The Broken Possessors of the Infinite Regression Academy - Chapter 148



Chapter 148 – Aria and Leona – 4

The warrior’s father immediately asked to take good care of his daughter and shook her hand, so all eyes were focused on him. Perhaps because I had used healing magic, all eyes were immediately focused on him.

“dad!”

The burdensome atmosphere was relieved only after Leona, who had run as fast as she could, arrived. Leona urgently checked on her father, asking if he was okay, and everyone’s eyes were drawn to him.

But then Leona’s father pointed at me and said, “The kid you mentioned is fine, so he’s healed.” So I moved back to him.

“It would be better to go back to the village since we can’t stay here any longer. Let’s clean those up too. They’re probably already dead, so you can rest assured.”

“That’s right. We’ll do the destroying, so you just rest.”

I tried to lighten the mood by bringing up a different topic. Fortunately, the attention was immediately drawn to the frozen kobold statue. The surviving men approached the ice statue with their weapons in hand.

It’s a problem that I could solve with a wave of my hand, but I left it alone because it seemed like they wanted to get revenge in that way. The group of frozen kobolds were completely destroyed because they all had a lot of things piled up.

We returned straight to the village, and the men who had followed Leona’s father on the expedition thanked me one by one and then returned to their families.

Judging by the eyes watching me from all over the place, it wouldn’t be long before the rumor spread throughout the neighborhood.

“Thank you again for saving my life, and the lives of my friends. You basically saved our entire village.”

As soon as Leona’s father sat down at the table, he bowed. Next to him, Sylvia also bowed her head.

“I just did what I had to do. More importantly, what happened?”

I briefly saw the kobolds before they were frozen. They were clearly different from the kobolds I knew. Their movements were much faster, and their reaction speed was also much faster than the originals.

In the first place, the problem with the original story was that there was a large number of monsters, not that stronger ones appeared.

‘I have a rough idea, but… … .’

There was only one possible guess: the power of the demon. Other than that, there was no other explanation as to why the kobold, a low-level monster, had become so powerful.

“I don’t know either. It’s clear that we could have easily defeated them with our own strength until last time, but they suddenly changed like that.”

“Have you ever felt anything different from what you usually feel from monsters? Anything is fine.”

“… … Now that I think about it, I guess that might have been the case.”

That answer was enough. I concluded in my mind. The magic had flowed all the way to this area. Either the space between this village and the front line was completely contaminated, or it was specifically targeting the warrior or me.

“Mira, if it’s a different energy… … .”

“What you’re thinking is right. It came out when we caught Mahbat last time.”

“… … I see.”

Leona bit her lip slightly. She must remember that she awakened the Holy Sword while trying to blow away the black energy that was rushing towards Mahbat.

“Aria, I’m sorry, but I think we’ll have to eat lunch a little later.”

“It’s okay, Mira. This matter is more urgent. There’s nothing I can do. I’m sure your parents will understand.”

Now that I know the identity, I must go and eliminate the cause. I asked for understanding and got up, but Aria, who must have noticed my intentions, waved her hands in confusion.

It wouldn’t take long to rescue Wilhelm and get back, so it was still lunchtime, and if there were no variables, it wouldn’t take much to subdue them, but just in case.

“Are you going right now? What about the investigation?”

“There’s a place I saw earlier. I’ll go check and see if it’s the right place.”

It’s a lie. I looked around while running, but there wasn’t anything particularly special. I just planned to go to the place where they had set up a story in the original.

“Should I go too? I might need the Holy Sword, just like last time.”

“No. You stay here with Aria and guard this place. Those guys might come to the village.”

In the original, that was actually the case. If Priscilla hadn’t been there, the village would have been destroyed while Leona and Aria were fighting the Kobold King.

When I declined the offer, a look of regret crossed Leona’s face for a moment, but she soon nodded with a determined expression when I told her that she had to protect the village.

“Just a moment, Student Mira.”

As we went out, escorted by four people, Sylvia followed us cautiously. Her face was a complex mix of emotions.

“What’s going on?”

“I feel like I’m not saying thank you enough. Thank you so much for saving our man, Mira.”

“As I said before, I just did what I had to do.”

“Isn’t there one more thing I need to do? I need to come back safely without getting hurt. For the sake of the student, and for my daughter and Miss Aria.”

“Of course I will. I haven’t had lunch yet.”

There’s no need to make her wait anxiously. When I said that jokingly, Sylvia’s face relaxed a little.

“Oh, by the way, I heard you asked him to take good care of our Leona?”

“that…….”

I was speechless for a moment and trailed off. Sylvia chuckled at my reaction.

“It seems that the student doesn’t think the same as Leona yet. But that’s okay. I raised him well so that he wouldn’t lose to anyone when it comes to charm. I’m sure I can change his mind.”

‘You can change your mind, ra… … .’

I don’t think that was what they were trying to say, but I had to change my mind for another reason. In order to complete the ‘happy ending’ that I mentioned, we possessed people had to return to our original world in the end.

The problem is what will happen to the people of this world after we return. So naturally, my feelings towards the four possessed people and the characters of this world were bound to be different.

It’s not that I think the people of this world are fake. However, if I go back ‘home’ as I decided, I don’t know what will happen to the people of this world. In that sense, it means that they are different.

“… … I will also try my best.”

“Oh my. It would be difficult if even students worked hard. They would really fall in love in an instant.”

Sylvia took my word effort in a different sense and smiled as usual. It seemed that the tension had almost completely eased. I also turned around and said that I would go.

Before heading out, I went to the guard at the entrance and whispered something to him. I told him that there might be monsters coming in here, and that if that happens, I should listen to Leona and Aria.

As the rumor spread, the guard, no matter how little he paid, saw me off with a stiff expression and a salute, even though I looked as if I was his son.

I used both physical strengthening and acceleration to find the place described in the original. It shouldn’t be too hard to find, as there’s a distinctive cliff nearby.

‘How did you get in here?’

In the original, this incident occurred when the 2nd Legion Commander Circe provoked the Kobold King. This was to make the warriors and the saintess feel alert that ‘the village may be attacked.’

But Circe was killed by Astaroth. Then, the question was how the spirit of the demon came here. Or was it something that happened out of nowhere, like the awakening of a vampire lord in an artificial dungeon?

“… … Is there nothing?”

I arrived at the cliff, a rocky mountain all alone in the middle of a dense forest, and looked around. It was just as Priscilla had said.

There was another difference. Unlike the original cave where kobolds were everywhere from the entrance, I didn’t encounter a single kobold until I walked quite a bit inside with my eternity out.

There were only traces of a monster passing through the floor, and even detection magic couldn’t detect anything.

‘Could it be somewhere else?’

Then the only way would be to scan the entire nearby mountain with detection magic.

-Kiruk?

It was only after I reached the very bottom of the cave that I realized that my worries were unnecessary. I was greeted by the Kobold King and a large group of Kobolds busily moving around the vast space.

They were so different from the originals that you could tell just by looking at them that they had been strengthened by the spirit of the demon.

“Did you wait for me to get here?”

As soon as I entered the cave, I burst out laughing when I saw the path behind me blocked by a boulder. It seemed that not having encountered a single kobold up front wasn’t just a coincidence.

-Keureuk! Keureuk!

The Kobold King made a strange noise and tapped the ground with the staff in his hand. Immediately, hundreds of Kobolds began to rush at him in groups.

-Crunch!

And when they could no longer hear their king’s cries, they stopped walking as a group and looked back. Where the Kobold King had just sat, there was only a lump of meat cut into exactly eight pieces.

Whether or not he was strengthened by the power of the demon, a kobold is still a kobold. He didn’t realize what had happened to him until the moment when his body was torn into eight pieces by my slaughter.

I took a step forward, wrapped in mana for eternity. The momentum that had been rushing at me disappeared, and they only hesitated and retreated.

The only escape route was probably blocked by the b*stards themselves, so there was only one left.

“This guy is probably the culprit behind this situation. I’m not sure, so we’ll have to wait and see.”

When the head of the Kobold King was brought to him, Wilhelm took it with a puzzled look. It was much too large for a normal Kobold.

“How could this guy… … I see. Thanks. I guess we’ll need to discuss this a bit.”

After Wilhelm left the room, saying he needed to consult with me, and Silva followed him, Leona timidly approached me.

Judging from the way Sylvia looked at us and smiled instead of following us, it seemed like something had blown into her.

“what’s the matter?”

“… … Mira. Are you hurt anywhere?”

“No. Why would I get hurt by a cobalt or something?”

“Oh, thank goodness. By the way… … You know, I already told Aria’s parents that I’ll be there in the evening… … Uh, if it’s okay with you, would you like to have lunch at the East Lake… … Aria, you, me… … The three of us… … .”

East Lake. It was a place I had heard of.

It was also the place in the original where Aria and Leona almost kissed because they were caught up in the atmosphere.