Immortals From My Past Life Are Still Obsessed With the Reincarnated Me

38 – Demon Search Operation (4)

Elfin focused his attention as he sprinted down the mountain road, examining his surroundings carefully.

She could sense it dimly, having just faced Hans.

‘I thought they had magic tools that could only hide their bodies, but that wasn’t the case.’

Should I say it’s some kind of barrier?

She could feel something created around her as she fought Hans.

The range itself wasn’t quite small, and when Hans moved, a certain space around him would continue to move.

It is unknown which of the equipment he was wearing that created such a phenomenon, as it has not yet been investigated.

But she was sure of at least one thing.

‘It’s difficult to perceive the space from the outside. A person trapped inside destroys a magical product, or…….’

It is clear that the special space hides itself from others, but it does not block all physical or magical attacks.

I can’t feel it, but Deneb and Justina are definitely on this mountain.

So it means that you can hit the enemies the moment they drop a slash at the entire mountain, or even a bombardment from a magic circle floating in the sky.

‘It’s not just the enemy that gets hurt.’

Elfin knew Justina’s psychology.

If the bombardment falls soon from that magic circle, there is a possibility that not only the demons but also the students will be injured.

As the head of the imperial family’s shadow department, he had to stop the wide-area magic that would attract attention, but anyway, protecting the children from the position of being appointed as a professor was also an elfin’s natural duty.

‘Master… Why is work so difficult… ?!’

It was eventful from the first day as a professor.

Deneb or Justina would do something once they found it, but I couldn’t see or hear it, so I felt stuffy inside.

Though Guinness and Cornette were sent down, not only Deneb but also Charlotte and Joseph are in a dangerous situation.

Of course, Justina didn’t do this just to die together.

‘I’m sure he thinks it’s okay if he heals.’

Justina is a dragon, a race born with magical talent.

Healing magic also cannot be compared to that of an ordinary priest.

I think it’s okay to kill half of the demons and students first, and then erase Deneb and the others anyway, since their memories will be erased anyway.

Deneb, the first to run to save him, might be safe, but it was unclear whether the rest of the students would be okay as they missed the golden time.

‘There is still time, but… ….’

The good news is that nothing has been going on since the magic circle just appeared above my head.

Someone is intentionally interfering with Justina’s magic circle.

It was a situation where I could only see it like that, but the question was who it was.

‘Isn’t that the prince?’

Realistically, it’s more likely that he’s a demonic guy rather than Joseph.

Elfin, deep down, hoped that Hans’ brother, whom she had killed, her demon named Grueta would somehow stop Justina.

Cheer for the demons that need to be captured, no matter how you look at it, it wasn’t a normal situation, so even the elfin who thought of it let out a laugh.

“…… What?”

But wait, only then did Elfin discover something strange.

Let’s assume that Justina’s magic circle stopped activating now because Gruetta, the younger sister of her demonic brother and sister, clung to Justina.

Justina would have cast her magic after realizing that Deneb was in big trouble, but if Hans had been captured by Elfin and Gruetta had gone to Justina…….

“Then who is Deneb fighting with?”

I didn’t know what was going on or why.

***

Alfin, who was far away, also noticed that the magic circle that covered the sky was the work of Justina, but Joseph was unaware of anything.

“What is this?! Could it be that the Demon Wizard did it?!”

“… ….”

“Yuzu, if you know a little bit about magic, you know what kind of phenomenon that is?! Could you please explain?!”

“Shut up, I’m paying attention.”

“…… What?”

Even looking at the magic circle that covered the sky, Joseph couldn’t even guess that the girl next to him was the culprit.

I don’t know if it’s swordsmanship, but Joseph’s magic skills weren’t that great, but more than anything, it was because I didn’t even think that a classmate in the same first year could use magic of this scale.

On the other hand, Justina was obsessed with the suspicion that something might have happened to Deneb and was unable to think normally.

‘No, Deneb. No, Deneb…….’

Justina knew what the consequences of this wide-area bombardment magic would be.

She will completely annihilate the demons that the imperial family said should be captured if possible, and burn the demons that she had worked hard to catch.

Not only that, but there is a possibility that Deneb and other students who have set foot on the mountain road may also suffer damage.

But Justina saw nothing but the immediate danger ahead of her.

‘Because it can be treated, even if it hurts a little… There will be no problem… !’

I can protect Josef right next to me.

The only problem is the other students who can’t detect where they are.

The demons must be doing some tricks to prevent them from finding them, so once you kill the demons, you can find the students.

Then fly right away and use healing magic to return it intact.

‘First is unconditional Deneb, then… ….’

Actually, what happened after that didn’t matter.

No matter how much Elfin tries to take Deneb outside, it’s a bit of a stretch to let her die, but there’s no way Elfin will die from being caught up in this kind of magic in the first place.

After saving only Deneb, you can find other students.

Justina thought so, but she was actually talking nonsense.

If the mountain behind the academy is bombed, people will come to find out what happened.

Then the truth that the imperial family tried to hide will naturally be revealed.

The fact that the demons have sneaked into the heart of the empire will be revealed to the whole world, and it will also be revealed that Justina is the caster of that magic.

If that’s the case, there won’t be a single problem.

Even after Justina casts her bombing spell, there is no guarantee that she will be able to heal all the students except for Deneb.

However, that kind of thing has already happened.

‘I’ll be sure to save you, Deneb.’

It was not something Justina would consider.

“Kyakyakyakyakyakyak!”

However, there were quite a few people in Justina who were troubled by such behavior.

The students didn’t even know what was going on, so they couldn’t know anything, but Elfin tried to stop Justina.

The important thing is that Elfin wasn’t the only person trying to stop Justina.

“Who is there! Say your name!”

“Kyakyakya, the prince will be better, you know when you see it, right?”

“Have demons appeared in person… !’

A demonic girl with her black hair braided into two pigtails fluttered her cape and landed lightly next to Joseph and Justina.

Joseph immediately took out his sword, but the demon girl Gruetta’s eyes were not on the prince, but on Justina.

With her cloak on, she stared at Justina, who had almost completed her magic, with her expressionless face, sweating profusely.

On the other hand, Justina didn’t care at all whether Gruetta appeared or not, she only focused on completing her magic circle.

“Hey, that magic circle. Wouldn’t it be better to quit?”

“… ….”

“Kyakyakyaa, are you trying to blow up this mountain? Then all the other students would die too? Do you really want that?”

“… ….”

“…… He tell me to stop You crazy b*tch!!!”

Justina neatly ignored Gruetta’s words.

The magic circle floating in the sky became brighter and clearer, predicting that countless magic bombardments would soon fall from the sky.

Cold sweat ran down Gruetta’s forehead and back.

She spontaneously sped up her feet, but her hands trembled.

Her brother, Hans, and herself were in danger, as well as the ‘witch’, the center of her plan, so Gruetta desperately clung to her.

“…… Noisy, b*tch.”

Justina didn’t stop and just blew her magic into it.

Now that it happened, Gruetta couldn’t help it either.

She is well versed in magic, and when that magic is completed, all living things in the area are in danger.

Even so, she didn’t think that Justina was a somewhat superior human mage, but she didn’t think she was a dragon, so she decided to make her stop by attacking her directly.

And that was Gruetta’s defeat.

Clap-!

As soon as Gruetta made her battle decision, she took out her backpack and the attached iron gear.

The cylindrical injector groaned as if it were going to spit out something at any moment.

Using Gruetta’s mana as a catalyst, the rattling rucksack, no, the fuel tank soon created something and spewed it out through the injector.

“Dangerous, Yuzu!”

Both Joseph and Justina could tell that the cylinder-shaped injector and fuel tank resembling a backpack that Gruetta was equipped with were magic engineering items.

However, I had no choice but to open my eyes wide the moment the fiery monster spewed out of the injector.

Light, heat, and the acrid smell of ash.

A gigantic storm of flames raged as if it would engulf the entire forest.

Roaring!

“Keep it off… ….”

“Don’t breathe. All the air around here is superheated, and if you do it wrong, your lungs will be browned.”

“Nose, Cough… ….”

“Eh, you’re being annoying.”

Justina snapped her fingers for her distressed Joseph.

A small air bubble flew and covered Joseph’s mouth and nose.

Only then was Joseph able to breathe and look around.

“This, this…… The forest…….”

The back mountain of Denbergen Academy, a monster hunting ground.

A place that Justina managed with great care.

It was a place of learning for many students who graduated from the academy and went out into society.

The place was burning with Gruetta’s magical flamethrower.

Since the area was full of vegetation, even a little fire would spread quickly, but the magic engineering flame burned hotter and redder.

It was almost certain that the entire mountain would soon be engulfed in flames if it was not immediately subdued.

“…… Damn it.”

Justina finally returned to reality.

Burning vegetation, beasts howling as their bodies catch fire, and the heat that covers your skin.

She was reminded of her own responsibilities for the last time as she looked at Joseph with her grimy, determined eyes.

Until now, for Justina, her first priority was unconditionally a Dane.

The second was Dane’s dream, that is, Denbergen Academy.

The reason she inherited Dane’s will, the reason she built and raised the academy.

If this is the case, I wonder if Dane will come back someday and praise me for doing well and working hard.

At the very least, I want to say thank you and feel proud.

Just such an infantile and fragmented desire.

She didn’t take a single step forward in Dane’s death.

But things started to slowly change.

Elfin’s sharp words touched her heart like her bluntness, and at some point, the way she missed her Dane began to change.

I’ve moved away from building schools and teaching students simply for the praise of Dane, who will return one day.

It is meaningful to carry on Dane’s dream and inherit his will.

Of course, I have never abandoned the belief that Dane will return.

It’s just that the school has truly improved and the students have become more precious.

It was a school that still had many deficiencies due to constant problems even after serving as the chairman for hundreds of years, but it was a dream inherited from Dane, so I never neglected it.

It is unchanging that the academy is the home of the Dane who will return someday.

However, the Denbergen Academy was not a place only for Danes.

It is true that I searched diligently, thinking that there might be a Dane among the new students I receive every year.

But not all non-Dane freshmen were trash flops.

‘What would Dane say if she had just seen her original daughter?’

As the chairman, as an adult, as a teacher teaching students.

Justina considered nothing except Deneb.

Dane, if you were caught by Deneb…… She would be terribly scolded.

‘This is not a game. Because this is her home, as well as her original daughter.’

Of course, Deneb is still her first for her.

But now her dream of her Deneb was also to her, her Deneb was her first as was her being.

The academy is the home of Dane and Justina, who will return someday.

The tens of thousands of students who passed through the academy are children born between Dane’s dream and Justina’s dream.

As the owner of a precious house, as a mother who had never had children, Justina woke up and declared.

“I will not tolerate touching the school or the students.”

I can’t forgive a demon I don’t know the name of hurting Deneb.

However, she can’t stand defilement at Den Bergen Academy, which is nothing short of a Dane’s dream.

This is the mountain behind Denbergen Academy.

The children here are students of Denbergen Academy.

Gruetta, the demon who opened Justina’s eyes by destroying Dane’s dream, which Justina almost destroyed just a moment ago.

Justina, expressing her gratitude in her heart, raised her fingers and began to gather the fire that covered the mountain.

“Kyakyakyakyak! What do you mean, that’s it! A little while ago, the bombing was going to burn all of the students and the back mountain! Did you suddenly change your mind?!”

“Her lady’s heart is like her reed, and she is easily swayed.”

“Don’t be ridiculous! The magic engineering flame has already started to spread? It’s a fire that was developed with amazing magic engineering technology and never goes out, so can we expect it? It will burn until there is not even a blade of grass left!”

Gruetta’s fuel tank is already empty.

Her mana is also exhausted, and her death is inevitable.

She didn’t know why, but she could at least know that Justina was no ordinary human being, that she could never win.

“Even if I lose, I win in the end! Kyakyakyakyak! Because her brother and the witch will make his grand dream come true again in this world! For his big dream, forever! Forever even in death!”

“You better not say the word dream easily.”

“…… What?”

“It’s not that easy to take over someone else’s dream.”

Red energy gathered in Justina’s outstretched finger.

The small embers gathered slowly and formed a small ball.

The embers were added, and even when added, the ball did not grow.

It just gets redder and darker.

“Fire… It’s turning off… ?”

Meanwhile, Joseph felt the change around him and widened his eyes.

It was because the flames that covered the vegetation around her disappeared as the red energy gathered in Justina’s fingers grew thicker.

It wasn’t watered on, nor was it covered with sand or soil.

“That can’t be! A fire that never goes out!”

Gruetta shouted in a sharp voice that seemed to tear her air.

She had no mana, so there was nothing she could do.

She was a flame enough to burn down a mountain.

It was a flame that would never go out and devour everything.

He made it, there is no doubt about it.

Then why?

“Really. It’s a flame that never goes out, it’s truly amazing.”

“Where did you go! My spark! My flame, where did it go!”

“Cook-Cook, there are no children who have had their toys taken away.”

“Give me! Give it back! Return my flame, the flame I received from him!”

“I’ll give it back if you want it, here it is.”

The flames covering the mountain were completely suppressed before I knew it.

No, actually, it wasn’t extinguished, nor was it digested.

Justina took it and made it her own.

All those flames were condensed at Justina’s fingertips.

“Your dream is to kill you.”

The small red ball blinked.

A thin thread stretched out and reached Gruetta.

The line of flame that Gruetta wanted lightly pierced her heart.

“…… Ah?”

Those were Gruetta’s last words.

Leaving behind Gruetta, who had collapsed with a small black hole in her chest, Justina quickly moved on.

“Joseph, you should hurry down from the mountain. She still has things to find.”

“No, wait a minute. What the hell is this…….”

I didn’t bother to add an additional explanation to Joseph.

If you take Elfin’s amnestic, you’ll forget everything.

She was sure that Elfin wouldn’t have beaten her, but the fact that Deneb didn’t know what to do made Justina speed her up.

‘You should be able to trust Deneb… !’

He said he would come back and reappeared 500 years later.

He’s the kind of guy who will recklessly run into an enemy he can’t deal with.

Since there is also a child named Charlotte next to her, her protective instincts must naturally kick in.

I had to find it and save it before anything big happened.

‘I can’t figure out where it is… ….’

At that moment, something huge came running from far away.

It’s not that the body is huge.

It’s just that its presence is so enormous that it’s burdensome…….

“You crazy Justina!!!”

“Kyaaa!”

A beast resembling an elfin jumped out of the grass.

The beast, whose whole body was covered with dirt from running in haste, attacked Justina with her bare hands and knocked her down.

“You crazy b*tch! Cancel the magic circle quickly! We will all die if we do this!”

“Awesome! Canceled! I mean, it’s already been cancelled! And you should have gone to Deneb instead of looking for her original daughter!”

“What Deneb is Deneb! I caught the demon tribe brother, and looking there, you caught the demon tribe sister! The safest one is Deneb!”

Justina pushed her elfin and patted her knees to stand up.

“I heard that before I killed that b*tch! It turns out that she is a witch or something. Maybe Deneb is fighting that witch!”

Elfin let out her exclamation in a daze.

“…… There was a third?”

However, that exclamation did not last long.

For some reason, Elfin had a strangely confident look on her face.

“No matter how weak Master is, he won’t lose to that guy, right?”

Justina tilted her head, not understanding Elfin’s words.

She doesn’t know who her opponent is, and how strong the existence of a witch is.

By the way, Elfin is boasting about Deneb’s victory.

How the hell?

“…… No matter how weak and young he became, I couldn’t imagine Master losing to someone.”

Justina blankly nodded her head.

She is still in the same position that she needs to quickly find and help Deneb, but she can relate to Elfin’s words as well.

“Well, that’s for sure.”

It was a fact that the three sisters, including Justina and Elfin, knew best that Deneb became stronger when he protected someone.