chapter 24
24 – 24. Handwriting Hobbies
A bookshelf filled with combat theory books. A book without a cover, quietly located somewhere near the center.
A barrier that denies the common sense that books exist to be opened and read.
Even though I turned it off, I couldn’t read the content.
It was all blank.
No, they tricked it into making it look like a blank page.
“What kind of book is this, with mana circuits painstakingly painted over, page by page?”
I checked the workmanship of the circuit by roughly running it with my hand, and found that it was not as complicated as I thought.
Judging by that level, it is not like he received help from an expert.
She must have worked hard for several days to put it together herself.
If so, why?
If you ask her why she had to go through all that trouble and hide this book.
That may be because of the identity of this book.
“As expected, you can’t answer.”
The only type of book designated as banned by the empire, a book of magic.
A tool that greatly amplifies the user’s power by attracting the ‘magic energy’ flowing through the empire.
She was so overcome with impatience that she even smuggled in a grimoire just in case.
Otherwise, the bold girl in front of me would
“……”
There’s no way I could become this dumb.
If it leaks out, not only Adela herself but the entire cache could suffer enormous damage.
So, in a way, I was fortunate that I was the first person to be caught.
“Instructor, instructor.”
Ah, the answer is finally back.
I’m already disappointed enough, but I’d like to hear an excuse.
“That. Can’t we just put it down and talk about it? “Can I explain-“
“Adela.”
This instructor was disappointed twice.
The answer that came out of that quick brain was a foolish conciliation.
I decided.
If she doesn’t feel the crisis herself, she should show it with her own eyes.
The student in front of you is not just an extra, but the sprout of someone who will become one of the big names that will lead this game.
This must be corrected now.
“I’ll show you.”
“What, what?”
“Just reading a couple of lines from this grimoire will fill your body with magical energy. See it clearly with your own eyes and realize how dangerous a toy you have touched.”
Her eyes grew twice as big when she heard the word grimoire.
“A grimoire? No, a grimoire?”
“You’re still acting like a fool.”
I was running out of time to argue with her, so I roughly opened her middle section and unwrapped the mana circuits she had painted one by one.
Because it is such a simple task, you will be able to read it in real time as you solve it.
“W-what kind of strange misunderstanding are you misunderstanding?! Don’t read!”
“Tsk.”
As if she was just about to leave, she attacked with a hand-to-hand attack.
She simply held back her head with her right hand.
My desperately struggling arms can’t even touch my body, let alone the book.
I held the book with my other hand and solved the mana circuit on the letters.
Now, let’s see where and what kind of vicious banned books have been smuggled in.
“Today is a really great day. The child who was lying down and breathing heavily opened his eyes. I, who was watching from the side, was just as surprised….”
What is this?
I skipped the chapter filled with nonsense, skipped a few more pages, and then started reading properly.
“It turned out that the child was older than me. That is, it was my older brother. I was very sad that he did not tell me his name. Still, my heart sank as I thought that he would never have dreamed that I placed my lips on his cheek while he was sleeping yesterday. Itchy… no, what is this….”
The magic book fills your body with sticky magical energy just by reading it.
But I don’t feel it. Even the undulating flow of mana around me does not touch my skin.
Isn’t this a grimoire?
If you look at it right away, it looks like a preschooler’s diary.
Why did you put someone else’s diary under a barrier and keep it in your room?
To put a wedge in that question, I flipped through a few more pages to check the future content.
Probably Adela’s younger brother…. Maybe it’s my cousin’s stuff.
However, I ended up seeing a name that seemed familiar to me.
“Today is a really happy day. I’ll mark it on my calendar when I return home someday. Because you call me Adella…”
“Stop.”
Her voice awakens my confused consciousness.
When she looked away from her book, there was a white-haired woman with her head down.
“Stop…. Please stop….”
Her gaze was fixed on the floor, and even her ears turned red.
I was sure.
It’s your own diary.
—
Adela Cathy.
The only daughter of William Cash, the largest merchant merchant in the empire, and a thoroughly calculating person accordingly. She
Succeeded her father and was raised as a master, but after learning that she was qualified to become a dancer of the Heavenly Flowers, she entered the academy.
…This is her profile that I have compiled.
I think I need to add one more line.
‘She has very girlish hobbies.’
She was a much more three-dimensional character than I realized,
The dark history reading that occurred due to that misunderstanding was also enough to be called a disaster.
So, about ten minutes.
Of the two men and women who sat at a table and didn’t say anything, who spoke first?
“The circuit has been re-wired.”
It was me.
First of all, we have to take care of things.
Based on what happened a little while ago, I don’t think the relationship with Adela will be headed towards catastrophe.
First of all, I knew it was my fault, so I decided to fix it to the best of my ability.
Repackaging the diary with even more skill.
“…Yes?”
“The mana circuit in this book. I reassembled it in my own way. “It probably won’t be resolved anyway.”
“Whoa.”
With a short sigh, the coins that had been jingling for ten minutes also returned to her arms.
She seemed to have finally regained her composure as the anger in her cheeks had subsided to some extent.
“Good. Yes. It would be better for both of us to do something that never happened. “Now then, let’s go through the final steps and end this bad relationship.”
“Oh, I took care of that in advance.”
She took Damian’s tears out of her pocket and shook them.
“…How did you find it?”
“Did they really put that box in the corner to hide it? I believe you are not such a foolish person. Well, I have no intention of reporting the luxury items inside, so don’t worry.”
“…Ah, yes. “Okay, then you have to answer.”
Her eyes become quite serious.
“A poison that instantly puts a person to death. Where and how will you use it? “Can you show us the clear usage and evidence?”
“Just saying it makes my mouth hurt. “I hope you are watching.”
Adela tilted her head at my confident attitude, but
I am already prepared.
Damian’s tears. It is a poison that will make you fall asleep if you drink it, but
It only works when you drink it after carving a specific magic circle on your back.
Today, before the mid-term evaluation even started, I woke up early in the morning and whined in front of the mirror, engraving the magic circle. That type was, of course, physical strength.
Do you want me to prove how and where I will use it?
He was subtly asking if he was planning on killing someone.
So, I give the most intuitive answer to that.
After taking off the cap of the medicine bottle in one go.
“…Instructor? “What are you doing now-“
I took a one-shot on the spot.
The elixir flowing down my uvula felt like it was burning.
Immediately her vision became blurred. Or it was dyed bright red.
It feels like light is reflecting from all directions, but before you know it, it turns pitch black.
Visualization of emotions.
What is replaying like a flash in my head right now are the regretful remnants of a knight who was once able to command the world.
This essence bloomed on his corpse after drinking his blood.
After endlessly resonating with the magic circle engraved on my back and being transformed….
Absorbed.
Dokdo, which is close to a lethal dose,
The reverberations of him who left a mark in history.
After what seemed like an eternity, what immediately caught my eye was,
“What are you doing now! Spit it out! Hurry!”
It was a girl who was babbling something right in front of me.
Stamina: E -> A
The sweet aftertaste left in my mouth was so strong,
I didn’t even care.
—
Ivan Kherson.
He was an unpleasant person and an incompetent instructor.
The things he did to her students and to her, and the verbal abuse he uttered.
The level of the act had already gone too far.
However, in the end, Russell’s closedness and his background combined.
No one could rebel against him.
Simply looking at them with contempt was a timid rebellion from those ‘like us’.
Everyone was like that, and Adela was the same.
That’s why I can’t sleep.
“…Would you like some tea?”
It’s been about thirty minutes since I returned to the dorm and went to bed.
No matter how many times I turn my head to the side, I see it, no matter how many times I toss and turn, and no matter how many times I change my bedding.
My mind was so confused that it made no sense.
I had to admit it.
If I wanted to go to the academy tomorrow with a clean look, I had to first properly loosen the gears in my head.
He was the one she saw by her side during her fifteen days.
It is different from what she knew before.
Not the way he speaks or the way he behaves.
A very fundamental part.
“An instructor is an instructor.”
He was not incompetent.
Her and her Scarlett. Compatibility of skills with a difference of at least a year,
It was turned over in just 15 days.
When she poured Damien’s tears into her mouth, she thought he was trying to commit suicide.
Isn’t there a saying that when a person changes, it’s time to die?
He swallowed poison right in front of his eyes without any hesitation. As she intuited that scene, the images he had shown so far passed by like a panorama, and she was caught up in the delusion, ‘Was this his last atonement before committing suicide?’
‘Spit it out, you person! No, in that case, I need an antidote… !’
‘…’
‘Antidote, antidote…. Oh, sh*t. ‘I didn’t bring it!’
When she noticed that he was still standing well past the point where he was foaming at the mouth and collapsing, she had already turned everything over in her room, trying to find an antidote that wasn’t even there.
He said.
‘Many books are stored in the Kherson family’s basement. For example, a magic circle that makes this poison function for good. Things like research books on him.’
‘……’
‘I feel like I’ve become a few years younger. There isn’t a single drop left, so I’ll just head back.’
‘It seems to be a magic circle that will distort your five organs and six organs if you drink it after being told in advance.’
Time is money, money is information, and information leads to time.
If you take advantage of the fact that you can use that essence in that way, you can make a lot of money.
The ‘information’ that her family was so obsessed with was limited to a book lying around in her family’s basement.
I felt it again. The difference between nobles and commoners.
A man who was an instructor even though he didn’t like it, and a nobleman even though he didn’t like it.
He made an ‘unholy contract’ with that person.
At first, I was planning to somehow dispose of the evidence of the relationship.
The deal with him was a one-time thing, and it was like a burden of mutually destructive contracts.
But, she finally went to bed again.
She closed her eyes with a promise that her future life might change completely.
“As a business partner, you are absolutely flawless.”
The first button has already been sewn.
Rather than trying to end my relationship with him, I will leave the second button open.
As a merchant obsessed with profit, it was a rope that was difficult to refuse.
Oh, and another small resolution.
“…What a damned grimoire is it!”
The legs suddenly shaking in the bedding proved the magnitude of the humiliation.
Yes, public and private. That’s that and this is this.
Someday, any way.
I will repay you in a way that makes me proud of this shameful memory… !