Twin Reincarnation: Epics Of The Worldline-Chapter 292 Global headlines

[Lucy’s POV: ]

"El~! Brother Lucy~! Morning~."

The garden of six seasons, a familiar sight we have been seeing for almost a year of this world’s time.

"Hello, Nessy. Sleep well?"

"Yes~. The assignment we got yesterday was tough to finish since I did not understand what they meant by those complicated terms of Magic engineering, but thanks to your notes, I finished it early~."

"There’s no need to finish assignments a day after they give it when the submission is after weeks, lol. You sure are diligent with these things."

"Haha, I’ve learned from the best. Of course, I’m good~."

These past six months, inside this academy where we had the midterms the tests, and the continuing semesters, there was pretty much no out-of-ordinary incident.

’Though, there certainly were talks about the thefts that were going on all around this world.’

But as students, we did not really couldn’t pay much attention to those completely unrelated things when we had homework, assignments, tests, and exams going on all the time.

"Anyway~. We have this trip coming soon, right~. Aren’t you two excited about it as well~?"

"Of course we are! I have always wanted to go to an ancient cemetery~."

"...no, jeez. We are going to the biggest museum in the northern continent. Not some graveyard."

"Hehe, of course."

She wouldn’t know of a graveyard hidden right beneath a museum anyway so there was no need for her to know about that place anyway.

We would be going there to retrieve my Diamond’s Ace, and an important artifact that Rex would find useful, so that was that.

"Have you heard the news?"

"Of course... who hasn’t."

"It’s all over the place. Even my father called me this morning. They are saying something bad is going to happen."

"Something bad? Aren’t they just some thieves we are talking about here? What kind of problems would they cause?"

"Hey! Hey everyone! Look! Look at the school noticeboard! They have-"

"Oho... they posted the Letter from those thieves here as well? I didn’t think they would get their hands on this thing."

There were talks going on all over us.

Practically everyone on the campus was talking about either the ’letter’ or the thieves who sent it.

"Hmmm? What is everyone talking about?"

"You don’t know?"

"Should I...?"

And as always, our dear friend who was busy dealing with her assignments the entire night, was oblivious to everything that was going on around her.

"You Dum Dum. Open the academy newsboard."

El flicked her forehead and after looking at her with an upset expression that screamed that what she did was painful, Nes opened the system interface and went to the academy forums.

"Hmmm? The Ainzcradel? Those thieves that had been going around everywhere stealing people’s important stuff are going to raid that place?

And what’s this... they will take their revenge? Is this some kind of personal letter to someone who would know the context and meaning of these things?

I don’t understand half the things that they are saying in this?"

Her reading speed her improved a lot in the last few months. She only took a few seconds to read out the entire article and the declaration paper that was attached to it. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Which was amazing, if I say so myself. Certainly amazing.

"Look, Nes. Let me tell you the whole thing-"

"Tell us as well if you are going to tell her, El."

We were inside the academy castle now, walking towards our homeroom class, and right when El was about to tell our dear oblivious friend about the things that everyone in this school was already talking about, our other friends popped up from behind.

"Cathy? Weren’t you going to be late?"

"I thought I would be... but then someone did not show up and my appetite died."

She was obviously talking about Rex, and no. They were as close to being a couple as possible now, but since there were still some walls between the two, they were just some good friends.

They still needed a little push, and we think they would have that push when we go on our class trip to the north.

Ras was with her, not technically with her but he was walking behind her with Leon and Lily as they approached us.

And now that they were here already, El won’t have to say the same things to all of them individually.

"Good thing you are here. Anyway, listen... wait. If he didn’t show up, where’s he?"

"Who knows? Maybe cooped up in his room, again? Sleeping?"

Anyone could tell she was upset right now from the expression she had. It doesn’t take an archmage or grandmaster to know when someone is in love.

Or, as they put it, ’are only close friends’.

"Hmmm, anyway. Morning to you all. And you two hummingbirds as well." She smirked at Lily and Leon who clearly looked exhausted even though it was early in the morning.

’They were a couple now... so, yup. Perhaps they were ’playing’ the entire night yesterday.’

They were cute together... and no. Many, many girls in this academy did not like how the most perfect noble bachelor of this entire school, someone as noble as Leon, was dating a good-for-nothing little bitch.

She was short, had normal grades, didn’t have any special attractive looks according to them, and her mismatched eyes, short hair, and normal strength just made her a target of bullying.

But she was a strong-willed person who had survived the grave trials of Chiragya. The bullying of some normal ladies was not something she could not deal with on her own.

’Leon knew just how special she was. Just how unique a person she was and how there were many layers to her short self that even he had not seen yet.’

He fell first, but she fell for him harder than the adamantium.

The challenges in the Shrine brought them closer, and after we came back, they got together and then after some time, they started going out... or dating.

’They were famous on the campus now, and, well, El loved this outcome.’

It wouldn’t be long before he proposes to her and they get married.

They were cute together anyway, so by the time we came back from the school trip, they should also be more active romantically.

"So, the thieves that have been going around stealing precious things of People-"

"El? Do you have anything to do with them?"

"Yes, I am actually the leader of their group. I’m collecting items and looting all the precious treasures of this world so that I can sell them and gather funds for our future when we become gods."

Nes had only asked that question out of pure curiosity with no intention of getting any kind of serious answer but El didn’t hesitate to give her a transparent and truthful answer.

"Kehehehe. I was just asking but you are always ready with fun jokes, hun El~?

"It was almost believable, damn. Miss Auriel is quite good with these jokes, hun?"

"Look, El. Have you considered becoming a comedy writer or something? You would be-"

"Ahem. We are going off topic, folks."

El was just smiling at their compliments without saying anything since what she said was actually the truth, and Ras was confused since he had doubts that what she said about becoming gods was something he was after as well.

’He had failed the ascension once, but this time, he was not going to fail again.’

He was much stronger than before we went to that Shrine.

He had gained quite a lot of experience in that place and leveled up as well. And thanks to all the hints we gave him, he also knew there were a few ways to lift the seals on his powers without leveling up.

So, he was doing well in his place.

"Right right right. Let’s put all that aside... this group of thieves with no actual name has been going around stealing from all over the world.

They started from this very city, and slowly, it is speculated that they spread their area into this empire, the continent, and after getting all the ’useful’ things from here, they moved on to the east, then north, and then the south.

People say they were after the keys that opened the gate of the Ainzcradel. The four keys that were guarded in some of the most famous facilities all over the world.

And just to get the information on these facilities, to find the place, and to precisely infiltrate it, one would need to do a lot of digging and planning, you know?

And they did it, how fascinating is it~?

I’ve even heard from a little birdie that they managed to get three out of the four keys to that place as well, and only when they were almost about to get the fourth one, they found out that the fourth key itself was destroyed by the alliance.

Those people, the ones practically controlling the world, saw those mere thieves as so great of a threat that they had to pull some tricks and do something to them and whatever, but as far as I understand, those bastards did something to them, but failed to do it the right way. And that made them angry, so, what you see before you is a pledge.

"We will do it either way" they are saying. It’s damn freaking hot! Hahahaha~!"

El went ahead and laughed out loud without caring about a thing. And, though our friends did not laugh together with her, they understood why she was so happy.

"So... you are saying they are going to loot the Ainzcradel? Even though they don’t have the key?"

Rex, the latecomer, walked in from behind Cathy and others, and after giving a sorry look to Cathy, which earned no reaction from her, he looked back at El.

"Probably? Haha, I would say they are going to break in through the front door or something if they are so confident. Hahaha. It would be hilarious if they actually succeed, lol."

Their declaration was in the headlines of all the media outlets around the world.

People were talking about them.

Speculating what might have happened to them and what their letter meant.

There was tension building up around the atmosphere of the outside world.

People were talking. They were talking about the thieves who were bold enough to make this kind of statement to the world.

And, they gave the world a date.

"It’s going to be a fun week, lol~."

Under a week.

They were going to infiltrate that storage space in the sky fortress and take all that was there with them...

It was their pledge.

And from how much notorious they were at the moment, the world had no choice but to take this ’pledge’ as something far more than some bluff from a bunch of thieves.