Black Badger - Chapter 407



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407. Archmage (4)

This is how things went.

“jack.”

When Cecil sent Igor and Hildebert flying into the building.

As the dark clouds began to settle, Shu called out to his junior, who was sitting on one knee, absentmindedly concentrating on something.

A person who has been a huge issue since he came in.

The successor who saved her did not hear her call right away.

I think it’s not because it’s noisy, but because they’re deeply engrossed in something.

I guess he’s searching for creatures nearby.

But she was in a hurry.

Shoe patted Jack Black on the back.

“jack.”

“History!”

Surprisingly, a gruff-looking man helped her.

“Are you out of your mind?!”

There’s no need to call it that aggressively.

But thanks to that, the focus returned to Jack Black’s eyes.

Jack Black turned his head and looked at her quizzically.

“Senior?”

“Do you remember when you saved me?”

Shu said out of the blue.

“When you took me out of the flower, do you remember? You said you saw strange memories as soon as you held me.”

Jack looked surprised, but quickly regained his composure.

“That’s what it was.”

“If I go and catch it this time, something like that might happen again.”

Shu often heard stories about Cecil from his father.

Thanks to her, he knew that his father had come back to him alive. So, he wanted to try anything that might calm that madness.

Anything really.

“I think there was a reason they kidnapped me specifically.”

Sometimes I dream about that time.

I don’t think it left any trauma though.

Still, I often think of the golden eyes looking down at me. I couldn’t remember them when I was first rescued, but as time passed, a few memories came flooding back and settled into my brain.

Jet black hair and gold earrings.

A pale man who gave off the feeling of a black lion.

Looking down at himself with anger in his eyes….

‘You must have prepared yourself to become a badger.’

It was something I heard while sleeping.

‘When the work is done, let me go without any pain.’

I think I was so scared at the time that I pushed the memory below consciousness.

But now, while doing rehabilitation exercises for my legs that don’t seem to want to move at all, I often think back to those memories.

The meaning of their kidnapping, and the story about Cecil that Simon told him before he went to sleep.

“Pick it up and run.”

Had to try.

So I made a difficult request.

“I’m sorry. I asked you to do something dangerous. But…”

Instead of answering, Jack hugged her.

The black-haired man was terrified.

“hey!”

“Crouching, you.”

Jack ran straight out onto the street.

A heavy wind hit my body.

As expected from the sound, the attacks that had been pouring down like crazy stopped for a moment. The surroundings were a mess due to the continuous attacks, but it didn’t seem like there was any immediate danger.

A former driver who starts to run coolly on the pine land.

“Cecil!”

Shu called Cecil, suppressing the anxiety and guilt burning inside him.

A familiar giant flower.

A woman bowing her head and clutching her hair as if in pain.

“Cecil!”

Badger shouted desperately.

“Cecil! Come to your senses!”

The wizard did not respond.

Instead, someone else responded.

“hey!”

Hildebert’s voice was heard from behind the diagonal line.

“Kai!”

A successor who was so outstanding that they didn’t even feel jealous was chasing them.

“What the hell are you doing!”

The successor to the discovery did not respond.

I didn’t even look back.

Thankfully, he just kept running, ignoring the men who were shouting in anger and worry.

Shoe was amazed by Jack Black’s running skills.

I thought it was only fast on the track.

Was he training hard? The distance between him and Cecil was quickly shortened. The flower was getting bigger. The woman who was making a painful sound was also clearly visible.

As I got closer, I suddenly got scared.

I wish my two legs were intact.

What if Jack dies because of him?

The moment Cecil climbs the flower petals, he explodes again… .

That didn’t happen.

Jack Black climbed the flower in one breath.

Shu also reached out to his father’s benefactor without hesitation.

Grab the arm that is going away.

Arms as white as plaster.

“Cecil!”

She screamed desperately.

“Simon Diamond-.”

One side of my vision was blurry.

Shu stopped screaming in surprise and looked at the scene before his eyes.

Cecil’s body is submerged in shining water, with parts of it bouncing up.

What is that?

I had that thought.

Just before memories flood in.

And then the scene changed.

‘Cecil.’

There was that guy again.

Elegant, curly black hair that reaches down to the waist.

He looked at someone who seemed to be living on anger and revenge instead of oxygen.

‘You don’t recognize me again?’

He stands in the ashen ruins.

In the colorless void where he stood, there was a hole reminiscent of a portal.

Hair blowing in the wind from there.

The man’s golden gaze was so sharp that it made me feel sick.

‘I barely managed to get back by kidnapping one of my children.’

He had a longsword on his waist.

‘It got even worse in the meantime.’

Shu didn’t understand what followed.

But I just knew that those words shook Cecil.

Because my vision started to blur… .

Kwaaaaang!

Got hit by a shock wave.

A dull pain shook my consciousness. When I came to, Shu was on the floor. A dull pain enveloped my body.

However, the body that had the reinforced body transplanted recovered quickly.

She lifted her upper body, pushing off the rough floor with both palms.

“ah.”

The man in question was lying a short distance away, his brow furrowed.

Shu read the pain in his closed eyes and distorted expression. It seemed as if he had taken most of the shock by wrapping himself around me.

It was brave just to not faint.

That successor doesn’t have a reinforced body, so his wounds won’t heal right away… .

“Ahhh! Aahhhh!”

“jack.”

I blurted out the name.

But it will be buried in Cecil’s despairing cries… .

ah.

Jack Black narrowed his eyes and looked at her.

Hildebert was moving away from them, catching Cecil’s attention. Thanks to this, no spells were immediately cast near Jack.

That doesn’t mean Jack was okay though.

My stomach was twisted with guilt.

But before Sugar could say anything, the successor to the accuser opened his mouth.

She could read the shape of his mouth easily.

‘go.’

Because it was one word.

‘again.’

Shu didn’t ask again.

Instead, I pulled myself together and nodded.

Then, pushing the floor with his hands, he began to crawl towards the flowers.

I’ll keep trying until my arms fall off and I can’t stand.

Because Cecil gave me my father back.

It’s good over and over again.

This time it was his turn to repay her debt.

***

Kyle.

Even as he aggressively slashed at Cecil, catching the archmage’s attention, his sword strayed several times from what he had just seen.

An attack that involves flying while raising a sharp blade.

I gritted my teeth and swung my sword.

I saw him in my memories.

I think it’s because I caught Sugar Cecil.

Even when I caught it, memories came flooding back, so it might not have mattered if it wasn’t Sugar, but anyone else. In any case, unlike when I caught it, when Sugar caught it, memories literally poured out to the surroundings.

This is a story about how even I, who was relatively far from flowers, got to see the past.

Igor and Youdo.

The embarrassed mutterings of the subordinates told us the truth. We were forced to watch the memories that poured out.

Bright golden eyes filled with anger.

The Sword Master standing in the ruins.

Kyle… looked at Cecil and added:

“I said it was a useless wait.”

It was a crueler remark because it seemed like there was no intention to provoke.

“Now, stop waiting in vain. I would like to ask the wizards to finish treating me.”

His words shook Cecil.

Memories that shake and break… .

Now I could roughly guess the situation. Myerbold and Navarrate had fully awakened after receiving Cecil’s treatment.

And at some point Kyle confronted Cecil.

Kyle, who found her before me, must have tried to visit her world again to cure the archmages.

I kidnapped Shu to find that ash-colored world.

Knowing that she had a strange portal singularity….

ah.

I suddenly felt like crying.

Kissis won’t come.

Even though he was said to have a wizard, even the Sword Master, who thought Cecil was dead, succeeded in finding her again.

But there was no reason why Kisis should have failed until now.

Kissis wasn’t looking for Cecil.

He can’t come.

Dead or in a similar situation.

I can’t come… .

Kwakwaaang!

The wizard turned his body towards me.

I bundled up the spells and countered them with sword strikes.

He missed some, but he didn’t care and swung his sword aggressively.

I ignored the thought of calling her name while defending myself. I focused on attacking, not caring about the spells hitting various parts of my body and flying away.

The moment Cecil’s attention turns to Kairos or Shu, disaster strikes.

I attacked with the momentum of snapping the neck of the enemy in front of me.

Just focus on me!

Kwakwaaang!

[Army is coming.]

As I was half-consciously exchanging sword strikes and spells, the voice of my aide came out of the communicator.

[Yoon and Jason too.]

“Tell them to take Jack and get out!”

[Jack, your men are running and dragging you away right now.]

My eyes were dazzled by the dazzling array of orders pouring in.

[That bookstore.]

The wizard’s biggest weakness is cooldown.

Without that, it’s really a pain to deal with.

[The black hair test has now occurred.]

Either way, the circuit will burn out and disappear!

Overdoing something means pushing your body beyond what it can handle, similar to athletes taking drugs.

Then, when it turns black and turns to ash, that is runaway.

[There is a sword and a sword nearby…]

“Cecil!!”

He raised his sword.

“You told me!”

Somewhere in my chest, resentment welled up.

He spit it out and swung his sword.

“I won’t go wild because I won’t be able to see you again once I turn into ash!”

When did she say that?

“Even if I wither and die, I won’t turn to ash!!”

Kuung!

The sword fight advanced.

I will buy all the pouring orders.

It was a strange experience, because it felt like something was flowing out from inside my body and becoming a part of the sword fight.

What is this?

It felt a little different than usual.

I think I have a clue?

Kwaaaaaaaang!

But the spark of intuition disappeared like a candle.

White smoke rose with a loud noise.

And then the blood burst out. I had landed my first effective hit on Cecil. The wizard grimaced and curled up, as if the outside of his arm had been torn off.

A small hand appears behind her.

It’s true.

I saw the senior climbing up the flower in horror.

How did you get there with those legs… .

“Dad.”

Shu did not give up and grabbed Cecil, who was in pain.

“Cecil. Dad asked me to change it.”

Memories that came flooding back at that moment.

Fragments of the past flood and envelop the surroundings.

The ashen world reappeared.

Now she was looking down at the floor.

To be exact, me lying on the floor.

Me, covered in blood and black ash.

‘That’s enough.’

My past self muttered.

‘Let me die.’