chapter 14
14 – Unfinished Confusion (2)
How much time had passed, when even the sound of the owls and grass insects that had been croaking quietly became quiet, Hansarang raised her head and leaned on her body. Come.
“I haven’t told you yet why I ran away.”
“Because I never asked.”
“…Why didn’t you ask?”
“I wasn’t curious.”
Poop, she let out a light laugh with difficulty and dug into my arms a little more.
“As expected, you’re like me. But… I guess I have to tell you now. I’ve been involved in this terrorist incident.”
“Your runaway?”
“It’s not completely… Yes it’s definitely related.”
What kind of connection does the deviance of an adolescent student have with the world-famous academy’s first terrorist incident?
There are so many things I want to ask, but first let’s listen to her quietly.
I didn’t know where to start, and the preamble that I had been thinking about for a long time was finally spit out.
He said he would tell you from the beginning of the tragedy
“… Before I entered middle school, I was on my way back from a trip with my family. I got off at a rest area and was taking a break, but suddenly the void night (dungeon break) notification vibrated.”
He exhaled a full breath and swallowed heavy saliva. It was certain that there would be more to follow.
“My father wasn’t even a hunter, but he picked up stones on the street and confronted the void bodies. In the end, he passed away first… After that, my mother, crying and crying, took me and ran away, but stopped for the same reason as my father . ..”
She tried hard to pretend to be okay and not sad, but she smiled, but thanks to the dark shadows under her eyes, it was felt as a reversal effect.
“Whoa… What do you think?”
“…What do you think?”
“The girl called the saint is actually a monster who preys on her parents and lives shamelessly.”
If you’re a monster, it can’t be.
I’m sure my heavenly parents never regretted it. Even if you faced the same situation a hundred times, you would have made the same choice.
It’s the world that gave birth to monsters that’s to blame, not yourself. Your parents don’t want you to blame yourself for it.
Deterministic and infinitely close to the correct answer, consolation passed through my mind, but I didn’t hold on to anything.
It must have come in countless times, and it’s still buried deep in my heart as a wound that won’t heal.
“Do I look a little different now? You want to force me out of the house?”
“No.”
“…Why?”
“I really want to ask. Why should I want to kick you out after hearing the reason?”
She furrows her brow and stomps her own head on my chest.
“… I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know either!”
A lot of subtle emotions that are difficult to explain can be felt in the highly aroused tone.
“Ha… Just kick me out. Treat me emotionlessly like you do to everyone else. If I come to you, kick me out and go back to being nothing like I was a few days ago. I beg you please!”
“… Are you serious?”
“Yes.”
“Okay.”
I don’t know what Hansarang is thinking, but let’s hang out for a while. As long as she doesn’t really get hurt.
Afterwards, she closed and opened her eyes with a sigh, correcting her perception.
Not a special girl who broke my fence and permeated into my daily life, but a stranger A whom I only met briefly.
Soon, the voice he exhaled became cold enough to be called sauce, and became his usual tone.
“Get out of my house right now.”
“Ah… Well… Hang on!”
“Don’t be annoying in front of me from now on, and don’t talk to me for trivial reasons.”
“Okay… I know.”
Her words died powerless. It wasn’t something to worry about, at least not now.
Because now she is just another person A to me.
“Then what are you doing? Get out of here.”
Very gently, but to make sure the intention was conveyed, I pushed the Han Sarang who was sitting on the bed.
I took the spot that looked like that, lay down, and turned my back like a person I would never see again.
“Ah… Ah… There…”
“I thought I just told you not to talk to me over nothing?”
“That… That’s that… For a while… Heh… Heh…”
Oh.
Isn’t this the sound of sobbing?
I refrained from f*cking refraining, but was this even too harsh?
When she lightly turned her head to face her, the one love that she faced stopped frozen and sat down in her seat, unable to afford to wipe away her flowing tears.
She hurriedly raised herself up and walked over to her side, muttering in an inaudible voice of her sorrow.
“I’m sorry… Please don’t kick me out… I really don’t mean that… If it wasn’t here, I… I think I’d die… I was smiling all the time, but I wanted to die… Hold me… If I push you away, come to me and if I’m sad, please stay by my side… If I’m sad, please don’t leave me… If I’m whining, accept me… If I’m laughing, smile with me… If I’m sleeping, hold my hand… I’m sorry… I know I shouldn’t be like this…”
Ha.
Now I don’t even know what’s what.
The question that sprouted has grown bigger without being resolved, and has become so twisted that it can’t be solved at the present time.
I just wanted to live peacefully day by day.
Even that seemed to be regarded as greed by the world.
Since we can’t even get a sense of the future ahead of us, let’s solve the problem right in front of us.
I picked up Hansarang in the arms of the princess and put her back on the warm bed. Until the dawn dew that flows endlessly dries up in the soon-to-be-rising sunlight.
*
After some time passed and she seemed to have calmed down, she stood still with her head on her pillow for a while.
She was about to leave her bed, wondering if she was asleep, but suddenly her outstretched hand wrapped around her wrist and wouldn’t let go.
The pure white face, which was glimpsed between them, was dyed very red.
It was a good opportunity to refresh the atmosphere.
“Hey. Isn’t it embarrassing to go out in the morning after the show in the early morning sensibility?”
“Ah… No! No… Maybe a little bit…”
“You’re young, so what are you worried about?
“You tend to pretend you’re the same age as me and mature!”
“It’s true.”
“Mr. Woo!”
A faint smile bloomed on her face as she raised her fist to me.
I was relieved to see her like that, and I laughed involuntarily.
“Why… Why are you laughing!”
“It looks good.”
“Are you kidding me?”
“Think what you like.”
“Woo, take another shot!”
As expected, her punches were softer than cotton. She thought that a nickname like Busan Jelly Fist would suit her better than a saint.
“Ha, I left.”
“Sure. Ugh… Tired.”
“You must be tired after all that fuss.”
“Forget it! Forget it! Please do something that never happened.”
“I don’t like it, but yesterday during practice…”
“Don’t talk!”
Han Sarang tried to cover her mouth by stretching out her hand here and there.
“Huh huh?”
But in the process, she accidentally loses her balance and drags me to the bottom of her bed.
This… This mischievous saint!
– Kwadang!
I barely twisted her body while hugging her one love. Fortunately, most of her shock was transmitted only to me.
As I carefully raised her body while touching the part of her head that bumped into her, I met her face with a shy smile.
“It’s okay… Are you okay? I did it on purpose, but… I’m sorry.”
“… On purpose?”
“That… I heard from Rumi that something like this happened with that demon woman yesterday… I was wondering what it would be like for me…”
The blue-haired wizard, I will definitely say something when I meet him.
“Ehh, is it resolved?”
“… Yes.”
As she sat down on the bed together again, she coughed and began to speak candidly about the stories she hadn’t finished before.
After the death of her parents, she lived with her only blood relative, her aunt’s family.
Those scumbags ate all of her legacy left by her one love into her business, and they used her money as an excuse to always criticize her and treat her with tremendous discrimination against her own children.
She met me on the day she decided to run away because she couldn’t stand it after living under stress for several years.
After such a long introduction, I was finally able to hear the main story related to this terrorism.
“Today evening… I got a call from my aunt.”
“Why are you worried about the appearance?”
“Ha… I just hung up on that.”
“Then?”
“… I think the demons took my aunt’s family hostage. The ones who raided the academy today.”
…!
“And if you want to save your aunt’s family… I lured you to the designated place and told you to come.”
So, that’s why she was making a show about kicking herself out earlier. To keep me
“… Ok, ok, just a minute to think about it.”
Let’s figure out and organize the spilled information one by one.
The evil scrolls tried to call me out by holding my aunt and his wife hostage after their failed terror attack.
In other words, the real target of this attack is me.
However, it was not known to the public that my ability had returned until the terror attack.
It is not worth taking the enormous risk of terrorizing the academy to obtain me, who has no ability.
Did their assistant inform you?
You prepared all the operations and carried out the terrorism in just one day from two days ago?
It can’t be, there must be something hidden that I don’t know about.
Next, let’s deduce the identity of the helper.
There are more factors that can infer the helper than expected.
A person who knows where Hansarang lives and knows that I and Hansarang are close. The person who found out before the terror that I had regained my abilities.
No way…
A candidate for all of those things came to mind.
“One love.”
“It’s scary when you suddenly turn down your voice…”
“Was Lumine de Astral a member of the Student Council?”