“What is it this time? I’m busy, you know.”
“Register him to Acacia Boarding House.”
“Alright. Is he the one?”
I pointed to the small guy besides him.
“Yes.”
“I left the form at the classroom, so we’ll do the form later. Any other business?”
“Do you know the game ‘Eternity Unleashed’?”
“The VRMMO? Yeah, why?”
“I heard that you are a very good gamer, known for mastering a lot of games that you even acquired world records because of it.”
That’s extremely way back. Many have already beaten my records, besides being a master of some games doesn’t mean that I will be able to master this game. But, this might be an opportunity to acquire the consoles.
“Do you want me to play the game? What kind of teacher makes his student do something that would totally distract him from studying?”
“I’m a parent first, then a teacher.”
“Then don’t use your power as a teacher to call me here in the first place!”
“Anyway, I will order two machines and I want you to be his guardian.”
“Make it three. I want my sister to play this.”
“No! Do you know how much one of this costs?”
“Yeah, and you can totally afford that.”
“That’s not the point. I will be paying you, so you could probably use that money to buy your sister a machine.”
This will not work. I have an idea.
“Hey, what’s your name?”
“Pangaea.”
“A continent, nice name.”
“Nathan, what are you planning?”
“Nothing. Hey, what do you think of this person?”
I showed him a picture of Serena.
This is the cutest picture of Serena. Even I found myself being mesmerized by looking at it.
As expected, he blushed. Seriously, I never found someone who isn’t affected by looking at this picture.
I whispered,
“That’s my sister who wants to play the game. I could introduce you to her if you want.”
[Is it alright for you if your sister ends up with him?]
(That will never happen though. Even if it happens, it’s her choice.)
[You’re a devil.]
Pangaea whispered something to his dad.
He dragged me outside the room.
“What did you say to Pangaea?”
“What do you think did I say?”
“If you’re this persistent, then I will find another gamer.”
“If you want, you can remove my salary. My only concern is to make my sister play.”
“Tsk, let me think about this.”
“Anyway, why register him to the boarding house? He can just visit the boarding house every time.”
“I have some business in other countries, and I can’t bring him with me. So, I need to leave him here. He’ll start staying at the boarding house next week, so you’ll only need to take care of him for about a week, or until my daughter arrives. She’ll take care of him by then.”
*boom*
“Alright. Well, I only care about the fact that my sister will be able to play. So, see ya.”
I go outside.
“WAIT! He’s gone.”
I easily escaped him due to my nature.
(I know you know this, but I’ll say it anyway. Whether I acquire it or not, you will continue to search for ways to acquire money.)
[Yes, but I’ll have you know that I can’t take care of that child.]
(I am planning to let your body rest, so I guess I can be responsible in babysitting him.)
[While we’re on the topic of taking care of someone, we didn’t notice that Vanessa left you a food yesterday.]
(She did?)
[Yes, I only discovered it when I was going outside your room while you were sleeping earlier. Apparently, she knows that you are only eating canned foods.]
What is she trying to do here?
(How about this morning?)
[She also prepared you breakfast.]
Who is she? I don’t have any leads.
“I am very embarrassed right now…”
It is coming from the courtyard.
[Who’s that? That is not the announcer.]
(Someone is confessing right now. Basically, we are not the main characters this time around.)
[Confession of what?]
(Their love to someone. I have some contribution on this, so he better make a good job right now.)
I looked outside through the window. I see his interest on the third floor. She is hiding inside the storage room huh. Something awkward probably happened, or he made a mistake.
(Let’s switch. I’ll continue the investigation. Also, don’t forget to eat, I see that you were planning on studying rather than eating.)
[Okay.]
There are a lot of new stores that showed up within the Grand Market. It’s very unlikely that something will happen if it’s this populous in here.
Anyway, I should probably get involved with the adventurers.
“Hi~!”
“Eunice! We are looking for you.”
“I’m sorry. I left Loncross yesterday, I only arrived last night.”
“Anyway, we need you and your companions to sign-up for this formal request.”
(Eula, he is the acting leader of this group. Right?)
[Yes, most likely.]
“Can we talk privately for a second?”
“If that’s what you want.”
We go inside an alley. He…is very cautious of me. I can feel the pressure of my life being threatened. He might actually be able to beat Sofia’s group single-handedly.
Well, this is real life. Even minor character is special in their own way, unless he is one of the major characters. It’s not like I underestimated him though, this type of characters are those that can do better than what their abilities shows.
“My companions are not part of the adventurer’s guild.”
“So, you’re saying that they can’t be signed-up in the request.”
“Yes, this is advantageous for us though. There is a possibility that the culprit is within the caravan. If you don’t write their names, then they could stay in hiding and watch behind the scene.”
“Hmm…”
“Basically, you will be responsible in handling the public front. My companions will handle the inside. I will oversee both. I’m telling you this because I want you to trust me.”
He is thinking.
“Banba will trust you then. Banba is expecting a lot from you.”
“Banba?”
“My name is Banba Fiber.”
“Call me Eunice Ytor.”
I signed up for the request.
After repeating the same explanation to Jane. She agreed to process our request. The adventurers are now permitted to protect the caravan.
“Jane, do you have a list of the deceased due to the Death Caravan?”
“What for?”
“There might be some pattern on how the killer kills.”
She showed me the list of persons who died. I also asked for more information about the Death Caravan.
Each record includes the name of the person, their age, and their occupation. The record also contains the date of the death of the person. But there are some records that doesn’t indicate their date of death, instead the date where the body is discovered. This means that I can only assume that they are killed before the said date.
[Let’s switch. I’ll show you something.]
We switched. The teacher is late. No wonder it’s alright for her to switch.
She drew something that points to a mark within the paper. I feel something like a magic from that mark, perhaps another magic related thing.
[This is an ‘astral storage’. By using a magic called ‘astral recreation’, you would be able to see the memory that is stored within this paper.]
Astral, huh.
(Is there a magic called ‘astral projection’?)
Basically, out of body experience.
[Yes, it is used if you want a group of people to see the contents of the ‘astral storage’ rather than a single person, but it requires a lot of mana so it is usually casted by two to three people. It is still a mono-magic though.]
So it is not an out of body experience, but actually projection that projectors does to display video presentations.
[I’m about to use ‘astral recreation’.]
She touched the mark and began using the magic. There is this strange feeling that something exists but I’m missing it.
[We use ‘astral recreation’ to create two things. The copy of the ‘astral storage’ and an ‘astral sense’. The ‘astral storage’ is basically the video equivalent of your world, except the camera is an actual person.]
Woah! That is pretty amazing!
(Can it be edited or faked?)
I’ll be not surprised if there is a magic called ‘astral editor’ or ‘astral studio’.
[No, there is no method of tampering the ‘astral storage’. Even if it exists, each ‘astral storage’ is very unique that according to a theory, even the slightest change to the magic makes it fail. It will become a very large controversy if such method exists.]
But it is normal in our world to edit videos. I guess the more advance the technology or magic, the more risks it has.
[Now, you probably grasped how to peek from my senses, right?]
(Yeah, obviously.)
[In simpler terms, ‘astral sense’ is simple another group of senses that you can peek. You can sense from the eyes, ears, or skin of the ‘astral sense’. I am actually seeing a picture of a dead body right now.]
I intent to see from the eyes of the ‘astral sense’.
This is extremely cool. I can actually see a picture of the dead person.
[This is actually a video. So, tell me if you already peeked from the senses you want to sense. You may want to not smell from the nose though, unless you can bear with it. Don’t worry, anything you sense will not affect you whatsoever. Even if you smell a sleeping drug or someone is hypnotizing you, you will not fell asleep or get controlled.]
(There is hypnotism?)
[Yes, it is a bi-magic. So you need cooperation with the person you will hypnotize.]
I see that it is as useless as brainwashing magic.
…
It is very hard to learn the magic. It is the most complicated magic I have ever used, you also need to use another magic just to play, rewind, or pause the video which makes it more annoying. I wonder if making a video is harder than viewing the video itself. That means this can be used to avoid fraud.
But in basic terms, those ‘astral’ magic are used to capture video and image with human as a camera. Those are also used to view the captured videos.
Using non-technical terms, those ‘astral’ magic is used to share your life experiences. It is also used to experience other people’s experience. Did I make it more complicated? I’m not sure.
Hmm… I need to check all of this then. I bought this paper and pen earlier, so that I can easily analyse the situation.
I see that, Majority of the victims are killed by getting stabbed in the back. Some are killed in random ways since they’re killed during an encounter.
…
Finally finished checking and writing all of them… Now to analyse for patterns.
[Nathan, check the ‘astral storage’ of Regal Blues.]
She noticed something. I searched for that person from the papers and checked the video attached to it.
(What about it?)
[Let me control the video.]
I did do that. She fast forwards to a certain scene which then she paused the video, showing me a certain picture.
From what I remember, this scene involves a group of person chasing the culprit who is seen committing the actual murder. The videos does not indicate whose perspective are we watching, but it is surely not from Regal Blues because he is seen dying later in the video.
This picture shows that the man behind the perspective is about to cast a ‘blast’ in order to send his comrade flying to cross a ravine that supposedly has a bridge in it, but is destroyed by the culprit.
The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.
[Do you see the man on the edge of this picture?]
(Yeah.)
[He is the smith from the blacksmith you helped two days ago.]
Now that I think about it, I see that he probably is. I also noticed how this angle is the best angle that you can see the front of that person, I never saw this person’s face the majority of the video, only his back.
(Nice one Eula.)
We might have another lead. We need to ask him later.
…
Someone is always getting killed during the day that the Caravan is going to Loncross. It is always a single person, just like yesterday.
If only I chose the other road, then I would not encounter Sofia and probably catch the criminal. But if I didn’t encounter Sofia, then it will take longer for us to become companion, or there is no chance for them to become my companion at all. They also might not be there, since Sofia is trapped and her two companions will have to look for her.
What if, this is like the experiment which shows that the future dictates what will happen to the past? If I chose the forest road, I’ll save Sofia inside the cabin. If I chose the mountain road, I’ll save Sofia inside the cave.
It could also mean the other way around. If Sofia encountered the cabin, then I will traverse the forest road. If Sofia encountered the cave, then I will traverse the mountain road.
The event which decides the destiny depends on which event happened last though. If Sofia encountered the place after I chose which road to traverse, then Sofia decided where should I go, and vice versa.
Wait…What?
(Eula, which road did I picked to travel yesterday?)
[It’s obviously…]
Looks like she realized.
[Do you also remember traversing both roads?]
(Yeah. I noticed it when I happen to realize that I know that there is a secret cabin on the forest road and a secret cave on the mountain road.)
Before realizing that I know what will happen if I choose either road to traverse, I only know that I chose a road, I discovered an uncharted path, I encountered bandits, I entered a spooky place, I met Sofia and Meno, I battled Gondarr, then I came back the same road that I picked. I didn’t notice that I forgot the further details, including which road did I picked or what kind of place did I went.
[That is really weird. I never heard of this phenomenon happening, so don’t try ask me about it. Do you know this phenomenon though?]
(No.)
I thought she knows what happened. What happened? Why did it happen to us? Did someone did this to us?
Wait, since it happened in this world. Similar thing might have happened yesterday in my world.
(Eula, do you remember if you choose between two things yesterday?)
[Let me think…]
[Choosing which bike to make. But I can’t see myself choosing another type of bike to make. Besides, there is also the possibility that the phenomenon didn’t happen in your world.]
(I feel that there’s something though. Do you mind if we switch?)
[I also feel that, but wait until the next break. You investigate for now.]
I probably should.
(Alright.)
…
After analysing the data, this is my conclusions.
There is one attempt each when the Caravan goes in and out of Loncross or the first and last day.
Two attempts on the the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th day. Three attempts on the 4th day. Which totals to 13 attempts.
There is no indication on when the attempt will start, but during the 2nd and 6th day. Attempts only start during afternoon.
Lastly, no one is killed from approximately 1PM until 3PM during the 4th day despite that time being the most active during the other days.
Basically, the killing will start approximately after my school break.
…
It’s break already.
(Eula, switch.)
We switched.
I head outside.
What should I do now?
I think, I will…
Yeah…
I will just walk wherever my instincts is telling me.
I don’t know where I am going.
From 5th floor where my class is, I go 4th floor, then 3rd floor, then 2nd floor, then ground floor. I left the school building, I go inside the annex, and I head to 2nd floor. Computer room, huh.
I knocked the door. Someone opened it.
“Nathan. What’s your business?”
“Ratchet, can I borrow a computer?”
“Research?”
“Yeah.”
I sit in front of a computer and opened an internet browser. What should I be searching?
(Any suggestions?)
[Do you know what the phenomena called is?]
(No idea.)
[I don’t really know. Just search for a phenomena you are aware of.]
Maybe I could search for the ‘future dictates past’.
…
Yeah that doesn’t help.
…
Aaarrrghhh! WHAT IS IT?!
[You know how some magic has an equivalent technology or perhaps phenomenon there? Try searching for an equivalent for the ‘Lover’s Bond’. You can probably trace this phenomenon from there. This phenomenon doesn’t happen before we are connected. This can also be related to the feeling that we forgot something.]
She really is smart. I’ll do what she said then.
I tried terms along the lines of ‘body swap’, ‘gender bender’, ‘brain uploading’. That’s the only terms I know, actually.
[Discard the term ‘gender’ since we are technically swapping our bodies but still retaining our gender. Instead of ‘swap’, use ‘share’, ‘link’, or ‘connect’ since we can still feel each other senses. Since the magic is intended for relationship, probably use the term ‘relationship’, ‘relation’, ‘life’, or ‘love’. We are basically, ‘Sharing life with each other’.]
Those words ‘Sharing Life with Each Other’ feels important. My instincts are telling me that it should be the thing that I need to search. Which I did.
After a few minutes, I found a story titled the same as the words I typed. It might not be related, but it feels important.
I am surprised when I saw the synopsis.
“No way!”
Our names were written on the synopsis. I checked the first chapter entitled ‘Worlds Apart’. Which is already giving me goose bumps.
(Eula, can you read this very quickly?)
[Let me.]
We switched again. Yeah, she can read extremely quickly.
…
It is weird that the story is on a Hiatus. The last chapters, Chapter 9A and 9B, are uploaded 6 months ago. Why did he stopped writing the story? Is it because the events right now is needed for the next chapter and he is waiting for us to continue the story onwards? If so, then why was it uploaded 6 months ago?
The thing that disturbed me most is the ‘My Memory: First Fragment’. It clearly shows that the author, Colim Ent, came in contact with us. Is this somehow related to the feeling that I forgot something?
[This is actually our story. Do you know the mountain road and the forest road?]
(Based on the title of the chapter, both events are written. Right?)
[Yes, on these chapters, the divergence of events happen during the time that the ‘RP Shift’s execution. I don’t know what that means, but it probably is.]
(Let’s Gugle it then.)
…
I see no helpful result.
[Based on this, there are two possible reasons why did that phenomenon happen.]
(I guess one of the reason is the ‘RP Shift’ stated on the story.)
[Yes, but we can also say that the phenomenon happened because the author decided to write both plots, whether you choose the one or the other.]
Yeah, but I don’t like the sound of it.
[If the reason is the former, then we have to ask the author the next time we meet him. Remember that he said on the ‘My Memory’ that he already met with us, so he knew us. Also add the fact that he is writing our story, he knows us very well.]
I don’t like where this is going.
[If the reason is the latter, then it means that he is controlling everything. From our actions up to our thoughts.]
That’s the scariest part of seeing this story.
[But the fact that he only released chapters that depicts what will happen until yesterday means that there is still a chance that he is only observing us. Besides, it clearly shows in the ‘My Memory’ that he needed us so maybe you can take advantage of that. You’re supposedly ‘Unpredictable’.]
She… Is she trying to cheer me up or she only told me her opinions? Either way that cheered me up, so,
(Thanks.)
[What do we do now? Mr. ‘Unpredictable’.]
Yeah, despite knowing these things. It won’t matter if we didn’t know what to do with the information.
(Anyway, do you remember any new information? It is said that we need to tell him everything that we remember. That’s if we trust him though.)
[No. I thought that you’re the only one who remembered something, with all the instincts to search for this story.]
Right, I discovered this with my instinct. Perhaps…
Author: ‘No need to do that.’
What?
(Eula. Did you hear that?)
[Yes, I think it is the author.]
(I think so too.)
Author: ‘Brace yourselves, I will summon you.’
Everything suddenly becomes warped and distorted.
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Authors Perspective: Start.
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Supposedly, the story will shift from Nathan’s perspective to my perspective. The author of this story, Colim Ent.
They are facing each other when I suddenly warped them over here.
“Eula?”
“Nathan?”
Their reaction when they meet with each other is better than before.
“Sorry to interrupt. But you will forget everything that will happen right now, so stop that.”
If only we have enough time, then I will not interrupt them.
“Are you supposed to be the author? Colim Ent.”
“You are correct Nathan.”
“What now? You said…”
“!”
The memories are flowing in.
“Say it!”
…
Majority of the memories are the same memories as before. I can’t create another memory fragment with this.
“Are you doing well?”
“Give us a minute.”
As expected, the burden is still heavy.
…
“So, what now? You said that we have no time and we’ll forget anyway.”
Beating around the bush.
“Let us start with how you will be able to meet me. Two ways: I approach you; you approach me.”
“Is it important?”
They must be talking about how useless it is to know that because they will forget it.
Looks like Nathan will do all the talking. Eula’s too shy to speak.
“Yes. There is a reason that you need to know this, especially in the future. Eula, you deduce the smaller details, you know we have no time.”
She nodded.
“You will be able to retain the memories of our meetings where you approached me, but you can only remember it during our meetings.”
That means that I do not need to explain some important details every time we meet.
“Approaching me means longer meeting.”
I’m making the point that approaching me is more advantageous.
“You can influence your actions in the real world if we meet.”
Only two more minutes until returning back to normal.
“You are the ones writing your own stories.”
I imply that I do not control them in anyway.
“But I can see almost every possible plot of the story.”
I imply that I can see almost see everything that will happen.
“Except the plot where I am involved.”
I imply that any future of them that I have seen previously might no longer be valid or absolute.
“Now then… I see that both of you will die. What will you do?”
Eula knows that because of ‘Lover’s Bond’, if one of them dies, then the other one will suffer the same fate.
“How can we influence our actions in the real world?”
“No idea. But you did it before, on our last meeting.”
“Have you told us everything you said from our last meeting then?”
If I correctly recall,
“In order to meet me, I want you to search for the story ‘Sharing Life with Each Other’.”
I also said,
“You will forget everything that happened in this space. You need to meet with me again by searching for that story. I have no power to force you, only you have the power to force yourself.”
Is that all? Yes, I am sure.
“That is all.”
“Can you just tell us what we were thinking about during our previous meeting? I see that the perspective per chapter alternates between us two.”
“I am sorry, but if I am involved, then I do not know what you are thinking. Also, I can only the meetings where you approached me to the story.”
“When did the last meeting happened?”
I see, it might be possible that they got their idea prior to our meeting.
“Near the end of chapter 8, before you sleep.”
Those two are off in their own world again. If they are able to figure out what to do, then I am happy.
Thirty seconds remaining.
“How long does this meeting take?”
“I do not know. If you approached me, then it is guaranteed to be long. There is only 26… 25 seconds remaining.”
“Why are you doing this?”
This is the second time that they asked me this question. I can now answer them since they will remember it.
But nothing will change, because…
“I do not know. I apologize.”
Those two became silent again. I wonder what they are talking about.
I wonder how they will be able to save themselves. They did not ask me how they died, as expected from Eula. She knows that it is useless to know it to begin with.
I am curious, will they be able to save themselves or not?
Five seconds remaining.
Those two will be back on their own world again.
Ahh… I am jealous.
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Authors Perspective: End.
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…
It’s break already.
(Eula, switch.)
We switched.
I head outside.
What should I do now?
I think, I will…
Yeah…
The meeting, I need to go there.
There is this feeling that I’ve already gone to the meeting, as if the meeting already finished.
Does this mean that I might have time leaped? But without bringing the memories. If so, then it is a bad design. Wait…
(Eula, do you know time leaping?)
[Yes, going back in a previous state in time. What about it?]
(Let us say I time leaped to the past. How about the ‘Lover’s Bond’? Who am I connected, you that I left in the original timeline or you that exists in the timeline that I leaped to?)
[Sorry, we can’t know for sure without testing. But theoretically, you will be connected to the timeline you leaped into, because the connection of ‘Lover’s Bond’ is only limited up to 3D space.]
(So if one of us time travelled, then the connection will be cut?)
[Theoretically, yes.]
It’s not like I can time travel though, there’s nothing to be worried about. Time to go to the meeting. I probably should take a detour at the cafeteria, there’s still some time.
…
No one is here. Are they planning to surprise me? I need to check the adjacent rooms first.
No one is there. So, they might be hiding inside this room.
Where could they hide though? The room’s layout is like how any meeting room should be. Full of chairs and tables. There are several closets and cabinets on the back but any adult-sized person can’t hide on those except the closet.
I need to check for traps on the door before entering though. I found no traps.
I checked the closets and cabinets. Nothing suspicious whatsoever.
Although it doesn’t make sense, I decided to check the windows even though there is no veranda there. You can only see the back of the building here. I found two students having their lunch there.
They finally became a couple huh. He managed to say it earlier huh. I know that you two want to flirt with each other right now, but I sense that there are many students who are seeing you right now inside this building. It is better to delay this…
It is pretty obvious that they want to do it, but they are pretty successful in restraining themselves. I am impressed. So, I waved at them
“HEEY! Congrats, you two!”
They also waved at me.
“Thanks!”
I closed the window. Still, their love story is kind of clichéd. From sworn enemies to a couple. It took them approximately a year to develop their feeling to one another. It took them approximately 8 months to be honest with their feelings. It took more months just for one of them to finally confess.
It is not like I hate clichés though, I just want a plot which is a bit unique and interesting. I still like the reading clichés in stories.
Anyway, I found nothing suspicious. Hmm… Maybe they plan to let my guard down by making me think that there is nothing at all. I just need to keep my guard up the whole time and wait.
I sit on one of the chairs and wait. Meanwhile, Eula is working on the bike.
(Is that rubber?)
[Maybe. I am pretty sure that this is the closest thing to a rubber here.]
I am expecting the rubber to be black, but it is white. I don’t really know.
[Anyway, I will be experimenting with the rubber compound and the tire tread so expect different experiences whenever I make and change the tires.]
The tire tread is the grooves of the tires, which I know affects bike experience. The rubber compound, is rubber but mixed with more materials. I trust she knows what she is doing.
(Yeah, thanks.)
While waiting for the rubber to dry, she is creating the frame of the bike.
She mainly used ‘touch pierce’ and ‘pierce’ to craft the parts of the frame. I have to say, she must be very good at crafts.
She is about to handle the metals. I am very interested with this, even the smith from the blacksmith uses furnace to deal with the metals. How can Eula do this?
She conjured a ‘mana tool’. It is shaped like a mug, or a pitcher. Basically, it is a container with a handle. The metal is located in the ‘mana container’.
She began charging a lot of ‘bar’. She raised her hands and casted a magic that formed a huge flat circular black thing on the top of her hands. She then casted a ‘shot force’ in order to lift it very high in the sky. She casted another magic which turned it transparent, then she manipulated the ‘shot force’ to concave that thing.
(Is that a mirror?)
[It is similar to a mirror that it bends the light, but it can’t reflect light and the mirror is more clear and transparent. So, the mirror bends more light than the ‘magic mirror’.]
Basically, an actual mirror is still better.
(What if you just make a lot of ‘magic mirror’ so you could replicate a reflection?)
[Yes, but it takes a lot of ‘magic mirror’ that you have to control. You see how I am controlling this ‘magic mirror’].
Yeah, she also needed to use ‘shot force’.
Anyway, she is using a large concentration of sunlight to melt the metal I suppose.
This could be a very powerful attack huh, solar beam. I understand why it takes two moves to execute, to set up the mirror, and to adjust the focus of the mirror. Sorry author for throwing this joke here, I know that only some would know what I am talking about. This paragraph doesn’t affect the story so don’t be angry, alright? (Author: Yes.)
The metal molts and she manipulated the ‘mana tool’ to shape the metal. Basically, she is casting the parts.
Casting is like when you fill your cup with sand. When you place the sand on the ground, the sand is now shaped like how the cup’s inside is shaped. Another example is when making chocolates, you use mold to control how you want your chocolate to be shaped. A circle, star, square, or the usual shape of valentines, a heart.
She needs to maintain the shape of the ‘mana tool’ until the liquid metal solidify so it is a long process.
I am still waiting for them to arrive for the meeting.
…
I really have to consider that something really happened.
(Eula, where is that letter?)
[Breast pocket.]
I see the letter that Eula is talking about. Yeah, nothing weird or suspicious about the letter either.
I go out the room and looked outside the window through the courtyard.
Something is happening at the entrance.
A fight, huh. I guess most of the attention of the students is focused towards this, which is why not much students is paying attention to that couple.
…
So many big shots there, plus some exchange students. I wonder what is going on.
Due to my nature, I am smiling as I watch the confrontation.
I heard some murmurs,
“Why is no one calling the teachers?”
“Is that a fight?”
“That student is the president of our student council.”
“The head of discipline committee is also there.”
Yeah, those students will get popular overnight. The journalist’s will be very happy to have this scoop.
Anyway, Devon is also there, so I should just watch while waiting. I will stack several chairs. One chair isn’t high enough to watch from the windows on the second floor.
…
[Why is no one calling the teachers?]
(They believe that the students can fix them on their own. They will act depending on the situation, and this situation is not of those. Do not worry though, this happen frequently especially during these times.)
Anyway, I’ll eat the foods that I bought earlier from the cafeteria. This might take way longer.
There are six students from the troublemakers and eight students from the… uhh… anti-troublemakers? I can’t really say that they are diligent students because one of them is a delinquent. I should just call the troublemakers, the Con Party. Then the other side, the Pro Party.
With Koga and Trista in there, they should probably fine, unless the transfer students are extremely strong. I just hope that the president won’t be harmed, otherwise a very annoying person will arrive.
One student from the Con Party suddenly tries to attack the president. Koga protected her.
Herbert suddenly goes in front and shouted something.
Their reactions, He said something stupid again. Only three person seems unfazed by it though.
After a while, the con party decided to go away. That is settled then, not permanently though.
Suddenly, one of the student in the con party looked this way with a scary. I am pretty sure that he felt the malicious intent of Nana located on the third floor of this building.
Time to organize the chairs and deal with this meeting.
Meanwhile, Eula is talking to the smith that we found out earlier.
He said that he participated in catching the criminal for years, but he received an injury two years ago from the Death Caravan which made him retire from being an adventurer to a town smith.
Everything he said matches the written description of the culprit we found earlier on a paper. Uses a large variety of weapon, has a very large build, unknown gender, always seen wearing a red robe and a white mask, uses very unusual magic and a very strong and cunning opponent.
Eula asked his permission if she can use ‘astral creation’ to him. He is currently thinking about it.
(I presume that it is the opposite of ‘astral recreation’ where you create the video instead of watching it?)
[Yes.]
“What do you want to see miss?”
“Every scenario that you see the culprit.”
“Can you do that miss? You do know that it will take a huge amount of mana to create an ‘astral storage’ especially for a whole lot of those scenarios.”
“Trust me. Okay~?”
“Fine. But I will stop cooperating if I sense that you are suffering from hypomanion.”
(What is a hypomanion?)
[Lack of mana.]
Basically hypotension, but instead of blood, it is mana.
(Let me guess. If you suffer from too much mana, it is call hypermanion.)
[Yes.]
Why does the translator translate it to that? There is no word like that in our dictionary.
If this is a story and the author is the one who is actually responsible, then it is very lame. (Author: It is not my fault.)
She is currently casting the magic. This is very complicated, I can’t keep up on how she is doing that. I should sharpen my senses.
[You don’t need to study this magic. I will teach it to you when the time comes. Just do what you have to do, this will take a long time.]
No need to do that then.
“Nathan~, sorry we’re late~.”
It’s the president. Behind her is Devon saying,
“Yo, Nathan. Be careful, apparently this batch is more troublesome than before. I kinda wish Volg is here, you know.”
“Be careful too, apparently you are going to the wrong direction brother.”
“I don’t get it.”
“Of course you do.”
Well, time to finish this meeting.
…
I am now waiting for Eula to be finished. This takes too long though, the class is about to start
[Okay, I think I might be able to identify the culprit now.]
(Nice! Let’s switch then.)
I said thanks and good bye to the smith. Then I left.
It is about time for the culprit to show himself.
Let me experience first-hand what the culprit or culprits are capable of.
...
Then, it turns out nothing significant will happen. That’s impossible though, unless the culprit actually died after his first kill yesterday.