52 – Teacher (完)

Rumia told Lillia everything. She tells the story of the devil who saved her, all of which she has.

The children who used to be members of ‘Floating Blood’, now simply orphans, also listened to her story with bated breath.

“…So, Lady Iva let me escape and left to face the necromancer alone.”

When Lilia heard that story, she felt more dizzy than when she was suffering from a hangover.

“It will turn, really…!”

Until now, she was at least the type to get caught up in accidents, but this time she made the accident herself. Why did he come up with a plan to invade the vampire castle and take the children out? Why did you help someone who had nothing to do with that, even someone who came to assassinate you?

‘Why did I become the owner of this guy?’

I heard that being associated with a madman makes things difficult in many ways, but it was true.

The problem was that it wasn’t usually related, but that it was someone who had to be responsible for risking their lives.

“Whoa… You’re taking the kids to the church. I’m going to find Iba.”

“?! In that case, I’ll help you too.”

“No. Where are you going to leave these kids alone? And who are you? The reason I’m going now isn’t to save Eva. It’s to keep an eye on Eva.”

Lilia couldn’t take a good look at Rumia.

Iva’s erratic behavior is also one of the causes of this situation, but the reason why she is suffering now is that she is entirely responsible.

“And what are you doing to help Eva? If she wants to help anyone, she has to take care of herself.”

First of all, she didn’t like her attitude that Eva had at best saved her from hell, but she would do nothing about it. Lillia refused with a cold shot.

“Oh, don’t say bad things to your sister!”

“You guys are the same. You don’t have the right to say anything to me. Listen carefully to your sister. And hold her hand so that she doesn’t go down the wrong path. Wash your dirty clothes and face and come back. That way, you’ll feel more comfortable talking to me.” Yes.”

Rumia kept her head down and listened quietly to her swearing. She was insulted and humiliated, but she said nothing wrong. They were still in the shadows, and they had to make various preparations to cross the alley and reach the main road.

“Anyway, I’ll pick up Iva. You guys are in the church. It’s a bit crowded, but she might be able to accept it if it’s Leah. There seemed to be a room left.”

Lillia finished her story like that, and moved her feet towards her portal.

Just before she crossed the passage between this dark alley and her blood-red castle, Rumia shouted.

“Hey, hey!”

“Why?”

Rumia’s voice trembled. She was lingering It was because of the lingering feelings still in that castle.

So, she conveyed her request, hoping that Lilia would resolve her lingering feelings instead of herself.

“Are you coming back…? No, please come back! Ah, there are still many things I haven’t been able to say to Lady Eva.”

It was a plea. Like a child begging for a present, the words he spoke with courage while feeling anxious.

Lilia smiled.

“Even if you don’t have to tell me, I’m aiming to come back.”

Rumia smiled brightly at those words.

She was a little relieved, Rumia erased her restless face that she had been doing until a while ago and put on a relaxed expression.

Looking at her, Lilia thought of her dog wagging her tail at the scent of her master.

“Thank you! Then I’ll go to the cathedral and wait for you!”

After saying that, Rumia left this alley, turning away from Lilia and following her younger siblings. “Guys! Should I follow unnie?” And “Yes~” Continued like a chorus. They were the closest to death, but they were the purest in this darkness.

Lilia laughed at Rumia as she hurriedly hurriedly took Iva’s clothes secretly with him. Where are you going to use the blood-stained clothes?

They, like assassins, quickly disappeared. It scattered and disappeared in the alley as if it had evaporated. Staring at the sight, Lilia muttered the rest she couldn’t say.

“Of course, it may not come back.”

**

You may not be able to come back.

This isn’t grumpy, it’s just a simple fact. It was as if, when asked, ‘Will it rain tomorrow?’, She replied, ‘It might be.’

A story of possibility.

Like people live with an umbrella in their bag to cover the tears from the sky that may fall at any moment.

Lilia lives with a dagger in her arm, stabbed into her heart, in order to steal the seed of a disaster that may happen at any moment.

【Covenant of the Heart】.

With her own death, I made an agreement to give death to Iva. It was a powerful contract to kill demons without divine power, but the cost was a bit high.

The lives of Lillia and Iva.

I wish I could get rid of the demonic part of Eva skillfully. Unfortunately, the only option currently is for both to die.

“What are you doing, that bastard…”

The appearance inside the castle was something that could be called hell.

In a way, it is a ruin swept away by the plague, and in a way, it is a barn where the god of death rested for a while.

To put it bluntly, the place where the devil went to play.

Things that look like human corpses are decorated all over the walls and floors. The scene of a terrible massacre.

Lilia told Lumia that she knew they were corpses even before they became decorations. Even so, it was an unacceptable sight to see countless corpses lined up on the road like firewood.

Engraving that scene into her eyes, Lilia took one step at a time.

Her head was messed up. All she could say was that she was upset.

It was a violent scene that exceeded what she had shown so far, so Lilia couldn’t abandon the assumption that Eva might have caused a runaway.

Lilia thought of Eva.

The moment she felt that her heart was being used was, of course, the sacrifice in the Mist Forest. That day, Lilia looked at his back and superimposed on her master.

But as the days went by, she stopped seeing him with Akera. Akera was Akera, and Iva was Iva.

Master also had many flaws, but he has more. Master is at least modest in public, but he is frivolous. Master has always guided him, but he feels like he has to lead.

Every time I see it, I feel a sense of responsibility, and if I can’t see it, I’m worried that there will be an accident somewhere.

Lilia, who had been peeping at her master before she knew it, saw her master’s heart as she looked at him.

That’s why, Lillia is uneasy right now. She

She wasn’t insecure about ‘she might have to kill herself’. Risking her life to take responsibility, she had already made up her mind at the lily meeting that day.

However, she was anxious about ‘what if Iba really becomes an enemy of humans’.

If he gets ill will from the whole world, he seems to be very sad.

So, Lilia moved quickly, ignoring her heart, just in case.

Lillia’s keen sense continues to ring her alarm bell. The closer you get to that cavity, the worse it gets. But she ignored it.

Upon reaching a certain cavity, she could make out his figure.

“Eva!”

I am caught on the back of her nose. Evidence that the flesh she had felt the whole time she had been in the opposite s*x was hot, and she was coming from him as well. Her blood vessels were hot and flowing like molten iron, and her blackened skin looked like hardened traces of lava flow.

“…What are you like?”

What stood out the most was the wings. It looked like a root or a branch of a giant tree, and a single piece of flesh stretched out toward the sky.

“Sure.”

His voice was sharp and unpleasant, like scratching iron. Soon its wings fluttered a little, breaking the ceiling and causing bits of bricks to rain down.

“Uh, um… This is pretty cool, isn’t it?”

I couldn’t even laugh out loud. Lillia had to catch her heart when she saw him.

Every devil. That’s the face of the devil. Humans don’t look like that. Beasts don’t take that look either. The winged wing is the symbol of the devil. Those red eyes are also a symbol of the devil.

Anyone can tell that he caused a runaway. The woman in front of him, near death with both arms cut off, proves this. That woman is probably a necromancer. While fighting that vampire, Iba couldn’t overcome her emotions and eventually turned into a demon.

It makes sense to think so.

“Hey, are you a human or a devil?”

But Lillia asked.

Ask questions of the devil, causing an act just right to be tempted or deceived.

“…What does it look like to you?”

“Stop talking. Tell me what you are.”

At those words, Iva turned his gaze around and finally settled on Lilia. Punch my chest and say.

“Mu, of course a person!”

Iva declared that with an unusual limp. It means that he himself is also not sure.

“Yes, a human?”

Lillia raised her dagger.

A symbol of responsibility that is always carried with you to deal with unpredictable disasters.

“Now wait a minute Lilia. I was wrong. Let’s put that down. Huh?”

When he took it out, Eva’s complexion instantly turned pale. The necromancer, who was on the verge of being killed in front of her, completely forgot about it and put all his energy into calming Lillia. Lillia looked back and forth between her dagger and Eva.

As it is.

“Then get rid of those wings, you burn!”

I threw it to Eva.

Although she threw confidently, Lily Ara, whose motor skills were not very good as usual. The dagger did not reach Eva, and she flew towards a place far away.

“Oh… That’s embarrassing.”

Lillia continued to scold him, covering her face with her hands, which was ripening in her shame.

“Looking at the talking and wearing clothes, I don’t think he’s a human. But seeing that he’s not a devil, he’s a beast. You’re a beast. He bought his clothes from somewhere else. I told him to wear them beautifully.”

With confidence in that sale.

Instead of letting out a sigh of relief, she spewed out words that hid her true intentions.

“That’s too much.”

“It means it’s no different than usual.”

She believed in humanity, something even Eva couldn’t believe.

Without a single doubt, without a single hesitation.

She didn’t trust her petty intuition, she believed his uneasy words.

“It’s like a person.”

This was close to blind faith. The same faith that Akera once sent to Lilia.

Blindness that her own person will not commit evil, and an irresponsible tolerance to cover up any wrongdoing.

Lilia thought of a certain assumption again.

Someday. Will she be able to kill him when it really matters?

‘No, of course.’

What are you talking about now? Under those conditions, she had strange thoughts while shouldering the responsibility.

“Hey guys? Did you forget me?!”

The one who broke that thought was the necromancer on the verge of dying.

“Of course I didn’t forget.”

Iva turned her stigma, erased her wings, and ended her magic to cool her body. As the madness that covered her pain cooled, her dizzying pain rang loudly in her head.

“Oh, it hurts… But is there anything to worry about? I’m going to die soon anyway.”

[Curse of Impossible Regeneration] Is powerful. A wound once inflicted will never heal, no matter what, unless he heals it.

It is a magic that can lead to death from excessive bleeding with only a small wound. Both of his arms were cut off, but as he approached, he was even struck by lightning. There is no possibility to live.

At that, Bemor smiled brightly and said.

“You know what? You can’t be my parents’ enemy.”

This is the content of the conversation between Eva and her just before her engagement. Unaware of this, Lilia tilted her head.

“Because this body I’m controlling right now is my mother!! How is it? It looks like a real living person?!”

At those words, Eva’s expression slowly hardened. In proportion to that, Bemor’s smile deepened.

“…f*ck.”

“This is really good information. Oh, don’t worry too much? I’ll keep your secret to myself!”

Lilia, too, could sense that the situation was taking an unusual turn. “Iba!” Once again she shouted his name and she drew him with her magic. Her characteristic keen senses called out to separate her from her Iva.

“It’s a pity. She was my favorite doll.”

At the same time as the vitality faded from her body, her magic power raged strongly.

“And congratulations! This made me the real enemy of my parents!”

The turbulent mana was compressed, and when the corpse’s life ended—more precisely, when the body ceased to be manipulable—the compressed mana was released.

-Quaaa!!!!

A small light flickered, then a huge light embraced the cavity. It spread throughout the castle, just as sunlight from the east dyed the sky blue.

It’s an explosion.

It is a fire that goes beyond simple flame and contains the power of collapse. The greed of this fire is endless, it doesn’t just burn, it breaks. It eats and digests everything in the place it passes through, and then leaves behind excrement called dust. It devoured the existence of the building and turned it into a pile of dust.

That’s how the building was burnt down.

The light went out.

In a brown cumulus cloud like a flood.

It had wings that wrapped around people in a circle. It is a wall created by Iba. It is a wall that will never fall. Even if it collapses, a new wall is immediately regenerated. Its wings could protect people from the light infinitely.

Iva removed her wings and released Lilia from her embrace.

“Wow… That was dangerous.”

“You told me to put the wings in.”

“Still, it’s okay because I lived.”

The devil risked his life to protect people. Originally, I couldn’t do that, but Iba was able to do that because she wasn’t ordinary.

《Congratulations on passing the ordeal!》

A congratulatory voice rang out.

It rang for two people at the same time.

“I must have passed the ordeal.”

“It’s a coincidence. It’s me.”

“Iva, you said you were tried too?”

“Yes.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I got it today.”

“What, it hasn’t been long since you’ve been tried!”

“That’s it.”

Lilia glanced at Eva.

“You poor bastard…”

“Life is all about luck.”

“Yes, I totally agree.”

“I was able to meet you because of this great luck.”

“Are you lucky to have met me?”

“Personally, I’d say fate.”

“I’m good at talking. There’s nothing good about me. What’s fate?”

“Where else is someone like me?”

The two continued their usual sad talk and got up.

The portal to return to Erapore has been closed. The unknown castle site was all they knew about the current location.

“…But where is this?”

“Nandle no.”

“By the way I’m so f*cking f*cked Lilia. That necromancer b*tch knows I’m a demon!!!”

“It’s really f*cked up… What if rumors spread among the vampires?”

We need to find the body of the Necromancer.

They hugged their heads for a while. No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come to a conclusion.

I looked around. Scenery seen for the first time forms a strange feeling in the pupil.

I became lost. But they are strangers who have to travel all over the world anyway.

I got lost, but it didn’t matter because all the roads I went to became roads.

“Let’s think while walking.”

“Not bad.”

“Please put me to bed when you arrive in town.”

“What do you think is pretty?”

So they walked.

As all travelers always do.

**

Half a year has already passed.

So much time has passed since you saved me.

It’s been so long since I haven’t met you.

As you expected, Ecclesia-sama didn’t throw us away when we suddenly came. At first, he was taken aback, but after listening to our circumstances, he agreed to accept us all.

So, the members of our ‘floating blood’ became just children.

I was able to receive education, warm bedding, meals, and washed clothes. Some of us who were a bit older even got jobs. We don’t have to earn money with blood anymore.

It’s all thanks to you.

Because of you, I…

“Rumia-san~”

I heard her voice calling her from behind her. Rumia paused her pen, and she looked at the owner of the voice.

“Ecclesia-sama?”

“As expected, you are here. Letter, has it arrived?”

“Finally!”

Rumia stopped her report and quickly snatched up her letter and opened it.

[I will approve your wish]

The phrase written in big letters caught Rumia’s eyes.

“Are you sure you want to go? It’s dangerous?”

“It’s okay!”

She was saved by the devil. The devil left her full of happiness, like her one night’s dream. I thought she’d come back, but there’s so much she hasn’t said yet. Just as she suddenly lowered the rope, leaving was also abrupt.

Every day, she moves her feet to the alley where the portal was. Every day I searched for his trace, but I couldn’t find it.

So, Rumia made a decision.

“It’s about the Holy Knights, it’s an easy thing compared to what they’ve been through!”

The Holy Knights.

Knights under the direct control of the Vatican, operated to find and kill demons.

Just like you, you will help people too.

And,

“…There are demons I want to find.”

I will definitely find you.

Rumia smiled broadly. Ecclesia also stopped persuading her when he saw her. Because her firm will was there.

“If you say that, then I have nothing more to say. Do your best in what you do, okay?”

“Yes!”

After Ecclesia left, Rumia continued writing her letter, which she had been writing until just now.

A letter to Iba.

“…If Iva doesn’t come back, I’ll find it on my side.”

She puts the piece of her shirt that Eva was wearing in her cloth, which she had wrapped neatly around her, to her nose and takes a breath. Now, a faint, sweet body odor wafts in. A feeling of warmth envelops her body as if in his arms. In order not to forget, recall her memories. She could find him whenever he passed by. Imprint

A memory faded as much as a faded body odor.

In the empty spaces of faded memories, people mix the wind. To make the tea of faded memories thicker, I put my fantasy in and stir it. The car called Sweet Memories was completed.

The regret of not being able to be with Eva until the end that day clung to the bottom of the glass.

Nostalgia grew, regret absorbed.

Sooner or later, longing degenerates into obsession.

“I must.”

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