episode_0237

When the name of her previous life came out of Seira’s mouth, Lucia thought seriously.

‘Should I commit suicide?’

She had always thought negatively of people who took their own lives, but now she was able to understand their feelings strongly.

A destruction with no way to avoid it.

Instinctively, Lucia thought there was no way to escape from those brilliantly shining purple eyes.

As long as she keeps her mouth shut, Seira is a strong and noble archmage.

What is an Archmage?

It is a state beyond the pale that even the greatest scholars of the academy can never reach. Whether it was magical talent or lack of time to cultivate one’s skills, high intelligence was a prerequisite for becoming an archmage.

In other words, even though she looks like that, Seira is said to be highly intelligent.

On the other hand, Lucia’s intelligence, to put it mildly, is just average among academy freshmen. Therefore, it was impossible for Lucia to overcome Seira’s interrogation head-on.

but,

Even an earthworm squirms when stepped on, and even a cornered rat can bite a cat.

“What are you talking about?”

Lucia could not bear to commit suicide, so she did not back down even though she knew she was at a disadvantage.

“Are you sure that Siron is still suitable for pretending to be Kylie?”

Lucia tilted her head and asked back.

Since I couldn’t physically erase the memory, I decided to pretend not to know until the end.

“What are you doing?”

However, Seira did not fall for that shameless appearance. She crossed her arms and looked down at Lucia with narrowed eyes.

“What are you doing? It’s amazing that there is someone who looked after it 500 years ago.”

“Are you going to keep pulling me out?”

“I have no idea what Seira said. I’m Lucia Prien, not Kylie.”

“…I’m going to pretend not to know until the end, right?”

Seira sighed and touched her forehead.

“Nakseom.”

I flinch. Lucia’s shoulders trembled. Seira, not missing that reaction, opened her mouth again.

“Pacheon Muroe, Meteor Sword, Falling Falling Water, Full Bloom, Cry Sirius.”

“…”

“That’s true of shouting the name of a skill without using magic. If you assume that Prien is a family founded by your descendants, and that they learned swordsmanship, then there is nothing that cannot be understood. But.”

Seira widened her eyes and pointed at Lucia, who was avoiding her gaze.

“You shouldn’t have fired the Meteor Sword in succession and then finished it off with a Chobungken! If you’re going to hide it until the end, could you at least give it some variation in the combo?!”

Poke-poke- A finger without any calluses pricks the soft cheek.

“Are you going to pretend not to notice this? huh? Is that all there is between us?!”

“…”

“And, I was considerate of you and made the little boy sleep. Not only that, but there’s a barrier so you can’t hear our conversation?”

“Ha…”

Lucia sighed and glanced in Siron’s direction. There was Siron floating in the water like a corpse.

“Really… Shiron can’t hear this conversation, right… right?”

“Is that so? What on earth do you think of me? I am Seira, who has never lost to anyone using magic.”

“…Yes, you are great.”

Lucia, who slumped her shoulders in resignation, grabbed the finger that was poking her cheek.

Now that I’ve decided to acknowledge the fact that she’s Kylie, I’m not saying I won’t allow any more disrespectful behavior. This is because she and Seira did not get along well when she was alive.

But even so, Lucia sighed and stared at Seira.

“I am Kylie. Are you done?”

“…It would be better if they acknowledged it sooner.”

Seira looked pitiful towards Lucia, but soon burst into laughter.

It was unpleasant that he had been deceived all this time, and it was shameful that he had tried to deceive her about Kylie, but he was not at an age when his emotions were boiling over, and the experience he had accumulated over hundreds of years was not going anywhere.

Seira turned her back on Lucia and picked up Siron, who was sleeping soundly.

“It’s a bit of a place to talk leisurely, isn’t it?”

Seira lifted Kihara’s arm and pointed to the sea level.

*

A quiet fishing village.

The two of them returned to the inn where they stayed before going down to the bottom of the sea. I vomited out the salty water that had filled my lungs and dried my clothes with magic. After putting Shiron down on the finally made bed, Seira quietly closed the door and headed to the balcony.

“Somehow, they said he was too strong for his age.”

A table with hot black tea. Seira sat across from Lucia with her legs crossed.

“And, no matter how shy he is, he only acts awkwardly towards me, so I thought he must have been hated by an adolescent girl and passed it off.”

“…Whoop.”

“There was a reason for everything, right?”

Lucia stared silently at Seira, who had a triumphant expression on her face. I thought she would be angry because of her deception for having been deceived so far, but the former colleague she met seemed to be more happy than angry.

“Anyway, if you want to avoid being discovered, you should block the cause altogether rather than trying to reveal as little as possible. For Kylie, she used her brains quite a bit.”

“…”

“But, that’s clumsy. If you didn’t want to get caught, you should have kicked me out or become a monk. How did you manage to keep living in the same house and hide your identity?”

“…But didn’t 5 years last quite a long time?”

“I’m sorry, but 5 years isn’t a particularly long time?”

“……Yes, I wish I was older.”

Lucia answered briefly and drank the contents of the teacup in one gulp.

It wasn’t that I thought I wouldn’t be found out, but since nothing had happened for 5 years, I was at least worried about the possibility.

We eat together every day, while commuting to and from the academy. This was because Seira rarely came out of her room.

No matter how long she stays in the annex, the only time she wakes up is when she needs to hang out with Siron or watch over Siriel’s training.

Was it a year ago? Knight John’s retirement ceremony gave Seira some energy back, but that didn’t mean she had any special interest in Lucia.

“If you’re going to be angry, let it all out now. Because I was prepared.”

“Still, I’m glad I feel guilty about cheating. If I had continued to act shamelessly, I would have gotten hit a few times.”

Seira erased her smile and stared at Lucia.

“Why did you trick me?”

“I’m going to hit you?”

“If I hit you anyway, it won’t hurt. If that’s the case, let’s hear the reason.”

Since we had met for the first time in 500 years, there were many things to ask and many things to tell, but there was an order to them.

An extension of the story left untold in the deep sea. Some time had passed and the spark of emotion had diminished, but it had not yet completely burned out and become ashes.

Still, weren’t they colleagues who entrusted their lives to each other?

Lucia knew this too, so she bit her lip and closed her eyes tightly.

“It started because of the threat to my life.”

“Life?”

“Do you know that Yuma is alive?”

“You know. But why is that?”

Seira thought of the devil in a remote castle in a storm.

“The last time I saw you, you seemed like a reformed person, right? You are so corrupted by motherly love that you are such an arrogant prostitute that you dare to challenge me, young master! You deserve to be punished for threatening the master’s life… Damn it!”

“What is your tone…”

Lucia couldn’t understand Seira’s sudden excitement, but she didn’t want to get involved in it.

Yuma said that her personality has become much worse than before, but when she first met her, she was only an 8-year-old child.

Danjeon’s mana was so small that he didn’t have time to look around to think about why there were descendants he never gave birth to.

“Keuhm, anyway. Then there is no reason not to reveal it now. Aren’t you already stronger than Yuma?”

“…So I already revealed it and was on my way.”

“What?”

“Yuma. You already know who I am.”

“Then what… Why didn’t you tell me?”

Bang – Seira hit the table. At first, I tried to behave in a lenient manner like an elder, but as I listened to it, I thought it was too much and I had no choice but to show my disappointment.

“You were a colleague with me. Yura, Andrzej, Vinella… they all died. Don’t you remember the adventures we had together? But how can you tell Yuma and not tell me?”

“Hey, Seira.”

Sigh- Lucia sighed.

“You really forgot everything?”

The reason why Seira was annoying.

As bad memories came to mind, my nerves became sharp. Even though she found out that her colleague was alive after 500 years, Lucia felt very uncomfortable with Seira.

Kylie is cool, proud, and strong enough that no one can surpass her.

Lucia is strong, but she’s so fierce and stubborn that anyone can make friends…

It wasn’t because of my behavior after reincarnation, where I acted like a jerk.

The shame that came from such a difference in perception was nothing compared to what happened in the past.

Even though I felt sympathy for my colleague who appeared after 500 years because he was cursed by a demon god and lived a life no better than a disabled person, the reason why I couldn’t reveal his identity and open up…

“You at the end. Don’t you remember what you did?”

Phew – a happy sigh reached Seira. Before she knew it, Lucia’s eyes towards Seira were filled with tears.

“You, Yura died because of you, right?”