I Became the Dark Wizard Who Rules Over the Heroines

41 – Leaf-10

“They say the culprit is a warlock?”

“Damn, it’s those bastards again? Why are they letting would-be criminals into the academy in the first place?”

“Aren’t prospective criminals learning black magic because they have already committed a crime?”

Hatred makes the flesh grow.

“Let’s gather around. Are there one or two warlocks here?”

“Don’t we have to kick them out first?”

“Professors, what on earth are they thinking!”

In the academy, which should be the safest, the most horrific murder occurred.

The history of the Academy was not short, and there were quite a few people who tried to cause terrorism.

“In the murder case that happened 50 years ago, the culprit was a warlock?”

People were afraid. Because I thought that any of the warlocks passing through the school hallways could kill them right now.

And in the meantime, there was the person who was the most passionately angry.

“My friend is dead! My friend is dead?”

A man with a noble appearance and a shallow attitude, running around with an expression half mixed with sadness and anger.

Conrad was talking the most passionately. She was getting angry.

There were not many students who had positive feelings about him.

Character flows from life. No one knew how rude Conrad was and how he looked down on those of lower status than him.

However, it was true that the person died. Although Conrad had many ‘friends’ who approached him, coveting his money and status, it did not change the fact that the deceased was a friend of Conrad.

No matter how rude Conrad was, he could not doubt or criticize someone who had just lost a loved one.

“We have to kick them all out!”

And, there was no reason for that.

Many people shouted at the top of their voices to execute him. He didn’t have many people who were close to him, so he didn’t have anyone who naturally took his side.

And Olivia was one of the few ‘people I was friendly with.’

‘It can’t be… It can’t be, it can’t be.’

If you think about it calmly, she wasn’t in a good enough position to worry about others.

Immediately, I was eliminated from the tournament. He did not achieve any significant results.

For a result achieved by taking the gamble of colluding with Catherine, the result was too disastrous.

Just wait a little while and her family will find out what she has done. The future was unclear, and her future could not be said to be very bright.

Nevertheless, Olivia could not ignore it.

‘Fabian… Fabian is not a great person who would commit such a thing.’

She was a child born in the same family. She did not have a great personality or outstanding skills.

Cowardly and weak. Although it was foolish, the mentality itself was not bad.

Although the interest in him was not enormous, he was someone who had seen his face once or twice while passing by.

I was certain that there was no way he would do something like that.

“…”

But inside her academy, there was virtually nothing she could do.

I couldn’t protect Fabian in the face of the pouring criticism. Even if you did that, it wouldn’t have had any effect.

‘There must be a reason. For sure.’

Her helplessness was eating away at her.

‘It could happen like that at any time. Me too…’

She still thought this was all a conspiracy.

A conspiracy of a terrible and cruel level that often happens to people who are not recognized.

While others were looking at the blood and death of the murdered people and thinking, ‘I could be like that, too,’ Olivia was looking at Fabian and thinking, ‘I could be like that, too.’

So she went to find the person who last saw him.

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“Tell me.”

I, who was gathered with my party members, frowned at the appearance of an uninvited guest.

“What are you doing here, Olivia?”

The three women were looking at Olivia with eyes full of wariness.

From my perspective, she was closer to a nuisance than an ‘object worth watching out for.’

“Fabian, where did you hide it?”

“All I did was capture him. What, are you going to kill him?”

I know Olivia.

It was my first time seeing her accept her demonic energy. This was something that had never happened in the game.

But she did not think that her fundamentals and principles of action would have changed.

“I am the one who caught him without harm, and now he will be handed over to investigators and locked up in prison. The trial will begin soon.”

“I’m not saying that right now!”

“Really? Are you saying no? Do you think you would become a hero if you kill Fabian, who is in prison? Do you think those people will praise you?”

Olivia’s eyes wavered.

As there were no problems with her skills, she was also a party member favored by quite a few people.

However, not many people used her for a long time. The cost is too expensive.

“Why do you think I… think like that?”

Money is not the problem. In the first place, no matter how expensive an article is, it is still just an article.

There was also a wizard who used a mountain of expensive magic materials.

There was even a cadet whose origins were so noble that she couldn’t get her mentality together without spending a huge amount of money for just one meal.

You just need to save money. The only question is how and what you give up to save money.

However, she had a thirst in her heart that could not be satisfied with her money.

“Because they will want to be recognized.”

That was nothing short of a double-edged sword for those who used Olivia.

Basically, it is honorable. She really tries to avoid doing anything that would tarnish her family’s reputation or her own reputation.

Jumps into dangerous missions without hesitation. If she has to sacrifice her life for her comrades, she does so without hesitation.

However, the moment she feels even the slightest bit neglected by the player, or the moment she feels that this party does not recognize her skills, she leaves the party without hesitation.

She is that kind of person.

“Besides, the next tournament is starting soon. We are advancers. Can’t you tell by looking at everyone gathered here? We need to discuss strategy, so will you please leave now?”

We weren’t gathered for that, but there was no reason for Olivia to be caught in the middle.

I kicked her out with her cold words.

“…Okay, can you see it?”

“If you don’t think so, I apologize for judging you based on my limited insight. Forget it. I have no intention of arguing with you.”

To me right now, Olivia was an unimportant person.

Olivia will definitely run wild as she gets involved in magic, but it’s hard to see a big change happening with just one or two dark knights and warlocks running wild around Katharine in the first place.

What was important was what was happening now.

Hatred was pouring out. A huge amount of concentrated hatred for one person.

We need to somehow create someone to share responsibility with and prevent each other from showing unbridled anger at each other.

“So, get out.”

“No.”

Olivia held my hand tightly as it was on her desk.

“What are we doing now?”

The people around me reacted faster than my words.

Magical energy overflows from Claire’s hands. Lilian’s bow and Kellin’s sword were emitting a sinister energy, ready to harm people at any moment.

“Really… Fabian killed him? No. Say no…”

I bit my lip and calmed down the women around me.

“Put down your weapon. I don’t plan on seeing blood here.”

I sighed deeply and nodded.

“It is true that Fabian killed him.”

“I’m lying, I’m not the type of person to do something like that…”

“It didn’t seem like you and Fabian had a very close relationship. If you were interested in writing about it like this, shouldn’t you have given it to me?”

Olivia is strong.

Of course, he would have been miserably abandoned by the ‘group of people who follow the princess’, but the fact that he could be among them makes him someone that ordinary delinquents cannot even look up to.

Conrad couldn’t have held a grudge against Fabian as an individual. I just needed a weak person who was good at bullying.

It may have been just a stopgap measure so that someone other than Fabian would suffer, but at least Olivia was the person who could use that ‘stopgap measure’.

“…You are right.”

“Then, get out.”

“We weren’t that close… deep down, I might have despised him.”

It’s strange.

Olivia hates being looked down on more than anything, she hates having her looked down on. To the point where others may think it’s excessive.

She doesn’t go around bragging about herself because she doesn’t like being seen as ‘a person who isn’t humble,’ but her self-deprecation, self-reflection, and humility in the true sense of the word were words that didn’t suit her.

“I am a much stronger person than Fabian, a person worthy of recognition… I may have felt comfortable thinking that.”

She felt uncomfortable.

Her eyes are serious. She is shaking.

It is not her greed, but something bigger is driving her.

“But… Fabian is my family. At least I have a reason to know what he got caught up in.”

I bit my lip. Things were going in a different direction than I expected.