Chapter 599 – Chapter 599 Magic School Shutra (4)
A myriad of silver hair flowing down calmly.
Standing there was Luna, wearing a light blue dress with such hair.
As soon as she saw Luna like that, Karin smiled right away and then she said to me with a blunt expression.
“Then see you later.”
She tells me as if she’s done her business, then Karin moves towards her Luna.
And before she passed, she gave Luna a simple glance and passed by.
Looking at Karin who left like that, I admired again.
‘Wow… It’s no joke.’
Luna put on a puzzled expression, but she quickly brushed it off and came over to me.
“Mr Suho. I was looking for you.”
It was unexpected.
I thought I’d ask about the things I was with Karin right away, putting everything else aside….
I didn’t dare to get excited and asked Luna.
“Yes. I was on my way back after stopping by for a while. What did you find?”
Luna nodded and replied to my words.
“Could you please give me some time?”
“Then it is possible. Where are you going?”
When I asked, Luna smiled bitterly and opened her mouth.
“I’m going to my parents… I want to go with Suho.”
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Luna and I started climbing the mountain behind Atler Castle around evening.
Although the sun was setting, there was no great difficulty in climbing the mountain thanks to the sunset.
There are stone steps on the way up, so it didn’t feel like climbing….
Even climbing the stairs was not too difficult as the slope was gentle.
But that didn’t mean it was easy.
Especially for Luna….
“Whoa… Whoa….”
“It’s okay?”
“Yes I’m okay.”
Luna straightened up and started climbing the stairs.
‘I’m glad I went up in uniform.’
A mountain is a mountain, no matter how gentle it may be, no matter how well-equipped the steps are.
If I had climbed a place like this wearing a dress, I would not have been able to climb even half of the stairs I have climbed.
Climbing the stairs like that, Luna exhaled her disturbed breath and opened her mouth.
“Whoa… When she was young, even though she was small, she climbed the trail so easily. It is rather difficult now.”
“Isn’t it because you feel the weight of life that much?”
It was her words of consolation in her own way.
He said that the Stadtfeld family cemetery was located at the end of the stairs we were going up.
Originally, the farther away death is, the lighter it feels, and the closer you get, the more you realize its weight.
Like the kids playing on the slide in the grave.
But instead of comforting me, Luna pouted her lips and started grunting.
“You mean I got heavy?”
“….”
How the hell do you interpret that word?
As I stared blankly, Kang Han-na’s voice came through the communication.
[Why do you bother putting the word weight there?]
‘….’
Yeah it’s all my fault
I lamented inwardly and told Luna.
“Can it be? How many people are as light as you in the world….”
“Huh….”
It was a situation that I couldn’t understand at all from my common sense, but that doesn’t mean I’m just being swayed by this situation.
I stopped her as she climbed the stairs and began to force her on her back.
“Ssssscha.”
“Aww! What, what are you doing!?”
“You’re trying to prove that you’re not heavy.”
“Now, wait a minute! If you fall on the way up! Kyaaak!”
I cut off Luna’s words and started climbing the stairs as if running.
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Thud!
I slowly lowered her Luna, stamping her feet wide on her last step.
Hehe..Hehe….”
Then, with his upper body bent, he began to inhale frantically.
Hehe..Hehe… Hey, hey… It’s light… You did….”
“Are you okay?”
Luna took a handkerchief from her dress and began wiping the sweat from my forehead.
And the nagging started.
“Why did you do that? Dangerously….”
Hehe..Hehe… You proved it proof… You proved that it’s not heavy..Hehe….”
“… Pooh.”
Luna let out her threadbare laugh and continued wiping my sweat.
After receiving Luna’s touch and catching her breath, she quickly regained her senses.
It seemed that running around the consulate was not in vain.
But when I calmed down and looked around….
“It is dark.”
All the glow of the sunset that had covered it earlier had disappeared, and before I knew it, only darkness was thickly covered.
Luna sighed as she looked at her dark surroundings.
“Sorry. If I had known it would be like this, I would have come tomorrow morning.”
Certainly not a good time to visit a graveyard.
Fortunately, this was not a place where graves were lined up like the graveyard where I lived.
A majestic stone building was erected in front of Luna and me.
The stone building was shrouded in darkness, so you couldn’t see all of its exterior, but it had the atmosphere of a well-maintained temple in its own way.
“You called because you wanted to come today. It’s okay.”
“… Thanks.”
It wasn’t until Luna acted on her coercion, but it was also true that she sent her earnest eyes.
That’s why I got her request….
[You didn’t answer it in a hurry because you might ask about a woman named Karin?]
‘….’
Don’t get stabbed….
I started heading towards the building with Luna, avoiding Kang Han-na’s goal.
The marble road that was at first immersed in darkness….
Pod… Pod… Pod….
Every time Luna and I took a step, a nearby mana stone started to light up.
Guided by the mana stone that emits white light, he was able to enter the building without difficulty.
Inside the stone building….
“Wow….”
Tombstones standing long on both sides welcomed us.
Realizing that I was impressed, I closed my mouth and apologized.
“Sorry.”
“What are you sorry about?”
“What can I say… I stopped by the tomb, but I was unknowingly amazed….”
Luna smiled dejectedly at my question and opened her mouth.
“Isn’t that nice? That’s proof that there is no resistance.”
“Is it?”
“When I was young, I was impressed like Suho whenever I visited this place.”
Saying so, Luna led me and slowly began to enter the building.
The only scene that caught my eye throughout the walk was a tombstone made of stone.
But even so, I didn’t feel gloomy or bad at all.
It just feels solemn and majestic….
As I walked like that, I was able to arrive at the last tombstone before I knew it.
Unlike the other tombstones displayed on both sides, a huge stone tombstone stands in front.
The name of the owner of the tombstone was written on the tombstone.
〈 Claudia Stadtfeld〉
Below that, the year of birth and the year of death were written, and below that, countless achievements were listed.
He had already been dead for over 300 years.
After seeing the name and year of death, I was able to recall who it was.
‘Ah… It must be the friend the dean was talking about before.’
It was the person the dean had mentioned as soon asheheard of Luna’s last name, Stadtfeld.
Did you say that he was the last person to drain the dean’s tears….
Luna bowed her head in front of Claudia Stadtfeld’s tombstone and made her silent bow.
Beside her, I also bowed to Luna in line with her.
After a moment of silence, Luna raised her head and quietly opened her mouth.
“Let’s go.”
I silently nodded her head and started moving with Luna.
After all, it was a place where the dead were enshrined, so neither Luna nor I could open our mouths easily.
After following Luna like that, I was able to arrive at a certain room.
“Here.”
The room Luna showed me was very different from the rooms she had stayed in so far.
It was large, but it was a space with no furniture installed inside.
The only thing furnished was a futon.
Luna closed her eyes as soon as she entered the room and pondered, then she told me.
“That… I didn’t expect it to be like this. If you don’t feel like it, can I go back now?”
As Luna said, it didn’t look like a room in good condition.
It wasn’t that there were insects or moss on it, but it seemed to be far away from human habitation.
But who am I?
I was also sleeping in the underground waterway in Yggdrasil.
I left Luna’s apologetic expression behind and spoke in a bright tone as I entered her room.
“It’s quiet and nice.”
It wasn’t a lie.
The atmosphere was quite lively thanks to the small mana stones dimly illuminating the room.
I checked the futon, the only item in the room.
“First of all, it would be better to wash this clean.”
At a glance, it looked like a futon that had been kept here for quite some time.
Fortunately, it was made of fairly high-quality materials, so there was almost no damage.
Sleeping on the bed didn’t seem to be a problem if it was washed well.
I immediately cast a spell to wash away the dust and swarms.
Luna looked at me with her helpless expression and opened her mouth.
“Sorry. If I had known it would be like this, I would have come alone….”
The reason Luna and I stopped by here wasn’t just to say goodbye to the tombstone and go back.
“Do not say that. It’s not even a day, it’s because I want to decline you sleeping here alone for several days.”
“Thanks….”
We were visiting with the intention of staying here for three days.
I couldn’t understand it at first.
There was nothing wrong with visiting my parents’ graves.
Luna had said that she would have to stay in a room in the cemetery building for three days.
The reason was the Stadtfeld family’s practice in the past.
“Do other families have this practice?”
“No. No. It’s a custom in our family. Perhaps… Are you uncomfortable?”
“No. No way… I was just amazed that there was something similar where I lived.”
“That’s fortunate. Occasionally other nobles have said that our family practices are appalling. He said he sleeps next to the grave….”
In the Stadtfeld family, when a member of the family dies, the child and the child’s spouse stay here for three days to mourn the deceased.
The mourning period itself didn’t bother me much.
The world I lived in also enshrined the dead and held funerals for three days.
However, the timing of the mourning period was just curious.
“Then why did you suddenly want a mourning period?”
Luna’s parents said she had been dead for quite some time.
But the reason why I am suddenly here and having this mourning period….
“… I wanted to do what I couldn’t do then, even now.”
It was because of the desire to do the filial piety that I couldn’t do even now, regardless of customs.
Luna said she couldn’t stop by this place after the fall of her family.
At least thanks to the family’s reputation as a war hero, she explained that her parents were also enshrined here.
However, because she has eyes to see from the outside, she could not easily visit her hometown, and it was her first visit after her downfall.
I said as I stroked Luna’s hair with her sad eyes.
“Good idea. I don’t think there’s any need to get rid of those lumps quickly, but I don’t think there’s any need to pile them up.”
“… Thanks.”
“Didn’t I have to see my parents earlier?”
As soon as she first came here, she didn’t look at the other tombs and headed straight to the tombstone of the first family head.
“Originally, the first visit is to greet the first head of the family. The next day, we say hello to other ancestors, and on the last day, we say hello to my parents and so on.”
“Okay….”
Remembering everything from her childhood… He’s really smart.
I started asking Luna with a slightly worried expression.
“Thank you for calling me, but… Can I stay here?”
According to custom, only the children of the dead or the children’s spouses come here to stay.
Of course, the parents of the dead can also enter, but… In the first place, it seemed like he didn’t even mention it because it shouldn’t have happened.
Hearing my concerns, Luna smiled and opened her mouth.
“Are you saying you’re not related enough to come here with me?”
“Ah, please….”
Her Luna’s expression was full of playfulness.
When I talked about weight earlier, I put it straight….
“I am just worried. People here will welcome you, but I don’t think you’ll welcome me.”
“….”
After Luna hardened her expression, she gently hugged me and said.
“My parents will definitely welcome you.”
No matter how much she did, she wanted to welcome a man, but her Luna thought differently.
“You must have been worried until now because you left me alone.”
“Ah….”
Well, the whole family died, leaving her daughter alone….
From the point of view of the dead, it might be judged that this is better.
Luna looked at me, which she understood, and she smiled and suddenly began to hug me tightly.
Then, as if someone around might hear it, he brought his soft lips to my ear and whispered so that even I couldn’t hear him.
“You know I can’t do it today because there are a lot of eyes on me, right?”
Haha….”
No matter how much I say, I definitely keep the line of thrill and courtesy.
There’s no way I could do that in a place like this.
“When I go back, I’ll solve the accumulated amount, so look forward to it.”
“Whoops… Like. But do you know what?”
“… ?”
Luna took me in my arms and dragged me to the bed.
As soon as Luna lay down on the futon with me, she hugged me and whispered.
“It’s okay to hug like this.”
“… I think I will sleep well tonight.”
Luna and I clung to each other in our clothes, and at one point we started to fall asleep quietly.
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Softly….
The sound of running water running around stimulated my ears.
It wasn’t loud, but it was a sound I couldn’t get over without waking up.
It’s the sound I’ve been waiting for so long.
‘Armonia. I can hear?’
[Yes. It has now been captured on our side as well. However, a problem arose.]
‘What’s the problem?’
As soon as I asked, I could immediately figure out what the problem Armonia was talking about.
Sr-r-r-r-r! Squeak!
If last time it was about a single stream flowing, now I could hear the sound of a dam bursting.
I gently let go of Luna hugging me and started to be wary of her surroundings.
And I couldn’t help but be perplexed as I looked around.
‘… This isn’t what I expected?’
It wasn’t the level of one or two souls.
Dozens of souls….
(Oh My God….)
(How long is it?)
(I thought no one would come again.)
They surrounded Luna and me and looked around.
