episode_0058

“Pretty good.”

I relaxed my fighting stance and looked at Yun Shia. After my advice, her posture seemed to have stabilized to a remarkable degree, as if she had come to some slight realization.

If just a moment ago it was just a hunting dog running wild, now you can say it has become a fast and accurate lioness.

With every clash, her sword cuts down monsters. Her mana weapon, which has a gloomy atmosphere, cuts through the monsters and is painted red over the gray every time it passes by.

Of course, the blood stains were also burned by the firepower of the Mana Weapon and quickly disappeared.

He destroyed a wyvern in the air with a magic missile and kept an eye on her.

He blocks a flying claw by lightly rotating his sword body, crushes the monster’s leg with a low kick to knock it off its center, and slashes the monster diagonally as it falls down after losing its support.

After that, another monster leaps up and approaches to bite her. But she doesn’t panic and hits him with her empty left hand.

The heartbreaking sight of hitting a flying monster with the back of your hand. However, the person who experienced it first-hand seems to think this is not the case, and falls down while doing somersaults like a windmill with the sound of an exploding gourd.

The sword was swung over him and the guy could never get up again.

‘It’s amazing.’

I was dumbfounded to see her change so much that I wondered if this was all possible with just that one piece of advice.

‘… no way.’

By any chance, was it intentional? Have you planned a plan to establish contact with me once again?

After touching my chin for a moment, I immediately denied that thought. From what I thought of her before, there was no way she would do that.

Because I couldn’t even imagine Yoon Shia doing something like that.

Even as she was thinking for a moment, she continued to move forward and cut down the monsters.

Soon, her gray sword pierces the round oval gate, and the gate is seen disappearing with an explosion.

“Well done.”

“Hehe. Thank you.”

I nodded to her, who smiled brightly after receiving the compliment.

It seemed like most of this street had already been cleared, so I turned around the alley and headed to the next street.

Loud cheers are heard above us.

─Wow!

─Awesome! Lady wearing a ram horn headband! best!

─Are the father and daughter both students of Northmund? It’s really amazing!

It was a desirable situation. Because this was exactly the sight I wanted to show her.

Becoming a hero and receiving cheers from countless people is a definite driving force. Isn’t it possible to easily recover from a depressed mood and burn up the fighting spirit to receive that cheer again in the future?

I waved lightly at the people looking down from the top of the building.

When they received my response, the people on the building made a loud noise in words they couldn’t understand and showed their welcome by cheering merrily.

─That woman with ram-horn hair, please show your face too!

─Please wave your hand! You’re cool!!

is it. Actually, Yoon Shia still feels awkward about this. It would be nice if I could push your back a little.

“Yunshia, you too to them… .”

I was about to look away, but when I saw her, I clicked my tongue. It certainly seemed like he was a bit difficult to deal with.

She just looks at me and smiles, as if she couldn’t hear the cheers and calls pouring in on her.

I let out a small sigh as I looked at the contrasting situation, and I saw her tilt her head.

“Please give them a wave. Isn’t it a bit unfair to ignore someone who is calling you like that?”

“Ah… Yes, that’s right.”

She waves her hand awkwardly. The cheers get louder at the gesture, but her attitude shows no sincerity.

It may not have been clearly visible to citizens far away, but I could clearly see her attitude.

“Why don’t you do it properly? I’m calling you like that.”

“Sorry, sorry.”

I felt something a little strange, but this time I managed to wave my hand around.

Seeing her like that, I let out a small sigh and walked towards the next gate again.

As if she might lose me right away, Yoon Shia follows behind me with quick steps.

Her leaving without even giving a proper greeting may seem rude at first glance, but the citizens of LA responded with cheers until the end as if they understood her.

As if I wasn’t mistaken in the fact that Yoon Shia’s footsteps on the asphalt were unusually regular and echoed loudly, she clung close to me and didn’t try to fall off.

As I was taking steps, I felt her waves getting closer and closer, so I stopped and turned around to look at her.

When she sees my sharp gaze looking down at her, she widens her eyes and makes a blank expression for a moment, but soon relaxes and begins to wander again.

“Yun Sia.”

“Yes, professor.”

I took a deep breath and let it out. It wasn’t intentional, but in some ways it might have sounded like a loud sigh.

At least that’s what she seemed to think, as she smiled and looked at me and started to panic.

“Ah, that… My, did I make some mistake?”

“… .”

Although she grew a little bigger after becoming Yonghwa, she still gave the feeling of being small overall.

As if she was preparing for battle, she wore a suit-like outfit that was tight and not flimsy.

The black polar tee that went up to her neck was tight to her body, further emphasizing her ferocious midriff.

“You know what I’ve been doing so far. It’s about why I save people..”

“Oh, yes, of course.”

When she looked up, her face was slightly red. At first glance, it seemed like he was embarrassed, but at other times, he gave off a strange impression, like he was expecting something.

“Professor, since you are a world hero, of course you… .”

“Yes. But to me, those people don’t seem worth much to you.”

“Ah… .”

She let out an excited breath at the stinging reprimand. This time, I held my head as she said yes.

I couldn’t see my expression, but I was probably feeling tired and a little annoyed.

“Don’t do that. This is not the kind of advice that you should simply follow my path.”

“… Yes, professor.”

“Please do not lose interest in the people around you. Living is not something you can do alone forever. Becoming insensitive to those around you means gradually losing your vitality, which will one day result in a strangulation of your neck.”

I bombarded her non-stop. I was saying this to her, but I was also saying this to myself. Because these were words that were engraved in my heart once again as I said them to her.

But it was also something that had to be said to her. Since the academy is not a kindergarten or elementary school, I cannot individually match each child with someone.

That’s how she always delved into her own world alone.

Of course, it was her freedom, but it was unacceptable to be insensitive to the citizens she was supposed to save beyond just being friends.

What I wanted to do was to avoid the hunter’s duty of stopping monsters and protecting citizens from simply functioning as a sword aimed only at monsters.

“… Of course, even if I say this as someone who always pretends to be alone and noble, it may not be relatable, but still, as the dean—”

“No!”

“Tsk!”

The area under my chin stung a little. I felt a tingling and stiff feeling as if I had received an injection.

She came at me all at once, and her horn pierced my chin. I raised my hand and touched it, and although there was no blood, I felt a little burning where I was stabbed.

“Ah, sin… sorry. Well, you didn’t do anything wrong, Professor. Don’t blame yourself… .”

“I’m not blaming myself.”

I really wasn’t blaming myself, I was just trying to give her some advice. What did you hear that made you decide that this was self-blame?

My attempt to open my mouth with a small sigh at the absurdity of this was blocked by her continued words.

“Well, I was wrong. I also know that I am not normal. continue… It just keeps making things difficult for the professor. I know that I always acted unreasonably and only made things difficult for the professor.”

“… .”

“I’m really sorry. So please… .”

Her watery, trembling eyes continued to delve into my depths, as if she was reproaching herself.

I was at a loss to say anything as she begged me urgently and pitifully, as if she had heard me declare that I would abandon her.

A pale face with no blood, a sharp nose bridge, and long, slit pupils in large eyes look this way.

“Don’t go ahead alone.”

I know. Just by seeing her react like this when she sees me, I can figure out where my existence is in her heart.

I’m sure it went beyond the feeling of longing. But answering that question is not something I can easily do.

At least, it’s not something I can do right now. I am weighed down by numerous responsibilities and cannot yet answer her feelings.

Well, there is also the issue of status between dean and student.

“And first, calm down a little. Don’t make a fuss by assuming something I didn’t say. Sometimes when I talk to you, I feel frustrated too.”

What I want is to raise hunters who can think and act on their own, not to make a girl blindly follow my words.

It’s true that when I look at her with a very expectant expression on my face, sometimes I get a dark thought that it might be okay to do that… .

I nodded slightly and patted her shoulder. The warmth felt through the thick polar tee penetrated my hands.

It seems as if she also felt the warmth of my hand, and I can see her intense emotions fading away little by little.

“Okay, let’s finish this first and then go back and talk about—”

“What is it? Are you two dating?”

A man’s voice. Hearing a frivolous voice I had never heard before, I reflexively pushed the woman in front of me away.

The tone of voice was quite pleasant, but for a moment, I felt a shiver run down my spine and stamped my foot loudly.

Quagwagwang!

As soon as I put my feet into the ground, my mana runs toward the goal. The well-paved ground is broken and rises.

Squeak! My suit is torn apart and everything around me is swept away by the powerful surge of magic power.

The glass of a high-rise building breaks and a car parked on the side of the road rolls and flies away.

Transformed into the form of a dragon, I held a huge greatsword in my hands. The great sword cuts towards the man.

“Hwaaa!”

A man dodging that great sword with an exaggerated expression. But my left hand immediately grabs his neck.

“Kwaaaak, aaak, kuaaah, aahahah, ahahaha, ahahahahaha, uhhh!”

A man clutching his neck and screaming exaggeratedly. But the screams gradually turn into laughter.

I feel strange about his change and put my hand up to break his neck, but the laughter gradually fades away.

“What!”

The man who was clearly holding his neck in my hand and making fun of it had moved back, about 20 meters. The guy is raising both arms, shrugging his shoulders, and smiling while looking at us.

It was a man wearing a black robe. Underneath the robe, he is wearing what appears to be a black monastic habit.

Even though summer was over and it was now fall, the tall man was dressed so thickly that he still looked hot and stuffy. He was wearing a costume that looked like something a wizard would wear in a medieval fantasy game.

The face was not visible due to the hood being pressed down too deeply, but there were numerous scars on the lower part of the hood. No, is it really a scar? A wriggling scar that looks like someone intentionally created it, like an earthworm.

He must have noticed that my eyes were on him, and he twisted the corner of his mouth and exhaled.

“Oh, no, no! I have no intention of saying anything in particular. Well, if you become a principal, you can mess around with cute students. If you’re not going to do that, why are you a principal? Even if I were you, all the girls there would have been me… .”

“Stop talking dirty and show your face. Who are you?”

“Aha! I almost committed rudeness. Well, I almost had my head grabbed by you because I couldn’t see clearly. Umm.”

The corner of his mouth, where the scar is wriggling, twitches once again, and he raises both hands to take off his hood. It must have been hot, too, as beads of sweat were running down his face.

The hood was not one layer. One layer of clothing was removed, and underneath was another layer of thick hood that appeared to be made of wool.

The person who appeared after taking off what looked like a wizard’s hood or an ascetic’s hood was a black-skinned black man.

“What a disgusting looking guy. Could it be a chimera?”

What appeared within that two-layered hood was a being that could not be called natural at all. human? No chimera? The scarred bottom clearly belonged to a white Latino man, but above the philtrum was a black man’s face.

Could it be that the top of the black man’s head was cut off and sewn to the white man underneath? A person who thinks like that.

In addition, her hair was unkempt and roughly tied up in dreadlocks, dyed blue. The fabric was a mess, with the dye coming off here and there, as if it had not been properly maintained.

It got to the point where I wondered if it had been roughly sprayed with blue lacquer rather than dye.

He had a somewhat sobering face that looked frivolous and frivolous, in contrast to his stately attire of thick monastic robes and medieval robes.

“How did you know? That’s my code name. Oh, of course, I’m not a biological chimera, I’m a human. Chimera is just a title.”

Then the man took his hand out of his monastic habit pocket, raised it to his chest, and gave a very polite formal greeting.

It hasn’t been that long since I came to this world, but I can proudly say that I have met strange and strange people every day.

And will it reach its peak today? Because this being before my eyes was even stranger than any other being I had ever met.

“Hello, Elm Northmund. It is called C, one of the 12 conductors.”

“… Is this the C for Chimera?”

“That’s right! As expected, the great hero is different.”

My eyes narrow slightly as I hear C clapping his hands and laughing. What on earth is this frivolous man?

“12 Conductor. Are there 12 people like you in that organization? It’s a group of crazy people following Jesus’ 12 apostles.”

“Uh… I didn’t necessarily try to follow it. Oh, of course, I came here on my own. I think we have to step forward soon.”

“It is not the will of the organization, but dogmatism. Yes, you are Iscariot.”

Can you see my secrets like that? A man with a low-ranking scar making a bewildering expression.

When I took off the hood, a demon-like energy was gradually coming out, so I gripped the handle of the great sword even more tightly.

“Go, Yoon Sia. Go and join another team. Go tell everyone about this and put all the students back.”

“Professor!”

“Go! You can’t tell by looking at this, this is not your place right now!”

She hesitated for a moment at my firm words, then walked away with a gloomy expression, as if she were about to cry. The sweet peach scent continued to tickle my nose, but I tried to chase it away.

After glaring at her for a moment as she quickly disappeared while making a chop-chop-chop sound, he turned around again and looked at the man.

I clenched my fist towards him and took a step forward.

As I take my steps, the wind flow fluctuates abnormally. The mana around me reacted to my will and created a convection current.

And when I lifted up my sword,

Kuwawawawa!

The wind howls fiercely, and the cool breeze of early fall blows through the tall buildings, turning into a storm with violent will.

The storm drops a huge electronic display board, and as I wave my hand, it shoots at him at incredible speed.

“Oooh! I just came to say hello today, but the welcome speech is difficult.”

When he put his hands together and clapped softly, the flying electronic display board exploded! Sparks fly and it shatters.

With the sound of that loud spark short-circuiting, I, filled with a gust of wind, are launched towards him. Holding a huge sword overflowing with white plasma.

“Oh! Is this a deliberate attack? Do you have any questions for me? I came prepared with several answers, thinking I would be asked a lot of questions!”

If you have a question, just knock him down and ask him.

Therefore, there is no increase or decrease in strength. Looking at the way he just slipped through my hands, it seemed like he was using some strange hex.

So there was no thought of adjusting the intensity of the attack.

What if I come out too strong and die?

Does not matter. Since my senses were constantly sending me signals that something was wrong, I felt no emotion at the moment about killing someone.

If it was necessary, or if it was better to kill them, they should just kill them right away. Therefore, even if you fail to block this attack and end up dead, it is only your fate.

Because approaching something so suspiciously in the first place probably didn’t have good intentions.

C, embarrassed, claps his hands. Then, the surrounding cars that had been blown away by my wind flew in and blocked my charge.

As his hand swings, like a crazy conductor directing things, all kinds of things come flying towards me.

Quagwagwagwang!

But it is futile resistance. No matter how many iron balls you throw, they can’t do any harm to me.

The strong body of the dragon, fired like a cannonball, crushes the thrown cars into iron scraps and just passes by.

As the great sword is cut horizontally, all kinds of miscellaneous items are scattered, showing red cross sections as they are cut by plasma exceeding thousands of degrees.

A look of astonishment appears on the black man’s face, where his eyes are located, at the sight of his resistance turning to nothing.

And soon my sword advanced in front of him,

As if he was urgently trying to defend himself, his right arm, holding out a ring with a symbol I had seen before, was caught by my sword.

─Snip!

It was cut open, bleeding profusely.

“Kaaak!”

A guy screaming at his amputated and severed arm. The cross section of an arm that has been cut in temperatures exceeding thousands of degrees cannot be cooked until it carbonizes black and turns into a lump of charcoal.

Soon, my sword filled with white plasma swung, aiming for his waist.