I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 55. The Pursuit of Truth (4)

Doyun’s finishing blow came with furious momentum.

Elsie was horrified at the sight of Svik collapsing while spurting blood.

“Uwaa…”

Even though he was an enemy, she was a little startled to see someone collapse before her eyes.

‘Not as much as when Thrud got hurt, but… it’s still not easy.’

Elsie glanced at Svik, who had fallen while bleeding, and squeezed her eyes shut.

How generous she was with her own wounds, yet she hated seeing other people’s blood.

Doyun’s blood-stained sword and his grim expression seemed to heighten the atmosphere.

“H, Han Doyun?”

At Elsie’s call, Doyun’s eyes moved.

Doyun simply stared at Elsie.

The moment he had lost Svik due to a moment’s carelessness.

The moment he realized that Elsie was in danger.

His heart beat like crazy.

‘Even though I know Elsie wouldn’t be easily defeated…’

He thought she looked pretty wearing her dazzling helmet and beautiful gauntlets.

Of course, apart from her beautiful armor, he couldn’t help but be amazed by the near-divine feats she had shown.

“You didn’t… kill him, did you?”

Doyun chuckled at the sight of Elsie looking back and forth between the fallen Svik and him with a flustered expression.

Elsie was even more horrified at the sight of Doyun suddenly laughing with a blood-stained sword.

Elsie, who had summoned the Brynja-hildr she had spread out to protect the house, looked at Doyun with a worried expression.

‘…Did he go crazy after seeing blood?’

Elsie seriously considered whether she should smack him with her iron gauntlet to calm him down.

It was because of her somewhat exaggerated worry that he might become a bloodthirsty madman who had awakened to the taste of blood.

Perhaps some of Elsie’s firmly misguided thoughts were conveyed.

Doyun, who suddenly felt a chill, sheathed his sword and waved his hand.

“I didn’t kill him! I wouldn’t kill someone for no reason. I controlled myself.”

“This is control…?”

‘It looked like an emotional blow to me.’

In any case, the blood-soaked Svik was still breathing.

The person deeply connected to her stepmother, or rather, her family, might have more information to be gained through him.

‘It wouldn’t change anything even if I knew more, but…’

At least Dane might find a useful way to use him. He thought so.

That’s when it happened.

Shuaak!

Was it his last struggle?

A blade of wind was released from Svik’s fingertips as he lay face down.

“!”

The moment Doyun tried to react to the attack rushing towards Elsie right in front of her eyes.

Elsie responded faster than him.

Kwack!

When she grabbed the magic of the wind again with her iron gauntlet, its power dissipated in vain.

The power scattered into a breeze. Once again, silence fell around them.

“W, what the hell is that gauntlet?”

Elsie’s astonishing reflexes were terrifying, but the armor she wielded was also special.

At Doyun’s question, Elsie looked around at her iron gauntlet and took off her helmet of valor as she spoke.

“Um… armor for bullying the weak…?”

“…Bullying?”

“There are times when low-level guys pick fights. Let’s just say it’s good to use then.”

Elsie, who was too lazy to explain, glossed over it and looked down at Svik, who was completely limp.

“Anyway, I have to tie up this bastard first.”

Elsie tied Svik tightly to a thick tree and dusted off her hands.

“Perfect.”

“Don’t you think you tied him up too much?”

Doyun stared at Svik, who was tied up from head to toe with sturdy ropes, as if he was fed up.

It was a binding that went beyond meticulousness and bordered on obsession.

“We went to the trouble of healing him, so he can’t run away, can he?”

Elsie looked at Doyun and smiled brightly. Her dazzling silver hair fluttered softly in the breeze that blew at just the right time.

Doyun, who stared blankly at the scene with a reddened face, could only nod his head dumbly.

Elsie, who had tied up a strange man bound from head to toe to a tree, and was smiling prettily with the remaining rope slung over her shoulder against that backdrop.

It was a scene with a tremendous sense of incongruity, but even that appearance was a beauty that led to loveliness.

He felt like he could understand about 10% of Dane’s feelings when he looked at Elsie again.

After settling the minor commotion, Elsie and Doyun leaned against the wall for a while and had a light chat.

How long had it been?

Thrud, who belatedly received the Bulb’s emergency signal that had been sent by accident, arrived at Elsie’s house in a hurry.

“See! I told you there would be a time when I’d use it!”

Elsie burst out laughing at Thrud’s proud face.

“It was pressed by mistake! Honestly, there was no need to use it.”

Elsie pointed to the place where Svik was tied up.

“What is it? What’s that caterpillar cocoon?”

“Caterpillar… cocoon?”

Thrud tilted her head and asked as she stared at the direction Elsie was pointing.

Elsie’s head also tilted at the incomprehensible question.

“Aaaah-!”

When she turned her gaze, there were only bundles of severed ropes scattered where Svik had been tied up.

Svik, who had disappeared without a trace.

It was the moment when Elsie’s efforts to bind him with a near-maniacal level of effort turned into bubbles in an instant.

“T, this is a scam!”

She tied his wrists, elbows, ankles, and knees. Then, she wrapped his entire body with ropes like crazy and tied him to a tree.

She even gagged his mouth and covered his eyes just in case.

Elsie, who hurriedly put on her helmet of valor, scanned her surroundings with sharpened awareness.

However, there were no signs of anyone other than Doyun and Thrud.

Thud-

Elsie took off her helmet and dropped it on the floor, leaning against the wall with her shoulders drooping.

“I should have used Brísingamen to extract information… Haa…”

Doyun and Thrud approached and comforted Elsie. Although it wasn’t a situation that could be resolved by comforting her.

Elsie, who went into the house grumbling like that, screamed again.

It was all messed up because Svik had ransacked the house to find the letter and Nidhogg’s venom bottle.

“I thought I was going to rest for a while… I have to clean all this up?”

Elsie grabbed her head and knelt down.

“I, if I meet him again… I won’t let him get away with this! I won’t let him get away with this!”

Elsie’s resentful cry scattered into the air.

The sun slowly began to set, and the sky began to be tinged with sunset.

Elsie, who had almost finished cleaning up the mess in the house, swept back her hair and glanced at Doyun and Thrud.

“Thank you so much, guys…”

Not only did she make them come to her house because the emergency signal was sent by mistake, but she also made them help with the cleaning. She felt ashamed.

“Don’t worry about it. By the way, where did you hide the things that perverted beard was looking for that made him ransack the whole house?”

“Ah, that?”

At Thrud’s question, Elsie turned her head and looked at the stairs leading to the second floor.

“In my room.”

“Room? That was a mess too, wasn’t it?”

Certainly, the room had also been ransacked.

However, since not all the items had been turned upside down, the letter and the poison bottle were safe.

Elsie hesitated for a moment, glancing at Doyun and Thrud, and answered hesitantly.

“T, there’s an empty space inside the underwear drawer, so I put it there…”

“W, wait a minute… where?”

Thrud staggered and asked again, and Doyun’s face turned red.

“Ahem. There’s quite a bit of space behind the underwear drawer… I put the poison bottle there, and if you look under the underwear, there’s space for the letter-”

“S, stop! That’s enough! You don’t have to explain!”

Thrud glared at Doyun and gagged Elsie.

Elsie, who was explaining, was also embarrassed and her face was flushed.

“I can’t show you… because it’s embarrassing… anyway, I hid it there.”

“…”

Doyun was speechless at the sight of Elsie scratching her head and avoiding his gaze.

“Elsie… you’ve finally learned to be properly embarrassed… our innocent girl’s common sense is slowly returning… it was worth the effort to brainwash – no, educate you.”

Thrud pretended to sob.

“W, what are you talking about! Isn’t that kind of thing naturally embarrassing to anyone!”

Elsie shouted back at Thrud, who was unnecessarily moved, but it was not convincing.

Considering her past actions, it could be said that it was a natural result.

Especially in the case of Doyun, who had been attacked by Elsie’s surprise attacks several times, it was even more difficult to believe.

Elsie tended to be overly familiar. She was aware of the gazes around her and was embarrassed, but she was less embarrassed in the important parts.

She was insensitive to her own impact.

Would she be able to realize it a little if he told her that?

The moment Doyun was about to open his mouth while worrying about that, the sound of large wings flapping was heard from outside the house.

The silhouette of a large eagle began to be seen through the window.

Dane had returned.

The moment she realized that fact, Elsie’s heart fluttered and was uplifted without her knowing it.

This was the feeling left by the dead Elsie.

It was the identity of the headache that had been bothering her until just now.

It was clearly the memories and emotions of the dead Elsie, but it felt like her own.

Was it because she was also Elsie?

Only then was Elsie able to realize it vaguely.

The other self who manipulated Elsie of the Aesir Saga. And Elsie on this side…

‘They’re mixed. No… to be more precise…’

They were combined. Otherwise, she couldn’t explain this mixture of memories and emotions.

Footsteps getting closer and closer from outside the door.

Was it because of the aftermath of the headache? This feeling kept turning on. It wasn’t like this when she first met Dane.

‘It burst. The heart that longed for family even in death.’

Elsie felt her soul appealing for longing.

Creak-

The door opened. Dane appeared with a bright smile, holding a bouquet of yellow flowers.

“I’m sorry, Elsie. I said I’d come and wait for you in advance. But I was late again.”

“Ah, it’s okay…”

It’s okay.

If it was Elsie’s reason, she should have stopped there.

However, the moment she became aware of the emotions of the unified soul, her voice flowed out unconsciously.

“Orabeoni.”

After saying the words, Elsie widened her eyes and covered her mouth with both hands.

Orabeoni.

It was a word that Elsie had never used to call anyone in her life, or rather, in his life.

It was because the bouquet of yellow flowers that Dane brought had further fueled the memories and emotions of this Elsie.

‘Damn it, Elsie!’

It was useless to blame herself in her heart. There was no winner in the fight with herself.

However, Dane, who was more surprised than the embarrassed Elsie, trembled with emotion.

The bouquet of freesia flowers in his hand shook.

“Elsie! Yes, Orabeoni is here!”

“G, get away! Get away!”

Dane was approaching with tremendous momentum.

Elsie was backing away.

However, Elsie’s small steps could not escape from Dane.

Waah!

In the end, Elsie, who was hugged, struggled with complicated emotions.

Elsie, who resisted by grabbing onto the sleeves of Thrud and Doyun next to her, ended up causing everyone to fall over.

Thump!