episode_0013

‘Anyone who abuses the weak like that deserves to die.’

Venus Savior held such thoughts towards Longinus Rapier.

When she first saw him, she didn’t think much of it.

However, her opinion changed after she repeatedly saw him clinging to a certain woman.

To Savior, the woman with yellow hair and a beautiful face seemed to be constantly by Rapier’s side because he had threatened her.

His manner of treating a classmate like a servant filled Savior with rage.

“Be split in half and die!”

Her sword, at high speed, began to close in on Rapier.

And then Savior felt something.

‘Something… is there…?’

Rapier was moving his fingers this way and that, and Savior, one of the academy’s strongest and a main heroine, could feel something behind him.

It felt as if something from the abyss was staring at her, and faint, massive waves began to appear around it.

The blurry, colossal waves were enough to fluster her, but her own great wave of flame did not allow her to stop.

CRASH!

Ultimately, her great flame clashed with Rapier’s technique, and Savior was thrown backward.

Savior’s hands were trembling, and the new sword she had brought for the sparring match was now nearly shattered.

However, she and her conviction had not yet given up on teaching him a harsh lesson.

Her unyielding conviction once again created a new flame, and Rapier, standing before her, held his head with one hand while moving something with the other.

“I won’t give up…!”

Once more, flame erupted on her sword, and as she prepared to unleash it on Rapier, she was forced to stop.

CLANG!

Because her sword had shattered into pieces.

The sword broke cleanly, as if it had been severed hundreds of times.

But even with her sword broken, Savior did not give up.

The sole thought of killing those who tormented the weak made flames erupt in her hands, and enduring the heat, she tried to strike Rapier.

“Please, can’t we resolve this through conversation…?”

Rapier pleaded with her as she charged, but Savior’s ears were closed.

At that moment, Savior could only think of pummeling Rapier.

“Hmm… I might not be able to… control my strength… so it’ll probably hurt a little… probably…”

Savior paid no heed to his words and lunged with her fist towards Rapier.

“Ugh… Ack…”

However, her fist stopped right before Rapier’s eyes, and she slowly began to collapse.

“Hmm… so even a Heart Sword can strike with its hilt… I learned something new today…”

That was the last thing she heard as she collapsed.

***

I had a bit of trouble deflecting weakly with the Cetus style, but I soon came to the conclusion that I could just deploy that sword technique with a single blade.

In fact, its power was weakened enough to equally block an attack from Savior, who was called the academy’s strongest.

However, she didn’t give up and continued to rush at me.

So, while she was blind with fury, I gently embedded a Heart Sword into the back of her head, and now Savior was lying before me.

“Hmm… Instructor-nim… she’s not dead, right…?”

“She’ll wake up soon. Why? Going to apologize?”

Where I was now was one of the academy’s infirmaries.

It was, however, as enormous as any university hospital.

‘They probably expanded it temporarily to handle the first test’s failures…’

“Mmm…”

Savior’s voice was heard, and her eyes slowly opened, looking at me.

She stared at me for a while and spoke with a deeply humiliated expression.

“I… I lost, so do as you please…. A loser must submit to the winner… Take me around with you like that young lady, or do whatever you want…”

Savior’s voice was trembling as if she couldn’t believe she had to say such shameful words.

Her voice trembled even more, especially at the ‘do whatever you want’ part.

“I have no intention of taking you around like Aris… Ha… ha…”

I waved my hand and said.

‘Even with just Aris, I draw so much attention. If I take Savior around too… that would be terrible…’

“And why did you think I was using Aris?”

I wondered why on earth she had misunderstood me.

If she knew I was blind, shouldn’t she have seen me as weak and protected me instead?

“Isn’t it obvious? You have a perfectly healthy body, yet you cling to a frail woman, flirting with her.”

“I’m blind, though?”

When my situation came out of my mouth, Savior was momentarily speechless.

“Huh?”

Savior asked me again in a truly flustered voice.

Her lying upper body straightened up, and she turned her head towards me, her face, once full of shame, now filled with bewilderment.

“I’m blind, I said. Can’t you tell by this cane or my closed eyes?”

When I said this, Savior asked the instructor beside her.

“Instructor-nim, is it true that this person is blind?”

The instructor then looked at Savior with a hint of pity for a moment before answering.

“Can’t you tell just by the cane and his eyes, Miss Savior? Your chivalry has truly plummeted. To give your all against a blind person…”

The instructor left the spot, leaving only those words.

“Wait a minute, this cane and your closed eyes, weren’t they just for concept??”

“They’re real, though?”

“Uh… uh… um… uh… I’m sorry… There are so many people walking around with their eyes closed doing weird things lately, so I thought you were… one of them…”

Savior even stammered her apology to me.

“Then… the woman next to you too…”

“Yes, she’s a kind person who helps me.”

At that, Savior made an expression as if her world had crumbled, simply staring at the blanket wrapped around her legs.

‘The foundation of chivalry is protecting the weak. Since she violated that with her own hands, it must be a massive shock to her identity… She shattered the world she lived in with her own hands…’

To express it in the way I would before being possessed, it was like she had brutally killed her own pet with her own hands – a pet she had raised from childhood with such care and affection.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”

Her pale hands tightly clutched her blanket, and her once proud voice conveyed her apologies to me in a frail whisper.

Her eyes kept trembling, and tears welled up in them.

Her current appearance, combined with her past gaze of contempt towards me, began to awaken a slight sadistic urge within me.

‘What if her spirit of chivalry completely shatters?’

Driven by this single curiosity, I stood up from my spot.

“That I… used such a technique… with my own hands… against such a weak person…”

‘Hmm… Should I add a little spice…?’

“If Instructor-nim hadn’t held back his strength ‘back then,’ I wouldn’t be here now, would I?”

I simply left the spot, leaving only those words.

Of course, it’s important to get close to various heroines and build connections, but I had no particular desire to see a heroine who held such a perception of me from the start and showed me contempt.

However, at this time, I didn’t realize how much I had shattered Savior’s world.

To reiterate, Savior was a person deeply devoted to chivalry.

***

WAAAAIL…

In a corner of the training ground, where practical training was well underway, someone sat making strange noises with a very depressed expression.

She had black hair and purple eyes, and her face was haggard.

‘I couldn’t sleep a wink all night, clearing away corpses and reporting to the Demonic Cult…….. When on earth is the Demonic Cult going to send more troops…’

As she was thinking such thoughts, something began to fly towards her.

A small black paper pigeon flew to Astoria.

“Oh! A messenger!”

Astoria looked at the pigeon with a welcoming voice, and it flew to her, gently unfolding in her outstretched hand.

And in the letter, it was written thus:

______________________________

To a prospective believer,

Write the name of the person you wish to eliminate

and send it.

Our reaper will take care of it.

______________________________

At that, Astoria meticulously wrote the name of the person she so desperately wanted to take revenge on in the blank space.

Once she wrote the name and released her hands, the paper transformed back into the shape of a pigeon and flew off somewhere.

Astoria watched this beautiful sight with a sinister smile.

“Finally… finally… I can crush that relaxed smile..! I can finally get rid of them!”

It was Astoria, setting up an even bigger flag than Rapier.