The Magic Academy's Physicist-Chapter 220: Now This Is What You Call A Nuclear Bomb (1)
Chapter 220: Now This Is What You Call A Nuclear Bomb (1)
After a long day of work–
Klais returned to her room coughing from a dry throat due to chain smoking.
Although she was already exhausted, she couldn’t just stay looking dead.
“Welcome back, Klais.”
“I’m back, Klara.”
That was because there was someone to greet her when she returned. She had to face them with a smile even if it was hard.
“Anything happen today?”
“Nothing much.”
Klara looked at her with concern in her eyes.
There were mixed feelings seeing her younger sister awake from dawn and working late into the night.
Klais who would return after a hard day’s work. In comparison, what was she doing?
She was doing nothing yet living comfortably. Everything that had happened up until last week felt like a dream. No, was this even the Demon Castle? That was how unrealistic it felt.
“Is there anything I can help with?”
“You just need to stay healthy.”
“No, besides that....”
“No, that’s enough for me.”
Klais smiled weakly, and Klara felt like her heart was breaking.
She wished she could at least prepare her meals, but this wasn’t their mansion.
After thinking about it, Klara managed to come up with an idea.
“I don’t know what kind of research you’re doing, but Klais, your sister is an Elemental Mage. I can help if you need anything.”
“Won’t the Elementals object?”
“They probably will, but they’ll listen if I can convince them somehow.”
Klara, too, was aware that Aether was a Beast.
Still, she didn’t sense malicious intent from her like the other Beasts. At least she was far better than Gilach who had tortured her.
This wasn’t the Elementals’ thoughts, but Klara’s own judgment from what she had seen with her own eyes.
Mages who had received Elementals tended to leave all judgments to the Elementals, because that was what was accurate. However, Klara was wary of this and tried to judge the character of another person for herself.
She didn’t know if her judgment was correct. Still, she didn’t think that Aether was that evil a Beast.
“My mana recovered some thanks to the week of rest, and my injuries are mostly healed, too. If I appeal to them with this, then we might be able to get help from the two Elementals.”
“Klara.......”
But Klais shook her head.
“Master said for you to not get involved.”
“...Why?”
Klara quirked her head in question.
She, too, had been called a genius like Klais; surely she would be helpful with magic research.
“You idiot, do you really not know?”
Someone else instead of Klais answered Klara’s question.
It was Rosemary.
Rosemary was in the middle of weaving a magic circle into the floor as per Aether’s orders. She also had been working on this for a week.
It was tiring enough to make her yawn, but she was doing this happily because it was also in line with her ‘plan’.
But since two stupid idiots nearby were chattering uselessly instead of keeping quiet...
She had finally interrupted, irritated by the ignorant conversation.
“Do you want to make the mistake of using Elemental Magic and be taken by that hook-arm elf again?”
“Ah.......”
She had a point.
“That hook-arm man... Gilach reads the mana waves emitted by Elementals. The moment you use Elemental Magic, he’ll catch wind and come running. If that happens, neither me nor Aether can protect you. Got it?”
With that said, Rosemary tossed a small piece of mana stone at Klara in a protest for her to be quiet.
“And an Elemental Mage helping out a Beast with their work? Are you seriously an idiot?”
If you help with that, the world will be over!
–was what she wanted to say, but it wasn’t time yet.
Pounding her chest, Rosemary made a frustrated face.
“Alright, I won’t do anything. But aren’t you going to sleep, Blueberry?”
“Don’t act friendly.”
Before she knew it, Klara had let down her guard enough to call Rosemary by her nickname.
The reason was simple.
The first time Rosemary had barged into this room to weave the magic circle, she had immediately apologized to Klara.
Afterwards, she spent a whole hour explaining why she had strangled her–it had been to avoid Gilach’s eyes as much as possible, I was acting mean on purpose so you wouldn’t suspect, I may be a Beast, but I thought it was unfair to not let sisters meet each other, etc.
After persuading her with all kinds of excuses, she managed to convince her.
And that was how Klara let go of a lot of animosity towards Rosemary.
The problem was, she had let go a bit too much.
“Blueberry.”
“I said not to call me that.”
Honestly speaking, Rosemary looked cute for a Beast.
Despite being Quartus of the Great Nine Mechas, she not only carried around a turtle doll every day, but her being short made it difficult to see her as a Cataclysm.
Especially her soft cheeks. They looked like they would stretch like mozzarella cheese if she pulled on them.
“Why don’t you stop for today and go to sleep. You won’t grow like this.”
“You seriously want to die, don’t you.”
So that was why she would talk to her all friendly like this.
It was annoying because it somehow felt like she was being underestimated.
“But you have no intentions to kill us.”
“Hah, fff.”
“So what you said last week was a lie.”
“I shouldn’t have apologized to you, you bitch.”
It was as Klara said; Rosemary couldn’t harm the Hasfeldt sisters.
The Hasfeldt sisters were the ones who could help Aether find her humanity again, so she couldn’t kill or mistreat them.
This had the side effect of her reputation of destroying half their mother country becoming insignificant, but progress was being made.
That is, Klais’ apology.
Klais, having lost her big purpose of Flare and cured through reciprocal treatment, apologized to Aether today. Rosemary had watched the whole scene with Scope.
While her sister hated backstabbing, she usually forgave if one sincerely asked for it. It was the same for Rosemary. She’d apologize profusely every time she screwed up, and Aether would just let it pass even as she sighed. ƒreewebɳovel.com
Plus, there was the display of sisterly love between Klara and Klais.
Aether, being sworn sisters with Rosemary, also had to be feeling something from behavior of the two Hasfeldts.
She was probably perched on the desk and contemplating right now.
Like ‘Was I too harsh pushing Rosemary aside?’!
If she gave her a hug without grumbling the next time she asked for one, then the plan was a success. Because it would prove that her sister had regained her kindness.
Or at least if she had to destroy, then hopefully just the humans.......
Thinking that, Rosemary glared at the Hasfeldt sisters.
“So you’re not going to bed?”
“Shut up!”
She still didn’t like those two.
While it was important to follow the King’s rule of power, it was more important to prevent the destruction of the continent.
Hence, she would have to be in the same boat for the time being with these lowly things.
Late was the night, and Rosemary’s sighs wouldn’t lighten up as she built the circle.
**Similarly, the early morning after work.
Aether was perched on the lab desk, lost in thought.
“......Hmmm.”
No matter how much she thought about it, it wasn’t the same Klais she knew.
She could understand one way or another that she was desperate because of Klara.
Even then, she hadn’t expected that prideful Klara to come forth on her own and apologize.
“How strange.”
Having only given over control of the body, her other ‘self’ also was fully aware that Klais had asked for forgiveness.
Hence the reason why she kept hearing things like this.
‘Hey, shouldn’t this not count?’
When she listened to see what that meant, it was simple.
The logic was that in Klais’ case, the one who came from Earth had been the one to be betrayed instead so it shouldn’t be counted as part of the thousand.
“...What are you saying.”
You are me, and I am you.
Everything from the way we act, talk, what we like and dislike is the same.
“You seem deeply troubled.”
When she turned her head in the direction of the sound, Jǫrmungandr had come in, closing the door behind her.
“How is it that the most intelligent of us appears to be this bothered?”
“What are you doing here at this hour, Autumn?”
“I only came to see you, if you were alive or dead.”
“It must be convenient to be a dragon.”
Aether’s eyes were half-closed and almost glazed over.
Jǫrmungandr was muttering something, but it didn’t register at all. Instead, she was focused on the scratch on her shoe, responding ‘mhm, mhm,’ in a dull voice to the occasional question.
“We coordinated with the whole Demon Army on the schedule. When you burn the World Tree, this one will retrieve the Lodestone, and when the Demon King resurrects, we will pass through Pitchblende Mountain and launch an invasion on Bruglium Falls...... Excuse me, are you listening to what this one is saying?”
“I’m listening.”
“Summer will move troops from Iliad, and Spring will do so through the Empire.”
“I see.”
“I wished to ask where you were going to invade at that time.”
Aether smirked.
“Does it matter where.”
Dark Day’s cast range was across the whole planet. The duration of the effect could differ between locations, but it could roast the entire continent within seconds.
“I’ll work flexibly depending on the situation.”
“A reserve army, that also isn’t a bad idea.”
Jǫrmungandr nodded.
Simultaneously, Aether also made up her mind.
Even if she forgave Klais, humans were going to make the same mistakes again.
Even if she wasn’t counted, there were 999 verified cases, and going back on her decision wasn’t going to do anything but leave it suspended.
It was better to reset and move on to the next worldline than to gloss over it like that.
This wasn’t destruction.
It was re-creation.
She would keep destroying the world until there was a right world with no evil beings.
“Come to think of it, Winter, there is another reason why this one is here.”
“What is it?”
Jǫrmungandr answered with a shrug.
“What you asked for has been finished. It seems that Wilhelm has just finished making them into explosives.”
Aether unknowingly let out a noise.
“......At last.”
