The Magic Academy's Physicist-Chapter 126: What Are You Doing, Sis? (6)

When she had been passed the career path questionnaire by Aether, Rosemary had nearly stopped breathing.

What kind of plan is this....

She had almost let out a harsh sound. Trying to calm her pounding heart, Rosemary calmly read over the words to herself.

Although she was currently disguised with blue eyes, Rosemary was also a Golden-Eyed.

The biggest characteristic of the Golden-Eyed was their excellent memory. The body of steel that the Elementals had pointed at as being a curse was a blessing to Rosemary.

An electronic brain made up of zeros and ones could easily memorize these short phrases that were not even poetry.

“.......”

It would’ve been better if she hadn’t memorized it.

This is just a declaration of war.

She didn’t know who was declaring war on whom, but that was what was happening. If her judgment was correct, then the tragedy of fratricidal war would soon begin.

She was sure that sis hadn’t recovered her memories. Or she might have and decided to put her fate with the humans.

It can’t be this way.

Without big sis, it would be useless even if their King resurrected. He’d still return somehow with the efforts of the other Great Mechas, but he wouldn’t be at full-power.

Ding, ding, ding

“.......”

When she came to her senses, it was already time to go home.

“I’ll be going first, sis.”

Against second sis’s instructions to keep a close watch on Aether, she rushed for the palace.

There was a warp gate there. She had to get to the Demon Castle now and let them know.

As soon as Rosemary returned to her room, she found Duke Blanton, then hastily packed her bag and hurried to the room located in the deepest part of the palace. There it had a high-level teleportation circle that let them travel freely between the palace and Demon Kingdom.

“Should I come with you?”

“I’m going alone.”

In her haste, she even dismissed the words of Duke Blanton who followed her like an adjutant. She was acting independently.

In many cases, Cataclysms worked in pairs to prevent anyone from being killed by a high-ranking Elemental by going around alone. As such, deserting your station like this was a felony of sorts.

But so what if it was a felony? Time was of the essence right now.

Soon after arriving at the Demon Castle, Rosemary screamed for Akasha by her nickname.

“Sis two! Sis twooooo!!”

“What, why are you being so loud.”

Akasha, who had been loitering in front of the empty throne, came over to Rosemary.

When Rosemary arrived at the castle, Akasha had been playing with a unique-looking machine. It was a donut-looking iron device called the tokamak.

“Little sis, why did you come here in the middle of working? Did they bring in the Lodestone?”

“No.... big sis....”

“What about Aether?”

Rosemary explained the whole story on the spot like a chirping baby bird.

She said lots of things but it boiled down to this one sentence.

“Big sis is going to destroy all of us.”

“.......”

Rosemary threw a nice uppercut at the end, and was secretly awed. She had never seen sis two look this stupid before.

“She’s trying to attack us with the magic that should be aimed at the Elemental Realm?”

But unlike Rosemary, Akash quickly regained her composure. She wasn’t Secundus for nothing, it seemed.

“Then does that mean we’re now enemies with big sis?”

“That can’t happen. We have to bring her no matter what.”

“But Aether’s smarter than us. None of the plans I came up with worked, so what do we do?”

In the very beginning, that is, when she’d first learned of Aether’s whereabouts–

Rosemary had first tried to purchase her from Hasfeldt using the Second Prince. She had purposely made an offer that was unheard of at the time so that Hasfeldt wouldn’t think about anything else.

And as you could see, that plan had failed when she got accepted into Tilette.

Then she had tried to get her to withdraw from the Academy through the Prince. Thus, Prince Klion was smashed over the head with calipers.

“Think about it, Rosemary. When did things start going wrong?”

“When the brainwashing stopped working on the Prince...?”

“Exactly.”

“I see.”

It was something she had known.

“The only bastard who could break the control on the Prince is that elf. It has to be given the circumstances.”

“So I was going to find him and kill him but I didn’t see him.”

“What. He vanished?”

“They said he dropped out.”

Digging through her memories like rewinding a clock, Rosemary kept going.

“He must have gotten wind of it. He ran as soon as I got transferred to the class. Wherever he went, I couldn’t find him even though I looked everywhere with Scope.”

One thing was for certain: that elf was aware of her magic.

Which meant that he knew who Rosemary was. She had to get rid of him.

Where would he have gone? As Rosemary explored possible locations, Akasha started and urged her.

“Rosemary, go back to Tilette right now. Hurry!”

“Why?”

“What do you mean why! Don’t you know that Aether told you about this plan because she predicted that you would come here?”

“Huh...?”

That did sound plausible. If big sis was siding with the humans, she would’ve come up with a plan like this.

“But I planted a pawn amongst the humans. He’ll report about her to me wherever she goes.”

“And what’ll you do if she realizes who that is and dunks him into regal water1 or something?”

“Naw, no way.”

For some reason, a chill ran down her spine.

“She wouldn’t.”

“If it’s Aether, she would.”

Rosemary quickly grabbed her bag and stepped onto the teleporter. When blue light flashed blindingly and disappeared, she was back at the palace.

She checked the clock. One hour–that was exactly how long she was gone for.

There wasn’t even time for mana grass. Rather than sitting back and watching with Scope, it would be faster to go around herself.

A place came to mind. Rosemary ran through the Academy on strong legs like a horse.

And then.

There she is.

She spotted Aether who was coming out of the Cultural Center like a predator eyeing its prey. All that was left was to go up to her and ask what she was up to.

“What are you doing here, sis?”

Hiding her panic, she casually struck up a conversation. Aether responded with the calmest expression ever.

“I was meeting with the chairman.”

“For what?”

“About the scholarship.”

She had to maintain her expression. Lifting the corner of her lips, she acted like nothing was wrong.

“Wow, are you in first place?”

“Yeah. So why did you come find me at this time?”

“I forgot something at school.”

The two exchanged lies so very naturally. Their shamelessness was going to pierce the skies2.

Yet Rosemary instinctively knew that her lying was a step below Aether’s because despite having been ambushed, Aether showed absolutely no signs of being flustered.

“Alright, then. See you tomorrow.”

Aether walked past Rosemary as if she didn’t know anything.

At that moment, Rosemary noticed.

The smell of cigarettes....

There were only two situations in which a Golden-Eyed smoked mana grass.

When they used magic, or when they talked with someone.

She wouldn’t be blasting magic within the Academy. Aether wasn’t someone who’d do that for no reason.

“.......”

An odd sensation like a turbulence brushed past her cheek.

It didn’t take long for her to realize what that sensation was.

“... The elf bastard.”

With bloodshot eyes, she marched towards the back entrance of the Cultural Center. As she slowly craned her neck while walking, the sound of metal meshing came from her all over her body.

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“That’s right, it’s an overnight mission.”

She also didn’t forget to contact Blanton telepathically. After that, Rosemary began staking out in the Center’s basement like a snake nesting.

An hour passed. There was nothing.

Two hours passed. Still nothing.

Then three, four, five hours. And just as her legs started getting numb from sitting like a stone–

Clunk.

The sound of a lock clicking came from outside. The security guard must have locked up the Center.

It was well-past midnight. This would be the time to move.

Rosemary had a smoke of mana grass, then walked over to the room that she had had trouble spying on with Scope the other day.

She took a breath and closed her eyes. A cricket chirped loudly by the window sill. It was the perfect prelude to warm up to.

The stick finished burning all the way.

A blade just over a meter-long was held in her right hand. It was a violin string with a blade at the end instead of horsehair.

Since the first movement was done, it was time to play the next part.

“I was going to be nice about it.”

She couldn’t take it anymore. This was the end of her patience.

Rosemary slowly opened her eyes again. Her blue pupils became covered with yellow dust.

Gold eyes glowed brilliantly even within the dark, as if they were envisioning the future of that face.

When a high-ranking Beast entered combat mode, they unconsciously exuded a killing intent. It was the same for Rosemary. As she moved with the intent to harm someone, the cricket’s song stopped.

“Oho.”

She grasped the door handle but it didn’t turn. They must have locked it from the inside.

They certainly did pay attention to safety.

But oh dear.

It was no use even if they did this.

Rosemary applied force and ripped open the door as a whole. Drrrrk–a metallic screech dragged along the floor. The screws that had been holding the door in place popped out one by one. Twisting, the iron door bent into a bizarre shape.

Soon, the door reached the point of being forced open.

The staleness of cigarettes and canned food wafted through the gap. It was a familiar smell from just a little while ago.

She slipped her hand into the opening and snapped the door chain with her teeth. Crunching on the lock, she slowly walked into the room.

Rosemary grinned with her eyes wide, all the whites visible.

“...... Found you.”

1. Aqua regia - a chemical mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid2. Just an expression to say that they're so full of this attitude