The directions the players are facing. (3)

While Rudis was starting a new life in Yuria’s arms, the black magician Piana was struggling to find him.

-Kingdom of Frisia

A week has passed since the Demon’s attack on the Academy.

“I’ll be back.”

“Hey, Nora, wait! Sister told me to wait at the top of the tower until she gets back!!”

“It’s okay. I’ll be back soon.”

A large building painted black.

She ran, pushing past the senior who was holding her back from the black tower.

Holding a book in one’s arms.

‘Hurry up, we have to go. Rudis… was completely framed… I have to clear her!’

She was watching the situation, the atmosphere around her, and the way the incident was being sorted out over the past week from her cell phone while being ‘protected’ on the rooftop.

-Kkamtok.

-Albert, there are no aftereffects?

-Uh, is Nora okay?

-Yeah. I don’t think Master’s magic failed, but you were injured worse than me.

-Okay, tell your teacher that I will make arrangements to meet him later.

-… But are you okay? Is the teacher concerned about your…

-It doesn’t matter. Rather, since you saved my life to that extent, I should handle the aftermath.

-Yeah… Okay. And, there’s one more thing I want to ask.

-what?

-You know that demon that attacked us that day? She was the woman who testified that she had been beaten by Rudis in the lab and had stolen the bomb materials…

-??

-Huh? What’s wrong? You don’t remember?

-What are you talking about? That student dropped out of school in the first year because he couldn’t stand the guy’s bullying.

-???

-Nora, are there any aftereffects?

That woman. The woman who testified that she was beaten by Rudis and had the materials for making explosives stolen.

Moreover, the incident that led to his expulsion.

Even in the attempted academy terrorism incident, her testimony, or rather that of the demon tribe, was of great significance.

That was just a few months ago.

However, Albert, who actually heard the testimony from the demon, did not remember her face.

further.

-… Hey Albert, do you remember the face and gender of the demon that attacked us?

-Of course. He was a middle-aged man with a 2m tall build and horns.

-crazy.

-Huh? You’re suddenly swearing? Seriously, why are you doing that?

-What about other people’s testimonies? Do other students’ testimonies all match yours?

-Although there were slight differences due to the panic among the other people, I remembered that most of them had horns and were male.

-… …

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-Nora?

-Huh? Nora? What’s going on? Nora?

He had completely misremembered the appearance of the demon that had tried to kill him.

This is probably the mental magic that she cast on us at first.

Nora concluded that it must be the aftereffects of the cognitive impairment magic that had been continuously derived from there.

And he himself…

‘I’ve reached level 3 in black magic and my proficiency has also increased. I’ve developed a tolerance for even the most common mental magic. In other words, Rudis has always been…’

The man who reached level 3 half a year faster than me, Rudis who reached level 3 in just two months after entering the academy, would have been resistant to that woman’s mental magic just like I am now.

Moreover, if he had even noticed the magic he was using, his violence… and the things he said back then were really not all excuses or crazy things he did as a person who enjoys tormenting people.

That it was just and righteous violence ‘directed at the enemy of humanity.’

Nora spent nearly a week sorting through all the thoughts and arriving at the conclusion of her reasoning.

“Oh my, oh my. Hello.”

“… Oh my? Student Nora. The academy class is over… “

“No. I don’t have class today. I have some business to attend to in the professor’s office… “

I bow politely to the old academy security guard and head to the professor’s office.

Right now, we need to gather all the evidence and clear Rudis of the charges. If we don’t do that…

‘I’ve become so tired of not even being able to ask for forgiveness.’

Not all the incidents that Rudis was involved in were the fault of that demon.

But this ‘gift’ is about making a fantasy-level magic book for me, and putting in a lot of self-defense magic to protect me since they know there are demons in the academy.

At least I, who banished him, don’t deserve this, but he was worried about me even while he was being banished, so he created this treasure and protected it.

Rather than expressing gratitude, he stabbed me in the back, and even though he knew that he would be exiled because of this, he wrote this magic book until the very end… a note expressing his concern for me.

So, Nora ran to somehow fill the glass of water she had spilled.

It was already time for most of the professors to leave work.

The remaining rookie professors welcomed Nora, who they had heard was recovering from saving the Academy students, but she nodded briefly and demanded the student roster and a record of all incidents that had occurred within the Academy thus far.

“Huh? Student Nora, that’s not right? Well, calm down first and tell me what’s going on… “

“I am not asking you as a student of the Academy. As a disciple of the Black Tower and a representative of the Black Tower, I am speaking as a victim who was caught up in this incident without any help from the professors. I am requesting the original records and student rosters in order to confirm this incident, all incidents related to the demons who invaded the Academy.”

“… … “

Even though she was a black magician, unlike Rudis, she was always polite and courteous, and despite having the title of disciple of the Black Magic Tower, she never wielded authority. When stories that were hard to believe came out of her began to spill out into the professor’s office, all the remaining professors began to look at each other in confusion.

Moreover, Nora also had a hard time believing that the words she had spoken were her own.

‘This time, I might really be killed by the Master for overstepping my authority…’

He rushed to the academy without even reporting to the master, let alone the vice-principal, and proceeded to speak to the academy professor in a way that was almost threatening, using the black magic tower and the authority of the disciple.

My previous self would have never thought of it, but now there was nothing I could do.

Her only goal was to quickly pick up the wrongdoings she had committed and apologize to the owner of the book she was holding.

If I don’t do this, I’ll just go back to bed and cry.

Eventually, the new professors had no choice but to give her the documents, saying that they could not give her the originals but had made copies to submit to the Royal Knights. Nora apologized for her attitude and immediately headed to the Black Magic Research Department with the documents.

‘Find it, find it. That woman definitely belongs to the Red Magic Lab…!’

It doesn’t matter if Albert doesn’t remember. It doesn’t matter if the Royal Knights or the professors don’t remember.

I thought that if I could find clear evidence that the opponent was a demon and was enrolled in the Red Magic Lab as an academy cadet, it would open the way to finding other evidence.

however.

-Pararock. Pararock. Pararock. Parat, knock.

“… ?”

None. There wasn’t a single bit of information about that tribe.

It is said to be a case record that contains all the circumstantial evidence regarding Rudis’ expulsion, and it is said that all the photos of other students who gave testimony are attached, but the most important one, her testimony and photo, are missing.

Nora doubted her eyes and then looked at the student roster. She felt dizzy when she saw that the face of the demon was not among the photos of the people registered in the Red Magic Lab.

‘No way, right? No, every professor in the academy… even the Royal Knights who investigated the incident related to Rudis were all under the guy’s mind magic…?’

I checked the incident records and rosters several more times, but as always, there was no record of that demon being a student there.

She began to feel at a loss as to how she could possibly prove Rudis’s innocence.

So, around the time the sun was completely setting.

-Drrr.

“Nora. I heard you took the case records with you. Were they in the research department?”

“… Ah, Albert.”

Albert, who had been working with the Knights of the Kingdom and the aftermath of this incident since that day, stopped the knights who were trying to follow him with tired faces and approached Nora.

“You shouldn’t take the incident records and student rosters without permission. You should know that.”

“That’s not the problem! Albert, look at this. The woman who gave the testimony that day with you, that demon, there’s no record of that at all!!”

“Calm down, Nora.”

“No, don’t calm down, look at this?! The testimony that Rudis ran away with the bomb materials is wrong…!!”

“Nora!”

“!”

Albert scolded Nora for handing him the records while talking nonsense. He snatched the records she was holding out, frowned, glanced at them roughly, and let out a deep sigh.

“Nora. After hearing your story, I actually looked it up again from the beginning.”

“Huh? Then… “

“But ‘we’ have never heard such testimony, and neither the Academy nor the Royal Knights have concluded that they found Rudis guilty based on such ‘solid’ testimony.”

“What, what does that mean?”

Nora felt her pupils dilate wildly and asked him again, and Albert answered.

After hearing the story Nora told me in text, I immediately contacted the Royal Knights and the Academy and received all the information about the incident at the time. I also listened to what the investigator at the time said, but the only answer I got was, ‘I’ve never heard of Rudis taking any bomb materials.’

“That’s it. I asked the students who were there that day about the impression of the demon you mentioned, but all I got was the answer that it was a middle-aged male demon with horns on his head… “

“No!! I said she was a girl?! Like this, with freckles on her face and big glasses like a squirrel…!!”

“Nora, come to your senses. You said that back then, right? That he used mind control magic. Didn’t you misread his impression back then?”

“I saw it, but I’m a level 3 black magician so I saw it properly!! There’s no way you guys saw it properly!!”

“… … “

At Albert’s words, which seemed to indicate that he was beginning to doubt her, Nora jumped up from her seat and shouted, but he shook his head at her and continued speaking.

“As you know, the corpse of the demon that the Magic Tower Lord killed has disappeared. If even your teacher, Piana Stone, could testify like you, we would reconsider, but look at this. There is no one else who has testified like you, and there is no information.”

“!!”

A document from the Royal Knights that summarizes the recent Demonic Clan incident.

Albert, who had it, told her that he was moving to close the case right away, and Nora let out a fresh voice at that.

“No… No!! This case can’t end like this!! That woman, that demon, is the one who fooled us?! She used mind control magic on the Academy people and the Knights, and Rudis…!!”

“Nora, do you even know what you’re saying?”

The only way to prove his innocence and correct their mistakes is to prove this incident correctly and admit that the perjury of the Demon Tribe was mixed in to falsely accuse him.

But the problem is that even if we, the parties involved, were to admit it, we would have to prove that the demons had cast mind-control magic on more than 50 people, and in the worst case, close to 500 people, including former students of the Academy and professors of the Royal Knights.

“Do you think that’s possible?”

“But if you don’t do it…!!”

“Nora. The attempted terrorism incident was a problem, but even if you look at all the incidents that the human named Rudis committed over the past year, the worst would have been expulsion from the academy, and the worst would have been expelling him like he is now. It’s just that he hasn’t been punished because he’s the disciple of the Magic Tower.”

“… Albert, what do you mean?”

Nora’s eyes trembled at the Crown Prince’s words, which seemed to suggest that even if it wasn’t a terrorist incident, and even if the Demons had been involved, Rudis should have been exiled anyway.

And the cold eyes of the crown prince looking at Nora like that revealed his true feelings to her.

“Even if I believe everything you say, I have no intention of leniently punishing him and reinstating him. If I did that, my position, the student council’s position, and the Academy’s situation would all get worse because of the recent Demon Clan incident. So, Nora, stop doing useless things and focus on your studies. There’s also talk that the kids you rescued this time who didn’t drop out will join the Black Magic Research Club… “

-Crack!

After hearing Albert’s true intentions, Nora lowered her head and pushed his shoulder as she left the research lab. She briefly made eye contact with the Royal Knights waiting in front of the door, but she just gave them a disapproving look and passed by.

‘You’ve got the wrong person. We may have done something wrong, but since it’s going to make us look bad, you’re just going to cover it up?’

As she felt like she had finally seen the true nature of Albert, Nora began to wonder why she had ever been so fond of such a man.

-Nora, it’s up to us to control it.

I still remember his words to me when he told me to take responsibility for a mistake he made during outdoor training that caused a first-year student to get hurt.

And now I think.

‘You crazy kid. What the hell are you talking about…!!’

When one of the first-year students was slightly injured, the man who had been demanding responsibility now talks about covering up the incident in order to avoid responsibility for the fact that he may have been tricked by the Demon Clan and ruined his classmate’s life.

She thought that she still didn’t know much about the human named Albert, so she went out of the academy to investigate this Demon incident on her own.

“… Please stay still. Right now, you have the title of disciple of the Black Tower Lord, as well as the title of hero of the Academy. Forget about the ‘already departed’ human and just stay by my side. “

Albert’s blue eyes, which were watching Nora moving away from the Dark Magic Research Club without moving, showed no sign of her usual kindness.