〈 Episode 298 〉 Crossover (2)
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Raniel van Trias.
To this self-righteous wizard whose interpersonal relationships are overly narrow, Kyle Torben is a special being. It has to be that way. He was the only person left in the same region.
He is the only survivor of a village that has been reduced to ashes.
He is the only person who knows who he was before he was a wizard.
That’s why Raniel often showed a light attitude towards Kyle. She was like that even before we went on our journey together. In front of everyone, Raniel was a respected and respected next magic tower lord, but in front of Kyle, he was just a boy who liked jokes and was a bit talkative.
It was really fun back then.
Now that I can’t do that, thinking about it, it was truly a happy memory. Raniel sees Kyle in front of him. He then sees himself transformed.
A lot of time has passed.
A lot has changed as time has passed, and the man standing in front of him is no longer the Kyle he knew. The boy who admired heroes and cried out to catch the devil is no longer there.
Quickly.
Raniel cannot help but look kindly at Kyle, who has changed. Even if you have buried your feelings for that bastard, seeing him face to face makes you feel irritated. Raniel tries to snap at him, but he can barely hold back.
Whoa, take a short, deep breath.
Raniel took a few breaths, nervously brushed his hair, and took a step forward. I take a few steps forward and stand in front of Kyle.
“A long time.”
“······.”
At best, he held out his hand, but instead of trying to catch it, he just glared at it. You shameless bastard.
“Raniel.”
Kyle opened his mouth.
“Where is Raniel? “Has he come yet?”
It’s right in front of you, bastard.
As he was about to fire one shot, Raniel became conscious of the gaze of those around him. I have no intention of advertising my identity while countless warriors are watching.
“Follow me.”
Raniel pointed his finger as if telling him to follow.
Kyle blatantly ignores the signal.
“I have no conversation with you. Where is your teacher? Raniel van Trias. “That guy will be here too.”
Raniel feels a sense of discomfort in that voice.
It’s not smoke. It feels like he really doesn’t care about himself at all. Why on earth? I don’t think it was like this until the last time we met.
“So, follow me.”
Raniel snapped nervously and stretched out his hand to grab Kyle’s collar. As he was about to drag him away, Kyle grabbed Raniel’s wrist.
“Let go.”
Kyle roughly shook his hand away.
Raniel looked at the marks left on my wrist. Then I turned my head again and looked at Kyle.
“What?”
“I want to ask you something.”
Kyle shot back with narrowed eyes.
“Did Raniel order you to act like him in front of me? “You’ve been so blatant since last time.”
“···what?”
“Uncomfortable. “f*ck it.”
Kyle blurted out as if he was truly displeased.
“What I’m saying is, get rid of acting that doesn’t suit you.”
What kind of bullshit is that?
Raniel blinked in shock, as if he had been hit on the head. I couldn’t understand what Kyle was talking about.
“What bullshit?”
Kyle is speechless.
“Hey, what are you talking about?”
No matter how many times I ask, there is no answer.
As if he was not interested at all anymore, he pushed Raniel away and approached Sarah. Turning his head, Raniel looked at Kyle walking past him.
What kind of situation is this?
Something is strange.
Even if something goes wrong, it is definitely wrong. Raniel feels embarrassed by the unexpected situation. Sara, looking at Raniel like that, just shook her head and spoke with his mouth.
Look, what did I say?
2.
Sarah asked a careful question as she walked with Kyle.
“Kyle, why are you acting so cold?”
“Because it’s unpleasant.”
“What?”
“Because you’re acting like a guy. It’s acting that doesn’t suit me. “She can’t even do that properly.”
“···performance?”
Sarah blinked.
“What acting?”
“He’s pretending to be that guy. Even though he’s not a guy, he’s doing it. Are you trying to confuse me? “I don’t know your intention.”
It’s an unexpected way of thinking.
Sarah asked back, feeling embarrassed.
“…Then what were you interested in at first?”
“Because he resembles Raniel. He thought it might be a guy. “He said it wasn’t a big deal, but he was suspicious, just in case.”
But, said Kyle.
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“no.”
He said in a confident voice.
“This guy is definitely not Raniel.”
“···Why are you so sure?”
Kyle said nothing more.
I just walk without saying a word. Those steps do not consider those who follow. Sarah had to run to catch up with Kyle.
“It can’t be him.”
Kyle kept mumbling like that.
As if obsessed with something.
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A room in White Night Castle.
Raniel looks at the handprint left on his wrist.
I remember what Kyle said to me. The more I think about it, the more questions come to mind.
“Are you crazy?”
Are you really crazy?
Raniel couldn’t understand Kyle’s reaction, as he suddenly started acting without end and talking nonsense.
However, one thing is certain.
“It’s so twisted.”
Things got a little complicated.
What Raniel imagined as he came to the North was at what point he would reveal his identity to Kyle. Kyle was probably also suspicious of his identity, and he figured all he had to do was let him know.
But what is the reality?
The premise was wrong from the start.
Kyle recognizes himself as a separate person from Raniel. Very strong too. I don’t know what the basis for such a reaction is.
“···Did I lie too well?”
When we met in Arcadia, did the lies that came to mind work too well? Was he actually talented at deceiving others?
Raniel also knows that this is an absurd speculation.
If he had lied well, he wouldn’t have found out that he was Raniel in the first place. Now, isn’t the number of people who know their identity close to reaching double digits?
‘Master, Kalt, Cardi, Belnoa, Dark Tower Lord, Lark, Draka, Kelhalm, Elder Dragon, Galahal, Sarah, Chloe…”
Raniel was folding his spread fingers while thinking of the relevant people one by one, but when he realized that he had no more fingers to fold, he wiped his face.
‘f*ck, there are more than ten people…’
At this point, it’s an open secret.
“Are you planning on hiding your identity? Gray.”
“You’re doing a lot of advertising, sir.”
“Actually, I noticed it to some extent…”
The words left by those who recognized his identity pass through Raniel’s mind. What did he do in front of them that made them upset? Instead of groping for it, Raniel opened his mouth and muttered.
“No, but why don’t you recognize that bastard Kyle?”
If it were someone else, I wouldn’t say anything.
But, didn’t you act openly in front of Kyle? I had no intention of hiding her identity because she became irritated the moment I saw her face.
Still, I can’t recognize it.
Raniel feels somehow annoyed by that fact.
I thought I was lucky so far, but now that the time has come to reveal my identity, I start to feel annoyed.
“What the f*ck…”
While sitting on a chair, Raniel kicked the wall with his toe. After a while, someone knocked on the door. Eventually, it was Sarah who opened the door and came in.
“···What are you doing?”
“thought.”
“Are you so impressed?”
“Don’t you know that I usually have a dirty look?”
“That was a long time ago. Even if I try to impress like that now, instead of hardening my dreadlocks, it looks funny.”
Sarah sighed and came into the room.
Then, he sat down on the bed and looked at Raniel.
“What have you done recently?”
“I didn’t do anything.”
“Besides, Kyle clearly hates you. “She wasn’t like this before, was she?”
In fact, until recently, Kyle had been very interested in a girl named Rania. As if reacting to something related to Raniel.
“Just looking at the cancer, it looks like you did something.”
“So, you didn’t do anything? “To begin with, the last time I saw that bastard was at the ruins.”
“···What about the funeral?”
“I don’t know. “I was out of my mind at that time.”
After looking at Raniel who answered indifferently, Sara sighed and continued.
“I’ll make a place so the two of you can meet separately. There is no need to prepare as quickly as the situation is. “I think Kyle will still be in the North anyway.”
Sarah shook her head, crossing her arms.
“Anyway, I’m busy planning a strategy to defeat the sword of death, so why should I waste my time on something like this?”
Raniel glanced at Sarah with his eyes wide open.
Throughout my life, I have heard all these things from you. Looking at Sarah with a look that seemed to say so, Raniel opened his mouth.
“Are you going to die soon?”
“What kind of nonsense are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“They say that if a person suddenly changes, he or she dies.”
Raniel mumbled and sighed.
“Anyway, I understand.”
“What?”
“I’ll try to have a good talk.” “If you explode the ashes in front of me, I’ll understand.”
Even though I did that in Arcadia, I didn’t recognize him, but I went anyway.
“it will work out somehow.”
Raniel boasted like that.
And three days passed. Nothing happened, and of course nothing worked.
3.
Three days passed, and Rak arrived in the North.
The first thing Lark saw upon arriving in the north and heading to the White Night Castle was Rania sitting on a chair in the warriors’ training area.
Tuk-tuk.
The atmosphere felt by the sight of him sitting with his chin resting and his feet shaking is unusual. He looks very uncomfortable.
‘Hmm.’
Although Lark is not very good at reading the atmosphere, he can read the awkward atmosphere that flows around people who seem uncomfortable. Even more so, if the target is Professor Rania, who destroys everything that is wrong.
‘Do you look like you’re in a really bad mood…?’
Lark also saw where the gaze was directed.
There, among the warriors, there is a figure lightly swinging a sword. The person’s appearance becomes familiar to the eye. I haven’t seen it in person, but I’ve seen it in newspapers and portraits.
Champion, Kyle Torben.
A person with the title of strongest.
“oh···.”
Lark let out a brief exclamation.
And then, instead of heading straight for Kyle, he stopped. In order to talk to the hero he admired, he would inevitably have to pass by Professor Rania, but Lark’s intuition warned him that this was not a good choice.
‘Something… very…’
It looks dangerous.
Gulp, Lark swallowed his dry saliva and looked at Rania. Then she turned her head and met Rania’s eyes. That gaze is like that of a wild animal that has found its prey.
“lakh.”
The beast said.
“Come back to work for a moment.”
Shocked, Lark shook his shoulders.
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“Lark, let me ask you one question.”
“W-what do you mean?”
“What should I do when I can’t communicate?”
“I don’t understand… do you understand?”
“uh. I have no intention of listening. You keep ignoring me. People feel dirty. “What should we do with this guy?”
Amidst the extremely comical situation of a teacher giving advice to his student, Lark fell into a deep sleep, stroking his chin.
“···Hmm, I’m not sure either.”
There is some advice given by the warriors.
When Lark said that, Rania nodded as if asking her to hear it. Lark continued speaking cautiously.
“The warriors said that if words don’t work, you have to talk in the flesh. Once fists are exchanged, words will become common…”
This is advice from warriors who doubt that even their brains are made of muscles. Normally, Rania would have laughed it off, but…
“oh···.”
At a time when common sense methods were failing time and time again, those words sounded quite plausible to Rania’s ears.
“Are you really saying that if a person’s words don’t work, we should just handle them like animals?”
“yes? I don’t think that’s what he meant…’
“It’s definitely a plausible story.”
Rania smiled.
“Thanks for the advice, Lark.”
Lark felt madness in that smile.
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