Episode 113. The Trick of the Imperial Order (2)
“What the hell! What the hell is this? Per? Who the hell is that guy that you want me to kill?”
Kaizen’s rough voice echoed inside the soundproof curtain. The professor ruffled his neatly-tied hair, crumpled his expression, and slumped down in his chair.
‘I wonder if my name is on the freshman roster?’
He lit a cigarette with one hand and flipped through the freshman roster with the other.
I looked at the names of all the students in each class, from Class A to Class D.
‘There isn’t any.’
No matter how much I looked, I couldn’t find the name Per Lorenzini.
‘No, no. It’s obvious that there’s no name.’
Come to think of it, that’s what happened.
The video recorded on the magic stone tells them to find and kill Per Lorenzini, who is ‘hiding in the school’. If he is hiding, it means he is disguised.
“hmm.”
Professor Kaizen picked up the quill.
And then I looked over the student roster again and drew lines across some of the names.
First, let’s exclude students who have no chance of being Per Lorenzini.
Students with established identities, such as Chloe Witherspoon, Eric Yielos and Dahlia Dellin.
So, I started by checking Class D, which I was the homeroom teacher for, and went on to Classes A and B.
The professor, who was the last to go to the list of Class C, first removed the names of Chloe and Dahlia. The probability of Per Lorenzini being among these two students was zero.
“… … .”
at that time.
Professor Kaizen’s hand, which had been moving gently, suddenly stopped.
Two names next to each other.
Luden Poinen. And Oscar Tunio.
Professor Kaizen quietly bit his lips. These two students were the ones Professor Benitez had chosen.
It was neither a magical family nor a prestigious noble family. However, I thought it was strange that Professor Benitez had taken the lead.
I let it slide because the author, Benitez, is a professor with a very unique philosophy.
‘Luden Poinen, this cadet is an acquaintance of Witherspoon’s daughter.’
After a while, Kaizen left a separate mark next to Luden’s name with a quill pen.
As of now, there is no evidence that this child is Per Lorenzini, but it was clear that he was one of the students who needed to be looked into.
‘by the way.’
Should I kill him secretly?
Finding Per Lorenzini was a problem, but this too was a headache for him.
This is a magic school, and he was a professor at this school. And the target that needs to be killed is one of the students. It’s not easy to just deal with him, but they want to kill him secretly.
‘Even though I’m tied up with them, is there such a thing as a dog?’
bang!
Professor Kaizen, in a fit of rage, slammed his desk hard, and slammed it again. And then again.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
My hands were cold, but my anger didn’t go away.
“Phew… … .”
Taking a deep breath, Kaizen straightened his clothes and fixed his messy hair. He tied his long gray hair back up.
Phew.
While he was removing the soundproof curtain that had been spread out inside the study, his eyes turned to the window. It was tightly closed, but he felt something was off.
‘Is it the wind?’
Or was it a bird? Because it would occasionally fly in and peck at the window with its beak.
Well, it doesn’t matter. It’s not like the window is important right now, whatever.
‘How did I end up like this?’
This f*cking situation, like being stuck in a swamp. The professor looked back at the situation he was in.
In fact, it was Kaizen’s gambling habit that caused all this.
Avern, a commercial city where he went to purchase ingredients for a magic potion. There, Kaizen became addicted to the gladiator gambling that he had been watching to kill time.
Every gladiator he had bet money on was defeated miserably, and Kaizen lost a lot of money.
If he had stopped there, he would have just lost money, but Kaizen did not stop.
Not only did he recover the money he had lost, he also had the ability to turn even the weakest gladiator into a strong warrior.
Illegal potion brewing. He abused his profession. He brewed a potion that would ensure that the gladiators he bet on would win.
‘I should have stopped back then.’
The really serious problems started after that.
The magic potion he provides to gladiators ends up in the wrong hands.
I don’t know if they are a noble family, royalty, a mercenary group, or a merchant guild.
Only later did Kaizen realize that he had been caught up in an unknown force whose influence he could not even fathom.
‘You knew everything about me.’
Name, age, family relationship. And the fact that Kaizen is a professor at Capotini Magic School.
They even knew of Kaizen’s hidden desire to one day become the principal of this school.
“If you do as we say, we will make you the youngest principal in the history of the school.”
Who the hell are these people?
They never once had a face-to-face conversation. They used various methods to give orders to Kaizen without revealing their identities.
I did as they told me. It was also because of their instructions that I volunteered to be the homeroom teacher for the new students.
In fact, among the students selected through ‘student preemption’, there was no student that Professor Kaizen wanted. This was also just following the instructions of an unidentified force.
however.
‘Now you want to find and kill students? Are you trying to stop me and kill me, you bastards?’
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That was when.
A familiar voice rang in Kaizen’s ears.
“professor?”
“… … ?”
“Are you okay?”
Assistant Thompson asked cautiously, holding the study door open. He had been sent out of the mansion two hours ago on the pretext of running an errand, and had only just returned.
“I knocked but there was no answer… … .”
“Okay. Did you buy what I told you to buy?”
“Yes, here it is. It’s the material we’ll be using in the freshmen’s class tomorrow.”
The professor stood up and accepted the box handed to him by his teaching assistant. It was heavily filled with potion ingredients that would be used in class for the time being.
“I thought about it carefully.”
The professor checked the materials one by one. Then he spoke to the teaching assistant standing outside the door.
“yes.”
“Everyone tends to ignore the magic of potions. It seems like even the freshmen unknowingly value other professors’ classes. Like attack magic, movement magic, things like that. Isn’t that right?”
“You are right. It is truly a frustrating reality.”
The assistant nodded vigorously. There was anxiety in his eyes as he examined Kaizen.
What is it? While I was running errands, the atmosphere I felt from Professor Kaizen seemed to have changed.
He has always had a sharp edge, but now I feel like I even get a sense of gloomyness from the professor.
“Just before you came, I concluded that we needed a very different teaching method.”
The assistant shrank back quietly, feeling a strange sense of creepiness.
“These new students are particularly greedy. There are many promising students, and this is my first time being their homeroom teacher.”
“Oh, you are right.”
“So, let’s have the Healing Magic assistant come to class tomorrow.”
“yes?”
“Didn’t you hear that?”
The professor frowned.
“Would you mind concentrating? I expect some minor injuries to students during my class tomorrow, so bring the Healing Magic Assistant with you.”
The assistant nodded hurriedly. I thought I heard wrong, but I didn’t. Healing magic assistant.
As it was a magic school, injuries of various sizes would often occur during classes. A tragic incident would occur once every dozen years or so.
But that only happened to upperclassmen. Would you bring a healing magic teaching assistant to a class for freshmen, especially at the beginning of the semester? Absolutely not.
However, the teaching assistant, who met Professor Kaizen’s sharp gaze, could not ask the reason. He could only cower quietly until the professor, who was roughly holding the list of new students, left the study.
* * *
“Hey! Why are you coming now? I’ve been waiting for you for so long.”
As soon as I entered the dorm room, Oscar’s voice came down on me. And at the same time.
Pfft!
Before he could even answer, he had to reach up to the ceiling. The mana ball Oscar had thrown landed right in Rubin’s hand.
“… … .”
Oscar asked cautiously, sensing that Rubin’s attitude was unusual.
“Luden, what happened?”
“No. Nothing.”
Rubin shrugged and hurled the mana ball he had received back through the transparent ceiling. With just this simple action, the mana in his body was reduced by half.
Oscar, who had received the Managu, cleared his throat and imitated Professor Eggler’s speech.
“Hey, roommate. Don’t you want to know what happened while you were away?”
“Well, I don’t know.”
“Listen carefully. I went to the dormitory cafeteria, and there was a girl from my class there. But she… … .”
Rubin just let Oscar’s ramblings go in one ear. He watched Oscar and quietly bit his lower lip.
In Rubin’s head, the new facts he had learned today were swirling around in a jumble.
It wasn’t all that surprising that Professor Kaizen was a puppet of the Imperial Order. It was just a bit surprising because I hadn’t figured out the professor.
What really surprised Rubin was the purpose of the edict.
‘The Imperial Commission is trying to eliminate Per… Why on earth is the Imperial Commission doing this?’
It was content that made me doubt my ears. It was so difficult to accept it even after hearing it.
In the future Rubin knew, the Imperial Order and Per were one. They worked together to destroy all the Assassin families.
So it made no sense for the imperial commission to try to get rid of Per Lorenzini.
‘Is it a smoke screen?’
Even this suspicion arose. That the Imperial Order and Kaizen had become aware of his existence and had staged such a play to confuse him.
No, that can’t be true.
For that to be possible, the Imperial Order must realize that Rubin is a regressor.
If not, then at least Rubin should have known that the purpose of coming to this school was to eliminate Per. But that was not possible at all.
‘I clearly told you to find the hidden Per and eliminate him.’
Rubin recalled the voice that had been heard repeatedly in front of Professor Kaizen’s mansion. It was a voice that had been disguised and concealed. It was clearly telling him to find the ‘hidden’ Per.
This means that the imperial decree still does not know who Per Lorenzini is.
‘They don’t know that Per’s undercover identity is Oscar Tunio. At the same time, there is even a possibility that Per could be on their side.’
If you think about it, it could be so.
As Rubin, who knew the future, he naturally thought that Perga was on the Emperor’s side, but that could have been a situation that was created later. It was a relationship that could never be established at this point in time.
Anyway.
‘Why did you turn to the side of the emperor who tried to kill you?’
If the current situation leads to the future that Rubin knows, it can be summarized like this.
The imperial order tried to kill Per, but ultimately failed. Then, due to some incident, Per ended up on the imperial order’s side and became the vanguard of the assassination suppression force.
‘then.’
Rubin closed his eyes and thought.
‘What should I do from now on?’
Help the Imperial Order eliminate Per, and prevent the emergence of the future Vanguard?
Or, maybe we could dig a little deeper into the circumstances surrounding the incident? Then, perhaps we could find a way to bring Per to Rubin’s side… … .
“Luden!”
At that moment, Oscar called out to Rubin. He was the one who had been chatting away to himself while he was lost in thought. Rubin scratched his chin.
“Oh, what did you just say?”
“You weren’t listening to a single word I said?”
“I only heard that at the dormitory cafeteria.”
“That’s the beginning of the story!”
Eventually, Rubin had to listen to Oscar’s story again from beginning to end.
This time, Rubin also needed to listen carefully. Now that he knew that the Imperial Order was planning to eliminate Oscar, he needed to learn as much as possible about the situation surrounding Oscar.
But fortunately.
‘It’s nothing special.’
It was all just everyday talk.
It was a pointless and obvious story about Oscar badmouthing Professor Eggler while eating in the dormitory cafeteria with a girl from Class C.
“for a moment!”
“… Huh? What is it? Why!”
“What did you just say?”
But the last part of the story even drew in the indifferent Rubin.
“Heh. Are you interested now? I’ll tell you again myself. When I told her the class schedule for tomorrow, she smiled brightly and said, ‘Oh really? Thank you! You’re so kind?’… … .”
“No, not that.”
“Hmm? So… when you smiled brightly and pushed your hair behind your ear, you made eye contact with me for three seconds?”
“Not that either. I mean, the schedule for tomorrow that you told her about. The one you roughly told me a little while ago.”
“In this innocent story, you were just wondering what tomorrow’s schedule was?”
Rubin nodded.
“… Tomorrow morning class is a boring class.”
Of course, it was a trivial lesson for Oscar, but not for Rubin.
“It’s called Professor Kaizen’s ‘The First Step to Making Magic Potion’. You know that young professor with a ponytail? I think Dahlia said he was the homeroom professor for Class D… Eric said he was in that class.”
That’s a good thing.
I wanted to meet Professor Kaizen properly, and the opportunity came sooner than expected.
‘He holds the key to Per.’
