Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

21 – Group Tasks (3)

“Save——”

Please!

Before he could shout, Adele’s ax brushed the hunter’s hair.

Pak! A roar and a splatter of chair scraped his cheek, causing a trickle of blood to flow, and the near-death hunter glanced at the ax stuck in his side with wide eyes.

Adele put her index finger to her lips without blinking.

“Don’t be loud.”

The reason was simple.

I didn’t want the sleeping Lucy or Anastasia to wake up and see this scene.

It’s troublesome to explain what happened, and showing this kind of scene will only shock you.

So be quiet.

It was Adele’s idea to treat it as if nothing had happened.

And.

“Did I tell you to beg for your life?”

The words the hunter was trying to bring out are nothing more than garbage with no nutritional value.

I had absolutely no intention of playing around with words that didn’t contain information about who and why they were targeting him.

Adele quietly drew the axe and looked down at his fingers resting on the armrests of his chair, his wrists tightly gripped.

“If you get an answer you don’t like again, I’ll cut off that useless finger first.”

The warning wasn’t just for the hunter who was talking nonsense.

It was also a warning to those who were struggling with bug-like heads on how to escape while a quiet one caught their attention.

Only then did silence settle in the cabin.

When the sounds of the not-so-stellar brains were gone, Adele pulled a chair and sat down.

“From now on, if there is a guy whose answer differs from the others by even a second, he will cut off his finger right away.”

He asked, fiddling with the ax blade with his fingers.

“Who ordered it?”

It was not a question specifically aimed at.

However, the hunters who recalled Adele’s words a while ago replied almost simultaneously, determined not to cut off his fingers.

“This old man! He said he would take revenge for causing the downfall of his master.”

“I should have told you to be quiet.”

He slapped the face of the hunter who made a loud noise.

The inside of his mouth seemed to have burst, and his blood flowed between his parched lips.

That’s even more unbelievable.

Someone didn’t tell the old man, but the old man was the culprit?

It’s not that it doesn’t make sense, but I was still very uncomfortable.

“How much did you receive?”

“Five gold coins each.”

I see.

With that answer, I was able to recognize that there was someone behind it.

If it was 5 gold coins each, it wasn’t an amount that even an academy professor could handle, so I had no choice but to think that way.

The culprit must have rolled his head quite a bit and used a subcontract to subcontract to keep his tail from being stepped on, but he certainly couldn’t get his tail off.

“I want to tell you.”

Adele, who was done with the hunter, stared at the hunter and the old man.

His expression was determined, as if he would not budge even if his fingers were cut off or if his life was threatened.

“It doesn’t seem to be there.”

Then the business is over.

With this level of loyalty, there must be a connection between the old man and the background somewhere.

Even if the old man doesn’t say anything, if you use his family name to investigate his history, you’ll be able to catch the tail of the dark.

Killing people is a bit uncomfortable, but I can’t help it.

Even if it was just targeting himself, it wouldn’t be a problem to ignore, but if he was targeting Lucy or Anastasia as well as eliminating the witnesses, it was necessary to take care of it.

* * *

“Thanks to that, I couldn’t even rest.”

A hut back after the hunters and the old man have been dealt with.

Thanks to the people who were paying attention, I couldn’t even close my eyes, so the fatigue still didn’t go away.

Besides that, maybe it’s because they’re on the verge of being scoured, so they’re very outraged and shallow, but they’ve also been hurt.

Anyway, I feel resentful of all the karma that Adele has accumulated.

“…… Haaam.”

Near the bonfire was Anastasia, who had just woken up, yawning with her mouth wide open.

The guy felt the presence and turned around, then he stared at me with an unknown look.

“Shoulder.”

Looking at the shoulder he pointed to with the tip of his finger, there were blood stains that he hadn’t been able to erase.

I wiped off everything that was buried on the outside in order not to be seen by the two of them, but did it seep out from the inside?

“I heard. I heard you fought.”

“Have you heard?”

To whom?

I don’t know, but I sat down on a chair and took off my top to wipe off the blood with a handkerchief.

Perhaps he couldn’t see it because it was hidden by his clothes, but there were red blood droplets on his shoulder in a straight line.

“… ….”

If I had known this would happen, I would have killed those hunters long ago and gone to deal with them.

I wonder if it was the trouble that I tried to kill Lucy and Anastasia outside for no reason so that they wouldn’t notice.

I took out a bandage from Charlotte’s luggage bag and tried to wrap it around her.

However, it is not that easy to wrap a bandage around your shoulder with one hand.

I thought it would be difficult for me to defeat it alone, so I quietly looked at Anastasia.

“… ….”

The guy, who was cross-legged and holding his hands between them, blinked his eyes a few times.

He didn’t know that he didn’t recognize me at all after he asked for help like this the other day.

“Can you help me bandage it?”

You said it so directly, it was only then that you figured it out and said “Ah.” Anastasia approached with a noise.

Standing behind him, he received the bandage handed to him.

Frigidly, fidgety.

A rustling sound that can’t tell whether the bandage is being unwound or wrapped.

After waiting for such a long time, bandages began to wrap around my shoulders.

But it was strange.

It is said that he was injured, but the wound is not very big.

But, why can’t Anastasia’s hands stop when she’s wrapping the bandage?

The answer to that question came quickly.

“…… What are you doing?”

I looked at her shoulder and saw that the bandages were not tied at all.

The loose bandages flowed down the floor because the knots were not made, and the wrapped bandages were sloppy, so it was more accurate to say that they were worn rather than wrapped.

“It’s done.”

Still, he tapped me on the shoulder triumphantly as if he had wrapped it all up.

“… ….”

I was stunned by that brazenness, but what can I do?

It’s my fault for letting her know what kind of character she is.

Anyway, I roughly knotted the loosely wrapped bandage and put the shirt back on.

* * *

Although not awake, Lucy saw.

The scars all over Adele’s shirtless body.

She must have been whipped, and her torn skin was in the shape of a bug with dozens of legs, and there were traces of being stabbed with a sword everywhere.

Aside from that, burns and wounds like beast bites, etc.

His broad back was more repulsive than a drawing paper on which a child scribbled randomly.

Anastasia wasn’t too surprised, but Lucy was honestly pretty surprised by that.

Although she woke up in surprise, it was frustrating that Anastasia was bandaging her, but she still pretended to be asleep.

‘Why are there so many scars… ….’

I hadn’t paid much attention to Adele until now, but the numerous scars on her body made me a little interested.

I wanted to ask how he lived and how his body looked like that.

I’m not asking because I’m worried, I just want to ask out of pure curiosity.

Anyway, I didn’t bother to ask because I don’t think we’re in a relationship like that.

“Kek—”

As he trudged along, distracted by those scars that seemed to be shimmering in front of his eyes, he felt strangled.

“Why are you walking so mesmerized?”

Turning around, Adele had pulled the hood of his overcoat, choking him.

As I was about to ask what this was all about, Lucy noticed that nothing was touching her feet.

He thought his feet were floating because he was caught by Adele, but no matter how much he moved his feet up and down, there was no footrest.

“… ….”

It was only then that Lucy saw it.

A road cut off as if the world had ended.

I thought it was covered with snow, but in fact, it is a bottomless cliff covered with indistinguishable clouds or fog.

If Adele hadn’t caught on, she would have fallen into this trap in the snowy mountains as she stepped out of the void.

As he watched the snowballs falling from Lucy’s feet, his mouth naturally dried up, and even in this cold weather, his hands and feet seemed to be sweating.

“All right. You just tie it up and go.”

“Huh?”

Before she could even ask what she was talking about, the feeling of floating wrapped around her body again.

It wasn’t because he tripped this time.

Her Adele was the one who lifted her up.

“What? What? What are you doing?”

Lucy clung to his shoulder and tried to punch Adele in the back with his fist.

He hesitated.

He stopped his fists at almost touching distance.

It was partly because she realized belatedly that the shoulder she was carrying was the one Adele had injured, and it was also partly because she saw the scars on his back.

Just looking at it made me frown at the pain it felt, but punching it there was like pouring salt into a wound.

The thought of that made her heart weak and she couldn’t get her fist to fly.

“Isn’t that so because if left alone, you will fall into a trap?”

Adele replied, then looked up at her knees before she knew it.

It was impossible to tell with my eyes whether the floor in front of me was real or not because of the thick fog and clouds like snow.

Lucy looked the other way, worried about the expression ‘you’.

“You are here too.”

The other shoulder not too far away.

The deeply covered hood stumbled and turned over.

Anastasia’s face is visible as the white snowflakes piled up on the hood fall down.

“… ….”

Since when has he been on his back?

“Isn’t it too much to climb a mountain like this with two people on your back?”

“Don’t worry. Both of you are light, so it’s not as difficult as I thought.”

And.

Adele pointed with her hand at a mountain peak hidden in her white blizzard.

“The goal is not too far away.”

Lucy followed his fingertips with her gaze, looking at the blurry figure in the fierce snowstorm for a moment.

The body stood upright as if threatening while prostrated on all fours.

The blue eyes of a predator standing on top of a sheer cliff, looking down at intruders who dared climb the snowy mountain.

─Kurrure… ….

The gurgling sound mixed with the sound of the rough wind made even a fool aware that it did not welcome them.