Chapter 429 – Chapter 429 Magic School Shutra (3-40)
I smiled inwardly as I watched Karin bend over and enter the tent.
‘The time has finally come.’
It was a time of long endurance.
It was a golden opportunity to see Karin Brandrup’s dreams.
‘Lena, I said there was no one around, right?’
[Yes, Master. It is not yet possible to gauge the wizard’s skill level, but we will not send a wizard on reconnaissance.]
Then there was the possibility of discovering it while sleeping, but they wouldn’t attack right away if they found it.
From the thieves’ point of view, if they have a goal to capture us, it’s overwhelmingly advantageous to attack them after entering for 2-3 days.
As soon as I entered the tent, I looked at Karin’s temperament window in the distance and said.
‘If there is any problem, let me know right away.’
[All right.]
Now, Karin Brandrup… It will make me feel the worth of waiting for the time of endurance.
I stretched out my hand to trigger Sleep and then started casting Sleep Dream.
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‘Her… Is it early?’
As soon as he entered the dream, Karin was already dreaming of her.
Her surroundings were the ducal residence, and she was reading a book while drinking tea elegantly in the garden of her mansion.
‘Kya… It’s real art.’
Just saying that it was pretty wasn’t enough. Her current appearance looked similar to a scene in a famous painting.
Even in her dreams she was absorbed in reading, as anyone would indulge in indolence in sunny weather.
It wasn’t a situation where her information could come in, but thinking that it was a good opportunity to look at her like this, she secretly peeked at her.
Then, someone started approaching her.
‘… Louis?’
Karin didn’t even look at Louis as he approached, she just focused on her book.
Her Louise approached her and opened her mouth first.
“Hey, are you going to form here again?”
“….”
Karin didn’t pay any attention to Louis’ unreasonable provocation, and she continued to focus on her reading.
Louis started interrupting Karin’s reading with the mean smile she usually gave me.
“Do you think reading such a book will make you better?”
“….”
“Yes, yes. You should try so hard It’s good to see you trying. Later, when I become the head of the Brandtrup family, I will take good care of you even if I marry another family.”
“… House owner? You?”
Karin reacted to his words for the first time and started looking at Louis with a puzzled expression.
Louis started to laugh, as if he was satisfied with the way Karin looked at him.
“Kuhhh… Why? Are you a little concerned now? You always ignored me, and now you’re getting some reaction.”
“Answer me. House owner? You?”
“Then who would it be if not me? I, Louis Brandrup!”
After shouting that, Louis suddenly started drawing a magic circle in the air.
Unlike now, it was a crappy form, but a magic circle was drawn in the air following his fingers.
Looking at the garbage-like magic circle, Louis was delighted.
“What do you think!?”
“… That’s great.”
“Huh. React and….”
Louis suddenly turned around and started to leave, probably feeling his annoyance at not getting the reaction he expected.
“If you can only draw a magic circle, admission to Strata is free. I will write you a letter after entering school. Take hard bridal traininghaha!”
Louise filled the garden with laughter, and then the sound gradually died away, and his figure disappeared into the distance.
And Karin….
“….”
In the garden where no one was left after he had already left, he was staring at the location where Louis had disappeared.
Suddenly, the surroundings began to change.
‘… Rain?’
The sky soon became overcast, and it started to rain.
Even though it was raining, Karin was looking at the place Louis had left with an expressionless expression.
When the rain turned to heavy rain while she was watching, she regained her senses and started heading somewhere.
However, she did not feel her urgency towards Karin, who was caught in a heavy rain.
He was even walking in a different direction than the mansion.
‘… Where is this? Is it a warehouse?’
The place she arrived was a warehouse installed outside her mansion.
How to say… It was a shabby warehouse that would diminish the dignity of the mansion if it was near it.
A place so shabby that it is a bit worrying for a woman to enter alone….
Karin opened the door to the warehouse without hesitation and entered.
‘Death kill! Go through the wall!’
I went through the wall of the shabby warehouse and went inside.
The scene that I saw after entering like that was bizarre itself.
The warehouse was very shabby on the inside, similar to the shape on the outside, and it was full of old tools for tidying up the garden around it.
And gradually the inside became dark and damp due to the weather, and the musty musty smell that was hiding all over the warehouse began to sting my nose.
In such an unpleasant place stood a beautiful woman who did not fit at all.
“….”
Expressionless? No…. She was Karin with dead eyes.
Karin, who had been reading the book with clear eyes until now, was nowhere to be found.
Karin, who had the eyes of a dead man instead of a living one, suddenly began to pull up her skirt.
‘What? Are you trying to masturbate?’
In a place like this, she suddenly lifted her skirt, and nothing else came to mind.
Contrary to my expectations, however, she lifted her skirt, untied the knot on her thigh, lifted the object tied to her knot in her hand, and pulled her skirt down again.
‘What a waste… It was good thanks First of all, her legs are fucking pretty.’
If she resembled Anna in the first place, she would be at her prime, so of course she would be pretty.
Started to worry
‘Should I just shove her face through her skirt and see?’
But she shook her head and gave up right away.
‘Nope… Not yet. Later she’ll make me lift her skirt.’
She looked straight at me and lifted her skirt with both hands, wanting to make me offer her virginity.
While she was drinking kimchi soup alone, Karin started touching the object she took out from under her skirt.
I looked hard for something….
‘… A silver bracelet?’
It looked similar to the magic circle spell bracelet I received from Stra.
However, the shape was different from the one issued by Stra, and it looked a little rough, and there were scratches all over the bracelet.
Putting something like that in your skirt….
‘Are you trying to practice magic?’
I wondered why she wanted to practice in a place like this, but I kept looking at her.
Karin began to remove her gloves as she watched the thunder and storm lash out at her.
Come to think of it, Karin was always wearing her gloves.
At first, she thought it was frustrating, but when she thought about it, she thought it suited her because it was a part of her personality that seemed to be tightly tied.
‘You take them off when you practice…. Where can I see how pretty your hands are? … Yes?’
Her fingers were beautiful enough to meet my expectations.
But she could never say she was pretty.
The reason is….
‘… Why are there so many scars on her wrists?’
Her wrists were bruised like ink, and the scars from her wounds were etched.
Her palms themselves were very beautiful, but her wrists could hardly have been considered aristocratic.
It was like the wrist of a prisoner who had been shackled all his life.
But even as Karin looked at her own wrist like that, she didn’t mind at all and started wearing her bracelet on her wrist with her dead eyes.
And what she did afterward was simple.
‘Practice the magic circle….’
Nothing comes out, but Karin frantically starts moving her arms to draw a magic circle.
And the speed at which she moved her hand began to increase.
Karin, who had her dead eyes, kept shaking her trembling hand, and at one point she started shaking it recklessly enough to hurt her wrist.
Now it was a level that could not be called a magic circle.
Karin started by revealing the broken side of her that she hadn’t shown in front of me at all.
“Come out!!! Come out!!! Please!!!”
“….”
Karin started screaming in her shabby warehouse as if she was begging someone to rescue her.
But her screams were caught in the storm and reached no one’s ears.
It just came into my ears.
“Come out!!! Please!! Please!!! Come out! Come out! Come out!!!”
Tears started pouring down Karin’s distorted face like heavy rain.
However, the tears gradually began to take on the color of fresh blood, as if they contained her emotions.
“Come out!!!!!!!”
Suddenly, blood began to flow from Karin’s eyes, not tears.
Karin’s bloody tears were so intense that even the red dress she was wearing made her feel intimidated.
It is not a scream of madness.
It was a cry of despair.
As if to express her own feelings, she came to the lonely warehouse with no one around and cried out to herself, desperately wanting someone’s help.
However….
“Come out!!!!”
“….”
But she couldn’t ask anyone for help.
She wasn’t the type to ask for help, and it wasn’t the part she could turn to for help.
All she could do was scream at the lack of talent and scream in the warehouse alone.
Watching her like that, I slowly approached her behind her back.
‘Should I help you, even in a dream?’
She made a good impression by showing her magic earlier, and decided that it would benefit her if she showed a good image in her dreams using that.
I called her from behind her Karin waving her arms frantically.
“Doesn’t it go well?”
“Who, who are you!? Kyaaak!”
Kwadangtangtang!
Karin was about to fall when her foot tripped on her cleaning tool as she backtracked as if causing a match.
It was natural to be surprised when someone pops up in a place where no one should be.
I barely caught her about to fall and picked her up.
Watching Karin bewildered, I naturally tried to have a conversation.
“Practice magic… I guess it’s not going well?”
“… Yes. It is no different from you.”
This was the advantage of chimmong.
The ability to persuade the other person like water flows naturally even in absurd situations.
Karin, who had been embarrassed a moment ago, began to wipe away her bloody tears and try to untie her bracelet, feeling more embarrassed than puzzled.
I said holding Karin’s hand as she tried to loosen her bracelet.
“Try a little more.”
“….”
Her arm was already dripping with blood.
How hard do you have to shake it to bleed like that? .
Karin heard me, and she started moving her arm cautiously, embarrassed.
A little while ago, she didn’t look like she had lost her mind, but started to move her arm carefully, looking lethargic again.
But the result was the same.
‘In her dreams, she seems to be expressing her own hopes… Is it because she is so realistic that her despair is portrayed in more detail?’
A woman so smart that she couldn’t even dream of what she longed for.
Karin tried to use the magic circle a few times, then she opened her mouth as she looked at me with unfocused eyes.
“… Is it okay? Did you like seeing my helplessness?”
“….”
“A person like you will never know my heart.”
Karin muttered as she opened the door and attempted to leave her shed.
“For a moment….”
I tried to grab her again, but she started running to her place where the wind and rain had driven her away.
But even though she ran like that, in the end, Karin, who was wearing her dress, couldn’t get far because of the resistance of the wind and rain, so she was caught by me.
In the middle of a storm, Karin doesn’t resist when I grab her by the wrist, she just puts her head down and starts sobbing.
“I know! I know! Why not… I know…. Ugh….”
“….”
“
She was revealing in front of me a weak side that she had never shown to anyone before.
I couldn’t control the emotions that once exploded.
If it was real, she would have come to her senses and reprimanded her with a cool look, but since she was in a dream, she was shaking everything off.
Amidst her rain, I had her turn behind her, grab her by the shoulders, and open her mouth.
“Try some more.”
“I can’t… It doesn’t make any sense….”
“Because I will help you. Let’s try it together.”
“….”
As Karin showed me her bloody tears mixed with the rainwater, she did as I said and began to lift her bracelet-mounted hand.
I said putting my hand on the back of her hand.
“I will help you. Calm your mind.”
“….”
“Close your eyes, catch your breath, and stay calm.”
Karin was silent and gradually began to catch her breath.
Even during the storm, Karin listened to me and she gradually began to find her stability.
And at the same time as her stability, the weather began to change.
As the size and number of water droplets that hit her whole body decreased, the black clouds that covered the sky gradually began to clear.
“Like. The important thing is not obsession or timing. It is faith.”
“… Trust?”
“Yes, believe that your hand holding mine can draw a magic circle.”
“… I see.”
As Karin nodded, she let out a big sigh.
And she started moving.
In her fingers that slenderly protruded from the palm of her hand wrapped in mine….
A yellow magic circle began to draw in the light of the sun that cleared her clouds.
“Me… I’m here….”
To me, it was just a crappy shape at best, but in Karin’s eyes, she was looking at the magic circle she drew more lovingly than any other magic circle in the world.
After looking at her like that, Karin turned her head back, and she looked up at me and began to smile her big smile with a bright smile and clean tears.
“I’m here! My… I… I drew… This….”
“Right. Good job.”
“I… I….”
Karin gave me a bright smile that she hadn’t shown before and she hugged me tightly.
And at some point, the dream came to an end as the bright sun illuminated the world.
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The next morning, morning.
As soon as we finished camp, we started the search again.
And Karin….
‘… Strange? Rather, my vigilance has increased.’
Contrary to what I expected to smile at me, I was rather wary of looking at me.
[This is most likely because the dream is so exaggerated.]
A woman who faces reality… That’s where the problem arises.
There is a sense of separation from reality, so rather, emotions are shaken
[Or it is highly likely that the childlike behavior of yesterday created distrust.]
‘….’
I’m sorry you’re little!
I grumbled inwardly and walked side by side with Karin.
I asked as I looked around like that.
‘Will he come tonight?’
[This is the right time for them.]
I smiled at the disposition of the thugs who hid behind rocks in the distance and pursued us.
‘For now, one person…. I can’t wait to see how many people will come in later.’
