Admission is a waste of time (329)
Lesson 64. Freshmen – 4
The pain of a first heartbreak was like death.
Lucien Ortima, now a fourth-year student, had completely lost his position in the family and was left feeling defeated, but he didn’t feel anything special about it.
Because he lost something more important than his family or himself.
When I first met her, I had no idea that her presence would grow to this extent――but regretting it later would be meaningless.
I should have protected her… … .
You should have stayed by her side instead of wandering around doing useless things.
She may not have liked it, but it had to be done for her safety.
At least it was better than leaving that damn thing around.
I was locked in my own space, repeating thoughts that were almost like delusions, thoughts that had no meaning even when I thought about them now.
In the meantime, his grades remained consistently at the top, and his power, transformed by despair and anger, became extremely sharp and powerful.
It was simply the result of his remaining pride as Ortima struggling to preserve at least a minimal amount of status and honor, but his own will had hit rock bottom.
-dripping
―Are you there, Orabeoni Lucain? It’s Luishia. Let’s talk just once.
He briefly came to his senses at the visit of his cousin who had followed him since childhood, but ignored it, remembering that she was now the successor to Ortima.
-dripping
―Brother, just wait a minute… … !
Contact with herself would not be very good for her either.
It didn’t matter to him what purpose she had come to see him.
Thinking like that, I turned my gaze out the window for a moment――.
Dokgo Yeon was there.
“?!”
I jumped up in surprise.
Under the pale moonlight, Dokgoyeon, wearing only a black uniform, was leisurely leaping through the air.
Her hair, dyed a beautiful silver color under the moonlight, briefly wafts through the air, capturing your gaze.
I felt my heart pounding at the sight of her face after such a long time――but I was even angrier because I knew that it was definitely not Dokgo Yeon.
“Is it anti-Japanese?”
―Huh?! Brother, did you just say Ban Yu-won inside? That’s right, Ban Yu-won! That person came into the class I’m attending, so please open the door so I can tell you!
Maybe Ban Yu-won is calling him.
On the topic of insolent things.
No, looking at the way the Union has been going lately, it looks like he has a formidable backer to go along with his innate power―― but still.
But he is not Ortima, let alone born on a lowly star that doesn’t even have mana.
Inferior blood cannot be hidden.
Wasn’t that already proven two years ago?
Dokgoyeon died because the bastard ran wild without knowing the subject.
He could never forgive the man who shamelessly showed his face at the subject that had survived thanks to her sacrifice.
“If you want to humiliate me that much――Fine.”
Knock, the window opened.
Without even having to put it into words, the powerful mana that accepted his will and protected him became a stepping stone and lifted his body into the air.
“Let me play.”
-Brother? Brother?
Feeling the energy of Lucien Ortima leaving the room, Luishia panicked and unleashed her power, forcing open the door and entering.
“Lucain, brother!”
However, the owner’s personality was reflected in the room, which was clean without a speck of dust――but the room felt bleak and the owner was nowhere to be seen.
Louisa, who was looking around the room, was surprised to find Lucien flying through the wide open window and jumped in too.
“No matter how much you didn’t want to talk to me, why did you run away like that?”
On the other hand, Lucien had already forgotten about Luishia and was chasing after Dokgoyeon’s shadow that was striding through the air.
The place it arrived was the Union Academy’s flower garden.
This flower garden, where you can see gorgeous flowers blooming all year round thanks to Yumina’s thorough management, is usually full of students enjoying their free time, but now that it’s past evening, for some reason, no one is there.
“… … Is it a virtual barrier?”
Lucien, who soon realized the identity, laughed in vain.
This is Union Academy, where even the most advanced magic tools don’t work properly.
But you have the audacity to create a virtual barrier in this garden under the eyes of the president?
It was something that even the renowned magician Zeno would not have dared to dream of.
“I know what you’re thinking right now, but it’s not purely my power.”
As expected, the one waiting for Lucien inside was not Dokgoyeon, but Ban Yuwon.
Of course, this was expected from the beginning――but why?
The anger that wells up the moment I see his calm face.
“I borrowed the power of my subordinates. Anyway, don’t worry. No one can see here, and no one can interfere.”
“Do you find Ortima’s name so funny? Did you think that my power would disappear because I was no longer the successor?”
As Lucien drew the air with his fingers, curled like the claws of a wild beast, with a fierce expression on his face, destructive mana followed the trajectory and rushed to find a weak point in the virtual barrier.
But in the middle it lost its power and disappeared.
“I said no one can interfere.”
“… … .”
Wouldn’t you be angry if Dokgo Yeon was here instead of Lucien?
At this point, it seemed like I had to hear the word surrender from Ban Yu-won’s mouth to calm down.
Lucien prepared to fully unleash his powers.
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Ultimately, his power is strongest when he speaks his own will.
If the bastard wanted to say something to me, it shouldn’t have come in this form.
An apology comes first, and then you have to go to him in person and bow your head and ask for it――.
“Okay, if you want to let off steam like that, I’ll deal with you for a bit. But Ortima.”
Ban Yu-won coolly rebuked Lucien as he watched her gain momentum.
“If you don’t learn how to grasp the subject matter, you really ‘won’t graduate.’”
“[Kneel down]――!”
“[Treat others as you would have them treat you.]”
Power and authority clashed head-on.
The winner was quickly revealed.
The entire area was filled with golden strings created by Ban Yu-won, and soon even Lucain’s words were dyed in gold and returned to their owner.
“Ugh――.”
“It’s called the golden rule. It’s something my grandfather used to tell me a lot when I was little.”
Lucien felt an irresistible pressure pressing down on his shoulders――and he tried to scream in shock, but even that failed――and ended up falling to his knees helplessly.
“Isn’t it great that you hate the Bible but still accept the good things in it? I really respect that side of you, grandpa.”
“Ugh… … !”
“Relax. If you try to resist, you’ll end up in a really ugly situation.”
“you……!”
“How did it come to this, Lucien Ortima?”
If there is a god, he shouldn’t let that fu*king brat talk like that.
He had to strike him with lightning right away, burn his brain, tear his handsome face apart, and make him realize his shamelessness and repent.
That son of a bitch who ran wild like a bald eagle and ended up killing Dokgo Yeon, and then tried to toy with Dokgo Yeon’s appearance!
It was not right to stand so high up in the sky and look down on him with such a pitiful expression!
“You might hate me, find me annoying and disgusting. But you should think about it the other way around.”
“you–!”
“From the moment I first saw him, he tried to belittle me by calling me a piece of trash, and he ignored my personality and tried to treat a woman like his own property.”
Ban Yu-won shrugged.
The contempt that passed through his eyes for a moment also brought to mind Lucien Ortima.
This is the expression Dokgo Yeon used to make in the past.
An expression that he tried hard to forget, to dismiss as if it never existed.
It was the exact same expression as Ban Yu-won had now.
“At some point, you started to package my heart as if it were pure, and you pushed it forward without caring about my own will――you self-destructed as you pleased, you became frustrated as you pleased, you became angry as you pleased. If you were to roll around on the floor like that, having nothing to do with what happened between us, then what on earth should I think of you?”
“I can’t admit it… ….”
“If Dokgo Yeon tells you directly that he doesn’t like you and that he’s annoyed, will you admit it then?”
“Do you dare to discuss her life and death!”
Ban Yu-won chuckled at those words.
It’s funny that you still aren’t listening to what he says.
In fact, Dokgo Yeon had already firmly rejected Lucien Ortima two years ago, but even then, Lucien Ortima did not back down.
It’s reassuring to feel that editing memories to suit one’s own taste is consistently running at the height of arrogance and egoism.
“Yeon is not dead.”
But now, it seems like he’s coming out like this.
Things were going well for Ban Yu-won too.
“A thousand things… … .”
Naturally, Lucien opened his eyes wide.
In the end, somehow he was able to resolve the issue of Ban Yu-won and raise his body. It seemed that his time as the successor to the Ortima family had not gone anywhere.
“Are you planning to fool me like that again? I already knew that you were one of my followers.”
“Yeah, our Eve has become quite famous. After she finishes evolving, there are times when I think she should just become a god.”
“That means you won’t be fooled any more!”
“Yeon is not dead.”
Ban Yu-won spoke once more in a stronger tone, once again confirming the durability of the virtual barrier.
An unexpected bug did sneak in, but that’s okay, as it’s a plus and won’t have any negative effects.
He looked up at the sky for a moment, trying to guess what the president was thinking, then smiled and said,
“Do you know the truth about the constellations?”
“The truth about the constellations?”
Lucien Ortima frowned.
If it were his original personality, he would have rushed at Ban Yu-won and tore his face in half, but he had just been defeated by him in the power showdown, and he couldn’t dare to object to the strange authority he felt in his voice.
“Didn’t your family teach you about constellations?”
“They are not as great as they look. Don’t think of being used by them, but use them. Avoid confronting them head-on, but don’t forget that they are also tied down somewhere, and exploit their gaps.”
Lucien recites the teachings of the family about the constellations as if they were the Ten Commandments.
Perhaps even a family as big as Ortima doesn’t know the truth about the tower, Ban Yu-won thought with narrowed eyes――.
I threw a student ID card in front of Lucien.
“……what?”
It didn’t take long for astonishment to fill Lucien’s eyes as she lifted it up with her power and examined it.
Student ID cards basically record the year it was issued, what status the owner of the card is, and his or her name.
Moreover, if it was Ortima who had the power to control all things, it would have been possible to read even a little bit of the memories and traces of the person wearing the student ID.
“This is, you bastard, no way… … No, that’s ridiculous. That’s ridiculous.”
He must have known by now that it was the student ID card of a follower of the Constellation of Man-Kyeop.
Ban Yu-won reached out and retrieved the precious evidence, then said:
“You probably know that the follower of the Eternal Age descended upon Prominence in person. Many people still deny it, but the truth cannot be completely hidden.”
“That’s a lie. That can’t be true. That’s ridiculous. Then why did my family send me to the Union? And even Louisa, the newly appointed successor?”
“Because they want the tower. They must have sent their successors even at the risk of their lives.”
“That’s a lie――!”
Lucien’s power went wild, revealing blades of magic in all directions.
His powers, which had been developed to be more suitable for combat, had an aggressive nature that basically contained the will to kill, and I thought that perhaps they were modeled after Dokgo Yeon’s energy.
Ban Yu-won blocked and suppressed them one by one with his hands, and spoke in a firm voice.
“The kite was caught on the tower. To the constellation.”
“What do you gain by coming here now and shaking me up!”
“I was just telling the truth.”
“You, you! Ban Yu-won! The tower’s lackey, the president’s new puppet!”
“Listen to me.”
Ban Yu-won spent every vacation in the martial arts world, torturing himself terribly under the influence of Cheonma, but ironically, the thing that improved the most as a result was his power to engrave his will into the world.
It could also be said that it was a process of finding the optimal process for the energy emitted from his body to communicate with the world and turn his will into reality.
The Origin Sword is not a martial art that simply reads the flow and responds to it, but a martial art that changes the flow and manipulates it as one wishes.
It’s unfortunate, but it’s already certain.
Lucien was no match for Ban Yuan.
“Ugh… … !”
When Ban Yu-won realized that fact and approached Lucien Ortima, who was frustrated, he said:
In a voice loud enough for even a fly that was peeking at them from somewhere could hear.
“If you want to talk to Kite directly, come with me to save Kite. We have to bring down the tower.”
