Episode 40
“Master, why are you looking at me so blankly?”
As I was lying on the bed and looking up at the ceiling blankly, Kania asked me a question with a puzzled expression.
“Take a guess.”
“…yes?”
When I quizzed Kania in a blank voice, she asked back with a slightly puzzled expression.
“How do I fit that in?”
“…Serena guesses just by looking at my eyes?”
But when I provoked her with a mischievous expression, she frowned and started coming towards the bed where I was lying.
“Uh… So, you’re looking at the system?”
Eventually, she sat down on the bed, looked intently into my eyes, and answered like that.
“…As expected, Cania is amazing.”
Kania’s expression was so serious that I thought I should stop teasing her, so I slowly got up from the bed and started talking.
“Yeah, I was looking at the system.”
“…Then why were you just staring at me? I remember you moving your pupils around when you looked at the system in the past.”
“…Ohh.”
In response to Kania’s sharp questions that delved into my story, I realized once again that she was also quite smart, and continued the story with a happy smile.
“Originally, there was a lot to do with the system, but unfortunately, now all we can do is look at it.”
“What does that mean?”
To Kania, who once again asked a question with a puzzled expression, I answered quietly while looking at the system window floating in front of me.
[System updating]
“…Because the system is under maintenance.”
Because of the terrible thing I did at the ball yesterday, when I broke up with Serena and got into the carriage, I had accumulated 3000 evil points at once.
And, from that moment on, the system stopped working with only that message displayed.
Because of this, I can’t use the ‘mind reading’ or ‘information search’ skills that I always used.
According to the prophecy, when the system is ‘updated’, all abilities except the penalty and quest system will temporarily stop working… so it seems that ‘Intuition of the Wicked’ will also not work.
‘Even so, once the update is over, the system will become quite unfriendly… It’s really too much.’
Well, anyway, the system only helps you do evil things, and it probably won’t help you beat this main quest.
Still, it is quite disappointing that useful skills such as information search cannot be used.
“…young master.”
“huh?”
As I was licking my lips with regret, Kania suddenly lowered her voice and spoke.
“Serena is right outside the door.”
“…How do you know that?”
“Don’t you know very well that my dark magic power, the mana of the sun, the mana of the stars, and the mana of the moon are polar opposites? I can feel the presence at any level.”
“…It’s amazing.”
With a happy smile on my face as Kania, whose curse had only been slightly neutralized, was already standing out, I took a deep breath and opened the door.
“…Maybe you knew I was there?”
“what?”
“I can tell by the speed you opened the door and the look on your face. Well, it’s not a big guess, so I’ll leave it at that… Can I go inside?”
“What’s going on?”
Serena was trying to squeeze me in, so I quickly grabbed her and asked her, and she answered with a natural look on her face.
“Do you need a reason to go into your fiancé’s room?”
“but…”
“…I told you, I will change your mind within a year. So, I will always do my best.”
After saying that, Serena forced her way into the room and started checking around.
“Hmm… the room is pretty clean?”
“…Because of various reasons, there are more cleaners.”
“The cleaners seem to be quite skilled. I see that there isn’t a single speck of dust.”
Serena, who was muttering while rubbing her fingers on the window frame, suddenly saw Kania sitting on the bed and squirming, and opened her mouth.
“So, why are you here?”
“I am your servant…”
“Mr. Kania, that’s not what I’m asking.”
After resolutely interrupting Kania, Serena sat down next to the bed and began asking questions with a cold expression.
“Are you trying to harm Mr. Frey, or are you trying to help him?”
“…It’s the latter.”
“Yes, it’s true. Thank you for your answer.”
Kania, who spoke with a lot of nervousness, looked embarrassed for a moment when Serena was so easily convinced, but soon began to shake her head. Serena, who glanced at her, immediately smiled and started talking to me.
“Mr. Frey, is this part of your usual practice of lying?”
“I’ve never cheated on you by lying.”
“Another lie. You’ve become quite amazing while I haven’t seen you, but you can’t fool me like that, I guess.”
Serena, who unconsciously added ‘maybe’ to the end of her sentence, perhaps due to the influence of the absolute obedience magic, suddenly stopped smiling and spoke with a cold expression.
“But I don’t know if you were aiming for it… or if it was just a coincidence, but you picked your opponent pretty well this time, right?”
“what?”
“Well, a stray cat is always just a stray cat.”
While I was staring blankly at Serena who was saying something incomprehensible, Kania suddenly opened her mouth quietly.
“…Now that I think about it, Serena hates cats.”
“Yes, I hate cats. That’s a lot.”
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Then Kania smiled slightly and said.
“That’s a shame. You really like cats.”
“Yes, you just like them as ‘pets’. I know that too.”
The eyes of Serena, smiling softly, and Kania, smiling sharply, intersect.
I was watching the situation with interest, and when Serena suddenly frowned and flopped down on the chair, I asked, slightly waving her eyebrows.
“…Is it that chronic disease again?”
“Uh, you were just worried about me, right? I guess.”
“Okay, get out of this room quickly. I don’t want to see you in such a pitiful state.”
“all right.”
“No, wait. Stop for a moment.”
I thought I knew the reason why she suddenly slumped down on the chair, so I was about to let her go, but I stopped her for a moment and gave an order.
“If you start to notice anything strange in the commoner dormitory, contact me immediately.”
“All right.”
“As far as this order is concerned, don’t carry it out casually, but consider it my earnest request.”
“yes.”
After completing the command, Serena smiled softly, and instead of saying goodbye, she said what she always said.
“I love you, I guess.”
After saying that, she turned around and started heading out of the dormitory.
“…Master, I have a question.”
“What?”
As I was looking at Serena with a sigh, Kania who was next to me asked me a question.
“From what you explained to me in the carriage last night, Mr. Serena is not sure about everything about you at the moment.”
“yes?”
When I nodded, Kania frowned and asked.
“But why don’t you tell everything to Serena?”
“……..”
“Anyway, even if you tell everything to Serena, she will ‘suspicion’ it until the end, so there is no ‘penalty’. But, why…”
“…There’s a reason for everything.”
I slowly began to explain the reason to her.
“First of all… it’s because of the ‘trial of the system.’”
“A trial of the system?”
“Yes, because of that ordeal, everyone who ‘cares’ about me will be cursed… except you, the warlock.”
“…okay.”
When Kania nodded with a stern expression, I sighed and said.
“The people who are ‘worrying’ about me right now are my younger sister Aria and my fiancee Serena. So I have no choice but to make them not worry about me.”
“So you’re not going to tell everything to Serena?”
“Yes, if I tell you everything, even though you will doubt it until the end because of the order I gave you… the chances of the feelings of ‘love’ and ‘worry’ disappearing will be significantly lower.”
When I tried to speak calmly, Kania frowned and opened her mouth.
“But… you can tell everything after the curse ends…”
“No, the second reason is her family background.”
“…ah.”
As I spoke firmly, Kania began to look convinced.
“Did you see her in pain just now? Looking at that, the ‘Family Subordination’ curse has been activated.”
“…It’s terrible.”
“In the previous episode, the leaders of the Moonlight family were all eliminated by the Demon King before they decided to eliminate me… but since I proposed to the princess, it seems like they decided to eliminate me sooner than expected.”
After saying that and taking a moment to catch my breath, I closed my eyes and continued the story.
“So, if she doesn’t truly try to kill me from now on, the intensity of the pain will increase to a point where it can’t even be compared to the pain she originally felt. So, for Serena’s sake, I have to be hated by her.”
“…If Serena really tries to kill you, it’s going to be quite difficult, right?”
“I guess I’ll just have to hold on until I catch the demon lord.”
When I spoke with a wry smile, Kania sighed and muttered.
“It seems like the whole world is designed to make you a villain.”
“Well, what a f*cking world it is.”
As I was looking at the floor with tired eyes for a while, Kania asked me another question.
“But why did you give such an order to Serena?”
“Such an order?”
“You just told me to report if anything happens in the commoners’ dormitory.”
Kania tilted her head and asked, so I smiled and said.
“Don’t you remember that we decided to go out together?”
“…yes?”
“I have to get ready to go soon. You too, get ready quickly.”
Kania, who heard those words, looked embarrassed and opened her mouth.
“B-but… the ‘commoner dormitory attack incident’ hasn’t ended yet, right? But if you and me leave the room…”
“Actually, the reason you’re going on an outing is because of the ‘commoner dormitory attack incident’?”
“yes?”
I said, getting up from my seat and putting on my clothes.
“Anyway, it seems like the ‘attackers’ are aware of the surveillance gaze and so they don’t attack. So, if we, who used to watch every day, disappear, wouldn’t they think what’s going on and attack?”
“But… if something happens when we’re not there…”
“That’s why I told Serena to contact us immediately if she notices anything suspicious. If she’s smart, she won’t be caught by the ‘attacker’ and will contact us before anything happens.”
“…okay.”
Then, Kania nodded with a somewhat understanding expression and stood up.
“By the way, where are you going?”
“If you receive a call, you must return to the academy immediately, so stay as close as possible…”
I wanted to buy clothes for Kania, who always wears a suit, so I tried to tell her to go to a nearby clothing store, but
“Fray!!”
“Ugh!!”
Serena suddenly opened my door and barged in, and I was startled.
“Serena, what are you doing without even knocking…?”
Eventually, after calming down my pounding heart, I glared coldly at Serena and began to speak…
“I noticed something suspicious.”
“…!”
I froze because she spoke so confidently.
“I did well, right?”
After watching Serena smiling brightly for a while, I quickly sighed quietly and spoke to Kania.
“…let’s postpone the outing for a moment.”
“yes.”
Apparently, the main quest has begun.
.
“what?”
We arrived at the commoner dormitory feeling very nervous, but what was waiting for us was just a peaceful commoner dormitory building.
Normally, when this event occurs, the dormitory is on fire or destroyed… I don’t know why I feel something strange in this normal state.
“…Look, it’s strange just looking at it, isn’t it?”
However, Serena pointed to the dormitory with a confident expression, and as she was looking at her dumbfounded, Kania suddenly broke into a cold sweat and opened her mouth.
“…I feel a terrifying magical power.”
Only then did I spread the star’s mana in all directions with a cold expression on my face, and then I could feel a huge magical power starting to swirl around the dormitory.
“You knew how to use star mana, right? Why did you hide it?”
“…Forget that I just used star mana.”
After roughly grasping the situation, I quickly gave an order to Serena, who was talking to me with bright eyes.
“…Hmm?”
Serena then made a blank expression for a moment, but then began to tilt her head.
‘…As expected, erasing memories shouldn’t be overused.’
Eventually, for some reason, Serena began to look at me with dark eyes, and I muttered quietly to myself.
It is an ‘absolute obedience magic’ that allows you to follow the orders of the person you obey without any doubt, but if you continue to delete memories in this way, Serena, a genius among geniuses, may notice gaps in the deleted memories and become suspicious.
Aren’t you staring at me a little right now? So, from now on, I think I should refrain from erasing memories unless there is an emergency.
“Now, look.”
As I was thinking about that and calmly receiving her gaze, Serena picked up a stone from the ground and threw it vigorously at the entrance to the dormitory.
– Parbat!
Then, the stone that was flying powerfully disappeared as soon as it touched the entrance of the dormitory.
“…I think the inside and outside of the dormitory are separated.”
“That’s right, I see that the stone I threw disappeared without a trace. Then I’ll be waiting in front of the entrance for a moment.”
Eventually, after calmly answering Serena’s explanation and giving an order, Kania who was next to me spoke urgently.
“I think we should retreat first.”
“…why?”
“Don’t you know very well? There is no such thing as a being that can use spatial magic on such a large scale…”
“…There is no one but the Demon Lord or her closest second-in-command. I know that well.”
While speaking calmly to her, I quietly took out something from my pocket.
“But if you have this, there’s nothing to worry about.”
“…yes?”
Kania started to look confused when she saw the ‘Stone of Domination’ I took out.
“Isn’t that the ‘Stone of Domination’, an item for mind manipulation? I know it well because I overheard the conversation between you and the Demon King’s henchman in the previous episode.”
“…Yes, according to the original scenario, this ‘Stone of Domination’ is an item to awaken the brainwashed ‘attacker’.”
To her, I smiled leisurely and opened my mouth.
“But in fact, the ‘true power’ of this item is not ‘mind control’ or anything like that.”
“What do you mean?”
Leaving behind Kania, who was tilting her head, I put the ‘Stone of Domination’ back in my pocket and walked forward and said.
“You can see it with your own eyes later…”
But the next moment, I discovered something and grabbed Serena and Kania and threw myself into the nearby grass.
“Oh, master? Why are you doing that?”
“You… what are you doing now?”
Kania and Serena were taken aback by this, their eyes widened and they began to reprimand me…
“…So, what’s the problem?”
“Hurry up! We’re going to be late like this!”
“As expected, a variable has arisen.”
As Isolette, Perloche, and Clanna passed by where we were just a moment ago, the two hurriedly closed their mouths.
“Eup, eup?”
Of course, I covered Serena’s mouth.
– Parbat!
Eventually, the three entered the entrance of the commoners’ dormitory, and at that moment, the three disappeared before our eyes.
“Puh… Frey? What kind of situation is this? Why do you have to hide like this?”
As I was breaking out in a cold sweat while watching this, Serena looked like she couldn’t take it anymore and started asking questions.
“…You’re not trying to do something bad again, are you?”
Eventually, she looked at me with a puzzled expression, so I tried to avoid her gaze and spoke to Kania.
“Kania, cast a perception change spell on the surrounding area. Make sure no one approaches the commoner dormitory…”
“I can do that too.”
After interrupting me, Serena stood up and opened the fan she was holding.
“…Yes, no one will approach here for a while. Is that okay?”
“No… but…”
“Tell me. What on earth are you doing over there?”
As Serena continued to question her, Kania, who had been quietly looking at me from behind, began to make a sad expression, and I quietly closed my eyes and said,
“It’s no big deal. So don’t worry.”
“…I’ll believe it, maybe.”
Serena then spoke with an effort to soften her expression, but her eyes were full of anxiety.
‘…As expected, it’s Serena. If it weren’t for the absolute obedience magic, the game wouldn’t have been possible.’
The first reason Serena was anxious was because she wasn’t sure of everything about me, and the second reason was because she read lies in my eyes.
Yes. Today, I will subdue the unidentified attacker who borrowed power from the Demon King and take his place.
The reason is that the plan I came up with to conquer this ‘main quest’ was to pretend that I had been brainwashed by the devil and become the final boss of the ‘commoner dormitory attack incident’, and then after being subdued, claim my innocence and claim my innocence. This is because its identity is revealed to the world.
In other words, this incident will not be the beginning of the fall of the empire and the debut of the Demon King… It will be a counterattack against the Demon King and the first step toward a happy ending.
“Then, let’s go quickly.”
It’s also the first step toward making Serena turn her back on me.
“Well, I guess I’ll have to infer from my own experience.”
“Be careful, master.”
With those thoughts in mind, I walked towards the entrance of the commoner dormitory with Serena and Kania.
– Fazijik!!
“…This place?”
“oh my god.”
And the next moment, what unfolded before my eyes was…
“Keeeeee!!”
“Koooooooo!!!”
Inside the dungeonized commoners’ dormitory, there were mid-level monsters that started running toward us at full speed.
“…Quest Sylvanga?”
Somehow, it seems like there was a magic spell in this episode.
fantasy,
