62 – Secret Garden (2)

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An object that can be called a token of love regardless of the East and the West.

Coupling. i.e. a pair of rings.

The reason why gold is preferred as a metal for the ring and diamond as a jewel is also the same as what lovers often say to each other.

‘Let’s not change our love and be together forever.’

It is a token of love adorned with things that cannot be broken or broken.

Bondi, because the human heart is invisible.

For those who cannot even fully predict how their own mind will change, a ring decorated with unbreakable metal and jewels must have been a medium that gave them a sense of security above all else.

A heart that tries to see the invisible,

The process of imprinting the perception that each other is only each other by holding something that contains love in the form.

Marriage is also, in the end, nothing that can be called a form.

There may be couples who don’t get married, but couples who don’t match their wedding rings are quite rare.

Until children are born, that is the only way that love can be expressed in form.

If you think about it in that sense, the rarer the material that makes up the shape of the coupling, the better it is, isn’t it?

Rather than wearing a common ring decorated with gold or diamonds, it might feel like their own love that is not shared with any other couple.

Of course, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t even consider a ring with an ugly design or an old-fashioned scent.

So it may not be such a bad choice for me to choose a pair of rings from the academy’s treasury.

It is common for artifacts to have properties that are not easily broken.

But what about treasures? Rather, unlike the Trace Changer, which was written that only the characteristics written on it were not easily broken, this guy was actually more likely to be harder than diamond.

And the principal, who entered with me, noticed my gaze as I turned to the ring, and the explanation he gave proved my guess.

-ah… Due to the nature of this ring, it is never broken by physical impact. It’s something that shouldn’t break with such an impact.

-Even I have no idea why this ring is classified as a treasure, I think it should be kept on the other side… .

-Well, the basic effect is like this, but there are many additional effects that are useful in their own way. Maybe that’s why it’s classified as a treasure.

In the palm of my hand, I saw a pair of red and blue jeweled butterfly ornaments glistening in the sunlight.

And a diamond ring in the shape of a tree vine that continues from the body decorated with jewels in the shape of a butterfly.

The additional effect of the treasure-level ring in my hand, Opépati Anulus, was like this.

First of all, the wearer of the red butterfly can sense the fact in advance if a crisis is coming to the person of the blue butterfly.

And the red butterfly immediately informs the wearer of the optimal route to the subject’s location.

And secondly, the subject can maintain immunity to all kinds of poisons and curses as long as the connection with the wearer is maintained.

Third, the subject can know the approximate color of the wearer’s emotional state, and the subject and the wearer can communicate with each other at any time, such as a phone call.

And finally, the fourth, the wearer can never take off the ring without the subject’s permission from the moment the connection is maintained with the subject.

After I listened to Opépati Anulus’ explanation and looked at these rings with interest, the principal hurriedly showed me another pair of treasure-grade rings.

Anu Damour, which means ring of love in French… I think it was said.

A pair of rings that I originally intended to wear with Lily.

So, originally, I was going through the accessory aisle with the guidance of the principal to receive Anu Damur, but I found it while moving while listening to the explanation of each treasure-level ring I saw on the way.

This operati annulus.

Being able to know the dangers facing Lily ‘in advance’, that is, in advance… A pair of rings that I desperately needed, knowing the background of this damn world.

The effect of always defending against Anu Damur’s one fatal wound was also formidably good, but it was true.

It was quite annoying that that one count was applied to both me and Lily.

In other words, it doesn’t protect both of them once, but only one of them only once.

of course… Judging from the expression “must” in the work, it was clear that even Baal’s special move, the first rank among demons and demons, could be prevented, but the additional effect of operati’s ability to know the crisis in advance was very attractive.

In a way, the main effect is also effective in preserving life to the extent that it is not inferior to An Damour.

‘By the way, no matter how hard I try, can I really spread all the treasures like this?’

I had such a question, so I asked the principal about it, and I was able to hear lines from him that did not appear in the play.

-Now, the world is fighting a life-and-death war with demons, demons, and beasts on the front line. And, as you know, the power of the demons chosen by the devil is so strong that we are being pushed back in the current situation.

-Perhaps because of that, an unprecedented case of demons infiltrating this academy between the Holy Kingdom and the Empire has occurred.

-So what should I do, I thought it would be right to protect the future of the world by handing the treasure to cadets like you who will connect the future of the world, rather than cherishing and managing the treasure and boasting about its history.

Aren’t they all treasures that will be taken away by the demons when the world perishes anyway?

That’s what the headmaster said.

In addition, since the front line is slowly being pushed back, most of the people are going to the front line rather than using manpower to protect the academy, which can be said to be quite safe in a way, on the border between the castle and the empire… .

After all, it was like that.

Didn’t our country also teach students a military training subject called drill after the 1.21 Incident (an incident in which North Korean soldiers hid in South Korea to assassinate the president)?

Although no explanation was given in the work,

When I listened to the seniors of the Swordsmanship Faculty on the road, I could see that the academy had also changed to conducting fairly intense training, assuming that it was a wartime situation.

‘I only thought it was an academy that only gave insanely intense education in order to advocate for merit-first again.’

What… Even so, it is only the main character and his companions that undergo life-and-death training.

It must be the compulsory force of fate that tries to grow the main character.

However, even the main character now has Durandal in his hands, so he has the power that he originally would have achieved only in the second year.

Now, Ian and Selina will proceed with the original main scenario,

Would it be a problem if it was a problem that I couldn’t even get a sense of what kind of episode would appear in order to give a crisis to the main character who had become so strong?

‘Come to think of it, when was the last time Cindy died in the story? Didn’t he die during summer vacation?’

In terms of timing, Cindy was destined to die next to Lily.

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Judging from the memory of mentioning that the smell of rotting flesh was even worse because it was summer, it was probably true.

“Roughly, I’ll have Ian tell Cindy that he hates mushroom dishes.”

Since Ian is the only male friend around me, he listens to me like a puppy, so there shouldn’t be any problems.

“Then let’s see, my next schedule…ah.”

While I was thinking about fixing my chin, I felt the string of the eyepatch at the tip of my finger, so I was able to think of Anna.

To be precise, my schedule of going to get the prosthesis made by Anna.

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“Anna.”

“Yeah, yeet! Why is that?!”

“Aren’t you a little more fearful than usual? Did I do something to you?”

The place where Anna and I are sitting is a cafe on the first floor of the Faculty of Alchemy’s main building.

When I found Anna’s alchemy room, wasn’t the maid who was waiting in front of the door talking to me like always?

-The lady told me to deliver a message asking Berry to wait at the coffee shop on the first floor when she comes.

Why?

What amplified such a question was the faint scream of Anna that I heard as I turned around and headed for the first floor.

-yes?! Gee, now?! I’m dressed right now… huh? Did you know that and prepared for it? wow… ! Well done Aris!

Why did you come here wearing a school uniform that looks like it’s been freshly ironed?

A white cadet uniform came in, angular enough to give the illusion of light beaming through my vision as I sipped my coffee.

Then, Anna, who was shaking like a hamster meeting a predator, answered me with an unusually loud force. His voice was like that of a child.

“Ah, no! Not at all! Oh, you didn’t do anything…!”

I chewed my tongue

“Then why are you so scared? No way… are you still not used to me?”

“It can’t be…! I’m used to it!”

“But why…”

As I tilted my head and frowned in question, Anna straightened her stance even more and answered with that creaking voice again.

“Wow, you’ve become so close with Her Highness the Princess…! It’s because you might become the emperor’s consort someday…!”

“…Anna, are you from the Empire?”

“Oh, no…! I’m from the Kingdom of Diark!”

“But why?”

“Because alchemists aren’t bound by region!”

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So isn’t that what you mean?

It doesn’t matter if it’s an empire or a kingdom where you can be treated more as an alchemist, so let’s find a place to settle down in this academy?

Perhaps, more than I thought, Anna might have a talent for flattery.

To be so polite to get on my rope already, you cute guy.

Alright, you’ll set up an alchemy room the size of a house in the empire when I marry Lily.

It was an opportunity for my internal affinity for Anna to rise by about +20.