Academy’s Pure Love Dark Knight – Chapter 114

EP.115 33-1. Even Roses Made of Glass Have Thorns.

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Phine Gransia was as empty as glass.

Due to the Magic Hat’s attack in the past, her mother was almost killed, and she lost almost all of the people who cherished and loved her.

Because of that, she blamed her weak self, wanted to become stronger, and lived without forming close relationships with others.

“Is it because you’re precious to you that you don’t want to get hurt, Phine.”

“Yeah, if you get hurt…. I don’t like it.”

But the man named Licht was different to Phine.

He was stronger than her, of course,

He always approached her kindly even when she hid her identity, and treated her normally even though he knew she was a princess.

Also, Nex and Charitines, Kainel and Ariel, and even herself.

The number of lives he saved was too many to count on her fingers.

Even though the younger her cried and resented the hero who didn’t come for years,

From Phine’s point of view, Licht was a hero himself. Even if he was a hero from another world, he was a special being to her.

The cold hand of the clumsy man wearing the Dark Knight helmet, the small laugh inside the helmet, the warm and firm embrace.

“Empress Bellin will be released if we catch Magic Hat, Phine.”

“Still, still….”

Having learned the warmth of that kind heart, she struggled not to return to the cold, insensitive days.

In fact, when Licht was pierced through the heart by Head’s attack, she only thought that her heart was breaking and bursting.

That was the reason why she came up with and implemented the method of transplanting the Dragon Heart, which required risking her life.

To a girl who doesn’t know emotions, love was like a harsh pain. She felt relieved and comfortable only when she was by Licht’s side, but.

“I don’t want you to be involved with the demon lords anymore.”

If she left his side, the whole world would be covered in gray ash.

“Phine, you saw me deal with Head. There’s no one else who is suitable but me.”

“You almost died. I saved you, Licht.”

She was obsessed with not losing him again. She had already experienced similar things twice while fighting Magic Hat and Head, and

“But to fight against the powers of the demon lords, Kainel alone is not enough.”

Whenever that happened, Phine was worried about Licht and suffered a lot. One of the reasons was also because she was jealous of the person called the Nameless Saintess.

Wolves are originally animals that live in packs.

The Inurang tribe, who modeled their characteristics after the animal, had a very strong attachment to their families or lovers, so the Dark Knight’s judgment was not wrong.

“Can’t you just not fight..? You can just live a comfortable Academy life, Licht.”

“Then who will protect the Pure Love.”

There was love, but it was very close to obsession.

“Don’t protect things like that anymore.”

As such, the biggest difference between Phine Gransia and Lee Soo-hyun is revealed in their attitude towards love.

For example, let’s say there is a very pretty flower in the field.

She, who had been emotionally dry since she was young but recently felt intense emotions, was on the side of ‘plucking it’ in order to possess the flower, and

“There’s no reason for you to sacrifice yourself like that in the first place. Licht..”

“There are plenty of reasons.”

In his case, he had painful wounds from the past and barely got up, and he was the owner of the mindset of ‘I should just look at it’ in order to protect the flower.

“The reason why I can grind my life into it, you see.”

If someone saw this scene, they would probably say this.

A woman who doesn’t understand love and a man who believes that he can’t have love because it’s too late, and

A flickering flame similar to obsession, a moth rushing to see it, close to sacrifice.

“..I think I’m going to get angry. Licht.”

“I’m sorry. But the apostles are weaker than the demon lords, so it’ll be okay.”

As such, love has various forms for each person, and it is often wrong to look at it from only one point of view.

In the end, each other’s emotions are intertwined and tangled together, and it should be an emotion that melts the heart with tremendous heat.

The two men and women now were not enough to share each other’s coldness and heat.

“If we don’t deal with the apostles, not only is there a problem in the North, but we can’t persuade Asha Aureus.”

“Why do you have to persuade Duke Asha anyway. Licht.”

Even if Lee Soo-hyun said that he saw the status window in front of him and prevented Phine Gransia’s death in the future, she wouldn’t recognize it.

It is a situation where the obsession that has continued so far may become more severe.

“That’s because I’m a Pure Love Dark Knight.”

He was saying as if he was determined, looking at his helmet reflected in the blue Holy Sword he firmly held.

“What is Pure Love in the first place..”

Phine opened her mouth while lowering her tail and ears. No matter how much she thought about it, she didn’t know what this uncomfortable feeling was.

“Love doesn’t solve everything. Licht.”

“But it’s the power to change people.”

Parallel lines where each other cannot understand each other. Black and white. Queen and Knight. Glass Knight and Dark Knight.

How could the flame understand the heart of a moth that rushes into the fire?

Phine was at a loss for words because she didn’t know that Licht was connecting other people’s love lines for his own happiness.

“If it’s marriage, I can persuade her.”

“Then what about the relationship between Asha and Nex senior.”

She didn’t know that many things would have changed if he had run away from his duty as a Pure Love Dark Knight, and.

“It’ll work out somehow. Somehow….”

It was a shocking story for the princess to hear that a commoner would persuade a duke and change the marriage.

Licht’s evaluation of Phine was not distorted. It’s a feeling of looking at a precious and cherished doll rather than a lover.

An emotion that has not matured. Love that doesn’t consider others.

“Are you saying that it’s okay for Nex senior and Charitines senior to be unhappy?”

“There’s no need for you to interfere. I don’t understand.”

It was closer to obsession than love, and like the Cheonma said before, she was too jealous.

“Parents can’t be honest with their children, that needs to be resolved.”

Phine, who hasn’t realized her feelings yet, was looking for reasons in the books she was reading. The reason she tried to kiss him before was the same.

The romance novels she read had problems even if there were fresh romantic vibes flowing between each other.

In the end, the man that the female protagonist finally chose was important, and that confirmation was mostly a kiss.

“It was easy in the books I read.”

There was no content that emphasized pure love in the economics and monarch studies books she studied to inherit the succession rights.

“If the problem is the aftermath, we can just silence them in the end.”

She is now the princess of the Gransia Empire, not the Nameless Saintess.

A position where she can have it by using power if she wants and wishes.

“Phine.”

“I…. as much as I think of you.”

As a princess, she ultimately wanted to make Licht want only her. It was closer to wanting to monopolize him than wanting to be loved by him.

“I hope you cherish me too.”

The almost-kiss incident before was also a calculated action that Phine took because she felt as if something in her heart was cut with a knife, and she couldn’t bear it.

“This is Licht’s fault.”

“Don’t put emotions first. Phine.”

In fact, Phine and Lee Soo-hyun were unfortunate too early to know mature love. The man wearing the Dark Knight helmet lowered his head.

“No matter what, what’s not okay is not okay. Licht.”

“Do you know what kind of power the Apostle of Wrath has?”

He sighed deeply and told the princess what he knew. In the first place, even the imperial family did not want to send her to the North for her safety.

“Like the name, it’s the power to make the opponent angry, right.”

“That’s right. That’s why I’m needed.”

Like a docile cat, no, a wolf climbing onto the hearth first. Phine was already showing a certain level of obsession and stubbornness.

“I can resist the powers of the apostles to some extent.”

“I also have a Masterpiece. Licht.”

Of course, Lee Soo-hyun’s karma was great, and he was also at fault for not recognizing that she was the Nameless Saintess early on, but.

“..Don’t interfere. Just stay still.”

Due to the misfortune that Magic Hat had sown, jealousy, rather than love, was the first flame to settle in the cold and empty glass knight’s heart.

“It won’t be blocked by a Masterpiece.”

“You blocked Magic Hat’s attack.”

Unable to control the two emotions that were mixed in a chaotic way, she continued to stay close to Licht and showed her possessiveness.

“That guy is a demon lord who implements magic with magic, Phine.”

The reactions he showed were cute, and every time she made physical contact like this, she felt like she had won against the person called the Nameless Saintess.

“Even if I enter a state of anger, I will never be able to hold a sword against you.”

“…”

But despite Phine’s efforts, the man wearing the Dark Knight helmet spoke with a firm attitude.

He had never lost his reason even though he was affected by the powers of the Apostles of Lust and Gluttony.

“But Phine, are you confident that you won’t use magic on me no matter how angry you are?”

“Yeah. Maybe..?”

The white-haired girl trailed off, awkwardly stroking the rose decoration with one hand, and the fact that she was lying was immediately visible.

“Phine…. lying is bad.”

“I’ll do it. So..”

As she said that, Phine secretly took out a magic circle, and leaned her back against the door to hide it, trying not to get caught.

Fassss. Glass magic erected multiple layers of walls from the outside, isolating Lee Soo-hyun’s room like a secluded chamber. And when the conversation didn’t go as planned,

“From today, stay in this room and don’t move.”

The princess left a word to the Dark Knight and left the room. The golden wolf’s eyes met his brown eyes.

“I can’t watch you sacrifice or get hurt anymore.”

That gaze felt slightly cold, and the voice that leaked through the crack in the door was a voice that sent chills down her spine.

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I woke up in the morning and organized the conversations and events that had happened so far.

‘I’m going crazy. Really.’

The words and attitude Phine had shown before were closer to trying to have me. A feeling close to possessiveness.

“Could it be that I overworked my body too much?”

It was so scary to call her a girl in love, her obsession with me was severe. When I was lying in the hospital room before, she even tried to follow me to the bathroom.

That was the reason why I tried to walk even though I was forced to and fell to the floor.

‘If the Grand Route is not realized, or at least if I don’t kill Magic Hat, there will be no happy ending.’

The game developers were vicious. There were also examples of Dennis being poisoned to death in his meeting with Head and taking a bad ending, or Ariel being abandoned because of Kainel’s harem.

It was <Black Heart> that mercilessly abandoned childhood friends or the original protagonist who had been waiting for 20 years,

If it’s not the Grand Route ending that the guy who possessed me declared, Phine Gransia will definitely fall into unhappiness.

The game knowledge I know has many cases where it doesn’t fit, so just catching one demon lord won’t solve her death.

‘But I can’t show the status window.’

No matter how much I quietly say the status window in the room or memorize the status open, the transparent window did not appear.

In the first place, the updates are late, and there were times when I wondered why the affection wasn’t going up.

‘Should I try to listen to the foresight that I told the sage in advance?’

Now that Ignorance is gone, I will be able to see all possible cases. It would be nice if I could know the unhappy future in advance there.

I don’t like being spoiled, but there was no way. At this rate, I’ll really be locked up in the imperial basement.

“Huh? It’s locked?”

I grabbed the doorknob and turned it to clear my mind while breathing in the outside air.

The door that doesn’t open because it doesn’t turn completely.

Why is the door that locks from the inside locked to the outside?

It was something that happened after our Phine left my room. It was strangely scary. No way.

Clang, clang. A few sparkling glass shards fell from the doorknob that was making a sound. In a momentary sense of doom, I opened the window, but,

“I’m completely trapped. Does she really want me to not go outside?”

Even if I reached out my hand because of the glass wall that was one more layer outside, I was blocked by something transparent. An interior where not a single breeze passes.

“..Old Thought, Reminiscence.”

I summoned the Holy Sword while regretting the karma I had done so far.