I Got a Fake Job at the Academy Chapter 623

Episode 623 Fulfillment of Promise (3)

I stared at Ludger Cellisi as time stopped.

The sight of him looking at me in disbelief and reaching out his hand in this direction is so comical.

“what.”

In the end, I couldn’t stop myself from bursting out laughing.

“I thought you would make that kind of expression too.”

A guy who seemed like he would be cool and chic his whole life had an expression like that.

It’s not strange to just build it. However, I was very surprised that the target was me.

“Maybe I just saw you the way I wanted to see you.”

He is cocky, arrogant, and has no manners.

Ludger may have that image on the outside, but in reality he was not like that.

I knew his real personality.

From the day we met 12 years ago.

I slowly turned around and left the lab.

I went into Line’s room and checked her sleeping face.

The face of the woman he loved was reflected in that sleeping face.

Thanks to.

Finally, I was able to gain courage and determination.

“Let’s go. Even if I don’t know how long it will take, time is on my side.”

I went out of the hideout.

I had a vague idea that something like this might happen someday, so I made sufficient preparations.

As I put the portable backpack filled with food and all kinds of things on my back, I couldn’t help but let out a squeak.

If I had known it would be this heavy, I would have removed a few more items.

But now that I had no choice but to lose more, I decided to just endure it.

I’ve packed everything I need, so I’m sure I’ll be able to use it.

When I came outside, Isla Machina was a complete mess.

Many of the island’s functions were paralyzed and people were panicking, and in particular, places that were destroyed or collapsed in the aftermath of the fighting were noticeable.

However, if time passes, this too will return to its original state someday.

No, on the contrary, it will continue to develop further than its original appearance.

Because time is like that.

Because the human will that sprouts during that time will never be broken.

I kept walking.

I crossed the broken road and climbed over the fallen streetlight.

The place I arrived at was the outermost dock of the island, connected to the first floor.

Of course, it is not an official dock that handles access to and from the island. A little farther away, it was a small place that could hardly be called a dock.

It is a place mainly visited by people fishing in the nearby sea, or a route taken when secretly hiding on the island.

and.

Sabak.

It was also a place where one could step on sand, one of the few places on the island.

Of course, there was no actual sound.

Because time stopped, sound also stopped.

It was just that when I stepped on the sand, that sound echoed in my head.

“Where was this?”

A small boat was secretly hidden nearby.

It was my own rabbit hole prepared in case I was chased by a debt collector and had to escape the island.

“ah. “It’s over there.”

It didn’t take long before the hidden boat was discovered.

It was covered with camouflage cloth, so it was hard to find if you weren’t looking closely, but if you were aware it was there, it was hard to not know.

As I approached the boat, I stopped.

There was a blood stain nearby.

And the blood trail continued near the small dock where the boat was hidden.

With a slightly stiff face, I slowly approached the dock.

The moment I saw the man lying there, my emotions were mixed together like something indescribable.

“What were you trying to do by coming to a place like this?”

It was Nikolai who had fallen.

One arm was cut off below the shoulder and disappeared somewhere, and the other leg was horribly torn as if it had been bitten by something.

It felt like an animal had bitten it.

In that state, Nikolai did not die, but escaped all the way here, shedding blood, saying he would live.

But has that luck ended here?

Nikolai faced death with his eyes wide open.

“I can’t believe that the end of the dark world that lived so proudly is to die lonely in front of an old, isolated dock that no one visits.”

Just by looking at the wounds and spilled blood, one could fully imagine how much pain he must have been in right before he died.

Considering all the things this child had done, I thought it was a fitting death.

In a place where no one is looking for him, he bleeds out and dies a cruel and lonely death.

Isn’t this a fitting end for a villain?

I passed Nikolai’s body and boarded the boat at the dock.

The boat I was about to ride was not one that used common motors and screws.

There’s no way something like an engine could run in frozen time.

This boat is driven exclusively manually.

The way you row.

“Okay. “It’s so hard.”

I rowed hard while grumbling.

In a world where time had stopped, the sea water was still and motionless.

Therefore, there was no resistance to rowing.

The ship glided smoothly over the sea surface, like riding a sleigh.

When you look at the fixed sea, you might think that it is not a liquid, but a very large blue jelly.

But I didn’t do anything crazy like walk on this with my own two feet.

There was a time in the past when I stopped time, put my feet on the water, and was completely immersed in it.

It was a valuable experience that allowed me to gain a new understanding that even if time stops, water is still water.

It was possible to cross the water by throwing a scaffold and stepping on it, but the process of throwing and retrieving the scaffold itself consumed a lot of physical strength.

It’s also annoying.

If it were the original sea, the boat would not have moved forward with my poor paddle, but it was different in a stopped world.

With one push, the boat moved quickly as if it were ice on the smooth sea surface.

“How far do we have to go to get to land?”

I don’t know.

Because I’ve never done anything like sailing in the first place.

No, is this sailing?

No matter what, if you row hard, you will reach land.

As for the direction, if you keep rowing, you will reach the continent on your own.

So the first day.

I curled up on the boat and took a nap.

I rowed again the next day.

It was a process I didn’t know how long it would last. Because all I could see was a vast sea.

I slept while looking at the stars in the night sky that had stopped, and then woke up and rowed on a sea of ​​stars.

The starry sky was clearly visible above the calm sea.

As I crossed over it, I couldn’t tell whether I was in the sea or in the starry sky.

Two weeks have passed.

Finally, I saw a pillar of light in the distance.

Realizing that it was a lighthouse frozen in time, I rowed a little harder.

Since I had a hard time chewing only beef jerky, I was glad to finally be back on earth.

I put on my luggage and got off on land.

I don’t know where I arrived. It’s probably a small coastal town on the outskirts of the continent.

I saw a faint light on in a village in the distance.

As I was passing by, I checked and saw a family sitting together in harmony inside.

It must be early in the morning before the sun rises, but I can’t believe I’m already up and eating. While I thought that people in the countryside were very diligent, I also felt envious of the warm families out there.

In particular, the appearance of a girl who looked about 6 years old particularly caught my attention.

If she hadn’t died, wouldn’t Rine have been living happily like that?

Feeling sad for no reason, I shook my head.

This wasn’t what was important now.

The place I need to go is the southern jungle area.

There wasn’t enough time to get there.

I walked.

Crossing the swamp, passing the cracked earth, and walking through the farmland.

When I was tired, I slept, and when I was hungry, I took out the food I carried, stuffed it in my mouth, and kept walking.

My feet were swollen halfway through, so I had to keep applying recovery potion.

The soles of my shoes were worn out, so I replaced them with new ones.

There was no need to worry about food.

I replenished it every time I stopped by a nearby village.

Of course, I didn’t pay any money. I apologize for not paying back food or fruit. But it can’t be helped.

A year has passed.

I still walked the continent.

Have we crossed the empire and now reached the middle of the continent?

The sky was still full of stars.

In other words, it was not a city of any country.

Without realizing it, I stroked my chin with my hand and felt a scratchy texture.

Before I knew it, my beard had grown thick.

He used to have a beard, but since he didn’t shave it, it seemed to have grown very long.

Wouldn’t my appearance look like shit right now?

When I looked in the mirror, it was definitely true.

But the good news is that time stops and I don’t have to show this to anyone else.

It’s been three years since time stopped.

I finally got the green belle root.

“Really, there is no hardship like this.”

I don’t know how long I wandered on the snowy mountain.

Even if time stopped, the snow and ice did not remain cold.

Rather, it was colder because it was the middle of the night, and there was nothing to see.

Digging through all the snow on the snowy mountain, I was only able to find one of three targets.

When I looked at the hand holding the green belle’s root, the statue was full of signs of swelling.

When I asked for one, tears flowed without me knowing.

It wasn’t the satisfaction of achieving a goal in difficult circumstances.

It was because of a vague fear of not knowing how many more times I would have to do this in the future.

can i do it? Isn’t this enough effort?

I spent three years like this, muttering to myself like crazy in a time that had stopped, without any communication with other people.

Is it right to grow old meaninglessly in the harshness of a world where the night never ends?

No one will recognize me, so what is the point of this behavior?

I silently looked down at the green belle’s roots, wrapped it in a thin cloth, and placed it in my arms.

The place I had to go now was the tropical rainforest in the southeastern part of the continent, as opposed to the cold snowy mountains.

I looked up at the aurora on the snowy mountain and continued walking.

Carrying a lighter backpack, I went down the snowy mountain and down the continent.

It’s been 4 years.

I’m still walking.

It took almost a year to walk. My legs became numb.

But the cold chill went away, and I felt intense heat.

I felt like I had arrived in the South.

Still, I thought it would take at least a few years to come, but one year. Is it faster than you think? Or is the continent too small?

I kept walking, thinking that good things were good things.

Now that we have entered a tropical climate, the jungle is not far away.

Is it from the northwestern part of the continent to the southeastern part?

I could see the sun rising in the distance.

The world has stopped, but I wander through it alone.

It slowly moved from a place where the sun did not rise towards a place where it did.

When I saw that scene, I felt energized for some reason.

In a world that has stopped, I move from night to morning.

5th year.

A considerable amount of time has passed since we arrived in the jungle and wandered around inside.

I don’t know how long it’s been. I forgot to keep a diary a few times, so it may actually have been longer than this.

I still haven’t found Alaure petals or Mantanis sap.

I thought about giving up several times.

It made me think that the snowy mountains might have been better.

It was still easy to find plants there, but here, all I could see were plants so I couldn’t tell them apart.

Wouldn’t picking up a needle in the desert be easier than this?

But I won’t give up.

No, maybe I can’t do it anymore.

10th year.

“found. “I found it!”

I finally found this damn Alaure flower. I never would have guessed that it was hidden inside the waterfall cave.

I found it by chance while I was walking around to wash my body, so I had to feel a strange, mixed yet happy feeling.

It felt like all the digging I had done so far was a waste of time.

But I immediately shook off those unpleasant thoughts.

okay. You found it. All you have to do is find it.

All that’s left now is Mantanis Sap, so you should be able to find it quickly.

13th year.

I haven’t found Mantanis yet.

We had to go deeper into the jungle.

15th year.

I still haven’t found Mantanis.

I thought it would be the hardest to find, but it was truly ridiculous.

Where on earth did the guy who found this find it?

18th year.

Suddenly a thought occurred to me.

Why am I doing this?

The world that had stopped was so quiet, and I continued to live alone there.

Now I can’t remember where I was or what I did.

His beard was long, and his hair, which was originally ivory, grew much longer and even became dull and dull.

The face is now full of wrinkles that cannot be hidden.

I tried to live young, but I was already middle-aged. No, middle-aged is also a low estimate.

Through the faint pain I felt between my joints, I suddenly thought of the past.

I don’t remember much.

The face of that cheeky kid, the face of the person who was my teacher, and what happened on the island.

It’s all like a distant dream, like sand disappearing under the tide.

It was just faint.

But there was still something vivid enough to glimmer before my eyes.

The smile on her face when she smiled at me and asked for my daughter.

I still couldn’t forget.

Let’s move.

Since then I haven’t kept track of how many years I’ve stopped time.

The increasing number of wrinkles, the throbbing joints, and the slowly fading white hair only show that a considerable amount of time has passed.

But finally.

I found the last ingredient.