20 – Wiesel

Heavy rain hits the balcony door. It hadn’t even dawned yet.

“Damn it… .”

My whole body was wet with sweat and slippery. dream dream. Is it his dream again?

I’ve been worried about that for a while. How can I tell the difference between a dream that is a revelation or something that comes to me and a normal dream?

Looking at it now, I don’t think I can be mistaken for a dream whether it’s a revelation or something. It’s because I put a pharynx in my head.

The horrors of that workshop still linger in my mind.

The assailants gathered people related to me and seemed to be looking for my whereabouts.

A familiar silver-haired woman. The hair that I will never forget in my life was like Liza’s.

It pains my heart to bring out the existence that I had buried for a while from my memory.

Lisa is looking for me?

A few months ago, I might have been delighted. Excited, I must have made a fuss to find her before Liza could find me.

Since I broke up with Liza, I’ve had hundreds of delusions of her coming back to me.

It was sweet just imagining it, but now I know full well that delusion can’t become a reality.

There is no reason for Liza to seek me at the expense of stability and greater happiness.

And now I have no intention of going back.

No matter how much I thought about it, there was no reason Liza would come to see me.

Yes, not Liza. I want to believe no

Because I don’t want to see you again like that.

Silver hair isn’t unique to Liza.

When the fountain of magic blooms, the Pascal clan’s hair is dyed silver, just like Liza’s. The leader of the task could be a blood relative of the Pascal family.

I don’t know what business I have. In any case, they would have looked down on me, so there’s a good chance.

They tried to find me even by hurting the people around me.

Priests and nuns of the Temple of Achates. As long as they are involved with me, they are also dangerous.

Then I had to act first.

But how?

what can i do

There is no clear way to see

***

Silverin stared at the window for a while. When the seasons change, it always rains heavily.

As the days get colder, it becomes difficult to find medicinal herbs. Herbs must be stocked in the warehouse before winter arrives.

The maid brought the steaming potion with a thick cloth underneath.

“How many ingredients are left?”

“There are only two weeks left.”

There was not much left in pouring potions on Damian and the girl.

There is quite a lot to do.

She saw a girl lying in bed. After being attacked by a ghoul and receiving shock, he still hasn’t regained consciousness.

Silverin called the butler. The butler approached her.

“It’s time for Damian to get up, so tell him we’re going to take a break from training today. And prepare a wagon for the villagers.”

“All right.”

Moments later, the butler, following the order, rushes to Sylverine with urgent steps.

He was gasping for breath.

“Damian has disappeared.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I’ve looked all over the mansion, but it’s nowhere to be found.”

Silverin sighed.

***

Silverin walked along the lakeside with an umbrella. The rain was so strong that I couldn’t even see a few steps ahead. Umbrellas couldn’t stop the rain.

After walking like that, Silverin arrived at Damian’s training ground.

A boy was carrying logs like a wet mouse. It was Damien.

The log is waterlogged and stuck in mud. The foot that pushes the teeth digs up the mud and slides smoothly. No matter how you look at it, it’s not enough. But he doesn’t seem to have any intention of giving up.

As if he had used his whole body to push it off, his shoulders, forearms, and sides were peeled off by the bark and stained red by the rainwater.

It makes me feel sorry for her, even to the point of being desperate.

Perhaps because of the heavy rain, Damian didn’t even know that Silverin was watching nearby.

Silverin’s complex feelings were reflected on her face.

“We have enough firewood for next spring.”

It was only then that Damian turned his head to Silverin’s words.

“Thanks to someone who worked hard.”

“… Teacher.”

Damian’s face was in shadow.

Silverin looked at the bloody piece of wood and said.

“Eh, that’s why I said don’t train on rainy days. What if I come out first without saying anything?”

Silverin slightly lifted the hem of her skirt. Even though she was using an umbrella, most of her clothes were wet from the wind.

“Your street clothes are also a mess.”

“sorry.”

Damian’s face was strange.

It was not the usual Damian that Silverin had seen.

I knew that Damian had a dark past that I couldn’t tell. However, it was the first time that the darkness within him had been cast as thickly as it is now.

“Damian, what’s going on?”

“… .”

Silverin’s expression hardened.

It’s clear something happened.

“It’s nothing.”

She approached Damian. She didn’t care if her feet got dirty from getting in the mud.

Then she stood in front of him and slightly bent her waist to meet his eye level.

He raised one hand and put it on his cheek. Then, he wiped off the flowing rainwater with his thumb.

“You don’t know how lucky you are. I don’t accept any disciples.”

“… .”

“You’re still young, so you probably don’t understand what the word ‘responsibility’ means. It’s only when you get older and gain status and power that you realize how heavy the word “responsibility” is.”

“… .”

“Hey. I didn’t just bring you I brought you here with the intention of taking responsibility for you.”

Silverin spoke in an admonishing tone.

“So, you can rely on the teacher now.”

Damian was silent for a long time before finally raising his head.

***

Damian and Silverin were returning to the mansion.

Damian told Silverin about the dream. monsters in dreams. The people kidnapped to find Damian’s whereabouts. and carnage.

Even the ominous feeling that this dream will come true.

I didn’t talk about Liza.

“That could be a revelation. I’ve lived in the Temple of Achates, so there’s a bit of a possibility. But don’t believe in your dreams too much. Seeing the future is not such a rare and great ability as you think.”

“Isn’t it rare?”

“Did you know that most children who are gifted with magic have the ability to see the future?”

“Hear it for the first time.”

“They see the future from the time they are babies. It is so clear that it is indistinguishable from reality.”

It was a story that Damian couldn’t understand.

“Then, as you grow up little by little, learn the language, learn human knowledge, and your soul begins to be polluted, your ability completely disappears. With his big head, he completely forgets that he could even see the future.”

“I know magic, but I don’t know.”

“Is not it. A precognitive dream is what comes out when that ability dies. At that point, it mixes with the unconscious and comes out as a jumbled mess, imprecise and useless.”

“… !”

“Your dreams are all dying wisdom. It might be useful if you use it well.”

It is said that everyone is dying, but it was valuable information to Damian.

“Still, I want to thoroughly prepare.”

“How are you going to prepare?”

Damian is troubled by Silverin’s question.

Silverin seemed to have given up on blocking the rain altogether, just folding her umbrella in the heavy rain.

Even the upper body and hair of Silverin, who had survived, were soaked in the rain.

What was so exciting about her, she ran forward and jumped into the puddle with both feet.

Puddled rainwater splashes in all directions.

Following that, Silverin kicked into a puddle and sprayed Damian with water.

“It’s the suit that got my street clothes wet.”

The puddle water splashes all over Damien’s body. But he was already wet, so there was no blow.

“Teacher… ?”

How can you be so naive in this situation?

When he calls her with a bewildered face, only then does Silverine go back to the main topic. The kicking continued.

“You just do what you do. What are you worried about when I am here?”

“If I keep hiding like this, they will find people around me and threaten them.”

Silverin stopped playing with her feet and made a meaningful expression.

“No, you are not hiding.”

“… ?”

Silverin skillfully changed her words without any explanation.

“I have to go buy herbs later, so hurry up.”

Then he turned around and went first.

***

A jet-black carriage entered the village market. There were no people on the streets because of the steady rain.

A carriage stops in front of a small shop.

The coachman got off, opened the carriage door, held out an umbrella in front of it to block the rain, and waited.

After taking a bath and changing into clean clothes, Silverin came out of the carriage.

After that, Damian followed.

Silverin opens the shop door first and goes inside. Damian followed and looked inside.

Baskets with herbs collected by type are tightly displayed.

A middle-aged woman who was arranging herbs greeted them. The woman looked at his face, narrowed her eyes, and was immediately startled.

“Welcome… Yo. oh!”

Damian made a questioning expression.

“Oh, oh, oh, wait a minute. It only takes a moment!”

Then, I hurriedly enter the room where the curtains are drawn at the entrance. Soon after, a small squeaking sound is heard.

“No mom, wait! I’m ready!”

A young woman resists and is finally pushed out the door on her back.

The moment she sees the faces of Damian and Silverin, she stops breathing.

“Oh, welcome!”

He lowered his head and looked at the two faces with slightly raised eyes. When Damian’s eyes met, he hurriedly averted his gaze.

Then, he tucked his loose hair behind his ear.

“Do you need anything?”

Silverin handed over the note and said.

“Yes, give me what is written here.”

She received the note and muttered the contents.

“Black kale… Moon leaf… Malinda stem… Oh, the Deronia Root and Eagle Petal aren’t here, they’re in the store next door to the right. We’ll take care of the rest.”

“great.”

Silverin looked to the side and said.

“Damian, do you need anything?”

“I am… Wait.”

Damian was checking the herbs on display one by one, holding a note with the necessary ingredients and an herbal encyclopedia. I’m at a loss because I don’t know what to buy.

The waiter glanced at Sylveryne and sneaked closer to Damian.

“I will help you.”

Then I stole Damian’s note.

“This is a list of colohest-based formulas.”

She pointed out the herbs directly with her hand.

“Then you can always bring this and this and this and this first. If you need help, please come next time. You do not have to bring money. I will help you.”

The employee approached Damian with a very positive attitude.

“… thank you.”

When I finished ordering and went to the next store, the waiter followed me with a small wooden box.

Then he handed the box to Damian.

“Well, these are tea leaves grown directly in the store.”

The box looked expensive just by its processed appearance.

Damien looks at the box with a face of ‘Why this?’

The waitress said in bewilderment.

“That… I’m not trying to get money, uh, a gift! Good for working hard!”

Damian then intuited an unusual sign.

When I entered the next store, something even more strange happened.

The owner welcomed us with open arms. He recognized Damian and offered to shake his hand.

“It is a sincere honor to meet you.”

Then he told me about the nickname ‘Slayer of the baby’s face’.

The villagers call him that.

Damian was momentarily speechless when he heard the horrible nickname.

I was able to hear many stories while walking around the market.

On the way back to the carriage, Damian asked Sylveryn.

“Since when did my soul’s hometown become Wiesel?”

It was an old folk song about many people who passed through Wiesel, but a wandering poet brought a story about Damian to it.

‘I don’t know where I was born, but the hometown of my soul is Wiesel.’

They were mistaken that Damian had been rooted in Wiesel for a long time.

“I told you. It’s so peaceful that it’s crazy about new stories. Can you leave the hero who saved the village alone?”

It was just a ghoul, but the whole village was in danger. Even if it wasn’t for Damian, the ghoul would have been defeated somehow, but Damian left a strong impression by stepping out alone.

In addition, Damian’s appearance, the halo of the Eternia Academy, the swordsmanship skills hidden in the veil, and the knights’ covetous promotion, all of these were combined to lead to the current situation.

Silverin sang as if teasing.

“I cut ninety-nine ghouls~”

Damian was embarrassed and had a hard time lifting his face.

Damian thought the townsfolk’s fuss was too much.

“You don’t know what you’ve been up to? It would be less exaggerated, but rumors must have spread to the knights and the high-ranking people of Wiesel.”

“… .”

For high-ranking people, it meant aristocratic society.

Silverin grinned.

“Do you still think you are hiding? disciple Those guys in your dream might already be running to Wiesel to find you.”

If that was the case, it was clear that Sylverin had no choice but to be involved. However, she was the face she was expecting to come.

***

If you go a little further, it was the border of Wiesel.

Five jet-black wagons bearing the coat of arms of Eternia were moving along the meadow. At the very back, a huge cart carrying an unknown object followed.

In the carriage at the front was Eternia’s Combat Division assistant professor Gael, and her apprentice, Combat Division 2nd Year Flynn, riding.

Flynn couldn’t let go of his tension.

A completely unexpected person was riding in the chariot that was following.

It wasn’t until he heard that even people who rarely showed up were joining the jury, and Flynn realized that this was not an ordinary thing.

I didn’t know exactly what kind of screening this was, but I knew that this many people were going to judge just one child.

just for one.

hello what the hell is this

“professor.”

“Why?”

“Did you know it would turn out like this?”

“It’s something I didn’t expect either.”

Then the carriage suddenly stopped. cried the coachman.

“It’s a ghoul!”

Flynn looked out the window.

A carriage that appeared to belong to a nobleman was stopped in the distance, and knights surrounded the carriage and confronted dozens of ghouls.

Gael hurriedly got off the wagon to help them.

Flynn followed her.

Flynn drew his sword. Soon after, the runes engraved on the sword lit up and smoke began to rise from the blade.

Until then, Flynn hadn’t known.

That they would hear the name of the child they were going to judge.