114. Incurable Disease
“Are you sure?”
“…….”
“Can you take responsibility for that?”
Camilla looked at her own employer.
Adela Cathy.
When her aide’s abilities were recognized, she was allowed to stand by her side. In Camilla’s eyes, the young lady was simply an infinitely mysterious being.
No matter how tall the document tower is,
If it passes through the hand of a young lady, it will disappear in one night.
Even when problems arise internally or externally,
The moment the young lady with that unique, smiling expression joins the discussion, mediation takes place in an instant.
If God exists in the field of commerce,
It made me wonder if it had descended into that body.
However, as time goes by.
Camilla also recognized that the being she served was ‘human.’
When thinking deeply, you have a habit of holding a coin in your hand and making it jingle,
Sometimes, he looks at a book with a pitch-black cover while the office door is locked and grins, showing his human side.
As time and experience accumulated,
Now, to Camilla, the young lady has become something of a ‘respectable younger sister.’
The young lady standing in front of me right now is,
I can say without a doubt that it was something I had never seen before.
“Why, why is there no answer? After all, it was a practical joke, right? Camilla, I always emphasize that there are jokes that are OK and those that are not-“
“…Miss.”
“No!”
Adela stuttering her words and messing up her own hair.
The hand frantically groping her face seemed as if she was desperately struggling to recognize that this situation was real.
Eyes that are about to become cloudy.
The person standing in front of Camilla right now is,
Because I was just like a child who was afraid of monsters.
Camilla lost her words for a moment due to her strangeness, but She soon came to her senses.
“Miss, I tell you to listen to me until the end! “Nothing is certain yet!”
“Incurable disease, incurable disease? “Where is something like that? It can’t be like this!”
I felt like it was too late.
I think the young lady has already come too far for normal communication.
The way to bring her to her senses is,
It seemed like it only had physical power.
Because Camilla did not have that much power,
All she did was squeeze her shoulders and shake her.
“I hate it, I hate it…!”
Finally, she dropped the few silver coins she was holding in her hand.
A girl putting her finger to her mouth.
Camilla closed her eyes tightly.
But.
–
Tak-
Light hitting sound.
And then, the young lady’s small moan was heard.
“Ah.”
When I slightly open my eyes,
The first thing that came into Camilla’s sight was.
Intruded between the young lady and her,
Red hair.
“…Do it in moderation, you.”
There are no nails left to bite off,
He physically restrained the young lady’s anxiety, which had become so severe that her skin became a mess.
My student colleague was Scarlett.
“Skaar, let? “How can we get here…”
“What should I do? Talking openly next to the open stairs. “Wow, if I had the brains to think about such things, I wouldn’t have done this.”
About Scarlett Student,
She was Camilla, whom I had only encountered in conversation with the young lady.
“…….”
I saw her in person,
It was a much sharper impression than I had imagined.
The child’s gaze turned towards Camilla,
To the point where I avoid it without thinking.
“Nothing is certain. “You said that, right?”
“…Yes.”
“Then, I need to listen carefully.”
But, I soon found out.
It was Scarlett who handled the situation quite calmly and calmed down her young lady, as if she were dealing with someone else’s business.
“From beginning to end, everything.”
The pupils in those cool eyes.
Camilla realized that the color was perhaps duller than that of her daughter.
She just prayed in her heart.
I hope the situation does not lead to catastrophe.
—
“Mana fairy tale.”
“…”
“It is said to be an incurable disease, but strictly speaking, it is not an illness. “It would be more appropriate to describe it as extreme evolution or adaptation.”
Empty classroom.
Scarlett and Adela sitting slightly away from each other, and Camilla standing in front of the blackboard.
Although Camilla felt like a professor who was not in her class, she did not enjoy the situation.
“Adaptation?”
Adela’s desperate gaze,
Because Scarlett’s cold question stuck with me.
“Yes. So, mana assimilation is a disease in which the body gradually assimilates the internal mana. To put it simply, the boundary between body and mana is becoming blurred.”
“Why does it happen like that?”
“That’s…”
I was Camilla, but
I soon gathered my thoughts and continued.
“It is said that she is greatly influenced by her experiences during her childhood.”
“Camilla, can you tell me in more detail?”
“…Let me give you an example.”
Camilla decided to use the blackboard.
After she drew a picture of a child, she drew her arrows around the picture.
“Let’s imagine that a child living on the front lines of the empire is isolated due to an accident and continues to fight for life and death among monsters every day.”
“…Is this a real story?”
“It might have been like that in the old days when monster invasions were unfamiliar. Anyway-“
Camilla began coloring in the inside of the child’s body that she had drawn on her blackboard.
“The body of a child who has faced death several times begins to instinctively remodel itself. “It is more suitable for mana use and is advantageous for survival.”
“Isn’t that called mana affinity?”
“That is the realm of innate talent, and this is clearly an acquired disease. “It’s going too far.”
Soon, Camilla,
After taking a quick look at Adela…
“Body regeneration power like a monster. Extraordinarily skillful mana control, etc. However, as the body gradually assimilates with mana, there is no way there will be no side effects.”
“Side effects… No way.”
“Yes. The side effects are confusion in memory and dark spots on the body. And then eventually-“
The child on the blackboard,
I erased it with an eraser.
“The self disappears, and the body, which has no meaning of existence, also collapses.”
“Ah, ah…”
Camilla turned with her back to the blackboard.
It seemed like Adela was having a hard time maintaining her sanity, and Scarlett was staring at the blackboard where her child had just been drawn.
How long has it been like that?
It was Scarlett who spoke first.
“It’s strange.”
“Yes?”
“I know. Where I used to live, there are still a lot of people who wish to wake up tomorrow morning. But why is this the first time I’ve heard that fairy tale or something?”
“That’s why I said I couldn’t be sure of anything.”
Camilla slapped her desk,
Adela’s mind was focused here.
“It is known that this disease can only appear in extremely rare blood vessels.”
“Bloodline…Family?”
“Yes. “The number of people who can manifest it in the first place is very limited, and even if the bloodline condition is met, there are no cases where the experience of being at the crossroads of life and death continues… so it can be said to be a rare disease.”
When Scarlett heard those words,
I quietly looked at the ceiling.
Camilla felt.
That child, like the young lady, deep down wants to deny the instructor’s illness.
Just the way of expression is different.
However, Camilla had neither the number nor the ability to step forward any further. Because this was all the information she knew.
The short-term lecture is over, and now…
It was time for the parties left behind.
“I’m going to go out for a while.”
—
“It’s because of me.”
Right after the woman named Camilla left,
Those were the first words Adela uttered as she stared at her desk.
The only person left in the classroom now was Scarlett, but it didn’t seem like she was telling Scarlett to listen.
“Because of me, I should have died then-“
“Hey.”
The bare face of a young lady who is always bold and hides her true feelings to the point of irritating.
Without even realizing the difference,
Scarlet awakened the spirit of her lady.
“If what I understand is correct, the instructor is suffering from a disease that makes him wonder if it is a fairy tale.”
“…Yes.”
“You’re saying you’re losing your memory. Yes?”
“Yes… Of course.”
“Are you sure about that?”
Adela rolled her cloudy eyes here and there,
She answered softly.
“I’m not sure… I’m not.”
I’m not sure.
Adela, who said that, kept repeating it as if she was being persuaded by what she said.
“…That’s right. I’m not sure. “If you think about it, it’s all just a symptom, and the health instructor’s suspicions could have been a coincidence.”
“……”
“Something was strange from the beginning. Instructor, your childhood was full of life and death? “It seems like it could be done due to its nature, but realistically it’s difficult to do.”
“No.”
Escape under the name of self-justification.
Adella was falling for that sweet path, but Scarlett denied it.
She actually wanted to think that she was Scarlett and that she was like Adela.
She wanted to just shrug her shoulders and end her situation with the words, ‘No way.’
But, she is just like Adela.
Because Scarlett also had her own thoughts.
‘…What if you were there that day?’
Thoughts about the extinct Blaze family and Ivan that I had decided to put aside in the back of my mind.
Because she came to mind again.
And, if you were there that day.
He could be Scarlett’s benefactor,
Because she could have been an enemy.
The topic was raised again,
Now, this is
It has become something that cannot be ignored.
“I have to check.”
“……”
I hate to admit it, but
The person named Adela Cathy is extraordinary.
Even though the instructor denied the fact that he had an incurable disease,
Just by slightly correcting her direction, she was able to regain the spark in her eyes.
“I think I can guess whether you are losing your memory.”
“Yes.”
“But…”
But at the same time.
He still seemed afraid.
My voice was trembling endlessly.
“If you really, really don’t remember. Then what should I do…”
“Just think about it then.”
Scarlett stood up,
She stretched out her arms and stretched her.
“Let’s be honest, it might not be an incurable disease but just amnesia, right? “No one knows.”
“…Can you really think like that and get over it?”
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“No, that can’t be.”
Adella probably doesn’t know that this is Scarlett’s way of hiding her anxiety.
She spoke without showing it.
Still, he is a senior student.
Even though she is one year older, she is still my older sister.
No, even if you leave everything aside.
If even Scarlett falls,
Because it really becomes irreversible.
I held on to her spirit and continued her words.
“If you are really losing your memories.”
“……”
“There’s a lot more to find out.”
Was there anyone in that family with similar symptoms?
Whether the instructor was aware of his illness in the first place?
What memories have you lost, how much, etc.
It was all just difficult to find out,
So, it was right for this to be an ‘operation.’
“How do we find out?”
“Is that what you learned? “Shouldn’t we use it?”
It’s the same decision that killed Moriam.
He just became his teacher.
Adela also seemed to have a hard time envisioning a future where she would follow or investigate ‘that Ivan’ while avoiding his eyes.
–
Sweet-
Scarlett held out her hand,
“No one knows what’s going on in the world.”
Tub-
Adela took the hand.
“…That’s right.”
I was on two sides of the world, so I would fight against each other, even though they seemed like they would never get along.
Unexpectedly, camaraderie is,
This might be something that happens when you share the same goal.
“Judo Newspaper.” So, let’s start with memory comparison. “You can do it well, right?”
“I am a person who makes a living through words.”
—
A few days later,
I was holding in my hands the family information that had arrived faster than expected.
Should we call it the Kherson family?
The speed of smuggling was so fast and accurate that it was embarrassing to compare it to Adela’s personal abilities.
Documents so thick that it is difficult to hold them with both hands.
Of course, the parts I had to see were decided.
Day of the extermination of the Blaze family.
Records from that time.
And, Ivan in that record.
I wasn’t alone in the private room,
Paula, the only visitor, was currently sleeping peacefully on the sofa.
“Hmm…”
Once the saint falls asleep, she rarely wakes up, so I carefully looked through the documents.
My impressions after reading it carefully.
The sound of the heart leaks out slightly,
It echoed in the quiet private room.
“Wow, that’s really what I saved.”
Now you can look straight at Scarlett’s face.
Knock knock-
“Ugh.”
I hurriedly crumpled the documents into the drawer,
He opened the door directly.
The person there-
“Hello, instructor.”
“Adela. “Didn’t you sleep at night?”
“No.”
“But why dark circles…”
The shadows under the eyes have become darker these days.
It was Adela Cathy.
