Episode 36. Royal Academy (4)
After finishing her meeting with the president, Silica left the main building and headed to her laboratory in the annex.
“Oh right! “Did you forget to check?”
She seemed to have suddenly remembered that she had left something behind, so she turned around and entered the main building, heading to the research data room that only faculty and staff were allowed to enter.
“I think it was here… … .”
If you try to look for it, you won’t be able to see it, and today, its location is unclear.
As she fumbled with the book to estimate the location, she soon stopped at one point.
“… … ?”
The only empty space in the crowded bookshelf.
Something that was clearly there was not visible, and only thick dust was blowing around.
“Are you looking for this?”
An unfamiliar voice suddenly came from behind me.
Scilica hastily turned her head.
“Uh, well, I mean… … “You’re a Xi’an student, right?”
The owner of the voice was Sian Bert, who had had a long talk with the president a while ago.
In his hand was a red hardcover book.
“This is a restricted area for students. How did you get in? Everything here is important research material, so you shouldn’t mess with it… … .”
Xian was silent and just smiled strangely.
“that… … Would you like it back? Because it is essential data for today’s research work… … .”
“Oh yes, of course. Of course I have to give it back.”
Sian held out the book to her without any hesitation.
“Thank you, Xian Hak… … .”
Silica’s eyes were greatly shaken by the thin touch she felt at her fingertips.
What she grabbed was not a thick red hardcover book, but thin black paper.
“Wasn’t this what you were looking for, Teacher Sirica? no… … “Head of the Silica family?”
“… … .”
A calm silence that swirls like the sea before a storm.
Soon, her gentle eyes disappeared, and red blood and murderous eyes appeared to the world.
“What are you?”
* * *
Sirica Nigriti.
Academic instructor at the Royal Academy.
Based on his bright personality and excellent teaching skills, he was one of the educators who was recognized by both students and instructors within the academy.
But that’s just a disguised identity.
What if her true identity, unknown to students, instructors, and even the president, becomes known to the public?
The Royal Academy might be shut down the next day.
Who could have predicted?
At an academy where the continent’s greatest nobles gather, the head of an assassination organization that hunts down nobles will be an instructor… … .
Her previous self, which seemed like a pitiful mess, has suddenly disappeared.
Now there was only one assassin in front of me.
“There’s too little evidence to say you saw the secret letter, right? “How far have you come to know?”
The black paper inside the hardcover book was a kind of secret paper for secretly exchanging information within the organization.
Other members within the academy would gather research information from each area and hide it here, and she, the head of the family, would take it.
Of course, since it is written in secret language, it is not a problem if other people see it.
But even if I knew the contents of the secret letter, I just said with my own mouth something that I could never have known.
Not Silica ‘teacher’ or Silica ‘member’, but Silica ‘head of the family’… … .
“I won’t talk lamely. “Please judge by report.”
Seeing is worth hearing. To answer her question, I released the fog energy that had been sealed away from her.
“… … !”
The black fog that escaped through the collar encroached on the surroundings and slowly began to spread throughout the archives room.
Seeing that scene, Silica’s expression changed for a moment.
She grabbed my collar with quick movements.
The spreading fog disappeared in an instant.
“That’s it. It would be difficult for it to spread any further than this. “There are a lot of very sensitive people here at the academy, right?”
She even fastened the button by hand and then spoke with a bright smile.
“Shall we move our seats?”
* * *
Silica’s personal laboratory located in the Academy Annex.
There were numerous objects showing traces of research, including various magic tools, swords, and teaching books, but they were all just camouflage.
As expected, the camouflage technique is amazing.
Silica was sitting in the corner of the room, making tea for me.
“Are you calmer than I thought?”
“I’m just pretending to be calm. “There’s nothing good about showing your surprise outwardly.”
“You really are so different on the outside and the inside.”
“Don’t take it as a compliment.”
She smiled and handed me a cup of tea as I sat across from her.
The color is dark and reddish, no different from regular black tea… … There’s something strange going on.
“Why did you add poison?”
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“It’s not a deadly poison, so don’t worry. “Maybe some of the organs inside my body are leaking out.”
I unconsciously let out an exclamation at the shamelessness of not even blinking an eye.
I knew that, but it was a point where I couldn’t help but be amazed.
“Well then, since I don’t think I’ll be drinking tea, shall we start talking?”
Silica placed her arms on the table and faced me with a bright smile.
“There’s nothing to talk about, right? “I’ve already shown you who I am through my actions.”
“Ho Ho. I was expecting it, but it’s a lot more crazy than it looks. Right now, in front of me, ‘I’m also a mist~!’ Is that what you want to say?”
“Do we need further proof?”
She finally smiled and said.
“You can create a black fog like that with magic. Besides, we went through an attribute test together today, right? Dark attribute 92%… … “That’s not fog, it’s enough to turn bright day into night.”
“Have you seen my magic level? “It’s only 1 star?”
“You look down on the instructors at the academy too much. “Did you think I didn’t know that the darkness attribute’s specialty is hiding?”
As expected, she is a woman who is not easy to fall for.
I didn’t care and sipped the tea she gave me.
“… … !”
“It looks like you boiled the tea leaves for a long time. Next time, please be soft.”
For me, who has consumed the blood of demonic beasts in the first place, this level of poison is nothing more than slightly bitter water.
She didn’t lose her poker face until the end.
“The empire became very noisy during the year I was at the front. “Everywhere I went, they stopped me and asked if I needed an escort, which was a huge uproar.”
“For that matter, I guess they didn’t really hire him. “I heard that there was only one guardian knight who accompanied him?”
“To be exact, he was also a coachman.”
Now I have become a squire.
“Hmm, that’s a lot of confidence, huh? There was a coachman, but no guardian knight… … Does this mean you didn’t need someone to protect you?”
“The tip of the spear was not pointed at me, so there was no need to lift a shield.”
I responded with a relaxed smile.
Although it may seem at first glance to be a pleasant conversation filled with laughter, it is nothing more than a false play.
I can see it in my eyes.
Wariness like barbed wire hidden behind a cruel smile.
At this point, I want to stimulate her a little more.
“Has the Mist really resumed its activities?”
“What activity~?”
Silica asked back as if she was being dismissive.
“The cleanup work. “The successor hasn’t appeared yet, right?”
A split second between 0 and 0.2 seconds.
Exactly two reactions occurred on her face.
The eyebrows furrowed at the mention of purification work,
Eyes that trembled at the word ‘successor’.
It may have been a moment that could never be caught by an ordinary human eye, but not in mine.
“… … .”
Was the stimulation a little strong?
The barbed wire-like vigilance was broken, and the sharp murderous spirit hidden within it began to reveal itself.
In addition, an unusual mana energy was blooming from her body.
“Didn’t you say there are a lot of sensitive people? Are you planning to kill me here?”
“Do you feel that the tip of the spear is pointing at you now?”
“That doesn’t mean I’m holding up a shield.”
If the tip of the spear is pointing at me, then I too can raise the spear.
Two life forms blooming from a narrow square space of about 10 pyeong.
It didn’t take long before those energies collided head-on.
-Udangtang
As the table overturned, her hidden black dagger flew towards me.
-visor!
I also took out Kairam from my arms and countered her attack.
Scilica said, still smiling with murderous intent.
“What do you mean by ‘purification work?’ … “Can I ask you something?”
Are you saying it’s a question after attacking first?
“I think the order is a little wrong?”
Cleanup work.
Although they are called the greatest assassination group on the continent in name and reality, within the Mist they do not actually refer to their activities as assassinations.
It is simply a purification work that wipes away the dirty and ugly aspects of the human world and makes it a little brighter.
It is by no means an evil act that exceeds human ethical boundaries.
… … Although it is said, it is just a hidden concept.
Unless you are a religious fanatic, is there any need to talk about it as a grand cleansing operation when you kill them?
In fact, the crew members do not hesitate to use the word assassination when they are alone, as if they are aware that it is an expression that makes one’s hands and feet shrivel.
I told her exactly what I had explained so far.
Scilica laughed like a lost woman and bit her sword.
“I really don’t know what to make of you. “It’s definitely not even a hair’s breadth in my memory, but I can feel his power and traces of us on your body right now.”
“I’m glad you recognized it now.”
Thinking that the storm had passed, I was relieved and lowered my sword.
“So I guess I have to kill even more… … .”
“… … ?”
I quickly raised my sword again.
Her sword energy, which was even more fierce than before, rushed at me once again.
-visor! visor! visor!
It was a sword technique with more grip than before.
“Is this level of proof not enough?”
“No, enough! You are definitely a child who can feel our traces… … .”
With a murderous smile, a black mist was rising between her collars.
“But I don’t know you. There can’t be a member of Mist that I don’t know. In other words, you are something that should never exist.”
Huh, it seems I was too complacent about this.
Our head of the family, you were more stubborn than I thought.
“You have to think wisely, right? “If you make a mistake, your career as an instructor may end.”
“Why don’t you worry about yourself? “Are you in a situation where your life could end?”
She is not a woman to be passed over through vague negotiations.
To be honest, my body is very itchy right now.
It’s truly the first time in a long time that I feel like I’m living as a rival.
The life of a true assassin, not one of insignificant demon beasts or weak humans.
Faced with such a gem of a life, how could the body not react?
However, I am not a foolish person who throws away future plans to pursue the immediate desire.
“Do you have a second question yet?”
“Second question?”
Scilica’s eyes wavered again.
The second word she responded to in succession following the purification operation.
“You’re struggling to increase your number even by a second. Or are you trying to buy some time?”
“I’m telling you this in case you misunderstand, but the only people who know that I’m with the head of the family right now are just the two of us. “There’s no way anyone would come to help me.”
“I’m telling you this because I’m afraid you might misunderstand, but no matter what you say here, you won’t survive. Even if you are the heir… … !”
“You are the heir?”
“… … ?”
Silica’s lips instantly stiffened into a straight line.
“Are you going to kill the heir too?”
As the head of a group that follows Aer, the word that can never be overlooked is successor.
Regardless of whether my words are true or false, as long as I say these words, she will never be able to kill me on this spot.
“Do you think I’ll believe that?”
“If you’re really curious, why not check it out?”
I showed her the black jewel embedded in the kairam.
A magic stone containing the power of the magic sword and the energy of Aer.
There’s no way the head of Mist wouldn’t know that.
The moment she saw the jewel, her expression turned serious.
I said with a smile.
“Please take me to the hideout.”
(Continued in the next part)
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