EP.32 Old relationship (4)
Perfect!
The cheerful sound of snapping fingers rings out. A small spark flew. That was the end.
‘Did the order fail?’
Belnoir thought so at first. Because there was no sign of anything happening. At that time, something was caught in one corner of Belnoir’s field of vision.
‘···re?’
Ashes are scattering in the air.
Gray powder like her hair. Even though there is no wind, the ash billows and floats in the air.
and.
The fluttering has a direction.
-Gwouhuhuh?
The undead gathered together and became one wall.
Ashes scatter towards the undead. The speed is neither slow nor fast. The speed is like flower petals shaking in the wind.
Tick.
The moment it reached the undead.
Tick, tidik.
A small spark flies.
A very small spark, too weak to become a flame.
“Close your eyes.”
“yes?”
“Don’t hate it.”
Rania closed her eyes.
Belnoa tilted his head.
“It must hurt your eyes.”
It didn’t take long for Belnoa to understand what those words meant.
Woah!
Suddenly, there was a flash of light.
After a short interval, a fever rages.
“···Ugh!’
Belnoa hurriedly stretched out his arms and covered his face.
I closed my eyes, albeit belatedly. Even when I closed my eyes, there was a halo of light.
‘What is this?’
The excitement didn’t last long. The same goes for flash. It only flashed once and was quiet after that.
Wait like that for a while.
When the heat subsided, Belnoir slowly opened his eyes.
“uh?”
Belnoir blinked.
‘···doesn’t exist?’
There were no undead that should have been there. The huge figure had disappeared without a trace.
No, there were traces.
Ash was flowing along the waterway of the canal. It wasn’t difficult to imagine what that ash originally was.
“Kok, kek, ugh.”
Rania coughed dryly and waved her hands. As she steps on the scorched floor, she heads into the canal.
“······.”
Belnoir stood in place blankly.
‘What spell is that?’
I don’t know the principle. It seems like several spells are mixed together, but I can’t even guess its structure.
‘···Let’s just do it.’
Where was this one or two?
Starting with the Fountain of Mana, that professor was a person full of incomprehensible things.
“Why don’t you come quickly?”
“···I’ll go now.”
He is still a strange and unique person.
I just decided to think that way.
* * *
The end of the waterway is approaching.
There are no more undead flocking in.
‘Something is strange.’
Rania frowned.
In her mind, this situation was strange. Moreover, the more she walks, the more her skin itches.
That feeling is not unfamiliar.
It’s a familiar, or rather, familiar feeling.
“······.”
Rania narrowed her eyes.
Her senses are still the same as those on the battlefield. She has not yet adapted to a peaceful daily life.
It was unfamiliar.
Everything about the royal capital, with its peaceful atmosphere and lack of demonic energy, was unfamiliar to her.
But, now.
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Rania feels familiar.
The familiarity that I feel for the first time in a long time comes across as unsettling.
‘I don’t know what’s at the end…’
It probably doesn’t deserve to be here. After making that decision, Rania walked a little faster.
widely.
Eventually, we arrive at the end of the waterway.
“···Ugh.”
As soon as he arrived at that large space, Belnoa pinched his nose. He stinks.
‘What is that?’
What lies at the end of the waterway, Belnoa does not know what it is. It just feels bizarre.
“under.”
However, not Rania.
She knows what that is.
“That’s right.”
Her expression became grimly distorted.
Belnoir inadvertently stepped back.
Sarah.
I hear the sound of a collar rubbing.
She rolls up her sleeves. Then, she stretched out her arms in front of her. Mana fluctuated following the movement.
“···professor?”
The momentum is unusual.
Belnoa asked carefully.
“Stand back.”
The answer that came back was cold.
“You checked what was at the end.”
“···Yes.”
Clap, she clapped.
“You can tear it down now.”
“yes?”
What does that mean? There is no time for Belnoa to ask. She moves one step before he opens her mouth.
yet.
Coo!
A huge shock hit the waterway.
2.
“···I’m going, old man.”
“Oh, Chloe said she was waiting at the fountain.”
“······.”
“Waiting at the fountain? “Aren’t you going to answer?”
“Oh, yes.”
Squeak. Belnoa opened the door and went out.
Those steps are strangely weak.
Tuk.
A little while after he left, Cardi pounded on the table. The appearance of the old man flows away and returns to the appearance of a young man.
I glanced at Cardi with a disapproving gaze.
“Is there a reason you’re hiding it?”
“Because you will feel more familiar with a kind old man than a young elf.”
“hmm···.”
I don’t think he seemed very kind.
‘I could see that he had a fierce personality and was a bit clumsy.’
I think it was a bit far from benevolence.
As I was thinking that, Cardi spoke up.
“By the way, Raniel. “What on earth did you show me?”
“huh?”
“That guy, Belnoa, isn’t he completely lost? “What on earth did they show me like that?”
“I handled it a little loudly.”
Because just deleting it was a bit cumbersome.
‘A better way would be for Kyle to scrape it off with the holy sword…’
As long as the holy sword touches it, most problems can be solved. However, Kyle is not here. So, I tried to imitate the Holy Sword a little bit…
‘It was noisy.’
The holy sword is loud to begin with, so what should I do?
“What happened?”
“It looks like this.”
I roughly drew a picture and showed it to Cardi.
Cardi groaned when she saw the picture.
“···It almost feels like something is crawling around.”
“It’s an appropriate analogy.”
“It’s going to get noisy soon.”
“I think so.”
I muttered, resting my chin.
“From experience, there isn’t just one thing like that.”
“···Well, anyway, you handled it well. Belnoa, it could have been difficult with that child alone.”
Cardi pulled a box out from under the shelf. There were about a dozen potions packed in the box.
“One bottle a month, for a year.”
“Hmm.”
I picked up a potion bottle.
“Can I drink it now?”
“Is there anything that can’t be done? “I’m giving it to you.”
I opened the bottle and poured out the potion.
The effect appeared immediately. The circuit that had been running noisily to suppress the curse began to quiet down.
“oh.”
Performance is solid.
“You are really amazing too.”
“Well, I don’t know who the big deal is.”
“Should I learn alchemy too? If you train your alchemy to the limit, can you make something like this?”
Cardi laughed bitterly at my words.
“The order is wrong, Raniel.”
“huh?”
“I didn’t create this potion because my alchemy was extreme. “This was created before I was an alchemist and when my kingdom was still alive.”
He looked at the potion bottle with faint eyes.
“The reason I became an alchemist was to find the next step in this.”
“next?”
“A way to completely banish the curse. “But I haven’t found it yet.”
Saying that, Cardi slowly stood up. And then, he held out his hand to me.
“Thank you, Raniel.”
“···suddenly? “Cleaning the waterway was a request.”
“I’m not saying that.”
I took the hand he held out and stood up.
I look into those yellow eyes. Eyes that give me a strange feeling every time I look at them. Is it because his eyes are a little droopy today?
‘Even though you’re young, you look like an old man.’
I realized once again that he was an elf who had lived for a long time. After looking at each other for a while, it was Cardi who spoke first.
“Even when you face the devil…”
He cried out slowly.
“You still remain as you.”
He smiled faintly.
“That’s what I’m thankful for.”
“What are you talking about?”
Sigh, I burst out laughing.
Even when I saw him again five years later, he was still an eccentric guy who only told unknown stories.
“See you later, Cardi.”
“Okay, next time.”
he muttered.
“certainly.”
The voice seemed to be speaking to someone other than me.
3.
“ah.”
Resty inadvertently let out a sigh.
I pushed the papers piled up on my desk to one side. Then, he placed only one piece of paper in the center.
Infuse mana into the paper.
Soon, a circuit appears in the air.
“done.”
Two circuits floating in the air.
Looking at the circuit, Resty muttered.
“···solved.”
Aplia’s regular Sabbath.
Resty spent most of the nearly three-day holiday solving this problem.
-You can solve it, right?
Because that one word kept lingering in my head, I couldn’t do anything else until I solved it.
“I finally solved it.”
The voice spoken like that is full of excitement.
Resty felt his heart pounding. Although it took a long time to solve and was very difficult…
‘In the end, I solved it.’
I solved it somehow.
That fact made Resty purely happy.
“Ugh!”
After stretching, Resty organized the answer. He transferred the circuit to a new piece of paper and drew it.
The more I thought about it, the more fascinating it was.
Although circuits are usually mixed, this is the first time I have seen a circuit with a unique fusion method like this one.
‘Friction, not combination.’
It’s not about connecting lines and overlapping them.
Friction between lines. It is a circuit that uses the distortion created in this way as the driving force of the spell.
I don’t know how to read each spell.
I just solved the circuit, but I still don’t know how to let the mana flow.
‘I hope the Sabbath ends quickly.’
That way you can ask questions.
Resty smiled softly and continued to fiddle with his notebook. This is why the image of Rania picking up the notebook and drawing her circuit on it came to mind.
‘I should insert it here.’
Resty carefully inserted the paper on which he had written all the answers into his notebook. I checked it several times to make sure it wasn’t crumpled.
After finishing the task, Resty suddenly checked the time.
At 3 p.m., it was still too early for the convenience facilities in Aplia to close.
‘cafe.’
Suddenly, I remembered that place.
A cafe that Professor Rania often visits.
‘It’s the Sabbath, so it seems unlikely…’
Just in case, Resty headed to the cafe with a notebook. The cafe was near the Central Academic Building, so it didn’t take long.
Jinglang.
“welcome.”
Lesti nodded slightly at the owner’s voice. And then I quickly looked inside the store.
‘As expected, there is none.’
It was a waste, but I wasn’t expecting that much, so I wasn’t too disappointed. Still, he couldn’t just leave, so Resty made himself a cup of coffee and sat down by the window.
I’m looking out the window like that.
“Ugh.”
Suddenly, a sound comes from next to me.
“… ?”
I looked to the side and saw a boy sitting.
That face looked familiar.
“···lakh?”
A student in the same advanced class in Mana Trading.
Even if that wasn’t the case, Lesti knew Lark. As the next magic tower owner, she had previously exchanged greetings with the disciples of each magic tower owner.
“hmm.”
Lark stuck out his tongue and looked back at Resty. And then he nodded his head briefly.
“Is it Resty? nice to meet.”
“···What’re you doing?”
“You are drinking black water.”
···Black water?
“Are you talking about coffee?”
“I thought that’s what they called it.”
“Why is your tongue doing that?”
“Uhm…”
Lark groaned briefly.
“write.”
“···what?”
“Bitter, hot. It’s tasteless.”
“···Then why are you drinking it?”
“After listening to that lecture, I thought that if I was born again as an intellectual, it would be worth a try…”
I couldn’t really understand what was being said.
“···If you use it, why don’t you at least drink some syrup?”
“syrup?”
“Give it to me.”
Resty added a few drops of syrup to Lark’s coffee. Then he pushed the coffee cup towards Lark again.
“ruler.”
“Hmm.”
Lark glanced at the coffee cup as if looking at poison. It seemed like he was not very trustworthy.
“···Bitter and hot.”
“So you got syrup on it.”
“It’s still pitch black…”
“Then will the coffee be black or white?”
“That’s true too…”
After hesitating for a while, Lark then carefully lifted his coffee cup. He opened his mouth slightly and slowly tilted his coffee cup.
“oh!”
And then, he opened his eyes round.
“Use less!”
I shouted.
“It seems a little sweet!”
“Okay.”
‘I didn’t know when I first saw it…’
He’s a little lacking.
Lesti kept some distance from Lark.
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