Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

46 – Heidel (2)

“Sit down.”

Following his words, I went to the chair by the window and sat down.

There were no light sources such as candles or magic lamps, so the cool moonlight coming through the window was the only light.

Is it because the moonlight was shining on Heidel’s face at an angle?

His expression was cold.

“Yes…… How long has it been since we talked like this?”

Although he had only met him less than a day ago, the image of Heidel reminiscing while saying that did not suit him.

He leaned back in his rocking chair and crossed his one leg.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve taken up a lot of time for getting blood from you for the past 10 years, so I haven’t had time to have a proper conversation.”

At his words, the scars all over his body seemed to throb.

In the memory of Adele left on the bookshelf, the area where Heidel stabbed him with a knife is especially special.

I touched his throbbing side and opened my mouth.

“That sounds like you don’t need to have blood drawn this year.”

At my words, Heidel nodded his head.

“Yes. It is no longer necessary.”

Heidel took a small glass bottle out of his arms and put it on the table.

What was in the bottle was a disturbing liquid that looked like red, sticky blood on the outside.

It wriggled as if it were alive, and climbed inside the bottle.

“It is a witch’s fairy tale created by mixing the blood containing the four characteristics collected so far with the blood of a witch. Unlike the imperfect ones I’ve made up to this point, this one’s performance is solid.”

“… ….”

I could feel cold sweat running down my back.

If what Heidel said was true, the Witches’ Fairy Tale was something that could make killing people legal.

Is that all?

That’s an item that can exert more influence than that.

Greater impact than could legally kill a person.

“Why are you telling me that?”

I forcibly took my eyes off the Witches’ Fairy Tale Festival, which kept catching my attention, and turned to Heidel.

“I wanted you to use this item on the saintess. Isn’t that why you entered the academy?”

Looking at him like that, he responded by pushing the object towards me without changing his expression.

“Do you think I will obey you?”

Let me answer that.

Smoothly.

An ominous energy stretched out from the rocking chair he was sitting on like tentacles and headed towards me.

They rode up through my feet and into my legs, through my legs into my body, and up through my body and choked my neck.

“Now I have no intention of hanging out with your foolishness. The time has come, do as I say.”

It was as if an anaconda was strangling it.

The pressure was strong enough to feel like it was trying to break my neck, not to stop me from breathing.

“… ….”

The blood vessels and muscles in the hand that had been placed on his armrest became so strong that they stood out.

It was a resistance to manage the facial expression shown to Heidel.

My brain, which believes that there is something strangling me, makes my body tense to get out of it somehow, so I just put that tension into my hands.

“It’s like this.”

This is all due to Heidel’s hypnosis.

It’s not the purpose to cause me pain, it’s the pain that accompanies the fact that his mana penetrates my body and tries to hypnotize me.

If I lost my mind in this pain, I would become a doll that only obeys his orders.

“Do you think I will give in?”

I channeled magic into the ring.

Soon the amplified mana flowed back through my blood vessels and swept away Heidel’s mana trying to invade my body.

As if an immune response had taken place, the process of removing the foreign substance in the body was another pain, but it was only for a moment.

Parts ZZUZW——

Blue magical energy flew like a spark.

The magical power of Heidel that was riding on my body was scattered like it was on fire and disappeared.

“…… Amazing.”

As soon as all the magical energy that was riding through my body disappeared, Heidel, who was sitting across from me, seemed to have not expected this to happen, but his eyes seemed to widen slightly.

“I hypnotized him this time without treating him as his son, but I thought he would solve it on his own.”

It’s shameless to say that you’re going to have a conversation.

He removed his hand from the nearly crushed knob and stood up.

“If you only invited me to do this trick, then I’ll just go back.”

Although he is old now, he is an old war hero.

No matter how big the ring is and how big Adele’s magic box is, it’s almost reckless to keep fighting head-on.

“Well, if it doesn’t work, I can’t help it.”

Fortunately, Heidel seemed to have fallen for my bluff.

Although he failed to hypnotize him, he rested his arms on his armrests and leaned his head back in his chair, gazing leisurely into the air.

“Did you think that only you could do that?”

He explained if he noticed that he was puzzled by the figure.

“No. I just gave you a chance to do your duty as a child by giving you a chance to help avenge your mother. It’s something I can do even if it’s not you.”

“…… That means…….”

“Yes.”

Heidel answered, looking out of his window.

“Preparations have already been made to the extent of feeding the witch fairy tale to the saint. It’s something I’ve been preparing for today for years.”

His face was reflected through the dark window.

At first glance, it seems very calm, but that is just before the storm.

I was sure because I was at the age of facing him.

On the other side, that static anger filled to the brim.

“…… When my business is over, I will leave.”

His silence continued, so I gave a casual greeting and left the study.

As I came out into the red carpeted hallway, there stood Charlotte, who had ordered Tina and I to have tea and rest.

Click.

Charlotte pulled out her pocket watch from her bosom, checked the time on her, and put it back.

Click.

After a while, I took it out again and checked my watch.

A look of restlessness, unable to stay still for a moment.

Why, but after watching it for a while, he called his name.

“Charlotte.”

“Oh…… !”

As if she had been caught doing something wrong, Charlotte stunned and dropped her pocket watch from her hand to the floor.

I picked it up and handed it over.

“…… Thank you.”

Charlotte, who politely received her pocket watch with both hands, looked at me quietly as it was.

Eyes that capture Adele.

And the anxiety that fills it.

I could understand why she did this through her memories of peeking in her study.

I’ve seen Adele go crazy when he meets Heidel, so he’s probably worried that I’ll go crazy this time too.

It was a very special attitude to stand by with me in preparation for her unforeseen situation.

Chin.

She put her hand on Charlotte’s head.

I stroked her manicured hair wildly to make her hair a mess.

It was an impulsive action because it felt like seeing young Charlotte trembling with anxiety in Adele’s memories, and it was also wonderful.

“Do, boy?”

Charlotte opened her wide eyes, unable to do this or that, only wiggling her fingers.

She looked at the flustered guy and muttered in a low voice.

“Do you think I’ve become weird again?”

“No, that’s it, I… ….”

Charlotte, who could not see her eyes and rolled her eyes away from mine, nodded her head.

“Yeah, it seems weird.”

“Huh?”

I haven’t looked in the mirror, but I’m sure it’s not like the Adele I’ve seen in my memory, with my eyes wide open and unsteady.

Where is the strangeness?

At some point, I was seriously thinking about whether I was the only one who didn’t know that I was under the hypnosis of Heidel.

“You have never stroked my hair like this except when I was young.”

“Ah.”

Did you say it was weird that way?

It was only then that I was able to put my mind at ease with the relief that I had been worrying nonsense.

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“It certainly is.”

I removed her hand from stroking her hair.

Charlotte ran her fingers through her messy hair.

And then.

A glance.

“… ….”

A glance.

“… ….”

She looked at me out of the corner of her eye, then hurriedly averted her gaze, then repeated.

What should I say about that?

It should be said that when a little grown-up child has something he wants, he secretly shows off to his parents.

Anyway, it felt similar to that.

I have asked many times that the Charlotte I know cannot speak for herself.

“Is there anything you want to say?”

“…… Doesn’t exist.”

Half-beat slow reply.

I asked again.

“Is there really no one?”

“… ….”

A moment of silence.

Then Charlotte pulled out her comb and held it out to me.

“Then…… Will you help the young master fix her hair? Since you made such a mess, I want you to take responsibility.”

“I thought you wanted something great, but it turned out to be nothing.”

I took the comb Charlotte gave me.

“Go back to your room and do it.”

The moment I walked in front of her like that, the moment I turned her head to ask if it would be okay, even though I couldn’t brush her hair better than you.

I saw.

The messing up of her hair as if she were trying to increase her work, and her smiling face.

Although, as soon as I realized I was looking back, it fell to the ground and disappeared like snow that melted away in an instant.

I definitely saw it.