Academy’s Pure Love Dark Knight – Chapter 87

EP.88 25-3. Everyone needs a headache pill.

It was too early.

‘Damn it, why did they attack the academy? Because I defeated Magic Hat?’

At least in terms of setting, I thought they would appear after Kainel and Ariel graduated from the academy, that is, from the point of view of <Knight Heart> 5 years later.

“Glory to the Four Great Heroes!!”

“Use the academy’s students to block the Ten Greats!!”

A group of cultists pointing knives at the students’ necks and threatening them with magic, trying to prevent the Ten Greats from finding Head as much as possible.

Watching it made me feel nauseous inside. Like Cerber, this guy was the epitome of hypocrisy.

A madman who thought it was okay for other people to be sacrificed if he could save a large number of lives.

I ran, cutting down the Hero Cult that filled the outside of the classroom. I was heading towards the central hall, avoiding attacks by taking out Kiyu.

Head Eike. The Demon Lord of Omniscience.

There’s a reason why I didn’t think of this guy’s actions when I always thought about our Saintess.

‘The Demon Lord’s powers and abilities aren’t perfect either.’

After seeing the Nameless Saintess, he was a human who couldn’t take even one person’s life, so he showed aspects of excluding her from the final battle.

They acted as if they were meeting for the first time. At least I didn’t think it was Head’s actions. Aren’t there many ‘Nameless Characters’ in other games too.

There are many characters who have lost their memories, had their names stolen, or been forgotten in history. It’s a setting that every famous game has.

‘Besides, even if they’re forgotten by power, the traces must remain somewhere.’

That was the case with the Heavenly Demon engraved on the statues of the Ten Greats, and that was the case with Dennis, who hadn’t forgotten her. Even the Demon Lord’s power isn’t omnipotent.

Magic Hat makes things false, but the real things written down, such as names or records, have the disadvantage of remaining in the world.

Advantages and disadvantages. Especially if it’s a good ability, at least one countermeasure will be created for it. There’s no such thing as perfection in the world.

‘What did I do in the original work….’

The Demon Lord who comes by referring to the save file. A little trick was needed to break through it.

‘I have to find Dennis, the protagonist of the original work.’

He can’t refer to the save file that’s updated in real time. It’s because he’s doing it based on the information he saw in advance through the process of ‘calculation’.

It was effective to attack using information he didn’t know. This was why Dennis was trying to twist Head’s calculations in real time under the guise of a group project.

‘If it’s Dennis who has mastered the three-dimensional magic circle, it’s the same as his nemesis.’

Just use the most recently available weapon or technique. Of course, it may be difficult because there’s Head’s specs that are guaranteed by default.

Unlike the ending part of <Knight Heart>, I don’t have artifact-level items or max-level companions right now. But I was determined to do it.

“..Sea? How?”

I stopped in front of the central hall. I felt a sense of bewilderment as I looked at the building in the middle of the sea as if it were isolating the space separately.

‘It’s different from the original.’

Dennis’s weakness had been seen through in advance. I didn’t even know where my actions had been caught.

***

Dennis was taking a break, watering the yellow flowers as usual.

“..Hmm? What’s wrong?”

Then, suddenly, a gunshot rang out and the surroundings darkened. A sound I had heard before.

Dennis, who inevitably noticed that it was Head Eike’s attack, immediately looked out the window.

“This… Head, that damn bastard.”

When he opened the window, fish were swimming leisurely around him. He was trying to escape out the door using a magic circle, but

“..Water and water mix. Rivers flow and become the sea. Is that what you mean.”

His water-attribute magic kept getting canceled. An attack using elementalism.

Similarly, the Ten Greats Asha Aureus’s phoenix is to burn everything else.

Then, if you use the water spirit, you can melt everything like this.

Besides, his magic was alcohol. There’s a ‘concept’ that its properties become dull when diluted. Even Dennis, who used magic by twisting concepts, had weaknesses.

The moment the question of whether there was anyone who could use this much water in the same era came to his mind.

“Professor Dennis!!”

“..Licht? How did you get in?”

That was when. A man wearing a black knight helmet came into the club room. As if answering his question, Licht showed him a sword with a blue light.

“It rains in the sea too.”

Licht, who had entered using Kiyu to get to where the rain was falling, was dripping water all over his body, perhaps because he had been diving since then.

Dennis was activating the magic circle, constantly trying to break through the wall of water.

“Professor, let’s use the three-dimensional magic circle instead of that.”

“Wasn’t it being nullified by elementalism, Licht?”

“It would be if it was ordinary magic. But….”

The black knight, who had been watching the scene, couldn’t stand it and said a word, and soon the blue-haired man also made an expression that he understood.

“Teleport. I can use it now unlike before. Professor.”

“..That’s right.”

Dennis spread out his palm. A bundle of magic circles rose from his right hand, taking the form of a perfect sphere.

“Spatial coordinates are three-dimensional, similar to this magic circle you told me about.”

He quickly rotated the satellites orbiting the sphere-shaped magic circle, casting several spells at the same time, and

“If some magic circles mix and fail because of elementalism, just increase the number of magic circles by that much.”

Me and Dennis turned into the form of water droplets and teleported out of the central hall.

***

When we came outside, the academy was gradually becoming a mess. Laplace was using magic circles and blocking the Hero Cult,

The sage was using future prediction to evacuate the students to the safest place possible.

“..That’s probably.”

I felt goosebumps as I saw the woman with long black hair controlling the orca spirit from the outside. A person related to Nex, who appears in <Black Heart>.

I knew from the beginning that the Charitines kidnapping was related to Head, but I didn’t know that the back was so dirty.

‘The reason why Nex became a playboy is now clear.’

It was a scheme that the Demon Lord of Omniscience had aimed for. But why? What was there to achieve by taking the risk of kidnapping the 2nd Saintess?

‘Prophecy, he definitely said prophecy back then.’

I was feeling strange about the content I heard when fighting Cerber, and Dennis opened his mouth.

“..Young Lady Aqua from a backwater count family, why is she here..? Don’t tell me she’s on the Demon Lord’s side?”

“The sacred cup-like object in her arms. That’s probably….”

In the game, it’s a cursed item that strengthens skills related to spirits, but requires the user to pay a huge price.

Seeing that, I immediately ran to the orca beastman.

“…”

“Something’s wrong. This person.”

There was no focus in her eyes. Saliva was flowing from her mouth. I thought she was trying to attack me using the orca, but

She didn’t stop her hands and was only flooding the central hall with seawater.

‘She was affected by ignorance. It’s unlike Head.’

I felt a sense of incongruity as I watched that scene. If this person was here like this, and he wanted to prevent Dennis from escaping, it meant that he was a discarded card.

What is Head aiming for right now?

Just what is this ‘prophecy’ that the Demon Lord of Omniscience is so obsessed with and acting so boldly on? I stopped there for a moment and thought.

In the original <Knight Heart>, he was a demon lord who would shoot himself in the temple with the revolver he had if his health dropped below a certain level.

‘He failed again. See you at the time of prophecy. That’s what he said.’

In a way, the way it was cleared might be seen as futile. Because of that, the attack itself was easier than Magic Hat.

But what is it now. Why does he seem so desperate for what is a prophecy?

It was rare for him to step forward like in the current situation. Even in the original work, he was the character who came out at the very end.

It’s too passionate for his cold-looking personality. If he’s only aiming for me, there’s no need to go this far.

‘Think. Think. What’s different from what I know?’

History changes between Nex Aureus and Charitines, Kainel and Ariel’s trauma was overcome due to Magic Hat’s defeat, entering the academy….

‘Wait, entering the academy?’

While I was continuing to think, I felt electricity flow through my body as if I had been struck by lightning. From the beginning, the protagonist of the 3rd episode wasn’t me, the player.

Unlike Lee Soo-hyun, who plays the game, I’m just the character I raised. Black Knight Licht. Then who is the protagonist of <Grand Hearts Academia>?

Mardol Gransia.

The cold and warm glass knight. The empire’s princess. It’s possible that Head is aiming for her. If Charitines’s kidnapping was for that from the beginning.

‘It makes sense.’

If I wasn’t there, it would have been possible to win over Nex Aureus, and her older sister and brother who she knew would have all been taken hostage, so

She would have easily fallen into the Demon Lord’s hands. She was someone who was shaken even by seeing Queen Bellin.

‘If that was the case, it would have been possible to overturn the empire.’

In fact, Emperor Roque was someone who cherished his family, so he might have submitted to the Demon Lord if his daughter’s life was at stake.

If that was why Mardol didn’t appear in the original or sequel, and the Crown Prince Lupus appeared to cover up the sense of incongruity….

─Tang.

That was when. I heard the sound of a gunshot piercing my ears again. The location was the upper floors of the academy building where the 2nd graders were, the place where Nex Aureus was.

“..Professor Dennis.”

“What’s wrong, Licht?”

There’s no more time to think. I had to decide whether to find and protect Mardol again, or to protect Nex.

“Please send me to Nex Aureus first….”

The moment I was wondering who to go to, the Saintess’s words that a Black Knight who protects everyone is better than a hero who protects one person came to mind.

“Exactly 5 minutes later, please teleport me to where Mardol is.”

In addition, I was honestly greedy.

I didn’t want to let anyone be affected by the Demon Lord’s scheme.

If it was Dennis that I knew, it would be possible enough. The white-clothed cult was running towards us again,

“When I think about it, Licht was really a hero unlike me, who was summoned to fill a void.”

“..It’s not like that. I’m just a Black Knight.”

He illuminated with white light and briefly spoke about what he had done in advance from the rear to handle the students who had been taken hostage.

That’s somewhat true. A substitute selected to handle the fallen heroes. That was Dennis.

Neither he nor I had the Holy Sword, a sign that we had been chosen as heroes. But there are fake things that are more meaningful than real things in the world.

Strong ordinary people gathered to overthrow the heroes who had fallen to the Demon Lord. That was the meaning and subjectivity of the group called the Ten Greats.

“Professor. Don’t you think that a world that only relies on heroes is too convenience-oriented from the start?”

If only heroes could catch the Demon Lord, what was that world existing for. Even if it’s a hero who’s far from qualified.

Originally, a hero is accompanied by qualifications that are commensurate with him. I was admiring those people in my heart in an era where orthodox heroes like Kainel were outdated.

“Yeah, that’s right. Now leave this to me. ‘Black Knight’ Licht.”

Dennis, who heard my question, activated the three-dimensional magic circle with a smile that was filled with trust.