chapter 10
10 – Flagged for Death
Daman emerges from a karaoke bar. Before he left, he didn’t forget to say this kindly to the man who seemed to be managing the karaoke room.
“Oops!! They suddenly came and made this mess!! No matter how much alcohol he drank, he suddenly collapsed in the middle of a rampage! Please take care of it!”
After blaming the 7 Faculty of Engineering students who fainted so naturally, Dayman took Seria outside the karaoke room. Then he started trudging back to the academy.
“Do you have any cigarettes? It’s all gone.”
Seria took out her cigarette and gave it to him in silence at Dayman’s words. Dayman takes the cigarette, lights it with the wand, and exhales the smoke as if it were delicious.
“Let me take a guess. Those who just ran away. They say they are friends, but aren’t they the ones who clung to you because of your money and power?”
A word that strikes the right place comes in right away.
“Insulate. It is better to cut off human relationships that do not help in difficult times.”
“Are you……really just Day?”
“Right. It’s just that he was in an accident and had a little brain damage. It’s kind of annoying to explain, so let’s just put it that way.”
“That one. How did you do it?”
The knights were beings with very strong magic resistance. Beings that boast bloody tanking power and attack power by wrapping their whole bodies in aura. Since Seria had been working hard to defeat Octavia, one of the pinnacles of the Knights Faculty, she was well aware of how difficult knights were to deal with.
However, in the blink of an eye, seven such knights were laid down. He didn’t even show signs of casting magic, but he was lying down before he knew it. She used a wand, so it seems obvious that she did something with magic, but I couldn’t understand what or how she did it.
“Do you want to know?”
“Yes.”
“Seriously. Do you really want to learn?”
At Dayman’s words, she swallows her saliva.
“If I learn that, will I be able to win against Octavia?”
“The knights said the same thing earlier. What the hell is Octavia?”
Seria lost her sense of humor at those words, and she laughed out loud.
“Octavia. Octavia de Heperion. If she doesn’t know this girl at the academy, she’s a spy.”
“So who are you?”
“The eldest daughter of the Marquis of Heperion, a renowned swordsman. You, a 5th grader like me. He is famous as a genius swordsman who can even take advantage of seniors in grades 6 and 7.”
“You can win.”
Deman asserts without listening to a detailed explanation. Seria wasn’t sure whether she should believe this or not. At that, Dayman shrugs her shoulders.
“Believe it or not is up to you. So. Do you want to learn or not?”
Seria did her calculations for a moment. She just said that if she had 7 students from the Faculty of Knights fight under the same conditions as Professor Rosemary from the Combat Faculty… Would Professor Rosemary really win?
Was it possible to subdue all 7 people in an instant like Dayman just showed? It was impossible. Even for Professor Rosemary, that seemed impossible. In the first place, Professor Rosemary’s usual teaching was not to create a situation of confrontation with the knights in that small space.
Why?
Wizards couldn’t defeat knights in close-range combat.
It wasn’t just Professor Rosemary. The opinions of all the professors who taught the combat department were almost the same. And the existence in front of my eyes showed the scene of feeding the taffy to the teachings of such professors so vividly.
“I want to learn. Teach me.”
Seria had been blocked by a wall in the meantime. A wall that Octavia can never get over. It was not possible to overcome that wall only with the teachings of existing professors. And the existence in front of me was someone who might be able to help me break the wall for the first time.
“What should I pay in return? Money?”
“No. I don’t even want that.”
I wanted to make a date because I was a golden bastard that looked so much, but fortunately it wasn’t.
“While you serve me as Master, tell me a little bit about this and that by my side.”
It was Dayman who ordered something strange instead.
“Tell me? What do you want me to tell you?”
“After the accident, I lost my memory. How should I live in today’s world? I have no idea. A kiosk?……. It was difficult to handle a screen, and the use of this cell phone is still unknown. What do people wear these days? Which one do you like What topics of conversation do you prefer? I know absolutely nothing.”
“Uh……so?”
“Tell me about that. And if you know anything about my past, tell me a little bit about it. I will teach you what I just did if you help me live like the sophisticated young people of today, and if you tell me various information about Romellen Academy. How are you?”
It was not difficult.
“Is it really that much?”
“Uh. That’s enough. How are you?”
“It’s me… It’s a condition with nothing to lose.”
“Then do you agree to establish a relationship with me?”
I wondered if it was necessary to even use the grandiose word of a relationship between a teacher and a teacher, but Seria thought it was a way to express a business relationship.
“What……Yes. OK.”
“Okay. So from now on, you and I are priests. Please call me Master from now on.”
“Ah! No!! What a shameful Master.”
“Don’t students these days call the person who gives the teaching a teacher? So what do the sophisticated young people these days call them?”
“Since we are the same age, we just call each other by our first names. What kind of master…”
Daiman seemed a bit dissatisfied, but he was going to follow the youngsters these days.
“What. Okay. So let’s just call it by name. Did you say Seria?”
“Uh. That’s right.”
“Is there a place inside the academy where we can secretly train just the two of us? I don’t want other people to see us training.”
Those words made Seria immediately think of one place.
“One place. There is. There is an unused warehouse behind the classroom wing of the Faculty of Magic, but no one will know if we meet there.”
“Then let’s meet there tomorrow! For now, it’s late at night, so let’s go to sleep and see you tomorrow!”
“Wait a minute!! Do you know my number?”
“Number? What is it?”
Seria sighed and took her Dayman’s phone and saved her number.
“Have you become really weird? How did the accident happen…”
“If you know, you will get hurt. We exchanged numbers, so can we contact each other now?”
“Uh. That’s right.”
“Heh heh!!! It’s amazing!! Good!! Then let’s get in touch with you tomorrow!! Ah! By the way. Are there any inns nearby?”
“?…….”
“I need a place to stay for the night. And I want to change my clothes too. Looks like you need to wear the same clothes as the other students…”
Seria looks at Dayman as if she is pathetic. But what can I do? He had something she wanted to know, and it was her contract that she agreed to help each other.
“Follow me for now. Let’s start with the school uniform. Then I’ll book you a motel, so you can spend the night there. Do you have any money?”
“Yes. I put a lot of money into my account through internet banking!!”
“Yes. That’s it. Follow me at once.”
It was Seria who felt that there was a long way to go to make this idiot, who had suddenly become an old man, into a human.
“Seria. What year?”
“Sorry. When we wake up, it’s already…”
The heel of the high heel strikes the man’s shin sharply. Cold sweats began to flow from the pain, but the man never showed it. The Marquis of Heperion was the family he served. Coming from his subordinate family, he could never be angry with Octavia.
“I trusted you guys because you have the best skills, but why? How did you miss it?”
“Everything……I got it. After subduing it, I was going to scar the face as you said, but… A strange guy suddenly appeared and interfered…”
“Strange guy?”
“Daman Kalidos. It was him. I saw him show up and pull out his wand, but I don’t remember anything after that.”
“Is it true?”
Octavia bursts out laughing as all seven nod her head.
“Daman…………Daman, that stupid bastard, subdued all 7 of you? No matter what kind of lie you tell, you have to be sincere…”
“Just in case… I brought CCTV footage. Miss Octavia.”
“Give it to me.”
Octavia accepted the cell phone the man gave her and watched the video over and over again for a while. Then she narrows her eyes.
“……What the hell did you do?”
The sword loaded with the aura explodes with a rebound, and the 7 of them and Dayman seem to be talking about something, but soon the wand shakes. No, should I say it shakes? Did you do something with the wand? And the next moment, all seven people were lying on the floor.
No matter how much I turned and slowed it down, that was all. I did something with the wand and 7 people were down.
“There’s no way this stupid guy who’s famous can use magic. What the hell did you do with the wand?”
“What happened? Octavia?”
The door opens and someone enters. As soon as he sees the handsome man’s face, Octavia’s sharp-edged expression instantly softens.
“Brother Horace!! I’m here?”
“What happened again? Why are you so angry again?”
“Seria, you motherf*cker hurt my face!!”
“Oops. Did you still win?”
“I won! Of course!”
“Then make fun of me later when we meet at school. That would be a much greater revenge.”
“That’s what I will do, of course. But no matter how much I thought about it, it was so disgusting that I left scars on my face, so I tried to take revenge by sending them away… But they failed!! Look at this!!”
Seeing the CCTV footage passed over by her screaming sister, Horace frowned at her. Horace couldn’t tell what was going on inside the video, but what caught his attention more than that was the man himself, Dayman.
“Isn’t this just Day?”
“Uh. That’s right. I heard that this stupid bastard interrupted… I don’t know what the hell he did?”
A small emotion spreads across Horace’s handsome face. The name of that emotion was displeasure.
“You know that Lady Vamos and I are newly engaged, right?”
“Yes! Know! I felt good because the new sister-to-be was so pretty.”
“This bastard is the ex-fiancé of Lady Vamos.”
“What? Really?”
“Yes. They say that Lady Vamos has been hiding it for a while because she was too shy.”
“I thought only Day was this asshole pushing his step-sister out of ignorance…Was it an engagement? Crazy?”
“It’s so hard to see such a bastard walking around like this.”
With that said, Horace pats Octavia on the shoulder as if asking for a favor and leaves. Seeing that, Octavia smiled.
“Don’t worry brother.”
Her gaze turns to Dayman on her phone screen.
“Because I will treat this bastard properly.”