I Became The Academy Necromancer

18. Birthday present

hello?

An age where everyone around me smiles at me saying that I am cute even when I wear flowers in my ears because I am green!

My name is Emily, an 8-year-old girl!

Normally, at this time, I should come back from school and have a snack at home, but not today.

We are climbing a snowy mountain right now!

Why?

I’m a director, but I don’t really know.

My mom and dad said we couldn’t live in the flower garden anymore.

Oh, the flower garden is my hometown!

Even in the Republic of Clark, it is famous for its beautiful flowers!

I like the yellow flower that suits me the most!

But my mom and dad told me not to go near them! You can’t even smell it!

So I have no choice but to watch from afar. Actually, my dad is a high-ranking person in the botanical garden, so I would touch him every day!

“Emily, can you carry me if it’s hard?”

I think my dad was worried about me. I smiled and replied that it was okay.

If you’re 8, you’re not old enough to climb, right?

Besides, I became a lady since yesterday.

Why?

Yesterday, Delphine, who lives next door, confessed.

I learned from a book that if you know love, you are a lady!

Of course, I refused to confess.

Dating under the age of 20 is illegal in the Republic of Clark.

Delphine said it would be okay if she did it secretly, but then it would be a big problem if Dad or Mom were taken to the concentration camp.

But since you’re moving, what if you don’t have to follow the law?

Then I’m thinking about thinking about it again. Of course, Delphine will have to confess again!

“Aren’t you hungry?”

“yes! I’m not hungry!”

“Okay, let’s have a birthday party once we get over this mountain.”

“yes! great!”

It feels good to have my mother’s hand in thick gloves stroking my hair!

Can I tell you a secret?

Actually today is my birthday!

What is the gift?

I’m really looking forward to it!

In fact, the snowy mountains are too steep, the strides of adults are so great that it is difficult to keep up with them, and I want to eat warm and fluffy pancakes.

Still, I have to be patient.

Surely, if you go over this mountain, you can eat delicious rice, right?

Would you all congratulate me?

uh?

Suddenly, people walking in front of me started screaming.

“please!”

“We’re not doing anything wrong!”

“Emily!”

Everyone is screaming something with a frightened expression, but I can’t see because my mom is holding me tight.

I’m scared for nothing because of the screams, so I hug my mom tightly.

“it’s okay. I will go and tell you.”

I hear my father’s voice. I deliberately twist my head and look to the side to see that I have the confident smile that my father always shows.

“Little and cute Emily. don’t worry too much After a while, we can live happily and peacefully again.”

“Yes.”

“You know Daddy doesn’t lie, right?”

“yes!”

Dad is always praised by the villagers too! I’m sure Dad will fix it!

“Earl of Northweden! We come from the Flower Garden of the Clark Republic! Please, tell our story just once… … .”

what?

Dad’s voice is cut off.

I want to stick my face out and check it out, but my mom hugs me tighter so I can’t see it.

“I love you, I love you Emily. Do you know that mom and dad really love each other?”

“Okay, Mom. I love you too.”

My mother, who was shaking, felt like a block that would collapse if touched a little. I was terrified without even realizing it.

“Don’t use my name carelessly, you trashy aliens.”

A scary voice you don’t know.

Does trash mean us?

“Chief of the Marx Lab, catch them all and use them.”

“Yes, I understand.”

That voice was over.

It’s very cold, but strangely, I fell asleep.

* * *

aaa!

oh my head hurts

This is the first time I’ve ever had a headache like this. I woke up to a terrifying scream, where am I?

I don’t like it because everything around is dark, and there are only scary green lights.

“Bo, don’t look!”

I was about to force myself to get up, but suddenly I heard Delphine’s voice from next to me.

I cover my eyes with my hand, what is this… … .

Aww! consideration! Think about it aaa!

“mom?”

After pushing Delphine, I jumped up. I was locked in a cage like an animal cage, but that didn’t matter now.

My mother is outside the cage, screaming, surrounded by strange people in white.

“uh?”

why?

Why, my mother’s arms and legs… … .

… … why?

“Mamaaa!”

bang!

Mom!

Mom!

My mom is sick!

I have to go and help!

I have to go and save you!

“Mommaaa!”

bang!

bang!

bang!

“You can’t hit the barbed wire! Then those people!”

Delphine stopped by the side, but I didn’t think about it. I just kept throwing myself with the mindset that I had to save my mother.

Only the sound of something breaking came from my shoulder, but the barbed wire did not budge.

And.

“Who is it?”

Among the people gathered around Mom, the oldest-looking person looked at me.

It was the first time in my life.

this is horror

He had a name tag on his chest, just like we did at school.

[Director of the Marx Lab]

who stunned us all… … .

“It is me!”

Delphine, who raised her hand in place of me, was shedding a lot of tears. I didn’t understand what the hell this was all about.

“I must have told you to stay still.”

Warden Marx walks along. I was so scared that I couldn’t say anything but my teeth chattered.

“Emily.”

Delphine, who raised her hand in my place, smiles and gives a thumbs up.

“I will save you.”

“ah… … .”

“Then go out with me.”

Tears flowed without my knowledge at the sight of Delphine grinning and confidently leaving the prison in the hands of Warden Marx.

So I’m sorry.

So I got it.

“Keep it off! I-I’m not oh oh oh! actually! In fact, I am aaah!”

I couldn’t help but shed tears even though I screamed and shouted that someone else had done it. I thought it was natural to curse me.

“Eh, eh! Emil! Emily aaa! I did oh oh oh! Zeba, Zebaaar!”

No matter how many times I shouted sorry, Delphine couldn’t even hear my voice.

like that.

Time went on.

Every time the iron window opens, the number of people decreases by one.

The number of people who used to be that many has suddenly decreased.

“You are the only one left.”

I was the only one left inside the cage.

Mom was already unrecognizable, buried among the masses of corpses a long time ago.

Delphine turned to ashes from an electric shock and was swept away by a broom and thrown into a trash can.

Dad?

Dad can always see you.

“Did you say that was your father?”

It was hanging by its neck in the center of the lab. Director Marx happily explained that he instilled fear in us by using his father, who was the representative, as an example.

Since I was the last one, I said I would show you the lab one more time.

I didn’t want to see it, but I had to see it.

Eventually me too.

Countless people had no choice but to lie down on the test bench where they died.

A large blade cuts through the chest.

sick.

sick.

It hurts so much.

I want to eat pancakes.

I want to see yellow flowers too.

I want to go to school with my friends.

I also want to raise a puppy.

I want to hold hands with Delphine and go on a date.

I want to be held in the arms of mom and dad.

There are so many things I want to do.

By the way

“I will save you.”

What does the man in front of me want?

He’s the first guy I’ve ever seen.

I can’t even remember how distraught I was. It just hurts so much, I just feel like I was unconscious.

“What is your wish?”

My plastered lips don’t feel like mine.

The voice doesn’t come out of course.

I think I have a handful of chalk dust in my throat.

Even though I quench my thirst with tears, I have already cried so much that there are no tears left.

I was so dry that I couldn’t even say a single word.

Fu-wook!

Knock, knock.

Dark blood seeping through the hardened tongue. The distinctive fishy scent that I smelled to the point that it was thick and my nose was paralyzed.

The man in front of me stabbed his hand with magic and poured blood into my mouth.

“Wet your throat and speak plainly. I won’t listen.”

“… … ah.”

My throat was still tight, so I didn’t allow my voice to come out.

A little bit of wind through the flowing blood.

I realized that only one word was allowed.

what I want.

You said it before.

I want too many things.

There are a lot of things I want to do.

By the way

Pick just one.

If this is the last word of my life and a birthday present that came a little late.

what i want

“revenge.”

I want revenge

Then the cold man gave me a smile I thought I would never be able to.

“Yes, well said.”

* * *

The girl’s spirit believed in me.

Emily’s resentment, which gently seeped into me, was excruciatingly heavy, and I nearly fell to my knees in an instant.

Finden Ai, who supported me as I stumbled. The phoenix she was dealing with had become a limp bone because Emily’s spirit, the medium, had disappeared.

“Is that the memory of that child?”

“Did you see it?”

“… … yes.”

Yes, it can.

“Souls with a lot of resentment often show their past. They want someone to know them.”

“… … .”

Finden Eye shuts her mouth tightly.

At that time, Deia approaches, forcibly holding her balance, as if her body has lost strength.

“Now that’s the family secret… … ”

Deia, who must have been quite shocked, covered her face with both hands and asked me as if breathing out.

“What are you going to do?”

“What do you mean?”

“Revenge, you said.”

“… … .”

Finden Eye also looks at me, curious about that.

“You’re not trying to hold Darius accountable, are you?”

“He is guilty of ignoring responsibility even though everything is over and he knows the truth. It would be too much to take on all the sins.”

“… … then what to do The revenge that child wants is already impossible.”

because they are all dead

A girl named Emily is at least 150 years old.

Of course, all the people involved are already dead.

so that.

“A stick.”

When I reach out, the staff I dropped on the floor flies at me.

While pouring blood earlier, my hand slipped and missed.

[Here it is.]

As the soul-eating insectoids disappeared, Sk’Al, who was able to come to the basement, carefully placed a staff in my hand.

The two women were surprised that the staff flew at me without using any mana.

I push off Finden Eye and support myself with a staff.

The resentment is so strong that I feel like my body will be torn to pieces.

There is still work to be done.

“Do you remember what I said?”

“What?”

“What are you talking about?”

He catches his breath and speaks again to the two puzzled women.

“All spirits whisper their grievances and regrets very secretly.”

It is the same for every soul.

Both in the past life and in the present life.

“It’s easy if you think of it as a kind of quiz. Even though each soul hides its thoughts like a quiz, I want the correct answer to be released on the contrary.”

“Suddenly what… … .”

Deia tried to cut her off, but I continued.

“It’s just their nature. And most of them cherish the not-so-creative trivia thinking it’s great.”

I know because I was the one who relieved the grievances of many ghosts.

After all, they are human.

Humans who are left alone outside of their thoughts lose their creativity. Most walk the same rail of thinking.

“For example, there are souls who act and speak backwards. They behave bizarrely and provocatively, but in reality they are like children used to ask for recognition.”

Findenai and Deia look like they don’t understand anymore.

A face that wants to ask what the hell am I talking about.

But I’m not talking to you.

“So what I want to say is.”

I slowly raise my head.

I looked at Emily, calming the crazed Emily, who said she would rush in and tear me apart at any moment.

“Introducing names backwards is a damn common riddle, Skrull.”

[…] … .]

His expression is expressionless.

I asked with a mocking laugh mixed with contempt.

“Did you really think you could fake it with that smoke?”

The first time I met Sk’Al, he introduced himself to me like this.

‘My name is Skalma, and it’s an honor to finally be able to repay Detros Verdi for the favor I received 150 years ago.’

“Did you mean to trick me into being a butler? Did you think you wouldn’t notice if you cleverly skipped the first letter while pretending to raise your voice?”

[her… … ]

skal.

No, Maalx, the head of the research lab, laughed and scratched his head.

[Maybe his head hardened while dying.]

Even though his identity was revealed, Marx came out so confidently.

[I never thought I would be found out by such an idiot second son.]

“It’s just stupid, you bastard. Before death and after death.”

[So what are you thinking?]

Marx shrugs and raises the corners of his mouth and shouts to me that it is absurd.

[Are you going to judge me? by what right? I’m Verdi! I just followed your family’s orders! In a way, I am not a victim!]

“… … .”

[If you want to judge, judge your ancestors! As the blood of the masterminds who put it into practice flows, the appearance of daring to judge me is no different from that of a bastard.]

“I decided to grant that child’s wish.”

[Is that justification? You mean revenge? Can that really be said to be the revenge of that girl?!]

“You must have seen it several times already.”

The girl’s soul floated in my hand.

She, who was absorbed into me by necromantic magic, gradually turns into a large blue flame.

“The soul contains mana.”

[…] … !]

The blue flame takes the form of a little girl and stands on the ground.

“I only convert the mana contained in the soul into magic.”

Exorcising souls with necromancy is a skill with a fairly high level of difficulty.

Ordinary necromancers don’t have special eyes like me, so they can’t see their appearance directly or talk to them.

So why can necromancers handle souls?

It’s a pain.

By inflicting pain on souls with magic, they are manipulated and bred.

“With my basic necromantic skills, even if I wanted to be exorcised, I wouldn’t be able to.”

The pain lasts but doesn’t end.

The flames of the necromancer give burning pain to the dead, hindering the rest they should enjoy after life.

Now the girl has become my spark.

So, I gently pushed him on the back and whispered.

“Happy birthday, Emily.”