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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Wjin
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After training for several hours and even awakening as an executor,
Edwin must have also reached his physical limit.
But putting that aside, I had to make sure.
-Poke
I kicked his shoulder with my foot.
“Hey, wake up.”
There was no response.
‘Hey hey hey, wait a minute, don’t tell me he’s dead?’
As I lowered my body towards him,
-Breathe…
Between his groaning, I could hear the sound of light snoring.
Fortunately, perhaps because it was an old wooden sword and my stats were so low, he had collapsed without any fatal injuries.
‘Good. With this… I shouldn’t have been caught, right?’
For the executor’s awakening, there was a condition that Edwin had to confront a demon, so this was the best option.
The time I showed the appearance of a demon was less than a second, just a fleeting moment.
It was possible to control it because Lev Denec’s innate mana was 1.0.
If the inherent mana was just a little higher, I would have completely taken on the appearance of a demon.
Moreover, Edwin’s mind was in a dizzy state, and now he was in a complete coma state.
Therefore, if I played dumb well, he would mistake it as a dream.
“So please do your job as a fundamental character…”
Green hair, a kind-looking impression.
To think this guy was the previous protagonist of “Reincarnated Hero.”
He was a handsome character befitting a protagonist.
Still, knowing the ending of the novel, he just seemed too pitiful to me.
I would have to help him in the future, so I could only sigh, thinking about it already.
What other choice did I have?
“Anyway, good luck. I helped you awaken, so I’ve done enough as your senior.”
I blabbered like that and left, contemplating where to invest the Supporting Role Points.
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“Gasp…”
Aria, who had been watching this scene, stood there frozen, her mouth covered by both hands.
“……”
Until Lev Denec disappeared from her sight.
She had simply been walking and came out of curiosity to see if Edwin was still training.
But she ended up witnessing an unbelievable scene.
Clearly, Lev Denec appeared in front of Edwin, and the two suddenly began a duel.
And the moment Aria tried to step forward to stop them,
-Boom!!!!
Her feet didn’t move first.
She saw and felt it.
Moreover, it was a dread similar to what she had felt.
The wave of magic power that was so familiar yet heterogeneous.
The energy of that day’s demon, Andras.
It felt like forcibly digging up and tearing apart the sad memories buried in her heart.
Aria began to dry heave.
“Ah… ugh.”
Her legs trembled slightly from the immense fear.
-Tap
However, the lavender-haired girl approached Edwin step by step.
Because she was the only witness, she had a duty to help him.
“Thank goodness…”
There were no traces of blood around Edwin.
His pulse was also beating properly.
-Shaaa…
Seeing that there was no reaction to the healing magic as well,
it seemed he hadn’t caused great harm to Edwin.
As she calmed down a bit, Aria’s thoughts began to return.
Why did he do such a thing?
Simply thirsting for victory?
That would be strange.
Lev Denec was someone who loved to show off.
He would definitely want to win a duel in front of everyone.
No.
It could be the opposite.
He might have been afraid of losing, and if he won against someone with depleted stamina like this, it would be just him.
“If that’s the case, it’s cowardly… really cowardly.”
Moreover, even if he spread rumors that he defeated Edwin tomorrow, she knew he was a personality who wouldn’t vehemently deny it.
Then, if this was really the reason, what was that demon’s form, no, that dark aura?
“Phew.”
Aria sighed, clutching her still slightly trembling legs.
The memory was deeply etched in her mind, and that ominous energy definitely aligned.
Even if she wanted to deny it, she couldn’t.
That appearance that always appeared even in her dreams and tormented her…
But Lev Denec was literally just an ‘energy’ if she recalled the memory.
“As I thought, an illusion…?”
She must have seen it wrong.
There’s no way.
No matter how many times she repeated it to herself.
The idea that Lev Denec was actually a demon race and might be related to the demon who took her family away…
It didn’t make sense.
So, it was reasonable to think she had seen an illusion.
Because the man she had seen so far was just an aristocratic human, a ruffian, and a person from the Denec family who had no connection to demons.
“……”
But if, if…
Lev Denec was really involved…?
“…Revenge.”
Revenge.
The two-syllable word resonated in Aria’s heart.
Perhaps this strong resonance was strangling the young girl left in the past.
It was supposed to be a walk to refresh her mood, but it seemed to only add to the confusion in her head.
Until Edwin woke up, Aria had no choice but to calm her heart repeatedly.
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Monday morning,
Even in this world view, it was the day the new semester began.
“Fuck, I don’t want to go.”
Even in the original world, school wasn’t a place I particularly wanted to go to.
After a vacation or so, I might think that the lively atmosphere of the class was kind of pleasant and the school wasn’t so bad.
Still, the tension on the first day of school or even the evening before, when even variety shows weren’t funny, remained a terribly unpleasant memory.
“I’d rather bow and go at that point.”
I mean, it was better than the alternative.
I had confessed.
And to two of the most popular girls in the academy then.
One was a girl with a blunt impression but small and delicate features, Aria Bluebell.
The other was a sharp-looking beauty aiming for the top spot until graduation without fail, Melissa de Prominence.
On top of that, my evaluation at school was the worst, my favorability was the worst, and my actual stats were also the worst.
In other words, even if I went to school, only persecution and humiliation awaited me.
“It’s tough…”
Is this the life of a third-rate villain?
I was feeling it to the bone in real time.
[Held Supporting Role Points: 110]
Still, the only consolation was that I had earned a jackpot of Supporting Role Points yesterday.
A whopping 100 + 10 points.
With this, I could significantly increase my stats by investing in them.
“Let’s see…”
“Oh, it went up a bit?”
Although it was just one duel, my Strength and agility had risen as if celebrating my victory.
Well, with such low stats, it’s natural for the growth rate to be fast.
[Current Strength 1.1]
[Points required to raise Strength by 0.1: 10]
[Do you want to invest?]
“Hmm…”
It seemed like it took 10 points for every 0.1 increase in stats in the 1-point range.
That meant the higher I grew, the higher the point requirement.
Also, since I could raise these physical stats by moving my body directly, investing blindly could lead to a waste of points.
Unique stats like luck, resistance, penetration, and critical hit rate hadn’t been unlocked yet.
“Then what about traits?”
On the contrary, skills or traits required many points but had fixed values.
“There’s nothing worth investing in.”
Unfortunately, I could only invest in the Villain trait with the current amount.
But investing in that would be a loss no matter how you look at it, right?
In the end, it meant that the priority was to obtain valuable skills or traits that wouldn’t be a waste to invest points in.
And that skill that wouldn’t be a waste was probably the hidden passive that Caeran would seize.
‘I want to intercept it.’
A rough idea of what I had to do began to form in my mind.
Today was the day for positioning, not the selection exam, so even if I didn’t invest points, I wouldn’t be expelled.
I had a direction in mind to some extent, so observing the situation was the priority.
I tried to think positively and left the neatly organized dormitory room.
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I arrived straight at Claris Academy’s temporary Class C.
After completing the 2-month training, before the selection exam that determined the class, the last event was positioning.
Right after this, the main characters began to get entangled with each other, so it could be said to be the beginning of the academy story.
‘There are a lot.’
Dozens of students in uniforms were seated in the fan-shaped lecture hall.
Among them were Selena, Edwin, Melissa, and Aria, the main characters of “Reincarnated Academy.”
‘Phew.’
I was relieved that the entrance was at the back, and I sat roughly in one of the remaining seats.
Many students in this class would also taste the bitterness of failure.
The same went for Lev Denec.
Originally, he would have been demonized and disappeared, so in the original story, he wouldn’t have been able to participate in this positioning or selection exam in the first place.
In the end, as a supporting character, it was enough to just blend in as much as possible.
While organizing my thoughts like that, Aria looked around, turning her head or glancing sideways.
As her gaze passed by, the eyes of the surrounding students also moved.
Her mystical cerulean eyes always seemed mysterious, and her translucent skin matched well.
Still, it was of a different texture, even though she wasn’t of noble origin.
In the novel, it was also described that she had outstanding beauty, so the research on this part was thorough.
She looked around for a while as if searching for someone,
-!
And for some reason, our eyes met, but she quickly turned her head forward.
“What the…”
Her blunt impression was the same as usual, but her expression was somewhat complicated.
-Thump!
At that moment, all the lights in the classroom were turned off except for the stage.
An adult man presumed to be a professor or instructor, wearing a uniform, stepped onto the stage.
“Ahem, ahem. Nice to meet you all. I’m Sylvester, the instructor in charge of freshmen. I’m sure you all had a rough idea, right?”
I couldn’t immediately recall his name because my memory was hazy.
Still, I roughly knew him based on his long hair, squinted eyes, and the fact that he used polite speech.
He seemed like he was definitely a mastermind!
But he wasn’t…
The characteristics I remembered were that he was quick-witted and gave the impression of ending his sentences with a ? so he wasn’t a flat character.
“Then, shall we start the positioning trials?”
With his voice that had become somewhat serious, the academy’s first event began.
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If he support Aria unique trait activation will he get points?
Positioning exam should be placement test
When will his trash Status improve?