38 – Altane’s Sword (2)

Altair, the head of the Dark Sword Ishtar and the first Altair.

Long ago, the two made a blood pact.

one side power

On the other hand, the whole body

A contract made with different wishes fizzles out when the other party fails to pay the price, and is passed on to flesh and blood.

Either way, a contract is a contract.

Ishtar waited for her flesh and blood to fully grow, and when it was complete, she coveted the body.

The body that accepted Ishtar soon became possessed by the demonic energy and went crazy, slowly breaking down from the inside.

Her new body crumbles before long.

Because he did not receive a perfect body, the contract was not completed.

After that, the failures repeated generation after generation, and when she was exhausted, a boy caught her eye.

*

widely-

I closed the note that I was organizing about Ishtar and the contents of the dream.

I was taking a break after running to and from the academy grounds under the guise of a fitness test during Aaron’s practical class.

Next to me were panting Zed and Hans.

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Jed, who was sitting on one knee, said to me with a dejected expression.

“Whoa… Every time I see him, he has monster-like stamina.”

“Well?”

“Every time there is a fitness class, I have never seen you struggle. Are you taking some elixir?”

“Ugh… Heo-eok… uh, somehow… .”

I took a look of doubt and answered calmly.

“No way.”

“If I don’t do that, can I not get tired once? It is by no means a short distance.”

“I just have confidence in running. You guys are like that too, but didn’t you come in at the top?”

“You came in much later than the guy who was idling around here.”

Hans twitched and stared at me.

Hans’ quarrels have decreased significantly since the previous hands-on practice, but for some reason, there are many cases where he hangs around me.

Strangely, his personality is twisted, but his physical condition is definitely good.

I thought I was just an extra, but it seemed like I didn’t come to class A for nothing.

I can understand what Jed and Hans are saying.

I was also surprised at the physical strength of my body at first.

“Oh, princess! Have some water here and sit here!”

Zed, who had been completely submerged, jumped out somewhere with a bright expression on his face.

Several students lined up at the entrance of the gymnasium.

Among them was Reina, who had her light purple hair tied up.

She took the water bottle Jed had given her and pondered for a while, then returned it and accepted the water bottle held out by the girl next to her.

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Jed watches Rayna with a stupid smile as if nothing is wrong.

‘… It’s wrong.’

Apparently, to Reina, Zed is nothing more than a clown.

I know it myself, but I’m pushing it like that every time, but somehow it flows similarly to the original, so I’m halfway giving up.

Reina wiped the sweat from her cheek with the back of her hand and glanced in my direction.

―Last year, at the Eisin family’s banquet for promotion to the dukedom, the incident of slapping the young lady on the cheek a couple of times and telling her not to climb was something that most nobles knew, even if it wasn’t there at the time.

“… .”

I suddenly remembered what Jed had said.

How could you hit such a fine ball without a single wound like that? twice as well.

I feel ashamed for nothing because I think I know why Reina hated me, no, Altane so much.

“Looking here.”

I know even if you don’t speak

As if she didn’t like something, she looked somewhat uncomfortable, but when Reina made eye contact with me, she turned her head away and headed somewhere else.

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Jed follows after him.

Hans says this as if he is pathetic.

“Is that guy aware that he belongs to a ducal family?”

“I must have forgotten by now.”

With her eyes half-turned on love, would she have time to think about the dignity of an aristocrat?

Reina’s fiancee, who had such unrequited love, must have disappeared, more so.

Come to think of it, when Reina held the banquet, she said she was waiting for someone, right?

In the original story, after Reina joined Siegfried’s party, there was no such thing as a love line. If so, is this also a variable?

If not, there was a possibility that it was a separate story that did not appear in the game like Ishtar.

“huh. I just don’t understand.”

“Don’t you have a fiancée?”

“Of course not. So that’s what I don’t understand. If the other person doesn’t have a heart like that, wouldn’t it be okay to get engaged to another family? No matter how promising the Eisteen family is, if it were Theseus, it would be possible to get in touch with a similar family.”

This guy also has a fiance.

Engagement is, after all, a way to establish friendly relations between families.

No emotions can enter there.

That’s why you can’t understand Zed’s appearance like that.

Zed’s family, Theseus, is a prestigious family, so he could be connected to a family with a reputation equal to or higher than Aistin’s.

“Well, I don’t know much about you, who lost his fiance and has no family and no foundation to falter. That this is the situation of the nobility— kuh.”

As I quietly raise my hand, Hans steps back in a defensive posture.

The typical gang-yak-yak-gang was very easy to handle.

I feel like Hogu’s appearance has gotten worse than when I first saw him.

“You’re all back. The records should be posted in the hallway. You may return freely.”

Aaron clapped his hands and drew attention.

It was the sound that signaled the end of class.

At the same time, I got up and left the gym. Today’s class is over, but there are still places to go.

Going down the stairs in the center of the main building where I had been before, I came to a space with black walls and golden moldings.

It was a library within the academy.

I met and talked with Siegfried here the other day.

The first impression was somewhat different from what I saw in the game, but the ability itself was the main character, as was the moment I was caught.

“welcome.”

When I opened the library door and entered, the librarian at the desk to the right lowered his head and said.

It was a woman with bobbed dark blue hair.

It’s strangely the same as the last time I came to look for class books.

“I want to read history books, where can I find them?”

“… Go straight ahead along the road, and you are at the G corner.”

“Thank you.”

The entire floor reached the library, so it was easy to find your way here, or even get lost.

It is so wide that there is a separate bell at each corner to call the librarian.

Following the librarian’s guidance, I arrived at Corner G and slowly looked through the books.

What I am looking for is a book containing the history of the Altyn family.

It was a family with a reputation in the past, so I came with the hope that at least one book would remain.

In a letter from Risha not long ago, it was written that there were no records left in the mansion, so I was just in case.

If it wasn’t here, I’d go out on the weekend and go to another library.

“There are too many of them.”

The academy library was lined with countless books, befitting its size.

I moved slowly, skimming through the names of the books. The corner was so long that it was full of history books even after walking for a long time.

‘Imperial history… How many series are there?’

What I was looking for was a book from when the empire was still a kingdom.

At that time, it must have been when Altair was active, so I thought that even a few lines would remain as records.

‘Ishtar… There’s nothing about it.’

Sword Spirit?

black too?

It seems that there is no way to know Ishtar’s identity in the first place.

Took-

dump.

“… Wow.”

I bumped into someone coming in front of me, probably distracted by the book.

The moment he hurriedly turned his gaze to reach out to the person who had fallen and asked if he was okay.

“… Reina?”

The identity of the woman with light purple hair staring at me with her buttocks on the floor was Reina.

I got up from my seat and asked Reina, who was dusting off her clothes.

“Are you okay?”

“… I don’t have any problem.”

“Right. sorry. I was distracted by the book.”

Normally, I would have noticed a sign, but I couldn’t see properly because I was so focused.

“I came right after class, but you came quickly too. Are there any books you are looking for?”

I came this far because I was almost the first to come out, but I never thought there would be someone who arrived similarly to me.

I came right after Aaron’s words, and I met Reina.

Apparently no one was there when I came.

“It has nothing to do with you.”

“I thought I would help if there was a book I was looking for. If you see that you came here, is it history?”

At my question, Reina pondered for a moment before reluctantly opening her mouth.

“… I’m here to find books that will be helpful for tomorrow’s Imperial History class. I came last time, but someone said I borrowed it.”

It is a book related to the class.

The real passion for learning is great.

Come to think of it, Reina’s grades were in the top ranks in the game, right?

“Imperial history? If it’s the Imperial History series, it’s here.”

I took out the 2nd volume of the Imperial History series at a higher place and gave it to Reina.

I nod my head to see if I was right.

“Do you still have Volume 1?”

“There is also one.”

“Then take it out.”

“But I left it in the dormitory.”

“… Yes?”

Come to think of it, I borrowed it last time and didn’t return it.

At my words, Reina put on a pitiful expression and glared at me for a while.

“It is not urgent. Please bring it to class tomorrow.”

“Don’t let that happen.”

It was me who forgot to return it after borrowing it. There was no excuse whatsoever.

I stood there for a while and watched Reina, who went back with the three additional books she had taken out in both hands.