Do you feel the difference? (2)

“Long time no see? Raul.”

“… Viola Senior.”

Raoul didn’t even see who his opponent was until he stepped in and struck the sword that was wrapped around him.

It was just an instinctive move, as the evil spirits were falling on Ellis.

“Ellis, what’s going on? Why are the seniors… “

“Ahahaha! I was just helping you with your training. I heard that training with Aura isn’t going well these days. That’s why you have such a serious expression… “

“Senior, I’m sorry, but I just asked Ellis. I would appreciate it if you could be quiet for a bit. “

“… … “

Raoul cut her off, sending her hostility towards him as she literally tried to cut off Ellis’ shoulder, and turned his back on her like a knight protecting Ellis, then opened his mouth again.

“So I texted you that I would help you, so why aren’t you responding?”

“… Sorry, I saw it but it ended quickly.”

“It doesn’t look like this place has been cleaned yet. Isn’t this how Ellis cleans?”

“Yeah.”

Ellis thought about Raoul’s subsequent questions.

He already knows the situation he’s in and who’s messing with this place.

And I plan to question the other person as to why he was attacking me.

“Ahahahaha!! That’s funny, when we came here it was like ‘from the beginning’?”

“This is seniors…!!”

“Evidence? Is there any evidence, even a witness, that we messed up?”

“Ugh… “

“Besides, we only have the mock swords that we originally use. But, the sword that’s broken under that kid, and the sword that’s about to break right now, aren’t they all from the academy that he was cleaning?”

“That’s right. It’s been like this since we came~”

“Rather, we were planning to help clean up too~ Since these were things that the third graders left unorganized~?”

“”… … “”

The three women, who had been talking as if they were completely toying with the two of them, turned their backs as if they had nothing more to say and continued their conversation in mocking voices.

“Raul~ I’ve been hearing bad rumors about you lately~”

“That’s right, the rumor that you were with that beast of a bitch every day and every night spread all over the academy~”

“I wonder what Count Edmont would think if he knew~ I hope he doesn’t think that his only son, whom he raised with great care, is being possessed by a commoner beast and is having trouble with his studies?”

“Seniors…! Calling Ellis a beast…!!”

“Ah~! That’s right!”

Even as he tried to intervene and question them, Raoul was cut off by a purple-haired woman named Viola, one of the three who were leaving the training grounds confidently and proudly.

And then he just turned his head and looked at the two people with a mean look and continued speaking.

“You know that commoner knight commander who was the mother of that beast? I heard she ran away? Raoul, it would be better to play with fire in moderation. You know that our Violet family is connected to your family through distribution, right? If I tell my father about this situation without him knowing, will your father side with that commoner beast or with me? Think carefully.”

“… … “

Raoul bit his lip as he watched them leave, laughing amongst themselves as if they were having fun, leaving messages that were almost threatening.

Although his family’s business was solid, it also had many dependents.

He could not afford to cause discord with other families, especially those connected to him through business, just because of himself.

Raoul, who eventually left the humans who had been harassing Ellis alone, turned around and apologized to Ellis.

“Sorry, I didn’t know there were still people harassing you. And to just let you go because of my family’s circumstances is disqualifying.”

“… No. Rather, it’s been strangely quiet recently. It was worse when I entered school.”

“… Yeah, but you’re not hurt, are you? Are you okay? “

“Uh, yeah. Thanks to Raul protecting me, haa. I still have a long way to go.”

“But what on earth happened to those guys? Clearly, in last year’s Kingdom Rankings, not only were they third-rate in terms of auras, but their swordsmanship was also third-rate. The sword that was swinging at you earlier, no matter how you looked at it, was almost at the level of a skilled knight.”

Even the Sword Expert was rebelling against him.

Even if they are only holding a stick, if they do something wrong, an ordinary citizen could be killed.

However, as far as Raoul could remember, they were seniors who didn’t receive very good evaluations even in the swordsmanship department, and although he had heard that they had participated in the Imperial Ranking Tournament last year and had done well, he honestly thought it was just a rumor.

But the sword Viola had just seen was clearly superior to Ellis’s.

Unlike her seniors, who have been training their swordsmanship diligently since their first year, those people are not more talented or work harder than Ellis.

“Yeah, I was surprised too. I honestly thought they would run away if I showed them the aura on their swords, but all three of them wore auras as if it was a given. And last year, they made it to the quarterfinals and round of 16 of the Imperial Ranking Tournament.”

“… I’ll have to ask the professor later. And… “

Raul grimaced as he looked at the messy training ground.

The professor left the cleaning to Ellis.

He was originally a third-year professor, but today he was teaching the class in place of the second-year swordsmanship professor who was on vacation.

But Raoul was not stupid, and no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t help but feel that the professor was also involved in this situation.

“… Haa, let me report this to the chairman. Seriously, I sent one and now it’s causing trouble somewhere else. “

Ellis thinks as Raoul moves to help clean up the fallen objects around him.

Sent one. That must be Rudis’ story.

Last year when he was there was absolutely the worst.

Among the first graders, they called him a punk, a bully, and a rabid mad dog.

Literally, he would pick fights with anyone he passed by, whether they were second or third year students, and he would literally send them to the hospital.

And while I was thinking that far, I ran over to him, who was holding the fallen mock swords, and picked up another sword and asked.

“Hey Raul. Do you know the student called Mad Dog?”

“… Light, Kyeon?”

Raoul, who had put the sword in its storage case, tilted his head at my question and replied that he had never heard such a nickname that sounded like he was suffering from chuunibyou.

“Who is that?”

“No, just now those people… “

Ellis briefly relayed what she had just heard.

There was this guy who was a mad dog that he had hooked up with, and he said some incomprehensible things about how he had attached himself to those women.

But I don’t even know who that mad dog guy is.

“Hmm. I can’t think of anyone… Let’s ask the chairman about that too. Maybe someone was in love with Ellis and was suppressing those people? “

“Raoul! I’m not joking!”

“Haha. I’m not joking. Ellis is not a beast like those people say, and she is a beautiful woman who truly works hard. If I didn’t have a connection with Ellis in the student council, I might have thought of myself as a flower on the cliff and called myself a black knight?”

“Ugh!! Seriously, why are you like that! It’s embarrassing!!”

It wasn’t that I didn’t understand that he was trying to lighten my mood with empty words, but I still felt embarrassed by the words of the man who saved me and was also handsome.

Feeling her face heat up, Ellis stood a little further away and began to hurriedly finish cleaning, and Raoul looked at her and changed his thoughts.

‘Mad dog… That must have been the story of the black magician… Rudis.’

In fact, when Ellis asked about the mad dog, Raoul recalled a rumor he had heard before.

The story goes that Rudis, who was called a crazy guy, a punk, and a gangster among the first-year students, is now called a mad dog among the upperclassmen.

Of course, since I was obsessed with training and had no interest in things like rumors, I only vaguely remembered the sounds I heard during training, so I couldn’t be sure if this was really tinnitus referring to him.

That’s why I decided to hold off on telling Ellis for now.

By the time we finished cleaning, it was already 10 minutes before lunch time ended.

“What should I do? I should have called the chairman.”

“Don’t worry. Actually, I already texted you. We’ll just meet after school.”

“… Ah. I really didn’t check my phone today. Sorry.”

“It’s okay. It’s just that today’s schedule was a little messed up because of the intense training and the strange fight. You can do well starting tomorrow.”

“Yeah. Thank you.”

Ellis looked relieved after hearing Raoul’s story, and Raoul, who was enjoying spending time with her, went to attend the swordsmanship class.

‘Who the hell is Mad Dog? I’ve never even heard of him.’

‘Do any of the third-year seniors know? If it’s really Rudis…’

Both of them were more troubled by the stories the women had left behind than by the reason the chairman had called them.

*

“Hey Viola, wasn’t that too much for Raul earlier? “

“Whew~ What?”

“No, first of all, you’re a member of our student council fan club.”

Three third-year female students were smoking cigarettes on the roof of the academy instead of going to class.

“Hot! What the hell, these fucking punks who don’t even look at us anyway, what’s with the fan club? Do they even care about us?”

“Kik, that’s true~ We’re starting to get older now, what’s the point of sucking up to idols? I should just find a guy who likes me~”

“In that case, shouldn’t you quit smoking first?”

“I want to find a man who loves me just the way I am~”

“Are you a crazy teenage girl?”

They were giggling, perhaps aware that they were talking nonsense among themselves, and soon they threw the burned-out cigarettes on the ground and took out small vials of potion from their pockets.

“Hey, there are only 3 weeks left until the Kingdom Rankings?”

“That’s right. Originally, third-year academy students weren’t allowed to participate… “

“Well, you’re not stopping people from competing as individuals, right?”

After saying that, they looked at each other and smiled bitterly before opening the lid of the potion and downing it in one go, then letting out an old man-like exclamation as if they had drunk alcohol.

“Ugh~! Shit. Every time I eat it, I think to myself, this is seriously fucking tasteless.”

“Still, wasn’t it fun when you beat that beast of a bitch earlier?”

“Besides, when that genius Raul got involved earlier, honestly, I didn’t feel like I would lose.”

“One real effect is killing me~”

“Right~ So let’s have a drink~”

Having already emptied the bottle, they giggled at the sight of their faces, then grabbed the swords on their waists and began to put on their auras.

The aura looked much stronger and more refined than when he fought Ellis earlier.

“Wow~ I think I’ll be getting Lv. 3 soon?”

“Wow, Viola really seems to have talent. I’m at a proficient level now.”

“I told you you weren’t good at swordsmanship. You were just a potion sucker from the start.”

“Kikki kick! That’s true.”

The potion they drank, and the effects of it made each other’s eyes slightly bloodshot, but they just giggled and said it was good, and then they looked at the academy’s training grounds that were visible from below the rooftop.

“Hey, don’t you think it’d be fun if we killed that beast of a bitch in 3 weeks?”

◦@, but I wanted to kill the crowds that were kept.

“No, wouldn’t it be more satisfying to just kill that bitch and throw her balls in front of her?”

“”Oh, that’s it!””

They are happily chatting away at the sight of Ellis swinging her sword next to Raoul and student council president Albert.

They hadn’t even been able to approach Ellis because of the black warlock who had appeared before them about a year ago.

no.

To be exact, I approached him once to give him a warning, and then I was told never to approach him again, and I got beaten to a pulp.

And for revenge on that day, for revenge on Ellis who was pestering the man they liked.

They had been taking doping drugs sold in the dark world for nearly a year.

“Fucking bitch, she’s laughing like that.”

“Next time I catch you, I’ll cut off that arm and stuff it into my mouth.”

“Ah~ I want to kill you right now~”

They didn’t know.

The fact that they were originally people who had bullied Ellis in the first grade and then got bullied by her in return and were expelled.

And I didn’t know.

The fact that they were Ellis’ awakening device, deliberately arranged by a third-rate villain.

-A string.

“Beast year. I’ll make you regret ignoring my warning.”

Viola didn’t know that she had lightly torn the iron bars off with her bare hands.

The fact that the drug he found in the dark was a doping drug made by the demon tribe with human blood and side effects.

That their death, the end, was imminent.

And, he who arranged it didn’t know either.

“Hey, what’s that? My ear suddenly starts itching?”

“Oh? Rudis, come here~ Sister, I’ll break your ears today too~”

“Haha! Thank you!”

The women he had arranged as Alice’s awakening device had crossed a line that no human should cross, and had become formidable enemies who threatened Alice’s life.

No one knew how tangled the situation was.