episode_0016

“Ira Librion, punishment is 2 weeks probation.”

Two weeks of probation, that was the punishment given to her.

It was a fairly light punishment compared to the scale of the incident that occurred, but it was largely due to the fact that it was not intentional, the Academy’s negligence in not properly preparing for the monster, the fact that their behavior was good along with their grades, and above all, there were no deaths. As a result, the sentence was limited to two weeks of probation.

After completing the examination in case anything went wrong, she was immediately placed on probation.

During those two weeks, she thought a lot inside her dorm room.

Her thoughts were mainly directed to the events that had occurred just before.

No, to be more precise, it was directed at Wade Heblon, the man who closed the case.

─“It was quite dangerous. The same goes for the wound on the abdomen, but it appears that his physical condition was at its limit long before that. You were able to move in this condition.”

These were the words of the priest who treated Wade.

I heard later that he jumped into the dungeon himself by throwing himself at the entrance of the dungeon.

That in itself was crazy, but the man broke through the dungeon in that condition and even got stabbed by a sword.

Just to save her.

There was definitely an easier way.

It would have been simpler and more convenient to kill him.

If he had done that, the man’s life would not have been in danger.

But the man didn’t do that.

I desperately saved her.

Even though his own life is in danger.

why.

Those short words never left my head.

The gratitude I felt towards the man was clearly great.

But the doubts were just as big.

Why, why on earth did the man make that choice?

The only friendship we have is that we were in the same combat department and did group assignments together.

In fact, it is difficult to even say that we are friends.

But why?

That question has been lingering in my head ever since that day, but Ira has been unable to come up with an answer.

Ira, who had been pondering the question for several days, eventually gave up trying to come up with an answer on her own.

It was a problem that no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with an answer.

Therefore, she decided to think about only one thing: returning the favor.

Wade Heblon, he saved his life, his life.

How should I repay that favor?

Financial compensation is not enough.

then?

The answer to that question was easier than I thought.

If you owe your life, you can save it.

If a crisis comes to him one day, he will save him even at the cost of his own life.

Ira decided to do so.

And to do that, I needed to be by his side.

“… Well, thank you… … .”

That was why I joined his club.

There was never any other reason.

… maybe.

***

Life doesn’t really work out the way you want it to.

I did that again… No, I feel it every day these days.

“Uh, could that person be…? … .”

“Oh, is that him?”

Wherever I go, people recognize me, it doesn’t matter anymore.

But that wasn’t the only problem.

The combat professor, Urt, was also one of the causes of disruption to my daily life these days.

I was very indebted to him during the last Ira incident.

If he hadn’t acted quickly, my life would have been in more danger.

Moreover, entering the dungeon itself was nothing short of a nuisance to him.

In the end, it worked out well, but if I was wrong, it would have been dealt with due to Urt’s poor management, so he must have been quite anxious until the dungeon was unlocked.

Knowing that, I thanked him and offered a sincere apology.

Urt’s reaction at that time was,

─“Courage and recklessness must be distinguished. Wade Heblon.”

… It was.

Nothing more was said.

Of course, there is nothing good about a long sermon, but it did raise the question of whether it could end at this point.

However, I soon moved on to thinking that good things are good things.

But the real problem started after that.

Urt’s eyes looked at me and he felt very burdened.

From the beginning, after the dungeon training, there was that feeling.

But it got worse.

I don’t know exactly what that look contained, but at least it wasn’t a look that would be sent to a problem child like me.

“Wade Heblon.”

Sure enough, Urt called me today again, without fail.

Since I couldn’t ignore the professor’s words to his face, I answered reluctantly.

“… Yes.”

“Work hard.”

Urt left an indifferent word and walked away from me.

… There has been an increase in the number of people leaving unexplained encouragement in this way recently.

“ Wow, I think this is the first time I’ve seen Professor Urt like him that much.”

Then someone came up behind me.

He was one of the assistant instructors in the combat department.

He glanced at Urt’s back as he walked away, then smiled at me.

“Should I call you junior now?”

I hurriedly left the place and ran away.

… This was enough to make me lose my appetite, but unfortunately, the disaster that befell me did not end there.

“… … .”

“… … .”

“… … .”

The silence in the room.

There were three people inside, but not a word was exchanged.

It’s not a club where there’s a lot of conversation on a regular basis.

But now this space was not just quiet.

To use a metaphor, should I say that it feels like a powder keg that might explode at any moment?

The club’s atmosphere became like this after Aira joined.

Actually, the atmosphere wasn’t bad from the beginning.

“Please take care of me, Miss Aira.”

“Well, I am… Please take care of me… … .”

Rachel welcomes Aira’s arrival with a bright smile, and Aira greets Rachel politely even though she is hesitant.

Thanks to the fact that the two were beautiful women, it created a quite heartwarming scene.

In this way, Rachel and Ira seemed to get along well, although they were somewhat awkward.

Then one day the relationship started to become tense.

It happened on a club day, when by chance only Ira and I were in the club room.

“Well, that… Mo, are you feeling okay? ?”

He asked me that very hesitantly.

“It’s okay. Because I am completely healed.”

Ira seemed to be concerned about the wounds I suffered back then.

Well, if you see that scene right in front of you, you can’t help but pay attention.

“All, I’m glad… … .”

Ira said that and smiled.

There was a hint of shame or shyness in that smile, but the face itself seemed noticeably brighter than before.

I wasn’t sure why, but I thought it was a good thing so I moved on.

And our conversation continued a little further.

It was a normal, everyday conversation with nothing special, but the smile never left Ira’s face throughout the conversation.

It was in the meantime.

Good profit─

Rachel came into the club room.

“Hello─”

Rachel came in saying hello as always.

“… … .”

My eyes widened when I saw the sight inside.

Then he looked at me and Ira in turn.

Ira hurriedly covered her face with the book she was holding when Rachel appeared.

Rachel looked at Ira closely.

“… … .”

It must have been from then on.

The reason why Rachel’s eyes looked at Ira changed.

The attitude itself was not much different from before, but it seemed clear that something had changed.

And at some point, Ira also changed, and now we look at each other with wary eyes from time to time.

I couldn’t even guess the reason, and I was in a situation where I had to hold my breath in an unknown tension.

“Huh? Everyone is here.”

Only the time with senior Runia was salvation for me.

But basically, Runia senior came to the club late.

Therefore, I had to spend most of my time at the club feeling uncomfortable.

… These elements came together and made my daily life, me, a human being-

“Hey, are you okay?”

It got to the point where Jack was worried about me.

It wasn’t that his complexion had worsened, but I thought he had somehow noticed it, but when I thought about it, I came to the conclusion that Jack, who was sharing the same room, couldn’t have noticed that he was sighing more these days.

Feeling a little sorry for that fact, I shook my head.

“… It’s okay.”

“… Hey, that won’t work. Follow me.”

Perhaps because my answer was quite unreliable, Jack dragged me out of the dormitory.

“People need to get some air.”

The place Jack dragged me was outside the academy, to the city of Perdion.

Perdion, a city formed after the Academy was created.

The city, which developed rapidly due to the symbolism of the academy and the name value of those who gather at the academy, has now become one of the largest and most developed cities on the continent.

Well-maintained roads, endless rows of buildings, and countless people filling the space.

The sight of Perdion was certainly incomparable to the Bluenoa family’s territory.

When I think about it, I’ve never really looked around Perdion.

I had walked around a bit with Mary when I took the entrance exam or just before the entrance ceremony, but Perdion was too big of a city to get a full understanding of it.

It would be a different story if I came out to Perdion often on weekends or holidays, but basically, I didn’t come out of the dorm often.

To be honest, I wasn’t very interested, but my impressions of Ferdion today weren’t as bad as I thought.

Should I say that my rough heart feels a little more at ease?

“Where are you going?”

“Don’t talk nonsense, just follow me.”

Jack started walking ahead without even giving a specific explanation, and I followed behind him.

Eventually we arrived at a restaurant that looked quite neat.

“The food here is pretty good.”

I wasn’t very excited, but I ordered food and ate it, following Jack’s guidance.

It was difficult to say that the taste was objectively superior to that of the restaurant inside the academy, but it had its own unique taste.

Only then did I feel like I had come to know, to some extent, the ‘taste of eating outside’ that Jack had once mentioned.

After finishing our meal, we walked around and looked around Perdion.

It was an ordinary outing without a plan, but it wasn’t bad.

Should I say that I feel like I have regained my composure after a long time?

As I was looking around, I noticed an old woman sitting on a stool in a corner of the road.

A crystal ball was placed in front of the old woman.

I could tell at a glance what the old woman was doing without even having to guess.

“Uh, what is it? It’s a fortune teller.”

Jack found the old woman and walked straight towards her.

I naturally followed suit.

It’s a dot. Normally I wouldn’t have bothered to watch it, but today I was somehow intrigued.

“Elder, please check your fortune.”

Jack stepped forward.

The old woman glanced up at Jack and said.

“What do you want to see?”

“Please check my love luck.”

Those were truly jack-like words.

The old woman nodded quietly, placed both hands on the crystal ball in front of her, and began to stare at it.

Soon, the old woman’s mouth opened.

“It’s dark.”

“Yes?”

“No luck in love at all, you.”

“What?”

Jack frowned after hearing the old woman’s words.

Then he jerked and looked back at me.

“Hey, isn’t this old lady Young? Let’s just go somewhere else.”

It seems that the fortune-telling the old woman gave did not suit Jack’s taste at all.

However, I thought that the fortune telling was correct.

For someone who was crazy about women and wandering around, Jack had surprisingly little success.

That might have been the reason.

“Please take a look at me too.”

“Hey, it’s better to quit?”

Despite Jack’s dissuasion, he wanted to read his fortune.

“Okay, what do you want to predict?”

The old woman looked up at me.

There was something in those eyes that I could not tell the depth of.

“The future.”

“I see. Please wait a moment.”

The old woman stretched out her hand toward the crystal ball again.

And I stared at the crystal ball for a while.

It was considerably longer than the time it took to predict Jack’s love luck before.

Is it because they want to look at the future broadly, rather than something as limited as love luck?

I waited for the old woman to speak, feeling anticipation rising inside me.

“Tsk, it must be a lot of trouble.”

However, those expectations were dashed to the ground as soon as the old woman opened her mouth.

“… Yes?”

“The future is very thorny. Moreover, since he is the type of person who jumps into danger on his own, it will be very difficult for him. I’ve been looking at my fortune for quite some time, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen someone with such a difficult road ahead.”

“… … .”

I felt that my heart, which had become a little more relaxed after a long time away, was becoming suffocated again.

“… Let’s go.”

“That’s why I told you to stop a long time ago.”

We paid the old woman a rough reward and left.

The old woman did not stop us or add anything to us.

“Well, don’t worry. At first glance, it’s just a quack.”

Jack comforted me.

Yes, it’s just a dot.

There is no need to worry about such unreliable fortune telling.

As expected, things like fortune telling cannot be trusted.

Thinking like that, I erased everything about fortune telling from my mind.

… However, I soon changed my mind.

“Wade junior? A customer is waiting.”

Maybe that old woman’s fortune telling wasn’t wrong.

The road ahead of me may indeed be very difficult.

“Hmm. You are Wade Heblon.”

That’s what I thought as I faced the sparkling silver hair and mysterious purple eyes.