Episode 60
“Good night, young master?”
“Ah, Cania.”
The next day after safely returning to the academy from the forest, I woke up feeling quite refreshed.
“I slept really well today. Really.”
Instead of waking up looking at the old ceiling of a secret base or the sky full of sunlight, I feel quite stable because I wake up looking at the ceiling of my dormitory.
“Are you sure you’re really good at it?”
“Yeah, I really slept well this time. Thanks to the ordeal ending early, I was able to sleep soundly without dreaming.”
Nevertheless, when Kania continued to ask, I answered with a soft smile, but upon hearing that, she soon frowned and asked back.
“So, you’re lying when you say you’ve been sleeping well?”
“Uh… is that what happens?”
When I averted my gaze and hesitated to answer that sharp question, Kania sighed and sat down on my bed.
“Young Master, there is no need to hide such things from me. I am your only…”
– Sigh…
Finally, as Kania was holding my hand and talking, the door to the dormitory slowly opened and someone came in.
“Oh, hello?”
Irina, who came into my room, saw me and Kania holding hands and greeted me with a slight blush, and soon there was silence in the room for a moment.
“…He’s not the only one who understands, but he’s a loyal confidant, isn’t he?”
Kania eventually broke the silence and spoke while glaring at Irina.
“Uh… So, I’ve completed all the formalities. So, from today onwards, I’m your dedicated maid.”
As Irina said, from today onwards her official status is my dedicated maid.
At first, Irina insisted on quitting the academy and becoming my exclusive maid, but I desperately tried to stop her.
This is because if she quits the academy, it will not only hinder her ability to become the archmage she so desperately wants to become, but it will also have a negative impact on the scenario.
After trying to stop her for a long time, Irina said she wanted to become my temporary employee and stay in the same dormitory as me, but this time Kania desperately tried to stop her.
For your information, I don’t know why they stopped or what was discussed between the two after that.
What I do know is that after several hours had passed, Kania came out of the room with a cold smile on her face, and Irina had a gloomy expression on her face.
Anyway, as a result, Irina, who was unable to become my exclusive maid or temporary employee, ended up getting a job as a maid in a noble dormitory as a last resort.
Of course, it was against the school rules to work as a maid in a noble dormitory and at the same time be a student at the academy, but she was able to cleverly circumvent the rules by giving Dean Lionel a small gift.
So she became my dedicated maid, living in an empty room right next to my dorm room and coming to me whenever I called.
“Anyway… it’s still a bit awkward. Even if it couldn’t be helped…”
“So, Irina, why on earth did you go out of your way to make this choice?”
Irina, who was looking at the maid uniform she was wearing for the first time in her life with an awkward expression, answered with a serious expression when asked Kania’s harsh question.
“There’s something you guys need to know about that.”
Saying that, Irina sat down on the chair, took a deep breath, and said something surprising.
“I’ll start with the conclusion. Currently, Kania is under suspicion, and Frey may be assassinated soon.”
When Kania and I widened our eyes at those words, Irina finished speaking with a sigh.
“That’s why I came in as a double spy to try to somehow improve that situation.”
Kania and I, who had been staring at each other for a while even after Irina finished speaking, looked at each other for a moment and then exchanged words one by one.
“As expected, I was under suspicion. For some reason, the information coming to me recently has been very poor.”
“Okay, I was wondering why the assassin wasn’t coming. Now the difficulty level is going to increase rapidly.”
After saying that, we all looked depressed at the same time, and Irina looked at our expressions and started talking again.
“First of all, Kania, you are under suspicion from the princess.”
“To Mr. Klarna?”
“Yes, I’m not sure yet… but the princess sees a high possibility of your conversion and is trying to get evidence somehow.”
Kania said those words with a stern expression.
“Well, no matter how exquisitely the ambiguous secret document is delivered… if it is repeated, there is no way Mr. Klarna will not notice.”
“That’s right, I often saw the princess mumbling something strange about the documents you gave her.”
When Irina chimed in with those words, Kania suddenly lost herself in thought, twirling the fountain pen she had taken out of her arms.
“And the princess is also preparing to assassinate you, Frey.”
“You say Mr. Klana is preparing to assassinate you?”
Then, when Irina started talking again, Kania stopped twirling her fountain pen, frowned, and joined the conversation.
“Surely Mr. Klana’s plan wasn’t to completely destroy you and then kill him?”
“Yes, I did.”
As I was looking at the two women calmly sharing a scary story and thinking that perhaps it was a good thing that they had been caught, Irina looked at me and continued.
“But the princess’s thoughts changed because of the ‘commoner dormitory attack incident’ that occurred last time and the ‘Holy Undead Knight’ incident this time.”
“…how?”
“If it is possible to kill you secretly and stealthily, I will kill you as quickly as possible.”
When I heard those words, my expression hardened for a moment, but then I smiled and answered.
“It’s okay. That’s no problem. No matter how quickly Klarna expands its power… it will be difficult to gain enough power to threaten me within a year. So the assassin’s level is definitely…”
“The princess joined hands with the elders of the ‘Moonlight Family’.”
When I heard those words, I felt my heart sink and started to look straight.
As for the assassination plan and the assassins that Klara alone planned and selected, I am confident that they will overcome it.
However, if she joined hands with the Moonlight family’s ‘senior council’, the story would be very different.
This is because the Moonlight family’s elder council, which has made assassinations a business ever since the family’s founding, is taking action in earnest.
Of course, the Council of Elders has already given Serena a strict order to kill me, but the fact that they are trying to kill me by involving other forces means that their plan is going awry.
This is because it is quite unusual for the Moonlight family, which is no different from the shadow of the empire, to join forces with another force, no matter how princess Klarna is.
“Probably, they will be targeting your birthday party next week. To prevent that, I tried to persuade the princess by saying I would take the risk of joining her as a spy, but… I’m not sure if that would have worked.”
“Uhm…”
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As I was thinking that, Irina, who had given me additional information and was looking at me blankly, spoke in a low voice.
“So be careful. Don’t die for nothing.”
After saying that, Irina slowly turned her gaze to the side, and I found her quite funny and laughed, but then out of sudden curiosity, I tilted my head and asked a question.
“But how on earth do you know such information? I don’t think Klarna would have shared all of that?”
“Oh, that’s…”
Irina, who heard that question, answered as if it was no big deal.
“…It is true that Klarna shared the assassination plan, but I found out about the cooperation with the Moonlight family myself.”
“how?”
“I stole the letter.”
When I heard that, I looked blank for a moment and then asked in an awkward voice.
“That wouldn’t be information that could be stolen that easily, would it?”
Then Irina spoke with a secretly proud expression.
“I lived in poverty when I was young… so I have a knack for stealing things.”
“Now that I think about it, the first time I met you was when I bumped into you on the street while you were running quickly while holding bread, right?”
When I heard those words, memories with Irina suddenly came to mind, and I smiled and asked a question.
“At that time, he got really angry when bread was lying around on the street, so I bought him several times larger… but that bread was…”
“Well, I had no choice if I wanted to make a living.”
Irina, who heard those words, blushed and was laughing as she made an excuse, when Kania, who had been sitting quietly next to her, suddenly joined the conversation.
“Now is not the time, master.”
“huh?”
“Shouldn’t we quickly come up with the next plan and strategy? We shouldn’t cause any more variables.”
When I quietly nodded to those words, Kania took out a notebook from her arms and started asking me questions.
“First of all, I want to know a little about the person who will be a threat in the future. I will take care of it in advance… no, I will investigate.”
“Uhm…”
After hearing that, I began my answer by recalling the information in the prophetic book.
“People who will be a threat in the future… excluding the ‘main heroines’, they will be ‘sub heroines’.”
“A sub-heroine?”
“Yes, for example, Isolette or Arianne, Irina’s friend.”
While Irina was shocked when she heard those words, Kania started writing something down in her notebook with a serious expression on her face.
“Oh, and who will be entering the academy next year… the daughter of the head of the information guild that dominates the underworld, the youngest paladin of the Church of the Sun God, and the princess of a weak country on the western continent are also sub-heroines.”
Then, as the number of people I mentioned increased, Kania clutched her notebook tightly and whispered softly.
“…What is so much?”
I smiled and answered her words.
“Of course, that’s the story in the normal route… In the evil villain route, she’s a powerful enemy who’s just as difficult as the main heroines.”
“ha…”
I looked at Kania, who sighed after hearing those words, with an apologetic expression, and then quietly told her some good news.
“But I currently have a good relationship with the daughter of the information guild… so about that…”
“Okay. So, what is the next ‘main quest’?”
For some reason, the cold look in Kania’s eyes as she interrupted me gave me a chill down my spine for a moment, so I quickly opened the system window in front of me.
[Main Quest: Liberation of the Slave Market]
– Quest content: Attack the soon-to-be-opened large-scale slave market and free the slaves to prevent the coming disaster!
[Reward: Increased awakening of the warrior’s weapon, increased total mana]
[Failure penalty: Reputation decreases significantly]
“…A raid on the slave market?”
When I read the contents of the system window that appeared before my eyes, Kania said with an expression of uncertainty.
“Surely, this isn’t the incident I know about?”
“I can’t read your memories, but… it’s probably the case you think of.”
After hearing those words, Kania sighed and lowered her head.
“That slave market is nothing short of a bomb warehouse. If you touch it wrongly… even you, the master, won’t be able to handle it.”
Finally, Kania quietly opened her mouth and began to speak in a worried voice.
“Isn’t it necessary to follow the main quest? If you are too swayed by the system, a division will surely arise someday. So, I think this main quest is…”
“It’s not because of the main quest.”
“yes?”
I looked at her and began to speak with determination in my eyes.
“Even if this wasn’t the main quest… even if the rewards and penalties were reversed… I would have decided to stop this incident unconditionally.”
“Master, but…”
I raised my hand to stop Kania from interfering with me, and spoke again in a clear tone.
“It was already decided in the previous meeting. No matter what happens, I will prevent that disaster and free the slaves.”
“…okay.”
Kania, whose expression hardened for a moment when I did not break her will, soon smiled softly and spoke.
“If that is your will, I will follow it. I am your confidant.”
“Thank you, Kania.”
When I responded to her with a soft smile, Irina, who had been quietly watching us from the side, timidly joined in.
“Uh… I’ll do my best to help too.”
“Okay, thank you, Irina.”
I said hello to her, got out of bed, and left the dormitory.
“Well then, I guess I should go to class now.”
The time has come to go to boring classes again.
.
“Today is the last day of the first semester. And at the same time, it is also the day the special exam begins.”
Something is wrong.
As always, I was trying to kill time by taking boring classes in a boring classroom, but Isolette was taking a special test.
“…How did this happen?”
“Well, I don’t know.”
When I asked with a puzzled expression, Kania, who had entered the classroom with me, also answered with an expression of uncertainty.
“Hey… this is a special test?”
And when a commoner student raised his hand and asked if it was the same for other students, Isolette said with a calm expression.
“The special test you will take starting today is a test to re-select students who will fail class A next semester.”
The expressions on the faces of the noble students and me turned pale when we heard those words.
“Well, what do you mean!”
“As a result of the final exam last time… weren’t all the dropouts made up of commoners?”
“This is an abuse of power! Even if the professor is from a prestigious family, such behavior is…!”
Soon, the noble students stood up like bees and began to protest, but Isolette glared coldly at them and coldly dismissed them with one word.
“…This is an order from the imperial family.”
When the nobles all fell silent at those words, Isolette smiled and said.
“Thanks to those who worked hard to earn points by lobbying with money and bribes… the imperial family was quite angry when talented people were eliminated.”
“Well, then…”
“The imperial family chose a re-examination instead of a fact-finding investigation. Therefore, I can only comply with it. Do you have any objections?”
Naturally, no one disputed that statement. Because the moment you raise an objection, it will be like raising an objection to the decision of the imperial family.
In such a cold silence, I rolled my eyes and lost in thought.
‘Something strange…? Was the imperial family such a clean and conscientious group?’
The current imperial family is a hotbed of corruption and a management office where all kinds of conspiracies are rampant.
In fact, most of the corruption and corruption that occurs in most government institutions is cleverly managed and controlled by the imperial family.
Therefore, the imperial family would have intervened and turned a blind eye to the large-scale corruption that occurred during the final exams.
But why on earth did the imperial family make this decision?
‘Is this Klarna’s doing?’
I glanced at Klarna to see if she could find out, but she also had an unfamiliar expression on her face.
Well, no matter how much power Klarna has gathered, it probably does not yet have the authority to fully intervene in such corruption.
And, not only Klarna but the majority of officials will not have the authority and power to make this decision that runs counter to the existing position of the imperial family.
‘…Empress? 1st prince? 1st princess?’
So I started thinking about people who could do something like this just by lifting a finger, but no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t think of a reason why they would do something like this.
“Uhm…”
After that, I tried to guess what happened for a while, but when my head started to hurt, I finally gave up and started asking Isolette questions.
“So, what is the test about?”
Then Isolette started talking without even looking at me.
“The special test we will have today will be a team competition.”
The children who heard the word dungeon and team battle started to murmur, and Isolette, who radiated a cold energy to silence the children in an instant, looked around at everyone and continued speaking.
“As always, the team is divided into a noble team and a commoner team, and a commander is appointed to each team.”
While saying those words, Isolette placed the ballot box in front of the teacher’s table.
“The commander is decided by everyone’s vote. So, nobles and commoners should vote for their commander from now on.”
As Isolette handed out the papers while saying that, most of the nobles began to look at me secretly.
‘… Well, those guys probably don’t want to choose me as their commander either.’
Currently, I am being hated by everyone due to rumors that I am closely related to the Demon King’s army.
So, even nobles who are willing to stand in line won’t vote for me.
If they were quick at calculating, wouldn’t they choose Klarna, the current rising sun, as their commander?
“Then, let’s start counting the votes.”
As I was lost in thought, Isolette suddenly knocked on the ballot box and announced the counting of votes.
– Scream!
Then, the chalk on the blackboard moved automatically and began automatically writing down the voting results.
– Noble side: Fray Raon Starlight
– Commoner side: Klarna Solar Sunrise
“…under.”
And the results exceeded my expectations quite simply.
‘It seems the nobles are dumber than I thought… and the commoners are smarter than I thought.’
At a time when I was despairing over the fact that I already had so much to do, but was given the responsibility of a commander I didn’t know anything about, Isolette checked the blackboard and declared with a calm expression.
“Okay. Then, as of today, I will appoint Fray Raon Starlight as the commoner’s commander and Klarna Solar Sunrise as the noble’s commander.”
After the words ended, there was silence for a moment.
“Hey, Professor? What is that…”
“It’s not a mistake. In the special exam that will continue throughout the vacation, Frey will be the commander of the commoners’ side, and Klarna will be the commander of the nobles’ side.”
After those words were finished, everyone fell silent again.
He was probably in such shock that he couldn’t even think about making a fuss.
“Well, now that the commander has been decided, let’s reveal the identity of this special test.”
Isolette, who was looking calmly at the children, soon raised the corners of her mouth and said.
“If you protect your commander from now until the end of vacation, you will win.”
As everyone was taken aback by those words, Isolette quietly added a word.
“The leader of the winning team will be given the authority to select some of the people who will be eliminated.”
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Meanwhile, at that time, somewhere in a back alley.
“So, what are the Demon King’s intentions?”
“I’m already feeling untrustworthy because you haven’t revealed your identity until now… Isn’t this too much?”
“It’s unacceptable. How can someone who is neither a devil nor a monster…”
People gathered in a dark room, their faces covered with robes, were complaining one by one.
“Quiet, quiet!!!”
When a man sitting at their head of the table slammed the desk and screamed in anger, everyone stopped complaining and kept quiet.
“This is the command of the solemn Demon King…”
The second-in-command of the Demon King’s army, who was glaring coldly at them, looked down at the same photo everyone was holding and declared in a low voice.
“…Starting today, this man is one of the top executives of the Demon King’s Army.”
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