43 – Reunion (1)

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Chaeeng! visor!

Ian’s sword and mine intersect to create an iron resonance.

Cold sweat runs down his forehead, forms on the tip of his chin, and falls toward the ground.

I didn’t even have to worry about how to describe this situation.

It’s a waste. Why the hell did things get so twisted?

I blinked my eyes and looked at Lily, who was engaged in a close battle with Selina. The girl who said she would crush Selina, who must have been weak while I was holding Ian.

No, is Lily being pushed slightly?

“…You seem to have enough time, Berry.”

Chaeeng!

Ian sighed heavily and swung his sword at me, sparing nothing of his remaining stamina.

‘Damn it.’

As Ian said, compared to Ian, I have enough stamina and mana left to say that I am good enough.

But could anyone have predicted this situation? The situation where Ian and Selina duo took the same strategy as we did.

And unlike me, who had been the most effective at suppressing opponents, Ian had to go through all sorts of blood and wounds that he didn’t have to go through because of his protagonist’s personality, and had to come up to the finals.

What should I do? What should I do?

For me now to lose to Ian now is such a blatant and deliberate defeat.

Then, should I take down Ian and rush to join Lily, who is being pushed by Selina?

no, that’s not good It could be said to be the worst handshake ever.

Or should I continue fighting Ian and wait for Lily to fall?

I shook my head resolutely because I didn’t feel that such an option was worth considering.

In the first place, my plan was to take advantage of the fact that if I fell first, Lily would eventually have no choice but to shout surrender.

If that happens, unlike me, who is full of scars, Lily will be able to achieve the result of second place without any major trauma. Even if it’s an unexpected result.

But the main guest is overturned and Lily is covered with scars instead of me? It was not an option for me, who had sworn to protect her.

“What are you thinking so hard about, Berry?

Ian raised his sword with difficulty and struck it down with a movement that seemed to be about to collapse. Now, no matter how high you hit it, the potential energy of the sword has changed to kinetic energy.

“Kyaaak!”

Turning to hear Lily’s screams, I saw Selina about to fire a large, opaque orb at Lily, who fell to the ground.

Can not help it. This episode has to be discarded. Right now, Lily’s rescue comes first.

Thinking so, the moment when he grips his sword again and tries to cut Ian with sincerity.

“S, it’s an attack!! The demons broke through the barrier and attacked the western tower!!”

Suddenly, someone kicked in the arena door and shouted. A large number of demons have attacked the western tower of the academy.

“…What?”

Mine have already attacked you? no, demons? Not Ian, but the West Tower? so early? why?

Although the given information was one, the questions that arose from it spread out in many ways and began to dominate my thinking.

As you move your eyes around and figure out what the hell is going on, people begin to scream and evacuate one by one.

“The tournament is suspended! If the response to the raid is quickly completed, we will resume immediately, but if not, we will announce the schedule again later, so you guys should evacuate quickly!”

The instructor in charge of refereeing shouted at us as we stood at a distance in the arena and watched people leave one by one.

Teachers and instructors watching the match can be seen running to the west or using magic to fly away.

The crowd, made up of students, hurriedly leaves their seats, each voicing their worries and anxieties.

Since there weren’t that many people watching the tournament until the middle of the night, the arena, which had become a mess in an instant, became quiet.

“Berry? Berry!! Didn’t you hear the instructor tell us to evacuate quickly?! What are you thinking like that from earlier, Berry!”

“Uh, uh? Uh…that’s right, that’s right.”

Ian shook me awake, so I regained my senses and looked around.

Selina lifts up Lily’s hand, which is covered in scars from fighting.

Selina also had the upper hand against Lily, but she clearly showed signs of exhaustion as she did not show a clear difference in her skills.

Ian still shows a sense of exhaustion due to exhaustion beyond the limits of his magic and physical strength.

The body, full of multiple stab wounds, expanded and contracted at a very rapid rate as it continued to gasp for breath.

Same for me.

It’s not as serious as Ian’s, but his mana is almost at the bottom, and his stamina is running low.

‘Come to think of it, the surroundings are so quiet.’

No matter how many people rushed out, how could the surroundings be so quiet? Isn’t it normal to hear something like the chirping of a cricket?

As the questions continued one after another, I couldn’t erase the strange anxiety even though I was following Ian to the shelter.

Then, the straight sword owned by Ian, who came into my field of vision, is the same academy supply type sword that I am holding.

In an instant, a feeling of extreme anxiety and fear came over me, enough to stop my heart.

The main character and main heroine of the novel are gathered together. Me and Lily, who usurped their roles, are also gathered in one place.

The stamina and magic of the four of us are difficult to call normal due to the sparring that followed.

Even the weapons they are holding are ordinary weapons that have no value. All kinds of artifacts and elixirs are also not in possession according to the academy regulations.

‘Ian and Selina… Preserved by fate, but not me and Lily.’

The moment I realized him, there was only one action I took.

“Everyone, rush to the main academy with all your might right now!! Come on!!!”

“Uh, huh? Why suddenly…”

“Berry?”

“…”

The moment when Ian and Lily express their doubts, they hurriedly grab Lily’s hand and lead her out of the arena.

Tick. Parching! Kwajik!

The magic lamps that brightly lit the arena were broken and shattered, and the invisible darkness came over us.

“Aww!”

“What, what is this all of a sudden!”

Immediately felt, the thick scent of death of an assassin that only someone of this kind could smell.

I knew it reflexively. that this death was not toward me. That I was sending out that dark, sullen gaze to devour the slender girl who had been in front of me just a moment ago.

“Princess!!!”

squeak. Chow!

So, just before, I threw myself towards the place where Lily had been standing on the ground and wrapped her around her.

Something cut, I heard a splitting sound, and a hot, bursting pain ran down my back and pierced my spinal cord.

“B. Berry…? Suddenly…you…! There’s blood on your back!!”

“Who, who are you!!”

With just the right timing, the moonlight illuminated the arena through the cracks in the window, and everyone saw a long, gigantic cut that cut through my entire back.

“Kkeuheugh…! Kkeaak!”

The pain continued, to the extent that my hands were shaking, but since being stuck like this is the same as sticking my neck towards death, I bit my tongue and got up to look around.

‘I didn’t feel any sign of it.’

I could feel the faint scent that I could smell because it was the same assassin.

However, I couldn’t feel any presence, nor did I hear any sound, so I gathered the remaining magic power into my eyes as much as possible.

… It was because I knew that I knew this ability better than anyone else, and that sight was the only way to know the opponent in front of this dog-like ability.

Magical power entered my eyes, and the surroundings became brighter as if it were daytime. At the same time, I saw a thick jet-black sword rushing toward me.

Chaeeng!

After narrowly brushing his sword against him, he shouted.

“Princess!! Light!! Please light up the surroundings with magic!!”

“Ah Okay!!”

The wounds on my back carved in the dark, and the sound of iron resounding from the clash of swords against each other just now, Lily must have sensed the urgency of the situation, so she hurriedly began to light up her surroundings.

“to…?”

“This is all… Mine…?”

“I-Ian…what should I do?”

As Lily’s magic illuminated the surroundings, we all felt an endless despair.

The number of gazes surrounding us is one, two… three. Because it wasn’t just a number that could be counted that much.

At first glance, the number is just 30.

At least 30 demons are surrounding us now, in the early stages, which is too much for us even if only two demons appear.

We trembled with fear as we felt death thrust its great scythe at our throats.

“It was quite a surprise that you stopped the attack just now, human boy.”

The one who must be the leader of this group of demons smiled at me and said that.

pitch black sword. A demon carrying the couple swords of the midnight sun and searching only for the whereabouts of the midnight sun.

A Mine whose name was given to only a very few of the Mine. Poras.

Among the works, there was no time to think about why the guy who appeared in the middle and late half showed up now.

What I need to do now is clearer than ever.

“Ian, take Her Highness and Selina and run away. I’ll buy time somehow.”

He whispered softly as he pushed the frayed blade toward Porras.

I don’t know why they don’t kill us right away, but if we can take advantage of a given situation, we should make the most of it.

“To abandon you and run away? I’m like that…”

“So, are you going to make Her Highness and Selina die?”

“…”

“Rather than everyone quietly dying here, you guys should call the instructors while I buy time.

At the same time as I finished my words, he began to take on a thick flesh towards us again, as if he had no intention of waiting any longer.

“Ian Cedric you asshole!! If you don’t want to be left behind, let’s run!!!”

“…Fuck!!”

Ian swears inappropriately and ties up Selina and Lily and runs toward the only empty escape route.

“What are you doing! Let go now! Can’t you let go?!”

I could hear Lily struggling to get out of Ian’s arms, but

Perhaps with her power as a wizard, it would be okay because it would be difficult for Ian to escape no matter how weak he was.

“…Again, I can’t escape leaving only Berry behind…!”

squeak. Kwajik.

The sudden hot and cold… Inconsistent abdominal pain. I could see when the hell he approached me, looking down at me with a sinister smile.

“If you focus all your attention on me, it’s not enough, so if you sell one eye like that, you’ll use it.”

“Ugh… Kkeuheugh.”

“…I wondered why it didn’t cut cleanly, it was because of that necklace.”

When I looked down along the direction of his gaze, I saw a stab wound extending from my left shoulder to my right waist.

And broken by his attack… Trace changer too.

Saaak.

Her hair, which had been boasting a light auburn color, was dyed black like jet black.

The rough skin that swordsmen usually had is changing into a body that is white and full of scars.

The overall impression that showed manliness is regaining the original appearance of being a boy.

“That’s right, even if it’s just a necklace, an artifact should be enough to block my sword.”

Blocked. blocked… .

Can we really say that this is blocked?

I could have avoided the situation where my whole body was split in two in one blow, but at this rate, I might die from excessive bleeding even if I don’t get attacked anymore.

As if to prove my thoughts, I felt my vision blurred and my senses all over my body dulled.

Then, a faint voice, like an hallucination, came faintly through the wind.

“………pin?”

Ahh. Apparently, this is the place where I, the extra in this novel, will meet my death.