We Betrayed (1)

The current situation was an ‘abnormal’ situation that Rudis had not expected.

In the novel, Viola Violet is a villain who has reached level 3 in swordsmanship and level 2 in auror.

Even that was a consumable character that could only reach that point with a potion made by the Demon Tribe.

However, Rudis overlooked it.

Viola Violet, who chose Ellis to avoid being expelled due to her difficulties in growing up, and watched her grow from afar, thinking that even if she drank potions on her own, at best she would only become a swordsman with 3 points and an Aura with 2 points.

The fact that he had been drinking potions made by the Demon Tribe since his second year of high school, and had been sharpening his sword of revenge against himself, growing stronger far before the ‘development in the novel’.

And Ellis, who had been teased by high-ranking noble children since her first year as an orphan and bullied by the children as a mixed-blood and mongrel, should have overcome it on her own and grown up mentally, but she grew up mentally immature because she did not lose her mother and was not bullied under the protection of the commander and herself.

Even if he was the main character in a novel, even if he was given the motivation to grow, even if he was given the right opportunity.

Ellis’s growth was stunted as the hardships she had to overcome and endure disappeared.

In the end, the difference between the motive and purpose that made it happen, which was ‘revenge for my precious mother’ and ‘wanting to become stronger’, made a difference in the speed of growth.

And by losing control of the story to his own liking, all causality could have been accelerated.

Rudis, who was nothing more than a third-rate villain, was completely overlooked.

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“Aha~ You’re the black magician Noraji? That bastard and the black magician Baek entered the academy with no parents… “

“Haa, what are you talking about, you little punk? You’re not even that talented of an orphan, you’re just a piece of trash who got in just for the sake of being a noble. Don’t talk nonsense and get beaten up verbally. Just answer the questions. Are you Viola Violet? “

Nora’s voice was filled with nothing but irritation, resentment, and anger.

And everyone in the room vaguely noticed that it was not a feeling directed at Viola in front of them.

“Oh, that’s right. So what.”

-Clang.

Viola tilts her head, pulling her lips together as if she’s about to tear them apart, and points the tip of her sword at Nora as if showing off her ability that has reached Lv. 3.

I don’t care whether Nora knows what’s going on here or not.

He just thought of her as an enemy and planned to kill her because she was the one who got in his way of killing that monstrosity.

Although the opponent was someone who still held the title of disciple of the Black Tower, unlike Ellis, whose mother, the commander of the knights, had disappeared, her thoughts were not sane enough to reach that level.

This is one of the side effects of the potion that she continued to take to increase her trait level.

Gradually losing human, rational thinking.

Viola was already addicted to it and was losing all hope of recovery.

“Yeah. [Sword of Darkness]”

“Hot!”

Viola didn’t hesitate to swing her sword and cut down the magic as Nora responded and launched an attack. She was convinced as she watched the magic being cut down piece by piece.

In this narrow space, the magician is only a few steps away.

If I just kick all the magic out like this, I can immediately cut off Nora’s head.

And then, after that, he said that he would be able to properly torture and kill Ellis, who he had been trying to kill.

-Kang! Kang! Kaang! Kang Kang!! Kagak! Kaang!!

“?”

But it was strange.

The opponent only casted magic once.

Yet, strangely, the rain of black blades did not stop, but instead seemed to increase in number and speed.

-Fit!!

“At…?”

No, it was actually getting faster.

He had reached swordsmanship level 4 by drinking a potion, but his sword was slowing down and piercing through the hood, causing small cuts to appear here and there on his body, and he was moving forward, but before he knew it, he was being pushed back.

And looking at her stupid face like that, Nora moved her lips emotionlessly as if she felt pitiful.

“You idiot. I get that you want to get revenge on the person who bullied you by using the same sword, but if you’re going to copy Rudis’s swordsmanship, you should’ve trained more. Rudis secures space for herself before striking. You’re only able to move similarly thanks to your specialization level, and you can’t even properly coordinate your martial arts and swordsmanship. You can just suppress things with your numbers and that’s it. “

“Ma, that’s ridiculous!! You, you’re definitely at level 3 in black magic…!!”

“Yeah, it’s 3. But… “

Black swamp, black magic.

-Thud! Pfft! Phew!!

“Keep… Huh?!”

“I’m ‘borrowing’ a fantasy-level magic book. And my only advantage is that I have a lot of magical power.”

Nora, who had been suppressing Viola with a triple spear while talking as if she was mocking herself and belittling herself as the winner, erased the dark sword embedded in her thigh with a point of her finger and then created another dark spear and pierced her shoulder straight away, causing Viola to scream and drop the sword.

“It’s the end. You can tell by looking at it that you’re addicted to the blood of the demons and don’t have much left. Do something good before you die.”

“Ahhhh…! No, no! What the heck are you planning to do to me…!”

“Why would you personally clean up trash that will die even if you just leave it alone without doing anything? All I want from you is a few testimonies. Don’t worry, I will treat you properly so that you won’t die until you give me the answers I want. If you answer well, I won’t even hand you over to the Knights until you die.”

Nora, who informed Viola in a dry voice as if that was all she wanted, closed the book and walked past Ellis, then lifted Viola up with her black hand and turned her back on Raoul, who was fighting the dark merchant on the other side, with dry eyes.

As if, all he wanted here was a viola.

-Keep going.

But there was a hand that held her back from leaving the alley.

Ellis was kneeling on the floor, her back weakened.

She grabbed the hem of Nora’s robe with her face streaked with tears and snot.

Even though there was considerable bleeding from the back of her hand that she was holding.

“Okay, just a minute.”

“Why.”

“Is what you just said true? That mad dog… is it really Rudis?”

Nora had probably heard everything that had been said in this space so far, but hearing Ellis’s dumbfounded face and questions asking her, she felt disgusted and her dry expression slightly distorted.

‘Ah, this is me from a while ago.’

And I’m sure of the reason.

The current Ellis is herself.

Until recently, he had been resenting Rudis for changing, unilaterally cursing and distrusting what he had done, and then banishing him without feeling any guilt, until he finally found out a piece of the truth.

Nora had already been feeling what Ellis was feeling now for two weeks, no.

He understood why she was asking him again, because he had felt it exactly a month ago.

“Oh, that’s right. Rudis is a mad dog. And the rumor about the mad dog is like this… “

Obviously, she is a human being just like him.

A human who had feelings for Rudis, felt indebted to him, dreamed of a future with him, and then threw him away in a rage at the feeling of betrayal.

And a human being who knows a piece of the truth, who wants to know the truth.

That’s Ellis now.

So Nora decided to show a little kindness.

It’s not that I pity Ellis.

To us who did not trust the man who had been our benefactor, to say that he was pitiful was too arrogant.

“The mad dog beat up the upperclassmen thugs who tried to harass a mixed-race first-year female student as soon as he saw them, resulting in 5 students dropping out, 3 students being hospitalized for 6 weeks, and 2 students committing suicide due to the aftereffects. That’s all for the superficial story. However, this is not the end of the story.”

Don’t suffer like me, don’t suffer like me, get the same pain as me.

Since I found out about it late, I would like to give you some more time to reflect and suffer, a little earlier than I did, before you can even sort out your feelings.

we are.

“Out of the students who were after that woman, the 7 students, excluding the 3 who were taken to the hospital, were all revealed to be low-level demons. This is a secret that the Academy has been hiding. And one of the students who was taken to the hospital is Viola Violet. This woman, who is not even a demon, is a fool who thinks that the guys who dropped out and committed suicide back then were her friends and holds ill feelings toward Rudis in return. I need this woman’s testimony. She needs to testify about why they, herself, were beaten by Rudis. “

Because he is a piece of trash that has no right to feel sorry for you.

He is a traitor who not only stabbed his benefactor in the back, but also took away his livelihood.

So, you give me a chance to suffer faster than I do.

The only atonement we can make is to suffer from the guilt of having stabbed the one who was protecting us.

That was the least I could give you.

Nora, who had finished explaining in that sense, was about to leave, leaving Ellis, whose tears had stopped and only her pupils were shaking.

“… Nora, wait.”

However, the path is blocked again by a man who appears from before.

Seriously, why do you keep holding on to me? This woman’s life expectancy is only a little over a month at most.

“What is it, Albert.”

Albert Dear Frisia, a young man who fits the description of a blue-haired pretty boy.

The academy’s student council president, who was now an object of indifference to Nora, appeared with several knights.

“Where are you going with Viola?”

“Matap.”

“No. She is a key suspect in the Academy-related case… “

“As a magician of the Black Tower and a disciple of the Tower Master, I have the right, duty, and responsibility to take away the criminals I have captured and the demons I have conspired with. Are you saying that Your Highness is ignoring that and taking away my ‘prey’ here?”

“The reason you’re here is probably because of the letter I gave to you two?”

Nora sarcastically responds to Albert, who is talking about the rights of the Academy Student Council President rather than the rights of the Crown Prince, with authority and power in her mouth.

Albert’s answer to that question was half right and half wrong.

To be exact, Nora was the first to gather information by tracking Rudis’s activities up to that point, and then she came across Viola’s information.

But today, because of the letter left by Ellis and Raoul, who had been watching Viola until dawn, Nora began an operation to capture Viola that was not in the plan.

Just a few days. If only I had stayed a few more days, I would have been able to capture Viola on my own, but it just so happened that Albert’s letter overlapped here.

“No? What letter, what did you send to the top? I’m sorry, but I’m in self-reflection by the Master’s orders.”

“… A person who is in self-reflection is walking around at this hour and catching a criminal?”

“Oh. Since I’m a black magician, I like walking at night.”

After saying that, Nora opened the book she had borrowed from Rudis as if it was too much to bear.

The opponent is Albert with two knights.

Even if he was a level 3 magician, there was a high chance that he would lose the viola if the opponent tried to take it away by force.

That shouldn’t have happened.

Because he wanted to atone for his sins to Rudis.

Because I had to reveal to the kingdom all the charges I had made against him and not believed in him before the day I died, and make room for him to return.

I figured that would be the first time I could ask him for forgiveness.

“Nora… !”

“Don’t call me by my name, Your Highness. We’re not even close, so don’t call me by my name. ‘This name was given to me by Rudis.'”

Albert’s knights, certain that Nora had already begun preparations to cast her magic, grabbed the hilts of their swords, and Albert bit his lips, seemingly bewildered by Nora’s response.

-Kwaaang!!

And at the sound of an explosion coming from across the alley, Albert’s eyes widen and Nora laughs bitterly.

“Back there, the black marketer who sold the potion is fighting with Raoul. Rather than wrestling with me here and losing everything, wouldn’t it be better to catch that criminal? He looks like he’s having a hard time holding on.”

“… This matter will be investigated later.”

“As you wish.”

Albert eventually motioned for his knights to come to Raoul’s aid, and he himself began walking past Nora, behind the running knights.

“… Nora, forget it. There’s no place for him to return to.”

“That’s not for you to decide. It’s for the law to decide.”

“Even if the status and position of the black magician and the black magic tower are shaken?”

“Threats and intimidation are the specialty of our black magician brothers and sisters, so I’m sure our master will like it if I tell him about it.”

“… Come to your senses.”

“I’m doing this because I came to my senses.”

-Pthud.

Nora’s cold reaction.

Albert ground his teeth and turned to Raoul at her rebuttal without even looking back, and Nora left them behind.

“… The mad dog was Rudis?”

And Ellis, who had heard the truth but still could not swallow it all, just stared blankly at the back of her hand, where blood was flowing.

Not even knowing that the vein wound was painless.