Avoid Former Co-Workers

30 – 30. Early Semester Assessment (3)

I’m being pushed around.

But the second one was definitely different.

I didn’t even know the four mice were coming and I thought it was over now, so I tried to ask him to talk, but his eyes suddenly widened.

‘What did you see?’

“Uh…?”

As she tried to look back, her body was thrown the other way.

Not one.

When a total of four rats attacked, they blocked two with their own magic, and barely blocked the other with their whole body, but they didn’t have enough hands to block the other, so they finally allowed an attack on their abdomen.

After being hit, Junon bleeds out, and the blood naturally dyes Charlotte’s shoulder blades red according to her inertia.

The place where Junon’s body finally landed was in front of Charlotte.

Maybe.

If he hadn’t stepped forward.

Shouldn’t Junon’s stomach have been hit, but Charlotte’s back of the head?

The back of her much more tender head was torn open, and her blood must have flowed out.

The monster who smelled the fishy smell of blood flowing from the back of her head went on a rampage and her skin burned, and Charlotte, who could not resist, would have been reduced to a meal.

Those who go to the battlefield often think the same way.

Please, I hope you can go back today without any problems. Hopefully no one gets hurt and can return home.

However, the battlefield is not very tolerant of humans.

If someone on the same team is injured, joint responsibility follows, and all team members gather and feel guilty.

What if someone gets hurt because of your mistake? There is a huge sense of responsibility and guilt that no one can escape.

I thought Charlotte could do it too, but she had never experienced it firsthand. So it was.

Something heavy weighed on her Charlotte’s chest, choking her breath.

The information transmitted to the head through the eyes drove a great fear that instantly turned the brain white.

Why is it so heavy?

Again, why is it so scary?

This scene unfolding in front of her was because it was a very unfamiliar experience for Charlotte.

Thanks to this, the sight that unfolded in time in a matter of seconds pushed a switch that had been dormant in her Charlotte.

“Junon!!”

“For now, I’ll take the lead! I’ll survive somehow… Huh?”

One froze in an instant.

-Kiki… Kki-hik…

The monsters are trembling in fear.

The rats, who sensed this mana released by someone, did not dare to approach the humans they only saw as prey.

The rats, weighed down by the demonic magic, are slowly backing away, trembling in fear.

Even the two people who barely raised their weapons to block them felt the magic of the cold airflow and gulped down her saliva as they watched Charlotte.

Quaddeuk- Kkudeuk- Damn-

The second froze. The second mouse, which was frozen solid, seemed to have trembled and stepped backwards.

The third froze. The moment I turned around and turned to run away, I was already frozen.

Until the last four.

Charlotte, clad in dark blue-looking magic power, slowly heads towards the frozen mice.

And…

– Kreuk.

Charlotte was losing her self and giving out her beastly voice.

Why is that kid doing that? It’s a frozen mouse at best, so why not kill it and approach it with your bare body?

Noel and John looked at each other suspiciously, then nodded and tried to open their mouths.

That moment.

-aaah!!!! Kyaaa!!!!

Charlotte wrapped her young mana around her body and began to crush her rats. It’s like she can’t use magic anymore.

Meanwhile, Junon cleared her mind and stood up.

“Hey, you…”

“Jyu, Junon…? Are you okay?”

Junon’s condition didn’t look all that good.

However, his strangely subdued voice foreshadows an unusual situation.

“It’s okay. Get out of here right now.”

“What…? What is that…”

“You all might die if you stay here, so run away, you bastards.”

Junon had to evacuate Noel and John in advance, who might be targeted by Charlotte, who lost her temper and started rampaging.

***

Tadadak!

The sound of footsteps across the forest did not allow even a single break.

“Is this right?”

Noel asks John beside her as she runs as fast as she can.

“Then what should I do! Didn’t you see those eyes?!”

“That, that’s…”

There was no vibration from the vocal chords when the mouth was gaping.

Her limbs seemed to be as frozen as the cold ice she used to use, and her heart shrunk indefinitely, so she couldn’t even hear the pulsation.

That the hairs all over her body stood on end and she was terrified. That was the reaction of the two of them.

Because I thought I wasn’t human just because of the mana that was wrapped around my life.

It was to the point where I wondered if the aristocratic young lady who had been supporting her had gone and that some kind of monster was standing there.

A word from Junon awakened the two who were trembling with fear as they watched Charlotte.

“But… Shouldn’t the two of us have helped Junon? How can I…”

That’s why it’s even more of a problem.

The three of them were caught as the next target by Charlotte, who couldn’t tell her friends and enemies.

To that Charlotte who finally froze four rats and killed them by turning them into blood clots with her own hands.

“…If it was against an ordinary monster, it would have been. But, will we be able to fight against him?”

“Of course… No… It won’t…”

“Yes. We were probably the next dead bodies after the rats.”

I couldn’t refute it. It was enough strength that it would be fortunate if I didn’t become a corpse at once, let alone one sum.

“But, Junon. Actually, he’s much stronger than us. It’ll be fine!”

“Yes, yes. It’ll be fine. We’ll just have to deliver it as soon as he ordered!”

While dealing with the drastically changed Charlotte, Junon urged them to run away.

Of course, I had no choice but to object to Junon’s words. Because the person who saved them was actually Junon.

The two objected, saying that they couldn’t leave Junon alone, but when Junon stopped Charlotte from doing everything, that decision was easily shattered.

I wondered if the ground dug intact by Charlotte’s work had cracked because it hadn’t rained for a while.

There was absolutely no way that two people with only one weapon, Noel and John, could stop Charlotte’s combined efforts.

-‘Keugh…! Even if you guys stay here, it’s all about being killed by dogs. If you really want to help me, go northwest of here and bring me one man. Even a second faster!’

That’s why they asked me to bring a man named Goden.

“He’s the one who saved us from dying, couldn’t he have done that without thinking?”

“Right! What’s the weakest vanguard? The guy with that nickname must be the stupidest guy in Levant!”

When you reach the northwest, you see a man with a large body that cannot be compared with his teammates.

“Hmm?”

“Cha, found! Panting… Hecking…”

“Kek… Your name is Goden, right?”

“I’m sure Goden is right. What’s going on?”

As Junon ordered, the two went to the Tembris party.

“”Help me!””

***

Like a wild beast, Charlotte’s body was covered with the blood, grass roots, and dirt of her demons.

Even though she is a human with only magical powers, her eyes were dead, unable to let in light.

From that mouth stained with the beast’s blood, it was more like a grotesque cry than a girl’s voice.

A bloodstained hand that took out the heart from four rats that had been horribly killed.

Horrifyingly, blood still drips from the corners of its mouth that munched the hearts of the rats.

As if that wasn’t enough to satisfy her hunger, she was only longing for the heart of another creature in front of her eyes.

Just like a monster with no intellect.

-Greuk, kyaaa!!

“Ugh, my God…!”

To-do-duk.

A handful of fresh blood flows back again.

It was only natural for me to spit it out over and over again whenever the battle continued, and my consciousness became blurred.

“Calm down, I mean!”

If I push her away with her magic shield like now and increase her distance, Charlotte rushes in and closes her distance again.

-Heaaa!!!

“f*ck…”

Charlotte pierced through her magic shield again and again and lifted it down.

I repeat only avoiding endlessly. There was nothing I could do but wait for the time.

The moment I fall here, my heart will be eaten, and I will aim for someone else’s heart next time.

Until Noel and John bring Goden. Until then, we must mobilize everything we have and do not have to stop Charlotte.

“My body is shaking… Hey, I’m begging you, can you please come back as discreetly as before?”

-Kraaag!!! Kyaaagh!!”

“hahahaha… What am I doing. There’s no way you can understand the words. Yes, yes. I’ll play with you. But! Kuk…! Wouldn’t you like to play longer if you use less energy?”

It’s not like this hasn’t happened in the past.

Seeing that Charlotte had become a beast like now, she sang in a different way at the Them Bris party.

I just remembered the story of how she overpowered Charlotte, who was out of control, and then returned to normal and nursed her when she fell asleep.

-‘Magic language? People really become like witches?’

-‘Yes. Because I lost my reason and ran amok like a demon. That’s why I accepted Charlotte into our party.’

-‘…If it’s among my party members, I can overpower it.’

-‘As expected! Senia is smart.’

-‘Then there must be a cause, right? Even when a normal person suddenly turns into a demonic beast.”

-‘That’s right. I didn’t really know why, but when I asked Professor Meuniher a while ago, he roughly told me. That…’

A runaway mana.

That was what turned Charlotte into her demonic beast.

In the end, magic is more like a borrowed power that allows you to use supernatural powers that are not inherent in humans.

For a power plant to run, a power source is needed, and just as calories are consumed for human activity, magic also has a suitable resource.

The resource consumed in the process is mana.

Both demons and humans were created by accepting demonic energy from within the body and adapting to the circulatory system in order to adapt to and live on the Kemfriton continent.

Thus, when mana is depleted, any creature will instinctively try to recover that amount of mana.

For humans, it’s usually enough to take a breath or rest.

However, Charlotte…

Didn’t she almost eat the rat’s heart?

Obviously, it was an act of a witch beast that seemed to steal nutrients and mana from its prey.

-‘Junon, what did you do when you didn’t listen to the lecture on time? Ugh, really.’

-‘What should I do if I don’t want to listen to that professor’s lecture? Awesome…’

-‘Well, our lower class sometimes ignores the professors if they think they’re a little thick. So, what’s the difference?’

-‘Senia. The magic power of creatures living on the continent of Kempreton is not the same. The difference is the degree of turbidity. Even your magic power has a color, right?’

-‘According to Michelle’s explanation… There are clean and dirty inside the human body, so it must be said that we use clean magic.’

-‘Yes. Humans mainly use clean magic, and muddy magic goes around in parts of the body and is inevitably diluted again. The muddy magic is easily supplied by the demonic energy in the air.’

-‘Wait a minute. Then, the fact that Charlotte showed a dark blue magic wave at that time…’

-‘…A state in which you use up all your pure magic power and crave more magic power?’

-‘Yes… I was in a state where I couldn’t use magic. Other normal types would end up with anemia or fainting due to exhaustion or depletion of mana, but Charlotte’s magical power is originally quite cloudy… If it is maintained for a long time, it will harm her life.’

As the discoloration of magical power intensifies, it leans toward instinct and wildness, and conversely, as it fades, it maintains intelligence and rationality.

Instinct and ferocity are the essence of demon beasts, and intelligence and reason are the essence of humans.

In other words, losing intellect and rationality like Charlotte and becoming dependent on instinct like a beast means that mana has been exhausted.

“After…”

Depleted mana. Thirst as a result. Rely on instinct.

There are three clues, so this gambler is likely to play.

-aaa!!!

Charlotte comes rushing in with her arm outstretched.

If humans of the opposite s*x said they were hostile, they would either seal her arms or attack her legs and break them.

There is only one place that her arms want to reach. It was my heart

Tup-

“…That’s right. Only attacks with thick magic are threatening. What you want is my heart.”

-Keureuk, keuaaa!!!

As expected, she grabs Charlotte’s wrist, but it’s just her little girl’s arm. What had her heavy destructive power was the dark blue magical power she wore.

In other words, Charlotte’s physical strength itself is not very strong.

“Let’s hold on and think. I might be a little sick, but…!”

If you want to live, you must find it yourself before you collapse.

A way to replenish Charlotte’s depleted magical power.