episode_0065

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[Party full recovery is performed.]

A notification window pops up in a collapsing dungeon.

Zion and Clara’s urgent voices seeped into his ears, but Rohan closed his eyes without being able to read the text due to his dazed mind.

Because the thought that it had been resolved somehow gave me a sense of relief.

Kugugugu───!!!

Magical power overwhelmed and gripped my entire body.

And then, all of a sudden, I felt like my body was floating.

A notification window appeared in Rohan’s head while his eyes were closed, informing him of the information.

[There is no designated return point.]

[Returns to a random location.]

Then the back touches something.

A wind that can be felt.

It wasn’t the hot and humid air that had been making me feel uncomfortable when it touched my skin until just now.

‘It’s cool···.’

Then, consciousness, which had been blurry due to bleeding, returned to me.

Familiar noises of daily life were pushing into my ears.

“Rohan! Rohan···! Open your eyes!”

“Brother! Come on!”

The clear voices of Zion and Clara.

Rohan suddenly opened his eyes to the sensation of his whole body becoming calm.

“?!”

The girls’ faces looking down and the sky between them. Rohan kept blinking his eyelids.

And then I asked what came to mind.

“···Clara. Are you okay with the exhaustion of magic power? Is Sion okay too?”

Clara nodded with a tearful face, unable to raise her voice.

Zion also chewed his lower lip with a complicated expression and said that there was no problem.

After some thought, I asked the most important thing.

“Rohan··· What about your arms?”

Zion swallowed hard and waited for Rohan’s answer. Clara was also staring intently at Rohan.

The girls also don’t know why Rohan’s severed arm is still attached.

Before we congratulate you on your return from the unknown world, I just hope that everything is as smooth as it looks.

“Arm? Oh, my arm··· That’s right.”

Rohan was suspicious of the sensations coming from a part that shouldn’t exist.

Then I gave it some will and tried to move. I raised my arm and held it in front of my eyes.

‘This isn’t some kind of hallucination, is it?’

It’s running without any problems. It really is running.

His own arm, which had been blown away by the boss’s thorn, was intact.

The Orion Academy uniform was torn from the shoulder blades, but the arms were still there.

The clothes were torn and tattered here and there, and the armor was bloody. There were no visible scratches from the thorns on the skin.

‘That’s right. That’s right.’

I understood the situation through my dazed consciousness.

So this is what full recovery looks like. I’m starting to come to my senses now.

“I’m fine. Are you lucky?”

Actually, that was the end of the appreciation.

Because the move to protect Zion was not an action taken out of faith in the restoration that existed as a reward.

It was a reflexive movement to even reach that level of calculation. In fact, wasn’t it just a moment?

“Haa, the reaction is really···.”

“Brother. Let’s go to the hospital anyway. Okay?”

Rohan smiled silently at the two’s reactions and raised his upper body that had been lying down.

He looks around and makes a satisfied face.

“Anyway, it seems like you came back safely. Everyone worked hard.”

The place where the three people fell was presumed to be the rooftop of a restaurant.

The smell of food and people’s voices were rising from below.

When you turn your head, tall buildings and unique architecture let you know that this is a school city.

“···Rohan.”

“Huh?”

Zion stood up, took off his goggles, and bowed with the utmost respect.

Rohan and Clara watched the scene with surprised faces.

“Thanks to you, I was able to return safely. Thank you so much.”

“Thank you, I got help too.”

“And finally···.”

“Speak comfortably. It turns out you’re fine, right?”

Zion straightened his bent back.

When Rohan showed off his fist by clenching and unclenching it, he sat back down with a hollow laugh.

“I sensed the situation and took out my weapon, but even if I had responded with a stick, it would have been too late. I’m sure he would have been wounded. If he had been pierced in the heart or head, he would have died instantly.”

“Really? I’m glad it wasn’t a waste of time.”

Zion feels it.

Even though my wounds have healed now without me even knowing what happened, there is a possibility that I would not have come back if I had died.

“I’m so glad my arm came back, but if my arm hadn’t come back, what would I have done···.”

“I didn’t move with any particular reason in mind. Well, I can live without an arm, right?”

Rohan tried to solve it cheerfully in his own way.

But Zion’s expression did not soften. It was still heavy.

“Zion.”

“···.”

The girl lifts her head, which had been bowed down like a sinner, and meets his eyes.

Rohan had a lot to say, but he couldn’t say it all right now.

“I fought for 3 days straight, sweating and not even eating or washing properly.”

“···.”

“It was hard, but was it fun?”

At Rohan’s question, Zion looked at Clara, who was quietly keeping her place.

I smiled at myself. It felt like my heart was warming up.

After that I saw Rohan again.

Zion conveyed his feelings.

“···It was fun. I would gladly do it again if asked.”

“But that kind of thought will soon disappear.”

“Why?”

“Zion must live more happily from now on.”

“···!”

I felt the will to soon let me out of that annoying cage.

Talk about giving freedom.

Because he immediately understood what Rohan was trying to convey, Zion couldn’t come up with an answer and just kept his mouth shut.

After witnessing the unhesitating sacrifice, the weight and sincerity of those words rose to the heavens.

‘This man···.’

When I look at Rohan, I feel a tingling sensation and my heart races.

Zion even felt a strange sense of burden from the gazes coming from Clara.

At that moment, an awkward silence was felt only by the two girls.

Jiiing──!!! Jiiing───!!!

Rohan and Clara’s smartphones found their location and began receiving signals.

As the broken time returned to normal, missed calls poured in.

‘Wow, I think I worried you too much.’

Rohan looked at his phone, which was shaking with the vibrations coming from the phone, and had a feeling that the day ahead would be more tiring than expected.

There are over a hundred missed calls from all over the place, including the lead role.

There were also messages piling up from friends in Class 1 asking what was going on and where I was after lunch.

“Oh, brother! The date hasn’t passed···!”

“That’s right. Zion said he had about 5 hours of free time, right? Then it’s still okay, right?”

Clara jumped up from her seat and sat down next to Zion, showing him the time and date. The elf girl opened her mouth slightly in surprise.

The time Rohan measured with a timer and the distortion was so severe that it was too much.

“No matter how many times I look back, it’s an experience that’s hard to believe···.”

Zion’s head seemed quite complicated due to the strange phenomenon he was experiencing for the first time.

After being dragged to another location and suffering for over three days, I returned, not even a day had passed as I had hoped. Naturally, it wouldn’t be accepted easily.

‘Still, this is the best luck ever.’

If you go back now, it won’t be too late.

Even though I feel a little uneasy about not showering for three days, I can just go back and shower.

Apart from mental fatigue, my physical condition was fine.

Rohan raised his voice as he watched Zion rise and start putting his equipment away.

“Are you going already?”

“I have to go back. Since this opportunity has come, I will move steadily now. I have to stay until I find out the truth.”

“Well, I have to let you know that I’m back. It’ll be a hassle if I get involved with the police.”

Zion showed pure doubt at Rohan’s words.

It was definitely something that would attract attention here and there.

“Is it okay for me to miss that?”

“If the story comes up, I’ll try to cover it up somehow.”

“Thank you. Really, one way or another···.”

When Rohan whined that it was nothing to be thankful for,

Clara, who had been silent, called Zion.

“Sister Zion.”

“Huh?”

“You’re coming again, right? Next time, let’s play normally···!”

“Rohan said that we would meet soon even if I didn’t come. Right?”

Zion looked at Rohan with a playful smile.

Clara’s eyes widened at those words and she looked back and forth between the two.

“Rohan.”

“Why.”

“Did you tell Clara my story?”

“No. I won’t leak that fact.”

“Then tell me better instead.”

This time, Rohan was surprised by Zion’s words.

“I’m fine with it… but is that okay?”

“I just want to tell Clara a little more about me. And Clara will be with me in the future, right?”

“How did you know that?”

Zion concluded his speech with a smile, saying it was just a gut feeling.

I handed over the reward I received from the dungeon to Rohan. All three of us who escaped the dungeon know what this fingernail-sized object is.

“Then both of you stay healthy. Rohan, definitely go to the hospital.”

With those words, Zion disappeared across the building.

Rohan moved his gaze, watching her quickly retreating back.

I looked at Clara sitting next to me, pouting with a complicated expression on her face.

“I’m going to the police station now. What about Clara? If it’s too much of a burden, you can go home, wash up, and rest. I’ll tell you something.”

That question.

If Clara had been true to her original personality, she might have avoided the place.

But now I feel like that shouldn’t happen.

“Oh, I want to be with you···!”

The girl reached out and grabbed the tattered collar of her dress.

*****

While searching alone around Academy City and its vicinity, Juyeon received a call from Rohan and the Metropolitan Police Agency.

At the same time, the protagonist shot out like a meteor and crossed the sky of Academy City.

A huge flame descended on the police station.

Crunch!

Joo-yeon opened the door with the guidance of the security guard and saw Rohan wearing a tattered cadet uniform.

A face that smiles brightly when it sees itself.

It was a feeling that was hard to describe. I felt relieved, but my heart was breaking.

“Instructor!”

“···.”

The protagonist walked towards Rohan, who was sitting, without saying a word.

He hugged Rohan tightly in his arms.

“───!!!”

Clara froze when she saw that sight.