train, and the salesperson in this kiosk was a woman.

The passengers are all men, but the flight attendants are all women. Yohan burst out laughing at the sight of the train’s design intent.

Perhaps after this train arrives at its destination, you will be able to see some of the crew members and military barbarians in bikinis. Because in an open space, you become psychologically open.

“John, would you like a snack?”
“No, it’s fine.”
“Okay? So what about drinks?”
“That too.”

Yohan stomped his legs as if excited and dealt with Evangeline, who was humming, then turned his head slightly to look at the woman sitting next to him.

A blue-haired woman with no bare skin exposed from her fingertips to her toes.

Judging from the epaulettes on the clothes she was wearing, she was a soldier, but Johan didn’t believe that such a beauty could be so highly rated in this era.

‘It’s a witch.’

A train going to a resort for soldiers of the empire, and a beautiful soldier on board. Through that fact, Yohan remembered the guardian witch who protects the empire that he had heard from the emperor before, and realized that she was that guardian witch.

Fortunately, she was not interested in this side, but she was only looking at the book carefully.

“John? Where are you looking?”
“…… No, just. I was amazed to see witches.”
“Is there a witch?”

Evangeline, who was spying on John’s face, realized that a witch was riding next to her.

After confirming the witch, Evangeline frowned slightly and drew the curtains covering the window.

“Don’t look elsewhere.”
“Yes.”
“Whoops, what should we do first?”

Just as I was banging my head against Evangeline’s head, who had already arrived at the beach, Hecaterina, who had gone to get a drink belatedly, opened the room door and came in.

“…… What are you guys doing?”
“Ah, Lina! I only have one.”
“What? Hey, that’s what I’m going to drink……!”
“Hey, how are you?”

As soon as they arrived, Evangeline took away her drink her and Hecaterina frowned slightly, but Evangeline didn’t care and sat down.

Seeing this, Hecaterina, frowning in absurdity, muttered as she sat down.

“Look at how long I will be taken away.”
“I’m not afraid of people who ask to see you later.”
“Huh huh?”

Hecaterina sneered and looked at John as it was. When he was tilting his head at the woman who was looking at him, her purple eyes began to scan him.

John turned her head away, feeling uneasy in those eyes.
The train runs Heading for a resort you don’t know when you’ll arrive.

* * *

The moment he arrived at the resort, Yohan felt his breath stop. The clothes I had worn in the middle of winter in the empire were stuffy to the point of suffocating here.

Taking off his coat and heading to the hotel, Yohan threw his clothes into his room his and changed into short sleeves he had brought just in case.

Evangeline and Hecaterina also changed into thin clothes suitable for summer, as if they could not stand the heat.

“Well then—! Rina and I will borrow swimsuits, so Yohan, you go ahead and get a seat!”

“Yes? Yes. All right.”

Like the wind, Evangeline quickly disappeared with Hecaterina. Yohan, looking at the back, rented a swimsuit, a parasol, and a bench from a nearby rental store and headed to the beach.

On the beach side, numerous soldiers were already enjoying their recreation wearing only swimsuits.

John, who came as a civilian to a military resort, didn’t want to mess with the soldiers, so he walked to a deserted beach.

Before long, I realized that one side of the beach was empty. Yohan moved to that place and immediately started installing benches and parasols.

“It’s better not to come here.”
“Yes? Ah……”

When I turned my head at the sudden voice, the blue-haired witch I had seen earlier on the train was talking to me.

Hearing the strange sound, Yohan tilted his head and asked again.

“It’s better not to come here, what is that…….”
“Because ‘me’ is here. The private beach for nobles is over there.”
“…… Is it a curse?”
“I know. Yes. It’s a curse.”

She said and raised her hand. Despite being on the beach where everyone was openly exposed, she was tightly wrapped around her body.

Just like the white gloves that cover all of the arms, even the white stockings that seem to never show bare skin.

“The curse of freezing everything it touches…… Fortunately, with the help of the empire, I can go about my daily life, but be careful in case you touch it—what, what are you doing!?”

“Ah, it’s okay to touch me. This, I was curious about what the inside was like.”

Adelheit first jerked at John who was pulling on his gloves, then covered himself and walked away.

“Everyone, don’t come closer. If you come into contact with me, you will freeze…….”
“That’s because it’s okay.”

John said and touched her face. According to experience, John’s hands should have been frozen solid, but surprisingly, John’s hands his were fine.

Waving his nonchalant hand to and fro in front of her face, Yohan made a show of it.

“…… No, what is this?”

Adelheit looked at Johan in surprise at this phenomenon she had never seen before.

…… The warmth left by his touch her lingered around her cheeks and began to burn.