Parallel World Academy

Episode 25 After the wind has passed.(1)

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The light tickled his eyelids.

When I opened my eyes, the sky was clearer than usual outside the window.

It must be the aftermath of the cyclone.

Obviously, the place where I lost consciousness was in the hallway in front of the dean’s office, but waking up in this space that looked like a hospital room would be a story that Aina, who came to rescue me, succeeded in subduing the villain.

What happened to the other S-Class cadets?

Do you want to lie in a hospital room like me?

Or maybe he just defeated the villain and listened to the lecture.

When I think of them, I feel sorry for them.

What I asked of was obviously not an easy task.

They must have known that it was quite difficult and dangerous for a cadet level.

Still, they followed my advice without saying a word.

In fact, now that I think about it, it’s surprising enough that he helped me.

They weren’t close enough to say they were friendly, and it wasn’t even that they gave me something that could be called a commission fee.

They believed in one lie that they could see the future and helped me.

But even though I couldn’t be of any help to those who believed in me and followed me, I even collapsed without doing anything, so I never dared to face them again.

Isn’t it like entrusting a task that I can’t even take responsibility for to people who have nothing to do with it?

I was so ashamed.

Strictly speaking, should I say that it is a mixed state of regret, self-blame, and shame?

It means that through this incident, I have come to realize that I am helpless.

As I was suffering from complicated emotions, someone cleverly knocked on the door of the hospital room.

“Come on in.”

“Fortunately, he looks healthy. that… Isn’t there a place that is very uncomfortable?”

Surprisingly, it was Aina who opened the door and entered.

Besides, he was kindly asking for my well-being.

I thought you would treat me the same as usual as if you were obviously indifferent.

Because he hated me.

As I pondered the benefits of having her save me and caring for me, I realized that it wasn’t that important.

Whatever the reason, the fact that you saved me has not changed, so the first thing to say was to say thank you.

I got up from the bed and bowed my head.

“Thank you, Aina.”

“what.”

“You saved me.”

“done. Seeing you waking up like that makes you feel really good.”

“… ah!”

Turns out, I was obviously seriously injured and collapsed.

But, strangely, the body moved well.

If I had suffered the same injuries in the world I originally lived in, I would have had to stay in the hospital for at least several dozen days.

It was such a fatal wound that, without luck, I might have to live as an asshole for the rest of my life.

However, I did not feel any discomfort in my body.

How could an injury that was so severe be healed so easily?

Or did I actually lie in the hospital room for a long time?

“How long have I been lying here?”

“About 20 hours.”

Even if it took about a day including the time it took for the treatment, it was a very short time.

I didn’t even feel any after-effects at all.

“But, aren’t you hurt?”

“Well, it hurts a little, but it’s okay. No injuries were worse than you.”

“okay? I’m glad.”

“I am not as weak as you.”

she is right

In fact, it would be very funny for her to be worried about Aina like myself.

But doesn’t it feel so shameless to not even worry about anyone who jumped into the battlefield to save me?

I owed her my life.

This debt, perhaps, will not be repaid until the day I die.

“Are the other kids okay?”

“Okay, Olivier and Katarina were a little hurt, but they’re fine now.”

Looks like you got hurt a lot

Aina’s standards are far away from ordinary people’s thinking, so if she said she was slightly injured, it would be quite a serious injury.

You’re probably in the hospital room like me.

“You don’t have to worry so much. They have already been discharged from the hospital.”

“Still, it was something I asked for, and I can’t help but feel sorry for it.”

“What are you sorry for?”

“It’s like you got hurt because of me.”

“If you feel that way, you are strong enough to take responsibility for what you have done. I don’t need your regrets in the first place. It was purely their will that they chose to follow you. You didn’t force it, did you? Then it’s theirs, not yours. It is clear that you are responsible for any injuries. What you should be more sorry for here isn’t that you hurt those you brought into your plans, but that you didn’t do your part.”

I had nothing to say.

Because there was not a single element that could refute her words.

All I could do now was bow my head.

As I bowed my head and said nothing, she resumed the conversation in a slightly softened tone.

“I know you are trying. However, the reality is that it is far too short compared to those of us who have been constantly training our thinking skills since we were young.”

“I know.”

“okay. I should have been aware Then, in the future, I ask you to work harder to become a person that meets the level of the S-Class.”

“… I will do that.”

“Well, that’s right, I’m here for a more important reason. Do you know what this ring is?”

What she took out was the ring the villain was wearing.

It was the thing that provided the night vision effect that I was originally aiming for.

It’s probably the loot they’ve captured after defeating the villain.

“It’s a ring that provides a night vision effect.”

“I knew it too.”

“Because it’s not really that rare.”

It wasn’t that surprising that she knew what this ring was.

In the first place, it is equipment related to the night raid, which is the basics of assassination.

“But don’t you feel strange? The owner of this ring has a beast flower with his thought power. Beasts basically also provide night vision for animals. There’s no reason to have a separate night vision equipment. But why did you have to wear this ring?”

Is that so?

Come to think of it, the villain had no reason to wear this ring.

Then why was he wearing this ring?

It’s not a particularly precious thing, but it’s a ring that everyone who recognizes it will recognize, so it’s probably not the ring itself that contains a special message.

Then there’s only one reason he should wear a ring.

“Did you have to sneak into a place where you can’t use your brain power at night?”

“right. And where would such a space be?”

… By the way, such a space also existed in the Pacific Ocean where Ainir is.

One of the three major prisons where the worst villains are imprisoned.

Zaratan Prison.

But Zaratan Prison is not a place anyone can break into.

No matter how relaxed it is at night, if the security was weak enough for a C-level rookie villain to hide, Zaratan Prison should have sunk into the sea earlier.

“That is nonsense. There’s no way a C-level villain could break into Zaratan Prison.”

“There could be spies inside Zaratan prison, right? The villain I killed said he belonged to an organization called the ‘Somnium Liberator’. If that organization called the Somnium Liberators planted a spy inside Zaratan Prison, it’s possible. Of course, it’s an organization I’ve never heard of, so it’s highly unlikely that it’s an organization influential enough to plant spies in Zaratan Prison… .”

Somnium Liberator?

Are they already showing up?

I can’t.

Those guys are said to be organizations that only appear in the mid-to-late half.

But, if the guys who attacked yesterday are really Somnium Liberators… It’s as easy as planting a spy in Zaratan Prison.

“what? Why are you looking so serious all of a sudden?”

“… In fact, there is a high probability that there are spies in Zaratan Prison.”

Silence flows.

The fact that he sneaked into Zaratan Prison is probably because he had something to see with the villain who was imprisoned there.

And the sound of a person who had contact with a villain imprisoned in Zaratan Prison broke into the dean’s office at Trinity Academy…

Is Oscar Sharma having an affair with a villain?

However, there was little evidence that Oscar Sharma was having an internal relationship.

In the original story, he fights against the villains to the end and disappears.

If he’s on the side of the villains, there’s no reason to fight them all the way to the end, right?

However, thinking under the premise that he is not a villain does not solve all the doubts.

The mastermind of this raid was apparently satisfied with just breaking into the dean’s office in the original story and died.

If you risked your life to break into Trinity Academy, isn’t it because you have something urgent to tell?

He died without even meeting Oscar Sharma, so why die satisfied?

It was an incomprehensible situation.

However, it was impossible to completely rule out the possibility that Oscar Sharma was having an affair with the villain.

Aina also seemed to have noticed roughly how things were going.

“It’s not very good.”

“I know.”

“I don’t know how far you know the future… I’d rather not worry about this case any longer. It’s too dangerous. If our guesses go in the wrong direction, it’s very likely that this isn’t a problem we can solve at our level. I’ll take care of destroying the ring, so for now, let’s stay as usual.”

“Okay.”

I couldn’t help but agree with her words.

At our current level, it was not a question of what to do or not to do.

Confronting the Somnium Liberator is not a problem that can be easily solved even if all members of the S-Class have grown sufficiently.

“If you have more to say, let’s talk about it later. Wake up if it’s okay Others are waiting for you in the dean’s office.”

“Yes, but can I go to the dean’s office now?”

“Just act as usual. The odds of them noticing that we are suspicious are significantly lower. Rather, it could be a useless suspicion. I’m trembling for nothing, then I’ll look at it with strange eyes.”

Well, it may be that I and Aina are making a leap forward about the situation.

I thought it was just a coincidence, and thinking about it gave me a little relief.

But, how did Aina come to save me?

“But I mean. Why did you save me?”

She, who had always answered my words until now, did not respond at all.

I just quietly walked to the dean’s office.

It means you don’t want to answer.

Accepting that, I followed Aina and headed to the dean’s office.

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