Chapter 2050 – 2050. Savior Of The Academy
[Death Resistance has been activated. You will not die for the next 15 seconds.]
Her heart was pierced. The blade exited her back. Her body staggered violently. Just as she was about to collapse, losing strength, someone grabbed her shoulder.
Her heart no longer beat. Blood welled up in her mouth. She was going to die like this.
“I, I…”
She didn’t know why, but she didn’t want to die.
[Using Full Recovery.]
“……”
Elena used illusion magic to protect her mind first. One layer, two layers, three layers. Only after erecting a mental barrier did she let out a sigh.
“Did I do something unnecessary?”
Yuria asked from behind. In her hand was a dagger. The dagger that had pierced Elena’s heart was still dripping with fresh blood.
“Thank you. If it weren’t for you, I would have done something ugly and terrible.”
Elena lamented. If Yuria hadn’t been there, she would have done something truly shameful. She felt ashamed.
“I was careless. I underestimated my opponent too much. Subconsciously, I was comparing this world to my own and looking down on it… I forgot that the name of a god can never be taken lightly.”
Clink! Clank!
In front of them was the being bound by shadow chains. Even with its head severed, it shook its body as if resisting the twelve shadow chains.
Sssssssss.
At the strange sound, their gazes turned to the back of the being. Pale things were trying to emerge.
“There was a reason why the sky was darkened and the moon was raised.”
“Yes. It created an environment where the dead can run wild. Perhaps because Amaterasu is dead, the sun is also gradually losing its power… At this rate, this country will become a mess.”
“Thanks to Elena’s power, the spatial distortion of that thing has disappeared. I will take care of it.”
“No, I’ll finish it.”
Elena waved her hand. She still had threads of space remaining in her hand.
Fssssss.
The head and torso of the demoness disappeared as if erased by an eraser. The shadow chains that had bound it fell powerlessly to the ground and disappeared into the shadows.
The sky began to brighten, and the risen moon descended as if hiding its face. The world was returning to normal. Elena lightly shook her hands. There was nothing on her hands, so nothing fell off.
Thud.
Suddenly, a magatama appeared and fell where the being had been. It was Tsukuyomi’s magatama. It was intact, but the power within it was weak.
“Now that the job is done, should we take the student and go to that… academy?”
“Let’s contact Master first. We don’t even know where the academy is, do we?”
“How are we going to contact him? With magic?”
If this were Atlantis, they would have contacted him with a special conch shell called ‘Voice Carried by the Wind’. But this was not Atlantis. Elena had a conch shell in her subspace, but Sung Yujin wouldn’t have one.
“We have smartphones. I’ve cast a spell to connect to Master, so we can contact him anytime unless it’s a special situation.”
Yuria skillfully operated her smartphone. She didn’t even need to call; she just went into a chat app.
Suddenly, Yuria felt a gaze. Elena was staring intently at the smartphone.
“Ah, this is a communication device called a smartphone. You can contact other smartphones, and you can also use the internet or play games.”
“…I know. Don’t treat me like such a country bumpkin.”
“Smartphones aren’t widely distributed in Elena’s world, are they?”
“Not entirely. But there are areas where smartphones are used. You know that, don’t you? You were an idol there yourself. And there are plenty of ways to communicate even without smartphones. And smartphones aren’t widely distributed in your world either, are they?”
“Modern devices are distributed to the maids who serve Master. Smartphones are one of them. They’re very convenient in many ways.”
Yuria tapped on the smartphone screen, writing and sending a message.
Yuria: Master. I’ve finished the job here. (⑅˃◡˂⑅)
“…Emoticons? You use those things, even though they don’t suit you?”
“Master said they were cute. And it’s trendy among us maids to use emoticons these days. As the representative of the maids, I can’t fall behind the trend.”
Yuria: Elena was mentally corrupted and died once along the way. (๑•́₋•̩̥̀๑) But she revived with Full Recovery and solved the problem herself. ＼(^o^)／
Yuria: Master’s three classmates are also safe. What should we do now? (。O ⩊ O。)
“Wait a minute. Do you have to tell him that I died like that?”
“I was just briefly reporting.”
“You seem to be using emoticons too often.”
“It’s a trend, I tell you.”
Sung Yujin: Hmm. They helped even without a title, so I guess I can’t say anything. Spatial teleportation is okay, but it’s not good to act rashly if we want to avoid unnecessary suspicion. Wait there for a bit. I’ll contact Tenrai Nagisa and sort things out.
Yuria: I can wait as long as you need. (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و ♡
Sung Yujin: lol (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و ♡
Yuria smiled slightly. Elena found that a bit annoying.
“You’re having fun.”
“Yes. Because it’s fun.”
“Hmm. Give me the smartphone for a second.”
“……Why?”
“Don’t be so wary. I have to report something to Yujin too. About what I felt when my mind was shattered earlier. I need to tell him before I forget that sensation.”
“That’s a unique experience. It will be helpful to Master.”
Yuria cautiously handed over the smartphone. Elena took the smartphone. Then, she looked up at the sky for a moment. Yuria’s gaze followed the sky. In that brief moment, she cast an illusion.
She didn’t use the illusion directly on Yuria. Since Yuria had a strong mind, direct illusions wouldn’t work.
Elena cast an illusion on her hand and the smartphone. A kind of augmented reality illusion that overlaid a hologram onto reality. It worked because Yuria was off guard.
“Wait, an illusion?!”
She realized the illusion in 10 seconds and tried to snatch the smartphone, but.
A blue butterfly appeared in front of Yuria. Yuria’s body disappeared far away. Elena, who had used about three years of her lifespan to teleport Yuria far away, moved away and tapped on the smartphone.
‘Hmm. It takes a long time to write a simple sentence because I’m not used to Korean or the touch screen.’
Soon, Yuria popped out from the shadows of a tree. Her hand was aimed directly at the smartphone.
Charrrrrr.
For a moment, her attention was drawn to Yuria, and shadow chains that had emerged from the shadows beneath her feet bound Elena tightly. Elena didn’t resist. Her body became heavy when bound by the shadow chains. Her strength and energy were drained. The movement of her mana also slowed down.
“You’re playing a really troublesome prank…”
Yuria checked the smartphone and was speechless. Her face turned pale in an instant.
Yuria: You fucking horny bastard, die.
Sung Yujin: ???
Elena saw Yuria make a crying face for the first time in her life. Yuria left Elena behind and tapped on the smartphone at an incredible speed.
“That’s a smartphone addiction.”
“Shut up…!”
“……”
Her eyes were so cold that she shut her mouth.
• • •
『Karma: Goodness increases by 21.』
I was lying on the ground, resting, when my karma suddenly increased.
The sky was gradually brightening, and the moon was falling, so it seemed that they had successfully dealt with Tsukuyomi.
‘Did my karma increase because I summoned Yuria and Elena?’
Anyway, thanks to the large increase in karma, my karma reached 120. There was still no noticeable effect, though.
Yuria: You fucking horny bastard, die.
Sung Yujin: ???
Yuria: No, it’s not!
Yuria: It’s not me!
Yuria: Elena took my smartphone and used it without permission!
Yuria: Elena tried to drive a wedge between me and Master!
Yuria: If you order me, I will kill Elena!
Sung Yujin: I understand, so don’t kill her.
Elena’s prank.
It was very possible. Elena sometimes played pranks on people she was close to. I had been pranked a few times myself. In other words, Elena considered Yuria to be close to her. That was a good thing.
‘…Should I go back?’
I decided to return to Arashi Academy using the power of the wind’s highest-grade spirit, Arrest. If I used too many spatial teleportation scrolls, I would get caught.
‘I should make up an excuse that I won using items. Yuria and Elena will be suspected… but they are considered saviors of Japan, so they won’t be treated as enemies.’
Thinking about the aftermath gave me a headache.
• • •
Anyway, things ended well.
I had to listen to Tenrai Nagisa and Sung Hari’s nagging for more than five hours, but I didn’t have a single scratch on my body, and the results were good.
By evening, all the bombs installed in the academy had been removed, and the terrorists had been subdued.
Still, the fact that major Japanese cities had been attacked by terrorists did not disappear. The Madojeong had crossed the line too far.
The Japanese government and the Japanese Hero Association drew their swords and swung them at the Madojeong and its subordinate criminal organizations. The Madojeong, whose executives were already all dead, had no power to resist. The Madojeong would disappear without leaving a trace.
Although many people were sacrificed by the terrorist attack, everyday life would eventually continue.
Yuria and Elena were worthy of being praised as heroes, but after talking with Tenrai Nagisa, we decided to keep this incident a secret. Tenrai Nagisa seemed suspicious of them. Still, they had saved the children and brought back Tsukuyomi’s magatama, so she couldn’t be hostile or cold to them.
They decided to stay at the academy for the time being under the authority of the Arashi Academy’s headmaster.
Now, after dinner and into the night, I was in my room. And they were lying on the bed on either side of me.
The night grew deeper. Elena’s cheeks flushed, and Yuria’s breath grew hot.
Knock knock knock.
Along with the knocking, Sung Hari’s voice rang out.
“Yujin, are you in there? No matter what, your actions today were too much. Let’s talk for a bit, Mom.”
As she spoke, Sung Hari, who seemed angry, burst open the door. And as soon as she entered, she froze. On either side of me were a half-naked maid and a noblewoman.
“Wh, who…?”
It’s not nice to say this, but a flustered Sung Hari looked a bit dumb.
