Di waktu onde berita tentang Frondier lagi membuat heboh dan tegang di Constel...
"...Ya, ini sesuatu yang harus aku lakukan akhirnya."
Aten membuat keputusan yang tak jelas dan melakukan panggilan dari mansionnya. Tone panggilannya bahkan tak sampai 3 sekonde.
- Aten~! Kenapa call pertama? Ai kau baik?
Itu ibunya, Permaisuri Philly, yang jawab.
Hearing voice Philly yang tecucur dengan seneng, Aten rasa sedikit bersalah. Sebaiknya aku call pertama sesekali? Nak, bahkan sebagitu, Ibu sering call, jadi tak masalah...
"Ah, ya. Ma. Aku rasa sinyalnya strange sekejap. Kau baik?"
Philly diam di tengah ucapan. Ngitu rare untuk dia. Dan walik, voice yang mixed dengan tersenyum tegantung ngitu lagi dengar.
- Lupakan saja. Aku talk tentang itu nanti.
"Ngapa cara talk ngetu? Tokal nganga annoying."
- Hahaha. Kau tokal alah tahu. So, ngapa going on? Ngana tak mungkin anak kita call tanpa reason.
Hmm. Aten tak seneng bahwa Philly hide sesuatu, tapi dia tak ngapa pilihan selain change topik.
Sekal once Philly make up mind, dia nefer change it. Just like now, dia tersenyum bright dan tak jawab.
"...Ngitu nothing special."
Aten told Philly tentang ngapa happen di Terst Department Store. Actus terrorist Jacob, Mana flow strange dia, wound yang assumed mark injeksi, possibility bahwa injeksi Mana lagi run oleh sistem group daripada individu. Dan offer unidentified yang deliver oleh guru kelas Jane di Constel.
Impresi Philly ngitu short. Ngitu bukan because Philly indifferent tentang matter, tapi karena reaksion dia generally short.
"It's just, kind of thing ni happen. It's like a casual chat."
Aten deliberately said so, thinking bahwa incident ni tak too related dengan Kemahon Royalti. It's just a conversation antara ibu dan anak, bukan sesuatu untuk report kepada 'Permaisuri Philly'. Of course, tujuan sesungguhnya untuk let dia know tentang incident ni, tapi dia tak bisa say ngetu.
- Place onde terrorist yang, ngitu Terst Department Store?
"Ya. In front of cafe."
- Oh my. That's quite a coincidence.
Aten rasa puzzled oleh pilihan kata Philly. Duda dia grow even lebih strong ketika Philly ask orang di other end of the phone, 'Isn't that right?'
- No, we're actually investigating that case here.
"Investigasi? Di Kemahon Royalti?"
Ngitu berarti incident ni bukan just a Constel matter?
- The Mana injection yang kau mention, it seems to be indiscriminate. - Whether they're weak or strong, whether they have a lot of Mana from the beginning or not, it seems to guarantee an effect, right?
Of course, downside yang it can't be hidden dan leaks out, Philly added.
Ekspresi Aten jadi dingin.
Until now, dia percaya bahwa target injeksi Mana limited untuk orang yang weak Mana from the start. Dia thought tak akan efektif untuk orang sufficiently skilled.
But in reality, it's just bahwa orang yang want it weak, bukan bahwa it's limited untuk anyone in particular. Anyone, jika they want to, can get an injection dan gain even more amplified Mana.
"...Ngapa tentang side effects?"
- There haven't been any particular ones yet. You saw it yourself, right? Bloodshot eyes, rough breathing, state of excitement and tension, uncontrolled Aura leaking out every time they speak, and so on. Everyone has similar symptoms, but that's it. So far, no one has died because of it. However... - It seems like they have to live like that for the rest of their lives.
Aten thought untuk sekejap at those words.
Symptom yang Philly just mention, certainly akan strange jika normal orang continue like ngetu, but jika tak ada threat to life, akan ada quite a few orang yang want gain Mana even like ngetu. The desire to become stronger in this continent is enormous.
- Actually, if there's no loss of life, the police won't get involved. The Imperial Palace is the same. But there are two reasons why we're investigating this time. - First, getting an injection is in the realm of medicine. Not magic. I don't know the principle of the technology that puts Mana into a liquid, but putting someone else's Mana into someone is not a simple matter. To use a crude method like injection without side effects, the solution needs precise processing from the beginning. There are no side effects now, but that's just 'now'.
Aten guessed ngapa Philly try say.
"...Before that, how many people might have died."
- That's right. It's not a place that operates normally. We don't know what steps they took to eliminate the side effects. It would be fortunate if they didn't hurt anyone in the process, but I think the chances of that are very low.
It's a drug injected into a terrorist in the first place. It can't be a proper organization.
- What do you think a person who has been injected once will do afterwards?
"...Well, wouldn't they do things they couldn't do when they were weak?"
- Aten, people... What do you think they can do when they become strong, that they couldn't do when they were weak?
At those words, Aten was about to answer something but closed her mouth. She knew ngapa Philly try say. Even just imagining it now, it doesn't bring up good thoughts.
- And what if that power is not enough? What if they feel they are lacking?
"...Then, of course, they would take the drug again..."
There's no guarantee that someone who has been injected once won't be injected again. But the second injection, would that also be free of side effects?
- We don't know yet what effect the second injection has on the human body. It could really cause serious side effects that lead to death, or it could actually eliminate the symptoms mentioned earlier. The problem is, we don't know.
After listening to Philly's words for a while, Aten made a sound, "Ah". Something suddenly came to mind. The recent rumors circulating about Frondier.
"...Mom. There are rumors going around about Frondier recently." - He's always a bundle of rumors. "The rumor that he got a Mana injection."
This time, Philly's words stopped. Aten continued speaking.
"Perhaps their goal is to appeal that the symptoms disappear if you get the injection more than twice? That Frondier is such a person. Frondier's Mana increased so much that one injection wouldn't be enough."
- ...Whatever the intention, it's good to use it as an excuse to keep injecting people.
Then she suddenly spoke in a strange voice.
- So what you're saying, Aten, is that other students who have seen Frondier's rapid growth don't acknowledge the desperate effort, courage, and hardship he has gone through, and believe that he became strong by resorting to shortcuts or crimes close to it? That Frondier is just a lazy bum who has never put in any effort?
"...I didn't say that, but..." But why is she rephrasing it like that?
- Then, Aten, I understand. I'll think about that case too, so be careful at Constel. I don't think they'll touch you, but it's better to be careful. There are always those who don't know their place.
"Mom, wait a minute. That strange way you just talked..."
- Then goodbye, Aten.
Philly hung up without giving Aten a chance to speak. Aten stared blankly at the phone where the call had ended.
"Wait a minute. I thought someone was next to her."
Philly's playful smile came into clear view.
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