[588] Darkness (3)
* * *
The news of Eden’s retirement was delivered to the Scramble Royale participants.
This was shortly after the quasar exploded.
“Retire?”
Hersey put on a blank expression.
‘Did he really destroy the shield?’
Eden’s defensive ability in the gold coin’s own simulation was ranked first among the senior class with no one to compare it to.
“Now there is no infinite (○○○○○○).”
Iruki laughed and said.
“All that’s left is Amy and Caden.”
Hersy, who came to her senses, quickly counted her hand.
The strongest hand of the Sirone team is Sabina’s ●●●● (Mine).
‘Cayden’s hand
is…’ ○●○● (Democracy).
‘done!’
Hercy shuddered.
In a complex battle of combinations, only Iruki could figure out what the strongest hand would be for Shirone’s team, but he still had another strategy to prepare for the worst.
“Puhahaha!”
Hersy burst into laughter as Dorothy raised her eyebrows.
“Why are you here? Did you come true?”
“Good fight,”
said Hersy, who stopped laughing.
“It was really great. To be honest, I thought I would win easily. I’ll praise you for sticking to this point.”
“Do you think Kayden can beat Amy?”
Hersey shrugged.
Unlike the case of Eden, even in the simulation of the golden ring itself, the fighting power of the two was equal.
“I don’t care who wins.”
Hercy was sure Scramble Royale was over.
“Again, the winner is Kayden.”
* * *
“Give me your MasterCard.”
Amy reached out to Caden.
“MasterCard? ah.”
Caden blinked as if realizing it.
“hurry. You’re not going to be stubborn even after coming here, are you? You’re not that kind of person, are you?”
“That… I don’t have it.”
“what?”
Amy didn’t understand and wrinkled her brow.
“In the morning, Hersie took my MasterCard without the team members knowing. I can’t bet Kang, but you’re lower than me anyway. That’s the condition Hercy offered in exchange for pursuing you.”
“wait for a sec. You took your master card? Mastercard?”
Amy, who suddenly had a confusion in her head, held out her hand and muttered something, then looked at the cards of the participants.
Cayden’s democracy was the strongest.
‘If Scramble Royale ends like this, the united team will win.’
Amy shouted, her heart racing, turning to Caden.
“you idiot! What if I say that now? It looks like we’re losing!”
The absurd thing was the same for Caden.
“Why am I saying that? Aren’t we on different sides?”
“shut up! Foolish bastard!”
Amy kicked Cayden in the side, shocking him through a broken rib.
“Keugh! what are you doing?”
“Ugh! I really can’t live!”
As Amy turned and ran away, Caden held out her hand.
“Wait a minute…!”
“shut up! See you after the game!”
A trembling hand went to the broken ribs and saliva leaked from between his teeth.
“Big!”
As expected, there was no sympathy for the wizard.
* * *
“Kaden doesn’t have a MasterCard.”
Hersy declared triumphantly.
“I got it this morning. In the end, even if Amy beats Cayden, the cards won’t be ruined. If Kayden wins, not to mention the consequences.”
Silence ensued for a moment.
“Now do you understand? Scramble Royale is a victory for the combined team.”
“Iruki.”
When Dorothy turned around, Iruki said.
“Where is my MasterCard?”
“Well, where is it?”
Hercy’s body shone with flashes.
Sona had already been analyzed and could not be used, but if it was spatial movement, it would not be possible to cancel it.
“Then see you after the game.”
At the same time, Sabina approached from behind and tightened his throat.
“Don’t move.”
A sharp air cut lingered around her fingertips.
“Hey, is this the last outburst? Ugly.”
Dorothy came, accompanied by Hickory.
“Give me your MasterCard. Otherwise, we will have no choice but to resort to violence.”
Then the ground beneath Sabina’s feet stirred and a long, snake-like centipede sprang up and coiled itself around her ankle.
“this!”
From a tree 10 meters away, Fisho came down on a spider.
“Free Hersy. It is a poisonous centipede.”
“Don’t talk nonsense. Do you think you will die alone?”
Sabina tightened Hercy’s throat tighter and Hickory’s fist aimed at the hanging fishot from the tree.
Sabina said in a situation where each other was holding each other’s lifeline.
“Search Hersie’s body. I don’t have much time. I need to find my master card.”
Hersy spread her arms happily.
“ha ha ha! You don’t disappoint me either! But what should I do? I don’t have Kayden’s MasterCard.”
“Shut up. We’ll check that out.”
There was something alive in Sabina’s voice.
“However much. There’s no law that says you’ll always have it. Please look hard. If you can find it in time, you win.”
“Iruki quickly!”
After Dorothy shouted after loading the rocket punch, Iruki slowly moved on.
“I have no interest in entrusting myself to a man like this. You won’t be able to find what you’re looking for anyway…”
“Hercy.”
Iruki stopped talking and raised his head.
“Are you stupid?”
“what?”
Hersey’s face crumpled.
* * *
“Yes! I’m stupid! I am stupid!”
Amy turned back the way she had come.
Cayden was still clutching at his side as he came out of the woods, moaning.
“hey! Shouldn’t we just let you retire?”
“So I told you to wait…”
“Noisy! There are less than two minutes left!”
Amy, who grabbed Cayden by the collar and raised him up, activated the schema and lifted him up.
“Aww! You are too strong.”
“What do you know!”
Amy, who cast space movement repeatedly, landed near the main gate of the magic school.
-There are 10 seconds left until the end of Scramble Royale.
“driving me crazy!”
Amy, who calculated the teleportation and schema power, ran with Cayden on her back.
5 seconds 4 seconds 3 seconds…
Listening to Lulu’s electric signal, she threw Cayden with all her might.
“Go Cayden!”
2 seconds 1 second.
Another signal came in between the counts as Cayden’s body crossed the front door.
-Kayden off-field defeat. The game time for Scramble Royale is over.
-The strongest beating Mine (●●●●). The winning team is Sirone Irukinade Amy Dorothy Sabina.
– Apply rewards and payoffs through Judge.
“ha! ha!”
After recognizing all of Lulu’s signals, Amy fell face down with her hands on the ground.
“Such an ignorant…”
Cayden, who had collapsed outside the front door, was wriggling in pain.
* * *
“Win!”
Sabina and Dorothy loosened their combat stance and jumped.
Ficho was still emotionless and only Hersy was stunned.
“Ah…”
It wasn’t until much later that he realized how stupid he was thinking, which means it wasn’t even in his head.
‘Why did I do that?’
“When you are driven to a dead end, even ridiculous hopes become positive.”
Hercy’s eyes returned to Iruki who was approaching.
“It’s like insurance in a card game. It’s a good strategy to assume a specific situation and insure it, but you end up forcing all assumptions into that specific situation.”
“Hey, don’t be proud…!”
“Because I’m thinking of doing a trick…”
Hersy’s face wrinkled, but Iruki didn’t care and continued, looking back at Dorothy and recalling her advice.
“You lose track of what really matters.”
“…”
Realizing complete defeat, Hercy gnashed her teeth.
“See you at the graduation exam. I will definitely step on you.”
“You’re thinking of helping hard.”
It was a condition that two members of Sirone’s team were to be promoted in the graduation exam.
As Hercy moved out of the room, Sabina and Dorothy approached.
“Good job Iruki.”
“okay. Thanks to all of you who moved according to the strategy.”
said Dorothy.
“I’ll say it again when the team members get together, but it’s definitely an ambiguous condition. To pick two people.”
In the discussion before the scramble royale started, Cayden reacted emotionally, so even the Sirone team presented the strongest conditions, but when they won, it was ambiguous.
Iruki suggested.
“How about this? Until the graduation exams, the two lowest ranked among us will be rewarded.”
Sabina agreed.
“That’s a good way. To be honest, these words are a bit emotional, but I hope all six of us pass.”
There will be no one who will intentionally lower their rank to get help from the golden ring.
‘Because I know what’s really important.’
Dorothy smiled at the sky, thinking that she was fortunate to have entered the magic school.
* * *
“Are you sure you are leaving now? It looks like you are seriously injured.”
It was Amy who made it happen, but Caden knew her character now.
“I can do simple recovery magic. I will be treated by a pro on the way.”
Since scramble royale itself is illegal, I had no intention of stopping by the infirmary.
“okay. Will you come back?”
“I just want to get some fresh air. It’s been a while since I stopped by the house. Above all, my rank is quite high.”
Now that I think about it, it was absurd.
“If I want to drop below Nade in rank, I won’t be able to come back for at least a month.”
Nade’s graduating class was ranked last, and it was currently impossible to even guarantee whether he would return.
“haha! Is that so? go carefully In the meantime, I’m going to raise the ranks a lot.”
Caden turned around with a wry smile.
“Give my regards to Maya.”
“no. Come back and tell me directly. To be honest, I feel uncomfortable being with him.”
“Ha ha ha ha ha!”
Cayden, who suddenly came up with an idea, threw his head back and burst into laughter.
“Now I see, they are a match made in heaven. Sirone and you.”
Amy’s face turned red.
“What nonsense are you talking about? We’re still in no relationship…!”
“My ribs that you broke. I also broke Sirone a few days ago.”
“….”
“You don’t give the bones time to stick together and beat them. I’m really fed up with you two.”
Amy asked with a worried expression.
“Could you…”
“Don’t worry. I won’t bother you now. So enjoy life to the fullest.”
Cayden, who had been walking away from school, looked back at Amy and raised a corner of his mouth.
“Karmis.”
Amy also saw him off with a smile.
“Have a nice trip, Cross.”
* * *
Participants who still had the afterglow of the match gathered one after another to the place where Iruki was.
Sirone arrives with Eden, and Amy joins them for the last time.
“Whew, we were on the edge, right? Everyone has suffered.”
As Sirone said, all of them looked exhausted.
“It’s a bit like going back like this, but how about something simple to eat?”
Amy stroked her rumbling belly and Sabina agreed.
“I’m hungry too. But there must be no shops open at this time? The canteen on campus is also closed.”
Eden said.
“Let’s go to the cafeteria. I’ll make it with the ingredients there. I can do simple food. Believers also said it was delicious.”
“Are you Eden?”
Although Eden had been defeated in the confrontation, his expression was calmer than before.
“Because making food for the hungry is also an act of love.”
Iruki nodded.
“Okay then let’s go. Would you like to go eat with me?”
Even after the combined team disbanded, Fichot remained in place.
“…I am not alone.”
Fishaw was the oldest in his senior class.
“Who said what? Let’s try to replicate this game. There may have been unexpected odds. Because you were in charge of scramble too.”
“If you say so.”
Although the pain of defeat is great, I knew how important it is to analyze the causes of failure.
When Fishaw joined and everyone was about to head to the school cafeteria, Sirone called.
“for a moment. But there are some problems.”
“Is it a problem?”
“It’s against the school rules to enter the cafeteria at this time.”
“…”
Iruki asked in a dull atmosphere with everyone opening their mouths with blank expressions.
“Are you serious now?”
“huh. What if I get caught and get scolded by the teacher?”
Everyone who heard that far turned away from the answer and walked away.
“wait! I’m really nervous…!”
Hearing Sirone’s footsteps hurriedly following, Fisho said.
“That’s Sirone.”
“Of course. It’s a magic school.”
Amy said, suppressing a chuckle.
“He’s not normal either.”
Scramble Royale ended.
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