The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

291 – Find the difference in the picture

The girl who introduced herself as Estelle was very different from the Estelle I remembered. I thought I might be the shortest in the academy, but my height has grown to average. Her beautiful purple eyes had changed into the brown eyes commonly seen everywhere, and instead of the gothic-style dress she usually wore, she was wearing everyday clothes commonly seen on the streets.

Above all, Estelle looked straight at me without a mask, and I could clearly see that she was a different person than the Estelle I knew. The setting of Roel’s Meskaki heroine disappeared, and Estelle, referred to only as Rosaline’s friend, was this ordinary girl.

Estelle asked with shining eyes, wondering if it was interesting to know her true identity.

“How did you know that I was the leader of the Modest guild? “There are only two people in the guild who know about this.”

After thinking for a moment about how to respond, I raised my hand and took off the mask I was wearing on my face. Estelle, who was looking at me, saw my face and slightly shrugged her shoulders with surprised eyes. The guarded appearance was like a stray cat meeting a stranger.

“… Did you really come back from the dead?”

“That can’t be possible.”

I noticed that the woman wearing the cat mask who was standing behind Estelle seemed to have realized who Ross was, and tensed her muscles so that she could pounce on me at any time. To avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, I told him about the purpose of my visit.

“I just came to Modest as a guest. “Because I know better than anyone else that this is the best information guild.”

“I can’t hastily treat you as a guest of Modest when I’m not sure of your identity. “I sold my soul to the devil, so this might also be a trick of the devil.”

It’s a natural suspicion. It wasn’t just that we had similar faces, it was because I was the same Ross. I smiled quietly.

“I am a different person than the dead Ross. “Would you believe me if I told you I was Ross from a different world than here?”

Estelle frowned slightly as if she had heard nonsense and snorted.

“No matter how unbelievable a story may be, I can believe it if there is undeniable evidence to persuade me. “I am the leader of the Modest guild who believes that information is the most powerful weapon.”

Is it like the beliefs of a businessman? I nodded and reached out to the side where there was nothing. Then she noticed the masked woman who had been wary of me moving her hand to the back of her waist.

Seeing the sharp force as if he was going to pull out a dagger like a warning, I lowered my guard and opened the space warehouse with a relaxed hand. Estelle, who was watching, looked at me with surprised eyes and stuttered her words.

“Well, that’s… ?”

Due to the timing, Rosalind had not yet obtained the magic book. It was natural that Estelle, who was seeing the space warehouse for the first time, looked at it with interest. For some reason, it seemed like I was being greedy rather than interested.

“It’s a personal warehouse that can be used through dimensional gaps.”

“… Even the security is perfect. “It’s a magic I really want.”

I looked away from Estelle, who was looking at me with the eyes of a businessman, and began to search the space warehouse. I received it as a gift a long time ago, put it in a storage room, and completely forgot about it, so I couldn’t remember where I put it. After rummaging around for a while, I was able to find something underneath the box of snacks that I sometimes brought to Aria as a late-night snack.

“It’s proof that I’m a special customer of Modest in another world.”

“This is… .”

What I placed on the table was a badge made in the shape of a lily. When I received the name Lily from Estelle, I received it as proof that I was a customer of Modest. This was presented as evidence, considering that it was a specially manufactured product and therefore impossible to counterfeit.

Estelle quietly checked her badge, raised her head, looked at me silently, and handed the badge to the woman behind her.

“Amber, go to your room and check properly.”

“yes.”

From Estelle’s words, I realized that the woman wearing the cat mask who received the badge was the real world’s Amber. Because her voice and body type were different, I thought she was someone else, not Amber… Perhaps, like Estelle, her appearance has changed because she does not have a set appearance.

Amber left the room for a moment with the badge and returned a while later.

“This is the badge that we at Modest give to our customers. However, this badge does not exist in the guild’s records.”

After hearing Amber’s explanation, Estelle nodded slightly and returned the badge to me.

“Honestly, I can’t believe they say they come from another world. However, since the badge is real and the truth is that you know my identity, I will treat you as a guest as promised.”

Estelle said ‘as a guest’ as if she would not take responsibility if a problem arises, and I smiled happily rather than offended. Although it looks different, it somehow felt like an Estel-like choice.

I told him how he interpreted my smile and why he came straight to Modest because Estelle seemed to be even more wary of me.

“Please allow me to enter the main building of Transcendence Academy for a moment.”

“… “Do you have business at the academy?”

As Estelle gave me a sharp look, as if she was trying to see through my inner thoughts, I threw up my hand, remembering that Ross here had died during a massacre at the academy.

“Don’t misunderstand, I’m not trying to get revenge on Roel. There’s just someone you need to meet at the academy. If I enter the academy with my current face, there will definitely be problems. “I’m trying to get help.”

When I explained the situation fully, Estelle shook her head slightly.

“I’m not worried. “After all, Roel is currently spending time with Rosaline at a warm southern resort.”

Those words helped me realize what I had been missing. Because I came from the same time zone as the world I was in, the timing overlapped and the academy here was on winter vacation.

It was a shame that I couldn’t meet the Messiah members from the original world, which was my first goal, but it was still worth checking out the Academy in person. Because the core purpose of coming to this world was to see and compare things that do not appear in novels with my own eyes.

“Is your goal to meet someone by disguising yourself as a student at the academy?”

“huh. “I also want information on students attending the academy.”

When I told the names of the Messiah members, Estelle nodded without any doubt. It seems that they decided it was okay since they were not related to her friend Rosaline or Roel.

Estelle and Amber left the room for a moment, and I waited in the room alone. As I was summarizing my journey so far and making plans for the future in my head, Estelle returned to the room with a man.

“This person is a slime magician. “You can use slime to create faces that are indistinguishable from real ones.”

When I looked at the man with interest in Estelle’s explanation, he smiled awkwardly and scratched his head.

“The slime face only maintains its shape for three hours. Still, the effect is certain.”

If that’s the case, there shouldn’t be any problem with looking around the academy. At his nod, the man took out a bottle of slime from his bag.

***

Disguising myself as a third-year boy belonging to Modest, I wore the school uniform prepared by Amber and headed to the academy. Since I needed time to prepare the members’ information, I promised to have it ready when I returned to Modest.

Perhaps because it was vacation time, it was not easy to find someone who looked like a student at the academy. Because it was cold, everyone probably evacuated to a warm place. After passing the patrolling security guard and arriving at the academy’s main building, I headed to the club room on the second basement floor.

What does the secret room at Transcendence Academy, which was only mentioned as a rumor in the novel, look like? I decided to check it out for myself, wondering if the discarded setting might be different from my revived world.

First of all, the door in the corner at the end of the hallway was no different from what I remembered. I was worried that I would be able to get in with the key to the club room I had… As if the existing key had not been changed in any way, the key went into the hole without any obstruction and opened the door easily.

“This place… “It’s the same.”

It was the same as when I first visited the club room with the members. The interior felt a little empty without the wallpaper depicting Aria’s decorated snacks and the strange skull-shaped pumpkin toy hanging from the ceiling.

After checking that the closet was working properly, I locked the door again and headed to the place where I had previously found the unclean artifact. There was no particularly good harvest. There was no difference from the memory.

As I was quietly scratching my cheek, I remembered the sewer that the warlock would have used when he attacked the academy, and walked towards it. However, perhaps because of the experience of an attack, a simple barracks that I had never seen before was set up in front of the sewer. It looked like a security guard watching from inside the barracks was controlling access to the sewer.

Recalling the time when I was serving as a draftee in the military, I chuckled, turned around, and wondered if there was anything else I could check. In the first place, there was no place for me to check further as the number of places where the Academy operates was extremely limited. There will be no need to check the training site.

While walking around the campus and looking around the academy, I was thinking about going back to Modest. A familiar voice was heard softly from somewhere. I heard a voice I missed after a long time, and without realizing it, I ran after it like an instinct.

There was Luna, a lovely girl I knew.