Healing at the Academy Convenience Store - Chapter 1032
Only Krnovel
1032. Episode of EVE 26
Saracenia was not a particularly outstanding student during her undergraduate years.
The grades are average to upper-middle. However, as was typical of the journalism department at the time, the practicality is poor.
The reason she was chosen as the boss of Act 5 is because she is the character that opens Part 2 of the story.
If the bosses in Act 4 of Part 1 are humans who use curses, then Part 2 is a fight against demons.
I guess they decided it would be more reasonable to show a ‘dangerous demon’ rather than using a demon that was too strong to open the beginning.
The production team’s intention of sending people to graduate school or making them write a horrible curse that corrupts graduate students was completely successful.
Ultimately, the difficulty of clearing Saracenia is not determined by how strong Keltus has become.
The criteria are how many characters in the party have ‘dark energy’ and how upright the mental powers of Celts and Eve are.
So if you take Eve’s true ending route and hire Nephthy, the Knight of Faith, the difficulty drops significantly.
However, this was not a game but reality, so the other students in the College of Journalism also needed to be somewhat prepared, and they asked Eve to specially select some of them and accept them.
The result is this.
“Push it!”
“Fight! Don’t give up!”
“Let’s wash away the shame of our seniors with our own hands!”
?Grrrrrrrr!?
?You’re an undergraduate student who hasn’t even received a diploma!?
?Do you think we’re going to collapse here?!?
Literally the 100th century.
The undergraduate students are fighting on equal terms with the students who have been invaded by the demon tribe.
?You will despair like us! Go to graduate school! Live as slaves to your professors!?
“Don’t decide our fate arbitrarily!”
“Yes! We won’t go down that wrong path!”
?Wrong choice?! No! We made the right choice!?
“what?!”
?Society is scary and frightening! You little brats! The positions of knights are limited, and even if you graduate and do well with mediocre grades, you’ll still be a rookie in the mercenary corps! You didn’t come to Zephrine to get that kind of result!?
?Are you saying that it is wrong to come to graduate school to get a better job? That is because you do not know reality!?
?Are you saying that we are wrong for reaching the answer of graduate school because we don’t have the talent to overcome this hellish employment threshold!!?
“Ugh… .”
“This, this is… the despair of the original seniors…”
“How… can we win…? Can we overcome this despair…?”
?Hahahaha! Give up on reality!?
?You’re coming to graduate school too! Come on! Come on!?
“No… I don’t want to go… .”
“I, I want to spend my youth in society… .”
?Haha! Fall into despair! Quickly!?
no.
No it wasn’t.
It wasn’t Baek Joong-se, but the undergraduates were losing in their hearts.
The despair of the graduate students begins to eat away at the weak hearts of the undergraduates, and they kneel down one by one.
No matter how much we talk about dreams and ideals, we cannot turn a blind eye to the harsh reality.
I’m in a 1:1 standoff with Saracenia. It looks like I can’t worry about the battle in the rear ranks…
What should I do here… .
“No! That’s not true!”
As I clicked my tongue and tried to speed up the fight, trying to somehow ‘deal with’ Saracenia, a voice filled with passion, a roar embodying conviction, was let out.
The owner of the voice is Nephterian.
She stood at the center of the battlefield.
?What do you mean, no! You guys, hurry up and get soaked in the despair of graduate school!?
“If graduate school is really right as my seniors say! Why do you use the word despair!”
?what??
“If you chose graduate school to get a better job, you should have said opportunity, not despair! You should have said leap, not ruin! Seniors are already saying graduate school is despair!”
?Ugh, ugh! This little girl! What do you know, making a fuss about it!?
“Seniors regret their choices, but since they can’t turn back, they’re just trying to increase the number of victims!”
I feel the graduate students backing down from Nephterian’s strong rebuke.
?This, this tiny thing…!?
“If you really want to deny me! Shout it out! Ah! I’m so glad I came to graduate school! Say it!”
?Kuaaaaaaah!?
So, the fight behind the scenes really turned into a battle between the two.
“What kind of fight is this?”
?Kyaaaaah!?
Shrugging my shoulders, I parried Saracenia’s sword strike.
then.
I’ll leave the rear to my trustworthy juniors and fight my own battle.
***
Saracenia’s attack patterns are extremely simple, but all of her attacks are imbued with curses.
This means that the normal attack has low attack speed.
Even if he is a descendant of the Imperial Family, you can’t be at ease with this. Even a simple brush with him can be fatal.
Of course, I have the confidence that I won’t get hit by a single attack from this guy.
And I’m ready to kill this guy.
?Kwaaah! Young! You’re so fast when you’re young! If only I were ten years younger!?
“But aren’t you older than me?”
?Shut up!?
The swordsmanship is entangled in a messy way.
No matter how weak I am, my opponent is a college graduate. Fighting him with sword is beyond my current physical strength.
It doesn’t matter though.
The opponent’s sword is from the Black Knight School. If so, then it is nothing more than a knight’s sword.
Even in situations where the mind is under control.
There is no freedom, thoughts disappear, and only what is learned to the point of being sick of the body is embodied.
If you go head-on against the Knight’s Sword, my Assassin’s Sword is overwhelmingly stronger.
I took a step forward in time with the sword slashing at my right waist, and clashed our swords.
A parry that digs in at the point where the opponent’s intended point of action begins, at the point where the force begins.
Even though he lacked strength, he took her breath away with his technique and timing. He slightly bent his dagger to block the longsword, then raised his other hand and stabbed her carotid artery.
This is the end. No matter how much you are possessed by the demon, when you die, you die. The moment when Saracenia’s eyes turn to despair, and my sword is about to cut off a life.
Stop.
And without realizing it, I stopped my hand.
?Uh… . Uh… ??
“Hmm… .”
It’s easy to bring death. Too easy.
But, if I think about it, if I don’t deal with the demons controlling Saracenia here, it’ll probably become a bother later.
In other words, rather than killing this woman who is nothing more than a terminal, wouldn’t it be better to harass her a little more and summon the demons?
Well. Then how do you call that demon? There are ways to do that too.
In the palm of your hand. With more force, you can carry out the summary execution characteristic of the royal bloodline.
My quick execution is imperfect and unbalanced, so my hand screams at the slightest movement, but that doesn’t matter.
The dagger cut through the curse, and the torn curse scattered with a cracking sound. It was a groan mixed with the sound of precious metals rubbing against each other, a roar, and a scream.
?What, what are you doing! Stop it! My, my strength! My strength!! My youth!!?
“How can I stop?”
Once more, he swung his dagger.
To those around it, it may look like it’s floating in the air, but it cuts right through the place where the curse was.
Once became twice, then ten, and finally twenty.
Saracenia’s eyes are bloodshot and drool is flowing from her mouth. She looks down.
?Ugh, huh… . Huh… .?
“Okay. Now that you’ve gotten this far, isn’t it time for the real thing to come out? Put the ends away and let me see your face.”
?… … … … .?
Saracenia’s face, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly rose, then she rolled her eyes and drew a line across her mouth.
Are you out?
“You’re a demon.”
?You’re amazing. What kind of person are you??
“I am the one who will kill you.”
?Oh my, oh my. I never thought I’d hear something like that from a human being in my life… Is this the first time? This is really fun.?
“Do you think it’s impossible?”
?Unfortunately… . That’s right. I’m a demon that moves between human minds. I don’t really exist. How can you kill me like that??
“Tsk.”
When I clicked my tongue, Saracenia… no, the demon smiled brightly.
?Rather than that, you should take responsibility for making me feel this bad??
“Responsibility…?”
?You took away all the curses and despair I had worked so hard to collect. Do you know how long it took me to collect them? Seriously… This side is suffering the most damage.?
“This is the price you pay for trying to control and eat humans at will. I want to kill you right now.”
?That’s why I said it’s impossible. If I kill you or turn you into a doll, you won’t be able to kill me or capture me.?
“… … .”
?It seems you still don’t understand. Then I’ll show you. You will be the sacrifice of the Dream Eater, the future great demon. Now. Be happy and accept it!?
As she said that, black smoke burst out of Saracenia’s mouth and rushed towards me.
I had no room to cover my nose with my hands or close my mouth, and the smoke that had penetrated my body eventually penetrated my brain.
“Sun… sir!!”
I heard Nephterian scream behind me, but I didn’t stop breathing.
I had no intention of stopping.
***
When I opened my eyes, it was a completely white space.
Why not, the pure white hospital room that you see at the beginning of horror games or horror movies. It was very similar to that.
“Hmm… So that’s how it was.”
I was just fighting in the jungle a moment ago, so I wasn’t summoned somewhere. To be exact, my mind was just dragged here.
And where is this place? Well, it’s obvious.
It must be similar to my imaginary world. I’ve seen this kind of thing several times in games.
Then the body outside will be defenseless, but that’s okay. Since Nephthy shouted at me, I guess my body will be safe at least.
then.
There must be a criminal somewhere here who is trying to infiltrate people’s minds and control them.
“Did you say Dream Eater? How can you barge into someone else’s house and not even show yourself? What kind of manners is that?”
The voice echoed throughout the hospital room… no, my entire imaginary world. But there was no response from the guy.
I took another deep breath and called out to him.
“Oh, right. There are so many shameful and pitiful secrets in this place that the young man wants to hide. Don’t mess with my flower bed.”
This time I threw out a joke, but there was no answer. No. To be exact, it took a while for him to come back.
“Don’t… talk nonsense.”
“Were you hiding there? You shouldn’t peek into other people’s minds.”
“Peeping… . What are you? How can you be so… . so completely closed off? How can you have nothing in your heart? If you’ve lived in this world, it’s normal to have at least something in your heart, but you… . have nothing… . nothing!”
“Closed? No?”
“Yes. There is no room to dig. There is nothing in your heart. It is like a metal ball made without any seams, impenetrable! This crazy space is your heart itself!”
“That’s good. Let a third-rate piece of trash like you find out what I’m thinking. What will happen to my pride after playing for a hundred thousand hours?”
“What…? Play…? A hundred thousand…? What are you talking about?”
“Well, I don’t know the details. You’re not my therapist, and I’m not your patient.”
I walked further into the ward, to where the Dream Eater might be, and grabbed the air. It was like grabbing a cloud, but this was the world in my mind, and I was the master. So grabbing the guy was easy.
“Ugh… Ugh. How did you… catch me?!”
“Didn’t you clearly say that you can’t kill or capture it?”
“Poem, I hate it… Don’t make me laugh. Run away, you have to run away. Run away…”
The Dream Eater slowly tried to escape my grasp, but I couldn’t just leave it like that. As I tightened my grip, the thing twisted its body as if in pain.
“Since you’ve succeeded in capturing it like this, half of what you said is wrong… Then where? Let’s test the other half to see if it can’t be killed. If you can survive, I’ll let you live.”
After a while.
One demon disappeared with a shrill scream.