.｡.:✧ Chapter 81 ✧:.｡.

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Crack, crack.

“Aaaagh!”

The man cried out and wept, looking at his strangely twisted hand. It was a pathetic voice, but he backed away, pleading as if begging, and eventually fell down.

“Was that the last one?”

Rotating my shoulders and looking around, the soldiers who had been charging at me with fire in their eyes just moments ago were now all begging for their lives, drooling.

The last one.

Except for Demerk, who was standing at the very back.

He looked at me and his unit members alternately with a shocked expression, then took a step back.

“…!”

Judging by his startled reaction, it seemed he realized he had instinctively tried to run away. Indeed, it was a scene that would make anyone take a step back.

“I told you, I won’t blame you even if I get hurt.”

“Y-You, what are you? You’re just a student, and my unit members…!”

“You should have gone easy, you went too far.”

He might have approached it with the mindset that he had to carry out his mission, but he lacked flexibility to an extreme.

This was a school.

He had been too aggressive towards the still-immature students, only forcing his stance on them.

“H-Hey, Dean! Please say something to this student! Tell him to stop!”

“No, sorry, I need to vomit for a bit. Bleh!”

The dean, perhaps recalling the trauma of being hit by me before or simply seeing this kind of scene for the first time, started puking disgustingly on the ground.

“Ew, gross.”

After glancing at the dean with icy eyes, I charged straight at Demerk, and he finally drew his sword as if in a frenzy.

“Y-You little…!”

The calm and composed demeanor he had shown before was completely gone, replaced by a clear desire to escape this situation.

Discarding all the techniques he had trained, he swung his sword with pure physical strength.

He even misjudged the force control, so I simply twisted my body, and the sword got stuck in the grass.

For a moment, a look of terror flashed across Demerk’s face, but I couldn’t see that expression for long.

My fist was already crushing his face.

“Ugh!”

As Demerk collapsed, spurting blood from his nose, I grabbed the collar of his armor and smiled at him.

“You even drew your sword?”

“…!”

After that, a few more strikes, and Demerk went limp like a fish out of water and fainted. I dusted off my hands and turned my gaze towards the cafeteria.

“I wonder if it’s over now.”

Judging by the fact that I couldn’t hear Eve’s voice anymore, it seemed to be wrapping up.

“You were awesome as always!”

Elise, who had been watching this whole scene from the corner, approached, hopping over the fallen soldiers as if avoiding bird droppings on the ground.

“I guess I let out some of my pent-up frustration.”

I had held back as much as possible while beating them up, fearing that killing royal soldiers would be truly irreversible, but I still beat them up pretty badly.

“Well, it’s understandable. If they forcibly caused trouble at the academy, they should receive appropriate punishment.”

“…”

Now what?

Honestly, I had beaten them up because I was annoyed, but now that I saw the carnage, I felt I might have overdone it.

‘Will I get kicked out of the academy for this?’

Of course, with the dean on my side, that was unlikely to happen, but it could have a severe impact on the dean.

It would be a headache if a new dean came and made things difficult. The current dean was just the right level of incompetent and cowardly.

But as if she knew my concerns, Elise smiled and brought her face close to mine.

“It’s okay, I saw how these people behaved at the academy for a while, so I’ll take care of it for you.”

“I don’t want to burden you unnecessarily.”

“It’s simple if I talk to my sister. They’re not completely innocent, and everyone at the academy saw them acting excessively just to keep their positions.”

When I thanked Elise, who was smiling brightly, she replied that I should just slap her cheek once, making me involuntarily show a disgusted expression.

“Ah, aah. I like that!”

Elise liked it even more.

Annoyed by her presence, I entered the cafeteria to find Charlie and Counselor Sean collapsed on the floor.

“Huff, huff.”

Eve, her breathing ragged, was looking down at the two men, trying hard to calm herself. It seemed she had hit not only Charlie but also the counselor a few times.

Judging by his trembling and foaming at the mouth on the floor, it seemed she had used her special move on him too.

Seeing me, Eve’s excitement gradually subsided, and she spoke with a slight sob.

“I even hit the counselor. Will this be okay?”

“It’s fine. He specializes in forgiveness, doesn’t he?”

He’ll forgive you, surely.

“Please forgive me!”

Eve hit him one more time for good measure.

“You can do it!”

“Go, go, go!”

“Uh, thanks.”

***

After school, Arnie Duratan’s red hair shook violently under the light of the setting sun.

It was plainly evident how nervous she was, and at this point, the gazes of the three people turned to me.

“Won’t you say something?”

“A girl is going to confess her love. Let’s at least cheer her on.”

“…”

They say in extreme situations, even non-believers seek God. Even Arnie looked at me, urging me to say something, so I scratched the back of my head and replied.

“The pie was made deliciously, so make him eat that first.”

It was my advice to captivate his taste buds first, as Arnie had now completely mastered the village’s special pie. She answered that she understood and ran towards Ares, who was waiting in the distance.

“Phew, will it go well?”

“It’s not something we should interfere with that much.”

It wasn’t really appropriate to watch the confession scene, so we turned around and headed towards the cafe. At that moment, Tana, who had been eyeing me, cleared her throat and spoke awkwardly.

“Ahem, I have to meet someone for a bit, so I’ll get going.”

“You have someone to meet? You don’t have any friends besides us.”

“I do!”

Tana, who had burst out in anger, hurriedly ran off somewhere, and we ordered coffee and sat down.

“I hope Miss Arnie’s confession is successful.”

“Well, me too. I hope Ares stops being annoying now, gets his act together, and just dates someone.”

I heard he confessed to Rin but got rejected.

Ares and I weren’t close enough to have that kind of conversation, so Rin told me.

She told me as if in passing, like asking, “Have you eaten?” I remember being surprised.

We sipped our coffee and talked about various things. It was the same as usual. Eve explained the book she had read recently, and I listened with a smile.

If there was a good book, she would recommend it to me, and if it was a book I had read, we would exchange our impressions of it.

I knew how much this child was being healed just by this small action, so I always went along with it.

After a long conversation about books and holding the coffee in my mouth, Eve fidgeted with her hands and asked.

“Um, how did it go?”

It had been three days since that incident.

In response to Eve’s question, which she had been holding back all this time, I smiled faintly and reassured her.

“Everyone at the academy saw them following you around forcefully. Especially May’s gang even helped out. They claim we overreacted, but…”

Sip.

I took a sip of coffee, moistened my lips, and continued.

“The fact that he drew his sword at me and was blinded by his own performance without considering the victim was a big factor. I heard even the Second Princess stepped in because of that.”

“Wow.”

“Don’t worry, it’s been resolved well.”

I was more concerned about whether Eve was okay.

Recently, she tended to avoid eye contact with me or shut her mouth tightly when she was about to say something.

As if she had read my mind, Eve stirred the ice with her straw and spoke.

“I’ve read something like this in a book. Once you break out of the egg, you can never be inside it again.”

“…”

“Thank you, Daniel.”

There was no need to exaggerate.

With those words, the corners of my mouth turned up without me realizing it, and I slowly crossed my legs.

“It’s nothing.”

In fact, helping her practice getting hit in the testicles until dawn was quite something, but still, it was cool to say it was nothing here, wasn’t it?

“But I think it’s partly Daniel’s responsibility too.”

“…Huh?”

Eve, who had been blankly staring at the ice, now turned her gaze to me.

The sunset light illuminated her in a peculiar way, creating an effect as if her face had turned red.

No, was it really turning red?

“Tana told me, right? That I was viewing my own situation as if reading a novel. That’s partly Daniel’s fault too.”

“Hmm?”

“In the midst of a tranquil daily life, you made me experience a love that seemed to come straight out of a novel.”

“Huh?”

I unconsciously pushed my chair back to create some distance. But Eve rested her chin on the table in front and said,

“Won’t you cheer for me?”

“Uh, cheer?”

With a mischievous smile, Eve whispered,

“You just learned that you cheer for a girl who’s confessing, didn’t you?”

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