How to Survive as the Second Son of a Mage Family - Chapter 196
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How to Survive as the Second Son of a Magic Family (196)
“Is it over?”
As I came out of the detention center, I heard a hollow voice that was impossible to ignore.
When I turned my head, I saw the Crown Prince waiting for me with a box of liquor in his hand and only one attendant by his side. The attendant greeted me politely as soon as he saw me, then warped away somewhere.
“It was truly touching. The Professor doesn’t even know you’re my student, yet only an hour for visitation.”
“Do you think you’re one to talk?”
“It’s disappointing that you won’t even call me Your Highness.”
He slowly approached until he was right in front of me.
“No matter how much I used your professor. Since he’s the homeroom teacher of my beloved cousin, I thought he might be useful, so I asked them to take him as a bonus. I’m glad I did.”
He must be talking about blood relations.
I asked with a sneer.
“You’re glad you did?”
“Who would have thought such a big shot was buried in there. If I hadn’t used Johannes Rohn, I would never have had the chance to meet you.”
He bored into my eyes. That expression is appropriate.
His eyes were staring at mine so persistently that I wondered if he was observing even the shape of my irises.
Just as my patience was running out, he turned his head and spoke.
“Don’t be so sharp with me. The Professor will live peacefully without any problems from now on, living beyond his natural lifespan before passing away. If he runs out of money, the Imperial Court will support him, and if he needs servants, tea, or a house, we’ll likewise provide support. If he needs the best treatment in this country, that too will be supported for life in the name of Hohenzollern.”
“…”
“Don’t you believe it? Since you lent me a week, I’ll return more than that. Once I release those who have been used by me, I absolutely never let them live bad lives.”
“What a ridiculous belief.”
“As a monarch, it’s proper to repay with utmost sincerity those subjects who have devoted everything to me. Isn’t that right?”
He turned to look at me with a gentle smile.
“In that sense, I think Your Excellency should consider it once.”
“My answer is to refuse everything. If you’re only planning to waste time like this, I’ll be going now.”
“You’re in a hurry.”
His tone changed again.
He slightly blocked my path.
“Today I called you to apologize. There’s something that might be helpful to you.”
“…”
“If I said it’s something I’ve never shown to anyone in my entire life, would that pique your interest?”
When I just looked at him without answering, the Crown Prince smiled warmly and stood beside me, grabbing my elbow.
“I’ll warp us. I promise it’s not a dangerous place.”
He waited until I gave my consent.
Anyway, things were already arranged with Leo. If there was trouble, he would immediately follow.
If that didn’t work, I would turn back time.
“Let’s go.”
When I closed my eyes, a cool breeze brushed my face.
‘A forest?’
The air smelled of fresh trees.
I slowly opened my eyes.
To be precise, it wasn’t a forest but a park with many trees. Of course, for a park, it felt like human traces hadn’t touched it for a really long time. Even now…
‘No, there’s one.’
Just as I thought there would be no people now, I saw someone leaning against a lamppost. He was dressed almost like a beggar.
The Crown Prince didn’t mind such appearance and approached the beggar.
“Daniel.”
“…”
“It’s been a while.”
When the Crown Prince sat in front of him and waved his hand, the beggar began to react.
“Mmm.”
“Try to come to your senses.”
“Ah, it’s been a while. Elise?”
The Crown Prince didn’t respond.
Instead, the beggar continued to babble.
“Good that you came. Do you know what I saw yesterday? A kobold was gnawing at my leg. We need to exterminate these crazy monsters.”
“…”
What is this nonsense? Is this person mentally unstable?
The Crown Prince smiled gently, as if accustomed to this.
“Kobolds? Those are just fairies from folk tales, Daniel. Now wake up from your dream.”
The Crown Prince took out the liquor he brought and poured it into his mouth without hesitation.
“Cough…!”
He choked on the liquor and sat up abruptly, coughing.
Surprisingly, he quickly looked at us with eyes that had returned to sanity.
“Mm, yes. This is it. Elise, it’s been a while.”
‘What do you mean this is it?’
“Haha, now the world seems to make sense.”
“Yes. But my opinion that we need to exterminate kobolds remains unchanged. They’re in my ears eating away at my brain.”
“Wasn’t it your leg earlier?”
“…”
After hearing this much, I was certain.
This wasn’t simply sleep talking. This person is mentally abnormal.
The beggar nodded toward me.
“Who’s that beside you?”
“My friend.”
“Friend? Don’t cause trouble. That young man beside you doesn’t think of you that way at all.”
Daniel said reproachfully.
The Crown Prince, knowing that he already had mental problems, just kept smiling gently no matter what he said.
“So what did you come for? At this dawn.”
“It’s almost morning. Don’t beggars have to get up early to go begging?”
“When you take care of me every day, why would I.”
“Hahaha. I’m glad you seem to be doing well.”
The Crown Prince laughed like that and pointed at me.
“It’s nothing else, but I’d like you to tell me about this friend. Focus on what this friend doesn’t know.”
“Huh? No. If you’re going to do that, you go outside.”
I almost let out a hollow laugh at that sharp refusal.
I held back my laughter out of courtesy, but the Crown Prince was laughing freely.
“Ah, you can only tell me if I go outside?”
“Yes. Or you tell your story in front of this young man too.”
“Mm, not bad. I want to stay close with Count Ernst for life, so I should accept this much loss.”
He said looking at me.
“Good. Just give me one more sip of liquor before that.”
The Crown Prince silently poured liquor into his mouth.
It would be annoying, but seeing his expression still peaceful and his movements skillful, he must have done this often.
The beggar gulped down the liquor and looked at the Crown Prince with somewhat sharper eyes.
“Yes. You’ve accumulated more karma while I haven’t seen you.”
“Karma.”
“Whether parent or child, you’re no different from Herod. My head hurts from the wailing, so tone it down a bit.”
“That’s quite an insult. But regardless of religion, he was historically a wise ruler, so I’ll take it as a compliment.”
“Lend me that well-oiled mouth of yours. If I go around arguing with that, I’ll live with a healthy mind for a long, long time.”
Instead of responding to his nonsensical words, the Crown Prince quietly looked down at him.
Daniel giggled and opened his mouth.
“Such talk doesn’t hold much meaning for us, so let’s discuss something that young man over there would find appealing. Humans are a synthesis of the finite and infinite, the temporal and eternal, freedom and necessity.”
“I see you’ve learned some new phrases from Kierkegaard somewhere?”
“You’re not going to go back and dig through books about it though. What you need right now isn’t his writings. He made such descriptions about the human ego, but if we judge from a different level beyond the ego….”
He wiggled his finger while turning his gaze here and there, then looked into the Crown Prince’s eyes.
“The being that is finite and infinite, temporal and eternal, free yet inevitable is none other than you.”
“Haha….”
“Chance made you that way. Haven’t I always said so? Elise, what is the reason you keep me as your advisor?”
“….”
“To follow providence. You could purge an old man whose brain has been half-eaten by kobolds, but you cannot purge providence itself. That is not a power that belongs to the Crown Prince of the sacred German Empire.”
“Of course. That’s why I cherish you, isn’t it.”
For the sake of providence, as you just said.
The Crown Prince let out a faint laugh as he muttered this.
“Even if the beginning wasn’t your will, isn’t it time to return now? You know that the master has appeared.”
“Well.”
The Crown Prince stepped back as if he didn’t need to hear any more.
“That’s enough, Daniel. The person sitting next to me doesn’t know about himself, so tell us more about this person’s story.”
“I refuse. If you don’t turn back the calendar, I won’t put a single grain of rice in your mouth.”
The Crown Prince silently brought alcohol and poured it into his mouth. He sprang up as if having a seizure, coughed with a metallic sound for a while, then looked at us with a satisfied expression.
Yet he still didn’t open his mouth. It was an insane scene that was hard to follow, but he seemed accustomed to it.
The Crown Prince looked at me with a half-playful smile as if he couldn’t win.
“If I stay here, he’ll keep his mouth shut for life. I’ll step out for a moment and return when you’re finished.”
He really did disappear cleanly outside this space.
The beggar started hiccupping as if he had breathed wrong.
Without saying anything, he spoke as if he had read my thoughts.
“Don’t worry. I forget everything once this time passes. I especially don’t carelessly speak about the secrets of those who have something to reclaim.”
“….”
I was considering whether I should turn back time, thinking this man might read something and pass information to the Crown Prince.
He answered very accurately without me even saying that.
‘He’s not just any beggar.’
The Crown Prince deliberately keeps him by his side.
That means this man’s words are worth listening to.
Even if they consist of cryptic words like before.
I can solve codes by pondering them, and I can understand to some degree those cryptic words he said about the Crown Prince earlier.
Anyway, there’s nothing to lose.
I bent one knee to sit and met his gaze.
At that moment, the beggar burst into mad laughter.
“Hahaha!”
“What is it?”
“No, I can see this first at a glance. Did you hate becoming Rosalind that much?”
Rosalind?
Why is that coming up here?
I stared at him intently.
“You originally played Orlando, didn’t you? But from what I see, you’ve finally gone to the right place. You came to live as Rosalind. You must live as her.”
The back of my neck felt cold.
I looked into his hazy eyes without blinking once.
“You’re ready for that, aren’t you?”
‘…As expected.’
Abraham doesn’t keep him around for nothing.
This man isn’t talking about the play.
The reason I had to come to this other world. He’s talking about that.
“Or are you still far from it? It doesn’t matter either way. You have no choice.”
I remained silent.
It felt like I’d been hit on the back of the head, and the questions I should ask wouldn’t come out of my mouth. No matter how much I expected he wasn’t an ordinary human, to think he even knows I came from another world.
However, the corners of my mouth soon turned upward. I don’t know where he found such a person to keep in his private space, but this is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Even if it’s information I can’t understand right now, I must listen when the opportunity comes so I can use it when needed.
“Besides, when you’re already Abel, is there any reason you should become Orlando? That’s already yourself. You’ve been performing the play where the older brother tries to kill his younger brother for hundreds of years. If the ending had been the blood of the younger brother soaked into the earth crying out to heaven, everyone would have been sick of it, but in the end everyone lives as they please, truly ‘as they will,’ don’t they? I think this is a thoroughly ruined play. The Abel before my eyes is walking through hell, and life doesn’t end with love like a Shakespeare comedy.”
Abel.
A Genesis figure killed by his brother Cain’s jealousy. From the context, it’s closer to Luca’s story than mine.
Now he’s talking about Luca’s story instead of mine again.
“Are you saying my brother is Cain?”
“I don’t know who your brother is. But I know well that your blood has soaked deep into the earth, crying out your innocence.”
“That’s not my blood.”
“Only God knows. I’m getting sleepy. As you heard, half my brain is gone….”
What’s with the brain complaints again.
Even if it all sounds like nonsense, I can’t end the conversation here. I grabbed the bottle and asked.
“Would you like some?”
“Ah, yes. Yes. Good.”
He received the alcohol with trembling hands and gulped it down.
Rather than getting drunk each time he drinks, he seems to become more clear-headed.
The beggar opened his eyes clearly and shrugged his shoulders.
“What will you do? Our most high God the Father will never drive Cain out of Eden, even though he killed his brother. So why did you make such a decision?”
“What decision are you saying I made?”
He ignored my question and continued speaking as he pleased.
That’s how it sounded.
“By living in Eden, Cain received permission for his existence from God. But these Shakespeare characters solve everything in Arden Forest! As if Cain doesn’t matter at all, whatever is there, ending all conflicts in that forest was the will of Yahweh and Shakespeare? I’m not a sage so I don’t know, but you would know.”
He closed his eyes as if lost in thought, then slowly opened them when the wind blew.
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.”
“….”
“And you have lived as all humans. So now you must become Rosalind more than any other character. You must.”
“I don’t understand what relationship that has with my coming here.”
Become Rosalind.
In what sense?
A romantic comedy protagonist? I’ve already done that countless times in reality.
From my late teens, my entire career was filled with that. Whether I wanted it or not, acting while treating emotions that had no value to me as the most valuable emotions in the world was my life and my work.
According to his words, in the 21st century I was always Rosalind.
But now I need to become that?
“You’re already ready for it.”
He said while gazing at me intently.
He hadn’t answered any of my questions from the start. Instead, he just rambles on with his own words.
“Whether you want it or not, whether you know it or not, none of that matters now. You want to ask why?”
“….”
“Caesarea is right ahead now. Have a pleasant journey.”
A benevolent smile appeared on his face.
Right after that, his face collapsed completely. He lost consciousness as if someone had turned off a switch.
I slowly stood up from my seat.
“Cryptic, isn’t it.”
The Crown Prince’s voice.
“It’s a gift I can never give again, so treasure it well.”
“Where did you bring him from?”
“Long ago. When I heard there was a madman spouting chilling nonsense in Southern Prussia, I went to find him….”
He smiled while gazing into midair as if recalling the past.
“What a fine item that is. It would be useful if only I could interpret it well. It was a good fellow that led me to victory all this time, but now its intuition has dulled, or something. To think it would let me mortgage my life to Count Nicolaus.”
It would be useful if only interpreted well.
I agree.
Following the phrases in the Catacombs and my bouquet, now I have to interpret this as well.
He grabbed my arm and continued speaking.
“By the way, it would be good to know what you heard.”
There was no need to respond.
When I gestured with my head to indicate we should move, he warped on his own.
What spread before my eyes again was the street around the Prosecutor’s Office. Cold winter wind blew.
The Crown Prince, who had released my arm, looked up at the dawn sky and spoke.
“You must be satisfied that things went as you wanted. You killed the Antagonist, sent the Professor back to daily life, brought down Primrose Pass… Your position as Nicolaus has become even more solid than before this incident.”
Now he fixed his gaze on me and spoke with a smile.
“This time, I lost.”
“…”
“So today’s gift is given with the meaning that we should live peacefully from now on.”
“Peace.”
“Didn’t I even give you my information? Well, it would only be useful when you can interpret what that fellow says.”
I only smiled without answering.
The Crown Prince, having no intention of detaining me further today, opened his mouth while observing the color of the sky.
“It’s gotten quite late.”
Unlike before, he bid farewell cleanly with a smile.
“Let’s meet again later, Count Ernst.”
* * *
Three hours later, I arrived at school.
“You look really sleepy, Lucas~”
Narke said as she seated me.
I couldn’t help but look sleepy.
I don’t even know how many days I’ve been moving around all night.
Moreover, since I had already adapted to not having morning classes, being called out from 8 AM like this wasn’t very familiar.
‘Still, I understand why they called us from morning.’
I smiled as I looked at our class’s temporary homeroom professor.
The professor was giving various announcements, and as he was finishing the morning assembly, he smiled and looked around at the students.
“Everyone, there’s good news. The professor for Class 2 of the Department of Magic’s second year has decided to return this Friday, on the day of the third exam.”
“What?”
“The Professor? Wasn’t he on leave?”
The students’ eyes widened. Even if they didn’t know about being detained by the prosecution, everyone felt the same regret about his sudden disappearance without a farewell.
Seeing the positive reaction, the professor raised his voice.
“Since the Professor will return, morning classes will also normalize after the third exam ends. Good, right?”
The students didn’t respond, as if that wasn’t so good.
However, everyone’s expressions were bright thanks to the fact that the Professor was returning. I could feel from this scene how our homeroom professor usually treated our class students.
The temporary homeroom teacher answered the students’ trivial questions and finally advised them.
“Now there are four days left to practice until the third exam. Take good care of your condition, maintain teamwork with your teammates until the end, and do your best in training.”
“Professor, how will our third exam be?”
“I can’t tell you that, hehehe. What’s certain is that you don’t need to feel burdened.”
No student was already burdened.
Having faced unexpected situations from the train station to the Alps in the second exam, they were confident they wouldn’t panic no matter what field was presented.
“Now, as you know, right after the third exam, the final successful candidates and teams will be announced. The Professor is coming exactly on the day of the third exam, so shouldn’t our Class 2 students proudly claim the first team position?”
The students’ faces became serious. The sound of someone swallowing could be heard from somewhere.
Now it was really the final stage.
The month-long first through third exams would now end, and teams to be deployed externally would be formed in early February.
The number of rampage cases had decreased significantly from early January, with an average of 50 to as many as 100 people going on rampages per day in the capital, but that didn’t mean we could be complacent. This was by no means a small number. Since it usually takes several people to handle one person, it also means 50 mage teams are needed.
“Now, the morning assembly ends here. Go train.”
The students who advanced to the third exam ran out more energetically than usual.
Just as I was about to leave the classroom leisurely, someone grabbed my shoulder.
“Lucas.”
“Oh, Julia.”
“You look very tired. Did you train a lot over the weekend?”
“Haha…”
I brushed it off with laughter.
Our team might not know about weekdays, but we didn’t practice that intensively even on weekends. Where would there be time to train when we had to deal with Primrose Pass? Of course, it wasn’t just our team but most teams were like that.
Then, Cheringen stopped abruptly.
“Ah.”
“Why?”
“You got your ear pierced, Lucas.”
My heart sank even though I had done nothing wrong.
Since the time when I couldn’t let Hyung find out was just recently, I wasn’t immune yet.
And, most of all…
‘I cast a cognitive disruption spell though?’
Of course, since continuously maintaining magic also consumes considerable stamina, I didn’t cast it strongly, but it’s amazing that he immediately noticed this small thing.
As soon as I thought that, my core tingled.
When I looked up to check ahead, I could see Leo, who had been going to the training ground with friends at the far end of the hallway, looking this way. Leo looked this way with cold eyes as he always did at school, then turned and disappeared.
‘What is this bastard doing?’
I prepared to attack his core if he sent any more signals to my core, but fortunately Leo didn’t mess around anymore and just went downstairs.
I rubbed my core and asked Cheringen.
“Is it very noticeable?”
“No. Can I take a quick look?”
It’s not very noticeable, so how did he discover it? As expected, this guy is also skilled in combat magic like Leo, so his basic observation skills are good.
“I don’t mind, but you want to look? Why?”
“Yeah. Would that be okay?”
“Go ahead…”
“Haha, thanks.”
Cheringen brought his hand toward the artifact, then suddenly hardened his expression. Before I could wonder at that reaction, he spoke with a smile.
“It’s sky blue.”
“Really? There should be almost no color.”
“Lucas.”
“…”
Why is he suddenly calling my name…
Could he have sensed the Antagonist’s magic? I thought that and stared at Cheringen.
However, the words I heard were unexpected.
“Could you accept it if I gave you an artifact as a gift? I happen to have an artifact that would be good for you to use.”
“…Ah.”
This story?
I burst into laughter at the sudden release of tension and shook my head.
“Thanks, but I’ll just accept the thought. It’s a difficult situation to remove it.”
“How about piercing one more?”
“It must have good performance?”
This is the first time I’ve seen this guy say something like this.
Actually, we’ve hardly ever had conversations outside of training or magic, so there’s no data.
Cheringen pointed to his own ear.
“Yeah, good. I wear it every day too. It helps with training by stabilizing core fluctuations. This type absorbs artifact magic, so the effects last quite a while even after you take it off.”
“Mm, looks good.”
“Let me know anytime if you’re interested.”
“Got it. And…”
I smiled and tapped the spot where the necklace was.
“I made good use of that artifact you gave me before. Thanks.”
Used it well during the baptism.
Thanks to it, I preserved my humanity well.
Cheringen’s eyes widened before he smiled brightly.
“Don’t mention it. See you at evening roll call.”
Cheringen waved at me and disappeared into the training ground.
I turned my head toward Narke, who had been hovering around waiting for our conversation to end.
“Lucas! Haike wants to have dinner together today. Want to come with me later?”
“Sure.”
After that, Narke kept chattering until we reached the training ground.
This is school, and I’m here as Lucas right now, so I can’t talk about Primrose Pass or other matters here. Even though that’s right, it felt refreshing to chat casually with a friend after so long.
Narke went from talking about artifacts to changing the subject to training.
“Oh, right. Aren’t you curious about Team 1’s teamwork?”
Team 1 would be the team with Leo and Cheringen.
The other four team members aside from those two were all bottom-tier, so now that only individual passing remained instead of team passing, they would each try to look good for bonus points, unlike before when teams worked together harmoniously.
That’s what I thought before.
“But they somehow managed to form a proper team.”
Though they had brief friction at first, they quickly found harmony.
I could only admire those two’s ability to create teamwork somehow in an atmosphere of everyone for themselves.
“Oh, you heard. Leo and Julia really are something different~ But our team will do better!”
“I’m sure.”
I answered while opening the door to our team’s training ground.
Like yesterday and the day before, the third training was peaceful.
Really, it was an uncommon occurrence lately.
Amazingly, nothing happened from Monday to Friday, and during that time I organized Abraham’s investigation records from Primrose Pass and distributed them in real-time to investigation bureaus of various countries to prevent the Crown Prince’s nonsense. Purifying Bavaria, supplying divine power for drugs to Wittelsbach, and answering consultation on the Imperial Court’s rampage incidents was all my daily routine consisted of.
It finally felt like I’d returned to the days before Abraham’s appearance.
‘This is the right pace, but it doesn’t feel real.’
Like that, four days passed without incident.
Friday.
The day of the third exam arrived.
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[We will now begin the second-year Student Military Corps third selection.]
I came to this place again.
I thought while looking at the First Education Institute logos posted everywhere.
However, unlike before, it wasn’t the gymnasium but the training ground used by the First Education Institute’s Student Military Corps.
“Finally the third round.”
“Does it make sense that we waited a month for this? Only now is it the final.”
Chatter could be heard among the students lined up before the start.
Then, an announcement came from above.
[Attention second-year students who advanced to the third round. There will be an announcement of exam regulations shortly. Before the announcement, we will reveal the third selection tournament bracket.]
‘Hm?’
Tournament bracket?
That’s unexpected.
The students’ reactions weren’t different from mine.
The third exam was supposed to be an individual passing exam rather than a team exam.
Students in front muttered quietly.
“Huh, what? Looks like there are bonus points this time too?”
I checked the bracket.
Team 1 vs Team 3, and Team 2 vs Team 4.
The two teams that win these matches get 1 bonus point each.
‘Hmm.’
Setting aside why the bonus points are so low…
‘Team 1 and Team 3. Are they planning to skip one and match them up?’
Team 1 and Team 3 means I’ll get to see Leo and Elias face off.
I’m on Team 2, so it’s none of my business.
Team 4 doesn’t have anyone I’m close to except Melvin, so if we have to fight Team 4, this would work out quite well. Plus, Team 4 doesn’t have anyone particularly noteworthy. It’s an ordinary upper-tier team without anyone exceptional.
‘It’s unfortunate those two have to face each other.’
Leo and Julia, and Elias.
It’s going to be a bloody exam.
Since they already filtered out the truly inadequate ones in the second round, there shouldn’t be team battles for bonus points in this exam. Why?
‘Because everyone’s good.’
Especially Team 1 and Team 3 are evenly matched, so I can’t even imagine which team will win.
Well, since it turned out this way, I’ll just watch Elias’s team and Leo’s team fight each other from opposite sides for bonus points. It’s a rare sight.
I thought that and relaxed my shoulders.
[We will announce Team 1.]
“Announce?”
Murmuring from students around could be heard.
I also felt something strange about it.
The teams were already announced.
So what are they doing?
[Team 1: Josefine Ruon / Hildegard Blomberg / …]
“Huh?!”
“What are you talking about? I’m on Team 4?”
“Huh? What? The team…”
Narke, who was standing next to me, looked at the bracket with a confused face, then opened his mouth at the name that came after.
[… / Narke Farnese / Leonard Wittelsbach]
“Huh?”
“…?”
I was confused too. What is this about?
Narke is on the same team as me. But suddenly he’s on the same team as Leo?
‘What the hell are these crazy bastards doing on the day of?’
As expected.
Throughout the third training, I kept thinking ‘the training is going too smoothly.’
Right. I said it was too smooth.
This is so like Imperial 2nd Education Institute. A school that drops you in the Alps without any equipment wouldn’t allow such peace in the final exam.
It was so absurd that the corners of my mouth naturally rose.
[Team 2.]
[Team 2: Victoria Behrmann / Joachim Gleichmann / …]
This isn’t the time for this.
Time to think.
Team 1 has all upper-tier members. There are even two who are untouchable.
On the other hand, Team 2 is all mid-to-lower tier.
The composition here is weak compared to Team 1. No problem. They’ll face Team 4, not Team 1.
Then, Team 3, which will face that formidable Team 1…
[We will announce Team 3.]
[Team 3: Lucas Ascanien / …]
“…”
Narke and Leo’s gazes pierced into me simultaneously.
My prediction wasn’t wrong.
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