Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

23 – Group Tasks (5)

Tina the Lone Wolf in the Snowy Mountains.

The story about this wolf is not in the original story.

In the original story, Kyle had no way to know the story of this wolf, and there was no way to stop this wolf, so he had no choice but to kill it.

The thing about Tina is contained in a setting book that was released when the academy’s strongest swordsman became popular, but anyway, this is useless now.

“Tina.”

Lowering her stance, she approached Tina, who was pinned down by Lucy and Anastasia.

The look in her eyes made me not think I made up the name I had given her.

She peeped at her as she recounted her memory, and though she would not have heard her name from her memory, her intuition convinced her that this was her own name.

“Are you going to keep fighting us?”

This is a development that was not in the original story.

In the original story, Kyle had no choice but to cut down Tina, who wouldn’t stop, and take her loot from Tina’s hut.

That’s why it was a choice that I didn’t know what the outcome would be.

“Are you going to continue with that senseless act that is far from the peace that Raviel hoped for?”

The eyes crossed.

He stared at me quietly, as if he was contemplating whether he should trust the suspicious me he met for the first time today, and even stirred up his memory.

Then she slowly opened her mouth, which had been tightly closed.

“Wolves… ….”

Spitting out what had been in her mouth since her long use, which was neither her own name, nor her race, nor anything else, Tina corrected her words.

“Tina, I don’t trust you.”

It was a natural reaction.

Even if it’s like me, I don’t trust such a suspicious person in the first place.

However, if it wasn’t a refusal, that was enough.

“Instead, Tina is protected.”

Steam began to rise from Tina’s body, which was only her house.

Like snow melting in the strong sunlight, Lucy climbed onto Tina’s back as she got smaller and smaller and soon fell to the floor.

“Her dream, not the snowy mountains.”

What can be seen in the fog is not a wolf the size of a house, but a small girl’s figure.

To be precise, it is a form of a beastman different from that of a human with wolf ears protruding from its head.

“So, don’t fight. I will repay you for teaching me my name. Follow me.”

The voice that seemed to be talking in a box that was clogged in all directions turned into a thin voice of a little girl.

Podeudeuk, podeudeuk.

The one stepping on the snow and getting out of the steam is a wolf beast with short white hair.

Tina’s true self casts off her illusions to exclude intruders.

“That is enough.”

I gestured to Lucy and Anastasia, who were in a daze because they were talking about how things were going and only Tina and I knew about the conversation.

“What? What happened?”

“It’s troublesome to explain.”

“What?”

Lucy frowned at her, but couldn’t help it.

While climbing the snowy mountain, he had been activating assimilation all the time so as not to fall into a trap, and he had consumed a lot of mana to assimilate memories of Tina and her.

It was said that it was difficult to stand up right now, and that it was too much to keep awake with your eyes open.

“Follow Tina for now.”

Saying that, he placed his arms on Lucy and Anastasia’s shoulders.

Perhaps it was because of the huge weight difference, they leaned toward me where I placed my arm, and looked back at me asking what they were doing.

Each of them expressed dissatisfaction with their facial expressions, but they didn’t even look at it.

It wasn’t to show friendliness by standing shoulder to shoulder, but because I didn’t have the strength left to climb the mountain.

“And drag me too…” ….”

“What?”

“It’s heavy… ….”

I was full of complaints, but somehow they dragged me around.

Looking back, I could see three different footprints and long trails.

* * *

I felt it all over again, but the sense of exhaustion from magical exhaustion was considerable.

This doesn’t happen often because Adele lacks magical power.

Assimilation is a monster that consumes mana thanks to its versatility and considerable power.

Anyway, if I get what I need from this snowy mountain today, things like this will happen less often.

Cook-Cook.

“… ….”

As I lay still in Tina’s cabin, the fingers poking at my cheeks bothered me.

I gathered all my strength and tried to hit it with the back of my hand a few times, but it was as persistent as a mosquito.

The owner of this annoyance was Anastasia.

While Tina and Lucy followed her to her warehouse to find something to repay her, she kept acting like this since she was alone with me.

“…… What are you doing?”

I had no choice but to open my mouth.

In the corner of my vision, staring at her through the ceiling, Anastasia poked her head out.

He looked down at me with round, curious eyes and asked.

“There is the variable magic circle that I explained before. What book did you read about that?”

Is that it?

It’s been quite a while since then, but you still haven’t forgotten about the day I avoided you.

“Because there was no time to ask. I had to be quiet in the library, and this time I was constantly tired.”

Unlike then, I couldn’t avoid the seat this time.

There’s nothing I can do about it because I received help, but I have no choice but to go along with Anastasia’s questions and answers.

“I read it in a set book.”

“A collection of settings?”

“This book is no longer available.”

“Ah… ….”

At my answer, he immediately became sullen.

He must have regretted not being able to explore new knowledge.

“Instead, as far as I know, I can tell you verbally. If you have any questions, ask.”

“Really? Any time?”

“…… No, I set the number of times.”

Looking at the guy who quickly became a face full of inquisitiveness, I thought I shouldn’t promise anything, so I hurriedly set the rules.

“No. 10. I will answer your question only 10 times.”

“Okay. Then I found it while looking for a book in the library. Look at this.”

No, I was told to do it, but do I really have to do it now?

I took out the book I had brought and opened it in front of my face, not paying attention to whether it was magic exhaustion or not.

“How about this magic circle?”

A more complex magic circle than the one the professor had put out the other day.

The letters are so tightly written that I can’t recognize them, and the lines are crooked, so I wondered if it was scribbled at random by a child.

“Where did such a terrible magic circle come from?”

“… ….”

Anastasia’s eyebrows twitched.

“What sucks?”

She asked in an uncharacteristically displeased voice.

Maybe it was because it wasn’t the answer he wanted, so he added an explanation.

“Because I tried to contain too much information, the grammar got twisted like spaghetti. There should be no problem with the operation of the magic, but if you don’t stick to this magic circle, it’s like you can’t develop.”

Wriggling, wriggling.

Anastasia’s expression was speechless at the harsh criticism that followed.

If I had to compare it, I should say it feels like squeezing a balloon full of wind with your hands.

I could feel that I was on the verge of exploding with dissatisfaction inside.

“Again, the line is messed up. The line that engraves the magic circle is a channel through which magic flows, but if this is the case, the magical energy will not be properly supplied and it may not work or misfire. In that sense, this is no different from a garbage magic circle.”

Anastasia trembled all over, as if the trembling that started in the hand holding the book had spread to her whole body.

The air inside the cabin is warm, so you won’t be shivering from the cold. Why is this happening?

“That’s something that needs to be sorted out. Why are you talking so harshly?”

Although Anastasia, almost in tears, defended herself.

“It is not to be refined, but to be disposed of and rebuilt from scratch. This is a magic circle that got it wrong from the ground up. I don’t know who made it, but I want to see the face of someone who wants to show off their shallow knowledge.”

That was like a meaningless defense.

Anastasia clasped her book tightly in her arms, as if to cover the ears of her child listening to her swear words.

She shot a resentful look out of her trembling eyes and muttered in a half-airy voice.

“Looking at you… ….”

What do you mean?

Before he could ask back, Anastasia pointed her finger at her book as her hard breath blew her reddish face.

Blurry letters in her field of vision as she followed her fingers.

─Anastasia’s handwritten notes.

A clue that allowed me to guess that the one who drew the magic circle that was criticized as if it were treated as garbage beyond harsh criticism was Anastasia right in front of my eyes.

She said she found it in the library because she was embarrassed to show her drawing.

“Actually, you know everything.”

She raised her little knuckles in anger, as if her own children had reviled her.

She then, in her own way, gripped her so tightly that her fists trembled and hammered into my chest.

“This bad…… Aww…….”

I grabbed her fist, which had bounced off her chest as it hit her stone or her chest, and frowned.

She wanted to do something about being hurt after being hit by herself, but that was also the kind of Anastasia I know.

“You’re not stupid, what are you doing?”

“Her hand hurts. It looks broken.”

Anastasia whines like a Shiba Inu while trembling all over her mother.

There’s a small chance of that, but in case you don’t know, I raised her still half-managed body and looked at her hand holding it tightly…….

“Her hands aren’t made of any kind of glass, so how could they break that much?”

Of course, but his hand was fine.

“I have no feeling in my hands. It’s obviously broken…… hehehe…….”

I beat the honey balm to the guy who surprised me for nothing.