Chapter 137 – Episode 136. It’s an Academy, but Why Are There No Intelligent Characters? (2)
– Bang!
“Oh, no I… “
“Why are you suddenly surprised?”
Violet’s shield struck the side of the beast.
A blow that shakes the bottom of the chin, not a clever hit.
The shock that started from the shield that had been slapped under the chin gradually rode upward and shook the brain.
“Because a shield is quite useful.”
Take a few steps back to dodge the lightning strikes from the amulet,
Violet slams her axe at the dizzying beast that can’t keep her balance properly.
“Astrid, that bitch… No, although my brother ignores the shield. It’s because my brother is so inhumanly strong.”
I don’t know if she had enough strength to not need to defend, but Violet wasn’t that far yet.
Then faithfully fulfilling her defenses and attacks is the royal road to her becoming stronger.
“Achemilla, what are you doing? Pincer fast!”
“Ha, but… !”
Akemilla was taking a few steps back from this fight and watching the situation.
No matter how stupid she is, she is now aware of this situation.
What would happen if we held hands with Astain deeper than now?
Rebellion against the Empire is established.
The moment it is revealed that he had a hand in Astein’s plan to harm Leopold and Astrid—
It’s the same as if it’s already been discovered, but the moment it proves that they’re more involved than now, it doesn’t end with her own ruin.
It is the same as meaning the destruction of the entire Ureid corps.
At that point Akemilla was doing nothing.
Should I rather finish Violet here and kill it?
Or would you rather help Violet and choose the path of relief?
It was a path that neither side could decide hastily.
“What difference would it make if Akhemilla joined us?”
“Profit… !”
Astain scattered the talisman into the air and sat cross-legged in place.
The slowly approaching darkness encroached on his body and began to radiate unusual energy.
“I don’t even hide it anymore. Do you only believe in that veil? That one where everything is revealed how to wake up?”
Violet slammed the ax into the beast’s nose.
It is she who has continued to fight day after day on her swaying stomach.
There was no reason for her to be pushed back in the fight on this comfortable ground without any shaking.
Unless it’s about Astrid.
It started to get dark inside the tent.
The blessing of knowledge that had dwelled in Astain’s body is now accelerating his sorcery knowledge.
The two hands of Astain, who was sitting cross-legged, began making different hand signs.
Every time the fingers were twisted and twisted, golden patterns flashed brilliantly and flew around the fingers.
East west north south.
A black shadow began to cast over the four directions.
It was around this time that an aura darker and more insidious than the beast Violet was now leisurely dealing with began to take shape, and the always relaxed smile disappeared from Violet’s face.
– Bang.
It started with a small binge.
I thought I could hear the sound of an explosion, but soon the sound of the explosion got louder and louder, followed by a loud bang.
“What is this… !?”
A thin beam of sunlight shone on Astain’s face, which was in the middle of a hand sign.
“Hey, what a barrier. Cannons are widespread on our side, right?”
The explosions didn’t stop.
The flame balls that flew in succession hit the curtain violently, and the curtain, which spread incontinence, could not stand it any longer and began to collapse on one side.
“I thought he wouldn’t come for a while, but he must have been trapped in something like this.”
A cold voice was heard.
“Hey, Emily. It feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve been so happy.”
Emily’s frowning face was clearly visible.
Under the afternoon sunlight, the four of them were reunited in a strange way.
“… The timing is probably bad today.”
Now was the time to back off.
It is said that Astein possesses a total of four protections, but there is nothing but overwhelming force to overcome this situation.
And Astain’s four protections are all too far from overwhelming force.
In other words, now is the time to step back.
“Escape?”
“Because I’m too weak to fight two ogres wearing human masks.”
“I am a great white shark!”
Astain glanced at the screaming Violet, but little by little, Astain’s figure began to fade.
Violet and Emily did not show any reaction even as they watched Astain return with the return totem planted in the inn outside the academy.
In that state, it would be useless to attack.
Violet and Emily, who chose not to lose their strength at that thought, simultaneously glared at Akemilla, who was sitting far away in place of Astain, who had completely disappeared.
‘So, are you saying you won’t go back or something?’
【… Bird, are you thinking?]
The wagons that ran down the deserted roads were no longer being pulled by horses.
The chariot, drawn by six horses of twelve legs, called the hellhorse, was going much faster than an ordinary carriage.
Even if you look out the car window, the scenery turns so sharp that you can’t even dare to look out. In the carriage, while Leopold and Veracien were all asleep, Astrid woke up alone and was having a fierce conversation with Astrid inside.
Astrid was dazzled.
Asti, that is to say, fake Astrid, would definitely return, she firmly believed.
I did, but it wasn’t enough to get hit on the back of her head, and now that she’s giving off a smell that doesn’t seem to go back, it’s only sharing her body after all, in fact…
‘I hope that fortune telling… Was it real… ‘
【Th-that divination you saw at the night market, right?】
Two wives
Was the child seven or eight?
I did anyway, but her wife said they both had silver hair.
So, in a way, looking back now, it seems that he was right in predicting this situation.
‘Anyway, this is real… It’s too against me.’
【No, what’s the downside? You are the owner of the body.]
Astrid almost screamed.
However, Leopold and Berasien were asleep next to her, and if she shouted from here, they would surely wake them up.
‘Think about it, I heard you were originally a man.’
【Uh… Uh uh.]
Do I need to emphasize this?
Could it be that Astrid was trying to tell Leopold about this?
Asti felt her heart thumping, not even in that worry.
‘Since I was a man, I don’t know what’s more effective for flirting with men.’
【… What?】
‘In reality, you move your electric charge faster than me… Ha. No no. I don’t want to say anything like this, anyway. Anyway, that’s why you have a much better advantage than me. Is not it?’
It is neither to say no nor to say yes.
It’s unfair even for Asti.
I’ve never seduced Leopold.
Rather, I tried to push him away, but I never tried to flirt with him.
… She couldn’t say that she never did it unintentionally, but at least she never seduced Leopold with her will.
‘Don’t say no. Even from behind, you seduced me so naturally.’
【When did I do that again!】
‘You can’t say no. Like, sweat… Like.’
【Ah! Stop saying things like that!]
‘Why are you shouting at me for doing well!?’
In fact, he was threatening me openly like this, but Astrid knew about it.
If Asti disappears, she will not be alive even if she is alive.
Astrid was probably dead when she tumbled down her stairs.
The thing she had hypothesized, the thing she said to Astrid that without you she would have died,
I came to know that it was true because of this incident.
When Asti flew into her dreams and disappeared, Astrid was unable to move except for an hour a day.
Seeing that, Asti shouldn’t have disappeared.
When she disappears, Astrid also disappears.
Being awake for an hour a day was only possible because Asti was in her dream, but she remained here anyway.
If Asti just disappears—
At the thought, Astrid trembled in her body.
Even she, who has slaughtered countless savages, could lose her life even for the slightest thing of falling down her stairs.
She also knew that the reason she could move like this, as if she had already lost her life, was because Asti nestled in this body of hers.
Knowing that, it only made it even more frustrating.
【No, it’s not like I want to do that either… 】
Hearing Asti’s muttering voice in her stretched head, Astrid closed her eyes.
She decided to think good.
She decides to consider Asti not a bad person, so she is lucky.
If she was a bad person, if she wanted to take over this body entirely, if she was a person who wanted to monopolize Leopold.
Could Astrid be here now?
Probably not.
She was a little upset, but
It was also fortunate.
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