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When I spoke with a confident voice, the students of the special class looked at me with doubtful eyes.

“Hogu, how will you handle it within a week?”

Sepia was the first to speak after I finished. She walked towards me with spirits resting on her shoulders.

The spirits on Sepia’s shoulders spotted me and clung to me.

Alright, alright. So even you guys recognize a handsome person, huh?

“Sepia-ssi, someone who talks about a show before it begins is a third-rate clown.” I said this while stroking the spirits clinging to me.

The four-element spirits each had different textures.

“A second-rate clown doesn’t say anything before the show begins.”

Fire was warm, and water was soft. Wind had a strong ticklish sensation, and earth was rough.

“A first-rate clown, before a show begins, only leaks a tiny bit of information to build anticipation for the audience.”

Though the textures were all different, they were all pleasant, so I didn’t stop stroking the spirits.

I decided to give a small gift to the spirits for letting me feel such pleasant textures.

“Of course, I am a first-rate clown.”

*Snap.*

A crisp snap of fingers echoed, and the illusion I created unfolded in the special class.

“””Wow.”””

The special class students, who had been looking at me with half expectation, half worry, all opened their mouths in admiration at the illusion I created.

If I were to express the illusion I created in the classroom in words…

“It’s like being in a forest.”

Nature.

The classroom, which had only desks and chairs, was covered with flowers and trees due to the illusion I created. It felt as if they were in the middle of a forest, not a classroom.

*Chirp chirp chirp.*

Sparrows flew and chirped in the air, and stream water flowed in a corner.

Of course, it was all fake, created by my illusion, but unless they touched it, they wouldn’t feel it was fake.

“How is it? Although I haven’t personally been to the Spirit Realm, isn’t this similar enough?”

Among the beings in the special class, the spirits showed the most intense reaction.

The spirits, initially wary of the suddenly appearing illusion, but soon realized it was safe and roamed all over the classroom.

Other students also idly gazed at the nature I had created.

“From now on, too, you just need to relax and simply enjoy the show I present, just like now.”

*Thud.*

“It’s magnificent magic, but class needs to start, so clear it away.” Professor Alicia said as she opened the door and entered.

“Oh, it’s already time for class to start. It’s a shame, but today’s show ends here.”

I snapped my fingers once more, and the nature I had created disappeared.

The spirits, who had been enjoying the nature I created, suddenly rushed at Professor Alicia, who was the cause of its disappearance. Of course, they rushed forward but then got scared of Professor Alicia and hid behind my back.

*Crack. Crack.*

Professor Alicia was lightly stretching to warm up.

“What are you all doing just standing there? Everyone, attack.”

Can a person’s body make such sounds when stretching?

‘Oh, right, she’s a dragon.’

The students finished preparing to fight in their own ways.

Lucas grabbed his spear and took a stance ready to attack, and Clara had already begun chanting.

Kuran had already rushed at Professor Alicia, and unlike last time, the shaman cast a curse on Professor Alicia without me having to say anything.

Sepia’s spirits, unlike last time when they didn’t listen to Sepia, listened to her this time.

I also took out thread from my inventory.

‘Alright, then, what kind of trap should I set today?’

. . .

All the students in the special class were sprawled out in the classroom.

“Hmm, everyone has gotten stronger than yesterday. Go to eat lunch in an hour.” Professor Alicia left the classroom after leaving those words for the sprawled-out students.

“Ugh.”

After Professor Alicia left, only sounds of groaning could be heard in the special class.

After a little time passed, the students spent the remaining time until lunch in their own ways.

Sepia was talking with her spirits, and Clara was quietly reading a book.

I was having a simple conversation with Lucas.

“So, there’s nothing I can help with, right?”

“Yes, Lucas-ssi doesn’t need to help with anything specific—”

At first, I thought Lucas didn’t need to help with anything, but then a good idea suddenly came to my mind.

‘Loki?’

I thought for a moment. My deliberation was short, and since I had made a decision, all that was left was to execute it.

“Lucas-ssi, could you do me a very simple favor?”

“If it’s a simple favor, I’ll do it. What is it?”

“You just need to deliver one item.”

“Just deliver an item. That’s it?”

“Yes, you just need to deliver one item before lunch.”

Lucas seemed a little disappointed when he heard that all he had to do was deliver an item. Did he think I’d make him do something interesting?

“Well, that’s not difficult. But does it have to be me?”

“It only has meaning if Lucas-ssi delivers it.”

After finishing my conversation with Lucas, I approached the shaman this time.

“Excuse me, but could I ask for a favor?”

“W-What kind of favor?”

I told her what I wanted, and the shaman didn’t understand why I made such a request, but she agreed to grant it anyway.

. . .

Lopri Alpseo, the prince of the Arschen Kingdom, whom Loki called a worm, and his subordinates were currently very angry.

After being humiliated by Joden and Johanna in the cafeteria yesterday, Lopri gave orders to the students of the Arschen Kingdom. The content of the order was simple: torment that masked bastard.

In reality, the ones who humiliated him were Joden and Johanna, but he didn’t have the confidence to mess with them, so he tried to torment the masked bastard who had audaciously challenged him.

But it all failed.

For some reason, the first-year students who had been in the same class as that bastard were afraid of him.

‘What’s so scary about that bastard?’

He also gave orders to students who weren’t first-years, but they couldn’t even have a single conversation with that bastard.

‘What, he escapes every time they try to talk to him by talking to a professor? That’s ridiculous.’

Lopri waited this morning to personally step forward and catch him, but in the end, he couldn’t.

“Your Highness, will that fellow come here?”

Lopri was currently on his way to the cafeteria with his subordinates.

“He has no choice but to come here to eat lunch.”

He’s just a lowly commoner. Lopri didn’t like that Johanna, whom he liked, was showing interest in that bastard.

“Isn’t that him?”

Lopri looked in the direction his subordinate pointed. There was a person there.

He was wearing a hood, so his features weren’t visible in detail, but the mask on his face was clearly visible.

“Let’s go.”

‘I’ll make sure he can never act so brazenly in the academy again.’

As he approached the masked bastard, he gave an order to his bulky subordinate.

The bulky subordinate approached that bastard and bumped shoulders. He expected the masked bastard to be easily pushed away, but it was his own subordinate who was pushed back.

“Useless bastard.”

Lopri received a cup with a drink he was consuming from his subordinate.

“Hey.”

He approached with the cup of drink and splashed it on the masked bastard.

“I told you, I’d make your academy life enjoyable.”

He poked and pushed the masked bastard’s shoulder with his hand. The sight of him unable to say anything, like a mute, really suited him.

“Say something brazenly like you did back then! Scared now that there’s no one to protect you?”

“……”

The masked bastard couldn’t say anything even after being drenched in the drink. This was only natural. He was a prince, and this fellow was a mere commoner.

“What are you all doing there?”

He turned around at the sudden voice. He couldn’t understand the situation before his eyes.

Academy uniform, red cape, even the white mask—it was indeed that bastard who had insulted him.

Next to that bastard was also the male head of the academy’s newspaper club.

‘Then, who is this bastard?’

Lopri looked at the person who was drenched in the drink and remained silent.

“Lucas-ssi, why are you like this?”

Loki deliberately called out Lucas’s name and approached him.

Upon hearing the name Lucas, the worm and the worm’s subordinates trembled.

There was only one person named Lucas in the academy.

“Indeed, I don’t understand why I’m in this state either.”

A cold voice came from Lucas’s mouth. Loki first took off the wet robe.

Then, golden hair, symbolizing royalty, became visible. Because of the robe, it wasn’t completely soaked, but it was quite wet from the drink.

‘Since I feel bad, I should give him a high-end weapon as a gift later.’

“Loki, about that mask you gave me to try out, it’s still a bit uncomfortable.”

“Is that so? Just in case, I made a spare one a while ago, but it seems it’s still not good enough.”

Loki took out a towel and handed it to Lucas. Lucas, after drying his hair with the towel, looked at Lopri.

“Prince Lopri, I don’t know when you said you’d make my academy life enjoyable, but thanks to you, it won’t be boring.”

“T-That’s not it. There’s some misunderstanding—”

The academy wouldn’t get noisy just because a kingdom’s prince bothered a commoner.

But what if a kingdom’s prince bothered the empire’s crown prince?

The head of the newspaper club was observing this entire situation.

. . .

Before lunch ended, a newspaper was posted on the academy bulletin board.

[Prince of Arschen Kingdom Splashes Drink and Utters Insults at Empire’s Crown Prince!]