episode_0016

Where is this…?

I can’t control my gaze as I wish.

This is clearly Adrian’s memory.

You can only see the direction the guy’s gaze is directed, the scenery he sees, and the people he sees.

‘…blackboard?’

Adrian is drawing something on the blackboard.

‘Is this… an octagon?’

Soon the octagon was completed and the creature began to speak.

His gaze expanded beyond the blackboard to a wide area, where there were many people watching him.

“You there!”

“Are you talking about me?”

“Yeah. What’s your name?”

“My name is Angelica.”

“Do you know what this is? Tell me, Angelica.”

“This is my first time seeing this… Isn’t it just a picture?”

“Hey, you don’t know what an octagon is?”

“Do I really need to know that? I plan to become a swordsman in the future. It’s been that way for generations in my family.”

This is a lecture room at the academy.

Adrian seemed to be giving a lecture as a professor.

A woman named Angelica was one of dozens of students, and she seemed very confident even though she couldn’t answer the bastard’s questions properly.

‘You don’t know what an octagon is… Are you some kind of a loser in PE or something?’

[This is so cheeky…]

Whether it was because the attitude of the woman named Angelica was so unpleasant, Adrian’s dirty thoughts began to ring in his head without his knowledge.

“Was that the daughter of the famous swordsman family that the chairman mentioned…”

“Yes, four years? Are you talking to me now?”

“Who else is there besides you?”

“Professor! Even if you are a professor, I cannot forgive you for insulting our family!”

Things were going strangely.

‘What the hell are you doing, you punk? Why are you picking on a student?’

Adrian Floyd.

I don’t know whether to call this person old or psychotic.

He was the type of professor you would never want to meet.

“You cheeky bitch. Come out!”

“Do you think I can’t come out if you tell me to?”

The woman walked forward confidently.

Right now, right in front of me… no, right in front of Adrian’s nose, we’re facing off.

“If you didn’t know, you should be ashamed. How dare you talk back to the professor?”

“Why is that embarrassing? It’s not even the basics of magic circles or sexagenary cycles, so why should I, a knight, know about such things?”

Listening to you, I can tell that this woman is not normal either.

You don’t seem to have any desire to learn, so why did you come to the academy?

“The octagon is the most basic shape in the art of giving!”

“What is that? Wasn’t Buyeo liquor something that only your family could make? Why are you explaining it to us? Are you trying to brag about it?”

“You?”

“Oh, that was my mistake, Professor Floyd.”

[This… This bitch is going to tear me to pieces and kill me…]

-chuck!

Adrian’s right arm was stretched straight into the air.

Then, from inside the sleeve, a thin, black stick, such as a conductor might use, protruded.

‘Seo… No way…’

I couldn’t stop the bastard.

The bastard immediately swung his arm, and the stick he was holding was aimed at the face of a woman named Angelica.

-Ting!

But fortunately it stopped without touching the woman’s cheek.

To be exact, the opponent blocked it perfectly.

“Oh!”

“As expected from Angelica.”

“Wow, indeed, it’s worthy of being called a swordsman.”

The other students in the class cheer for her.

“It’s so ugly…”

“Do I have to listen to the professor’s lecture until the end?”

“That’s exactly what I heard. Psycho.”

On the other hand, Adrian was met with sarcasm and criticism.

Boo-

“Woo- Violent teacher, step down!”

“Academy professor hits a student. Woo-”

It poured down with boos.

‘Ha, Adrian, you little bastard…’

It’s so pathetic I can’t watch it any longer.

But I still didn’t have the authority to stop it or say anything.

“Are you thinking of using violence against me? Can you handle it?”

A very provocative look.

Angelica’s eyes were filled with confidence as she drew her sword.

“Hey… Cheeky!”

“You’ve been calling me arrogant for a while now. Aren’t you the one who’s being called arrogant?”

-Ting! Ting!

Adrian, enraged, continued his attack ferociously.

But the woman was defending herself too easily.

“Stop… Stop it now. If you keep doing this, I have no choice but to fight back. This is self-defense.”

That was when.

Kaong!

The friction sound of the stick and sword, which had always sounded similar, suddenly changed.

“This, what the heck is this…”

Angelica also felt something strange.

A look of confusion was evident on his face.

And after a while, everyone could not help but be astonished.

“Uh, how…”

The sword held in the hand of a woman named Angelica was split exactly in two.

The broken blade fell to the floor, and silence descended upon the classroom.

“You cheeky bitch. Who dares talk back to me!”

-puck!

Adrian’s attacks haven’t stopped yet.

Taking advantage of her momentary daze, the stick was swung again, this time hitting her square in the face.

Trick, trickle… Blood flows from the corner of her mouth.

This is by no means the level of corporal punishment I had in mind.

Obvious violence.

“Know your topic. Angelica.”

A word from Adrian, who seemed barely satisfied.

And Angelica’s gaze looking up at Adrian with a fearsome expression.

With that I was able to return to reality.

* * *

I was hit in the chest by the tip of the spear and took a few steps back in shock.

I absentmindedly felt my chest with my hand, but fortunately I couldn’t feel any blood or wounds.

‘what?’

This is not the time to think about the past that just came to mind.

What matters is now.

My head spins quickly.

‘I was definitely stabbed by a spear…’

He put strength into his right hand, which was touching his heart, and pulled on the jacket he was wearing.

‘Was there some kind of device on the clothes?’

Incentive.

There will certainly be techniques to boost defense.

“!?”

A black shadow appears in the field of vision.

Move quickly left and right.

‘What the hell is that speed…’

No matter how you look at it, they are enemies.

He’s the one who stabbed me.

But it’s so fast that I can’t keep up with its movements.

“De, Deloitte…”

A moment of time.

I can’t just wait for Delua, who is still outside the building, to show up and protect me.

Something must be done.

‘Should I protect you again?’

Can this jacket protect me again?

Does enchanted armor protect the wearer indefinitely?

I can’t be sure.

“Die!”

Then the voice is heard again.

It’s definitely a woman’s thing.

‘What? Do you look familiar?’

A voice I remember hearing somewhere.

I think.

Why did he show that past in this urgent situation?

If you think about it, there is only one answer.

“Angelica…”

This time, the tip of the spear that was flying towards the center of the forehead stopped in midair.

“……”

The shadows also stopped moving.

Although he was wearing black clothes and a mask, perhaps in disguise, his eyes were visible so he could see ahead.

‘You’re a good student.’

It’s definitely the same eyes I saw in his memories.

It also suddenly stopped in response to my voice.

“Are you trying to kill me, Angelica?”

“Uh… How…”

“Did you use a spear instead of a sword to hide your identity?”

“……”

The tip of the spear shakes.

“You’re after me, but my escort knight Delua is here with me. Are you going to kill him too?”

“Never…”

“Then are you going to let him live? If the witness is alive, it will eventually be known? All the blame will be directed to your family, the best swordsmanship family on the continent? Are you trying to disgrace your family?”

“Ugh…”

“Stop it. Stop now. Stop now. Then let’s pretend today never happened. If you disappear right now, I won’t have any evidence left anyway.”

“……”

“If you don’t stop like this, even your friends who came to help you will end up in danger?”

I pretend to be calm on the outside, but my heart is pounding like crazy.

‘If it hits my forehead instead of my jacket, I might just die…’

You should not assume that enchantments applied to clothing will protect your bare skin.

If that were possible, there would have been no need to touch things like bio-enchantments in the first place.

‘Please… please just get out of here you bitch!’

“Ah, Adrian! Inoum!”

“Tsk.”

At that moment, Delua, who was outside, came running in.

Thanks to that, Angelica, who had been hesitating, put away her spear and started running in the opposite direction.

“Where!”

“Delua. That’s enough.”

He stopped Delua from chasing after the guy.

“Yes?”

“If you leave, someone else might show up and come after me.”

“Ah…”

“So don’t leave my side.”

The incident was concluded like that.

But I couldn’t leave my seat for a while.

Angelica’s figure has completely disappeared, but if you go outside the building, you might be attacked again.

To be honest, I was scared.

‘Fuck…’

I take back what I said before.

I guess I’ve been possessed by the worst of the worst human bodies.

‘under…’

How many people in this city are trying to kill that guy?

I can’t live a single day in peace like this.

‘I have to get out of here as soon as possible.’

* * *

Fortunately, I was able to return to the palace before the sun set.

‘Ah… I’m tired.’

I went to the academy for no reason and got really scared, so I decided to stay quietly in the palace annex until the day I left the capital.

Even if the assassin was bold enough to commit an act in the palace, it was judged that he would not attempt to assassinate someone twice in the same place in a short period of time.

‘It’s dangerous outside the palace… It’s really more dangerous outside the palace…”

You should stay in the palace and leave for the village the queen mentioned as quickly as possible.

As you can see, that place had no contact with Adrian Floyd whatsoever.

Only when I get there can I truly be safe.

‘If only I could properly build relationships with the people there…’

Another option is to go there and start a new life.

A healthy relationship that I build myself, not one that Adrian created.

Besides, my patron is none other than the queen.

Since it is a neighborhood run by the queen’s father, it is truly the perfect place to start a new life.

‘Fuck… I really thought that would happen…’

I didn’t know it at the time.

Who would have thought that such trashy, shocking news would be delivered to me, who was full of dreams?