The second day’s work was completed.
The workday is over and now it’s free time. The selected students who came up from middle school and were already close to each other left for the downtown area of Sky Island as soon as class was over.
And Simon was alone.
I returned to the dorm alone and ordered food from the dorm kitchen. As she sits alone at a large table for eight and waits in silence, she hears the sound of food being prepared in the kitchen.
After a while the food came out.
‘… … hmm.’
All food is white. Things like multigrain bread with nothing inside or white soup. No meat to be found.
Is it a virtue for the believers of the federation to eat such food? Simon thought about this and that and took a bite of the white soup.
‘It’s muddy!’
No matter how selected students are practitioners, this is a bit too much. I don’t know if it’s breakfast, but I don’t think I’ll be hungry with this kind of food in the evening. Simon, who was active and at the age of eating, desperately needed meat.
I was envious of the classmates who suddenly left for the downtown area by themselves.
‘… … I can’t help it.’
There was something like an invisible wall.
It is also true that eight of the selected students have come up from middle school and have already established personal connections, and that there are only two males among the selected students.
As Epenel is a religious organization, they are wary of strangers of the opposite s*x. It was difficult to get close to Simon because everyone was nervous at first when he got close.
… … Consoling himself, Simon took a bite of the bread.
‘Because it’s easier to do an investigation quietly by yourself. Shall I ask Lethe to take me to a restaurant tomorrow?’
The time when Simon is eating a lonely dinner while thinking about this and that.
Dalgrak.
From the seat across from me, I hear the sound of a plate being set down. A girl with two braids of lemon-colored hair sat down.
Simon immediately remembered the face and the impression.
‘No. 9 Lisara.’
Like Euclid, he was a selected student from outside.
Not much was known about her. The only background she knows, even in the Holy Commonwealth, is that she is from a minority from a remote area. There is a pattern of lozenges on her bracelet or on her collar, and her nose and lips are very small.
Dalgrak.
Click.
An awkward silence descends as the meal continues.
Even though we sat at the same table, the distance felt very far away. The two quietly scooped out only the white soup and put it into their mouths.
‘I can’t stay still like this, this is an opportunity.’
A chance to make friends and get information.
Simon mustered up the courage to open his mouth.
“excuse me… … .”
surprise!
She froze and stopped moving. The spoon that was scooping the soup flew up and fell to the floor with a rattling sound.
“Sorry!”
“?”
Simon broke out in a sweat. I think this is where I should apologize.
“Were you surprised when I suddenly spoke to you? are you okay?”
Simon got down from his chair and approached to pick up a spoon, and she, too, hesitated and stretched her arm down.
and.
percussion.
The hands of the two met exactly on the spoon.
“Hukyaaaagh!”
A startled reaction at the touch of a hand.
she said, shaking her hand.
“It’s not intentional!”
It feels like this side keeps stealing the line to be said. Simon smiled bitterly, grabbed his spoon, and went to the kitchen.
After telling her circumstances, he brought a new spoon, handed it to her, and wiped the floor clean with a cloth.
“are you okay?”
“Fine… … Hiccup! It’s bitter!”
what language is this
Simon sat down again.
“Sorry to startle you earlier. I am Euclid.”
“ancient! ancient! Lisara… … no see!”
“Since we’re both selectors from outside, I wanted to talk about it.”
Simone spoke in a sweet voice of ordinary life, to give her as much peace of mind as possible.
They say that the class is harder than expected, or that the food tastes bland. I was surprised that the sacred train that came into Epenel was so big.
As if she had calmed down a bit, she nodded and listened to the story.
“excuse me! Priest Euclid’s divinity… … ! The power you saw in class!”
“?”
Her thin lips twisted slightly and drew a smile.
“It is beautiful… … !”
“ah.”
Simon laughed too.
“thank you. Even Lisa did well in Sacred Dynamics class.”
“Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
Startled, she tried to drop the spoon again.
Simon, who decided to give up trying to figure out where the surprise point was now, quickly continued.
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“It’s okay to call or talk comfortably. Oh, so, by the way… … .”
“Lisa!”
Both of them turned their heads.
Upstairs, a girl with sharp green bobbed hair was coming down the stairs.
“Let’s go out and have dinner together. What are you doing here… … !”
As she said that, she looked at Simon and widened her eyes, and her expression hardened.
Simon realized who she was too.
‘Number three, Maricello.’
Of course, he is the third pick because he is in the same class as the genius Meryl and Leight’s son, Sway, but his talent is outstanding enough to not lag behind the two.
She was glaring at Simon as if he were going to kill him.
‘Above all, one of the three who reacted when I showed my face.’
Among them, she was the one who displayed hostility that bordered on fury.
Looking at it now, it wasn’t just anger.
disgust. And a little bit of fear was in his eyes.
“Lisa! Why are you eating with him?”
“Oh, Maricello!”
“Come on!”
She grabbed Lisa by the wrist and dragged her outside. Even as she left, her bloody eyes did not fade.
Soon the door slams! and closed Simon, who was alone again, blinked.
‘I was able to make friends, but it’s a pity. Rather… … .’
suspicious
I need to find out what happened between #10 Euclid and #3 Maricello as soon as possible.
Simon takes out his notebook and tries to scribble.
“What are you doing here?”
This time Merrill was walking down the stairs from the upstairs quarters. She sighed heavily with a disapproving expression on her face.
‘It appeared.’
Tonight I have an appointment of excellence with her.
Simon got up slowly.
“Oh, I was eating and I just finished eating.”
“Then let’s hurry up and go.”
Meryl touched my neck with an annoyed look and pointed outside the building.
“Because I hate wasting time.”
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Simon brought Merrill to the nearby woods he had been eyeing.
I liked it because there were few people outside of class time.
“No, I brought you to this place to talk about something.”
Merrill grumbled, but followed suit.
Since her name is number one in the selection, from her point of view, she would also want to avoid being photographed by Lyrinet after refusing the award from the first day she received attention.
“Then let’s do it here.”
Soon, the two knelt side by side.
“Why am I even here… … .”
She was still grumbling, but Simon smiled and spread his palms. she thumps! I put my hand on top of it. My hands were quite tingly.
“I will begin.”
Whoops.
Simon closed his eyes, inhaled deeply, then exhaled. When I slowly opened my eyes, I saw Meryl with a slightly nervous expression.
“Sister. Do you swear to confess all your sins and mistakes in front of the name of the goddess?”
“… … I swear.”
I got a very unsatisfying answer.
Simon suddenly asked a question.
“Then do you remember the mistake you made on the train?”
wince
Her fingertips trembled a little, but then a fiery voice came out.
“Cheerfully, because of that, I’m wasting other people’s precious time… … !”
“What happened on the Sacred Train.”
Simon cut off his words and said solemnly.
“From the beginning to the end, I want you to confess everything in front of the Great Mother. From the sister’s point of view.”
“Profit!”
I hear her grinding her teeth.
“In the first place, this is the opposite! This is not about you telling me your troubles or mistakes! i to you… … !”
“Sister. The Great Goddess is watching.”
At this point, long live the Holy Commonwealth.
Anything can be solved by mentioning the goddess. As she pursed her lips, she finally told her story.
Before the murder of Euclid.
It was the story of the time when the selected students of Epenel were riding the sacred train to the Sky Island.
At that time, Meryl and Euclid were riding in the same train car, and it is said that they recognized each other right away.
While talking like that, after hearing that Euclid was ‘number 10’, Merrill made a somewhat disparaging remark, which made Euclid teary-eyed and angry.
-If you’re so upset, why don’t you prove your skills? Number 10, can you do this?
As if Meryl was not afraid, she stole the notebook from the pocket of the Heretic Questioner who was roaming the train. At Meryl’s provocation, saying that he could do it, Euclid immediately went back to the back of another Heretic Questioner.
I was caught because I was inexperienced in divine management.
Euclid was robbed by the interrogator, and he pointed out to Meryl that he stole it too, saying that he was unfair, but she said that she had already returned the notebook to the owner and smiled while holding out her empty hands.
Simon, who was listening to the explanation, broke out in sweat.
‘Are they kids?’
Well, at that age, they were kids.
Simon opened his eyes and looked at her.
“Yes, yes! I was wrong! OK?”
Meryl tried to remove her hand, but Simon held her hand with even greater force.
“This is my concern. It seems strange rumors have been circulating about me among my brothers and sisters lately.”
“what?”
“So I’m going through the situation to see what I did wrong. Could something else have happened on the train?”
After a moment of silence, she opened her mouth.
“… … I do not remember?”
“?”
“You, because of that, you were taken to the train commander’s office, questioned for heresy, and then returned to our compartment.”
It is said that he had a fight with Maricello three times out of nowhere.
Maricello grabbed Euclid by the collar and shot him as if to kill him, and Euclid provoked him laughingly.
I didn’t know if I had seen something in Maricello’s guest room on the way, or if I had caught a weakness by accident. Even Meryl didn’t notice at all.
“Then, in the end, Maricello knocked you to the floor and punched you in the cheek. You tried to get up, but you couldn’t beat Maricello with ‘Sung Fight’. I was beaten and the passengers stopped me and I survived.”
There was ridicule in her voice.
“Yeah, I did provoke a little bit at that time. Even if you die 10 times, you can’t win 3 times. you will always be at the bottom Oh yeah. Did you make the Excellence Sacrament to spit this out of my mouth?”
She snapped her hands and jumped up.
“You are annoying and shady. Euclid.”
“… … .”
“Don’t pretend to be proud of yourself for having a little bit of divinity. I will definitely beat you.”
Jerk, Jeop, Jeop.
Meryl quickly disappeared. Simon let out a long sigh and closed his eyes.
‘No. 3 Maricello.’
Simone couldn’t forget the look in her eyes when they met at the hotel restaurant.
that anger.
It was a look that could kill a person.
‘It must be worth investigating further.’
Simon took out his notebook and organized the newly acquired information.
And when I woke up, it was already dark around me.
‘Now, let’s finish the investigation and do my job now.’
Simon, who had been stretching for a while, raised the corner of his mouth.
Then, he grabbed his right and left hands, and, Tak! and pretended to collide.
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