The Reunion of the Disciples (2)

“Woohyo clothes!! Did you save the girl?!”

-Paang!!

The silver princess Coti was being led by magic to the edge of an unknown forest, but when she passed the magic’s range, [Black Hand] was released and she was left floating in the air.

‘Oh, this is killing me.’

The magic that had me moving at incredible speeds to get me to safety on the battlefield was instantly dispelled, and I ended up crashing face first into the ground at an absurd speed.

But I was convinced that when I landed on the ground, my balls would break and I would die.

Because I was seeing flashes of light and the world was slowing down.

I’m sure of it, because I’ve had this experience several times when I was young.

-Bam!! Crash!!

“Kyaa-hung?!”

“Ugh!!”

And the flashes of light I had experienced over and over again disappeared in an instant, just like the days when I had crossed the line over and over again, and I felt the hot air and body heat touching my face, knowing that I was not dead.

I suddenly realized that someone had thrown themselves at me and caught me.

“… Hooow, the girl is alive again.”

“Oh, are you okay?”

“Huh… ?”

The sky is held upside down, with only a few glimpses of the blue sky hidden by the trees in the forest.

As I turned my gaze between the legs, drawn by the beauty who spoke to me, I saw golden hair fluttering in the wind.

“Omg… 98 points for the world. If I hadn’t met the commoner, I would have been hit in one go.”

“Yes?”

The blond man who had his face evaluated by me right away slowly put me back in my original position while making me question his handsome face and red eyes that seemed to be the exact replica of the appearance I had hoped for.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

“Net! I’m not hurt! Thank you for saving me!”

“No. I have to help and live… “

“Hey, Raoul. It’s a ranking match. Just let him fall, why are you saving someone else?”

“Ah… “

“Huh?”

And then, when I looked behind the man at the sound of the voice, I saw another handsome man with long blue hair and eyes as blue as a lake approaching me, sighing in disbelief.

Yeah, that’s 89 points. But…

-Sreung!

“It’s a bit absurd to save someone and then knock them down, but I feel bad. This is also a ranked match rule, so don’t hold a grudge too much… “

“Albert Dear Frisian? Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Frisia.”

“… What?”

When I spoke to the blue-haired man who had unhesitatingly drawn his sword toward me, he looked at me in surprise, then looked away as if thinking for a moment, and then finally recognized me and opened his mouth with wide eyes.

“… Your Highness, the Princess of the Empire. Are you sure you are the Highness of the Coti Royal Labyrinth?”

“Net. Did you meet her briefly when she was having her 13th birthday party?”

“Yes… I apologize as soon as I met you.”

“No, I can’t help it since it’s a ranked match. So, are you going to kill the girl?”

When I asked him with a sales smile that showed that he recognized me, he quickly put his sword in his waistband, shook his head, and answered.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t know you were my highness… “

“No way~ The crown prince of a country~? A foreign country~? Even in an empire, a princess who is known to be inferior can’t help but remember~! However, I was also considered a candidate for your fiancé until I was 13, so I guess you really weren’t interested in girls!”

“That’s not it… “

I know that man’s disposition well.

Of course, just like my older brother, Crown Prince Elford, he was a lookalike who inherited the country in a very difficult situation.

He, who is clearly the princess of the empire, would not be able to fight me here, even if it was a ranking match. Here, where it was being broadcast to the public.

The Kingdom of Frisia already has a bad relationship with other countries, so the possibility that I will be killed here and my relations with the Empire will become strangely distorted is something I absolutely do not want.

So, when I told him that it was okay to eliminate me while continuing to twist his words as much as possible, he started by apologizing and saying that he would protect me first.

“Okay~ If you want to cut it, cut it. The girl was already so tired that she thought she would die?”

“Chairman… ?”

“… I’m sorry. For now, let’s include her in our group and cooperate… “

“Okay! Since I’m your collaborator, I’ll ask you a favor quickly!”

“Yes! What do you want?”

Cut off all his useless talk.

The crown prince, who had been talking about beating me up just a moment ago, looked at me with a half-bowed posture, unable to erase the feeling of being completely twisted from his eyes as he spoke, and I smiled brightly in response, hoping to look as unpleasant as possible to him.

“The girl wants to go back to where she was before. So, Crown Prince, carry the girl on your back and run. Then we’ll forget what just happened, right~?”

Before I met Rudis, I would have told the 98-point blonde over there to carry me like a princess and run to where the black witch was, but now I’m just a commoner looking for Rudis.

Also, the more I look at it, the more I think black looks better than gold, so I feel like I’m getting lower scores.

Anyway, you can always excuse using the politically entangled crown prince as a horse, but if you expect that from the handsome blond, Rudis might misunderstand.

So, I smiled broadly and gave instructions to the two of them, with the sole intention of using them.

*

-Cockin’!

“… Huh?”

“What are you…?!”

“This kid, Harb?!”

The one who stopped the silver trajectory that fell towards my head while I was quietly accepting my elimination was the inspector I had never seen before.

“Hurry up!!”

-Kaaaang!!

He swung his sword roughly, pushing his opponent back with force, and opened his mouth, catching his breath quite quickly.

“Ssup… Paha! I really thought I was going to die.”

“Huh! Where did this kid suddenly come from…!”

“No, but more than that, are you really hanging out with that crazy princess?!”

“You guys… are third-year seniors. You both clearly lost to me in the swordsmanship department preliminaries, but did you come out as individuals?”

The man who had been blocking my way as if protecting me lightly shook off his sword, then straightened up again and began to aim a calm murderous gaze at the two people. At his actions, the two people in front of him began to take their positions with a tense look.

“Ha! You even expelled my brother for your cowardly actions, so now you really don’t have anything to show for it? And in the preliminary round too…!!”

“Cowardly? What did I do? And you guys fought fair and square and lost to me, right? Hmm, you could just eliminate both of them here, but just put your swords away and run away. I won’t chase you. “

“How does this kid see 3rd graders…!!”

The two men, completely caught up in the provocation of the man who caught them, immediately drew their swords and quickly ran towards the ground.

However, despite the nimble movements of his skilled opponent, the man’s relaxed posture and expression did not change at all.

“That shouldn’t be the case, but it’s a bit much to not care about how I appeared when you know I’m a prosecutor… “

Rather, he spoke leisurely as if he felt sorry, and lightly stepped back and came right up to me.

At this angle, it looks like I’ll get cut in one go…? Huh!

-Kwagagagagak!!

“Kuaaak?!!”

“Cough… !!”

“Oh, really. Think about it a little before you rush in. Didn’t I tell you clearly? Put your sword away and run away. The ones who didn’t follow were your seniors. “

Suddenly, huge black thorns like pillars protruded from underneath the opponent.

That brutal attack was a level 4 [Thorn Hell], which is a superior version of my favorite level 2 magic, [Black Thorn].

“Coolook! What the… cowardly… !”

“Ugh! Surprise attack…!”

-Pit! Thud.

“That’s not something I want to hear from people who attack one injured person with two people.”

And then there was the red-faced man who knocked someone’s head off as if it were a given. But I didn’t have the luxury of assigning any thought to his actions or words.

Because I know this magic… no, magical power, probably the second best in this world.

“Lu, dis?”

-fault.

“Oh. You recognize my magic. Long time no see?”

“Ugh… !”

A man with black hair and black clothes approached, jumping lightly from a tree a short distance away.

He, the victim I knew and whom I had banished and who should apologize, approaches me with the same smile as before.

And when I saw him like that, my heart started to ache as if it was being squeezed.

“Rudis! I, I… !!”

“Oh, wait a minute. I know you have something to say, but right now, there are more important things to do.”

I tried to suppress my heart that was about to burst and apologize to him or something, but he shrugged his shoulders as if he had no interest in my actions and just walked past me, walking towards the man he had bound with his magic.

“Hmm. You used the 3rd year of the swordsmanship department?”

“Coolook. Damn, it hurts, so take me out quickly.”

“Hey, what kind of joke are you talking about? It was just a piercing to the thigh, side, shoulder, and arm. Well, depending on what you do, I might be able to do whatever you want. “

“… What the heck. What the heck.”

And Rudis was deliberately acting cold to Nora and diverting her thoughts.

And after gathering his thoughts to some extent, he met the gaze of the man who had been skewered in front of him, smiled as kindly as he could, and opened his mouth.

“Who told you to eliminate the princess?”

“… … “

“Hmm. You don’t want to answer? Then you can’t.”

-Crack!!

“Kyaaak?!!”

“Then you can’t be eliminated. Could you please answer correctly?”

When I deliberately inserted an additional thorn into the direction of the instep, which was almost like torture, the third-year male swordsman started looking at me as if I was crazy.

But, in my opinion, you guys are crazier.

Even though the princess is famous for being a villain who commits evil deeds with a crazy attitude, she still acts according to the words of those crazy guys.

Honestly, I don’t understand it and I don’t want to try.

“Okay, I won’t ask you the question multiple times. If you don’t answer, it’s left foot next.”

“Ah, I got it! Just answer! “

“That’s not the answer I’m looking for either.”

-Crap!!

“Kyaaak! Hey, I told you I was going to talk to you…?!”

The man from the swordsmanship department, who couldn’t die or leave the fantasy world and was forced to endure pain he had never experienced in his entire life, looked at me with angry eyes, tears and a runny nose running down his face.

But I like his behavior so much that I just smile a little brighter in response.

Because that’s the kind of behavior I want. Having Nora by my side and showing her how inhumane I am to do what I want.

Moreover, since I happened to meet her here in this situation, I can clearly show her how I can harass people over trivial things.

Feeling like I was making full use of these various good situations, I skewered the other arm of the man who was late in answering, and the man finally started to spit out the answer I was hoping for in a polite tone.

“Wow…! You, you’re the guy from the Black Magic Department’s research department! Hey, he said he’d give me money if I got rid of the princess…!!”

“Oh. You mean that Watt? That’s strange. He failed the preliminary round. Where on earth did you meet him?”

“Hey, I met that guy as soon as I got here! He just wanted me to eliminate the princess…!”

“Haha. That’s right. Watt is a second year student like us, right? Do third years get upset because second years get upset? You live a strange life. So, you didn’t have any feelings for the princess?”

“That, that’s right!! I told you everything, so hurry up and finish it… !!”

“I don’t think so. Do you think it makes sense for someone with no feelings to drag students from other grades to target the princess?”

“That, that wasn’t what I thought, it was the guy who dropped out before me… !”

“Okay. Okay. Let’s talk about that again after the ranking match is over. Anyway, you couldn’t even get through the escort ‘I prepared’. “

“What…?”

-Phew!!

“Turn it off?!”

If you pierce the man’s heart with the remaining thorn and finish him off, his body will disappear as if it never existed in the first place.

Seriously, when I think about it, how evil and horrible must my current appearance be?

I hope Nora is quite embarrassed by my appearance like this.

“Lu, dis?”

“Ah. The escort I just prepared, I was talking about you. Thank you, Nora. Thanks to you, the princess didn’t get eliminated.”

“… Huh?”

And I hope that with this story, you will hate me, ignore me, and live your life thinking of me as someone who doesn’t exist.

I hope you believe that the scene unfolding before your eyes, and my current appearance, is real. Only then will the story and the flow of the world flow normally.

“Ah. You didn’t understand? The silver-haired woman you were carrying around earlier. She’s the princess of the empire. But we didn’t have enough people to escort her in the ranking battle, right? As you know, the drop locations are random. That’s why I asked the Master to call one more person. Well, I’m glad you did your part before you met me. But now… Since you can’t move, do whatever you want. Got it? “

“Wait a minute! What is that…!”

“Bye~ Let’s go.”

“Yes? Oh, yes… “

Cruel, chaotic and haphazard.

I hope you regain your disgust at me for turning my back on you, saying that I used you only for my own gain with actions below third-rate standards.

I hope you find it disgusting enough that I subtly hinted at the fact that I was watching you from afar as you guarded the princess.

“Wait! Rudis, wait a minute!! Argh…! I, I…!!”

Your voice holds me so tightly that I can’t help but use self-hypnosis to the max and keep walking without looking back.

‘I really fucking hate myself for being able to do nothing else.’

As a coward who is afraid of the story getting twisted, I hoped that you would not follow me and think of me as a benefactor.