Episode 34
Selfishness taken to the extreme.
My teacher taught me as a child to live in a thoroughly selfish world.
The world is unfair and full of injustice, so don’t worry about it and just live for your own benefit.
Actually, I lived like that and I still plan to live like that.
And the Master added this:
“Even if I live with that kind of belief, since humans cannot live alone, he told me that I would have someone precious to me and someone I had to protect. He told me that it would be okay to be a little different at that time.”
The teacher, who had been silent, answered with a still expressionless face.
[I don’t know the future. Also, I don’t know about you, and I don’t have any memories of being with you. Even if I said that, wouldn’t that just be a memory that only you know?]
The teacher’s expressionless face feels strangely awkward.
It’s clear that he’s making a small effort to hide his true feelings.
“What does it matter?”
[Do you think it is not important? The law of causality cannot be connected by force. Also, the power of the soul is a power that only the great masters can use. There is no greater waste of talent than for someone with such power to fall into obsession. You… … .]
“Don’t use difficult words. Just say it.”
Ignoring the pain, I smiled again.
It was not the innocent laughter of a child, but the laughter of a young man, worn down by the world, revealing all his emotions as purely as possible.
I continued speaking with that smile on my face.
“You can just say, ‘Well done.’ ‘Thank you.’”
Only then does the teacher’s expression change.
Small, shallow waves that spread out like a pebble thrown into a calm river.
But that was all.
I didn’t hear the answer I wanted to hear.
Because the teacher turned around just like that.
“… … Where are you going?”
The master turned around and did not answer.
For a moment, a huge sense of anxiety came over me.
A feeling that instinct is screaming.
The feeling of anxiety that my teacher might leave me.
I reached out.
Skimming through the air.
I stood up from my seat, leaning against the wall.
A huge pain spread through my entire body, but I endured it.
Now I have to catch the Master who is trying to turn around and walk away.
The moment I thought that, my right hand reached out again.
Turuk-
I grabbed my teacher’s wrist.
I never want to miss it again.
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I don’t want to regret it.
“Don’t go.”
The teacher, whose wrist was caught, slowly turns his head.
As I was watching that incredibly slow-moving figure, the world tilted.
“boss!!”
As I fell to the floor after hearing the vampire kid’s words, I couldn’t stop my heavy eyelids from pressing down on me.
Through my slowly closing eyes, I see my teacher looking down at me without saying a word.
That was the last one.
I think I muttered something unconsciously, but my thoughts didn’t continue beyond that.
I lost my mind like that.
* * *
I felt like I had a bad dream.
A ridiculous dream where a baby lizard, which should be walking on all fours, walks on two legs and talks to a heavenly teacher, to whom even I cannot dare speak, as if he were talking to a subordinate.
I stabbed the bastard with the toothpick I was holding as if I was going to kill him.
The toothpick was stuck deep into the lizard’s body, almost like poking a sponge.
Roughly, I stabbed him about ten times and was about to pierce his head with the toothpick when it snapped in two.
What’s even funnier is that the moment the toothpick broke, it transformed from an inanimate object into a living thing.
The toothpick without a mouth spoke to me.
‘How long are you going to sleep like this, X-sin-ah?’
My eyes opened wide.
The unfamiliar ceiling and soft feeling are transmitted to my mind.
If it feels like this, it’s probably a bed.
“master!!”
It’s a voice that feels somehow familiar.
It’s like Ron’s voice… … .
“Would you like to know me, my lord?”
I roughly slapped away Ron’s hand, which was waving two fingers in front of my eyes.
no.
“Why is Ron here? No. Where is this place?”
“that is…….”
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Ron paused for a moment, trying to say something in a quiet voice, but there was something else that had to take priority.
“It looks like a temple, have you seen the ‘doll’ and ‘girl’ that were with me?”
“If it’s that girl, she’s sleeping in the next room. She calls you boss, right? And if it’s a doll… … you mean ‘that’ thing next to your bed?”
I quickly turned my head and burst out laughing.
Because the teacher was still looking at me with an expressionless face.
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I felt a little relieved.
“Good morning, Master.”
[… … It is evening now.]
I could hear Ron gasping for breath next to me, but I paid him no attention.
What’s important now is that Master is by my side.
That you are by my side and not going anywhere.
That will do.
“You’re not upset, are you?”
[What would I be angry about? That body isn’t mine anyway.]
I ended up laughing hysterically.
Even though he says things like that, I know he is a deep person.
Now that I think about it, I’m in pretty good shape.
But for some reason, I can taste strawberries in my mouth.
What the heck, did you drink some top-quality strawberry-flavored potion?
“How can a doll talk…? No, then it just sat there for three days without saying a word….”
“theory.”
“……yes?”
“I’ll explain it to you slowly later. Just know this. He is my teacher. Be careful what you say from now on.”
“… … Yes, I understand.”
I got out of bed and checked my body again.
The wounds were gone and the clothes he was wearing had been changed into relatively clean, everyday clothes.
It was definitely not normal, but it wasn’t abnormal either.
I guess I’ll have to hear an explanation about this.
“Speak briefly and concisely.”
* * *
Ron began to tell the story as if he had been waiting, but it was not a long story.
To sum up, the 20 or so escort troops who had set out ‘together’ with me from the Marquis’ house were found dead in the mountains near the Arbeloa estate, and the news was relayed directly to the Marquis’ house.
Naturally, the Marquis dispatched soldiers to investigate the incident.
And the knight, who was the inspector and had been given full authority by the Marquis, judged that I, as a witness, would have a clue, and pursued me, albeit belatedly.
In fact, it could be said to be a natural procedure.
I am the only one among the corpses that was not found, and there will even be testimony that someone saw me in the Arbeloa estate.
Honestly, it’s strange to just let it go.
So the Marquis’ soldiers made efforts to secure me and heard that I had arrived in the city of Ascendible.
They moved to catch me, but as if by coincidence, a loud noise and absurd waves of mana arose from the outskirts of Ascendible.
According to witnesses, tens of thousands of strangely shaped giant swords fell from the sky, but as there was little damage to the surrounding area, it was simply dismissed as a rumor and naturally buried.
Then, the Marquis’ soldiers found me lying on the outskirts of the city, bleeding from all over my body.
Since my physical condition was too serious to be sent straight to the Marquis, I was moved to the temple within the Ascendible territory, and the inspector hurriedly bought three top-grade potions and poured them into my mouth.
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I asked what it tasted like just in case, and they said it was a strawberry flavored potion.
It really tasted like strawberries.
No, how did you know I like strawberry flavor?
At that point I raised my hand and interrupted Ron’s story.
“There’s nothing more to hear. What I’m wondering now is this: Why isn’t Ron here to protect his sister?”
Ron scratches his head uncharacteristically as he pokes the bed with his right index finger.
“You may not know, but the Marquis is in quite a state of disarray right now. Because of the massacre of those soldiers… … there are even rumors going around that a land war might break out. The young lady also heard the news about you.”
I listened to Ron’s story in silence.
“I was extremely worried. The Marquis and Marchioness tried to stop the young lady from coming here, and since the young master was comfortable with me, the Marquis decided to include me in the investigation team.”
If you listen to the story roughly, other people will probably think that this story is pretty neat and there is nothing strange about it.
But not for me.
I hate to say it myself, but it was a disaster I caused, and I am the culprit of that disaster.
And I know what will happen in the future.
Something is strange.
No, to be exact, I should say that I feel a sense of discomfort.
“You dispatched soldiers… … You judged that the cause was external? So… … The Marquis, you don’t suspect Ron?”
Ron nods.
I looked at that sight and fell into thought for a moment.
Ron’s position is servant.
Strictly speaking, they are butlers, but it is not awkward to lump them together and call them servants.
But that doesn’t mean that your extraordinary brain is going anywhere.
A truly, extremely rare 9th circle wizard in this Teslan kingdom.
If Ron came here and said that the Marquis did not doubt him, then he was right.
Because I have complete confidence in Ron’s judgment.
If that’s the case, then the Marquis doesn’t doubt Ron at all… … If you look at the way the situation is going.
“He was a dumber bird than I thought… … No, he was even dumber than I thought. My father.”
Ron laughs awkwardly.
“Anyway, let me summarize… … .”
I was speechless.
Because the door opened with a loud bang.
“boss!!”
The vampire kid hugged me tightly while crying.
Oh, really.
“Why are you crying? If someone saw me, they’d think I came back from the dead.”
Actually, strictly speaking, it was a state of being on the verge of death, but the word on the verge of death has a slightly different effect on me than it does on others.
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I am confident that I will survive no matter what, unless I decide to die.
Although my limbs still feel slightly numb, my heart still feels tingly, and I still feel faintly dizzy, this was part of my daily life anyway.
And the fact that I didn’t wake up while I was lying down means that no one showed me ‘life’.
Anyway, after I roughly organized my thoughts and patted our little vampire on the back, Ron, who was next to me, looked at me with gloomy eyes.
It’s a look that asks, “What is this situation?”
That was when.
