Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

20 – Group Tasks (2)

‘Is it time to die?’

It was at this moment that I suddenly remembered that when a person suddenly changes, it is time to die.

Lucy rubbed her ears, which seemed about to fall off at any moment from the wind, on the hair on the overcoat Adele had draped over her, and watched with half-open eyes at the back ahead.

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‘How nice it would be if it was like this from the beginning.’

More than that, this coat was quite warm.

It wasn’t that Anastasia rubbed her cheeks against her hair in exclamation as soon as she put it on.

She sometimes thought that she was a spendthrift when looking at the spending of an aristocrat.

“Ugh, if you find out about this, you won’t be satisfied with supplying the academy… ….”

While saying that, Lucy presses her furry hood down deeply with her hand.

Then the smell from the hood trickled down from the top of her head and stung her nose.

It wasn’t that it was artificially fragrant, it was a scent that calmed the mind, like putting your nose in a sun-dried blanket.

“Smells so good. Is it like perfume?”

The smell was very pleasing to Lucy.

It would be expensive since it was used by Adele, but I thought it would be okay to save money and buy it as a gift for Kyle later.

Lucy jumped up and jumped after him as if playing a game, following the footprints Adele had left on the snowy road.

Adele just walked away, but he was the distance he had to run, and the marks left were large enough to leave room for Lucy’s feet.

It was something that made me realize the difference in size.

“Hey.”

Lucy, who followed, called Adele to her.

Adele stopped her steps and turned around to look down at her.

“Hey?”

The intimidating atmosphere created by chance because he was about a head taller on the sloping road.

Lucy held his head stiffly, unconcerned with the atmosphere, and tucked his hood slightly over to meet the eyes looking down at her.

“Did you call me?”

“Then who would it be?”

“That is absurd.”

Ignoring the bewildered Adele, Lucy pointed to her coat and asked.

“Did you spray some perfume on this?”

Adele slightly tilted his head.

He’s never put on perfume himself, and he’s never seen Charlotte do it.

After thinking for a while, he answered.

“No, I never sprayed it.”

“Then is it the smell of detergent? Something smells good.”

“I didn’t wash it after wearing it yesterday, so it won’t be like that.”

“Really?”

Then where does this smell come from?

As Lucy sniffed him, Adele swung around and took her steps.

A voice that came from such a distance.

“Don’t take it like that. It might stink from yesterday’s sweat.”

“Huh?”

Lucy groaned and removed her nose from her hood.

“… ….”

And what the van smells like on this hood.

Where did she feel the peace?

I noticed all of that and immediately took off the hood I was wearing.

Wheeying───

A cold wind raked her skin and clawed her face at the foot of the mountain.

It brings tears to her eyes, her cheeks are red, and her ears are sore, but she doesn’t put her hood back on.

Anyway, it’s all because of the cold wind, not shame or embarrassment.

I insisted on that until the heat that filled my face was gone.

* * *

“…… You have arrived.”

Tired of Anastasia running around in her eyes alone, a load stretched on her side, but she managed to reach the halfway point of the mountain anyway.

What you see is a small wooden cabin.

A pure white steam was pouring out of the chimney, and a warm scarlet light leaked from this snowy mountain full of white light.

“I have arrived. Come quickly.”

I turned around and said to Lucy, who was following me at a distance.

When I entered the mountain, I felt as excited as Anastasia, but at some point I couldn’t keep up with her, but her face looked better than I thought.

“More than that, why don’t you wear a hoodie?”

I don’t know what kind of stubbornness it was, but Lucy’s cheeks and ears were red as she was directly hit by the cold wind because she didn’t wear a hood.

The tears in my eyes were on the verge of freezing, so I felt sorry for everyone watching.

“Noisy… ….”

I was worried, but what I got back was a cold-hearted answer.

Well, I don’t really care.

Because I’m waiting for Lucy like that.

Jumping.

We didn’t even arrive when the door to the cabin opened.

What appeared was an old man with a beard that reminded him of Santa.

He was an employee of the academy who had been managing access to this mountain for quite some time.

“Are you the student who came yesterday?”

“Yes, as I said yesterday, I came because I wanted to get an entry permit.”

“Yes, yes. I got the permit yesterday.”

As the old man brushed his beard, he caught the cold wind and looked at Lucy, who was speechless.

In addition, I looked at Anastasia, who was carried limp by my side as if discharged, and clicked her tongue.

“Looking at it, it must be difficult to send it like this. Come in.”

Since I felt the same way, I accepted the old man’s favor.

From now on, if you climb the mountain, you will have to work hard, but even then, it was difficult for Lucy and Anastasia to be in this state.

“Then excuse me.”

The cabin was filled with air warmed by the warmth of a campfire.

And it seemed like we weren’t the only customers, and we could feel the popularity.

A coat to withstand the harsh winter and sunglasses to block the light reflected in the snow.

A hunting bow used for hunting animals and an ax with red bloodstains, whether or not it was used for cutting down trees.

I was a hunter.

“There are students who went into the mountains these days and were attacked by beasts.”

“…… Is that so.”

“hehehe.”

I casually threw Anastasia, who had been carrying it like luggage, onto a nearby sofa.

It was like a cat, who half-opened his eyes in shock, then curled up and fell back asleep.

“Get some rest too, Lucy.”

“I’m going to do it even if you don’t.”

Lucy, who was almost lying down in a rocking chair, also covered his coat like a blanket.

I also leaned back in my chair as if I was tired from climbing the snowy mountain.

However, instead of relaxing and sleeping like the other two, he just closes his eyes.

‘Hunter… ….’

I had an ominous feeling close to certainty.

There is absolutely no evidence to offer, but the situation was just as exquisite.

I was suspicious because I was familiar with the snowy mountains.

‘Damn it. It’s a new feeling, but Adele is an enemy on all sides.’

There are no animals in this snowy mountain.

There are things close to beasts, but there is no such thing as recklessly repelling intruders who lost their reason and stepped into the snowy mountains.

Instead, even if one or two students disappear, the environment is kept free of strange things.

The academy is also aware of the danger, so they are controlling access to this snowy mountain.

Sure.

‘Has it been prepared in a hurry since I stopped by the exploration dimension after I broke up with the two guys yesterday? This old raccoon guy.’

The one who made all these boards was the access manager of Snow Mountain.

The nameless old man with wrinkles on his face was seeking Adele’s life for unknown reasons.

I silently activated a fairy tale with my hand on his armrest.

It didn’t take long to assimilate this narrow cabin.

A sense that spreads throughout.

Wooden planks that change like limbs.

And even the messages we send by tapping our fingertips waiting for us to become completely defenseless.

I felt all of that.

* * *

Tok tok, tok tok, tok…….

Signals come and go even during a conversation.

The murderous intentions hidden in the casual conversation of having a drink after work today.

The hunters kept their heads still and only moved their eyes to scan the students sleeping in the corner.

The girl with pink hair looks like she is in a deep sleep.

If you don’t make a lot of noise, you’ll probably be asleep until tomorrow morning.

The girl with sky-blue hair is similar.

It was warm inside the cabin, but his closed eyes, barely peeking through the overcoat that covered him almost to the top of his head, seemed to be sleeping peacefully.

And most importantly, Adele.

I almost mistaken that I was awake because I didn’t disturb my posture even when I was sleeping, but the regular heartbeat couldn’t fool the hunters’ senses.

Tok tok, tok, tok…….

The signal sent by the snow mountain access manager, thinking that it would be okay to start working soon.

Although all of them are defenseless due to the sleeping pills sprayed in the air, the hunters acted naturally without any carelessness, just as the saying goes that lions do their best when catching rabbits.

“I had a good rest.”

I’m trying to wake up like that naturally.

Jumping.

“…… ?”

What is it?

I’m trying to get up, but I can’t get up.

As if it wasn’t just him, the other hunters were all making clattering noises with a look of bewilderment.

In this situation where even their heads couldn’t move, they could see each other’s situation with only their eyes moving.

The wooden floor wrapped around the body like vines growing in a building that has been neglected for a long time.

It is unknown when or how it was wrapped around the body, which kept the hunter and the old man immobilized in a chair.

It’s like a criminal sitting in the electric chair waiting for a death sentence.

“Disguise Adele and two others as accidental deaths?”

A cool tone rang in my ears as I was so flustered.

How do you do that?

They must have exchanged signals so they wouldn’t notice.

No, more than that, how does he stay sane in the drugged air?

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“Don’t panic.”

Adele, who she thought must be asleep, slowly lifted her eyelids and slowly turned her head towards the hunters.

“What you have to worry about right now isn’t such trivial feelings.”

It was only at this point that they realized.

What matters now is not how Adele recognized the signal.

What they really care about is how to get out of this desperate situation.

“No, that’s not it.”

However, Adele once again denied their idea.

“What you need to think about.”

Adele picked up an ax that lay near the hunter’s chair.

Quack!

Then, swinging his head with splitting force, he drove the ax close to the hunter’s crotch.

“I am satisfied with what kind of information to blow, so I can kill you in peace.”

It was a unilateral death sentence.