The Golden Sun of the Academy

Episode 24

After the Blade Devourer

The vision is dark.

As visual information was not input, other senses began to play more than usual.

A faint iron taste mixed with an unpleasant sweetness in the dry, stale mouth.

The tip of his nose was lumpy, and a fishy smell lingered.

An unpleasant tinnitus sounded in my ears, something I would only hear on a TV that had stopped broadcasting at dawn.

My toes were drained of blood, and I felt a chill. I felt the touch of soft cloth on my fingertips.

It looks like someone is holding it there. The front of the body felt warm and swayed up and down.

I tried to open my eyes, but my whole body was so weak that I couldn’t even lift those thin eyelids.

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Just. I wanted to put everything down and stay like this.

Memories in my head shook wildly. Fragmented memories were complicatedly intertwined and collided with each other.

Suwon Dungeon.

blade predator.

no.

Hyuk Kang.

Kiryan.

and.

knife.

‘knife? X feet?’

As soon as he remembered the training sword that had been turned into powder and fluttered, he was startled by himself and forcibly raised his spirit.

how much is that A stimulant that awakens the lethargy of the whole body was a more realistic problem than anything else.

As if the eyelids, which seemed to never move for the rest of their lives, were overpowering. After shaking for a while, I managed to climb up and my eyesight opened.

A light crimson light tickled his eyes.

‘How much time has passed… … .’

My vision was opened, and the messy mixed sensations were sorted out.

The taste of iron in the mouth and the fishy smell at the tip of the nose were from burst nosebleeds that had hardened at the tip of the nose or flowed into the mouth.

“Are you awake?”

As I got up to spit out the light blood in my mouth, the tinnitus that had been ringing in my ears due to magical exhaustion gradually subsided and stopped.

And as expected, I was carrying someone on my back.

When I looked around, I knew the location right away because I had seen it once.

“Thank you… … , drop me off.”

“uh… … , okay. I’m glad you came to your senses.”

When Kanghyuk, who was carrying me, smiled awkwardly and untied his arms, I stumbled a few times at the weight of my legs, but soon regained my balance and was able to stand properly.

On one side of the field of view, over the high-rise building. The sun was slowly setting, and the evening glow was visible. And based on the scarlet sunset, I saw a familiar iron gate in front of me.

Academy’s main entrance.

starting point and ending point.

eventually came back

After licking his mouth a few times to collect the blood inside, he spat it on the tree on the side of the road.

A pale red light appeared on the floor where the blood was spit.

“Taeyang, are you awake?”

Next to me, Anya tilted her head and studied my face carefully.

It seemed as if he was worried that he was bluffing or not.

“uh… … okay.”

The moment I was trying to fool around. Something I had forgotten flashed into my mind and I asked the guys again.

“however. What happened to him?”

“That guy?”

“Ah~ You mean the horny man who was gloomy and wearing a hood?”

Seeing that we were fine like this, the ending was expected, but I asked again once.

Kang Hyuk also seems to have noticed that I already know something because of this incident. I said it as if Anya had something… … .

Overall, I know something that you guys don’t know, but please keep it a secret. I ran into this situation.

There was nothing bad about that. The more they try to infer my identity, the more in the end the 50,000 hypotheses will bury my secret deeper.

Moreover, Kiryan had even changed into something that would be repulsive to the general public.

Temporarily suturing won’t be difficult. It was a figure that didn’t look like a human at all, but no one would shield it.

what’s really important

‘Why Kanghyuk? For what purpose? It means that you followed me and were fighting Kiryan.’

Whipping my brain, I sorted out the situation to some extent, and then Anya answered my question.

“He… … The sun was blown up by the explosion you caused?”

Explosions don’t matter. Because if he really died, there would be something left.

“By any chance, was there anything left there? For example… … , the horn on his forehead.”

My voice trembled in my mind.

And Anya answered my thoughts.

“no? there was no such thing? It just exploded and all that was left was an eggshell~? It was just that piece.”

“What, was it important?”

Kang Hyuk, who was next to him, also expressed doubts about whether he had caught something caught in the conversation.

To be honest, it was more regret than anxiety.

“no. That’s enough.”

It seems like it’s really not a big deal to Anya and Kanghyuk. He spat out words to reassure him.

Those baby horns are a precious synthetic material. It’s too bad… … .

Its horn was also one of the essential ingredients for extracting the essence of the Blade Devourer.

Even if not now, he was once a member of the family that the branch from which greed had reached.

If only I had those horns, the next step would have been much easier.

He licked his lips with regret.

Not even a trace left could mean one of two things.

I was caught up in an explosion that reflected reality and exploded without even leaving horns… … .

Or barely escaped alive.

If I’m betting on that, I’d bet on the latter.

No matter how strengthened he is, he doesn’t think he’s weak enough to be crumbled by sword light.

and.

Even if he had run away, I wasn’t too worried.

Since I brought his main armament, the limits to his growth must have become clear.

That’s how I got into the academy. It was nice to go back and repeat the same way I came out at the beginning.

“You guys must have been tired too, but thank you for taking care of it.”

“okay… … , let’s go in.”

“Taeyang and Kanghyuk also worked hard~.”

When passing in front of the women’s dormitory. Anya seems to be doing well. He waved his hand towards Kanghyuk and me.

-Anya’s favorability slightly increases.

And I could tell by looking at the notification window that popped up. That not all of Anya’s emotions were cut out.

After Anya leaves. An awkward silence lingered between Kanghyuk and me.

It was of a different kind than before.

If you felt hostility from him when you first started… … Now, in his words and actions, strangely, yearning? Or curious? Because I felt the remnants of that kind of emotion.

Anyway, this time it definitely helped.

Did you really come to help me?

‘No, the given information is too lacking to think that way.’

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Just as Kanghyuk lacks my information. I also had too little information about Kanghyuk’s behavior this time.

‘Perhaps, a strange organization approached him, right?’

Doubt after question lingered on its tail. In the end, Kanghyuk and I were in the same position.

Kanghyuk interrupted his thoughts while talking.

“Golden Sun.”

“What?”

From the expression of the guy holding the weight, I could see the determination.

What are you holding so much weight on? … .

And the look in his eyes… … Right after the guerrilla training was over, it was the gaze looking at the comrades who had suffered together.

In a word, it was embarrassing.

Going one step further, he confirmed with his mouth what I had only organized in my thoughts.

“I don’t know how you are active in any group, but… … .”

“uh… … , uh?”

Already here I felt He went really well. It was clear that they were in a situation where they were working hard on each other.

In that situation, I didn’t know anything else, but when I remembered the guy’s past, one thing became clear.

He seems to think that the culprit behind the terrible incident five years ago, when he lost his parents and ended up living with his aunt, is related.

“… … You can always rely on me to fight those bastards.”

“… … .”

“Even if it’s not enough, I’ll be by your side until the end.”

“thanks… … all.”

To say that it had nothing to do with it here, I couldn’t bear to pour cold water on the guy who was spitting it out as if he was relieved.

As I broke up with him on the first floor of the dormitory against the backdrop of a dark sky that slowly set in dusk, there was a notification window that came to my mind.

-Kanghyeok’s favorability will increase.

I cleared the notification window and looked down at my waist. The sword body had been blown away and only the handle remained, something that was ambiguous even to be called a sword was dangling from the sword stand.

I got the equipment… … . Another weapon lost.

X feet… … .

Aren’t gauntlets bad, should I at least punch them for a while?

“Let’s go in, wash up, and go to sleep… … , Tomorrow will work somehow.”

While struggling to enter the bathroom. I felt the vibration of my phone in my pocket.

And the screen that came to mind was not a restricted caller this time.

-010-xxxx-xxxx.

The number was floating, but it was a number I didn’t know at all.

‘Take this… … Don’t you?’

Unlike the last caller ID restriction. Still, if you made a call while displaying your number, it means that you have a clear purpose.

After thinking about it for a while, I did. I lifted my cell phone.

“hello?”

Inside the dormitory one room, my voice rang out.

* * *

An alleyway in Suwon under a dark night sky. A black oval-shaped gate appeared in the air as if looking into an abyss, and then it spat out a lump.

The lump was Kiryan, who was pouring blood from all over his body. He sighed heavily as he clutched the knife wound that had been dug deep into his shoulder.

“under… … , under… … , X feet… … . I almost fell for it.”

He braced himself against the wall, catching his breath for a long time before collapsing onto the floor.

“I don’t even care. How could this be so messed up, Won… … .”

Even when he was favored by greed in the past, he never imagined that he would fall to this level.

“by the way. Forced movement using a gate… … , Have you finally answered my prayers?”

Most of his powers were unavailable from the moment the grace of the person he worshiped disappeared. So all Kiryan could do was wait.

“Are you finally back? … , my master.”

Full of emotion, Kiryan chanted quietly, but his sentiments were soon shattered by the voice that followed.

-No, the owner you’ve been waiting for so long doesn’t come back.

“Who are you… … .”

Kiryan swallowed a dry saliva at the voice that defiantly drew a line and defied his expectations. It was the first voice I heard.

It was even very sticky and even sinister.

“if… … Are you the one sent by greed?”

A cry of anticipation and anxiety rang through the alleyway in the middle of the night.

A quiet reply came from the empty void.

-no.

“Then who are you-! What do you want from me!”

In response to Kiryan’s cry, which was engulfed in anxiety and screaming out loud, the black voice answered without note.

-It’s what I want… … .

gulp.

Kiryan found himself swallowing dry spit, swayed by the suffocating voice.

‘Please, please… … Unless you’re a weird kid… … .’

– All of you.

After that answer, darkness covered Kiryan.