I Possessed The Villain’s Childhood Friend

28 – I’m back

“Leave the clean up to me.”

When they reached the bar above ground, Anna saw the bartender lying on the floor and opened her mouth.

“… Will it be okay?”

When she heard the story of the assassins, Anna must have been tortured so much that her body would not be normal.

In the first place, she wasn’t at a level where she could lightly laugh at the wounds that could be seen between the torn clothes.

But now my situation is much more serious.

There were countless cuts all over her body.

Her left arm and her right thigh were totally numb.

When I tried to open her left eye, her blood clotted completely and she couldn’t open it.

Her nausea rose up again and again.

She was also forcibly suppressing her convulsions with magical power.

It was to the point where she doubted whether everything would be cured even if she received the healing magic.

“For a while before that.”

Anna forced me down and put her hand on my chest.

I felt like something was leaking into her.

“It is a simple healing magic. It’s not a water or light attribute, so the effect will be weak, but at least a little.”

“Thank you.”

It’s a little bit, but I felt that breathing became easier.

“I will finish cleaning up in 10 minutes, so please wait.”

“So fast?”

“Basically, this is one of the hideouts. We are ready to leave at any time.”

Anna said and dragged her bartender’s corpse back down into the basement.

After she defeated the black wolf just in case, she went around all the hideouts and dealt with the remaining assassins, so there should be no problem.

“Ugh.”

Until I met Anna, I didn’t feel much of her pain.

But from the time she started coming out of her basement, she started to feel more and more pain. Now, if I stopped the flow of her magical power even a little bit, her whole body would ache.

Thanks to Anna’s use of her healing magic, she got a little better, but her pain didn’t completely go away.

It hurt enough to scream, but she had to grit her teeth and endure it.

It’ll be annoying if someone hears a noise outside and comes to you.

“Ike. I am back.”

“It hasn’t even been 10 minutes yet.”

“You’ll have to move a little bit faster.”

As Anna said, she put a long hoodie on me.

“Are you still able to move?”

“I think I can rest for 10 minutes.”

“Then I will take care of you.”

“What?”

After Anna said that, she put me on her back.

I wanted to tell her to come down, but she trembled and couldn’t help herself.

“This is a bit embarrassing.”

“Wouldn’t it be okay to cover your face with a hood for now?”

“I don’t mean that.”

“Sorry. Please forgive me.”

Anna slowly walked out of her tavern.

Fortunately for her, it may be that there were no people around her because it was the time before the fog cleared.

I thought about leaving it to Anna for now, and slowly closed her eyes.

★

I felt like I was suffocating, as if I had been submerged in deep water for a long time.

Even though I wanted to exhale loudly, something inside me wouldn’t allow it.

“Keah!”

As soon as I woke up, I spit out something.

It was ominously black blood that soaked the white blanket.

“… Where is it?”

I looked around and saw a white room.

It was like a hospital.

I’m sure I was carried by Anna….

“Ike?”

Turning her head at the sound of her voice, Anna opened the door and came in.

“Anna, is this place?”

“This is the house of a healing mage that I used to use often when I was a member of Avatar. She knows nothing about my past, so there should be no problem.”

“What are you talking about, Anna?”

“It’s nothing, Elin.”

It was a blue-haired woman who appeared behind Anna’s back.

A badge with a picture of three overlapping circles hung on her left chest, wearing a white priestly uniform.

“That badge belongs to the Church of Martires….”

“Oh, yes. I am Elin, who was active as a priest of the Church of Martires, albeit briefly. Now she is living as a healing mage, using her talent at that time.”

As if it is not a lie to say that I saved my talent, my body, which was serious just looking at it, was almost completely healed.

Her left arm, which had been colored with bluish color, moved perfectly, and her thighs, which she thought would leave scars, were spotless.

“Ike. I’ll wash that blanket for now, to me.”

After handing the blackened blanket to Anna, I looked at Elin, who was sitting next to the bed before I knew it.

“… Thank you.”

“You were pretty serious, but I’m glad you’re feeling better.”

As Elin said, she smiled softly.

I was impressed by her relaxed atmosphere, which made me understand why she was able to work as a priest.

But if there’s anything more impressive than that.

“Perhaps, those eyes.”

“Oh, yes. I don’t see it. That’s why when I open my eyes, everyone says it’s gross, so I close them.”

She may have asked a rude question, but as Elin is accustomed to, she didn’t mind and answered.

But that wasn’t the part I was questioning.

“If you can’t see it because of the cuts, shouldn’t you use healing magic?”

Elin’s face was barely visible, but there was a scar that ran across her side.

It was a wound that ran from her right eye to her left eye.

If blindness was caused by a simple wound, he could regain his sight just by using healing magic right now.

No matter how old the wound is, it shouldn’t be a problem if you’re as skilled as her.

“I made these scars myself.”

“Yes?”

“A long time ago. On that day when I couldn’t do what I was supposed to do and lost everything. It’s a punishment I inflicted on myself for not seeing what I needed to see.”

But I couldn’t say anything to Elin’s meaningful words.

“Thank you.”

“May the blessings of the god Eos dwell upon you.”

“Elin. See you next time.”

“If you come to me for the first time in 10 years like this time and ask for something, you won’t listen, Anna.”

“Yes. Don’t worry.”

After Elin checked her condition, we immediately left her house.

Even though it was a very short meeting with her, I somehow had an intuition that I would meet her again later.

“Send a letter to Reina as soon as you return to Heros. Don’t write my story.”

As it turned out, it seemed that I had passed out for over a day.

The time was already past 5 o’clock on Sunday, and now it was time to return to Arcana.

“Is this a secret again?”

“Yes.”

Now that the story is completely twisted, I couldn’t guess how the future would flow if my whereabouts were known.

If you want to get even a little help from the contents of the original work, you have no choice but to keep it as secret as possible.

“Ike.”

“Yes.”

“Thank you. I will definitely repay this favor someday.”

Saying that, Anna lowered her head.

Feeling somewhat ashamed, I immediately turned my back.

“I’ll go first. See you next.”

“Yes. Please take good care of Reina-sama.”

Every time she looked behind her just in case, Anna kept her head down.

★

It has been more than two weeks since she entered Arcana.

She didn’t have anything special in the meantime.

Ike, who went out on weekends from the first week, was getting along well among the students.

Among them, only I was alone.

Since Ike went out for the weekend, he hasn’t talked to me.

I didn’t approach him either.

I was curious about the contents of the letter Anna had left for Ike, but she wasn’t interested enough to ask.

She did not feel alone. She

She’s so used to being alone no matter how many people around her.

More than anything, I knew now.

The fact that Ike didn’t abandon me.

She had only just come to know about it, but she did not feel the bitterness of solitude.

It would be nice if we could be friends like before, but it will take more time to get back to the way we were back then.

3 Years of hiatus is long.

I didn’t show a good side when we met again in Arcana.

Soon it was dinner time. Back in my dorm room, I was preparing for tomorrow’s class.

Studying was good.

At least for this time, I was able to focus only on this.

“Miss Reina?”

But the moment I opened the book of attribute magic, someone called my name along with a knock.

It was the voice of the dorm headmaster.

“Yes, sir.”

“I have a letter.”

A letter?

There was no way the letter would come to me.

There were only two people around me who would send me a letter.

One of them was living together in Arcana right now, and the other was missing.

I’m sure it will.

Before I heard the words that followed, my heart trembled.

As if he intuited something.

“The sender… Her name is Anna Margret. Do you know someone?”

The moment you hear that name.

I even forgot my instinct to follow manners.

“Yes, yes! This is someone you know!”

I opened the door while wearing my pajamas, and received a letter before listening to the supervisor.

The headmaster had a rather puzzled expression on his face, but I didn’t have the time to worry about such things.

“Anna.”

The letter envelope clearly stated Anna Margret.

As if possessed by something, I broke the seal of the envelope and took out the letter.

It was a letter from Anna, clearly in Anna’s cursive.

After reading all the letters, I lay down on the bed.

If Anna saw it, she would have been angry and told her to protect her body.

He will scold me for saying that there is still work to be done.

But I couldn’t help it.

No matter how much I study in this state, it won’t come into my head.

“Finally. At las….”

She is a kind older sister who scolds me severely for my mistakes, but says she will always be with me.

Finally, finally back.

I was obviously happy, but for some reason, tears flowed.

“Thank you. Thank you.”

His name was not written in the letter.

There was not even a light mention, as if it was intentionally not written down.

But because of that, I was able to know for sure.

Anna has not had a single letter for three years.

She sees him again, and after he returns from a weekend outing, she calls.

This situation also screamed that my intuition was correct.

“Thanks, Ike.”

My knight said he would always protect me.

I quietly whispered the name of the knight I had admired since I was a child.

★

To the young lady.

It’s been a while, lady.

The exclusive handmaid of a shameless lady who swore to always be with you but left.

She returned with the news that the lady had entered Arcana Academy this year.

It has already been more than three years since I left Heros.

The young lady must have become a full-fledged lady.

She’s sorry she couldn’t keep her promise to come back soon.

She must have had nothing to say even if the young lady threw me away.

Even if there was a reason, she has nothing to say even if she has a hundred mouths for not sending even a single letter for over three years.

She was actually prepared to be kicked out of Roselia because she had broken the order as a servant.

However, the master told me that the position of the lady’s exclusive maid remains vacant.

I have no shame, but I would like to ask you one thing.

She has not sent me a single letter for three years, this reprehensible woman.

Can you make her your exclusive lady-in-waiting again?

This time, no matter what, she wants to walk with the young lady.

Learn me one last time.

From nob le mt l dot com

PS. I’m sorry that should have been the first thing she said.

I’m back, Miss Raina.

Anna Margret