Episode 118
– Ugh…
As Cania slipped into Frey’s arms, the sun, which had been shaking uneasily as if it would fall at any moment, gradually began to subside.
– Coo coo coo coo!
“Huh?”
“Ugh.”
At the same time, mild earthquakes began to occur.
Although it was quite weak, it was strong enough to cause people standing on the ground to collapse.
“Oh, ouch…”
When Klana, who got her butt kicked thanks to you, started to cry, Irina, who was looking at her, asked a question in a low voice.
“Klarna, can I ask you something?”
“Yes, yes?”
Then, Klana, who had been quietly stroking her back, began to look at Irina with a stern expression.
“How do you know about the system?”
Irina asked, looking at her with sharp eyes.
Because Klarna had barely known the truth about Frey until now. And, even if the memories of the so-called ‘trial’ that Frey mentioned came to mind… it was because knowing the ‘system’ was unnatural.
“You mean the system? Um… that’s it…”
Klarna quietly began to think about the question asked for that reason.
“So… uh…”
For some reason, Klarna, who had been mulling over that question for quite some time, soon began to stutter.
“You… told me, right?”
“what?”
“Irina, you grabbed me by the collar and told me the whole story.”
Irina, who heard those words, began to look embarrassed.
“What kind of nonsense is that?”
“yes?”
“I couldn’t have told you that. If I told you that, Frey would…”
Eventually, Irina, who was speaking in a trembling voice, quietly pointed to Frey.
“…that would have ended up like that.”
“ah.”
Klana looked dazed for a moment at those words, but then started muttering while holding her head.
“But, obviously… I definitely heard the truth from you.”
“What is that…”
“And to Mr. Kania.”
Klarna slightly raised her head and looked at Kania, who had been quietly hugging Frey until then, and spoke.
“I heard the detailed truth while being attacked by Mr. Kania who went on a rampage.”
“…when and where?”
As Klana kept talking about random things, Irina asked with a frustrated expression.
“uh…”
Klarna, who was quietly lost in thought after hearing that question, soon muttered with a face filled with guilt.
“That day at Frey’s mansion, the moment after I became emperor.”
Klarna’s hands were shaking as she said those words.
The mysterious symptom that has been bothering Klarna for the past few weeks began suddenly after she had a nightmare one day.
Hell, the cause of which was unknown for a while, had come upon her again.
“It’s all my karma…”
However, Klarna no longer suffered from abnormal symptoms whose cause was unknown.
The trembling of the hand is an imprint of the feeling that was transmitted to the hand when Frey’s body was pierced with a spear and a dagger.
Because he realized that it was the result of the oath he made with Frey, his only friend and companion when he was young.
This is because he decided to embrace it simply as his own karma and as proof that he is connected to Frey through a covenant.
“……hmm.”
Irina, who was watching Klarna like that, soon asked a question in a low voice.
“So, you heard all the stories about the system during the ‘trial’?”
“Ordeal… Ordeal?
“Yes, if you know what a system is, you will also know what an ‘ordeal’ is.”
When I said that, Klarna, who was stunned for a moment, soon began to tilt her head.
“No… what I experienced was not an ordeal.”
“what?”
“That was a stark reality.”
After hearing that, Irina frowned and asked a question.
“Klana. Did you receive memories of that ordeal… or rather, to what extent did you receive those memories?”
“…It’s already been a while since I graduated from the academy, so at least a few years must have passed.”
“How many years!?”
Irina, who shouted in surprise, quickly calmed down and began to organize the situation.
‘According to Klarna, she found out the truth about Frey by recalling memories of an ordeal that lasted several years…’
Frey said the second trial was merely a hypothetical scenario to test himself.
In other words, the people Frey met during the second trial were all fiction and illusions created by the system.
But for some reason, Klarna remembers what happened during the second ordeal.
It is said that they even discovered the truth about the ‘system’ during the ordeal.
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‘…Does that make sense?’
Irina was quietly mulling over these facts, which were obviously strange to anyone. I soon tried to ask a question again in a low voice.
“Big!!”
At that moment, Frey, who was lying down, began vomiting blood.
“”…ah.””
The sun suddenly rose in the sky and the ground shook. The two girls, who had been dazed from earlier, finally realized.
Now, things like this aren’t important.
.
“”……””
Just like that, a few hours after the incident in the forest where Klana and Frey’s memories rest, ended.
“Big!!”
“P-frey!!”
Klanna and Irina quietly returned to the dormitory without anyone noticing, taking Frey and Kania, who had fainted, with them.
“Ugh, uh…”
“Why, why are you doing this…?”
Leaning on the bed, still unconscious, Frey, who was continuously vomiting blood, was being nursed with a restless expression.
“Hey, Irina. Why doesn’t Frey’s bleeding stop?”
“Wait, wait. I’m looking for the cause now.”
However, their best care did not have much effect.
This was because the bowl containing his blood was already filling the floor.
– Rumbling…
“Ahhh…”
Klarna held a bowl to the mouth of Frey, who couldn’t lie down for fear of blocking his airway, but made him sit down. When he started vomiting blood again, he began to cry and tell the story.
“Please, please don’t die…”
“Kuhuh…”
“Now, I finally understand everything. Now I can understand you.
“eww…”
“Now… I can love you…”
Until just now, although he was terminally ill, Frey was walking around fine.
After Frey received a penalty because of her, she was devastated, even to her, who had no knowledge of medicine.
“Ugh…”
Thanks to this, Klarna, who was crying and shaking her hands with great guilt, quietly buried her head in Frey’s chest.
“Now, wait a minute… something’s strange.”
“yes?”
Klana, who had been shedding tears in his arms for a long time, raised her head after hearing Irina’s words.
“Why, why didn’t Frey’s lifespan decrease?”
“That… what does that mean?”
After hearing those words, Klarna asked a question full of hope.
The fact that Frey’s lifespan did not decrease meant that the time we could spend with him increased.
This was because it meant that there was still a chance to serve him and leave his mark on one’s body.
“This… is a device that tells Frey’s remaining lifespan.”
“…Give it, give it!”
Klana, who was thinking about that, snatched the device from Irina’s hand as soon as she heard her words.
“…uh?”
Eventually, Klana, who was looking at the device with an expression full of hope, soon tilted her head and asked Irina a question.
“Irina, what does this mean?”
“…what.”
“The date written here. The date written 2 years and 2 months later? Where will the remaining life go and why…”
After hearing those words, Irina quietly lowered her head.
“Could it be that this date…is the date he died?”
Only then did I realize what the date meant.
No, in fact, Klarna was faced with a fact that she had noticed from the first time she looked at the device, but could not bear to admit it.
“He, he really… dies. He doesn’t live for more than three years.”
I muttered with a dumbfounded expression.
Of course, she knew very well that Frey was terminally ill.
That there was less time left than I thought, and the exact date of his death.
No, the fact that he knew the exact date by which he could survive the longest shook Klarna’s spirit mercilessly.
“…Anyway, the important thing is that his lifespan has not decreased.”
“You mean this hasn’t decreased?”
“Yes, if the lifespan had been shortened… this device would have remembered the date 1 year and 1 month later.”
Irina responded to Klarna.
“Looking at that, maybe what Kania and I did… no, what Kania did wasn’t in vain.”
“Cough!!”
With an expression of confusion and helplessness, Frey muttered while wiping the blood he had vomited with a handkerchief.
“But seeing him cough up blood like that… it wasn’t perfect after all.”
At the same time, he chewed his own lip, bleeding.
“…f*ck me, what kind of archmage are you?”
So, for a while, only Frey’s coughing sound began to linger in the room.
“Uhm…”
“Mr. Kania?”
“Cania!”
And the silence was broken only when Kania, who was lying on the cot next to the bed where Frey was lying, slowly opened her eyes and stood up.
“This place…Ugh!!”
Kania, who was wandering around with her eyes open, soon felt a terrible pain near her chest.
He quickly covered his mouth and lowered his head.
“Kania! What’s wrong with you?”
“Mr. Kania! Are you hurt somewhere…?”
When the two girls called Kania, she covered her mouth and was lost in thought for a moment.
“I see. In the end, it was successful.”
With a smile, he stood up and started muttering.
“But looking at the master’s condition… it seems like he’s in a very difficult situation.”
“Uh, uhm…”
Hearing Kania’s words, which seemed somehow calm, Irina, who had diagnosed Frey so far, began to talk.
“It seems to me that Frey’s lifespan is safe, but his vitality has taken a hit. Of course, that alone is something to be thankful for, but… for some reason, he is not recovering.”
“Of course not.”
After hearing Irina’s words, Kania approached Frey, who was still lying on the bed with a smile on his face.
– Sigh.
“”….ah?””
I naturally lay down next to Frey and hugged him tightly.
“young master.”
He looked at Frey with very loving eyes.
“Now rest in peace.”
As the two girls watching the scene looked dumbfounded, Kania began to speak in a low voice.
“It seems that in the process of my soul and your soul mixing and then separating, a side effect occurred.”
“side effect?”
“Yes, because there are still traces of your soul in my body. Your body has become unstable and recovery has been extremely slow.”
Kania, who was gently stroking Frey, who had stopped coughing up blood, spoke in a low voice to the two who were looking at each other with blank expressions.
“So, I think we’ll have to stay like this until you wake up.”
After saying that, Kania hugged Frey tightly and quietly closed her eyes.
Due to the curse bestowed upon her, the ‘Curse of Single-mindedness’.
The pain that Frey was feeling not only in his chest but all over his body, the complex emotions that he felt for some reason even though he was unconscious, and even every single heartbeat.
I feel it all.
“…excuse me.”
“Mr. Kania.”
Irina and Klarna, who were looking down at Kania who was smiling so happily, started talking with nervous expressions.
“I… will make a ‘blood oath’ to Frey. I will give him my soul…”
“I have to make a new oath to his soul… Otherwise, I feel like I’m going crazy…”
“Not now.”
However, Kania quietly shook her head and said.
“Your soul is in a very unstable state right now. If you make such magical oaths, problems may arise.”
“Well, still…”
“Please cooperate for the master’s speedy recovery.”
Even though she knew very well that souls and magical oaths had nothing to do with each other, Kania cut off their argument with a cold expression.
“Uhm…”
Smiling happily again, she placed her forehead against Frey’s face and began to feel him.
Frey even manipulated her memories so as not to hate her, and destroyed his own life force to save her.
And Frey, who is finally able to repay the favor little by little.
“”…………””
Just like that, silence began to flow in the room for a while.
– Sigh…
“Fray, it’s okay…”
That is until Serena, who entered the room with a pale face, broke the silence.
“……explain it to me please.”
“What do you mean?”
He must have stopped by the library before arriving at the academy, and he was carrying a lot of various documents with ancient characters written on them.
And when Serena, who had invisible wounds all over her body for some reason, asked with a cold expression, Kania, who had been hugging Frey tightly until then, asked the question in return.
“What happened… during today?”
As Serena continued, Kania began to speak with a smile.
“I protected the young master’s life.”
“…okay.”
Serena heard those words and nodded quietly.
“Also, I had you, Master.”
However, when Cania spoke while caressing her stomach, Serena’s expression began to distort.
“And that trace still remains in me.”
“…under.”
Looking at Serena like that, Kania continued speaking in a calm voice.
“and…”
Soon a wedge was driven in.
“…You and I have become one until we die.”
After speaking like that, Kania glanced at Serena and added.
“If you are smart Serena, you would know that it is all true.”
“You have to use metaphors in moderation.”
“What a metaphor. I was just telling the truth.”
Serena, who was biting her lip slightly at Kania’s nonchalant reaction, then raised the corner of her mouth and spoke.
“…Well, everyone. I have good news.”
Then, everyone’s eyes focused on Serena.
“I found out the secret headquarters of the clan.”
Serena, who eventually spoke with a confident expression, finished her sentence by coldly looking down at Kania, who was hugging Frey tightly.
“That’s really good news, isn’t it?”
The two women’s gazes intertwined in the air, and the dawn time passed slowly.
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