I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 53. The Pursuit of Truth (2)

“Ah, right.”

Thrud rummaged through her pockets as if she had remembered something.

Elsie, feeling the weight of the large blazer she was wearing, turned around as she staggered.

“What are you doing?”

“Wait a second. I ordered it and received it, but I completely forgot about it.”

Thrud, who had been rummaging through her pockets, took out a small marble that could fit on the palm of her hand.

Three marbles clashing together, making a clear, tinkling sound.

Elsie, who picked up one of the marbles Thrud held out, observed it with a curious expression.

“What is this?”

“Hehe, it’s a Bulb. I ordered it from the magic tool shop a while ago and just received it.”

“Bulb?”

As Elsie tilted her head, Thrud picked up one of the marbles and tapped it.

Then, the size of the marble, which was about the size of a coin, more than doubled.

“Wow…?”

“It’s like a magical signaling device that connects the marbles to each other.”

Thrud manipulated the panel at the bottom of the translucent marble, which had grown in size.

Then, unique patterns emerged from the other two marbles, emitting a faint white light.

“In this way, each marble has a unique pattern, so you can tell who sent the signal. You can also change the color to briefly indicate the situation. Isn’t it fun?”

“But why this?”

Elsie asked sullenly.

“It’s so you can send a signal with this if something happens!”

Thrud shouted firmly, covering the marble Elsie was holding with her hand.

“There will definitely be things you can’t handle alone. In many ways…”

It was certainly dangerous not to have anyone to ask for help when something happened that she couldn’t handle on her own.

Elsie nodded quietly and put the marble in her arms.

“Thank you… I feel bad just receiving it. I’ll buy you something nice later.”

Elsie felt a tickling sensation in her heart at Thrud’s warm heart.

“Han Doyun, you take one too!”

“Me, me too?”

“Why else would I order three of these?”

Thrud, who handed one of the remaining marbles to Doyun, looked at him a little brusquely.

“Honestly, this time… even though it was unavoidable, it’s still really infuriating! But still, you’re the closest to Elsie physically when something happens, so I’m giving it to you.”

“Th, thank you.”

Doyun glanced at Elsie, manipulated the marble a few times, and then put it in his pocket.

Thrud, who briefly explained the Bulb’s signaling system, smiled and waved her hand.

“Then, now that I’ve explained it, you have to use it, right? I’ll go back now, so you have to receive a signal from the Bulb, okay?”

Elsie chuckled and waved her hand at Thrud, who was as excited as a child who had brought a toy.

“Okay. You should also stop wasting your time by following us every time you go back and sometimes go back on time like today.”

“That’s impossible!”

“Why…?”

“Then… Elsie, you and Doyun will be going alone! Without me!”

“Because our houses are in the same direction?”

Thrud shook her head wildly at Elsie’s matter-of-fact words.

Her long, tied-up pink hair was swung around like a whip, tapping Doyun.

“….”

Elsie, who waved her hand at Thrud, who couldn’t leave because she was sad that she had made the suggestion, took out the Bulb.

Thrud’s pattern appeared inside the translucent marble, and a red light was flashing rapidly.

“She just left and she’s already sending an emergency signal.”

Elsie narrowed her eyes and walked away, ignoring the signal.

When she glanced back, Thrud was frantically tapping the Bulb’s control panel.

“Achoo!”

“Elsie, are you sure it’s not a cold or something? Are you okay?”

“Hmm… maybe… I do feel a little strange?”

Elsie, who wiped away the tears that had welled up from sneezing with her finger, tilted her head.

“Should I bring you some medicine from home?”

“No, it’s okay. This kind of thing is over once you soak in warm water.”

Elsie waved her hand and walked ahead, fastening Doyun’s blazer.

Doyun, who felt strangely satisfied watching her, followed Elsie.

Elsie, who stopped at the fork in the road leading to the residential area, returned the blazer to Han Doyun.

“Hey, Elsie.”

“Yeah?”

“Do… do you want to have dinner together…?”

Han Doyun scratched his head and suggested.

Elsie’s eyes widened slightly at the sudden suggestion.

“I just thought it would be better to eat together than to eat alone.”

Dinner time, a life spent eating alone in a quiet house.

Doyun felt the satisfaction that someone was intruding into that quiet gap and being together for the first time yesterday.

Elsie smiled at his suggestion.

Elsie, who lightly clenched her fist and tapped Han Doyun’s chest, opened her mouth with a smile.

“Next time! Next time! Dane will be waiting at home now. We’ll probably have a lot to talk about today.”

Doyun, who had briefly forgotten about Dane’s existence, nodded.

If there was a next time, there was nothing to be sad about.

“Well, it’s good to eat together so it’s not lonely, but I think it would be good to be training partners sometimes.”

“Th, that’s a good idea!”

Doyun, who had another excuse to meet Elsie, nodded, trying not to show his delight.

“We live close by, too. Isn’t this good for each other?”

Elsie, who was excited to have a training partner, smiled brightly.

Elsie, who sent Han Doyun away and returned home, walked through the forest with a slightly worried heart.

‘Dane… Elsie’s Oppa… what should I say?’

Unlike the stepmother, Dane was the only one who seemed to care for Elsie in the family, at least.

Honestly, she was worried about facing him alone.

‘It’s going to be awkward…’

***

When Elsie arrived home with a feeling of worry and tension.

The figure of a person running out of the house came into view.

“…Huh?”

An unfamiliar man wearing a gray-white robe.

All she could recognize was his bushy beard.

There was no sign of Dane.

There was no talking falcon, no large eagle.

Dane and Elsie were the only ones who had the house keys. Then who the hell was that man?

“A thief!”

This time she was sure.

If a stranger confidently opened the door and came out of a sturdily repaired house, she could only think of that.

“Isn’t the security in this neighborhood too bad?!”

Elsie kicked off and started running.

What could she possibly have in her small, precious house, her haven where she could find peace of mind, that someone would come to steal?

‘Just because I’m stuck alone in the corner, you think I’m easy to take advantage of?!’

Taat!

“Stop, you thief!”

“What- you?!”

Svik, startled by the sudden presence, felt all the nerves in his body tense.

If Dane found out about this, it would all be over.

But was he lucky?

The only one who appeared before him so confidently was Elsie.

One of the most prestigious families in Asgard.

Despite being a direct descendant of Adorencia, she was a shame to the family, a being without innate talent.

Despite that, she monopolized the love of the head of the family and the successor, and became an useless girl who was hated by the current mistress, the stepmother Herja.

Svik, who had served Herja for a long time, knew how persistent and terrifying her blind jealousy and anger were.

“Don’t move, you thief. You don’t have a house to rob, so you’re robbing my precious sanctuary? You’re… dead!”

“…You don’t remember me. And Dane is nowhere to be seen…”

“Huh…?”

Elsie hesitated at the thief’s calm appearance.

“You’re a guy sent by the family.”

Tingle-

Her head throbbed.

Why was the woman who was the mistress of the family so desperate to kill Elsie, just like the last assassin incident?

It was nothing but extremely unilateral and narrow-minded hatred.

“Even though you’ve lost your memory, you still know what kind of situation you’re in?”

“Ha… hahaha.”

Elsie let out a burst of laughter at Svik’s words.

“How could I not know when you sent me a letter with poison, telling me to die? And then you kindly sent me an assassin?”

Evil that she couldn’t ignore, no matter how much it felt like someone else’s business.

Elsie’s eyes sank coldly.

“Good that you’re smart. Then the story is simple. Hand over the letter and the bottle of poison.”

“Why? Are you going to blatantly destroy the evidence?”

Svik’s eyebrows twitched at Elsie’s confident appearance.

“Once you lost your memory, your quiet personality changed for the worse. Do you want to be beaten again? Don’t be arrogant just because you’ve awakened your combat aptitude.”

Tingle-

Elsie’s head throbbed again, and she staggered slightly.

‘What…?’

“You think you can do anything to me just because you subdued that stupid Hrókr? Or are you trusting Dane? Haha.”

Svik reached out to Elsie.

A strong gust of wind blew from behind Elsie, sending her flying in front of Svik.

Kwaak-!

“Cough!”

Elsie, whose neck was grabbed by Svik’s rough hand, coughed.

‘Damn it! My head… what’s wrong with it?’

The throbbing headache was getting worse.

**[“I have to prepare the flowers before Orabeoni comes back…”]**

Tingle-!

“Keuh?!”

A strange voice of her own echoed in her head like a dream.

No, the voice of a strange Elsie was vividly lingering.

‘This is Elsie’s from the dream… why at a time like this…’

“You think you can go against this Svik? What’s going to change just because you have combat aptitude?”

“Sv… Svik…”

Svik tilted his head at Elsie’s ridiculously weak strength in grabbing his wrist.

“Svik… your name… is so weird, you bastard…”

To think she was provoking him when her fragile neck, which could be easily broken with a little force, was being held.

Paak!

Svik turned around and threw Elsie away.

Bang!

Elsie, who crashed into the wall of the house and fell down.

Svik’s face twisted into a sneer at her pathetic appearance.

“What combat aptitude? In the end, trash is trash.”

“Shit… what did you say… you’re really dead…”

“Only your mouth is alive.”

Elsie grabbed her head.

‘Why is the memory messing with my head at a time like this…’

There was no damage.

In fact, this headache was the biggest shock.

‘What’s wrong with me, getting into this mess with that ridiculous bastard.’

Was it because the memory of the dead Elsie, which remained in her body because of Dane, was stimulated?

**[“Dane Orabeoni.”]**

“Stop…!”

She could almost see the yellow flower field she had seen in her dream.

“Now. If you don’t want to suffer any more, tell me where you hid the letter and the poison bottle right now. Once I retrieve them, it’s over. Once I retrieve them…”

Elsie, who got up while holding her head, glared at Svik.

“Eat shit.”

“…I guess you won’t listen to reason after all.”

Svik, whose blood vessels were bulging on his neck, glared and rushed at Elsie.

**Valkyrie Armament Summon: Hja-**

The moment she was about to ignore the headache and unleash her ability to beat up Svik, who was close at hand.

_Swaa- Seogeong!_

A fierce sword strike swept through the space, as if blocking Elsie and Svik.

Tak.

A large, firm hand holding and supporting Elsie’s staggering shoulder.

Scattered short black hair.

“Elsie! Are you okay?!”

Han Doyun suddenly appeared.