Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

31 – Retreat (7)

As expected, it was good to come to Lucy’s side.

With qualities associated with winter, she creates a pleasant air in this damn hot, submerged environment.

Thanks to that, she couldn’t stop sweating, and it felt like her clothes were slowly starting to dry.

He grumbles, but in the end he was considerate like a good-natured guy.

That’s Adele’s idea.

The real reason Lucy was using the talent so hard was a little different from that reason.

Firstly, it was to get rid of the heat that came up after seeing Adele’s body, and secondly, it was to help cool off the sweat in order to quickly cover Adele’s body, which is the cause of it.

Perhaps it was because she used her traits a bit strongly for that, the moisture in her air froze and the ice crystals fell, and the water on the floor froze in an instant.

“Rather than that, you were supposed to meet under that tree.”

Lucy quietly followed behind her with her cloak tightly wrapped in her hands.

“I came because you didn’t come so much that I wondered if I was lost.”

“Do I look like a child enough to get lost?”

Adele moved ahead of her, brushing aside the grass that got in her way, and crushing the wriggling vines like tentacles.

It was a vine used like a hand by a man-eating plant in this jungle.

It was a possible precautionary measure because it was possible to distinguish what was a trap and what was a real plant through the original work.

“As you can see, there are many traps like this in this jungle. That’s why I came out because I thought you might not be able to come because you were caught.”

“What, so you came out because you were worried? You?”

“… ….”

Adele, who had been moving silently, stopped.

It is true that I was worried.

For various reasons, it’s already going differently from the love affair, so I didn’t know what might have happened.

However, I denied it because I thought that acknowledging it would be something that might make Lucy like it.

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“I came out because it was hot, the air conditioner.”

“What, what? Air conditioner?”

At the mention of calling herself an air conditioner, Lucy burst out laughing.

I did it by chance, but as expected.

As expected, Adele is Adele.

Can he come out of worry?

Calling himself an air conditioner is exactly what he says and does.

“Anyway, we have arrived.”

Following Adele, we arrived at our destination.

A tree soaring up to reach the clouds.

The branches and thick leaves that stretched there seemed to cover the sky, and underneath it was dark as if the night had fallen.

There are traces of something like a man-eating plant or a giant insect nearby, but Adele seems to have removed them, and they are all dead.

“By the way, what is here?”

Lucy looks around and asks.

I can understand using it as a meeting place because it is a prominent tree, but is there a need to come here after meeting someone?

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with a reason.

“There is a tree.”

Are you kidding me?

The moment Lucy clicks her tongue as she brainstorms inwardly.

“It is also a thick and huge tree.”

Adele’s outstretched hand pierced the tree.

It didn’t feel like it had been pierced with force, but the part that touched Adele’s arm shook like a haze.

As if nothing was there.

“Originally, it is a seat with a hole. But I assimilated it with the surrounding bark and it seemed to be blocked.”

With those words, Adele disappears into the tree.

Lucy climbed up to where Adele had disappeared, stepping on the roots of a huge tree with her toes.

Then, like Adele, he reached for the bark.

“Ouch.”

His hand couldn’t penetrate the bark, just like Adele’s, and bounced off the hard bark.

“Hey, wasn’t it here?”

Again.

“Ugh.”

Fingers sticking out again.

“???”

I’m sure Adele just walked in from around here, right?

Lucy fumbled around with a question mark floating on his head.

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Just like Adele did, I looked for the part where the space was shaking, and I threw myself at the strange sight with an oh sound.

“What?”

I’m sure you’re right.

His hands must have made their way through the bark, but his body seemed to be blocked by something hard.

Lucy fidgeted with her tingling nose and saw something blocking her path.

“Ah.”

That something wasn’t tree bark.

Adele, who went in ahead of him a little while ago.

Just in time, she ran into Adele, who was trying to come out looking for Lucy, who did not come in even after time passed, and unintentionally took the form of being held in his arms.

“I wondered why he didn’t come in, but he did.”

Adele was supporting Lucy’s tilted body with both hands.

I noticed after I came in, because there was a slight downhill behind the space Adele had assimilated, so Lucy trying to enter at random could fall.

“Be careful. Fall.”

Lucy was bruised at Adele, who calmly put herself down on the flat floor, but quickly shook her head as if she came to her senses.

Instead, I looked around as if I was trying to divert my mind elsewhere.

“So what are you doing here?”

The way to get points in monster hunting is to hunt monsters and collect tokens dropped by monsters.

In order to get a high score, you shouldn’t be idle like this, but you should be busy like other students.

“Take a break.”

But, as if Adele had no intention of getting a high score, she answered while sitting on a rocking chair made in a tree.

“What?”

Did I hear that wrong?

No, I heard it right.

Because Lucy was making that expression, Adele spoke again as she ate the bread she had prepared in advance.

“He said he would rest here. For a day.”

Belatedly, Lucy’s expression hardened.

What do you do when you still need to move your feet busily?

Are you taking a break?

Is that for a day?

“Don’t be so impatient. That’s the strategy.”

“What is a strategy? It’s ridiculous.”

While saying that, Lucy sat down nearby.

If that strategy was absurd, I was thinking of disbanding the team and running out of here.

“Aiming for fisherman geography.”

“Are you a fisherman?”

“It is said that the clam and the snipe wait until they run out of energy and then both get drunk.”

“No, do you think someone asked because they didn’t know? I just want you to be direct.”

While talking, Lucy’s stomach growled, probably because she hadn’t eaten anything to get here.

Did Lucy get caught up in the voice and not hear it? Adele tossed a nearby loaf of bread to Lucy.

I heard everything.

I closed my eyes tightly in shame, and then I had no choice but to eat the bread Adele threw me.

“How do you score points in monster hunting?”

“It is counted as a token obtained from hunting monsters.”

“Yes. The important thing is not that you hunted monsters, but proof that you hunted monsters.”

In other words, what Adele wants to say.

“That’s why I’m going to hunt monsters and attack people who are weak and take only the tokens…… ?”

“Exactly.”

Adele snapping her fingers with a clicking sound.

Lucy, who was chewing bread, said, “Huh.” She made a noise and opened her mouth slightly in surprise.

“It sounds like you.”

In ways students would never have thought of.

No, even if you thought about it, there is probably no one who will put it into practice.

I am taking a written test, but there is no guy who steals other students’ test papers and submits them.

Of course, the case will be a little different this time.

“Isn’t that okay according to the rules?”

If it was Adele who was harassing herself and Kyle within the limits of the school rules, this method would not be considered cheating on the margins either.

She thought so because there was a twisted belief somewhere.

“Of course not.”

As expected, Adele nodded.

* * *

“Quaaa!”

The screams of people rang like echoes.

The place where that terrible scream echoes is the desolate desert in the south of the island.

Wheeying───

A dry wind blew the thick dust that was blocking the view.

A person’s figure begins to look blurry, as if peering into a tornado.

“I guess he wasn’t here.”

At the same time as a woman spoke, the dust surrounding her shattered.

It’s not a metaphor, it’s cracked like a mirror that has fallen on the floor, and dirt and dust stick to the space like fragments.

A woman with brown skin and gray hair and students shrunken and spread out on the floor like mummies.

“Good luck, Adele Heights.”

The woman who subdued monsters, students, and even the harsh environment of the desert is Nikita Sylvester.

“It will last for a few more days.”

When all of her own servants failed to assassinate her, she came out to deal with him herself, absorbing her mana from her fallen students and putting her border around her, her blue aura appeared. Was hovering

She gazed at the top of the mountain visible over the horizon in the distance.

I don’t know who’s there, but it’s a strange sight, with pillars of fire rising and the clouds over the foot of the mountain splitting in half.

But that didn’t matter.

It’ll be easier to find Adele up there.

Only those thoughts were filling her head, so all she could think was that if there were other students, it would be enough to get rid of them like now.

“Adele…… Adele…….”

Having decided on a destination, Nikita walked through the desert where his feet were sinking, repeating the name of the target he wanted to kill.

Her footprints were left behind the road she passed.

Footprints stained with blood.