88 – broken, scattered, hated (9)

Inside the darkened room, voices filled with pain echoed.

“Uuk…! Ha, ha…”

“No… no! Please stop…!”

“Ah ah ah ah ah….!!”

“I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe…”

The sound of moaning and crying that contained the sticky despair and pain in my body.

They violently trampled on the stillness that was sitting in the air, and were robbing the place.

“Keuk… Ugh…!”

“God… please…!”

A flickering candle lighted the room.

A little darkness is lifted, and the images of the children lying on the floor are blurred.

Alan and Lorraine, who are tearing their hair out and crying as if in pain.

Next to him, Clara is clearing out her stomach while lying on the floor.

Maharet flinched with a dazed expression.

The faces of the children were truly devastated.

“Uh, ugh… huh…”

“……”

Emotions and mental state transmitted from Raiden through ‘Soul Link’.

They forced the children to face a type of pain they had never experienced before.

Something shapeless strangles me,

The feeling of cold, frozen awls hacking through the chest.

An intense headache that makes your mind collapse just by passing by.

“Woo…”

“town….!”

If I stayed still, I couldn’t stand it and I felt like I was about to collapse.

Each of the children had to tear their hair out, vomit and groan.

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Just like that, when the situation was steeped in chaos.

Someone’s voice cuts sharply into the ears of the children who were in panic.

“Everyone, ugh…! Get your mind right!!”

“…..Eh, rain?”

“Keep your eyes open everyone! If you don’t want your mind to collapse!”

The main character of the voice was Abbie, who was clenching her teeth with an exhausted face.

She forcibly held on to her staggering consciousness, raising her body’s mana.

“Ugh…! Everyone, stick to me!!”

Aby reached out to the other children, squeezing green mana with her fingertips.

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Just like when she cast Soul Link, her hand grabs the children’s hands in turn.

After that, the red lips chanted a small incantation.

“The Breakwater of The Soul”

Among the things Aby knows, the strongest mental barrier, the ‘breakwater of the soul’.

Abby felt a large amount of mana drain from her body.

“Uh, huh….. Ha ha, ha ha…”

After casting magic, a feeling of exhaustion poured out.

The highest-level magic, which she developed while her mind was unstable, brought more fatigue than she thought.

“Huh… Ah, no… not yet…!”

Abbey barely held on to her body, which was about to fall, and raised her mana again.

It was to protect the minds of the children who were still collapsing despite the barriers.

“The Breakwater of The Soul”

Abbie’s lips parted once more.

A new barrier overlaps on top of the barrier that has already risen.

She didn’t stop there, and continued to recite the incantation.

“The Breakwater of The Soul”

third.

“The Breakwater of The Soul”

fourth.

“The Breakwater of The Soul”

Fifth.

The magic called the ultimate mental barrier becomes stronger as it stacks over and over again.

Abbey gathered all of her own mana and the mana of the other children who were holding hands to build a barrier.

And, it wasn’t until after that barrier went through 8 layers…

“Ugh, uh…! Mo, the pain in my neck is gone!”

“I can’t hear the hallucinations…!”

“Huh, huh…”

Abbey’s magic was barely able to block Raiden’s mind.

It was a result that was finally obtained after using all four people’s mana, including herself.

“haha…..”

Abbie was able to collapse belatedly only after confirming that the pain that had been constricting her neck was gone.

Breathing fast due to mana exhaustion.

In a room filled with screams and groans, only the rough breathing of children resounded for a while.

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“…Princess Maharet, are you okay?”

“……”

“Princess Maharet?”

“……ah.”

Maharet, who was in a state of fascination, came to his senses at the sound of Lorraine’s voice calling him.

Holding on to his scattered consciousness, he lifted his heavy head and saw a blonde girl looking at him with concern.

“Do you still have a headache?”

An approaching question.

Maharet washed his face dry and shook his head slowly.

“I am okay.”

“…..okay.

He says it’s okay, but his voice clearly trembles.

Lorraine looked at such Maharet for a while, then reached out her hand toward her who was sitting down.

“Abi told everyone to gather in the bedroom. He said he needed to figure out the situation…”

Maharet quietly took that hand and stood up.

The image of the room enters into the blurry field of vision.

A floor covered with dark red blood,

Pieces of bandages that have been harmed carelessly.

And a pungent smell that stings your nose.

Maharet had to slightly twist his eyebrows at the terrible sense of reality that all of that gave.

A staggering step crosses the traces of despair that remain in the room.

A little time passes.

The children, including Maharet and Lorraine, once again gathered in front of the bed.

“…Everyone, are you all right?”

Lorraine, whose tear marks were clearly visible on her lower cheek, asked while looking at the others once in a while.

At her voice, which was slightly rested, Maharet and the children only nodded slightly.

“thank god….”

“……”

Lorraine’s words leaked out and then scattered.

After that, a silence with many meanings passes through the room.

Maharet, who was standing on the seat closest to the bed, was staring at Raiden lying down with his mouth shut.

The eyes looking down at him were mixed with a little haggardness and a slight trembling.

Thoughts, big and small, pass around her.

“……”

“…In the world, how can a person’s mind be so broken?”

Amidst the oppressive silence, Abby was the first to speak.

She was holding onto the edge of the bed to support her staggering body, as if the aftermath of her mana exhaustion still lingered.

“This… this is ridiculous… I’ve peeked into the minds of so many people, but this is the first time.”

The duke of Robben, who is said to be at the pinnacle of the world of spiritual magic.

As the second daughter of such a family, Aby, who has been with mental magic for countless hours, brought out the word ‘first’.

“This…wasn’t really a crack I could handle…I tried my hand at it, but…”

Saying that there was no way, Aby blurted out his words as if expressing lethargy.

Seeing her like that, Maharet, who had been standing still and silent, licked her lips.

“Ab…. You said it for sure. All we can feel is the original 100…”

“Yes, Maharat senior.”

“So… you mean that Raiden has ten times more emotions than we did?”

“…..Yes, probably.”

At the small positive return, Maharet felt his breath choke.

ten times.

ten times

“Nonsense…..”

Maharet muttered in disbelief at those cruel and terrible words.

It was more of a denial than a doubt.

“We were only… just reaching 10%, I almost lost my mind…”

Maharet trembled at the terrible sensation that resurfaced.

A cold hand grips the hem of the skirt pitifully.

The hallucinations that lingered in my ears and the dizziness that strangled me.

Breathing fast, and excruciating pain felt in the chest.

And, the sloppy emotions that were holding all of them together.

Loneliness and sadness that was so deep that it drove me crazy.

“Raiden, as usual, suffered… such feelings…”

The boy’s pain and emotions she felt for the first time made the girl engrossed in complicated thoughts.

At the remnants of pain that pierced his heart, Maharet groaned and grabbed his chest.

“……”

“Maharet-senpai…? Are you okay? Perhaps the aftermath of Soul Link is still…”

The girl couldn’t understand anything.

Why the hell did the boy say he was in so much pain?

He was an idiot who harmed and hurt others, so why did he harbor so much sadness and loneliness inside?

Questions abounded, but there were no answers to them.

That’s why the girl had to ponder that question for quite some time while standing still.

“……”

“……”

That’s how Maharet is immersed in thoughts, and the other children are also immersed in their own thoughts.

That time when a heavy silence descended into the dark room.

“Don’t… don’t… yo.”

“…Raiden?”

“Seniors?”

Raiden, who had lost consciousness and was breathing only lightly, suddenly frowned and muttered something.

“I… me…”

Perhaps he was having a nightmare, Raiden tossed and turned, trembling slightly.

In addition to that, he moves his drooping hand and fumbles on the bed.

At that movement, the children wondered, ‘Are you trying to harm yourself unconsciously again?’ I thought, and moved my hand to stop him.

His hand gripped the hem of the blanket, not the bandage wrapped around his body.

“Mom… don’t leave me alone…”

Saying that, Raiden pulled the blanket he was holding onto and hugged him.

A clear tear begins to flow down his pale cheek.

Fallen raindrops are engraved on the bedspread.

“……”

“Please… don’t leave me alone…”

The desperate voice that leaked out of the unconscious state made the children hard.

Amid the muffled cries, the children did not say anything for a while.

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Meanwhile, the carriage road a little way from the academy.

There, a wagon was passing the road at breakneck speed.

ㅡDagdak, dagdak!

The carriage rattled incessantly with the clatter of horses’ hooves.

Whenever the wheel gets stuck on a stone root, the golden patterns engraved on the side and back of the carriage shake.

As I was running so frantically, I suddenly heard a voice through the window of the carriage.

“Butler! Can’t you drive faster than this?”

The voice of a young girl with a sense of urgency.

Gilbert, who was driving the carriage at him, nodded slightly and began to whip the whip more violently.

“We’ll be at the academy in 30 minutes, Miss Ariel!”

“30 minutes… 30 minutes…”

At Gilbert’s words, Ariel sat back in her seat while muttering about the remaining time in an impatient voice.

As she bit her lip and made a dangerous expression, the brown-haired girl sitting next to her gave her a small pat on the back.

“It’ll be all right, lady…. The Bocchan is sure.”

“Rachel…..”

Ariel whimpered, leaning over Rachel as she soothed her.

“Rachel… what should I do?

“It’s okay… you’ll be fine…”

Rachel whispered as she hugged Ariel’s small body tightly.

Her voice, like Ariel’s, trembled.

ㅡDagdak, dagdak!

A red-haired lady and a brown-haired maid.

The carriage carried the two girls and made its way towards the academy.