27 – Don’t touch my brother

Alan Reinhardt, the chosen hero of this generation.

As the main eyewitness of yesterday’s ballroom terrorism,

I was on my way back to the dormitory after being interrogated along with the other key witnesses.

When I was waiting for the carriage to come at the carriage stop,

A girl next to him spoke up.

“By the way, Alan. Is Alan all right?”

“yes?”

The person who spoke to him was the same person he was with yesterday.

It was the saintess, Lorraine Marlena.

She looked up at him with softly shining white eyes.

“Alan faced those thugs yesterday.”

Alan responded with a thumbs up to the saintess’s words of concern for him.

“I’m fine, at least I got a little scratch on my arm.”

“still…”

The saintess seemed to be bothered by the fact that Alan was injured while defending her.

Recognizing that, Alan smiled slightly.

“It’s really okay. Besides, I haven’t done much, I’ve only dealt with about 3 top sword users…”

At Alan’s words, another girl standing behind the saintess raised her head and said.

“You’re the only one who can say that the top 3 sword users are the only ones, Alan.”

A charming girl with blonde hair shining like the sun and blue eyes like the sea,

It was the second princess of the empire, Anna von Rietro.

Anna looked at Alan, who called the top 3 sword users ‘only’, and put on a face of absurdity.

If there are three high-ranking sword users, it is equivalent to one low-ranking sword expert.

It’s not a stage that can’t be completely crossed, but it’s not a stage that can be called ‘only’.

Even more so at the student level.

Alan smiled awkwardly, receiving Anna’s bewildered gaze.

“Haha… I’m fine…”

“Sheesh, no luck. right sister?”

Anna grumbled and looked at Lucy standing next to her.

Perhaps she was thinking about something, Lucy, who had a dazed expression on her face, answered Anna’s words one beat late.

“Uh..? Ah, yes…”

Anna frowned at her reaction, which lacked a pulse.

“Sister, are you okay? I told you to just rest if you’re tired.”

“it’s okay…”

Lucy tries to smile at Anna’s harsh worries.

Anna tried to say something more about her appearance, but soon shut her mouth.

“……”

“……”

As the two of them shut their mouths, the atmosphere became slightly awkward.

In a somewhat heavy atmosphere, the saintess smiled awkwardly and resumed her conversation.

“By the way, I heard that the attack happened on the side of the princesses too?”

“That’s right, luckily, at that time, Raiden-senpai protected the two of them…”

Alan was speechless.

It was because in his head, the terrible scenery he had seen yesterday came to mind.

Surroundings full of blood and the fishy scent of blood,

A floor with mangled bodies strewn about,

A person who is flailing and flapping his body as if in pain.

and……

A man smiling thrilledly at the fluttering person.

Leiden Lysit.

His face, soaked in blood, burning the living with a smile,

It really looked like a demon that had descended into the present world.

When Raiden’s name came up, maybe Lucy and Anna, who were there yesterday, had the same idea,

Both of them flinched and shivered.

Alan calmed his trembling heart and said.

“Saintess…”

“yes?”

“Really, was Raiden-senpai a person who had nothing to do with demons…?”

Alan asked with a slightly stiff expression.

The saintess nodded with a serious expression on her face.

“yes. I didn’t even feel the magic, and there was no reaction when I used divine power.”

“okay…”

Alan rubbed his chin and sighed.

what is it

What the heck is that person?

Alan muttered to himself.

—-I called you to give a warning.

ㅡDuring the banquet, don’t get away from the saintess.

He obviously knew in advance that this raid would happen.

But… how?

It was something that the academy hadn’t noticed at all.

It was not a part that one student could notice.

Of course, it was a bit unreasonable to call the eldest son of a ducal family a mere ‘student’,

Even taking that into account, this made no sense.

It is the best academy on the continent led by the ‘Tsunami Empress, Corne Lognesia’.

You say you have better information than those academies?

no.

I’m telling you unequivocally, it can’t be.

Then what the hell is Raiden?

He knew in advance the facts of the raid that even the academy did not know about.

Also, against the top 10 sword users, he blocked the terrorism by showing absurd force.

He even knew that now, Alan was the chosen hero of this generation.

‘It’s definitely strange… and…’

somewhere dangerous

The fact that he is not a contract with the devil has been verified, but

His vigilance against him hadn’t been lifted yet.

Alan organizes various thoughts in his mind,

A person named Raiden was classified as a ‘person to be wary of’.

‘If we ever meet again, we must be vigilant… we never know what will happen…’

Raiden nodded while thinking so.

But he didn’t know.

That meeting would happen right away.

“uh…?”

“Raiden…?”

Anna and Lucy sigh.

Alan turned his head and looked to the side.

Then, softly shining black hair caught my eye.

Through that hair, black eyes could be seen.

Leiden Lysit.

The ‘warning target’ that Alan had been thinking about just now appeared in front of his eyes.

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.

.

what the heck, why are you here?

I muttered to myself as I looked at the four gazes directed at me.

I came to the carriage stop to head to the dormitory,

All the main figures of yesterday’s incident were gathered at the bus stop.

The princess and the sisters, Raiden, and even the saint.

Did they have something to do with the main building?

It’s amazing to see you all together like this.

“Hello everyone.”

Feeling curious about the coincidence, I slightly bowed my head and said hello.

“Hello, Mr. Raiden.”

Obviously, I greeted ‘everyone’, but the only one who accepted the greeting was the saintess.

The other three just stood there without saying hello.

……

…f*ck, isn’t it humanly acceptable to say hello?

You saved them even when they were all wrecked yesterday?

I cursed inwardly and sighed.

Pushing back the slightly creeping irritation, I made eye contact with the four people in front of me.

By the way…

The eyes of the four people looking at me were somehow strange.

The saintess was smiling awkwardly at me, and Alan was glaring at me slightly.

Anna was avoiding my eyes, and Lucy was looking at me with quivering eyes.

“……”

No matter how clumsy I was in human relations, I was able to get to know the country.

The meaning of the reaction was obvious alertness and fear.

When I noticed him, I stopped and stared blankly at them.

When they met my eyes, they flinched and trembled.

As if he had seen a monster.

In response, I felt my heart go cold.

……

…why?

why are you wary of me?

why are you afraid of me

I’m obviously…

I saved you…?

As I muttered to myself, Alan, who was glaring at me,

He said while hiding the saintess and Anna behind his back.

“What are you doing here, sir?”

sharp words,

cold voice.

Waves of that sound entered through the ear canal.

I was in doubt.

Look at Lucy’s reaction.

Looking at Anna’s reaction,

Looking at you now, in front of me, with your hand on the sword at your waist,

I felt a strong doubt.

what else did i do wrong?

Is something wrong?

Did something go wrong?

To clear up the question, I took a step forward and asked.

“Hey…why is everyone doing that…”

-Seureung

However, my question was cut off in the middle.

The clear sound of the sword coming out of its scabbard cut the waist of my question.

“Don’t come closer.”

Saying that, Alan pointed the drawn sword at me.

It was a familiar attitude.

A familiar posture, as if I had seen it recently.

After thinking for a while, the head found the origin of the familiarity.

‘……Ah, that was it.’

Yesterday, when I was sorting things out,

The time Alan aimed his sword at me.

It was the same confrontation situation as back then.

‘Even then, obviously, glaring at me…’

My steps stopped.

Where the question was cut off, only the question remained.

‘Why all of a sudden…? I solved everything in a good way, but I safely rescued everyone…’

ㅡ Why?

‘Why are you looking at me like that…?’

I just stood there, looking at him with a wavering question.

A few minutes for the confrontation to continue like that.

The thing that broke the stillness that sat deeply at the bus stop was-

“Ice spear”

-It was a one-sentence chant.

At the same time as cool mana shimmers,

An ice spear flying towards Alan from behind me.

The spear flew at high speed and collided strongly with Alan’s sword.

—-Kagagak! Empty!

“Keuugh…!?”

Alan managed to deflect the spear.

Alan and I looked at the place where the spear flew with puzzled eyes.

Ariel was standing there, emitting blue mana.

“Ariel…?”

Every time the blue manna swayed, the fluttering red hair created a contrast, exuding a mysterious color.

Ariel’s eyes were covered with blue mana, giving off a faint purple color.

She looked up at Alan, her eyes savagely raised.

Then he said

“Hey, I told you not to touch my brother the other day.”

Her purple eyes shone ferociously, as if telling her she was in a bad mood.

She let out a cold chill and spat out a thick curse.

“Aren’t words like words? You f*cking bastard.”