chapter 15
15 – The First Trial (4)
What is Kyle Leonhardt’s role in the monster commotion?
He helps students in crisis, but his main role is to save the heroine.
Lucy, who was injured and unable to escape, faced a monster.
No matter how much she asks for help, no one comes, Lucy, who had a bright future where she was brutally bitten to death, refused her saintess’ order and ran away with the determination to save her childhood friend despite her injuries. Kyle, who got out, rescues her.
Here, Lucy considers Kyle more than her friend, but Lucy’s thoughts change, which she did not see as her reason, and she becomes a heroine in earnest, and becomes a strong helper to help Kyle overcome her crisis in the future.
So, even though Kyle has to save Lucy, I can see the ending where Kyle and Lucy connect, which I hoped for, and Lucy has to live.
Is this all there is?
As much as I said that this magical engineering explosion was an incident, not an accident, this commotion was clearly committed by someone with malicious intent.
Black magic is those who are called witches and are oppressed. Witches who resent the holy nation that persecutes them are trying to kidnap her saintess by terrorizing the academy, which has relatively weak security compared to the holy nation.
If everything went according to the way things went, Kyle, who came back after saving Lucy, crosses the mountain and faces the mountain again, awakens, and rescues Sylvia, who was almost kidnapped by her witches.
Sylvia will also go through similar procedures to Lucy, and this episode was supposed to end…….
“No, why are you down?”
However, the main character who is supposed to save the two heroines is lying in bed with a bandage wrapped around his head, losing consciousness.
I didn’t even have time to guess where and how things got so twisted that he was here right now.
I could only think of who would save Lucy and Sylvia if he was lying there like this.
If you make a mistake, you will lose both heroines, and you will die without being able to overcome the crisis in the academy.
“Dude, why are you down here?”
In a hurry, I grabbed a nearby doctor and asked.
The doctor looked at my face, erased the displeasure from his face, and responded kindly.
“Let’s see…… It is said that he passed out after being hit by a stone thrown from the playground.”
A playground?
A stone?
As it was, he would be in the dormitory and get caught up in an explosion and be separated from Lucy, but why was this guy on the playground?
It wasn’t too difficult to guess why.
The only reason the Kyle I know is on the playground is training.
Then why was this guy on the playground, unlike the love affair?
That’s also easy to figure out.
Because of me.
Because this child lost to me in Dalian, I was at the playground from early morning to practice.
“Ha, is it because of me again… ….”
This time, it was an indispensable thing for me to live, but is that why things are so twisted?
I hit her forehead with the palm of my hand, feeling that her head was pounding.
The main character who is supposed to solve the case is down and is in trouble.
“The term “Butterfly effect” Was not for nothing… ….”
The theory that a small flap of a butterfly’s wings can become a typhoon.
It is said that a small change can have a big impact on the result, and it seemed that the current situation was just right for that theory.
Because the change in which I beat Kyle in order to live changed the point of contact between Kyle and the two heroines, and made it possible for me to die if I made a mistake.
Anyway, it’s not just about sighing.
If Kyle, who should be saving the two, is lying on the bed, someone has to take over the role to save the two heroines and protect my peaceful life.
Then who will fill that role?
…… I have to replace
I can’t help it because there is no other way.
“Something happened. Don’t postpone going back until later.”
As she left the emergency room, she ordered Charlotte, who was waiting.
“Yes? Bocchan, moving any further than this is dangerous.”
Charlotte tried to stop me, but she can’t stop me now.
A heroine’s life is as precious as my own.
Do you think that I, who risked my life to possess, would not be able to take such a risk?
Unless dying was not certain, I had to take on the challenge.
“Aren’t you here to protect me from that danger?”
“…… All right.”
Charlotte dispelled the idea of drying me out easier than she thought.
“If you say so, then there must be a reason. I will follow you.”
The destination has been decided.
Kiel Pass is northeast of here.
There is Lucy near the monster breeding grounds.
* * *
Sabak, Saba, Saba, Saba─
The sound of the monster digging up the soil with its feet was getting closer in real time.
As the sand drains out of an hourglass, the soil that filled the lecture hall is flowing out.
“I’ve already taken out this much… ….”
As if the water level of the lake had lowered, there were traces of dirt remaining on the wall a little while ago.
Compared to my current height, it’s about a span of Lucy’s.
The hungry monsters were desperate to eat that much.
In the meantime, Lucy didn’t just sit still and pray.
Once a lot of the soil has been removed, I tried digging with my hands to see if I could get out through the window, but I was soon blocked by hard statues and desks, so I couldn’t dig any more.
I thought about destroying them by activating the ability, but it seemed that it would be difficult to go further as the nearby ones would fill their place again.
In the end, Lucy conserved her energy and decided to sit-in in this classroom.
I can’t move because I injured my ankle, but I can hit the guys who are trying to dig up the soil.
I hoped that there wouldn’t be that many monsters outside and that they wouldn’t be strong, and I was staring at the direction the sound came from without relaxing.
Sabak, Sabak, Sabak─
The sound got closer, and soon the soil by the window flowed outside.
Small holes formed like the entrance to an anthill, and the smell of animals wafted through them.
“… ….”
Lucy quietly, holding her breath, lowered her head towards the hole.
Just in case.
There’s no way that would be the case, but it could be that someone has come to save the monster after it’s been dealt with.
With such a small hope.
“…… !”
And that hope was shattered in less than a second.
A torn pupil like a snake looking through the hole.
I couldn’t believe that those eyes that floated around in the dark like demonic fire were human.
The reason they were silent for a moment was because they were eating the dead student who was unfortunately buried in the dirt.
It’s a bad idea, but thanks to that student, Lucy was able to live a little longer.
Wagjak, wagjak.
Quad deuk, quad deuk.
A monster that looked like a wolf was eating all the flesh before I knew it, holding only the bony bones with both feet and chewing them with my teeth.
I was staring at the guy who was still eating the flesh attached to it to see if he was hungry, and then, with a swish, one guy raised his head.
“… ….”
Immediately, Lucy covered her mouth and nose with her hands, but cold sweat formed on her brow, afraid that the sound of her heart pounding out of her mouth could be heard far away.
— ….
One bone chewer suddenly sniffed his nose while banging the floor with his whip-like tail.
‘Please, please, please, please… ….’
I hope you don’t smell anything.
Haven’t you done enough to put soggy soil on your clothes?
When you pray inside and hope that they will be satisfied with their meal and leave.
─Kong, kong!
Suddenly, a guy barked.
At that sound, the bone chewers lifted their heads and began barking one after another.
The human smell that flowed through the hole.
I almost couldn’t smell it at first because it mixed with the smell of earth, but I couldn’t hide even the strong, appetizing smell of blood.
‘Oh my gosh…… !’
Scared to curse inside, the monsters rushed to the place where the smell came from.
Kwaduk! Kwadeuk!
They’s jaws protruded through the soil and made sounds as they clashed their teeth incessantly searching for food.
The soil could not bear the struggle of the monsters and gradually collapsed, and the hole gradually widened to fit the bodies of the monsters.
Now, it’s a situation where you’ve almost squeezed through the gaps in your body.
Lucy swung his fist, intending to stop them even now, but the sharp scales only scraped her skin.
“Ah.”
I can’t do anything anymore.
You die here.
I’ll be eaten alive by that monster and disappear without leaving even bones.
Meaningless resistance.
A monster approaching right in front of you.
A lonely death nobody knows about.
Now that the scenery is smeared with tears, the face shimmers as if seeing a hallucination.
Lucy repeated the name, hoping he would come to save her.
“Kyle… ….”
A voice that returns as if answering the call.
“Stay still, Lucy.”
However, it was a low and heavy voice to be called Kyle’s.