chapter 25
25 – 4. Monbung meets students (13)
“…I beg your pardon?”
As if she hadn’t even expected me to refuse, I saw the halo light floating above her head fading.
“Rejection…?”
Let’s look at Serena’s eyes that momentarily become cloudy as she mutters that.
It’s not Serena who forces ‘loyalty’ like she does now…
I remembered Serena’s last event, begging for love and wooing her teacher.
‘I love only you. I want only you. Because you are the only person I recognize… who is suitable as my companion. So, teacher…’
With your face stained red.
‘Would you please make me your first?’
Serena Arista confessing like that… I remembered a scene I had only seen in CG in my past life.
and…
‘sorry.’
Just cut it out, with a short text that is the line from ‘Teacher’ that appears when Serena’s confession is ‘rejected’.
Serena’s face collapses.
Serena’s face when she was rejected… was roughly like that.
In an instant, the light fades from the eyes that were filled with twinkling confidence. After endlessly settling… Serena Arista, looking up at the ‘teacher’ with blank eyes, mutters like that at that moment.
‘It can’t be like that, it can’t be like that, right? I can’t believe you’re rejecting me. You can’t do that, right…? Only you, only you are my first. Only you, only you are my everything. That’s right, that’s right, that can’t happen. That kind of thing shouldn’t happen.’
And, with her eyes gradually becoming cloudy… Serena Arista, who eventually began to shine with Halo, ‘brainwashed’ the teacher.
The Elyos had the ability to charm, brainwash, and worship those with lower magical power than themselves.
Serena Arista is one of the most talented among the Elyos.
Moreover, if she had been raised to the point where she could see Serena’s ending, she had been raised to the final level… It was impossible for the ‘teacher’, who was supposed to be an ordinary human being, to resist such brainwashing.
And it went straight to Serena Arista’s bad ending.
of course.
That was Serena Arista’s last event.
This is what happened when I refused to ‘confesse’.
It was a different story now.
The eyes, which had become cloudy for a moment, now sparkle with light.
The shoulders that were about to sag, the wings that were brittle and losing their luster due to emotional outbursts, and the halo that was being eroded by light become vibrant again.
yet.
The Lady of the Pak-headed Lady, a girl from the Heavenly Tribe who proudly boasts her high pride, has been resurrected.
He raised his head, looked at me with his golden, sparkling eyes, and spoke.
“Hmph, how dare you reject my offer! You don’t even know anything about humans. But, great! Only then can you call me my number one subordinate! “If you had accepted my offer right away, you might have been disappointed!”
Despite my refusal, Serena Arista, whom I assumed to be the number one subordinate, looked up at me with her twinkling eyes.
Ahh.
It’s Serena Arista.
I know.
Although it’s annoying.
There was a poor girl there who I couldn’t hate.
…Well, there was another reason why I couldn’t hate it.
anyway.
Serena Arista said, sticking out her big tits.
“But I will refuse no!”
okay.
This is Serena Arista.
The arrogance of refusing even rejection.
That madness that makes decisions arbitrarily.
So, feeling relieved, I looked down at Serena.
I make eye contact with Serena Arista, who looks up at me with an expression that asks, “Okay, what are you going to do now?”
And said.
“is it. Then I refuse to accept that rejection.”
“Now, wait a minute…! What kind of sophistry is that, refusing to refuse rejection?!”
“Is it okay to refuse rejection?”
“Because I am an Elyos! So it’s okay!”
Wow.
He thought he was being too shameless even after saying it, so if he was going to blush, he shouldn’t have said it.
However, this was also the reason why Serena Arista, who seemed crazy and arrogant, was a character that could not be hated.
The pride and self-respect that one has is clearly high to the point of being arrogant and maddening.
Serena Arista was the one who kept asking herself if that was really right… and worked hard to become someone who could make such a claim.
Because he knows he is better than anyone else.
She is a hard-working girl who works hard to become better than anyone else, and although she is a bit foolish, she purely believes in her own ‘goodness’.
You can’t just hate it, right?
Of course, he has the temperament of Menhera, who brainwashes people without hesitation if he gets off track.
That’s a very common occurrence in Monaka, and it’s a future that hasn’t happened yet, and it’s a future that won’t happen unless I raise Serena’s favorability rating, so I decided to move on.
“Serena, Serena Arista.”
As a knight who has been on the battlefield for 10 years.
When I called out the name of the mite that was a bit too much pressure for an Elyos who had never even seen the battlefield, I saw Serena flinch.
But is it because he doesn’t want to admit that he was momentarily discouraged by me, a human being?
“W-what’s happening all of a sudden!”
Instead, I saw Serena leaning forward.
…Thanks to you, we got a little closer.
I don’t know about anything else, but the part that protruded too much from Serena didn’t seem to touch my body, so I almost pulled back.
It was obvious that if I did that, I would immediately be looked down on, so I held on with desperate resolve and continued speaking.
“You said. This, me. This Ern Bachard. “I am the blue blood of the only empire in the human world, one of only four people in the Holy Human Empire with the rank of marquis, and the one who has been recognized by your father, Karmadiel Arista.”
I don’t think it was ever acknowledged by Serena’s father that the spear was used in the stomach, but he insisted so first, so he decided to use it.
If you’re embarrassed by the map, you won’t be able to do anything, so don’t worry.
therefore.
I decided to open my mouth to my heart’s content.
Ugh, wow!
My heart, the magic core embedded within it, and the magic armor based on it resonate.
“Ugh, ugh…!”
The pressure, which was barely something an Elyos could withstand, was weighing down on Serena.
Weee…!
The halo emitting light above Serena’s head tried to resist the pressure I directed towards Serena.
Even though Serena has the ‘talent’ to surpass me in less than a few years, or at the earliest, in a few months.
The current Serena has not completed any practical experience, any education, or any training.
The state of being a mite itself.
“I want to make you my subordinate. “I told you to come under your command.”
Calmly evaluated Serena Arista.
She, now, asks, ‘Is she enough to embrace me?’
As blue blood.
As a noble of the human world.
And, as a result…
It was made clear that she was not qualified to do so.
“Are you truly qualified to take this Ern Bachard under your command?”
“Huh, tsk.”
Serena took a step back, flinching and shaking.
As if catching up with Serena, I take a step forward.
“Ugh, breath.”
Once again, Serena takes a step back to get away from me.
Following him, I was moving forward.
yet.
“Well, don’t…”
Serena, with a pale complexion, finally collapsed under the constant pressure and the net of speculation she projected to fight against the ‘Elyos’ flying in the sky.
“Stop, stop… please…”
He said that while trembling… I looked down at Serena, who was hugging my shoulders with both arms.
I cut down countless Elyos with my own hands.
Although each one of them was extremely difficult, that did not mean they were invincible.
We hunted down the Elyos who fell under the pressure exerted by countless knights, one by one, cutting off their wings with our swords and slapping their necks.
Even though their entire bodies were impaled by the countless bundles of magical power they resisted and projected, their hearts were exploding, and their heads were disappearing, they did not stop striking their swords.
Die, kill.
Death called death again.
Yes, the knight was that kind of being.
He was the one who went to the front lines and died to protect humanity against the invaders from the outer dimension who were fighting against humans.
“Serena, Serena Arista.”
And, I like those articles.
He was the first to strike down his sword in front of those who died countless times.
The one who stands at the forefront among humanity’s countless knights.
Leading article.
The Black Lion, Ern Bachard, was me.
“I ask you again.”
Emotions are swirling.
In my past life, I bit and sucked and sometimes used her for various purposes… It wasn’t that I didn’t have ‘friendly’ feelings for Serena Arista, who was one of my favorite characters.
However, it was not that he did not have hatred towards the ‘Elyos’ who had caused countless of his current colleagues, numerous subordinates, and countless humans to die by being caught up in the battlefield.
I endured it because I cried for peace and because I wanted to live in peace.
If it’s for the sake of ‘education’, you don’t have to endure it just a little bit.
“Do you dare to hold me, the spear of humanity, in your hands?”
Seeing Serena’s face turning blue, I tried to end it by nicely telling her that if she wanted to make me her subordinate, she should first have the ‘qualifications’.
Of course, I had no intention of accepting him even if he came back with qualifications.
It would be enough to just come up with a new excuse at that time.
Things like being too busy with the estate’s affairs, or being too busy with the family’s affairs… These excuses would have been effective since Serena was a true ‘lady’ who was educated and had the responsibilities of being the leader of the family.
anyway…
So, I was going to take the pressure off at this point.
“Huh, wow…”
A crunching sound was heard from Serena.
And, I could see the wet soil gradually spreading around Serena.
“……”
Before I knew it, I looked at the wet soil at my feet, centered on Serena, whose pale face was turning red in real time, and looked at the steaming puddles.
No, this much water in a place without water…?