Memoirs of the Returnee - Chapter 128



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Returner’s Notepad Episode 128

What you hoped for (1)

Second wave. The number of golems is smaller than that of wolves. There are only three, but they are crystal golems, not stones.

─It looks delicious.

As Groul said on the surface of the sword, the cost of the crystal golem’s materials is enormous. If it’s Libra’s golem, it’s definitely going to be top-notch.

“Can you create a 1:1 structure using telekinesis?”

I asked Elise. Elise answered as if it wasn’t difficult.

“Go and catch one. “I’ll cancel out other golem attacks.”

“uh. Believe.”

“… … .”

───Wave 2 begins.

The break is finally over. This time I rushed in first. I extended my sword towards the largest of the golems.

visor-! I couldn’t even make a scratch, but I was fired! Groul chewed the surface of the crystal.

─Delicious.

Buuuuung! The golem threw up her arm. I rolled my body to avoid it. The two remaining golems swung their fists at me as I clung to the ground.

thud-!

It was blocked in the air── by Elise’s “telekinesis shield.”

You don’t have to worry about the two little guys.

I only applied swordsmanship to the biggest one. Five eclipses and lunar eclipses were poured out.

bang-! bang-! bang-!

A hammering sound is heard from the golem, and each time the sword faces meet, Groul devours a part of the golem.

─Delicious.

thud-! bang-! Elise still defends against the other two guys’ attacks. It means that if he makes a mistake, I will get my head kicked, but this itself is a part of the teaming process.

Wizards believe in knights, and knights believe in wizards.

However, if it goes on longer, my stamina will vary.

I turned on “SZX-9500” before it got difficult. I observed its magic core. He focused his attention on that exact spot. The tip of the sword continued to slip as if hovering on ice, but at some point.

Pak──!

It got stuck slightly.

“Pull it!”

I pushed in hard and asked Elise. Elise psychically pulled the sword stuck in the golem.

Quad deuk–!

Thanks to this, the sword penetrated the magic core properly, and the Growl that penetrated it devoured it ravenously.

─Delicious!!!!!

Quad deud deuk!

The golem whose magic core was torn apart soon disintegrated into ordinary crystals. The cross section was as ugly as if it had been eaten by a rat.

Taean-! Taean-!

The other two guys are still beating me up.

But there are no injuries at all. This is thanks to Elise’s “Telekinesis Shield,” which is equivalent to magic.

─I ate it all.

Sigh! I pulled out my sword and turned around. He immediately cut off the other golem’s arm.

snip-

The blade, which hitherto had been blunt, cut the golem like a radish. Groul’s spirit is on a different level.

“Performance is good.”

It’s worth eating like this.

I plunged my sword into the second golem’s magic core. Quad Deuk – Groul ate it all. The third and final golem was also consumed in the same way.

─I am full. Now I need time to digest.

As if he was feeling full, he left those words and returned to Relic.

──Wave 2 ends.

“ha… … .”

I put my sword on the ground and laughed awkwardly. Your stamina will recover quickly, but there are still 7 waves left.

“Are you okay.”

Elise asked. I nodded.

“Is this wave 2? The level of college students is high. “Are they all geniuses?”

“… … Come to your senses. “Geniuses who are truly on track don’t even participate in the program.”

Elise says that, as expected, she is fine. Is it because she is also ‘real’? It’s a surprising level of difference.

I patted my back and stood up. Elise asked.

“Aren’t you giving up?”

“… … never. “There are many eyes watching.”

At least to Libra, I have to be seen as a useful being.

“Then listen carefully. “I will help you as much as I can.”

Elise raised her finger.

“In teaming, offense and defense must be coordinated. “Up until now, I’ve only attacked you, but from now on, lean on me.”

I saw Elise. It was so awkward to claim to be a helper.

Why is he like this these days?

“When times are hard… … Are you listening?”

“uh. uh. “Keep talking.”

There’s no need to throw me away just because I’m helping you.

Elise probably knows more about teaming than I do.

“When fighting, you don’t have to give your all at every moment. This means that you can just defend yourself and leave it to me to rest… … .”

* * *

Waves that follow one after another. In the process, Elise watched Sion Askal. All of his features were captured in transparent eyes.

Free from preconceptions and prejudices, just as it is.

Elise assisted him.

He defended himself.

His telekinesis assisted his sword, and his sword replaced his barrier.

It was a good team. It was a perfect fit.

I’ve never been hit like this with any other guy.

The problem is, of course, Shion’s physical strength.

Elise remembered something Gerken once said.

He says he doesn’t have enough stamina to maintain his power for a long time. If he can play a long game, he can perform the duties of a ‘queen’, but since he cannot, he is called a ‘pawn’.

That is 100% correct.

After the third and fourth waves, and at the end of the fifth wave.

“Huhhh… … . Big… … .”

He had become a human candle. A candle that sweats instead of candle wax. It feels like it will go off at any moment, so I’m anxious to watch.

──From the sixth wave onwards, we will provide longer breaks. Let’s take a 20-minute break.

“water… … “Isn’t there any?”

Elise held out water with her telekinesis. He barely took the lid off and took a gulp.

“Isn’t this enough?”

Shion shook his head at my words.

The reason he works so hard is for Libra. It may be as important to him as the assessment test.

But that’s also true.

“Look at the enemy.”

This time it is a ministry prosecutor. A humanoid monster that looks like a scarecrow. Although there is only one person, he is an enemy for whom it is fitting to say that there are mountains beyond mountains.

The sacerdotal swordsman is a death knight-type monster. The lineage of human swordsman-type monsters is Serious Swordsman-Durahan-Death Knight.

“One sum.”

Shion swallowed water and looked at the camera on the ceiling of the magical space. Before I knew it, there was a new camera with a light on.

It meant that Libra’s most important person, at least one person who could be called an ‘executive’, had begun to watch over this.

“I’ll destroy it in one go.”

“… … “What nonsense?”

Is that why the dopamine surged? Have I lost my mind? He stood up and said something strange.

“Just immobilize him with telekinesis for 1-2 seconds.”

──The wave starts.

“Goes.”

Shion approached the working swordsman with his sword in its sheath.

“ha… … .”

Elise shook her head, but soon raised the horse body.

As a team, all decisions must be made together. Even if it was the wrong choice.

Jeez.

Zion took a step. That point was the range of the military prosecutor.

Sreung-!

The scarecrow pulled out a huge sword. Elise loaded the highest output power and activated it while taking a deep breath.

Kuddeuddeuddeuk──!

A movement so strong that it causes the space itself to tremble. With that, he grabbed the swordsman’s torso.

“go!”

Shion took advantage of the opportunity and drew his sword.

「Ascalyu Absolute Sword: Balsword」

────!

Immediately after the rising sword whipped around in a half-moon shape as if cutting through space.

「Ascalyu Absolute Sword: Tour」

Shoot ───!

A single straight line was ejected and pierced the heart of the swordsman.

Linkage of inspection and patrol.

Just two strokes.

That was the end of it.

First, the defense of the body was pierced by the sword sword, and the magic core was penetrated by the subsequent round.

That’s how he was killed.

“… … ?”

However, Elise did not understand. She watched it with her own eyes from the side, but that made it even more bizarre.

Sion Askal clearly spit out his sword. It was a foot sword.

However, the sword that was spit out was ‘shot’ at the same time.

Without pulling or retrieving the sword. Scientifically, without the process of converting potential energy and kinetic energy.

As if some of the laws of physics were ‘ignored’.

Sion Askal’s sword cut and pierced purely. There was no gap between them. It was a sting at the same time as a bem. It seemed as if the sword in the same space split into two just at that moment.

“you… … .”

Elise trudged over to him. Before he could ask anything, he fell backwards.

“!”

Elise suddenly hugged him as he fell. It fell on the lawn along with Zion’s body.

“… … .”

She looked closely at him as he fell in her arms.

Koo – I was asleep.

“you… … “What do you do?”

Peaceful lawn. While I was quietly muttering the questions that filled my mind, one fact came to mind late.

camera.

“… … !”

Elise suddenly looked up at the ceiling.

Still, there was a camera with the light on. He even made eye contact with her and as if he noticed her, he quietly turned off the light.

“no… … !”

Elise hastily made an excuse.

* * *

Area 0 of the Hanging Garden. The smallest mansion there, where only blood relatives can stay.

The youngest owner, ‘Jia’, is watching someone with a camera.

This is Zion Askal.

She just saw his sword. She saw a swordsmanship that brought down a ministerial swordsman with one blow.

It was special.

Obviously, it was special.

So much so that even the principle cannot be analyzed.

“… … .”

Grumble- Drurg- Zia scratched the mouse. I thought about it while rewinding the video left and right.

She has a passion for collecting.

The object is not money. It’s not a thing. It’s not even a figure.

It’s a person.

She collects talent. It’s her hobby that no one in Libra knows about.

“This person… … .”

The name is Sion Askal. Jahanna says, he wants to be his knight a man.

That time when Jia looked at him intently.

Suddenly-

The door opened. Jia pretended to shake her body.

It was Jade in a suit. He frowned at himself.

“… … “Why are you so surprised?”

“iced coffee-”

Jia hastily turned off the monitor. Jade strode across and turned on the road monitor.

There was Zion Askal.

Jade checked him in the video and then looked back at Zia.

“Umm… … .”

Jia curled her lips.

“… … .”

Jade stared in silence and then smiled.

“He’s not a bad guy. You seem to have what it takes to be a very good knight. “It’s my fault that you respect me too much.”

Jade took a couple of steps back and sat down on the sofa. He asked, crossing his legs.

“Do you want it?”

“My knight garden… … There’s a draw for one person… … . Because I couldn’t pay my salary… … .”

A deep smile appeared on Jade’s lips.

“I’m still in high school. “I have two to three years left to become a knight.”

“yes… … .”

“Don’t worry. If he becomes a knight, he will come to me no matter what anyone says. I’ll send it to you then. More than that, how are you feeling?”

Jade surprisingly cares about Gia. Although she and Jia herself do not know the reason.

“Fine… … Oh… … .”

“It’s because I’m weak.”

He took out an elixir from his jacket pocket. It was Dragonix, a health food made with dragon scales.

“It’s something I also found difficult to obtain. Three times a day. “Please share it for a month.”

“… … yes.”

“okay. “Do what you’re doing.”

After adjusting her collar and sleeves, Jade left her office.

Zia was absorbed in Sion Askal’s video again. Rewinding the amazing swordsmanship I just saw.

“secure… … Did I do it? … .”

Jade’s rant and Jahanna’s assurance.

If this person comes to Libra, will you be able to have him?

However, before you have it, you will have to look closely at it countless times to see if it is a person worth having.

* * *

──1 hour later.

I am sitting in a restaurant. The final result is 6 waves. Because I fell asleep as soon as I used the traveling sword.

anyway.

Rattling-

“… … Ah-oh.”

I’m barely able to eat something, but my hands keep shaking.

“What… … ?”

Suddenly the fork moved on its own. Boom – It floated in the air, wrapped around spaghetti, and came up to my mouth.

Tap-tap-tap your lips.

It was obvious.

I looked across.

Elise.

She pretended not to and cut her own steak.

“… … “Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”

For me, that was a question. Elise answered arrogantly putting her steak in her mouth.

“Mr. Bellingham said it too. This itself is part of teaming. Once a team is formed, they are together not only in battle during missions but also throughout life. “Don’t you know?”

“Not that one. “Why are you doing this to me?”

“Why are you like this? “What does that mean?”

“If you don’t know, you’re stupid.”

“… … .”

Elise closed her eyes. She quietly wheezed, as if she couldn’t bear to be called stupid.

“… … you.”

He sighed and pointed his fork at me.

“I just admitted it.”

“… … .”

I looked at her quietly. It was unfamiliar. To me, who was familiar with Elise before her return, it was so foreign.

“Is that so?”

Has this guy also changed over the course of several days?

Is it changing?

Tiring-

Just then, Elise’s smartphone rang. She said, glancing at her screen.

“The trip is simple. long time.”

“I’m not interested.”

“… … This is also part of teaming. Calendar Sharing.”

Then he shoved spaghetti to my lips. I put it in for now.

I was hungry so I was chewing chop chop and suddenly.

A pain arose in my temple. The news I saw with my own eyes one day came to mind like a fever.

──Kidnapped by Elise Petra while she was traveling… … .

I stopped with spaghetti in my mouth.

Elise is about to be kidnapped. This could be said to be the first of many crimes she suffers.

I saw Elise.

He is calmly chewing his steak.

“… … .”

Of course, I may not need to get involved.

Because Elise’s work is Elise’s work.

… … however.

“Teamed wizards and knights work together for an average of 5 to 6 years.”

Jael had said.

At a time when Elise was still alive and well, when she reigned in better health than anyone else, for some reason I asked her to protect her.

“This means that sharing schedules is also essential.”

The future Elise was not like this.

Before returning, she was close to a villain.

Even Libra had become a monster that could be kept in check.

At that time, that woman… … .

okay.

It wasn’t ‘Elise’.

“You don’t know.”

Now, I feel like I understand a little bit.

Jael’s will was to ‘protect Elise.’

He’s putting a steak in his mouth, and when I stare at him intently, he mutters his answer while covering his mouth.

“why?”

Did he mean to protect this young Elise?

Was it an impossible wish to bring back my younger brother, who had already turned into a monster?

“Why don’t you tell me if you’re hungry? “Is it pride?”

As if she had convinced herself, Elise moved the fork again with her mind and brought it to my mouth.

“… … “No, it’s okay.”

I ate first. Elise looked at me with a strange expression and pursed her lips.

“But you… … “Why are you working so hard?”

I ask while slicing a steak with both hands and rolling up my spaghetti with telekinesis.

“What are you doing to show off so well to Libra?”

try hard.

The reason I work hard.

There’s no need to answer, because it’s teaming.

I explained the one and only reason to my teammate in one word.

“plural.”

Whirring! The fork that was twisting the spaghetti suddenly started spinning. The noodles splashed all over my face.

“… … “What?”

I turned into spaghetti and glared at Elise. The guy’s expression was stiff.

The hand that was cutting the steak is shaking, the lips that were bitten down are bloodless, and above all, the person is breathing heavily and lowering his head.

“… … plural.”

The way you mumble like that makes you look like you’re in pain.

“what’s the matter?”

“sorry.”

Elise quickly got up from her seat.

I stared blankly at his back as he ran away.

“… … “What is that?”

When you say you’re teaming, where do you go alone?