Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

Chapter 74

74 – Anastasia Aris (5)

The situation at the top seems to have been somewhat organized.

Now that the sounds of battle from under the mountain have died down, it’s safe to say that it’s almost over.

“Are you okay?”

Adele sighed and looked over at Anastasia, who was holding her in her arms.

From the outside, it looks like there are no wounds, but just because the outside looks fine doesn’t mean there isn’t a place that doesn’t hurt.

Anastasia groped her body and nodded her head.

“I think it’s okay.”

“It’s okay.”

At that time, mature Lucy approached and grabbed Anastasia’s wrist.

She rolled up her sleeves and pointed her finger deep inside her arm.

“Since she was in a body full of the lich’s magic, there’s no way she wasn’t affected by it.”

“Really.”

When I looked at where Lucy’s finger was pointing, I saw that her skin was necrotic, with dark purple spots blooming.

It was encroaching on Anastasia’s arm like a living creature.

“Doesn’t it hurt?”

“It doesn’t hurt.”

Anastasia shook her head.

I didn’t even know this happened, let alone the pain.

She was afraid that something unknown was eating her body, but Adele seemed to notice it and put her hand on her head.

“Even if you are not sick, it seems better to receive treatment. The saintess is coming at the moment, so let’s get healed when she comes.”

She acted like she was telling me to be relieved that she was here.

Anastasia smiled lightly at the consideration, as if telling her that now she didn’t have to struggle alone.

“Yes.”

Lucy was watching her with her hands behind her back, but the mature Lucy side frowned at her.

Isn’t she the one who declared that she would kill Adele just a moment ago?

But she didn’t have a smile. Seeing her smiling at Anastasia made her feel weak, so she didn’t want her to do that.

As the not-so-grown-up Lucy revealed her discomfort without hiding it, from her side Lucy poked her side with her elbow.

“Hey, aren’t you thinking strange things again?”

“You must be thinking strangely.”

Her reaction was incomprehensible to Lucy.

She whispered in her ear, frowning just like Lucy.

“Things worked out so Adele wouldn’t have to kill Kyle…… ! But what do you say is the problem?”

Her grown-up Lucy squinted her eyes and glared at her.

Lucy, frightened by her savage expression that was not like her own, slightly lowered her eyes and avoided her gaze.

“… ….”

That fact was disgraceful and embarrassing.

The other person is himself who has only lived a little longer, so why are you scared and averting your eyes?

She opened her eyes in defiance and tried to glared at herself.

“What.”

In the end, I succumbed to the stinging stare that pierced me.

She made sure that Lucy was wincing, the mature Lucy sighed, she explained.

“Why? What Adele did to me is still vivid in my head.”

“What?”

“Do you know what Adele did in my world without the saintess?”

Lucy couldn’t answer.

She couldn’t even imagine Adele killing Kyle.

“In a world without saints, Adele said she had no hope of saving those infected with demonic energy, and she killed them all without remorse.”

Adele killed people, ignoring Lucy’s advice not to give up because there might still be a way to save her.

The reason was that the student who was infected with the Magi started attacking people with delirium.

He killed people as if he was sure of something, even though it was too early to assume that everyone else was too.

I killed students who confronted me, pursued and killed students who ran away, found and killed students who were hiding, and brutally killed students who begged for their lives.

They were still sane.

All for the uncertain reason that, over time, they could become a threat to others.

“I killed Anastasia because she said it was dangerous to run out of control, and I killed Kyle right in front of my eyes as he was tired of trying to stop Anastasia.”

The reason why Lucy, who has calmly recited, decided to kill Adele.

He has the idea of stopping Adele from killing people, but also taking revenge on Adele for killing them in front of his eyes.

“So as long as I have the memory of Adele giving up and killing him, I have no choice but to hate him enough to want to kill him.”

“… ….”

What should I say?

Forgive me now that it didn’t happen.

Her wounds seemed too deep for her to say that.

Because it was himself and no one else, it was possible to gauge how much shock he had suffered.

However, it was difficult to do so because it had not happened in this world that had changed from the world Lucy knew in front of her.

‘Because Adele is innocent now… ….’

So, in the current situation, I couldn’t come up with the right words to reconcile the two.

Still, I have to coordinate somehow…….

“… ….”

I can feel the eyes because I can’t do this or that and I’m hesitant.

It was Anastasia who quietly approached without showing any signs of popularity.

She tilted her head and blinked her eyes, and Lucy met her eyes, and her body trembled startled.

“Anastasia…… ?”

Did you hear the conversation about killing Adele?

As if the ominous premonition was not wrong, Anastasia approached her grown-up Lucy and grabbed her by the arm.

“Don’t do that.”

A request full of anxiety.

A voice quivering with fear of losing another person of her own.

Indeed, that seemed to be more effective than any of Lucy’s persuasion.

“Don’t kill Adele.”

The mature eyes of Lucy, shaken by those words without any logic, were proof of that.

“Without Adele, I would be alone again.”

“Her friend doesn’t have to be Adele, right?”

“No, no one else. She likes Adele.”

Unlike things that can be replaced, Anastasia realized that people cannot be replaced.

Everyone has a different appearance and personality.

The memories you shared and the feelings you felt then.

Because of those things that can’t be the same, I’ll never meet someone like Adele again.

“Ha ha.”

It is Lucy who defies that stubborn expression of will.

If it wasn’t for the saintess, he would have killed you.

Even so, I wanted to ask if she could have the same thoughts, but only because of her own vengeance was she trying to kill Adele, and it was just alienating her.

On top of that, it’s impossible for her to suffer the loss of someone as precious as herself, so no matter how much she hates Adele, she can’t do it.

“Okay. I won’t.”

“I promise.”

“Yes, I promise.”

“… ….”

“Why are you looking at me so suspiciously? What, maybe a finger?”

“I’m not even a kid, I put my finger on something. If you’re going to do it, swear by Mana.”

A grown-up Lucy’s ears turned red at the answer that made people feel awkward.

“I’m all embarrassed… ….”

Also, I didn’t mean it, but Lucy was shocked that her future self had such childlike thoughts, making her face red like a ripe tomato, doubly embarrassed.

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After Anastasia’s treatment was over, everyone was on their way down the mountain.

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“Boss, are you not hurt anywhere?”

Charlotte walked around Adele like she was babysitting, checking to see if there were any scars she missed, and she and she checked.

“Thanks to Lucy, it ended almost unscathed, so don’t make a fuss with her.”

Adele looked at her like that and repeated her words that she was okay, but Charlotte couldn’t take her eyes off her.

She is a maid dispatched to protect Adele in this crisis, but when she really needs it, she is away from Adele because she feels guilty that she has not fulfilled her duty.

‘That’s a disease.’

Tina, watching her from a distance, clicked her tongue.

If I had to argue with her, her son, aware of her danger, dropped her on purpose, so why should I blame myself for that?

And judging from the way he fought before, he’s a monster at a level that doesn’t need protection.

She was walking while thinking so.

“… ….”

Entering her street, Tina stopped with her hard face.

“This.”

The streets she was looking at were full of corpses of monsters.

A corpse with a hole in it that had been melted as if it had been melted by some kind of high-temperature light.

The scar overlapped with a scene that had not yet disappeared, deeply embedded in her head.

Raviel was lying in a cabin bleeding from a hole in her stomach.