episode_0099

1.

The investigation into the Demon King begins with identifying him.

Since the investigation will start with the ranks of the strong, all we have to do is find information on 16 people.

If we could have sorted out the identity of the Demon King suspect with Taina’s help.

It’s a stage where anything can be done.

This means that the foundation has just been laid.

“Okay, players, enter!”

A scene you will definitely see at least once in a Korean movie.

A boring line from a beautiful hacker who doesn’t look like a hacker at all, as she releases her hand.

Well, it’s a cliché.

‘The cliché that is most often used is Yangpansoji.’

The topic of finding the Demon King was quite daunting.

But from the moment I found two prophecies, I started to get a sense of how the story should proceed.

The world I am in is a novel.

The important thing is that I was possessed by this novel after reading its free version.

Besides, although it wasn’t finished, there was already quite a lot of novel that had been developed.

Oh, it wasn’t popular again.

‘So what I have to do is find clichés.’

There is absurdly little information in the work.

But if you don’t care about the means and methods.

If you look at the story from the perspective of a reader as a writer, you’ll find that you have more to say than you might think.

Ah~ So this is how the next story will proceed.

Because it won’t be able to escape the common, cliche-like development.

And the stories that are mentioned here and there also work as obvious foreshadowing, and will somehow advance the story, and if there are parts that are difficult to develop, they will boldly give up on plausibility.

That’s the story of ‘The Demon King Lives in the Academy’ that I heard about.

The academy’s red-hot, cliché-filled, two-story building.

We will try to figure out the writer’s intentions just as we try to find out the intentions of the examiner who made us tired of the question.

“Bingo~”

He blurted out a cliche line after solving a problem.

2.

The Demon King suspect has been identified.

And now it’s time to find the hidden plot lines in the Academy.

It’s about raising the bar from the reader’s perspective and gathering as many clichés and foreshadowing as possible.

“Srenia.”

“….uh, half.”

Sunday afternoon.

While talking with Srenya about prophecy, I happened to come across the Academy Rumor Collection.

It is a means for the student council to collect and deal with rumors floating around the academy one by one.

‘…This is a perfect element to use as foreshadowing.’

Srenya thought to herself secretly.

A material often used in numerous novels and game stories.

Rumors, legends, prophecies, etc.

A passing extra character conveys a vague theme and blurs it.

‘Have you heard that story?’

‘It’s a story about a certain legend…’

‘Rumors are just rumors. But if you’re curious, I’ll tell you.’

‘In the end, this prophecy will come true…!’

‘The city is a bit scary these days. There are strange rumors going around…’

A typical development that signals the beginning of an incident.

in other words.

‘It’s a cliché…!’

It was the cliché I was desperately looking for.

When I told Srenya that I wanted to see the Academy’s rumor collection, I received a polite refusal.

The fact that the gossip book itself is evidence that deeply intervenes in students’ stories means that only the student council has the authority to read it.

To be honest, I don’t even feel like bringing this up now.

But I barely managed to get permission to hear an objective evaluation of the previous Academy rumors after much insistence.

“…Okay. Here you go.”

Srenya took out a book of rumors from somewhere unseen.

It’s thicker than I thought.

According to Srenya’s explanation, only stories that caused a stir at school are written in these minutes…

But the reason for that thickness can be seen from the beginning of the collection of rumors.

“Crazy.”

“Why?”

“…This has been used since 980 years ago?”

“Yeah. Senior Jegon told me that it doesn’t disappear if you use a special magic treatment.”

I actually thought it was on the thin side.

As I unfolded the seriousness of each rumor, my thoughts changed again.

‘This is crazy, really.’

Even before I found out about the Demon King, the Academy was full of ghost stories and legends.

“Srenia.”

“…Why!?”

Srenya looked at me like a startled squirrel.

I guess he’s really nervous.

“How detailed is the rumor that can be published in the gossip journal here?”

“Um…”

Srenya thought deeply and then said.

“According to what my senior said, most students know it and some teachers know it too.”

“If the teacher knows, then he’s said it all.”

-Whirlwind.

I flipped through the rumor collection without a second thought.

Now I know why the characters in the game don’t believe in prophecies or legends.

As the main character, when I look at the story, I wonder why I don’t believe the kids who keep talking about legends and legends.

Because the characters in the story will hear similar resolution stories dozens of times.

Most stories end with a lot of fuss and then a lot of fuss.

“…found it.”

The first thing we need to look at is the story about the Demon King.

And there’s also the story that the Demon King lives in the Academy, which was spread intentionally.

There was another story about the Demon King.

‘The Demon King is after the ancient books in the Academy Library.’

is a rumor.

It is common to hear that a sacrifice or trigger is needed for the Demon King’s resurrection or awakening.

And materials often used in such triggers.

Old books or forbidden books.

In addition, the cause of the rumor was clearly written as ‘unknown’ in the section where the student council investigated the cause of the rumor.

It is also difficult to figure out how this rumor came to be.

So this rumor too.

‘It’s a cliché.’

Most characters in the work do not believe in legends, though.

There are cases where characters in the work believe in legends.

Or you realize it too late, just before the legend happens.

Rumors of the legend are repeated.

‘The Demon King, the Forbidden Book.’

I looked through the rumor collection, mainly looking at two keywords.

When I looked at the content based on keywords, there were many parts that caught my eye.

In particular, the report branched out to include content related to treasures and relics within the academy.

‘The fact that there are old books in the Academy Library… has been consistently mentioned for the past 20 years.’

About 20 years ago.

It is the same time period when the previous Demon King was active.

‘There’s also a lot of information about hidden spaces in the Academy… How is it that less than half of what’s known about the Academy…’

Now that I think about it, the mysteries surrounding the Academy seem to be growing.

Naturally, I narrowed down the expanded spectrum again and focused on the content of the Demon King and the ancient books.

So that’s my conclusion.

There are many hidden spaces in the academy.

Somewhere in the library, there is something called an ‘old book’.

What kind of relationship does the Demon King have with that book?

In this way, I searched for traces of the Demon King one by one.

…

“Thank you, Srenya.”

“Whoa… Is this it?”

“Yeah. For now.”

I thanked Srenya with an awkward smile.

Although we were connected by prophecy, Srenya cooperated even more diligently.

Srenya wasted an entire precious Sunday afternoon because of me.

As I walked through the Academy gardens, the spiders had descended upon me.

I was left speechless.

A moment of silence that occurs once or twice between close friends.

The longer the conversation doesn’t continue, the more uncomfortable and anxious I become.

Eventually, I forced myself to come up with a topic of conversation before I suffocated from the creepy awkwardness.

“…That’s right.”

“Huh?”

“I didn’t see you on Friday afternoon. Where did you go?”

It’s more like clearing up a curiosity rather than a topic of conversation.

Because I had to move my mouth first.

“I was having dinner with Taina and I wanted you to join me. For some reason, I couldn’t see you.”

“Ah…”

As we walked side by side, I casually asked him a question.

I can’t hear Srenya’s answer.

I looked around, wondering if I had slipped up.

“…Srenia?”

“Yeah, yeah! No. I just went out to eat and came home late…”

To anyone who saw it, Srenya looked flustered.

Anyone who saw his clearly flushed face and clumsy gestures would think so.

“I’m going to go now.”

“…Okay. Bye.”

Although I felt uneasy, I had no choice but to part ways in front of the dormitory.

So, on my way to the dorm, I was alone and organizing my day’s work.

“Was it right to use clichés to solve my mystery…”

It was something I came up with spontaneously, but I thought it captured the context well.

Evolving from cliché to rumor.

It feels like the rumor eventually piled up as information in the form of a legend or prophecy.

Suddenly, that thought occurred to me.

If this is the world of a novel.

Am I a mutant who is aware of the prophecy and solves problems from a perspective outside of the novel, even though I am a character in the novel?

If the story unfolds like this.

Is this fiction or reality?

Half of it reached out to you.

Towards the night sky where the sun sets and the stars appear.

I held my hands up in the sky where the unrealistically beautiful galaxy was floating.

This is also a cliché.

Reaching out toward something, grabbing hold of something precious, and holding it to your chest.

It’s a common directing technique that you’d expect to see used in anime openings.

“…What the hell is this?”

Half of them returned to the dormitory with a hollow laugh.

3.

Investigation Diary on the Demon King 1)

{Ban, Ignis, Kariel, Kalia, Drudan, Equeriel, Ebonne, Virgin, Sina, Kitile, Grenoa, Renoma, Postara, Iklua, Buktaa, Volev.}

Here is a list of 16 strong people.

The first thing to investigate is.

Ignis, Virgin, Sina, Grenoa, Renoma.

They are all commoners.

Nobles with titles are basically guaranteed status, but commoners are not.

The nobility has many connections and legitimacy as they are a family that has been passed down for generations.

In the case of commoners, they have power, but their source is unknown.

So let’s investigate the commoners first.

…

Investigation Diary on the Demon King 4)

I think it would be okay to skip the Virgin and Sinatra order.

They are said to have been childhood friends and trained together since childhood.

We are close with our family.

…i envy you.

Childhood friend Sunae is the most delicious, no, let’s come to our senses.

No, but this virgin bastard has Sina and another girl…

There is a limit to being insensitive, my child.

Oh, anyway.

The remaining list is {Ignes, Grenoa, Renoma, Iclua.}

I have to somehow make a connection with these guys.

Ugh.

It’s my fate.

…

Investigation Diary on the Demon King 7)

Grenoa is unlikely to be the Demon King.

I don’t think we can make a definitive statement based on just a conversation, but I heard that his family lost their lives in the Demon War.

The reason I came to the academy was to take revenge on the demons…

I almost made a big mistake.

…

Investigation Diary on the Demon King 10)

Ignis has been acting suspiciously lately.

While conducting research on the Academy’s forbidden books, Ignes’s figure keeps appearing in my mind.

Even if it’s an academy library, most of it would probably be magic books or research books.

There doesn’t seem to be any need for a Swordsman kid to be among the Ministry of Magic kids researching their thesis or personal project.

A movement that seems to be looking for something else.

I’m thinking, no way.

You do need to be careful because Seolma catches people.

P.S. Wasn’t Ignis one of your heroines?

I feel suffocated.

…

Investigation Diary on the Demon King 11)

Ignis, the prime suspect for the Demon King.

Nothing is known about the origin of the name.

There is no information about childhood friends, family, etc.

Even her best friend, Taina, doesn’t know where she’s from.

According to Taina, she rarely talks about personal things.

Besides, I guess we can call it an on-site detection today…

I was discovered while trying to do something in the Academy Library.

It bothers me that everyone can see that he looks flustered.

I really don’t think so…

Is Ignis really the Demon King?

…

Investigation Diary on the Demon King 12)

…We’re in big trouble.

There is a rumor going around that Ignis is the Demon King.

This time, it’s not a rumor I spread.