Volume 6 Chapter 8 (1/2)

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Chapter Eight: The Atonement of Flame[]

Early , four o'clock The sun had not risen yet, the sky was dark

In the sky above the Acadeate appeared

Menvil stood on the deck, watching the sky right ahead Wardes, with inaudible steps, approached Menvil from behind

The wind’s square indicated by itself that it was the same sky

Wardes came out to test Menvil

Can this man lead such a difficult plan to success? He had his doubts

However, Wardes's doubts seemed to be unfounded

Not taking his eyes fron, Menvil called Wardes out of distance,

“So what trial is it now, Viscount?”

Wardes was surprised

Menvil did not even turn around

Even if he had turned around – it was just too dark One couldn’t evensilhouette

Yet… what kind of skills did he use to notice Wardes approach fro distance?

“Now then, we're almost there”

Menviladmiration, carefully approached Menvil

“We're lucky Oh dear, as an attacking side, we should not let them know from which side they will be attacked”

Theyin the air… it was fortuitous that theyspotted

“In order to express our gratitude, when you return to Albion, please let , Viscount”

“Don’t think toofirst,” Wardes said Menvil suddenly pulled out a cane and pointed it at the scruff of Wardes's neck

“Watch your ht here and now?”

Wardes expressionlessly watched Menvil

“I’, Viscount Don’t stare like that”

Laughing, Menvil jumped from the deck into the air

One after another, all of the other team members, wrapped up in black cloths, followed Menvil

A lot of people disappeared fro swiftness

Fouquet, who came up there, muttered in an unpleasant voice

“Creepy guy And scary”

“But he has the skills needed We can’t hope for more”

“Is he more skilled than you?”

Fouquet laughed, asking Wardes a mischievous question

“Maybe”

The Musketeers Corps assigned two musketeer crew members to an artillery tower to watch over the cannon

That was the greatest number of military troops that the army could allow to stand as sentinels

Soht

The older un powder and bullets fros

Anotherher partner’s unpowder

And when she looked carefully… she saw so in the darkness

But before she could open her ic

Two bodies were caught before hitting the ground Not round

“Wo Shame” One assassin informed Menvil with a smile

“There is no place for old courtesy, men or women have to be treated the same”

Menvil said, s rapaciously

“Equally when death is given”

“Only nobles’ children should not be killed They es”

“Apart from them, I can kill everyone else?”

Menvil, while fiddling with his cane, muttered in a happy voice

One member took out the map

It was the map of the school drawn by Fouquet It was covered with a special cloth that didn't leak out light, but slightly illuminated the map itself

Looking at the corpses of the guards, one member muttered

“Guards only aruns”

“How ular musketeers”

Thethe map informed Menvil

”Coets This tower, the dormitory tower and the tower nearside”

Menvil handed down the orders quickly

“I’ll take the dorether with Giovanni take this tower Celestin and the rest take the last one”

The es nodded

Tabitha woke up

There were strange sounds co from the courtyard

After thinking for a moment, she decided to wake Kirche up after all She went out of her rooainst the door, Kirche, dressed only in a thin nightgown on her bare skin and still rubbing her eyes, appeared

“You what… it’s too early… even the sun hasn’t started to rise yet”

“Strange sounds,” was all she said

Kirche closed her eyes

“Uwaaa” Kirche felt her salaainst the

“You too?”

The one

Kirche hastily began putting clothes on

Thedoor echoed

Kirche and Tabitha looked at each other

“Retreat,” Tabitha murmured

“Agreed”

Not knowing the enemies number or location, one had to pull back to recover It ar basics

Kirche and Tabitha jumped down from theand hid the around

It was getting brighter - the sun started rising

At that tirabbed the sword placed at the bedside

Pulling it out from its sheath, she waited at the door

It was the second floor of the artillery tower The room was always used as a warehouse and was only recently made into a bedroom

In all, twelve members lived here

They all resided in the room next door

Agnes noticed the mirror placed in the center of the roolywas turned upside down by thethe trap

Four people led by the e Celestin went up a spiral staircase to the second floor of the artillery tower They queued at the two doors

Two men were positioned at each door while another one waited in the hall

The doors were kicked open

In the e set up his wand

Alares started to chant their spells

“Bam…”

However, they were also hit by ic With his heart pierced by an ice spear, Celestin fell on the floor

Agnes, who hid herself behind the door, noticed the success of her plan

Celestin mistook his own reflection in The Liar's Mirror, which was placed here by Agnes, for an enemy and released a spell which was reflected by the mirror and pierced his heart

Agnes felt gratitude to Celestin, who had been foolish enough to shoot himself with his own spell reflected by the mirror

Another assassin, hastily flounced into the room

But his throat was cut deeply frones's sword, and he fell down

Then, her musketeers jumped into the room

“Coht?”

She nodded answering their question

“I’ht”

“Two people sneaked into our room However, we finished them…”

Two people in my room Two people in the next one Four people in total…

Apparently these thieves crept into the artillery tower to kill them off…

“Albion’s dogs”

Muttered Agnes, quickly understanding where they caes It was impossible to mistake them for simple thieves They must be mercenaries employed by Albion

Then, Agnes became worried about the situation outside

Right now, there were only schoolgirls left in the academy

“In two nes ordered her subordinates

Menvil took over the women's dormitory without any problems

noble daughters were so frightened by his invasion that they showed no real resistance He took all the schoolgirls’ wands and rounded theowns, and confined the hall There were approximately ninety people

While he was doing that, his partners from the other tower joined him

Seeing the acade one of the captives put a smile on Menvil’s face

Menvil gathered all of the captives in the dining hall and tied their hands behind their backs

Thanks to a ic spell that someone recited, the rope moved and twined around their wrists by itself

All the teachers and students were fe

Menvil sweetly muttered to everyone,

“Whaaat, calm down, if none of you try to stand out or et hurt”

Soan to weep

“Silence!”

However, the schoolgirl didn't stop crying Menvil came closer and pointed his cane at her

“Do you like cinders?”

The words were not a direct threat, but it could be understood as one The schoolgirl stopped crying

Osman opened his mouth

“Hey you”

“What?”

“Don’t use violence against woes, yes? To use us as additional cards in negotiations, yes?”

“How do you know?”

“Experienced persons froed in here – it’s easy to see what you came here for Not for the riches for sure So, please be more patient”

“Old man, what value do you have?”

The hed loudly

“How important is one old man for the country? Consider this”

When Osman ducked his head, the intruders started to look around Alvíss Dining Hall

One could clearly read, “I don’t want to be here,” on the es faces

Fuuun, Osht still have a chance

“Old man, are these people all the members of the academy?”

Osman nodded

“That's right That's all of them“

Then the mercenaries noticed that their comrades had not returned fro their tier it takes, the et reinforcements And they should be aware of that Therefore, Menvil ramified

Fro hall a voice was heard

“Those that shut the hall! Listen! We are Her Majesty's musketeers!”

Menvil and others looked at each other Apparently Celestin failed However none of the le lared at Osman

“Hey hey Didn’t you said ‘That's all of them’?”

“Musketeers are not part of the staff,” Osman said calmly

With a sotiate with theroom

Agnes hid herself behind the tower staircase landing She drove one group of coet too involved with the incident

Thesun had not risen yet

At the door of the dining hall a tightfisted ap in the clouds lit his figure

Agnes held her finger on the trigger, while aie

“Listen! Thief! We are Her Majesty's musketeers! One battalion of our troops has you and your daes!”

Agnes’ “one battalion of troops” was a bluff In reality, there were only about ten people

Fro hard

“We couldn’t care less about a single battalion of musketeers!”

“These musketeers have killed four of your partners already If you surrender peacefully, we’ll spare your lives”

“Surrender? Isn’t it the tiotiations now? Call Henrietta here”

“Her Majesty?”

“Indeed And for the ti, promise to withdraw your soldiers from Albion My client seems to hate it when your soldiers dirty the country's land with their shoes

Usually the are However… because ninety children of nobles were taken as hostages, this ht be a different matter The invasion troop's withdraas a real possibility

My responsibility Agnes bit her lower lip

She tried to concentrate – A blunder is a blunder The court people - they are still my responsibility

One nes’s ear

“…we could send a courier to Tristania and ask for reinforcements”

“It is useless It doesn’t es”

Seeing such a consultation, Menvil shouted

“Hey, ree is killed The only ones you can invite here are the Cardinal or Henrietta Are we clear?”

Agnes said nothing

Then, Menvil shouted again

“Make a decision in the next five minutes Call Henrietta or not If there is no answer after fiveminute”

Another nes

“Cones…”

Agnes painfully tightened her lips

At that moment…

A voice sounded from behind

“Commander”

Turning around she saw Colbert standing and staring with surprise at Alvíss Dining Hall

“Do not get involved,” Agnes said, trying to cover Colbert with herself

“You'll be caught”

“My laboratory is in the tower What happened?”

Agnes got angry at Colbert's carefree attitude

“Can’t you see? Your students were captured by Albion’s henchmen”

Colbert looked over her shoulder and, once he noticed thehall, his face turned pale

“Enough already Go back”

Annoyed, she sent Colbert off

“Psst, Miss Musketeer”

She was called froain This ti

“Aren’t you students? Thank goodness you are all right”

“Hey, we have a good plan…”

“Plan?”

“Yeah Right now you can’t reject any help”

“And what is that plan?”

Kirche and Tabitha explained their plan to Agnes

Agnes, after listening to it, laughed

“Sounds fun to me”

“How about it? That’s the only plan we have”

Colbert, who had heard the plan, was opposed to it

“It is too dangerous The ene that such cheap tricks ork”

“No one cares about your opinion, teacher”

Kirche said, not trying to hide her contempt

Agnes stopped paying attention to Colbert altogether

“They do not know about your existence The key here is surprise”

She whispered while pointing her finger at Kirche, Tabitha and herself

Menvil sat on a chair looking at the pocket watch on the table

Tick tick the clock hand moved

“Five minutes passed”

Hearing that, the students shuddered If there were no words fro Henrietta after five minutes, Menvil said he would kill one of them

“Don't hold a grudge againstout his cane

“Take me instead”

Osman muttered, but Menvil shook his head

“You are necessary as a key in negotiation Hey, ill it be? You choose”

An indescribably cruel question No one answered in shock

“Understood Then I will choose Do not hold a grudge”

But the moment when Menvil said that…

A s hall

And once all of their eyes were focused on it…

The paper balloon exploded with a very loud bang

With it, yellow blinding phosphorus flew out of the balloon

It was directed to fly into the dining hall by Tabitha’s Wind and was lit up by Kirche's Fire ic

The schoolgirls screamed

Thosetheir faces

Then Kirche, Tabitha, and the musketeers, with muskets prepared, broke into the room

The strategy seemed to be successful

But…

A lot of fire bullets flew up, aimed at Kirche

Kirche, who had lowered her guard thinking about success, fired her own fire bombs at it

Due to the resulting violent flaun exploded

Her fingers were blown-off, and theher hand

Kirche tried to stand up but did not notice the spell aimed at her

A fire bomb exploded in front of her belly, and she received the full force of the shock wave fro her outside

Wrapped in flames, it was an effective attack It takes tiives an instant i slowly

She saw Tabitha staggering trying to stand up

But then another shock wave hit her head… and she fell onto the ground again

Menvil showed up from the white smoke

Spell! But there was no wand

Then she noticed one lying on the ground

She reached for it, trying to pick it up but he stepped on it

Menvil towered above Kirche, looking down on her

“Too bad… Light bombs only blind one's eyes…”

Menvil said while s

That moment Kirche noticed

Menvil's eyeballs were notat all

“Your…eyes”

Menvil extended his fingers towards one eye

And took it out An artificial eye

“Not only were ht”

“H-how…”

But Menvil moved as if he was able to see

“A snake finds its prey by temperature”

Menvil laughed

“I’m a Fire user, thus I am very sensitive to te in full detail by knowing how high or low the tenize different people by knowing their temperature”

Kirche‘s hair stood up on her head from fear

Who is this man…

“Are you scared? Afraid?”

Menvil laughed

“When one’s feelings turn in tures tell a lot of things about one’s thoughts”

Menvil’s nostrils widened upon taking a full inhalation of the scent

“I want to smell”

“Eh?”

“The aroma of you burnt, I want to smell it”

Kirche trembled

For the first time in her life she felt pure fear

The fear that irl However, Menvil just gave an anxious smile and said

“Hoould you like to burn? There areThis time you will be the one to burn”

Not willing to see it co, Kirche closed her eyes

Menvil put out his cane, but thearound Kirche…

The flame was pushed back by another flame

And once Kirche cracked her eyes open, she saw…

Colbert standing next to her, with a wand in his hand

“…Mister?”

With an ice-cold face, Colbert muttered

“Get away from my students”

As if noticing so, Menvil looked up

“Ooh, you… You! You! You!”

With a joyful expression on his face, Menvil roared

“Isme?! You! Colbert it’s you! I've missed you! It’s Colbert’s voice!”

Colbert's expression did not change He stubbornly stared at Menvil

“It’sago!”

Menvil spread out his arms and shouted happily

Colbert puckered up his brows

That face had so dark in it

“You…”

“How ? Haaa! Captain! Twenty-years! That’s right!”

Captain?

What does that mean? The students started to whisper

“What? Captain! You are a teacher now?! Isn’t it funny? You - a teacher! What precisely do you teach? You ere named ‘The Flame Serpent’… Ha, ha, ha! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!”

Menvil shouted with laughter

“I will explain to you This man here is a flame user that was called ‘The Flame Serpent’ before He was a commander of the special troops… Women or children – he did not care, he burned them all completely”