Now I Know (1)

After the afternoon academy training was over, I dropped the princess off at her dorm and went back to the training ground.

“What happened?”

“I don’t know. There’s nothing wrong with the Taming Magic Tool, right? “

Chunshik, who knew I would return, sat down in that spot and disassembled the magical tools with professional tools to check where he had gotten them from, and the master was operating his magical powers in a place a little further away, in the place where the Death Knight had disappeared.

“So, the monster’s taming wasn’t ‘released’ due to a tool problem?”

“Sure. You can use this to tame other monsters right away. Want to see it?”

“No. My brother saw it, so I’m sure he wasn’t wrong.”

He’s my brother who works in the Black Tower’s laboratory. No matter how good my magical power management is, it’s not like my expertise is superior to that of someone working in the field, so there’s no reason for my answer to change just because I see it.

I turned away from my brother, who was frowning as if he was annoyed by something that had just happened rather than by my question, and approached my teacher, who had grown a little and looked to be about ten years older.

“Did you find something?”

“… Okay. I found something, so wait a minute. “

“Yes.”

The Death Knight I defeated a little while ago. He started behaving strangely right after the princess’s challenge ended.

He approached the princess, who had fallen to the ground with her magical power running out, with a murderous look on her face.

The students who had been training before didn’t react that way even when they fell after firing magic at a closer range than the princess, but the Death Knight immediately started moving towards the princess as if he had been waiting for her to fall.

That it wasn’t my mistake was proven by the actions of my master, who had instantly raised his magical power, and my brother, who had shouted out the ideal of the magical tool.

Of course, even the princess who was involved just tilted her head, and the other students were so focused on me defeating the monster in one blow that they didn’t even notice the signs of the incident, so it wasn’t a problem for now.

And the teacher dismissed the students as if nothing had happened, and Chun-sik and his brother were left in the training grounds, using their magical powers to search for any abnormalities on the traces of the vanished Death Knight.

‘It’s truly incredibly beautiful no matter when I see it.’

I can’t say it’s not about the teacher’s appearance… but unfortunately, it’s not about his current young appearance.

Rather, my taste is more towards the Master’s original appearance… No, that’s not important. What I mean by beautiful is the Master’s magical power that handles black magic precisely and perfectly right before my eyes.

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but once you reach level 3, there’s a sophisticated tracking spell in black magic.

Right now, I haven’t learned that far yet, so I’m spreading my magical power to an unwise degree and using the magical power management cheat I received from God to make up for it, but my master, unlike me, is a ‘black magician’ who has properly trained in black magic.

Even though she didn’t receive any operational cheats from God, she showed off magical power management that was difficult even for me to follow, and she perfectly controlled the surrounding space with black magic to find evidence in the Death Knight’s traces.

It is no exaggeration to say that the sight is like black butterflies fluttering across the night sky in the wind.

I am sure I am not the only one who feels proud of the appearance of such a teacher and finds him strong and beautiful.

-Slurp.

“Hoo… “

The black magical powers are returned to the Master, who is sighing softly as he retrieves the magic that was controlling the surroundings.

Until now, he had just scattered his remaining magical power around him, but after becoming a wizard, he seems to have gained the ability to recover even the magical power he had used.

I can’t think of anything else other than the words, “This is truly an amazing ability.”

“… What about the princess?”

“I dropped him off at his lodging. On the way there and back, he kept spreading his magic around, but there was no one who seemed suspicious.”

“Yeah, I guess you didn’t go all the way to chase him down because you took out the Death Knight in one shot.”

“Did you know who it was?”

“Yeah. But this is ridiculous. What on earth did this guy want to do to Death Knight by doing this kind of trick?”

The Master also tried to identify the opponent when the Death Knight was targeting the princess, but he understood why I killed the monster and confirmed it after the situation ended.

Well, I knew roughly who the opponent was from the beginning.

“I know the reason, but it’s the princess’s personal circumstances… or the politics of the empire, so it’s a bit difficult to tell you.”

“Shitty shit. Politics again? No matter how much I distance myself from it, that damn politician keeps following me?”

“Master, I told you before. The higher your position, position, and responsibility, the harder it will be to stray from that part.”

“… Sometimes I wonder if you’re really younger than me.”

“I’m twenty-two. Master is thirty-nine.”

“Didn’t I teach you that it’s not wrong even if you say it as a fact?”

“Excuse me?”

When I answered with a smile without realizing it, my teacher smiled as if he thought the same thing and continued the conversation.

“So, you’re saying that you’re getting involved in a fight that involves that kind of dirty politics?”

“Again, you’re talking nonsense… “

“What the hell. Nora has already started to find out all about your academy life. Isn’t she going to move in a similar vein this time?”

“Huh? Nora…what?”

When I opened my eyes wide at the unexpected story, the teacher looked at me as if he found me pitiful, frowned, and continued speaking.

“They’re not like Ice Legs Hot Pants, and you thought they’d live their whole lives not knowing the true meaning of your actions?”

“… Wait a minute!! What are you talking about? The true meaning of my actions, what the heck is that… “

“How many demons have you taken out at the Royal Academy? And how many more do you plan on taking out here? Clark already caught one, and this time too… “

As the teacher continued speaking, my thoughts paused for a moment.

Even though I had self-hypnosis, it was so shocking that I was completely speechless.

Nora knew what I was doing? Ellis regrets it because of me? No, how could that happen?!

“Huh? What the. Did you really want them not to know? Did you even think that I was deliberately trying to avoid being caught by them and causing trouble, and then coming back to you later as a sign of atonement when I was stronger? “

“That can’t be! Since when…! No, when did Nora find out?! And why did Ellis…!”

“Um… I don’t know if you watch the news, but there was a demon that attacked the academy’s training before. Nora stopped it, and she found out that the magic book you left for Nora and the woman you beat up there were demons, and Nora realized that you were still taking care of her. And after that… “

Crazy, this is ridiculous.

That female demon was a kind of safe asset left behind to raise Nora’s awakening and Crown Prince Albert’s abilities.

Of course, I was a level 5 demon with black magic who could gradually take control of the minds of everyone except me at the academy, erasing their existence and making them unable to remember it.

But that woman was incredibly strong and used traps and such, so I left Nora a lot of catalysts and magic books in case of an emergency, but Nora broke that woman’s mind control magic?

Are you saying that he had grown that much?

Furthermore, in the following story, Nora said that she had been doggedly pursuing the evil deeds I had committed at the Academy, investigating the students who had dropped out because of me and the people who had been the targets of my bullying, and that she had also found out that they were either connected to the Demons or were low-level Demons themselves. Then, she said that she had even been connected to a merchant who sold potions that raised ‘trait level’, and that she had met Ellis there and told him about me.

‘That’s ridiculous. Then, what about the quest I did? Are you saying that it doesn’t matter anymore because it was completed when I left them? “

-Thanks to that, the road to suffering was wide open for you.

“!!”

“Huh? Why are you like that?”

Suddenly I feel sick and have a headache.

Could this be what the god who healed my arm was talking about back then?

Nora and Ellis. It was I, and no one else, who changed their fate as heroines.

The heroine Ellis, who lost her mother and is consumed by a desire for revenge, devotes herself only to the path of the sword and causes accidents without looking around.

The heroine Nora, who was abandoned in the garbage dump where she was and lived a miserable life until she was 15 without anyone’s help, then killed the ruffians who tried to attack her with black magic because she couldn’t control her overflowing magical power, and was on the verge of dying of despair from the fact that she was handling the same power as the demons, until her master saved her.

It was I, and no one else, who changed their past, so they hated me even more. That’s why I went around causing trouble at the academy.

Of course.

They are heroines who must connect with the protagonists who will have to save the world in the future, not ‘me (the reincarnated person)’, and I am a third-rate villain who can leave at any time.

So, they shouldn’t have felt ‘favor’ towards me and built up ‘good feelings’ towards me. But…!

“… Why are you like that? Are you sick somewhere?”

“Ah, no… That’s it. Master, just tell me the answer quickly. Who here fought the Death Knight? “

“Uh, uh. The guy’s name is… “

My heart is squeezing with a feeling of overwhelming anxiety and a crushing sense of guilt.

I thought I had done my part and was done, but I’m coming to the conclusion that the reason Nora and Ellis are starting to reach a conclusion that is far from love is my fault and no one else’s.

‘So you’re saying that Nora is tracking my work? Are you saying that if I do something wrong, I might not be able to participate in this Imperial Ranking?’

‘The reason Alice’s hand ended up like that is because I didn’t expel that Violet bitch… I thought she was a safe asset…?’

The guy the teacher pointed out as the culprit was a student I already knew.

I knew from the beginning that he was the culprit, but I left him alone on purpose. It seems that Andrew, the princess’s enemy and the villain we meet in this empire, and his backers have started to move slowly.

“Sigh… Master, I’m sorry, but I have a favor to ask.”

“Huh? Are you perhaps dealing with the guy? Hot! If it’s a request from a damn disciple, there’s no reason why this master wouldn’t do it… “

“No. Leave this to me, and Master, contact the kingdom… “

The teacher, who did not know how I felt, listened to my story and readily agreed.

“But, are you thinking of forgiving me already?”

“… That’s not it. It’s just that, what’s wrong needs to be fixed.”

“?”

Anyway, this ranking match, and what’s happening in the empire.

I looked up at the sky that had become as dark as my hair, feeling as if all the things that were truly difficult to contain in my hands were going to explode at once.