The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

51 – The Chamber of Secrets

“A prophecy has come to the saint.”

At the archbishop’s words, the round table fell silent. Everyone expected the sudden summons to some extent, but everyone seemed uneasy because the prophecy that came out in such a peaceful time always brought misfortune.

The high priest unsealed the scroll on which the saintess’ prophecy had been placed on the round table.

“Light without darkness burns everything, so light accepts darkness.”

For the most part, prophecies were so ambiguous and ambiguous to interpret, and their intentions were opaque. As a result, it was only later that I guessed, ‘Couldn’t this have been the prophecy?’ There was no way to confirm that it really was a prophecy.

So, at the round table, a fierce discussion began to come and go about the interpretation of the prophecy.

“Even in a church that accepts everyone and embraces them with love, there are Holy Knights and Inquisitors to punish evil.”

Taking this opportunity to participate in the round table conference, Benedict tried to wrap it up as a mission bestowed upon him by those who looked down on him as an interrogator.

“However, the light of the church only came out of the darkness in the first place. Do you remember that there has never been a time when there was only light?”

He is one of only three great wizards on the continent. Conrad, who has the title of “Adjuster of the World,” Tapped the round table with his finger and said mockingly.

“What kind of gossip is that…. Conrad, the beginning of our church was born with the light of the beginning!!!”

Conrad smiled mockingly at Benedict’s wrath and opened his mouth to point out the church’s faults, but Nelson the Wise intervened.

“Prophecies are always ambiguous and meaningless, but sometimes you need to intuitively accept them.”

“What do you mean?”

Behelia, with dark red hair, asked.

“Doesn’t that mean that everything in moderation is good? I think it means to accept it to a certain extent without rejecting other religions, keeping away from other races, and not keeping away from other schools, cities, and beliefs.”

The words of the sage that he sees everything and looks down on the world from the perspective of a god rather than a human was quite persuasive to those who attended the round table conference.

Everyone nodded his head, as if agreeing with Nelson’s interpretation, but Benedict gnashed his teeth as if he didn’t like it.

“You speak as if you are defending the Church.”

When Benedict said that, the people sitting around him stared at him in amazement. Even the Archbishop looked at Benedict to be careful, but Benedict continued to speak.

“There is no such thing as accepting a cult that is a group of lunatics. They want the end of the world, not peace!”

The fearless cry of Benedict has been convincing to some. When Benedict, thinking that the momentum had passed, tried to continue his words again, Nelson’s cool voice blocked his mouth.

“Did you say advocacy? Benedick?”

Those who were persuaded by Benedict’s words at Nelson’s unusual reaction avoided looking at each other. Nelson, who instantly changed the atmosphere at the round table to a bleak one, glared at Benedict and said,

“The innocent people are brought in for interrogation, and they invent crimes and steal property. It is a church that makes it impossible to lead a normal life by denouncing people who believe in the church as heretical. Don’t you know that there are more people who go over to the church out of that rebellion?”

“These are all rumors spread by those who slander the church.”

Benedict protested in a cautious voice, but those who attended the round table fully knew that it was not a lie.

“Stop. It strays too far from the original subject.”

The Archbishop gave Benedict a cold look and interceded.

“Since the prophecy of the saintess has been delivered, it is better to end the meeting. Everyone must be busy, so thank you for participating.”

At the Archbishop’s words, everyone nodded and stood up. Around the time everyone left the meeting room, questioning in their heads what the saintess’ prophecy was. Nelson, who remained in the meeting room, approached the archbishop.

“Please tell the saintess.”

The archbishop smiled as he placed a box of expensive chocolates, candies, and sweets prepared in advance on the round table.

“You really care about her saintess.”

To the archbishop’s meaningful words, Nelson replied in a cold voice.

“Because you were once my student.”

Although she is now confined and cannot even see her face, Nelson has always sympathized with the harsh fate of the saintess who always had a bright smile.

“Okay. We will deliver it well.”

Hearing those words, Nelson left the conference hall, and Conrad called Nelson to stop him, as if he had been waiting outside.

“Nelson, it’s not good to cling to her saintess. You are well aware of her predestined fate, right?”

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Nelson gave a dry answer to Conrad’s question.

“I believe that no one is born to be unhappy.”

Then he turned to Conrad and said.

“Her darkness will come to her one day to rescue her from her light.”

***

After class, there was no one in the club room, so it was very quiet. Luna listened to the beautiful melody of the little magic music box sent by her brother, and she packed up the notes in her class.

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Not long after, Luna smiled happily at the sound of the door opening and raised her head.

“Come on….”

Upon meeting Ross’ eyes as he entered her club room, Luna choked on something in her throat and had no choice but to stop talking.

“Hi, are you here soon?”

Saying that, Luna’s heart started beating wildly at the sight of Ross approaching.

Is it the influence of the book that I secretly read every night under the blanket and relying on the small light of my cane?

These days, whenever Luna meets her gaze with Ross, she unconsciously recalls a delusion of him kissing her head deeply and whispering her love, forcing her to flee to the library in her shame.

But, she’s in the club room alone again…. However, today was the day all her members gathered in the club room, so she couldn’t escape as usual.

Her back was erect and her gaze was fixed on her notebook, but she couldn’t help but focus on Ross, who was sitting next to her.

Ross suddenly spoke to Luna who was thinking all kinds of things in her head.

“Luna.”

“Ugh, yes….”

She took her eyes off her book and looked at Ross in embarrassment, as suddenly she was the Luna she never expected to be called by her name.

‘Were Ross’s eyes originally this deep?’

Her red lips looked fuller than they should be, and her light smile was very cool.

“Perhaps on the weekend….”

As soon as she heard her say it was her weekend, only one thought popped into her Luna’s head.

‘Dating’

Luna has been seeing her every day lately and receiving advice from her love mentor, Flavia.

She asked Ross to ask her out on a date, and she replied several times that she would think about Flavia’s persistent advice, but in reality, she was embarrassed and did nothing but run away.

In such a situation, if Ross found out what he was thinking and asked him to go on a weekend date first, he said that he would have no choice but to hide his joy and accept it. The voice of an uninvited guest was heard in Luna’s ears, who had been waiting for her backstory with great anticipation inside her.

“It’s here~!!!”

After Ross stopped talking, Aria, who appeared in the club room with Kane, shouted in a cheerful voice as always.

When Ross smiled awkwardly at the members who suddenly appeared and said, ‘Let’s talk about it later.’ For the first time, Luna resented Arya.

*

I opened my mouth in satisfaction at the appearance of the club members filling the club room after a long time.

“I’ve been looking for something to do as a club activity.”

While worrying about what to do with my club activities, I brought a portable blackboard for everyone to see, picked up a piece of chalk, and wrote a name on it.

– Alex Floyd.

“Floyd? It’s a name I’ve seen a lot.”

Kane narrowed his eyes, trying to remember what the name was.

“That’s right, the first principal of Transcendence Academy!”

The members who didn’t know whose name it was at Aria’s cry looked at me with curious eyes.

“Right, Alex Floyd. He is the first headmaster and known as a legendary magic architect.”

Typically, he was a person known for building the imperial palace and the Transcendence Academy where the emperor lived. Space expansion magic and even a training dungeon that applied it. He was a genius of his time who showed great talent not only as an architect, but also as a magician.

“Quite by chance, I heard a legend that he built a secret room in the academy.”

To be honest, rumors of a ghost appearing at the academy began to circulate when Roel was a freshman, something Flavia mentioned in passing.

“Ha, those are rumors only fools believe. There was a secret room created by the first principal, and the maids were witches with tremendous skills. You don’t really believe in ghosts, as rumors say, do you?”

There was no set setting for which secret room was hidden, and it was sunk to the bottom of my memory until I looked at the setting book.

Like the moonlight village that didn’t set the setting in a single line was massacred by mutant orcs, does the secret room mentioned in passing really exist? This club activity was to test it.

“Investigating data on the secret room left by the first principal and confirming with our own eyes whether it actually exists. That is the goal of this club activity.”

Before I could finish my words, Arya raised her arms and shouted.

“Awesome!!! A secret room!”

As I smiled at Aria’s eyes twinkling, Kane said in a negative voice.

“I heard that several people have investigated the secret room for a long time. I heard that she once gathered students from the Faculty of Magic and tried to find them by using detection magic throughout the academy, but failed.”

Lacard took over Canet’s words.

“Even those who checked the blueprints for the academy said there was no room for a secret room.”

As she was scratching the back of her head at those words, Arya shouted as if asking what she was talking about.

“You fools! If you find it that way, it will have the word secret attached to it?! It’s the room where the first principal hid! It must be a room with a huge treasure, but he must have hidden it!”

Aria’s passionate words revived Kane’s negative eyes.

“Sure…. If it was a secret room, it must have hidden great things.”

I put down the chalk and told the members.

“There is no law that requires us to fail just because others have failed. Let’s not give up before we even start.”

Actually, I said it because I was too lazy to check it myself, but Lacar nodded his head with a look of great impression.

“Yes, the manager is right. Because we are the messiah club.”

Somewhere in my conscience hurt at the sight of Lacar sending trust-filled eyes, so I averted my gaze and asked the members for their opinions.

“Then, how do we start the investigation?”

As if waiting, she pointed her hand at Aria, who raised her hand.

“I’ll ask my seniors about the secret room!”

Unlike Luna, it was an Aria-like opinion with good friendliness.

“Okay, who else?”

When I slightly turned her gaze to Kane, Kane, who flinched at her, thoughtfully answered.

“Hmm, I’ll check the blueprints again. Numbers don’t lie.”

“Then I will check with my own eyes to see if the blueprints Kane investigated are correct.”

It was a Lacardian answer that prefers moving the body.

“Well, I’m going to check things out about Floyd in the library.”

I nodded at Luna’s words and added her words.

“Then I will also research the data with Luna.”

I had to finish talking about going to Lawton on the weekend, and I couldn’t think of anything else, so I said that.

For some reason, Luna looked down at me.

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No way, you don’t want to be with me… ? Feeling strangely uneasy, I told the members.

“Now then, the second activity of the Messiah Club. Find the secret room left behind by the first principal, Floyd. It starts today. Let’s do our own research and share the results at dinner tomorrow.”

As soon as I finished my words, Aria cheered loudly and ran out of her club room. Arya seemed to be adventurous, as she was on the treasure hunt.

Why do I often think of her little 4-year-old nephew whenever I see Arya? I understand a little bit now.

Arya is very much like her 4 year old niece in the way she behaves.