Why are you doing this to me? (2)

“It’s coffee.”

“Um.”

The gray middle-aged man, who was one head taller than me, nodded softly and quietly savored the coffee he served.

He was wearing a black suit and had his gray hair slicked back.

He has crimson eyes that look like blood and a neatly trimmed beard, so at first glance he looks like a high-ranking person in a company, but in reality, he is a monster who tears even high-ranking people in that company.

The owner of the Imperial Magic Tower. Clark Theodore.

The ‘Wizard’, known as the world’s greatest and busiest than anyone else, was somehow sitting in a cheap lodging drinking instant coffee.

“Not bad.”

“… Can you tell me the maker?”

“No, it is a product of the company I am investing in.”

The scale of the conversation is different. I bought this because it was on sale for 30% off.

In a situation where I suddenly found myself in the shoes of an investor and a consumer, I took another sip of the coffee I had brewed.

Oh, I’m so nervous I can’t taste it. Make self-hypnosis work.

“Don’t be so nervous.”

“As far as I know, there are only two people in this world who are not nervous in front of the tower lord.”

“One of them must be your teacher.”

“The teacher is a good guy, but I am not a good guy.”

Maybe it’s because I’m so smart, but my self-hypnosis works properly and my tongue rolls easily.

However, I still can’t taste the coffee. It seems that I can’t help it because my human instinct is nervous.

I’ll have to learn stronger hypnosis magic later, or I’ll really lose my mind.

“How is Piana?”

“As far as I know, you are doing better than anyone else. You’ve also cut down on drinking recently.”

“… When I met him, it was ‘just before Fable’. So, did she quit drinking too?”

It wasn’t cut off, it was reduced.

And the ‘fable’ he mentioned talks about the process of a magician becoming a wizard.

In other words, our teacher is also a human who will soon become a wizard like the monster in front of us.

I was curious about what was going on in this situation, so I decided to leave the work to my tongue, which was still running well.

“I’m sorry, but may I ask what business the busy tower owner has for visiting a dark magician like me?”

If you fail, they will fight you with all their might, but honestly, I don’t know if you will be able to escape.

The status window displayed in front of you says that you can’t win even if you poop your pants in front of that person.

[Level: 90]

[Name: Clark Theodore.]

[Role: Imperial Magic Tower Master]

[Status: Doubt, Suspicion. Imperial Magic Tower Lord. Wizard. busyness.]

[Characteristics: (Red Magic Lv. 8MAX) (Blue Magic Lv. 6) (Yellow Magic Lv. 6) (Swordsmanship Lv. 4MAX) (Martial Arts Lv. 5MAX)]

It’s really ugly.

They say you’re a wizard if you can max out just one magic at level 8, but the wizard in front of you is at level 6 for other magic, and the limit hasn’t even been reached yet.

Having read the novel, I don’t know what kind of monster will be born if one of the other magic tricks reaches 8MAX.

Moreover, he was also crazy about martial arts and swordsmanship. The third-rate life I met before was a monster-like spec that was no match for me.

With that level of martial arts and swordsmanship, even if the opponent is Auror level 2 and his swordsmanship level is one level higher than this person, if he is not good at it, he will lose or end up in an even match.

I responded as politely as possible to such a monster, but I did not relax and was prepared to shout [Pay attention] at any time.

He didn’t know if he knew what I was thinking, but after drinking all the coffee, he slowly moved his lips.

“I’ll send you coffee later, the next prototype has come out. It tastes quite good.”

“… uh? yes. Thank you.”

My question is gone? Or, are you really here to sell coffee?

Is something not going well with the company you invested in?

Although I thought it was probably not possible, I asked him if he would like me to refill his coffee. He really got a refill.

What on earth is this crazy situation?

I just pray that this is not a manipulation by investors who want to increase profits by stealing coffee from consumers.

“Slurp. hmm. It’s a good scent after all.”

“Hey… “

“The lingering scent of the black magic you used against the demons was similar to this coffee, with a neat and good scent.”

“… … “

I think I’m going to have to poop my pants.

First of all, thanks to self-hypnosis, he was able to keep his expression from changing and his voice from leaking, but the opponent was not just a high-level magician, but a monster.

[Wizard].

I don’t know how he knew that, but this guy. Now I am absolutely convinced that I am tied to demons.

I was planning on shouting ‘pay back’ depending on what his next action would be, and he put down his coffee cup without knowing my intention and spoke very slowly but clearly.

“Enter the Imperial Magic Tower. Then, I’ll just pretend I didn’t notice this incident and move on. A black magician ‘just before the fable’.”

“I don’t like it.”

No, I was going to shout [gabul], but my tongue, which is so good at working, spontaneously spat out the answer first.

This isn’t right, I’m annoyed.

The next time I try to move my tongue with magical power, that man will forever separate my head and hair from this world, even if it is only a single word of his own.

Oh, shit. It was a short life.

God, here comes another idiot.

“I see. It’s a shame.”

“… Yes?”

“I knew you would answer that way. If you, her best disciple, had wanted to join the Imperial Magic Tower, you would have already severed ties with the Black Magic Tower.”

“I thought I would cut off ties, but my ties with the country where the Black Magic Tower is located were cut off.”

Have you still not nominated Nora as your next best disciple?

What is that damn teacher really doing?

Still, I feel reassured. Seeing that he didn’t get angry when he said he wouldn’t go in, I guess he didn’t really mean it.

Also, I think what I said about ‘just before the fable’ was something I just asked casually.

Well, this isn’t the world of Drag Ball. It makes no sense to hide magical power and then grow it.

Scouts in this world are accurate and do not deceive people.

If the combat power is 530,000, it just looks like 530,000.

It is even more impossible for the great wizard who created the ‘combat power meter’ to be fooled by a third-rate dark magician like me.

I thought this would be the end of the conversation and was reassured that I wouldn’t shit my pants.

“Then, please enter the Imperial Royal Academy.”

“… Why did it fly there?”

No really, why are you doing this to me?

Now that I was at ease, the body blow aimed at my solar plexus made me feel really sick, so when I started to collect the hook, he looked straight at me and moved his mouth.

“You did not defeat the demon. That fact alone is no reason to leave you in the empire. However, from what I see, you don’t have the ability to defeat the demons there.”

“There is some mistake… “

“Do you think ‘I’ am mistaken?”

If I say one more wrong word, I will die.

The truth discovered by the world’s greatest wizard is actually an illusion.

My courage wasn’t strong enough to keep insisting on such things, and even with my hypnosis magic, I thought, ‘That’s really crossing the line.’ While doing this, I stuck out my tongue.

And seeing me speechless, he began to speak quietly.

“One. The reverberations of the black magic that remained there were clearly targeting each other’s hearts. For some reason, one side ended up winning, and for some reason, ‘the demon escaped alive.’ I am sure of it. You were there.”

“… yes. There was. But, what does that have to do with why I have to enter the academy?”

There is no way to cheat anymore.

I want to shout “Furthermore” and poop my pants and run away, but honestly, I don’t have the confidence to live here opposing this man and calling for “Furthermore” for the rest of my life.

In the first place, if you activate it for just one hour, the pain in the magic circuit will be enough to break through the ‘self-hypnosis’ magic, but it is absolutely impossible to use it for a lifetime.

So I asked him about his intentions.

Why on earth would they put such a questionable magician into the imperial academy? And he answered.

“I am the chairman there.”

“… What is that?”

“This means that we will monitor it. You.”

He spoke his honest truth and stood up as if that was the end of the conversation.

I looked at him blankly and belatedly opened my mouth.

“Now, wait a minute!”

“If you say you don’t like it, then I have to see you as a human who was in cahoots with demons… “

“Okay. I understand that the tower owner made a lot of concessions. That’s not the problem… “

It was an embarrassing story for me to say, but since the other person might attack him without knowing, I told everyone around me as much as I could that I had been expelled from the Royal Academy for committing several crimes in addition to attempted terrorism.

“I know.”

“… I know, but are you really going to put me in the academy?”

“There was no physical evidence. Don’t bother me anymore.”

“… … “

No, you were the one who bothered to come to the dorm.

When I suppressed the feeling of really wanting to argue with him and looked at him, he seemed to want to leave as if the conversation was over, so I threw out one more flash of information.

“Wait a minute! I don’t have any money!!”

Tuition. I have no way of paying for that.

Isn’t it too cruel to ask people to work hard to make it from now on?

Even when I was attending the Royal Academy, I barely made a living selling catalysts, but now I know it too.

From now on, life is too hard to go to the academy while selling catalysts as a side job.

If you tell him that story.

-Squeak.

“… Take care of your money.”

He was a magician who was very thorough in both public and private matters.

My transfer exam is in three days.

After telling me that he would put me in the second year as a privilege of the chairman, he just walked out of the dorm, and I sat down at the table.

“… Eight, washpal.”

Master’s tone jumped out at me without me even realizing it. Should I have just killed him then?

That demon Cutlass was a bastard who had to fight with the main character, Raoul, so I sent him back alive with a little work, but this is how I got caught.

Oh, I’m so annoyed.

If this happens, will I have to borrow money from my sister and make catalysts again?

I really don’t want to end up in debt again. While I was wiping my face for a while, thinking about this.

“Brother? Where does it hurt?”

“It hurts. My heart and head hurt.”

Our gold side Harv came to our lodgings.

Why do you always come here? Did you put some honey on here?

Rather, it’s afternoon now, what about the academy?

“There was only a morning lecture today. And, I don’t know what’s going on, but cheer up. It looks like a guest has arrived… “

While saying that, he looked at the two glasses on the table, sat down on the other side, and started talking about trivial things as if he was waiting for me to tell him something important.

They say things like how they are doing at the academy these days, that they have seen the path to swordsmanship again, and that they won’t be able to come for 3 days and 2 nights because they have outdoor training next week.

For a few minutes, I just listen to things that have nothing to do with me with one ear and let them go with the other.

Harv finally realized that I wasn’t going to tell him the situation, so he smiled bitterly and moved his mouth.

“I may not be of much help to you, but if you are really having a hard time, please tell me. Force or exertion may not be of much help yet, but this time… I received back from my father some of the businesses that had been taken away when Galv fell from power. Now about the money part and the small but useful connections… “

“… Admission fee.”

“Yes?”

“… I need to enter the Imperial Academy, but there is no tuition.”

“Huh? Brother, are you entering school? To first grade?”

“2nd year, transfer.”

“Haha! I don’t know why you are enrolling, but please tell me quickly. I can help you with that… ?!”

I reached out my hand, which had been stroking my face for a while, and grabbed his hand.

No, that’s not a lie, is it? If I’m lying, are you going to cry like this?!

I’m going to make you see a disgusting grown man crying!

“Of course, it’s not a lie. Well, have you never heard of it? A franchise in the empire under our family name… “

“10 million gold?”

“Hey, isn’t that the half-year tuition fee combined with the admission fee?”

“… 20 million?”

“Available.”

“Brother!”

When I think about it, this guy was the water owner who was responsible for 30% of the construction of our Black Magic Tower.