48 – At least one more

Four hours had passed since I started to stay vigil.

It took a lot longer than I originally planned to do, but…

Well, it was better to do this than to lie down even though I couldn’t sleep.

ㅡchak

“Write, haaa…”

After burning six cigarettes, he exhaled, burning the seventh cigarette red.

In the middle of spending such a boring, meaningless time,

ㅡBus Luck…

A chuckle was heard from the tent.

I turned my head to him and looked towards the tent.

and there,

“Hick…!”

There was a girl with short purple hair.

“……Violet?”

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“…Huh…!”

Violet opened her eyes inside the dark tent.

It must have been a nightmare, he was out of breath.

She stood up, wiping the beads of sweat from her forehead.

“……”

The clock was pointing to around four in the morning.

She stared at her watch for a moment, bruised, then started to sob and weep.

It was because the memory of the nightmare I had just before was tormenting my mind.

ㅡ Disgusting year…

ㅡwook… what’s that on your face…!

—-Go away, because it’s disgusting…

“Eup… Ugh… Sigh…”

Violet covered her mouth so as not to wake the sleeping teammates.

A regurgitated cry choked her throat.

My throat felt hot, as if hot dough had filled my throat, and it was difficult to breathe.

“Eup… suck… ha… whoa… whoa…”

Violet managed to hold back her tears and wiped the tears from her eyes.

She got up from her sleeping bag and headed outside the tent.

It was to change the bandages wet with tears.

She fidgeted with the new bandage in her hand and opened the closed tent door.

ㅡGiwon

As soon as you open the door, what you see is a bonfire burning red.

“……?”

Violet tilted her head as she looked at the flames flickering appetizingly.

4:00 in the morning must be quite late, so why is the bonfire still on?

Someone waking up…

“……huck…!”

Violet, who had a question mark floating above her head, had no choice but to stop thinking for a moment and hiccup.

Because I met eyes with a boy sitting in front of a campfire.

The boy muttered, looking at her with puzzled eyes.

“……Violet?”

Black hair that seemed to have carved the night sky.

The two black eyes are sunk in shape.

A slightly dark circle around the eyes and a tired expression.

It was the academy’s most famous person, Prince Raiden.

“……Heeep.”

Violet involuntarily hiccupped and turned her head away.

Then slowly turn around and go back into the tent—

“What are you doing?”

“Heeep…”

—-Right before she died, Raiden, who had been staring at her, asked in an astonishing voice.

Violet, who was still afraid of Raiden because of the rumors she had heard and her cold impression, crouched in shock.

Rumors were also vicious, and he was the eldest son of the 3rd Duke of the Empire.

For Violet, a mere commoner, Raiden was a very high-ranking person.

“……”

“……”

Raiden looked at Violet’s wrinkly appearance for a while, then let out a deep sigh.

Then he threw a piece of firewood he was holding into the bonfire and said nonchalantly.

“……Come and sit down.”

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“……Come and sit down.”

“……?”

At my words, Violet tilted her head as if to say something.

I frowned slightly at him and spoke again.

“Come, I told you to sit down.”

“……!”

Violet, who finally came to her senses, was taken aback and quickly took a seat next to me.

……

…I didn’t even tell you to sit next to me.

oh well…

I brushed off the straw from my mouth and rubbed it on the floor.

Then I looked at the woman sitting next to me and asked.

“……Did you wake up from your sleep?”

“Ah, yes, no, yes, yes…”

Violet answered my question with a very rigid voice.

He must have been nervous, his tongue twisting.

Come to think of it… You said that dealing with people is difficult…

But, was it this much…

It felt like I was seeing myself in my previous life, and it made my stomach ache for no reason.

I smiled bitterly and quietly wiped my lips.

Meanwhile, Violet’s face came into view.

Shoulder-length purple hair,

Eye area with slight dark circles,

Self-awareness, where only a feeble vitality remains,

A white bandage covering most of the right side of his face.

“……”

Seeing her like that, I felt a sense of relief.

There were faint traces of tears on her eyes and cheeks.

And, because the bandage covering her right eye was wet.

I bit my lip and looked at that face,

He lowered his voice and asked her.

“…Are you having a nightmare…”

“…yes?”

“I can see the traces of tears…”

“Ah! This, this…! Ah, nothing…!”

Violet hurriedly wiped her eyes and waved her hands.

Between the hands shaking the air, a bandage that looked brand new caught my eye.

“That bandage…”

“Ah… this… I need to keep the bandages neat… to change them…”

When I point to the bandage with my hand, she quietly hides it in her arms and murmurs.

I nodded at those words.

“Yeah… I guess the reason you came out was to change the bandage…”

Even in the original work, Violet was extremely reluctant to show the inside of her bandages to others…

Perhaps even in the tent, he came out with a bandage out of fear that someone might see him.

“……”

Violet nodded cautiously at my words.

Then he asked me in a trembling voice.

“Uh, uh… uh, can I get up…?”

“…Why?”

“Hee-ik…!”

When I look at her with a little cold eyes,

Violet, who was trying to stand up quietly, was frightened and sat back in her seat.

“I’m sorry…!”

“…I just asked why.”

“Uh, so, that’s it… I have to be alone to change the bandage… Uh, the inside of that bandage is so ugly… I can’t show it to other people…”

She speaks gibberish.

The figure of the purple-haired girl, drenched in bewilderment and babbling, gave off the feeling of something like an idiot.

“…So! Boo, to change the bandage… a seat…”

After the lengthy explanation, Violet gave me a desperate look.

I looked at those eyes, and after a little moxibustion, I nodded.

“Umm… yes, I see. Change the bandage.”

“Yes, fouret! Go, thank you…”

After my permission was given, she tried to get up with a relaxed expression on her face.

Sorry, I had no intention of letting her go.

“Where are you going?”

“Yeah? Go and change the bandages… towards the forest…”

“Hmm, I think what I said was, ‘Please change the bandage.’”

Yes, all I said was bandaging.

I didn’t tell her that she could leave.

At my words, Violet’s relaxed face began to harden again.

“Yeah…? So, then… how to bandage…”

“Change it. Here, in front of my eyes.”

I answered her question simply.

Then, Violet’s hardened face turned slightly contemplative.

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At that time, on the other side of the island.

In the woods a little far from ‘The Grave of the Stars’.

ㅡTing! Kagagak! Empty! Cucumber!

The sound of the explosion as the blades collided echoed throughout the forest.

The main characters of the bloody sound are Bligh, the homeroom professor of the Academy’s 2nd year D class,

17 undead knights whose identities are unknown.

At dawn, when even the air fell asleep, a fierce battle was taking place.

ㅡKigigiggeek!! bang!!!

“Damn it!”

Bligh, who was avoiding the body and blocking the attacks from all directions, exhaled heavily and tossed out the memorized words.

Before he even had time to catch his breath, the death knights rushed towards him.

Bligh looked at him, holding a shortsword in his right hand, and holding mana in his left hand.

A blue aura shimmers and burns.

“Flash, Ignite!!”

As he chanted the chant, two magics, ‘Flash’ and ‘Ignition’, appeared in his left hand.

Soon they merged with each other and turned into new magic.

The first anti-black magic magic that can be created by fusing basic magic.

ㅡBurn of Lightㅡ

“Suck!!”

ㅡTeoong! Kwagwagwak!!”

When Bligh hit the fist of the undead knight running towards him with his fist containing ‘Light Combustion’,

The arm of the undead knight was smashed and melted.

“Heh-uh… Heh-uh…”

Bly takes a deep breath and steps back.

Perhaps the undead knights were momentarily suppressed by his momentum, and stood still, arranging their battle lines.

Bligh took advantage of that gap and tried to contact the camp with a magic tool for emergency contact, but…

ㅡClick, click, click…

Because the communication was down, the magic tools did not work properly.

“Haaa…”

Bligh nervously threw the magic tool he was holding onto the floor.

He gripped his shortsword again and chewed his lips.

“f*ck, what is this… I thought it was Ki-woo…”

I was feeling a bit clumsy, so I came out for a simple reconnaissance,

While scouting the last place, a powerful undead knights came out of the forest.

“What the hell…?”

Obviously, I couldn’t feel the flow of mana, and I couldn’t detect any magic either.

But, what the hell are these undead knights?

Undead who don’t feel the magic…

I couldn’t even imagine what kind of monstrous person could have created something like this.

“haha…”

ㅡ chuckle, chuckle

While Bligh was lost in thought for a moment, the undead knights began to move again.

Bligh let out curse words, threw away the chipped shortsword, and drew out a dagger.

“Haa… f*ck… f*cked…”

The situation was not good.

Since it was a costume that was assumed to be simple reconnaissance, the equipment was lacking,

Due to the sudden surprise attack, he was very weak.

Physical strength and mana were not much left.

“f*ck…. What are you counting on the subject of undead…”

Bligh muttered, frowning his sweaty eyes.

As one of the few unique classes in the Empire, he was quite famous as a ‘Magic Assassin’.

Of course, at the young age of 24, I withdrew from the first line and came to the academy, but

To this day, his skills were not as good as when he was active.

“If we can’t stop them… the academy students…”

ㅡ It’s a massacre…

Bligh chewed and swallowed the words that were about to come out, and put strength into the hand holding the knife.

‘I have to block it somehow.’

ㅡProfessor! what is the answer to this question?

ㅡProfessor Bly!

ㅡTada! We’re ready!

‘For the sake of my beloved students, somehow…’

Bly exploded all the remaining mana in his body.

ㅡKoo-goo-gugu-gu!!!

Blue mana burns, covering his whole body.

Your body strengthens, and you feel your heavy breathing calming down a bit.

“Ha ha… ha… whoa…”

The time limit is about 5 minutes.

meanwhile,

“Even if it’s just one guy, I’m going to kill more.”

Let Bligh explode with momentum and save mana in his left hand,

One of the death knights stepped forward and said.

“You are strong.”

“Ha… ha… just shut up and come in.”

“Our number has already been reduced to 16. Losing any more power is difficult. So…”

“Asshole, are you scared? Come in?”

“…..We will do our best.”

“Damn it.”

ㅡBoom!

After those words, another clash broke out.

ㅡTung! Kagagak! bang!!

The sound of metal clashing and exploding flashes shook the forest.