Chapter 1139 – 1139. Magic School Shutra (7)
“Unlike you, she is a woman who held on with a strong will even though she was trapped in one place for hundreds of years. So, I think it will survive for a few thousand years without any problems.”
Armonia explains in detail so that even a fool can understand.
But despite such detailed explanation…
“What… What… Did you do it?”
The dean asked back, his face twitching.
Of course, it’s not like I didn’t understand and that’s why I made that facial expression and asked that question.
I was just hoping that I was mistaken.
However, the question posed with already withered hope…
“I’m thinking of recommending the person in the next room. “For now, I plan to sustain my life by instilling an ageless ability like you.”
Beyond being squeezed by Armonia, it was broken into small pieces and turned into powder.
“S-stop…”
But Armonia was not satisfied with that, and she began to crush his hopes into pieces as if they were broken into pieces.
“However, it seems difficult to bestow powerful magical talents and immortality like yours this time. But it’s okay.”
“S-stop… That…”
“It’s okay even if you get hacked to death by wind magic, drowned by water magic, crushed to death by rock magic, sprayed to death by fire magic, or electrocuted by lightning magic.”
“Under… Summer solstice… Summer solstice… Mind…”
Armonia put her miserable death in her mouth with an emotionless voice.
Then she finished her sentence in such an emotionless voice.
“Even if I die, die, die again… All we have to do is create a body like this and throw it away.”
“That’s it!”
Even though he was the dean who had not been able to properly resist Armonia until now…
“I… I treated Claudia like that… Hehe… I think I’ll put two… !?”
Armonia’s insanity began to grow due to the countless deaths of Claudia that came out of her mouth.
She was transforming into the maddened dean she had seen not long ago.
But the dean’s madness…
“Seeing as it has been in this shape for only 500 years, it seems there is no problem in changing it right now.”
“Huh!?”
I fell asleep in an instant when Armonia suddenly woke up.
His eyes, which had been turning red, suddenly lost their vitality and turned into the eyes of a dying corpse.
At first she thought she had succumbed to Armonia’s threats.
But after seeing the dean, I had no choice but to change my mind.
‘… Are you really just watching?’
The dean did not give in to threats…
“That… Stop… Ask… Wow… !”
It seemed like he was afraid of Armonia’s gaze.
The dean’s madness seemed to be pulled out from Armonia’s gaze, and at the same time, fear filled the place where the madness had been.
And at the same time, the five mysterious letters on Armonia’s eye patch began to burn.
When the five mysterious characters on Armonia’s eye patch suddenly burned and disappeared…
“I wasted five letters meaninglessly because of your petty rebelliousness.”
“Me… I am… Claudia… Don’t make it like me… !”
“What are you talking about? It’s already over.”
“… “What?”
For your information, I was the one who opened my mouth just now.
“Wait a minute, Armonia, it’s true… ?”
“Yes. As of now, a woman named Claudia has been designated as a candidate for this world’s agent.”
“What…”
The reason I stayed quiet until now was because I believed that Armonia’s threats would not come true.
But Armonia…
“I also had no idea that the disposition would be decided so quickly. I’m glad it was handled quickly.”
The threat did not end with a threat.
Armonia followed through on what she said.
After hearing Armonia’s words, the dean looked at the ceiling blankly for a while…
“Ah… Ah… No… No…”
As if to prove that what she said was true, she began to cry.
As soon as I saw the dean, I realized the seriousness of her situation, and I grabbed Armonia’s shoulder and spoke hurriedly.
“Armonia, this is not it. There’s no need to go this far!”
“He should consider himself fortunate that it ended this way. “If Suho wasn’t by my side, it wouldn’t have ended like this.”
“Armonia…”
Although Armonia was always emotionless, there were a few times when she felt her emotions.
When she almost died from mana exhaustion, when she almost died holding the gravekeeper’s soul in her arms, Armonia consoled me with her emotions.
She even laughed there. (However, Kang Han-na was the only one who saw her smile in person.)
But…
‘… ‘You’re furious.’
It was the first time I had shown such strong anger.
Armonia’s anger spreads so thickly that it seeps into my bones.
There were several times when I felt the same anger that Armonia felt.
That’s why I began to sympathize with the anger she felt.
But as I looked at the dean’s despair…
“No… Claudia… I… What did I do…”
“…”
Sympathy for anger slowly faded away.
“Armonia, please? Please forgive me for my sake.”
And in the place of that empathy, sympathy for her dean was filled, and she began to ask Armonia for a favor.
In fact, she didn’t think she could be persuaded.
I know very well that my request is not enough to quell Armonia’s anger…
“… I understand.”
I didn’t know.
“Uh… ? I really heard it… ?”
Armonia nodded her head and spoke again.
“Of course I understood. As Suho said… “I will forgive you within the appropriate range.”
“…”
I looked blankly at Armonia.
Armonia’s eyes were covered by her eyepatch, so she couldn’t face them…
“Thank you.”
I looked at Armonia’s eye patch and thanked her with a smile.
Armonia, who received my gratitude…
“… That’s enough to replace the letters I wasted.”
After appreciating the value of my gratitude, he returned to his emotionless voice.
I wanted to see you smile if possible, but…
‘What… ‘I’ll see you someday.’
I decided to be satisfied with Armonia’s return to her original form after receiving my gratitude.
Armonia felt relieved like that…
“I will give you a chance.”
“Energy… Opportunity… ?”
The dean, who was sitting on the floor, came to his senses at the word opportunity and looked at Armonia pitifully.
“She has already been nominated, so it is impossible to change her. Instead…”
Armonia continued her words, looking down at her dean who was looking up at her with an arrogant attitude.
“If you take good care of this place for the rest of her life, she will never succeed you.”
“Ah… Ah…”
The dean gains hope in life with the appearance of Claudia.
For him, taking care of Claudia for the rest of her life was not difficult.
No, on the contrary, it’s probably something I’ve wanted my entire life.
I didn’t nullify and forgive everything, but it was practically like forgiving.
The Dean who held onto the string of forgiveness that Armonia gave her…
“Really… Thank you so much… Is…”
She began to bow to her, as if she had been saved.
Although Armonia did not completely forgive the Dean…
“Whoa… Thank you for forgiving me, Armonia.”
It was enough for Armonia, who was so angry, to step over this line.
After hearing my answer, Armonia nodded and answered.
“Rather, I am sorry for not being able to prevent it due to my inexperience.”
“No, there’s nothing to be sorry about…”
Even though I have this ability, I was curious as to why I hadn’t used it until now.
I wondered if I was even needed in the first place…
‘Well, let’s ask that later.’
I wasn’t suspicious of Armonia.
I was just curious as to why he hadn’t stepped forward until now.
And rather than doubt…
‘… ‘I guess it’s okay, right?’
Rather, I started to feel worried.
Armonia has such overwhelming power that she can subdue the Dean with just her gaze.
She was worried that using her powers might cause great harm to her.
‘Could it be that you used an ability that you shouldn’t use?’
But I put those questions aside for a moment and checked the dean’s condition.
“Thanks… Thank you…”
The Dean weeps while repeatedly bowing to Armonia.
‘Let’s start from here.’
I thought so and said to Armonia.
“I’ll sort out the rest first.”
“All right. Then I will go back.”
Armonia responded and took out her hand from the fluttering sleeve of her dress.
The hand that came out of the sleeve of her dress was the hand of the Armonia I used to know.
Pure white and thin hands.
But there was one thing that was different from usual.
“Hmm… ? “What kind of string is that?”
Armonia’s wrist was tied with a scarlet string that I had never seen before.
It was an oriental-style string that matched the palace uniform that Armonia was currently wearing.
“… It is a string worn on the head.”
“Oh, if you look closely, it looks like a hair tie.”
The reason why I didn’t immediately think of that string as a hairband when I saw it was simple.
“… “It’s originally red, right?”
This was because while Armonia’s palace felt like it had been freshly cut and brand new, the strings were frayed as if they had endured countless years of weathering.
Just looking at it, it was originally red, but it seemed to have changed to scarlet over time.
What can I say… It felt a bit messy to wear on the head.
After hearing my question, Armonia tied her laces for a while, then nodded and answered.
“Like you said, it was red at first.”
“… “Yes.”
Looking at Armonia’s tone and the way she stroked her string, I could tell that it was a very precious item.
Seeing Armonia’s reaction, I let out a sigh of relief in her.
‘Phew… If I had said it without thinking, I would have been in big trouble.’
That string looked so old that negative comments came out unconsciously.
At a glance, it looked like a thin rope, not a hair tie.
Armonia thus revealed her red hair tie (vermilion rope) hanging on her wrist…
“I will return to the ship. “I will leave the rest to Kang Han-na.”
After leaving those words, she disappeared in an instant through her rainbow-colored warp.
‘… It’s fast.’
It wasn’t that I was impressed because it was fast, but I felt sad that it left so quickly.
However, even though she was upset, she had no intention of showing it through facial expressions or communication.
Armonia couldn’t sleep well and assisted me. Then, she came here dressed up in a costume to solve the problem I couldn’t solve.
The moment I looked at her place in Armonia and tried to sort out her situation…
“Huh?”
Armonia had a red liquid on the side of the table where she was sitting.
And the identity of the red liquid is…
‘… Blood?’
It was blood.
Clear blood, presumed to have flowed just moments ago, fell on the table where Armonia was sitting.
‘I was so busy tinkering with it earlier that I didn’t notice.’
Considering where the liquid falls… It seemed to have fallen from her head in Armonia.
I avoided the eyes of the dean, who was still unconscious…
‘Did you shed blood because of your effort? Let’s clean it first.’
I wiped away the liquid presumed to be Armonia’s blood with the sleeve of my uniform.
***
As soon as Armonia arrived at her ship, Kang Han-na, who just happened to enter the warp room, screamed.
“Kyaahhhhh!”
It was a far cry from Kang Han-na’s usual calm self.
However, the scene she saw was a shocking scene that would frighten not only her, but anyone who saw it.
“My head is bleeding! No… Shoot, it’s pouring! But those clothes… No! “Clothes aren’t important right now!”
This was because so much blood was pouring from Armonia’s head that her silver hair turned red.
However, Armonia, whose blood was really gushing out, answered in a calm voice, removing her eye patch.
“I am okay. However, I think I should go to the office and rest. It may be unpleasant, but please take care of it.”
“The problem is that I’m unpleasant now!? First, from treatment…”
“Don’t worry, you’re not hurt. Then…”
“Sleep… !”
Armonia headed to her office, leaving Kang Han-na running around behind her.
She headed to her office and checked her eye patch in her hand.
A black eye patch filled with white monsters.
However, some of the white monsters had disappeared, and Armonia’s blood was in the empty space.
But she didn’t care at all about the blood staining her eyepatch.
“… “I never thought the day would come when I would have to wear this eye patch.”
When Armonia saw her eye patch stained with her own blood, memories of her past self began to flow into her head as if on autoplay.
.
.
A middle-aged man smiled happily and handed something to a young girl.
“Please take it. “This is what you wanted.”
As soon as the girl received the items from the man, she glanced at them with curious eyes.
“Excuse me… Do I really need to wear this… ?”
A pitch-black eye patch.
I was dissatisfied with the color itself, but the real dissatisfaction was something else.
“It’s my work. “Isn’t it wonderful?”
“…”
Strange white letters were pouring down the pitch black eye patch like rain pouring down on a glass window.
The man continued his explanation with a proud expression, as if he had drawn a masterpiece.
“If you wear that eyepatch, you won’t be caught by agents, and you will be able to wander the world as you wish.”
“Okay… But these letters… Did it really have to be included?”
The girl stared at her white writing for a moment, then turned her head away in horror.
It was the first time I was horrified by language.
If it was a language I didn’t know at all, I would have looked at it with curious eyes.
But the girl knew.
This white letter is born in the darkness, and is a living, breathing entity in the darkness.
And the fact that the man who had been living in such darkness captured the writing himself and put it in…
The man looked at the girl like that and started laughing as if it was fun.
“I hope you will bear with it even if it is uncomfortable. Even if you encounter a substitute while wandering, the writing will be consumed and will not cause much damage to them.”
“Okay… I really like that. I don’t want to cause harm to my agents…”
The girl sighed, closed her eyes and lifted her blindfold.
The moment the girl was about to put on her eye patch, she stopped and asked the man.
“Now that I think about it, if I wear this eye patch, won’t I be blind!? Then what is the use of wandering? .”
“You don’t have to worry about that. “The writing also plays the role of showing the future.”
“Hmm? But as you said, didn’t you say that this writing is wasted? Doesn’t that mean you won’t be able to see if everything is used up?”
The man patted the head of the girl wearing her eye patch and answered with a happy smile.
“If you can’t see…”
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[Armonia, are you okay?]
“Ah…”
Armonia came to her senses at the sound of her voice coming through her communication and looked around her.
It was her own office.
As she walked, lost in memories, she had already arrived at the office.
Armonia entered her office and she answered via communication.
‘… It’s okay.’
She was able to immediately grasp the situation as soon as she answered.
Kang Han-na receives a call from her Seongsu-ho, and realizes that she has connected him with her communication.
And as if to prove the speculation, Seong Su-ho began to make excuses for Kang Han-na.
[I asked you to connect.]
As soon as Armonia heard Seongsu-ho’s excuse, she immediately began to feel grateful to Kang Han-na.
Through Seong Su-ho’s calm voice, she could tell that Kang Han-na did not tell Seong Su-ho about her condition when she was bleeding.
Just like that, Armonia came to her senses and answered, feeling grateful to Kang Han-na.
‘Thank you for your concern. However, I think it will be difficult for me to assist for a while.’
[… OK got it. Armonia.]
‘Yes, please speak.’
After Armonia’s answer, there was a period of silence, and after Seongsu-ho said her last words…
[If this incident caused discomfort to your eyes…]
‘… ?’
[Just tell me, I will come right away and become your hands and feet. Then, take a break.]
‘Ah… !’
She cut off communication.
Armonia looked at the eye patch held in her hand with her slightly clear eyes.
The eye patch gradually becoming stained with her blood, and… Before she knew it, the blood had begun to stain the strings that were tied around her wrists.
But Armonia, even though her precious belongings are being stained with her blood…
“Hands and feet…”
She started humming, recalling the past.
.
.
“If you can’t see, I will be your hands and feet. Forever…”
