Ch.406401 – Medieval Person

Nothing wakes you up like a mana potion.

If my impulsive, barbaric medieval self were to emerge here, it would be problematic.

She thinks of the humans she opposes as nothing more than self-moving protein blocks.

The problem was that’s exactly how they looked to me right now.

As I inhaled the bitter potion deep into my lungs, I finally began to see the cute aspects of these middle school girls.

‘From now on, these girls are just bullies who hurt a human being.’

Surprisingly, it worked.

Cuteness softens murderous intent.

Is this how cats manage to survive on Earth?

“How did you get in here?”

“Hey, that’s NoName…!”

Judging by the name tags on their uniform vests and facial structures, these were indeed the perpetrators who drove Jung So-hae to hell.

I counted heads from left to right.

“One, two, three, four… Why is one missing? Where did you sell your friend?”

“Are you seriously talking down to us? Wow, just because you’re famous? This is ridiculous! Wait, is that a cigarette in your hand?”

“Sebin, let’s not provoke her and just go inside. She looks dangerous.”

“No way! Why should we be scared? She’s obviously alone!”

The middle school girls slowly began approaching me.

None of them bothered to put out their cigarettes.

The girl with the heaviest makeup and longest legs stepped forward as their representative.

Kim Se-bin bent down to meet my eyes and glared at me fiercely.

I blew the potion vapor into her face.

“Cough! Cough! What the hell is that smell?!”

“Am I not allowed to smoke?”

“Huh? At nine years old, I don’t think so…”

“Says who? Is it written in the constitution? Is it fucking written there?”

The middle school girls had visibly bewildered expressions.

They probably felt invincible when talking back to adults normally.

But now they didn’t know how to react when I, six years younger, was firing back at them.

“Kid, did your mommy teach you to talk like that?”

Kim Se-bin grabbed my collar and shook me.

I put the tobacco back in my mouth and chewed it slowly.

“Kids these days really have lost all sense of fear.”

Without a moment’s hesitation, I kicked Kim Se-bin’s knee hard.

I channeled my aura precisely to properly break the joint.

Crack-

Kim Se-bin’s shin rotated at an unnatural angle as her slender leg collapsed.

“AAAAARGH! Guh… AAAAH…!”

“KYAAAAA!”

“Sebin! Your leg! KYAAA!”

The other bullies screamed shrilly.

They all stood frozen in place as if their bodies had stiffened.

I was prepared to cast a barrier in case they tried to run, but I may have overestimated them.

Look at them, so panicked they can’t even control their own bodies.

These pathetic creatures thought they were something special and ruined an innocent child’s life.

During this commotion, the middle schoolers’ eyes fell on my wand.

Were they planning to snatch my wand and try something?

[Cast: Thermal Conductivity Adjustment]

I caught the wrist of the girl who was reaching for the pocket of my skirt.

Sizzle-

“AAAAGH! It hurts! It’s hot!”

“Yes, everyone gets burned when they touch something hot. And burns hurt. You didn’t know that when you did those things to Sohae unnie? It’s okay, ignorance isn’t a sin. I’ll teach you step by step.”

This is why learning is important.

Everyone has lived different lives, so it’s hard to understand knowledge you haven’t experienced firsthand.

The fact that being stabbed hurts, that fire burns, that bones break when hit with a wooden club—you might not know any of this until you experience it yourself.

Slash-

The sharply honed aura at my fingertips cut through the girl’s long hair.

Yellow strands of hair fluttered in the cool autumn breeze.

“Oops, be careful. If this had pierced your neck, you’d be in the afterlife right now.”

“Fuck, this isn’t right… You shouldn’t be doing this to us, AAAGH!”

“I decide what’s right and wrong.”

[Cast: Glacies Terebra]

I created a sharp ice awl in midair.

The ice awl plunged straight into the girl’s thigh.

“…! AAAAARGH!”

A vivid stream of blood shot upward as the transparent ice took on a pearly sunset hue.

The girl collapsed in place, her body trembling.

Her vocal cords seemed to have given out as she couldn’t even scream in agony.

Fallen on the cold ground, she could only gape like a freshly caught fish.

“Ah.”

I surprised myself.

I had my doubts, but I truly felt not even a shred of guilt.

It felt like stepping on and crushing a dirty piece of candy that had fallen to the ground.

Instead, perhaps due to hormones, my heart was pounding and my limbs tingled.

But my reason maintained its composure throughout.

Even now, I could clearly see how to efficiently take the lives of these perpetrators.

I took a deep breath and made eye contact with the last student still standing.

“Hic… hic… hic…!”

She seemed to have shed all the tears she would ever cry in her lifetime today.

“Name.”

“Hic… haa… hic.”

“I asked what your name is.”

“Jo-Jo-Jo… Jo Eun-seo. I’m Jo Eun-seo. P-please just spare me, I’m begging you like this.”

Jo Eun-seo knelt on the asphalt ground.

She clasped her hands together and begged desperately, reminding me of a fly.

Meanwhile, the middle school girls’ groans continued unabated.

I slammed the portable formation generator hard on the ground.

[Cast: Cancellation Interference]

The noise subsided, creating an atmosphere where we could talk.

Eun-seo wasn’t in great shape either—blood was flowing from her palms and nose, and her cheeks were swollen.

I beckoned to her with my finger.

“…?”

“Gather the girls in one place.”

“Haa haa *gasp* ugh… I-I’ll gather them…!”

She followed my orders diligently with an attitude incomparably more submissive than before.

[Cast: Tissue Regeneration]

I roughly stuck my wand in the ground and cast the spell.

Using tissue regeneration magic so recklessly means scars will remain and the insides won’t heal properly.

But it does stop the bleeding, making them somewhat presentable to others.

I crouched down on the ground, firmly holding my skirt to prevent it from flying up in the wind.

I addressed Jo Eun-seo and the other girls.

“So where’s the last one? Yeo Sol-bi, was it?”

“…”

“Do I really need to ask twice?”

“She’s in Class 8, Year 3…”

“Why isn’t she here yet?”

“I think she got caught by a teacher on the way and is still in class…”

Making me go find her myself—truly third-rate thug behavior.

I sighed deeply and patted Jo Eun-seo’s shoulder lightly.

“Girls, don’t try to be clever. If you’ve done something wrong, just quietly take your punishment. Why try to wriggle out of it like a loach? How kind is modern society where all sins are forgiven after serving jail time, right?”

“Y-yes! That’s right!”

“Especially you, yes you, Kim Se-bin. What was that about suspended sentences? I heard everything from downstairs earlier. If you try to use the law, I’ll have to use it too. If you get any funny ideas, I’ll chase you to the ends of the earth and kill you. Think I can’t kill you in eight months?”

“Hnnngh…!”

Shake-shake-shake-shake-

She’ll break her neck at this rate.

I poked Kim Se-bin’s cheek repeatedly while warning her.

This isn’t over yet.

With things like this, if you don’t deal with every last person thoroughly, there will definitely be consequences.

“Hey you kids! What are you doing there? Come up right now!”

A teacher from Arabyul Middle School opened a stairwell window on the fourth floor and shouted at us.

Though we were far from the classrooms, there must have been a part that connected to the building.

“Yes, I’ll be right up!”

I shouted back just as loudly.

“Hey, who are you? All of you wait right there!”

The teacher closed the window and disappeared.

“You heard him? Looks like we need to go up. Now, guide me to Class 8, Year 3.”

[Cast: Arabesque’s Knot]

I created thin restraining ropes and tied the girls in a row.

They were completely bound, unable to move their arms and legs.

I grabbed the knot and hoisted it onto my shoulder.

Jo Eun-seo, who was at the front of the train, hurriedly spoke from behind.

“How are we supposed to walk tied up like this! You should at least free our feet…!”

“When did I say you needed to walk?”

“Huh?”

In the medieval Papal State of Alpenheim, there was an execution method called the “Wheel of Fate.”

Being medieval people, they believed that when someone died, they left this world for heaven or hell. But for traitors, they mutilated the body beyond recognition, denying them even the chance to be judged in the afterlife.

One such method was tying the living person to a carriage and dragging them along the ground for days.

Since these are young girls with their whole lives ahead of them, I won’t be that cruel.

Yes, this is a warning to all the bystanders at Arabyul Middle School.

This is the fate of perpetrators.

* * *

Thud, thump-thump-

Flop-

Screech-

The combined weight of the four female students amounts to a whopping 200 kilograms.

[Appetite: Erysichthon]

With each step I climbed, the middle schoolers’ bodies were knocked about.

The middle school, structured like a prison in a square shape, had stairs in the center, allowing everyone on every floor to see me coming up.

Students clung to the railings, murmuring as they watched me ascend.

Thwack-!

One girl’s leg hit the stair railing.

Her slipper tumbled down.

“Phew.”

I dropped the girls conspicuously in front of a friend who was recording a video.

Thud-

Even Jo Eun-seo, who had been the only one maintaining her sanity, passed out from the impact on the stairs.

“Gasp!”

“Holy shit, what the hell, this is terrifying.”

“Urgh, uweeek…”

A student who couldn’t hold back their nausea ran to the bathroom.

Teachers rushed out of the faculty office, frantically sending all the children back to their classrooms.

Meanwhile, I leaned against the railing to calm my throbbing head.

I felt dizzy from consuming so many calories in such a short time.

“What have you done to our students! Kim teacher, call an ambulance quickly!”

The student life director who had been talking with Kim Se-bin in the Wee Class earlier rushed over and shouted.

“Wasn’t Jung So-hae a student at Arabyul Middle School? Why are the bullies attending school today? With what nerve?”

“…”

“Anyway, bring student Yeo Sol-bi from Class 8, Year 3 to me.”

“School violence issues aren’t for outsiders to get involved in. Leave our school immediately.”

“NoName…”

A middle school girl pushed through the crowd of students and approached hesitantly.

“Solbi! You’re in danger, step back right now!”

“You came for me, right? R-right? *sob* *sob*… I’m sorry, I was wrong *sob*…”

The final perpetrator, Yeo Sol-bi, knelt down and bowed her head low.

“I don’t know why I did it. I regret every single thing I did. *sob*… I, I didn’t want to be bullied by Kim Se-bin’s group either.”

“Yeo Sol-bi, I heard you were So-hae unnie’s best friend?”

“*sob* WAAAH! I’ll pay for my sins! I know what I did wrong. So please… *sob*…”

“Sigh… So-hae unnie is waiting for your call. Contact her separately later.”

“*sob* Yes. I’ll definitely apologize…”

According to Jung So-hae, Yeo Sol-bi was also bullied in her first year of middle school.

But somehow she became one of the most cruel tormentors of Jung So-hae.

With mixed feelings, I dusted off my hands and got up.

“I apologize for the trouble. Don’t worry about lawsuits and please hold the school violence committee meeting as scheduled. These kids don’t have the courage anyway. If there are any damages to the school, please bill me and I’ll transfer the money immediately. I’ll be going now.”

“NoName, was this really the best solution? Creating chaos in a sacred school and just leaving like that?”

The student life director spoke in a stern tone.

I shrugged my shoulders and nodded once.

“Sacred school? That’s going too far with the jokes.”