I Became the Dark Wizard Who Rules Over the Heroines

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“It’s a scam! Ask me for my money!!!”

The tournament itself is a big event. Naturally, people’s money had no choice but to come and go.

“Huh, how did you attract the princess?”

“I’m sorry. Please don’t tarnish his honor.”

I lightly pushed away the man who was running towards me, and then walked leisurely down the hallway.

“Oh, don’t lie! A princess? A princess! There’s no way someone like that could be defeated by a warlock like you!”

“That rumor has become true.”

“Don’t be damned!”

The man who roughly grabbed my collar was immediately dragged away by the knights who grabbed him.

“Ugh!”

The man who was roughly thrown to the ground glared at me and the others in disbelief.

“He admitted defeat. We believe that something unbelievable happened, but… Please don’t tarnish his honor.”

Olivia shouted in a confident voice. ‘Knights following the princess’ were lined up next to her.

“Keu, keuhuh…”

When the man realized what he had said, he ran away to the other side of the hallway.

He was quite a courageous person. Maybe I looked funny.

Although the princess was afraid, she was not afraid of me who defeated her.

“…”

However, the knights who helped me did not look kindly on me either.

He is the person who defeated the princess. If the princess’s followers were to welcome me happily, that would in its own way disrupt their identity.

“…Don’t think that we recognize you.”

A knight next to Olivia glared at me in a cold voice.

“At the very least, it’s clear that you deceived the princess through a cowardly act. Don’t expect anyone to acknowledge your victory.”

The other knights were shocked, but did not dare to refute his words.

Because I am afraid. If they affirm me even a little, they feel like they are denying the princess they believed in, so they reject it.

But at the same time, they did not actively agree with his words.

I already knew how foolish and pointless those words were.

Then, will the warlock fight cowardly, or will he fight fairly, sword to sword?

If there was evidence that I broke the rules, they would have brought it up and put pressure on me.

In fact, even breaking the rules was a difficult fight. Any strategy was allowed during the match, as long as it was not a foul that ‘nobody should even think about’, such as receiving outside help or setting up traps in the stadium in advance.

Cowardice is a compliment. A knight of the princess’s level should be able to withstand the cowardly and evil moves of any warlock.

He was saying such meaningless things, so there was no way I could agree with what the man said, no matter how much they belonged to the same group.

If it’s not me.

“I admit it. It’s a shame, yes.”

“What… huh?”

The knight who spoke seemed to be aware of how foolish he was saying things. He was looking at me with his head down with blank eyes.

“If it had been a battlefield, I would have been defeated. The princess waited to see me show off my skills, and she didn’t attack my back when I was fighting with someone else.”

“Well… Of course you did! He is an honorable knight!”

Just tell the truth. There is no need to hide or deceive the truth, or distort or hide it.

Simply explaining the battle in a way that is easy for their ears can alleviate their anger.

“I knew that no matter what I did, I would not be able to harm his body. So, he was able to use extremely dangerous magic to his heart’s content.”

“Hmm…”

“But he was different. This was a duel, not a fight, and no matter how much he had a shield, he wouldn’t have been able to take his sharp sword.”

“Well, I guess so… Right?”

When I treated him with courtesy, his tone of voice softened.

“He put his own honor and my safety before victory in battle.”

They just couldn’t admit it.

When the warlocks or cadets with ill feelings toward the empire belittled the princess and the knights who followed them, they were afraid of being left with nothing to refute.

In that case, you just need to provide some evidence.

If I fight on the battlefield, I lose. I won only because it was a fight within the tournament rules. The princess was an honorable knight until the moment of her defeat.

Even if I can’t completely alleviate their anger and distrust, at least it won’t be directed at me.

“I understand… I understand.”

“Lord Wade is a man of honor, so that must be true.”

In the first place, my relationship with them can’t be said to be that bad.

They were only momentarily angry at the fact that I, who they believed was the ‘princess’s dog’, had bitten the owner.

The knights dispersed one by one. Before Ophelia left, she gave me a look.

‘Under the willow tree. Midnight.’

I nodded slowly. She had information she needed to share.

However, there was a place we had to stop by first. There was still a lot of time left until the appointment time.

I followed the princess to where she was.

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“aaah!!!”

Xenia twisted her small body this way and that.

“I’m crazy. Be quiet.”

Yuri Sia, who was lost in her thoughts, touched Xenia’s shoulder to calm her down.

“I can win.”

But Xenia was no different from being lost in her own thoughts.

“What are you talking about?”

“If we fight again, I can win. I will win unconditionally. I will definitely win. I will win without any variables!”

Wizards do not like to use definitive speech. There were numerous variables in magic, and no matter how capable and wise a wizard was, he could not control all of them.

Even after considering that, Xenia remained confident.

His magical energy was certainly enormous, but his skill in handling it was not that outstanding.

The speed of the demon energy was so fast that it was closer to a spirit than a human, and the demon energy was so large that it was closer to a small god than a spirit.

But, she could have won. With her brain and her strategy, she could fight and win.

“Do you know what’s more annoying?”

“I don’t know.”

“Even then! I could have won! If only I had come to my senses back then! If only I had been given one more chance!”

She fell into a state of overload after pouring too much of her brain and magic power, but that did not mean that Xenia was completely incapacitated.

If only she had somehow been able to get up and come to her senses, she would have been able to get back up and take him down in a flash.

Without any intervention or treatment, Xenia was able to raise her head on her own before the players on both sides left.

Victory was not that far away. The solution was also something that wasn’t that surprising and didn’t require a great strategy.

Nevertheless, they were defeated.

“Ugh…”

“Yes. It must be sad.”

But Yurishia’s thoughts were deeper.

‘I knew everything.’

Her weakness, her worries, her contradictions.

The ugly part of her that we didn’t even pay attention to after putting it on one side of her head.

He casually brought out everything about her and violated her as if he was proud of her.

It was a complete defeat.

“…”

The body was not damaged. There was no way I wouldn’t have the strength left to lift the sword.

Although she was nominally Eurysia lying in her hospital room for her treatment, she was well aware that she did not need any treatment.

She was just in a state of despair.

Her actions, everything she believed to be just, on the contrary, is strangling her.

‘Ah…’

I couldn’t lift the sword.

She was unable to lift the sword that was so light, the sword that she had not taken off her hand even when she was fighting in the middle of the enemy lines, without being able to eat or drink anything for several days.

A feeling of complete defeat enveloped her body.

‘What should I do…’

I couldn’t find the answer.

She never doubted her beliefs. She never broke that belief.

The path Eurishia walked was always an honorable path. All the empire’s subjects and her very kind father were always blessing her path.

She never doubted her power. Except when she was very young, the princess was able to triumph against all enemies that stood in her way.

She never hesitated to kill a ‘dangerous person’. She deceived herself into thinking that it was something she could not help, and she did it mechanically, even honorably, without the slightest hesitation.

It felt like she was suffocating. She could not solve this question by any means she knew.

The door was opened. Yurishia was able to instinctively realize who her visitor was.

“It’s late to say hello.”

The cause of all this pain, the man who probably knows everything. Wade opened the door and entered the hospital room.

“…Are you here?”

“This… You bastard! Let’s get together again! I’m going to really punish you this time!”

Xenia was not used to losing. Xenia grabbed his strong arm.

“I’m sorry. Today, I have something to say to Her Royal Highness.”

“What? You mean I can’t even be seen?”

“If you want to fight, I will abstain. No matter how much I think about it, I’m not confident I can win.”

“…What?”

Xenia pursed her lips, but she also had an idea.

In the process of defeating the princess, he could guess that something unimaginable had happened.

“I’ll save you a seat. Say what you have to say.”

Xenia suddenly woke up and left the hospital room. Wade and Yurishia looked at each other.

“Are you still shaking?”

He opened his mouth quietly.