episode_0072

It had been a day since Amelia collapsed, but she still couldn’t get up.

Helena and I used magic to check Amelia’s condition, but we couldn’t find a way to treat her.

Amelia’s problem was her life force depletion.

What is life force? It’s the unique energy that all living beings possess. As we live, we gradually consume that energy, and when it’s all used up, we die. In other words, we die a natural death.

Normally, humans use up all their energy and die around the ages of 80 to 90.

However, if someone uses magic or aura without awakening their mana, they can die as early as 40, even if they have a lot of energy, they can die at 60.

But Amelia is only 24. Strangely, her current life force is almost equivalent to that of someone on the brink of death.

In that moment of realization, the seals on her body were released.

The mana that had been suppressed for fear of causing harm to others began to destroy the surroundings. Despite feeling a chill throughout her body and a sensation of insects crawling between her fingers, she couldn’t maintain her composure.

She was on the verge of destroying everything around her, but the vial containing Amelia’s essence, hidden before, shattered, releasing her scent and barely allowing her to regain her senses.

No matter how much the past had changed, the sudden collapse of Amelia was incomprehensible.

Initially, Amelia had been fine until I turned 18. Of course, I knew that Amelia was gradually struggling more and more. She had hidden it, but I was aware. However, I thought it was just a phenomenon that occurred as Amelia approached her thirties.

Looking back now, everything was full of questions.

The lenses she had started wearing at some point. Amelia didn’t want to let me know that she wore lenses.

She tried her best not to take off the lenses in front of me, even when sleeping, hiding them from me.

How could I not have noticed that Amelia’s pupils were changing?

At first, I thought Amelia’s eyesight was deteriorating naturally. After all, human eyes are so sensitive and prone to deterioration.

But when Helena examined Amelia’s eyes, she made a shocking statement.

“Amelia has… almost lost her eyesight.”

“What do you mean?”

“How has she been seeing until now…?”

Amelia’s eyesight was so damaged that she could barely see in front of her.

Upon hearing that, I immediately searched for Amelia’s carrier that she always carried with her.

Helena and I pondered in front of Amelia’s carrier. The only thing Amelia never showed us was her carrier.

I was very curious about what was inside Amelia’s carrier, but out of respect for her, I had never opened it.

But now the situation was different. Amelia had lost consciousness and collapsed, so we needed to check everything about Amelia to accurately assess her condition.

“Let’s open it.”

“Okay.”

I opened Amelia’s carrier in front of me.

The first thing that caught my eye was Amelia’s underwear, which she would never normally wear. It seemed unnecessary to store underwear in the carrier since all her usual underwear was kept in the closet.

Since underwear was not important, Helena and I each took Amelia’s underwear and put them in our own spaces.

We needed to examine the carrier closely.

After collecting all the underwear, the next thing we saw was a black lace lingerie with saliva stains all over it.

“This is from last time. Ugh.”

As I held up the lace lingerie, Helena, who was beside me, seemed to know something about it, but then covered her mouth.

“Helena?”

I slowly turned my head and looked at Helena, who started sweating nervously.

“Right now, that’s not important. We need to quickly find out about Amelia, Lily.”

“…Okay.”

Despite her suspicious gestures and expressions, I thought it was important to focus on learning about Amelia, so I put the sheer underwear back into my personal space and started checking again.

Then, something rolled out among the provocative clothes.

“This is…”

“A transformation magic potion.”

It was the transformation magic potion that almost caused a disaster when I saw it in the surveillance report last time.

I was about to discard the source of all evil, the transformation magic potion, but after confirming that it fit into Amelia’s carrier, I gave up.

I also put the transformation magic potion that killed Amelia into my personal space.

As I checked Amelia’s carrier one by one, suspicious items finally started to appear.

First, a lens case.

I hadn’t thought much about the lens case I had glanced at before. But seeing it up close like this for the first time, I could barely tell that this lens case was not ordinary.

“How can such powerful magic be in such a small thing?”

Helena was also surprised when she saw the lens case. I, too, was amazed when I looked at the lens case.

The level of magic in this small lens case was beyond my comprehension.

In other words, it was magic that only a dragon could perform. Furthermore, the intricacy and precision of this magic circle and the habits felt from it.

It was all the magic circle of my mentor, the perverted dragon Camilla.

“This is Camilla’s magic.”

“Camilla?”

“Yes. In a word.”

“So you knew about Camilla.”

“Yes.”

When did my mentor know about Amelia’s condition? I was puzzled.

Why did Amelia not tell me, nor Helena, but only told my mentor?

Or did my mentor figure it out?

I decided to ask my mentor about this issue later and opened the lid of the white case with nothing drawn on it.

Lily immediately covered her nose and mouth at the smell coming out of it.

“What’s happening!”

“Helena, get away now! Cover your nose and mouth!”

Helena was surprised by my intense reaction and listened to me, moving away from me.

I trembled all over and looked at the pills inside the case.

The faint smell emanating from the case.

The slightly bitter and sharp scent and the color of the pills.

It was all too familiar to me.

“Cotmohafenox…”

“Cotmohafenox? Isn’t that a drug…?”

“Yes.”

“Why is Cotmohafenox in Amelia’s carrier…?”

“…Cotmohafenox is used to make painkillers for people on the verge of death.”

It was one of the unforgettable drugs. Cotmohafenox, a drug that was very difficult to obtain, was not usually used as a painkiller for people on the verge of death.

It was a painkiller-like drug that kings or top nobles would take when they were dying.

It was also a drug that I had liked the most in the future. It was so difficult to obtain that it had annoyed me. But.

Why was it in Amelia’s carrier?

Furthermore, Cotmohafenox was originally a plant. Since the plant needed to meet various conditions to grow, it was very rare and difficult to harvest.

Moreover, it was impossible to make pills in the current state. In other words, it was not the technology of this era.

Even I had failed to make Cotmohafenox into pill form to enjoy it more. But having Cotmohafenox in pill form?

There was only one explanation.

This was also made by my mentor.

“Then… was Amelia continuously consuming this…?”

“The side effects that occurred when Emily came to visit… on top of that, Amelia at the swimming pool…”

The side effects that occurred when Emily visited Amelia. Emily knows about the situation from talking with her.

And I also supported Amelia.

The first time I caused side effects in Amelia, she was in so much pain that she screamed loudly and convulsed all over her body.

But.

When she met Emily, she didn’t scream or feel any pain, she simply fainted.

Furthermore, when Amelia collapsed and vomited blood, she didn’t scream or show any signs of pain.

It doesn’t make sense unless she took the cortmohafenok drug.

I closed the lid roughly and stood up.

“Helena.”

“Yes.”

“We need to go see the teacher.”

“… Okay!”

“You don’t have to.”

As Helena and I realized that the key to the current situation lies with our teacher Camilla and were about to go see her, the space opened up and a woman with red patterns all over her body walked in, speaking.

It was our teacher.

I immediately questioned the teacher about what she knew about Amelia’s situation.

“Teacher, how long have you known about Amelia?”

“Should I say before time was reversed?”

“… What?”

That means.

“Wait a minute! Are you saying you knew about Amelia’s condition beforehand!?”

Helena shouted at the teacher, who nodded and replied.

“Yes. It wouldn’t have been strange for her to die at any time. Originally, she was supposed to live longer and die in the future, but this time it was a bit earlier.”

-Ding.

“Even in the future, I knew about it. Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Amelia hid it from you, so I didn’t think it was my duty to tell you. And the important thing is not that right now, is it?”

As soon as the teacher finished speaking, Helena shouted.

“Is there a way to cure Amelia right now!?”

“No, there isn’t.”

The teacher said firmly, and Helena and I sat down in shock.

“But, could the saintess possibly…?”