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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“Calm down a bit.”
Even when I said this to Arni Duratan, who was sitting with her arms crossed and lips pouting, she just turned her head away, openly showing her bad mood.
This kid used to have a rough warrior vibe who only cared about swords, but had she changed like this after falling in love?
As I felt a strong “I’m a woman” atmosphere from her, I glanced at Ares.
He was in a situation where he couldn’t take either side.
He wanted to know about the imprints on the backs of both his hands, but he also knew that if he took our side here, his girlfriend would get very upset.
“Hey, your boyfriend could be in danger. What’s the problem with showing us your kissing a few times?”
“This won’t do.”
May scratched the back of her head, annoyed that time was being wasted, while Rin stood up abruptly and approached me.
“We can show them too, right? Daniel, pucker up.”
“Hey! Wait!”
Rin immediately thrust her face forward.
I was sitting on the edge of the bed and hastily retreated in surprise, while May also rushed over urgently.
“Why are you doing that?”
“There’s no other choice, is there?”
“Then I’ll…!”
The two started bickering again.
I heard they were in the same Class A, but I had no idea how they ended up sharing a room here.
“Everyone, take it easy. Arni, I understand how you feel, but this is important for Ares too. That’s why we’re including you, his girlfriend, in this conversation.”
I hinted that I would have sent her away otherwise.
Arni hesitated, scratching the floor with her finger.
“I understand. But! I’m not angry because you saw us k-kissing! And it’s not because you teased us!”
“Oh? Then why?”
“I-I went to all that trouble to empty the room! And now we can’t use it!”
Arni shouted, her face turning bright red.
From what I heard earlier, it seemed they were planning to go to Arni’s room since I was in this one.
Did she ask her roommate to sleep somewhere else just for today?
“……”
Ares was also keeping his mouth shut, but judging from his expression, he agreed with Arni.
Are these two saying that their reproduction and pleasure are more important than talking about the end of the world?
Anyway, it was already very late.
If we dragged this on any longer, some people might not be able to get up tomorrow.
“Okay, I’ll empty the room for you tomorrow, so you two can use it. But don’t use my bed.”
At that, Ares and Arni smiled brightly and agreed.
Sigh, they’re happy.
Seeing them so delighted didn’t make me feel too bad.
Until just now I thought they were being a nuisance, but looking at them now, could it be that they just purely liked each other?
The couple weren’t the only ones who reacted enthusiastically to my words.
“Daniel can come sleep in our room.”
“Oh! That’s a good idea!”
Rin and May raised their hands excitedly and shouted, but I naturally refused.
“Don’t worry, I can ask other guys.”
I thought I could just go sleep in the room of some guys from the same class, but Rin tilted her head and asked,
“But Daniel, you don’t have any close male friends, do you?”
“What are you talking about?”
With a dumbfounded expression, I was about to start counting off the names of my close male friends on my fingers, but…
“Uh… hmm.”
There were none.
Not a single one.
The fact that Ares was the only one I could think of made me seriously ponder for a moment about how I had been living my life at the academy.
“Anyway, don’t worry about it, I’ll figure something out.”
I naturally closed my fingers that hadn’t folded at all, brushing it off.
Worst came to worst, couldn’t I just sleep outside?
I had lived in the Demon Realm Forest, so a back alley in a tourist city would be easy.
“Let’s get back on topic. It’s about the imprints on Ares and Rin.”
The atmosphere finally settled down.
The four sat in a circle around me, focusing.
“First, does anyone not know that I went to the royal palace recently?”
Ares and Arni raised their hands.
Arni in particular asked me with a surprised expression.
“Don’t tell me the incident of Prince Oliver’s dethronement……”
“Oh, I was involved in that too. But that’s not really important.”
Arni muttered to herself, wondering what could be more important than the dethronement of a prince.
Ares cautioned her from the side, so she kept quiet for now.
“I faced a woman called the Priestess of Time there. The ability she possessed……”
I summarized the explanation about the battle with the Priestess as much as possible, and started explaining from the part where I read her memories due to a technique called the ‘Balance of Time’.
“The Priestess’s goal was to stop the power of Rin’s imprint, and she called those who helped with this ‘saviors’.”
I raised my hand to point at Ares.
“You’re one of them, Ares. The reason you have the imprint of Helios, the sun god, is to stop Rin.”
Everyone’s gaze turned to Ares.
He looked down at the patterns on the backs of both his hands, then slowly turned his gaze to Rin.
“But I have no intention of killing Rin.”
“I don’t think I could die to Ares either.”
“……”
He had said something rather cool, but Rin calmly retorted.
Arni patted the deflated Ares on the side, comforting him that he was cool.
“It’s the opposite. We must absolutely keep Rin alive. Rin’s death is the precursor to the start of the calamity.”
Some people were shocked, while others were relieved.
It would probably be much more mentally comfortable to have to keep someone alive rather than kill a fellow classmate just because they might become a calamity.
‘It could probably start in other ways too.’
Rin and I exchanged glances without anyone noticing.
There was no point in saying anything more, it would only make them anxious.
“But how bad is this calamity? Can even Daniel not stop it?”
May raised her hand and asked.
The couples nodded and looked at me, and Rin also expressed doubt.
I kept quiet for a moment here, but I didn’t have much to deliberate about.
“Just think of it as people getting really sick and really hurt. It’s hard even for me to stop.”
“That explanation seems a bit childish.”
Even as she said that, she didn’t probe any further.
True to her sharp instincts, May realized that I didn’t want to talk about this part and naturally moved on.
“For now, Ares, practice using the power of your imprint well. I think there will be times when it’s needed.”
“Got it.”
“The same goes for Rin. You’re doing well now, but you need to be able to hold the reins even more tightly. If you need help, I’ll assist you.”
“Okay, thanks.”
“The other two, help out when you can. Arni, you’re Ares’s girlfriend so you’ll always be with him, and May, you’re in the same class as Rin.”
“We’ll have to be together even more than before!”
“Ugh, with her?”
May’s expression showed genuine dislike, but Rin also made a face showing she wasn’t thrilled either.
I didn’t know Rin could make such a face.
It was refreshing.
“I’ll look into more people who have imprints like you guys.”
So far, there were four beings I had met who possessed imprints.
Rin, chosen by the Goddess of Death.
Ares, chosen by Helios, the sun god.
Eris, chosen by Artemis, goddess of the moon, hunt, and chastity.
Mikaela, who had been chosen by Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love.
‘I heard Mikaela was executed.’
Along with the large-scale brainwashing in Batian, the bishops strongly condemned her for insulting the Great Cathedral, and in the end, I heard news that she had been beheaded.
‘The Priestess of Time didn’t have an imprint.’
I naturally thought she would have received an imprint from the Goddess of Time, but in the memories that flowed over, she had no such thing as an imprint.
“But don’t you have anything?”
Arni’s voice pulled me out of the deep sea of thoughts I had been immersed in.
Her eyes were clearly fixed on me.
Similarly, the eyes of the other students naturally focused on me as they each spoke up.
“That’s right. It seems like Daniel would have something too.”
“The God of Destruction! Or the God of Swords! Something like that, right?”
Rin and May exclaimed excitedly, but I shook my head.
“I don’t have anything like an imprint.”
“We can’t be sure about that. You can’t check places like your back yourself.”
Ares’s sharp retort caught me off guard.
Suddenly, May’s eyes lit up and she stood.
“Take it off, let’s check.”
“Wipe your drool before you talk.”
“Slurp.”
At my words, May wiped her drool with her sleeve, but she didn’t stop moving.
Rin also showed signs of getting up and squirming, so I pushed past the two of them and headed for the bathroom.
“Ares, come with me! You can look, right?”
“Ah, I don’t want to.”
This bastard?
Even as he said that, Ares still followed me.
So we spent a brief time in the bathroom and…
“There’s nothing.”
Ares answered coolly.
“I checked really thoroughly just in case.”
He was extremely thorough.
He even checked between my toes.
Anyway, using our uncomfortable and dirty feelings as a sacrifice, we gained certainty.
That I had no divine imprint.
“Okay, then for the last and most important thing. There’s someone who has a clue for us to learn more about these imprints.”
This was partly from the memories I gained from the Priestess of Time, but it was also an issue that had been bothering me for a while.
“Ares, when exactly did you get your imprint?”
“It was when we were preparing to practice for the play we were going to do at the festival. I got it that night while swinging my sword on the rooftop.”
“Right? But there was someone who was strangely clingy to you even before that.”
It wouldn’t matter if it was after the imprint appeared.
But there was someone who clung excessively to Ares and was obsessed with him even before he had an imprint.
As if they knew an imprint would appear on him.
“Who?”
May asked with an expression that showed she had no idea, and I answered, recalling a certain man.
“Heaven Len.”
Hayun’s uncle and a fervent follower of the Priestess of Time.
Not only that, but he had tried to use Hayun to draw Ares into his family.
Even before Ares’s imprint appeared.
“Isn’t it strange? All Ares had going for him was his good looks. Yet the Len family forced Hayun to court Ares.”
A noble family begging a commoner like Ares?
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[damn at least they aint trying to kill rin but may best girl frfr]
