Chapter 55 – 55. Rift

“This is the end of training.”
Hehe, hehe-! Sue, thank you for your hard work… !”
“Thank you for your effort….”

After training, the trainees begin to tremble like fawns that have just been born. I looked at that kind of look, and added a story to take care of nutrients.

“Even if it’s hard, make sure to eat today’s meal. Especially, protein-so meat, eat stuffed.”
“Ah, I see…….”
“Enough then.”

I left the training ground and headed to the place where I had promised to meet Margaret. To the inn near the central square. It was the time when the sun was going down, so I could see people walking around busily.

If I was watching people through the small window in the inn room, I could pass the time in a daze, unaware of the passing of time.

Suddenly, I looked at my watch and realized that the appointment time had passed.

‘…… Why aren’t you coming?’

Although a watch is an expensive item, it is not a rare item for witches. Most witches who have lived a long time have a lot of money.

Master and Margaret, who had lived for hundreds of years, also had considerable wealth accumulated without thinking.

In the beginning, there were several large clocks in Master’s house. A level that can’t be forgotten even if you want to forget time.

‘What happened, what happened…… ?’

If Margaret doesn’t come, something has happened to her. And the chances of anything happening to her when she’s chilling out in her cabin aren’t very high.

Only one thing. The fact that he and her had sex is found out by the master, and the only thing is that a fight breaks out because of that fact…… They had devised all kinds of tricks to avoid getting caught, and there was no chance that Margaret would get caught unless she dared to say it out of her mouth.

A fight would break out the moment she said it out of her mouth, but I couldn’t imagine that Margaret would dare to say it out of her mouth.

‘It’ll be fine, what.’

I thought so and waited for Margaret to come. She just waited impatiently.

It was a night unique to medieval fantasy, with the sun completely hidden and only the lanterns twinkling faintly in the low darkness.

Margaret did not come.

* * *

“Today’s training ends here.”
Hehe!”

Watching the trainees collapse from exhaustion, I quickly headed to Elesis’ office. When I knocked on the door and went inside, Elesis frowned slightly when she saw me entering without permission, but now was not the time to worry about that.

“Elesis, I think I need to take a vacation for a while.”
“Vacation? It’s only two days old?”
“Yes. It seems like a big deal. I can’t get in touch with Master. I think something happened.”
“…… That’s a big deal. Do you need a carriage?”
“No, you can just run. I just came to ask you to skip class tomorrow.”

When Elesis heard me say that she would run to the hut, which is two days away even if she ran by carriage, she looked at me as if it was ridiculous, but originally, humans are good at long-distance running.

In addition, I could strengthen my body with magic power, and I was able to run all day long at the speed that ordinary people sprint. It will be a bit tiring and hard though.

“Okay, let me teach tomorrow’s class instead. Be careful.”
“Thank you.”

Putting down my instructor post for a while, I immediately ran outside the village, looking in the direction of Master’s cabin. I just ignorantly ran away.

Master or Margaret, one of them thought that something must have happened.

* * *

Ruined hut. Beatrice opened her eyes, realized that she was left alone, and hugged the dolls and began to sob.

Apparently not long ago, John, Evangeline, and Margaret were here. The adults who take care of her, who is young and unable to communicate.

But now? No one is here. As if saying that the things he went through were dreams, not even a trace remains.

“John, yohaaan… Where did you go…….”

In the meantime, the surrounding atmosphere would thump at regular intervals. Every time intense magic power erupted from beyond this dimension, Beatrice trembled in fear.

After trembling in fear, being so lonely, frustrated at being abandoned again, and even resentment for everything in the world welled up.

She looked at the dolls in her arms. Even if I speak, no answer comes back. Even the doll didn’t talk to her anymore.

It’s not too hard to guess why. First of all, dolls can’t talk. In her loneliness, she unconsciously practiced ventriloquism.

In the past few days, when she met Yohan with whom she could communicate and relieved her longing, she must have forgotten how to do ventriloquism.

So perfect that I can’t even remember when I needed it like this.

“No, no, no… John, Johaan… Evangeline… Margaret….”

Cries out But nobody answers.
At this moment, she was alone again.
This time, even my doll abandoned herself.

Completely isolated from this world, only she was alone.

“Whoa-whoo!”

Nausea comes on suddenly, and my head starts to feel dizzy. Beatrice took a deep breath and tried to hold back her nausea.

It wasn’t easy. In the end, she vomited on the floor, and vomited again at the smell of vomit she exhaled – and vomited again at the dirty floor.

He vomited it out until there was nothing left in it, and even that was not enough, so he squeezed out tears and runny nose.

I lay down on the bed, hugged the doll, and just continued to cry.

“…… Beatrice?”

And when she even heard hallucinations, she realized that she had really gone mad. However, it was a voice that was so sweet that it was good to go crazy, and it was the voice he wanted.

Yohan’s voice, the voice he had been looking for all day, was as vivid as if he was right next to him…….

“Beatrice, are you okay?”
“…… Uh huh?”

She raised her head slightly. John was really in front of me. Beyond hallucinations, to think of them as hallucinations, the sight of them wet and sweaty was too real.

It wasn’t even a hallucination when I smelled the mixture of my own vomit and the smell of his sweat that pierced my senses. It was real.

Beatrice shed tears and embraced John in his arms.

“Ahhhhh—! Why, why did you abandon me! Even though I said I wouldn’t throw it away-!”
“Abandon me, when? You came here to look for me.”
“Huh, it’s cold—it’s cold to fall, it’s cold to get away—. Stay by my side all the time, you idiot!”

While caressing the whining Beatrice with dripping tears, Johann searched for the invisible Evangeline and Margaret around him.

“What about Master?”
“…… Whip, I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
“When I woke up, it was suddenly gone. I don’t know where you went…….”

Hearing Beatrice’s words, John was convinced that something must have happened to the two of them. Johann, who went straight out of the cabin, took a deep breath and shouted vigorously.

“Pen-! Lee-! Le-!”

Soon after, a wolf the size of a house appeared from beyond the forest. Although John was not my master, it was because he was my master’s most cherished disciple.

Fenrir, who appeared, looked down at John with an annoyed expression and asked what was going on.

[What happened all of a sudden? On a night like this…….]
“Master is gone. Since yesterday morning.”
[—Since yesterday morning? No way. She’s still around here.]
“Is it around here?”
[Okay. Aren’t you in the cabin? The pass is connected there.]

Hearing Fenrir’s words, Johann went all over the cabin. However, there was no sign of Master anywhere in the cabin.

Hearing that, Fenrir looked at John with a slightly serious expression.

[… ] … Can you take responsibility for what I’m going to do from now on?]
“What are you going to do?”
[I’m thinking of finding the part where I can feel the pass and destroying the cabin. It’s because I can’t look into that small house with this size.]
“I will take responsibility. Find me quickly.”

Hearing Johann’s words, Fenrir grinned and swung his paw toward the hut. The powerful barrier placed in advance by Master stopped Fenrir’s paws, but Fenrir succeeded in crushing the barrier and destroying the cabin with his powerful force.

After removing the cabin, Fenrir pointed to the living room and opened his mouth.

[Here, I can feel the pass here – is there anything else?]
“I can’t see anything…… Wait a moment-.”

Somehow, thinking that Evangeline and Margaret might have been attacked and sealed by another witch, John activated his magic. And at that moment, a fine crack that hadn’t been seen before came into John’s eyes.

It was something that looked very unsettling, but John was not afraid to reach out and touch the crack. And in the next moment, a tiny hole opened in the crack and swallowed John.

“Uh huh?”

After being sucked into it for a while, John realized that he was standing alone in a ruin-like place.

A place so devastated that you wonder if a battlefield feels like this. John, who was looking around, felt a thumping vibration somewhere and rushed to that place.

“Hey, you damn bitch! Give up!”
“Noisy—if you’re going to give up, do it yourself!”

And in that place, Evangeline and Margaret were found fighting while shooting magic at each other. The two of them, who had been fighting for so long, seemed to have run out of mana, and at the same time rushed at each other and grabbed each other by the hair.

“Kyaaaaa-! Let go of this!”
“Let go of you… !”
“Noisy, damn bastard! If you leave, I’ll kick you out right away…….”

Evangeline, who was fighting so loudly, stopped when she noticed Yohan looking at them from afar. Seeing her reaction, Margaret wondered what was going on and turned her head to look at John.

The two witches, who were fighting fiercely, grabbing each other by the hair, quickly let go of their hands and collapsed weakly.

“Ouch…… Yohaan- help me~”
“My disciple…… I think I sprained my leg….”

It was absurd for John, who had seen them fight fiercely just before.

John approached the two, thinking that he might find out what had happened.