46 – Hello

I said so, but I couldn’t sing right away.

The guitar went in the order it was set for, and my turn was still a bit off.

I had to wait for my turn, staring blankly at the spinning guitar.

Let’s sit quietly with our mouth shut,

The sound of students singing is heard.

-Oh, my dear!

—-Let’s go! far away!

—-Wake up—-!!!

students who sing cheerfully,

Students cheering and applauding him.

The sounds of singing, laughter and applause create a noisy and exciting atmosphere.

Perhaps because I was swept away by the atmosphere, I felt like I was getting excited without even realizing it.

‘fun.’

He quietly muttered to himself and smiled lightly.

The softly curved corners of the mouth gave off an awkward feeling.

Who cares, he quickly erased that stiff smile.

The corners of the mouth that were curved and then returned to a straight line.

I silently wiped my mouth with my hand and rolled my eyes for no reason.

ㅡ knock knock…

The place his wandering gaze landed on was none other than a bonfire.

The bonfire, warmly illuminating the surroundings as they devour firewood without hesitation, shone softly under the dark night sky.

Like a piece of broken sun.

“……”

On the night of a school trip, watching the bonfire while listening to the song was quite tasteful.

ㅡPrickle… Prickle…

The cries of grass insects from the bushes and the noises made by the students mix to create new sounds.

The heat of the bonfire gently spreads under the cool night air,

In the dark surroundings, millions of stars engraved on the black sky and a single moon shine.

Looking at the scenery that seemed to have the adjective ‘calm’ engraved on it, I spent some time in a daze.

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After that little time, by the time the campfire time is almost over,

The guitar that had been wandering around was finally handed over to me.

I wonder if it was my last turn, after all the students, including Taeyang Geum and Maharet, had finished singing.

Geum Taeyang sang the newest street song popular in the capital city, and he sang it pretty well than I thought.

The sweet golden sun… Something terrible…

Unlike Geum Taeyang, Maharet sang a slightly older song.

……I will not comment on how it was for the sake of Princess’s image.

As I frowned at the memory of Maharet’s terrible song,

Golden Sun, who was sitting next to me, tapped my arm and asked.

“So, what are you going to call me?”

“What do you call me… well…”

In response to that question, I tapped the guitar in my hand.

In fact, there aren’t that many songs I know.

No more than 30 songs at most.

There are fewer of them that you know how to sing…

In the first place, I was always confined to the training room and just rolling around, but there was no way there was a song I knew.

Of the 30 songs I knew, half of them were from my mother and half from Chang-ho hyung.

Let’s see… Except for the songs my mom used to play for me, they were nursery rhymes and lullabies…

From the songs Changho hyung sang to me…

There was only one song that came to mind.

Me and Changho hyung’s favorite song.

The first song Changho hyung listened to me.

“Yeah, I guess I’ll have to do that…”

“What is that? What is it?”

“You wouldn’t know even if I told you.”

Because what I’m going to sing is a song from a past life, a modern era.

The people who live in this world do not know Ali.

“……Um.”

Come to think of it… This is a pop song, can other people understand the English lyrics…?

I tilted my head and quietly muttered the first line of the song.

“Hello, it’s me.”

ㅡHello, it’s me.

Then, at the same time as the lyrics in English were spit out of the mouth, the translated imperial language was heard in the ears.

ㅡTitling!

[The skill ‘Imperial Common Language’ is automatically used!]

[Translates all spoken language into ‘Imperial Common Language’!]

“……?”

I looked at the blue windows floating in front of my eyes and raised a question mark above my head.

No, this ‘Imperial Common Language’ skill was used like this…?

I thought it was just a name…?

I quietly picked up the guitar again, marveling at the unexpected function.

In this way, you don’t have to worry about the lyrics.

ㅡTitling!

[The skill ‘Guitar Mastery (C )’ is activated!]

[You will have a basic understanding of the instrument called ‘guitar’!]

The ‘Guitar Mastery (C)’ I bought with 50 points earlier is also working well.

I lightly plucked the guitar string a few times and started playing the accompaniment.

Fingers move softly, dancing gently on the guitar.

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Just before I opened my mouth and sang the first line, I briefly met eyes with Maharet, who was sitting next to me.

She was staring blankly at me playing the guitar.

When our eyes met, he frowned and turned his head away.

I gave him a shy smile and started singing.

“Hello… it’s me.”

ㅡHello… It’s me.

ㅡ I was curious. After all this time, I’ll look back on everything.

ㅡThey say time heals everything, but I can’t.

The sound of the guitar resonates, and my voice stretches out.

The voice fills the air and fills the dark night.

Squeeze out notes one by one, slowly, without being too hasty.

ㅡHi, are you watching?

— Back then when we were younger and freer.

—-I forgot how it felt to have the world under our feet.

—-There is a distance of a million miles between us.

The students’ voices, which were chattering loudly, disappeared.

Everyone was staring at me with their mouths shut.

My song creates silence,

I fill the silence with my singing voice again.

Suddenly, the song enters the highlight part.

ㅡHello through the letter.

—-To tell you I’m sorry, I wrote thousands of letters.

ㅡBut you weren’t home every time.

While singing, Maharet’s eyes meet for a moment.

She looks at me with complicated eyes.

I didn’t know what kind of expression to put on, so I smiled bitterly.

—-At least you can say I tried.

—-To say I’m sorry for hurting you.

—-But it doesn’t matter, because you won’t be hurt anymore.

I strained my throat as I sang and closed my eyes.

It was because of the sore and painful feelings rising up inside.

ㅡNaruya! listen to this song!

ㅡ How is it, isn’t it really good?

It was a song that Changho hyung told me about.

It was a song etched into my head by the only person who tried to save my gutter-like life.

though he’s gone

In the end, I lost everything and left, but

There were still traces of him in me.

My eyes are burning, and my throat is tight.

The hand that was playing the guitar trembled.

But it doesn’t stop.

I sang with my closed eyes giving strength.

until the song is over.

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“……”

Maharet was blankly watching Raiden sing.

His figure as he strummed his guitar and quietly sang, looked somewhat sad.

‘I’m sorry for hurting you, Rani…’

Maharet was quietly pondering the lyrics of Raiden’s song.

A song I’ve never heard in the empire, a song I’ve never heard before.

The lyrics alone were sad, and the tone was melancholy, so it sounded desperate.

I have a painful love, and I try to say sorry to the person who hurt me, but

A song that does not convey its words to the other person.

‘I’m sorry for hurting you…’

Maharet slightly bit his lip.

Then I thought quietly.

‘……Are you talking to me…?’

Come to think of it, right before he started singing, he looked at himself.

And while singing, our eyes met several times.

The lyrics were also strangely similar to the situation of the two.

“……It can’t be.”

Until a few days ago, as soon as he found out that he was in the same group, he was the one who said, ‘You look like a beggar.’

There’s no way a person like that would regret anything.

…there is no way

……I can’t do it…

“……”

Maharet quietly clenched his fists, feeling the entanglement of his thoughts.

Then, until the song was over, he didn’t take his eyes off Raiden.

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ㅡThing… Took.

When the song is over and I put down the guitar that has stopped ringing.

I felt something strange.

“……”

Until the song started, the students who were talking among themselves,

He stopped his mouth and was staring at me.

what…? Why is the reaction like this?

Maybe it’s because I can’t sing too much?

I cringed slightly and looked around.

However, looking at the faces of the students, it seemed that this was not the case.

Should I rather say the opposite?

A look as if he was impressed.

Most of the students were looking at me with wet eyes, and a few of them were even sniffling.

“……”

well… is it over?

I was worried, and quietly rubbed my chin.

At that moment, a familiar mechanical sound rang in my ears.

ㅡTitling!

[Subquest completed!]

Title: ~My song to you~

[Contents]

Sing successfully. (completion)

[compensation]

1. Favorability toward academy students ( 200)

2. Points 300p

[penalty]

doesn’t exist

[Time limit: Until the end of the campfire.]

“Looks like it’s over…”

After the status window appeared, I was able to breathe a sigh of relief.

ㅡTitling!

[Academy students’ affinity for you increases by 200!]

[Points 300p will be paid!]

I erased the blue spears floating in the air and stretched out.

Perhaps because the campfire was over, the time was almost 12:00 at night.

The bonfire, which had been burning brightly, had faded before I knew it, and only red embers remained burning.

Tired and a little sluggish, I yawned and got up from my seat.

The other students also left their seats little by little and seemed to be entering the tent.

As I was about to sail to the tent, gently loosening my stiff body, I met eyes with Maharet, who was also getting up from his seat.

“……”

She looked at me for a moment with a puzzled look on her face, then said,

He turned his head and walked towards the tent.

I also followed her to our group’s tent.

“……”

“……”

During that brief, awkward silence, the golden sun came in between us.

“What, are you all going to sleep?”

Geumtaeyang asked me with a smile, and I answered with a nod.

“It’s late. There will be activities tomorrow too, so let’s sleep.”

“Hmm~ then I’m going to bed too!”

“Okay, let’s go.”

“If it’s a tent… Violet will be sleeping first, right?”

“I went in first, so wouldn’t it?”

Since it was late, Violet, who entered the tent first, was probably sleeping.

Thinking that I should go in quietly, I moved on.

After walking for a while, I found a large 4-person tent set up a little away from the campfire.

We went inside carefully so as not to wake Violet, who was sleeping first.

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At that time, in a forest on the other side of the island,

A place called ‘The Grave of Stars’.

The place where 21 heroes who sacrificed their lives to protect this island were buried in the past, during the war against the demons.

In the huge cemetery with its 21 tombstones, something was happening.

ㅡKuddudd… Kwakwak, Kookuk…

The ground beneath the tombstones shakes, wriggling like a living creature.

A black aura giving off a dark atmosphere was swirling around the tombstones.

At the center of that ominous aura, a man stood.

A man with a black robe wrapped around his body, holding a bizarre-looking book.

He was muttering something as he stretched out his hand toward the tombs on the floor.

“…I will call the souls of the dead again, and ring the bell beyond death…”

A horrifying voice echoes through the air.

A terrifying voice, as if the screams of the world were tightly packed together.

“To revive the body of a noble hero, to crave blood and flesh…”

“Cross the river of death, and climb the road of eternal death…”

“…and make my wish come true.”

Black auras sway from the man’s hands.

And those auras seep into the tombs.

The man opens a page from the book he was holding in his hand, cuts his hand and drips a drop of blood onto it.

The droplets of blood swelled up, then turned black.

At the same time, the black auras that permeated into the tomb turn red and begin to glow.

The man gazes at the scene and quietly whispers.

“I command this in the name of the third servant of the great Demon Lord Rugetina, the Four Heavenly Kings, Pyrene—”

“—-Arise, knights.”

ㅡ Kwakwak!!

At the same time as Pyrene recited the last sentence written in the book, a hand pierced the ground.

ㅡQuack, Kwagak! Knock!

And after that, one, two, hands rising from the ground.

3000 years ago, the heroes who protected the island from demons were rising as death knights.

“Hehehe… At the point where the Demon King’s resurrection is near, these will be good sacrifices…”

Pyrene robbed the grave and stood up, giggling as she looked at the 21 undead knights kneeling in front of her.

“Master, command us.”

The death knights bowed their heads.

Pyrene gave an eerie smile and ordered them.

“Kill all humans on this island.”

“”I’ll take it.””

Knights who raise their bodies in an angular posture.

Pyrene giggled again, then murmured.

“Demon King, please wait… I will prepare to greet you soon…”

And the next moment, Pyrene disappeared before he knew it.

The only thing left there is the 21 knights who were ordered to be killed.

ㅡ chuk chuk chuk chuk chuk chuk chuk

The footsteps of the knights echoed under the night sky.

And, of course, where those footsteps are headed—

ㅡIt was the base camp of Reynolds Academy.