There Is No Spring in the Stolen Field

150. consolation

Having chosen the third option, neither Seria nor Luna, I intended to listen to Luke’s request.

Of course, it was uncertain whether he could fulfill his request perfectly.

He asked me for two people.

Raven and Irene.

First of all, whatever choice Raven made, I decided to respect it.

It didn’t matter if he went into hiding, and he had no intention of stopping him even if he went back to the warriors’ party.

However, after losing her teacher, she was no longer on the side of humans.

Raven says he doesn’t mind using himself as long as he can get revenge.

Knowing her abilities, I did not refuse her offer.

Because from now on, the more people who will join my plan, the better.

“good. Raven. Then let’s get to this place first.”

Throwing away our academy uniforms, which no longer meant anything to us, the two of us donned black robes.

The two of us look like we don’t want anyone to know who we are.

The place we are headed is in Luke’s letter.

The first thing was to go find the artifacts he left behind.

And in this process, Raven’s ability was very useful.

Thanks to her ability to move freely through space, we were able to reach our destination without much effort.

The place Luke marked was the westernmost point of the Empire.

It was at the end of Igria Forest, where the spirits of the forest are said to be asleep.

Is it to prevent outsiders from entering?

Is it to protect the forest?

As soon as we entered the tree, the spirits of the trees began to attack us ferociously.

However, they were not enough to stop us, who were candidates for the warrior party.

I didn’t care about their screams and burned the forest with fire magic, and Raven quietly followed me.

how much did it go in

A place where sunlight no longer reaches because of the dense trees.

A tombstone believed to have been left behind by Luke was erected.

[To my heir.]

Was it set in the distant past?

The tombstone was overgrown with moss.

After telling Raven to stay back for a while, I closed my eyes and started pouring mana into the tombstone.

And again.

As I expected, a dark green magic circle began to glow on the floor.

The earth began to shake.

the sound of birds chirping.

A marble pillar the size of a small well rose slowly from the ground.

drooling.

It sounded like a heavy stone door being pushed, so Raven and I watched it motionless.

Eventually the shaking stopped and we slowly approached the pillar.

As I reached out, a brilliant green gem inside the pillar began to emit a brilliant light.

I knew what this was.

…Reward Luke got during the final exam.

Dragon Heart, the driving force of infinite mana.

Even after 1000 years have passed, the jewel has not lost its brilliance.

And the moment I grabbed it.

An intense light incomparable to that of a moment ago engulfed me.

I felt the flow of mana like a waterfall flowing through Luke’s body.

If it had been a normal human body, the heart might not have been able to withstand it and would have exploded.

But I’m a demon.

Even in the intense pain, my strong body continued to hold on to the mental cord that seemed to be cut off.

“Dog star!”

Raven called my name as I sat down.

“hahahaha…”

His whole body was covered in cold sweat and he couldn’t breathe properly.

But overflowing power.

I felt a power so powerful that it was incomparable to the day I became a demon.

If this power…

Raven looked down at me with a worried look, but I smiled.

“…very refreshing. Raven.”

It was also just what I thought.

Squeezing the strength out of my trembling legs, I grabbed my knees again and stood up.

Approaching the pillar once again, I found a map left under the jewel.

This is… Luke’s daughter.

Where Irene sleeps.

Fortunately, the location wasn’t that far.

As soon as you get out of Igria’s forest, go all the way down the coastline, I think you’ll find it?

I handed the map to Raven.

“…Let’s go there.”

“huh.”

Raven nodded at my words with a confused face.

She goes to see the daughter of the man she loved.

I didn’t know what Raven was thinking.

“Raven.”

“why.”

While holding the map tightly, she didn’t even look at me.

“Did you know of Irene’s existence?”

“…at all.”

Luke. You are really evil.

I was the me who wondered what it would have been like if I had revealed that much to Raven.

Luke, who said he raised her like a child, never revealed the truth to her.

Raven follows his footsteps one by one only after he dies.

As I looked at her with pitiful eyes, Raven shook her head and said to me.

“Let’s go.”

Could Luke have cast a spell on the spirits of the forest?

No elemental stood in our way on the way to retrieve his artifact.

Moving in Raven’s shadow, we arrived at the beach before we knew it.

The second sea I encountered in my life.

When I first entered the academy.

Raven brought me back then too.

Raven brought me to the house where Luke and I once lived.

Just like then, she and I just stared at the distant horizon without saying anything for a while.

Raven, who longed for the past, missed people now.

Transparent tears flowed from her deep black eyes.

“Raven…”

I called her name softly.

“What was I to him? Dog star.”

calm voice.

However, the resonance contained in it was never light.

“Seeing that you asked me to take good care of me until the end, I wonder if I was just a burden to that person in the end.”

“It can’t be… you know. that that is not true.”

“But why didn’t you tell me anything?”

Raven began to vomit the words of resentment that she hadn’t been able to convey to Luke.

“Because I am not trustworthy?”

“Because I love him?”

“I don’t know… It’s my last will, and I’m so angry and dumbfounded that you’re just telling me to forget myself and live a good life.”

Thinking that no word of consolation would help her, I decided to redirect her resentment instead.

I quietly put my hand on Raven’s shoulder.

“Raven. You must have read carefully why he died.”

Raven just sniffed without answering.

“In the end, those damn humans killed your teacher.”

“Are you going to leave the guys who scorned the family of the man you loved and left them to such a miserable end?”

I was also aware that this was by no means a normal way of speaking.

However, it was already a story that had nothing to do with justice and morality.

The humans who shattered Luke and Rebecca’s family didn’t change anything even after 1000 years.

He killed Seria’s parents and destroyed an innocent village.

From my point of view, who had already become a demon, there was no reason to go around them.

I slowly put my hand on Raven’s slender shoulder and patted her on the back as if to comfort her.

“Let’s get revenge. Raven.”

In a soft voice, I whispered in her ear.

“You have to show the same hell to the guys who ruined your world.”

Raven must have felt something for my words, so she also wrapped her hands around my waist and pulled me closer.

“…huh. Dog star.”

“okay…”

“They… should feel the same…”

Looking at Raven’s eyes, which seem to have lost focus, I turned my back and smiled meanly.

Now… Then, let’s go find the next ally.

Through Raven’s magic, we arrived at the place marked on the map and were floating on the surface of the calm waves.

“Are you sure this is it? Raven?”

“…huh. It’s here.”

Hmm…

That means you have to go down here…

“Can you move through the water with magic?”

“…not possible.”

“I see. then…”

I started concentrating enough mana into my fingertips that I was ignorant.

“I have no choice but to make my own path.”

With the infinite mana supplied to me by the Dragon Heart, such outrageous things were possible.

A huge wall of wind split the sea in two.

A level that makes you doubt whether this is possible with magic.

Raven looked at me with both eyes wide open as if surprised.

The two of us began to descend slowly toward the far-deep sea.

And on the other side of the deep floor, the oyster presumed to be the entrance to the cave was opening its mouth.

Following Luke’s will…

A red-haired woman who looked exactly like Rebecca was imprisoned in a purple crystal.