Clash

,”Where’s Estelle-nim?”

Rosalyn, having arrived in the drawing-room, asked, realizing Estelle-nim hadn’t followed. Jamie, who had followed behind, closed the door with a bright smile.

,”Estelle-nim said she had something to bring and asked us to wait for her for a moment.”

,”Ah, is that so.”

Rosalyn, without much suspicion, sat on a chair, her large breasts bouncing, and turned her head to look around the drawing-room.

Just then, someone opened the door and came in. The person who met Rosalyn’s eyes was a handsome man with gloomy black eyes. Mesmer, looking tired, approached Rosalyn and pulled out a chair to sit next to her.

,”Nice to meet you. I am Mesmer of Illusion, number 3 of Confession.”

,”Ah, hello. I’m Rosalyn, Estelle’s friend.”

Rosalyn, not knowing what Confession was, greeted him with an innocent smile. Mesmer stared intently at Rosalyn, then gestured to Jamie and asked.

,”I heard you’re Roel’s girlfriend.”

,”Hehe, did Estelle tell you? I really didn’t think we’d actually date.”

Jamie, who had approached from behind Rosalyn, firmly grabbed Rosalyn’s shoulders.

,”Eh?! W-wait a minute…!”

,”Heuheuhut, guest. If you move, I can’t cut your hair neatly.”

When Jamie’s newly appeared doppelganger said that while holding a dagger, even the innocent Rosalyn realized something was wrong.

,”W-what are you doing? I’m an Academy student!”

Rosalyn wriggled around, trying to escape Jamie’s grasp, but all that moved were her bouncing breasts. Mesmer, with gloomy eyes, followed Rosalyn’s breasts, unknowingly moving his head up and down, then snapped out of it and said in a low voice.

,”To get Roel out of the Academy, I need your head. I don’t need your vulgar body.”

Jamie roughly grabbed Rosalyn’s pink hair, forcibly tilting her head back. As her pale white nape was revealed, Jamie’s doppelganger smiled gleefully and raised the dagger high. At that sight, Rosalyn screamed.

,”Kyaaaaak…! S-somebody help…!”

Jamie’s hand covered Rosalyn’s screaming mouth. Just as Rosalyn instinctively closed her eyes at the approaching blade, she suddenly heard a sound like something exploding in her ears.

Kwaang―――!

Rosalyn, opening her eyes at the sound, was flustered because her vision was blurred by dust. Realizing that Jamie, who had been holding her, had disappeared, Rosalyn tried to get up to escape, but suddenly her body was bound to the chair by vines that had burst through the floor.

Rosalyn, in her bewilderment, whined and bounced her chest.

,”W-what the hell is going on…!”

As if in response, Rosalyn was startled and screamed as the floor she was sitting on suddenly shot up to the ceiling.

,”Kyaaaaaak! What is this now!!!”

Before Rosalyn’s head could touch the ceiling, the vines that had sprung up from the floor broke through the ceiling, creating a hole. Rosalyn, sitting in the chair, rose high along with the floor, finally broke through the hole in the roof, and flew into the sky.

,”Kyaaaaa…?!”

Rosalyn, who had risen high in an arc and was falling while tied to the chair, stopped screaming at the sudden warmth and the disappearance of the feeling of descent, and cautiously opened her closed eyes.

,”How was it? Did you enjoy flying in the sky?”

At the sight of Roel smiling playfully at her, Rosalyn relaxed and leaned her face against Roel’s chest.

,”M-moya… It was Roel. I thought… Heok, don’t tell me you came to save me?!”

Rosalyn raised her head again, looking at him with expectant eyes, and Roel nodded with an amused expression.

,”Of course. I heard from your friend Estelle that you might be in danger.”

,”Estelle did…?”

Rosalyn’s eyes widened, and Roel nodded.

,”Let’s talk about the details later. There’s still someone targeting you.”

Roel, holding Rosalyn in his arms, jumped off the roof and landed safely on the ground.

,”I’ll buy some time, so go back to the Academy in the meantime.”

At Roel’s words, Rosalyn shook her head.

,”Wouldn’t it be better to just run away together?”

,”I need to find out the purpose of targeting you. It’s okay, don’t worry about what happens next and go back.”

Rosalyn, unable to refuse Roel’s words, sighed, left a word of caution, and ran into the alley.

Roel, turning around, rapidly grew the vines that had grown around the house, engulfing the house. With a crashing sound, the walls crumbled, and before long, the house collapsed like a sandcastle under the massively grown vines.

Kwaaaaang―――!

,”That’s a violent greeting. Heuheuhut!”

Jamie, covered in dusty dirt, looked at Roel and smirked. Roel twisted the corners of his mouth and pulled out the greatsword from behind his back.

,”Sorry, but since it’s our first time meeting, could I ask you to introduce yourself?”

Jamie, who had been approaching with a dagger, made a dumbfounded expression for a moment at Roel’s sudden request, then burst into laughter, making a Keuheuheuh sound.

,”I see. That was impolite of me. Nice to meet you. I am the new number 8 of Confession―”

Before he could finish speaking, the greatsword swung by Roel split Jamie’s body in half. Roel, seeing Jamie collapsing while spraying blood, smiled brightly.

,”A cult, huh. This is perfect. There was something I wanted to ask.”

,”We’re on the same page. We also had something we wanted to ask you. How about we stop fighting and move to a different location to talk? If the capital guards come after hearing the commotion, things will get out of hand.”

Mesmer, pushing away the collapsed wall, appeared and suggested. Roel turned his head away from Jamie’s corpse and looked at Mesmer.

Roel, slightly frowning, asked.

,”Don’t tell me you’re also from Confession?”

,”Yes, number 3 of Confession. I am Mesmer.”

At Mesmer’s answer, Roel stroked his chin for a moment.

,”Then the annoying woman is gone, right.”

Mesmer asked at Roel’s muttering.

,”…What woman are you talking about?”

Roel smiled and looked at Mesmer as if it was nothing.

,”Alright, Mesmer. Tell me before I kill you. Why did you try to attack Rosalyn?”

,”If you want to hear the answer, let’s move locations. Or do you want to buy time for the knights to come?”

Roel burst into laughter as if he had heard a joke and asked with an innocent face.

,”Why would I?”

,”Because you’re too much to handle both of us alone?”

,”Do you really think so?”

Roel unleashed an overwhelming presence in that instant. All living things nearby recognized that presence and instinctively felt great fear.

,”You seem skilled enough. But this is the center of a residential area where ordinary people live. If we fight here, even if the knights come, many people will surely get hurt. That’s why we chose this house from the beginning. Because we’ve taken countless people hostage.”

Mesmer memorized every piece of information about Roel without missing a single detail. A boy who wants to be a hero. A kind personality who doesn’t hesitate to save people and is friendly with everyone at the Academy.

He was certain that Roel would willingly follow him to the capital to prevent innocent people from being caught up in the fight and dying.

And outside the capital, Confession’s number 1 and 4 are waiting to cut off Roel’s head. It was a perfect plan that predicted Roel’s personality and actions.

Roel, looking around at Mesmer’s words, slightly waved his hand at a young girl looking at him with fearful eyes beyond the window. The girl, who had been sending fearful glances, blushed at Roel’s smile and hid under the window.

,”That’s true. There are a lot of people around here.”

,”Because it’s the cheapest place to live in the capital.”

As Mesmer said, this place had the highest population density in the capital because it was cheap to live. Furthermore, there were people approaching, perhaps to see what was going on after the house collapsed and made a loud noise.

Roel lowered his gaze and looked at his shoes stuck to the dark road surface.

,”…”

Roel slowly raised his gaze. Mesmer unknowingly swallowed hard at the deep gaze containing blue phosphorescence.

Mesmer secretly raised his magic power so that he could use magic at any time due to the warning of his intense sixth sense.

Roel said with a hollow laugh.

,”Collateral damage can’t be helped.”

,”What…?”

In that instant, a breath like that of a beast passed by Mesmer’s ear. And Roel, concentrating an enormous amount of magic power, swung the greatsword.

Kugugugugung―――!

The sword cut through everything. All directions were distorted with a pure white light. The sword that cut through Mesmer did not lose its power and tore apart all the surrounding houses.

Kwagwagwagwang―――!

Mesmer woke up from the illusion, hearing the huge explosion spreading to various parts of the capital. The one who had died to Roel a moment ago was Jamie’s doppelganger disguised as himself.

Mesmer and Jamie had been dealing with Roel in a house a little further away.

Jamie sighed and said.

,”Haa, maybe it’s because he’s the youngest Transcendental. He’s reckless. I kind of like how violent he is, though. Heuheuheet.”

Mesmer got up from his seat and listened to the screams coming from beyond the window.

,”Did his personality change after becoming a Transcendental?”

There was a possibility that his soft personality had hardened due to enlightenment. People who reach the realm of Transcendence clearly experience tremendous changes. Someone said it was the awakening of their essence.

Mesmer stroked his chin for a moment, contemplating the next plan, realizing that his plan had failed. He couldn’t return to the cult after failing his first mission.

,”Let’s go back to the Academy―”

Mesmer stopped speaking and reflexively raised his head. Jamie, too, felt the changed atmosphere and burst into a crazy laugh.

,”Hahaha, he’s coming…!”

Kwawaaaang―!

The roar spread like a wave throughout the house. Roel, who had appeared while breaking through the ceiling with a huge presence, glared at Mesmer and Jamie with flashing blue eyes.

,”Found you.”

No sooner had Roel’s words ended than they both unleashed all their magic power to kill each other.