I regressed and became the Sword Ice King
Chapter 394 - 394- Festival 125- Raid on a Rainy Night 64

A FEW MINUTES AGO.

The night was brisk and cold. A stormy weather that ran deep to the earth's core.

The moon's luminance was blurred by the cacophony of clouds that hung low. Deep and Dark, they have an eager tendency to rain tears on the surface of the Earth.

Thunder ran deep in the clouds. A vibrant cry from the moody clouds, lit up by the sharp crack of lightning.

The scene, captivating yet humbling, was a startling representation of the downfall the Academy was brewing.

Still, the Moon's glow that diffused through the clouds and glowed within the Night was the Academy's effort to stand their ground.

In the midst of these, the conspirators ran through the cubicles of the Staff Building. Silence hung in the air, except for the echo of their boots that pulsed life into the still building.

The sound of raindrops and thunder reverberated in the background. While far away explosions and battle cries suffused within the rain. Some are capable enough to stretch their tendrils into their ears.

From time to time, Katherin would lag behind Crown.

Taking a glance back, ever so slightly with a lingering sensation of hesitation.

They had come this far, but the thought of leaving her followers behind to finish what they started did not sit right with her.

Her morale code fought against it. Yet, her duty carried her still.

Crown would often glance at her. Paying her little to no heed.

As a childhood friend, he understood the predicament that Katherin may be going through.

Especially when they were at the crossroads of no return.

'Well, we crossed that road a long time ago.' His thoughts reeled in like tipper sand. He turned away from her with a sigh as his gaze shifted to the ceiling.

There, he could make shapes of the windshields that stood on the Roofs. The strike of the raindrops echoed as they landed on the tinted glass.

He stared at it for a moment. Easing the pressure within his eyes as he licked his lips, dry.

"Huh…."

He muttered.

Katherin whipped her head towards him. Startled by his voice.

She blinked. "What?"

"Oh, nothing." He replied as he shook his head slightly. "Just recalled something from before."

Katherin raised a brow. Her lips curled into a small smile as she rushed up next to him. Her hurried footsteps bounced off the walls in an echo.

"What? What is it? I want to know."

She nudged.

"Hah…" crown muttered for a moment. A sigh escaped his lips as he scratched the back of his head. "I said it was nothing. Just a thought."

"Crown." She said,

Crown slowly eased his footsteps as he turned to her. Their gazes locked at a point. He bit down on his lip as his gaze shifted. Pupils constricting and dilating with subtle motion.

Searching for something within the depths of her gaze.

His thoughts reeled in.

A warmth that ran through his bones. A familiarity that enveloped him in an embrace.

He rejected it.

Attempting to drive away that feeling that came with it.

'She was always this way..' He started. 'Always worried about those who followed her. Caring for the ones she trusts and those she deceives….a weird, yet strangely talented girl.'

Turning his head to the floor, he let his lips widen into a bright smile. A chuckle escaped his lips.

Her expression, originally, was stern and worrisome. With slight wrinkles caused by the constant stress and pressure of their task. Had somehow eased by the sound of his laughter.

Instead, she arched a brow.

"First, you hid from me, and now you laugh at me."

Crown chuckled louder.

"No, that's not it, Katherin." He continued, his chuckle turning into vibrant laughter. "It's just…." He stopped for a moment. Raised his head back up to glance at her.

"...you haven't really changed from that little eleven-year-old who wanted to fight that Noble girl on the street because they bought the candy I wanted first."

Katherin froze. Her brows twitched ever so slightly as the memory came rushing in like a fresh wound.

Her lips twitched. She lowered her head, then raised it.

"That was in the past. Why are we suddenly talking about embarrassing moments from the past?"

"I don't know. Probably because you keep thinking about the people we left behind to secure our advantage."

Her lips twitched.

"Secure what advantage? They were all Lecturers from the slums. Most of them don't even possess Master Skills, not to talk of Transcendent."

"And we will fix that once we take over the Academy. This is a process that we must go through." He paused for a moment. His eyes peered into Katherin's. Running far deeper into her than any could.

Their history was written in blood. Their blood.

And he could see everything she was going through or thinking.

After all, he was the one who spent the longest time with her.

"Resist all intentions of going back to help them and focus on this task."

Katherin's eyes flickered. Her gaze grew hazy as she bit down on her lips.

Her fingers curled tightly on the palm of her hand. Pressed against her skin. Nails biting deeply against it.

"I don't know, Crown. There are too many complications with the plan. I don't wish harm against our people. Especially not them."

"Yes, they are. Certainly." He paused. Taking a slight breath out as he turned towards the door.

In the distance, just a few more treks away was the door. The door which led to what they sought out the most.

The demise of the Headmaster.

He turned back at her. "But we've come this far, haven't we? Without Cadwin too."

The sentence struck like lightning.

Katherin's face twitched with more ease. Less control.

The part of her she had always restrained. Locked away for the greater good.

Laid bare in front of no other than Crown. A friend. A partner. A brother. A presence that had stood with her in the entirety of both their lives.

Since that day. Since the beginning. Since the end of one spark and the genesis of another. One that burned much more fervently than the last.

A spark which turned into flames. Burning. Thriving. Vengeful.

"We can finish it, then go back. We'll rebuild what is lost, and take with us what was left."

Crown smiled slowly. A light in her world. A beacon of strength to the multitude of foundations that laid bare within her.

"Because as we had said all that time ago– we will end the plague of our oppressors. At least it grows into something that destroys people like us. Children are dragged from the purpose of dreams into the purpose of reality. Adult reality."

Silence hung like a guillotine as they stared at one another.

Rain beating on the building that sheltered them with rampant drops.

It felt surreal.

The road to victory, riddled with thorns, now laid bare to them.

So much so that it made them hesitate to check for the clarity of the situation.

For a moment, Katherin lost herself in her thoughts, but in the next.

She shook her head.

Her demeanour returned to that of the vibrant Professor who would rain fire on earth to achieve her goal.

In an instant, her vigour sparked to life, and all distractions were pulled down by the will of the fire that ravaged her.

She sighed. Steam rushed out between her lips as her head turned to the door. "Let's go."

Without needing a response, she headed straight. Leaving Crown to linger behind.

His lips remained fixed in a smile. His thoughts reeled in as he walked after her.

'As expected of my big sister.'

They continued in silence. Covering the distance in a few more minutes, before reaching the door.

Katherin turned her head to the cubicle by her left.

The largest, and most spacious out of any other.

It had been renovated into a unit in the past and served a single purpose written broadly on the white, oak wood door.

She read it slowly, in her head. An image of Cadwin flashing past her thoughts.

'Infirmary.'

Crown chased her gaze to the door. Glanced at it. Scowled at it, and then clicked his tongue.

He walked past her, pushed the door and pulled both of them into the spacious office.

She flicked from the sudden intrusion of space as the door closed behind them. Her head tilted up as she glanced at Crown who walked past her with a blank expression.

A moment passed by and the silence remained. Her lips slowly twitched into a slight smile as her gaze landed on the Portal.

As usual, it stood at the far back of the room. Rotating and spiralling with such magical focus. A vibrant hue sipped out of it, into the room. Unwithered and unbothered by the chaos that ran through the Academy like a hail storm.

They unintentionally breathed out. A heavy breath to calm their nerves.

Expectations on the impending conflict to come.

They glanced at each other for a moment.

Their thoughts swirling in their minds, yet, held back from coming out as words from their lips.

They simply smiled. Nodded and walked into the Portal.

Disappearing from the Staff Building right before it began to wither away. A straight rush of destruction.

Swallowed by concentric waves of winds that blasted through the walls and windows in a low cry of protest.

Moans of collapse tore through the foundation of the buildings. Uprooting it from the earth and crumbling into the ground.

All the while, making room for something much more.

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