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When Lee Ho-yeon was having a typhoon-like day.

At Victoria Academy in Korea, final exams were in full swing, and students were gathered in groups in groups and chatting in the student cafeteria during lunch time.

“I hate tests so much!”

“It doesn’t make sense that it’s over now….”

“Who wants kimchi fried rice?!”

The student cafeteria is noisy as always.

In this place filled with student voices, two cadets who are familiar to all first-year students appeared.

“I’m so annoyed…! Whose idea was it to take a week of exams?!”

“Cheer up, Lucy.”

Two beautiful twins who caught a glance at everyone passing by entered the restaurant.

Lucy and Rumi came to the restaurant after their morning writing class, sat side by side as usual and started complaining.

“This is student hate…!”

“But wouldn’t we be more comfortable than Hoenn?”

“… That’s true, haha.”

Of course, most of them were Lucy’s complaints, and Rumi’s role was to listen.

Lucy sighed while poking the omelet rice with a spoon.

“Lee Ho-yeon isn’t coming, and the academy is in exam period. What fun should we have? Rumi.”

“It looks like Hoenn is busy too. I think it was on the news that he caught a centaur.”

“Originally, I would have asked about test questions while eating together by now.”

“… Wouldn’t it be better for Lucy to study more on a regular basis?”

“But studying is hard, huh? Rumi. Look over there.”

At that time, a woman appeared in Lucy’s field of vision.

A woman who feels like an adult and not like a cadet.

She, full of cool and neat vibes, slowly walked into the restaurant while looking at her smart watch.

“Um, over there… it’s Nam Da-eun.”

“Huh? That’s right. It’s Miss Da-eun.”

Nam Da-eun is now called a genius prosecutor along with Lee Ho-yeon, as her skills have increased rapidly these days.

She seemed to be eating alone, as always.

“Should Da-eun ask us to eat together? You ate alone every day.”

“That’s true, but… will Miss Da-eun like us?”

In fact, one-sided approach was enough.

Nam Da-eun might actually be comfortable being alone.

“Isn’t that a bit much? Besides, we are enemies.”

“Still, we decided to remain friends….”

“If you think about it, the last time we spoke, it didn’t seem like you hated us.”

“… Yes.”

As Lucy and Rumi thought, Nam Da-eun did not hate the twins.

Rather, I thought of him as a cute younger brother.

“Hey, I don’t know! Let’s just go.”

“… I understand. Lucy, fighting!”

“Why good luck. You should say the same.”

“Ah Okay….”

After a brief thought, the twins approached Nam Da-eun.

*

“… Hmm.”

Nam Da-eun, who entered the restaurant, suppressed a yawn and checked the news.

[Centaur finally captured?! [A great performance by a Korean genius wizard]

[French government. [Highly recommend Lee Ho-yeon as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize]

[Genius wizard Lee Ho-yeon is nominated for Magic Dor award?!]

‘It’s a huge mess.’

Although some of the news was exaggerated, at least the news about the capture of the centaur was probably true.

If so, it means that I will return to Korea soon.

It feels good just to think about it.

“Hey, check this out. They say Lee Ho-yeon is going to win the Nobel Peace Prize.”

“Ugh. Do you believe that? That’s just aggro.”

“But it’s truly world class. Can I become like that when I graduate?”

“Yes. No. Is that okay?”

Nam Da-eun smiled happily as she listened to the voices around her.

Seeing Lee Ho-yeon becoming more and more famous gave me a strange feeling.

I am both proud and sad.

I can’t believe my little Lee Ho-yeon has grown so much.

‘Of course it was huge from the beginning.’

He was already such a huge person from the time he first saved him.

Nam Da-eun took the food and sat down, thinking about Lee Ho-yeon.

There was no reply to today’s message, perhaps because he was busy after catching the centaur, but he will probably be back as soon as possible.

Yum.

Nam Da-eun put the pork rice bowl into her mouth.

It is the cheapest and most delicious menu in the student cafeteria, in short, it is a cost-effective menu.

Liliana and Lee Ho-yeon made good money, and they even gave her a credit card telling her to buy whatever she wanted, but she always ate the cheap menu items.

Because you can’t have the habit of wasting money that wasn’t earned by you.

This is something I always emphasize to Dahee as well.

“… When are you coming?”

Nam Da-eun felt lonely for the first time in a long time.

A feeling I haven’t felt since meeting him and leaving the Buyer’s Guild.

After Lee Ho-yeon disappeared, loneliness came back.

At the time, it was okay because I felt it every day, but it was even more difficult because it wasn’t there.

I thought I could last for about a week, but from the very next day, I felt like my heart was empty.

Because Da-hee was there, she couldn’t show that she was lonely, and Nam Da-eun just buried the loneliness in her heart.

“Do you want to eat together?”

“Da, Ms. Da-eun. Would you like to eat together?”

At that time, familiar faces sat in front of Nam Da-eun.

It was Lucy and Rumi.

“Lee Ho-yeon isn’t here… I’m bored. Let’s eat together.”

“That’s right… Si, did you do well on the test?! Huh.”

Looking at Rumi, who seemed to be nervous and made a deviant note at the end of her sentence, Nam Da-eun burst into laughter.

These twins were always cute.

So much so that you don’t want to think of him as your competitor.

“… Then shall we eat together?”

Sometimes something like this would be good.

I don’t stay close for him, but sometimes for myself.

Nam Da-eun smiled at her new friends.

*

“….”

“….”

Scarlett and I looked at Chiron blankly.

This is because Chiron suddenly praised the Maestro.

“What are you talking about all of a sudden? Why can’t humans defeat Maestro?”

“He… is different from other humans.”

Chiron seemed to be thinking about something.

That’s probably what happened in the pandemic.

“What’s the difference? Wait a minute, isn’t this guy still brainwashed?”

I scanned Chiron’s body with the rune barrier.

But there was no brainwashing left.

But why are you talking bullshit?

“It’s not brainwashing. That’s right. If I had to compare it, it was similar to the energy I felt from the Demon King.”

“Devil…?”

Why does the devil suddenly appear?

“Ruler of the Hell. He was destined to become the ruler of Hell from the beginning. It would be better to say that he received a fortune.”

“… Am I the only one who doesn’t understand what you’re talking about?”

“I didn’t understand either.”

Divination and all that are pseudoscience.

Scarlett also had an expression on her face that said she didn’t understand, and Liliana was dozing off.

… I guess I should just go back and sleep.

“Hey. But the Demon King is your father. Why are you talking like someone else?”

Actually, it has been on my mind since yesterday.

No matter how much the king is, he is his father, so why do you call him someone else?

“The devil only wanted my mother’s body.”

“… I’m just asking, just in case, your mother was also a centaur, right?”

“Of course. My mother was the most beautiful woman in the clan.”

A demon lord who takes on both the succubus queen and the centaur at the same time.

Hell is such a scary place.

“Besides, he had numerous women other than his mother. I can’t call someone like that my father.”

“….”

For some reason, I felt like Scarlett was glaring at me from the side, so I made eye contact with Chiron without turning my head.

“Hmm. So what do you mean by energy or fate? Is it just your intuition?”

“… No. The same fate that I felt from the Demon King, I also felt from the human Maestro. Fate flows through him. The world, no, the sky is helping him.”

“So how do you know that?”

“It’s a feeling.”

“….”

After all, is it bullshit?

But I think I know roughly what it means.

It would feel similar to the way the villains seen in the original game continued to be villains, and the good people continued to be good.

The Maestro may have been born with such a fate.

“I can’t stand it anymore! Let’s go quickly!”

“Calm down, Liliana. Go back to your necklace for now.”

“The succubus has become noisy too. Now go back. I’m tired of humans coming and asking for information every time I get the chance.”

Chiron also showed his intention to leave.

It seems that members of the Iris Guild are continuing to interrogate him.

I asked Chiron one last time.

“Chiron. Don’t you have a desire for revenge on Liliana?”

This is something I’ve always wondered about.

If I were Chiron, I would want to kill Liliana as soon as I saw her.

The misery I felt from that memory still remained with me.

“The memories you saw. That was already 40 years ago by human standards. The emotions have also been greatly diluted.”

“… Then how old are you?”

You said you were younger than Liliana.

Could it be that you experienced those memories before you even entered kindergarten?

“It’s rude to ask a woman’s age, but you’re also a rude person.”

“You were a girl?!”

Nonsense.

As I opened my mouth in shock at Chiron’s statement, two women blocked the space between me and Chiron.

“Where does this bastard get his work from?”

“Don’t come any closer! Keep your distance too!”

“… What on earth do you think of me? I like humans.”

I shook my head as I looked at Liliana and Scarlett who blocked my path.

Liliana instantly came to her senses from the subject she had been dozing off until just now.

Why are you doing this to me?

“It’s a lie. If I were a woman, I would still have a desire for revenge on Killer Queen. Because females are very jealous of each other.”

“…Okay. Just figure it out.”

It’s getting annoying now.

I just need to get out quickly.

If I stay here any longer, I think I’ll become mentally exhausted.

“Besides, that’s not the Killer Queen I know. Killing a succubus who has already lost everything won’t make me feel better. Revenge is meaningless if I don’t bring the Killer Queen to her knees with my own power. That’s Wild Gladiator. “I am the pride of Chiron.”

“….”

I thought as I watched Chiron confidently speaking about his beliefs.

‘That’s terrible.’

It would have been really cool if they hadn’t done things like Killer Queen and Wild.

*

“It’s ambiguous.”

“… Yeah. In the end, we didn’t learn much about Liliana’s past.”

We left Chiron alone and went outside.

I heard a lot of stories about hell, but there was no clear answer.

Of course, I gained a lot of small information and cured Liliana’s homesickness as she was curious about hell.

The problem is that it is disappointing compared to the hard work, but the result itself was okay.

‘This is fine. There was also an informant.’

It’s also a good thing that there is a window where you can ask questions about the Demon King at any time.

Because the apostle of the pandemic may appear again.

“What are you going to do Chiron?”

“Let’s just leave it alone for now. Don’t beg for it, just report that if you ask gently, he will tell you everything.”

“All right.”

If you get the chance, it would be a good idea to manage Chiron yourself.

Because it is a powerful force and because it knows a lot about hell.

I’ll have to tell Isaac about this.

– I want to go to sleep quickly… haha.

“I’m sleepy too.”

Hearing Liliana yawn made me feel tired too.

Now it’s time to really rest.

“Are you going to bed already? It’s already evening.”

“…Can’t you let me sleep? My schedule is really busy today.”

“I also want to sleep together sometime.”

“… let’s sleep together.”

Scarlett snuggled up next to me and looked up at me.

The fox-like charming smile makes you guess what he’s going to say.

“Are you really thinking of only focusing on yourself?”

“….”

I nodded slightly while looking at Scarlett, who was smiling, and only then did Scarlett get off next to me.

okay.

I’m not tired for just a day or two, and I’m sure I won’t fall behind if I go to bed a little later.