Avoid Former Co-Workers

Chapter 93

93 – 93. Inversion (9)

4Th floor to the underground shelter. And again on the 4th floor from the underground shelter.

After the stairs from the 3rd floor to the 4th floor were over, it was time to get out of this disgusting place called Dubekan.

“Are you here?”

Senia asks as if she was waiting for me with her arms crossed.

Well, that’s what I felt towards the end, but it seemed like I was spending a lot of time locking up Cayden’s gang in the basement.

So I thought everyone would escape and be gone.

“Couldn’t you have been waiting for me?”

“You’re right.”

“…Why? They went down first.”

Senia didn’t really answer that question.

“Where did you go before that?”

“1St floor. Chain explosions are not allowed because of the monster’s blood.”

“… Whew.”

She wondered why she was suddenly sighing, but Senia picked up something on the floor and pointed it at me.

“What? Why?”

“Stay still. I’m just applying charcoal.”

“Then why?”

“The lab on the first floor has completely collapsed. If you say you’ve been there, you shouldn’t be lying.”

“Ah…”

I finally understood why Senia sighed. No matter how close she is to the position of front-runner, it is obvious that it would look strange for her not to have a single piece of clothing scorched in the middle of a collapsed building.

Senia was trying to trick her eyes in a plausible way so that I wouldn’t be suspicious of others outside.

“It took a lot longer than I thought I went to the first floor. When you go outside, just say what I said. Okay?”

“…Yes.”

If you go out of the building and find out about this jade and get questioned, of course you’ll be in trouble. So it’s really appreciated that you’re trying to help me.

But why are you helping me? As for that… I have no idea.

There were times when she thought of just asking a blunt question, but she immediately shook her head and decided to close her mouth. Senia’s sharp words stabbed my lungs and revealed her true intentions, so it’s something to be avoided… After the charcoal painting was over, only her silence flowed.

We were rescued last, and all the students who were trapped in the Dube Hall successfully escaped safely.

As the host of the spirits, the spirit magicians who suffered from high-level exhaustion from constantly squeezing magic power, and some with severe injuries were immediately transported.

All that remains is the shelter that we will look at for the last time.

“There are people here too!”

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“Bring the stretcher, as well as the neutralizer!”

As expected.

Even if he broke the magic circulation device, he only broke one, not four, so his limbs are fine. But,

“Cool, cool!”

“Ugh…!”

“…You’re seriously poisoned. This is dangerous.”

Because they were seriously poisoned because they couldn’t block their respiratory system properly, everyone wasn’t normal.

Since he inhaled the high concentration of demonic energy in that small space, his body was ruined.

The subject of gasping for breath while breathing in the outside air, the eyes do not fall in one place.

In those bloody eyes filled with dissatisfaction, there was a picture of myself. Soon, one of them starts screaming first.

“That bastard… That bastard locked us up!!!”

“That’s right! They blocked the entrance to the shelter and deliberately caused a splash out to get us to this point!”

Well, actually, they talk like that, but there was nothing I couldn’t be proud of.

If you’re interrogating me, I’ll just shrug my shoulders, I don’t know. It was something I had to answer. Because there won’t be any evidence anyway.

But I don’t think it’s even necessary this time?

“You are arrested as the real culprits of the Duvetian terrorism. While you are being treated at the hospital, you will be interrogated, so know that. Of course, you will be sentenced as soon as you recover.”

Before I can make an excuse, somehow things are going differently.

While I was being rescued out of the building with Senia, the time I spent worrying about how I would deny each and every one of those words seemed to have faded.

Moreover, it seems that Cayden’s gang won’t be able to avoid this easily, with Ophelia standing at the center.

“Stop talking nonsense! If you’re going to arrest me, I’ll arrest that cloth!”

“Why are we being arrested and not commoners who have offended the nobles!”

“It’s a guess. It’s a guess! We’re the victims!!”

When a person is cornered, the judgment is not good. It often happens.

They would never have answered this question if they had been able to think normally.

“Hey, let’s hear the story. What did Junon-kun do to you?”

When Ophelia let out a sigh and said, “Let’s hear that nonsense,” The Cayden gang all raised their voices and shouted.

“The cloth he brought was filled with artificial mana stones and demon blood! Thanks to that, we were attacked without even using magic!”

“Where does that end?! I broke the magic circuit and made the shelter unable to properly maneuver!”

“Otherwise, to make us go out———”

After summarizing the contents delivered, she openly snorted as if she was dumbfounded.

“So you’re saying that Junon-kun here is single-handedly dealing with you and locking you in a shelter?”

“Yes! That’s it!”

There’s no way she can’t snort when she hears the absurd rumor that only one person locked them up, and 13 people at that.

She and she are said to have broken the magic circulator in order to confine it thoroughly, causing a splash-out within it.

Whoever hears this sounds crazy. However, as I emphasized again, those guys are not in a state where normal accidents are possible.

“So, do you have any evidence?”

“…!”

The word ‘evidence’ fits perfectly.

It’s the way they’ve always done it. Concealing evidence, covertly arranging or fabricating it through behind-the-scenes work.

Then, they questioned whether there was any evidence and avoided it by thoroughly hiding their actions. But what about now?

He draws blood in his eyes and wants punishment from others, but there is no evidence.

In short, it’s like having self-propelled water.

“Not even worth mentioning. Take them all.”

“Let go! That son of a b*tch has us locked up! It’s him, not us… Oops!”

“Noisy.”

Ophelia personally takes them who are no different from sinners. I would like to proceed with this case, perhaps, to hear the circumstances of the authors.

What happened? Contrary to what I expected, the results are a little different, but there is no big problem with this.

But… For some reason, my head was spinning.

“Junon!”

“…”

“Hey, mind——!”

How did this happen? Are you feeling dizzy because you’re so relaxed?

…I don’t know. My eyes closed naturally, and I couldn’t resist it with my body.

***

“What happened?”

“I don’t know. He suddenly collapsed…”

“Suddenly…?”

“First, let’s do a medical examination.”

She used to be right next to her, but Senia couldn’t figure out why Junon had these symptoms.

‘I’m sure it’s not something magical…’

There was nothing caught in the eye, so it wasn’t affected by magic.

So from being exposed to splash out? Rejected that too. Junon did everything he could to prepare for a splash out.

Even when dealing with the spirits, he handed over the hood to him, and he did not show any symptoms of demonic poisoning, which is commonly known.

Then the only thing left…

The doctor who just finished the examination reports the condition.

“It’s not that you’re showing signs of exhaustion. It’s just… You seem to be overexerting yourself.”

Isn’t it exhaustion?

The last thing I could point out as the cause was mana exhaustion. But… To collapse from overwork? This is hard to understand.

Since the building is so tall, Junon’s body might get tired thanks to the number of steps, but the stairs aren’t that difficult.

Just before the rescue, it didn’t look too difficult during the climb up.

Even when dealing with berserk monsters and runaway spirits, he would not have had too much of a burden on his body because he carefully corrected the arrangement of the personnel and reduced the damage…

“I’ll take you to the hospital for now. Miss Senia, please follow me to the hospital just in case.”

“…Yes.”

Questions about Junon were growing more and more.

***

When I open my eyes, I see a familiar ceiling I saw not too long ago.

“Huh… A hospital?”

I wonder why it was like that when I was brought to the hospital, but this familiar ceiling isn’t very bright.

As if time had passed since my eyes suddenly closed, it was now night. It was afternoon when the incident happened.

“What happened…”

Scratching his head without knowing why, I got up from the bed and a nurse came in at just the right time.

“Oh, when did you wake up?”

“Just now. When I woke up, I was a bit surprised that it was already dark.”

“I was worried because we also slept for a long time. So I’m asking you, do you have any sick symptoms?”

“No, I’m fine.”

In response to my answer that I was fine, the nurse nodded a couple of times and said that it seemed to be just overwork. He added that he had done all kinds of checkups while he was sleeping, but there was nothing else to infer.

It actually seems like that. I’m in the hospital and I’m not sick anywhere…

“Still, other symptoms due to magi poisoning may appear later, so I’ll be hospitalized for just one day.”

“Um… I see.”

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with arguing with a professor for not listening to lectures. I’m glad.

The nurse handed over a document and told me to immediately ring the call bell if I had double symptoms.

“Is there anything else you need?”

I need it… Ah.

“Could you please bring me a newspaper?”

A big incident happened, but how the world works is pretty important to me.

After a while, when I received the newspaper from the nurse and read it carefully, I could see that this job had changed considerably from what I knew in the past.

“…If this was enough, it would have been posted on the bulletin board near Megrez Hall.”

─Kaden, a member of a high-ranking aristocratic family, committed the crime at the academy, the main institution of the duchy.

─Shock facts. At that time, the nobles who committed the crime denied the crime, saying that one person had committed it!

—The motive is unknown. However, Cayden and the other 12 people who committed the crime had their magic circuits broken due to the splash-out, so they could no longer use magic…

─The people involved in Dubei who responded to this crime also appeared one after another…

First of all, the scale has gotten a little bigger. It was understandable, perhaps because the one-off suppression process was not exposed, but it could have resulted in human casualties.

First of all, what can be said to be common.

Just like before her return, Princess Ophelia presents all the evidence of this division and reveals the course of Cayden’s gang’s crime.

The same goes for the officials who assisted them. What had so far been covered up or destroyed and proceeded only in a way that was unfavorable to witnesses was revealed, and this incident spread across the country unprecedentedly.

Perhaps, as the atrocities of the nobles become known, the power of the nobles will be further weakened.

Next, the difference.

Originally, immediately after this incident, as the power of the nobles diminishes, it is time for a natural reversal.

But now, the word reversal doesn’t fit well.

“Those who have all been resurrected under the conditions of extreme evil and sinners who have not.”

Is Sojero only pursuing excellent firepower? It is written.

All those who survived are definitely those who were assigned to Class C and Class D this time. By the sinners who didn’t, it must mean the group of Cayden who were thrown into Class F. Oh, of course, he’s a sinner who’s not in Class F anymore.

It is more appropriate to say that the atmosphere has been overtaken rather than reversed.

If I had to ask…

“Reverse. I should say.”

Anyway, the fact that these articles are written has significant value.

As written in the rite, it raises questions about whether the way we’ve been doing so far has been right.

It can be said that there is no denying that the number of vanguard students who were lacking will be filled, as well as it will be helpful in the future.

No matter what, the fact that there are more benefits than losses remains the same.

But… Why is my heart so impatient?

“Whew.”

It was a day where I couldn’t stop breathing easily even though the work was well done.

***

As the news of what had happened at the Duvet Hall would spread, Senia gave a request to Goden who was there in advance.

She’s not seriously injured by the rest of the team, so she’ll be back soon.

“I told you that I was fine, but why did you come to me again?”

“No matter what anyone says, you’re on my team, hahahaha.”

Senia did not expect that Goden himself would come to her room.

“Is it true that I conveyed my words to the children?”

“Yes, yes. Otherwise, Charlotte or Michelle would have come running right away.”