Helmut: The Forsaken Child - H.F.C Chapter 81( Part 1):
Asuka, who was self-conscious about his appearance, blinked his eyes.
“Do you want to die? If I flick you, you’ll break.”
“Flick me, and I’ll cast a curse on you that weakens your bones. Anytime you want.”
The gazes of the two clashed fiercely.
Elegant and sarcastic Alea and rough and foul-mouthed Asuka seemed like mismatched opponents to anyone who saw them.
Sian sighed and looked at Helmut.
“Helmut, do something.”
‘What do you want me to do?’
Helmut spoke with a skeptical look in his eyes.
“If we’re in the same swordsmanship department, we should help our fellow students. If you went to the trouble of saving him, you should take responsibility to the end.”
In truth, if someone had drowned, it would have been enough to save them. There was no need to go as far as saving their luggage.
Sian’s words were an impromptu response, but they strangely sounded persuasive to Helmut.
The members of the Pace Mercenary Corps who had rescued the unconscious Helmut had also intended to take responsibility until he recovered.
Helmut sighed as if he were tired.
Rather than engaging in battle, dealing with these guys who had become like friends was somehow more exhausting.
“Alea, please treat that guy.”
‘Why should I?’ Alea, who had expected a different response, gave an unexpected answer.
“What will you give me if I treat that guy?”
“…I’ll grant whatever you wish.”
Helmut said after some hesitation. Alea knew her sense of propriety, so she would demand something reasonable. Alea agreed.
“Fine.”
A little while later, after the treatment was finished, Asuka looked at his clean, healed body.
“What? It’s amazing.”
The torn clothes couldn’t be helped, but there was no trace of injuries on his body.
While it could have been roughly healed, Alea didn’t do her job carelessly.
Sian also admired.
“You’re good at healing magic. This is quite an advanced spell.”
“There’s no magic I can’t do.”
Alea said coldly. It was more of a matter-of-fact tone than boasting.
Asuka, who had been about to say something with his chapped lips, swallowed his words and mumbled.
“I’m leaving now.”
Then, he glanced at Helmut and opened the door, leaving abruptly without a word of thanks.
Alea looked at the spot where he had left with an incredulous expression.
“Did we really have to treat that guy?”
“Where did you see a crazy person willingly get treated? Please grant permission, Head of the Magic Department. Well then, I’m leaving too.”
“Hurry up and go.”
Once Sian disappeared as well, only the two of them were left.
Alea raised her fist and looked at Helmut, her eyes demanding an explanation. It seemed that their training that day had gone down the drain.
***
Interrogating the captured Black Hawk individuals, they discover the client’s identity. While a simple process remained for those who wanted it to be simple, the situation did not unfold as smoothly as expected.
After the holiday, Helmut, Sian, and Asuka received news that the captured attackers had all escaped.
“Does this make any sense?”
Asuka burst out angrily among the three who had gathered since morning.
Thanks to Alea, who had healed all his wounds, he seemed very energetic. He was definitely the type who was far from the word “mental shock.”
“Did Baden’s prison walls turn into paper? Are the soldiers scarecrows? How could all of them escape so easily!”
Asuka’s anger at being stabbed with a knife in the alley was justified. The academy staff who had gathered them frowned.
“We are investigating, but it seems that there was a soldier who took a bribe among them. That soldier also withdrew from that day.”
“Then we should have captured them and interrogated them ourselves.”
Helmut expressed his dissatisfaction belatedly. An administrative officer flinched.
“That means expulsion.”
Sian, glancing at the administrative officer, nudged Helmut’s side.
But he wasn’t feeling good either. He had only tried to officially handle the work on the surface, but he didn’t know it would turn out like this.
If the attackers had escaped, they wouldn’t be able to extract a confession from the client.
It might have been better to just close their eyes and leave it to Helmut.
‘Because I can bury the bodies as spirits.’
But it was already over. Sian asked the administrative officer.
“So what are we going to do? Shouldn’t we do something?”
A student of Greta Academy was attacked in Baden. Even if he was a commoner, it was a situation that couldn’t be ignored.
Angry Asuka raised his voice.
“Well, bring those noble guys in front of the Eye of Truth and make them confess! We should be able to find out who did it!”
The administrative officer said with an awkward expression.
“We plan to call the suspects that the student mentioned and investigate, but the Eye of Truth will not be used in this case.”
“Why!”
Yelling was an attitude that was ready to rush in and grab someone’s neck right away.
Sian grabbed his shoulders.
“Hey, calm down. The Eye of Truth is not something you can use just because you have suspicions.”
“Nationally or academically, when a clearly serious incident occurs, you need permission from the headmaster to use it, so you won’t be allowed to use it in this case.”
“What? But this guy.”
Asuka pointed at Helmut. Didn’t he make those noble guys confess on their own with the Eye of Truth?
Helmut replied simply.
“Only thanks to Instructor Patricia’s cooperation.”
Knowledge about the academy was unnecessary for most of the swordsmanship undergraduates. It was extremely rare for someone to know such detailed information.
It was something Sian, who was about to become the second place in the magic department, would know.
“Damn it!”
Asuka, in anger, kicked the wall.
Now there was nothing else to do but wait for the investigation results.