How the Psionic Prince Overcomes Reversal and Obsession

24 – Dark Elf Benita (1)

Thanks to little maid Nia’s witty action, the conference room was quickly prepared.

Not only the media outlets within the Kazidum Empire, but also expatriates from other countries from all over the continent have flocked together to see what they are so interested in.

The vast conference room was crowded with them without a break.

I first explained people’s misunderstandings.

“———That’s how it happened. The sister of my escort knight Sir Feria here… … I saw Miss Lilia’s talent as a good opportunity as I usually do.”

“Then does that mean that there was no exchange of special emotions between the two of you~~?”

ポポポポ.

A fairy reporter asks in a regretful tone while flying in the air.

“Whoops. can’t it be Lord Feria and I are nothing more than a common, ordinary lord relationship. Isn’t that right, Sir Peria?”

“That… That’s right… .”

Feria nodded with a deeply shadowed face, as if regretting that this situation had happened because of her.

“Ah~~ It’s a pity~~!💬”

When it comes to various incidents and gossip, he hangs out with a lethargic appearance, befitting fairy reporters who can’t stop talking.

‘Anyway, fairies… .’

That personality unique to fairies who don’t know where to jump.

Even if I use it for various things, there are many times when I get swept away by unexpected things because of my unique popping personality.

I slowly diverted people’s attention elsewhere.

“Anyway, that’s how I went to Lord Peria’s house and handed over the regular invitation to the Sky Tower to my sister, Miss Lyria.”

One of the human reporters asked a question with a puzzled face.

“Prince, I know you liked Miss Lyria, but… Couldn’t the precious invitation could have been put to better use?”

“for example?”

“For example, awarding it to celebrities who boast of outstanding skills, but have not yet been selected for the Sky Tower for some reason… .”

I nodded lightly in response to his words.

“I fully understand your question. However, I made such a judgment considering the distant future, not right now. I thought it was important to nurture talented people who would grow in the future.”

“Are you saying Miss Lyria is such a talented person?”

Whether it is true or not, it is important to show a confident attitude.

I agreed with a face of firm conviction.

“yes. This prince is sure. In the future, Miss Lyria will become a talented person who supports the empire. Does anyone else know I wonder if Miss Lilia will grow up to become the future ‘Imperial First Sword’.”

buzz buzz… !

At my words about the first imperial sword, the conference room was in a state of confusion.

This is because the first sword of Kazidum’s empire for nearly a hundred years was the title of ‘Sword Maiden Northern Grand Duke’, a snowfield elf.

“Are you that talented?!”

“It is still only a possibility. But I believe so.”

Lip service, of course, a blatant lie.

‘Could Liria really be like that?’

However, at times like this, I had to show that I fully believed in the person below me even though I knew it was a lie.

‘I’m sure people will talk a little and forget about it anyway.’

This should have clarified my absurd dating rumors.

But just in case, let’s pull a little more aggro.

“And now I confess… In fact, I have one more ticket to the Sky Tower. Maybe it’s because it’s the first time on the continent, so it seems like they gave me another one as a special reward.”

“What?!”

“Is that true!!”

Of course it’s a lie, is that true?

Anyway, since there is no actual invitation ticket, it is impossible to confirm.

You can bluff as much as you like.

‘It’s said to pay back.’

Since I have the knowledge of the previous episode, it’s not difficult to get an invitation ticket again.

“Then you had two copies from the beginning… ?”

“I deliberately shortened it because I was burdened by the needless interest. apologize for that.”

At that moment, the face of Cardinal Marilyn, who was obsessed with the invitation to the Sky Tower, flashed through my mind.

‘Well, it doesn’t matter.’

It is enough to say that he had no choice but to say that because of various political factors.

It wasn’t entrusted to her, and I had no obligation to give her an invitation.

Anyway, I kept talking.

“Recently, I, who had the right to invite, had various contacts in various places through various channels.”

Reporters nodded as if it was information they knew well.

“Most of them said they wanted an invitation and offered huge amounts of wealth or interests.”

No one has yet been able to figure out the conditions under which the Sky Tower mark naturally awakens.

Literally random awakening.

That’s why the invitation to pick out the person you want and make them a regular player could be said to be worth a thousand gold.

“However, Prince Bonn, I will make it clear right here that the Kazidum Empire has no intention of distributing invitations based on such ‘the logic of capital’.”

“That, that word… ?”

As if they had a premonition that something important was about to happen, the reporters gulped their saliva and watched me intently.

“Including the current invitation ticket, combining several more invitation tickets possessed by the empire in the future, and betting on them to discover promising talent… … I plan to hold a big ‘audition’ of some sort.”

“Oh, audition!!”

“Gathering talented people from all continents and competing… ?”

“T, it’s a scoop!!”

“hey! Hurry up and go to the head office and deliver the article first! hurry!”

Excitement and anticipation soared among the people who foresaw the big event to happen in the future.

“Wow!💨 Wow!💨 As expected, Prince! It always exceeds expectations!🌟”

“Audition📢~~ It’s a festival🎊~! Festival🎊~!”

Fairies who like loud incidents and events stir the air as if going crazy.

I hastily calmed them down.

“Calm! Calm! Calm down everyone! It’s not that we’re going to open right away, it’s just a plan… !”

“Anyway, the plan to become a goddess is acceptable, right? It opens very loudly too!🎶”

I nodded with a puzzled face.

“that’s… Yes, but… .”

“admit? Oh admit it~~~!🎶”

Five fairy reporters performed combat acrobatics in the air with faces full of joy.

Fuhuaaa… .

The five-colored magic smoke from the fairy’s wings spread in a fan shape and embroidered the air.

“Yahoo!!💨 When are you going to hold it~!”

“Don’t rush… . There is also a problem with securing invitations, and it will take quite a while to prepare… .”

“Isn’t it the perfect grace period to prepare for the participants!🕒”

“what… If so, maybe.”

“It’s a scoop~~!🌟”

I shook my head inwardly as I watched the conference room buzzing around.

‘Once I succeeded in diverting my attention… .’

People’s reactions seem to be much greater than expected.

‘what… Anyway, this is one of the things I planned from the beginning.’

In a way, it wouldn’t be bad to inform them in advance and give them time to prepare as the fairy reporter said.

I can’t guarantee the scheduled date for the event right now, but it was clear that it was planned to be held.

Anyway, the press conference ended with my intention to turn people’s attention elsewhere.

‘What’s left now is Sister Irene.’

You can explain that it was because of the invitation ticket like now, but… .

Still, due to her overprotective nature, it seems that nagging will be unavoidable for the time being.

* * *

City Tridum.

A gigantic city that stretched out in all directions with the only sky tower in the middle of Khazedum.

On the outskirts of the city, there is a facility group that occupies a large site with a low hill.

─Kazidum Empire Academy.

It was the Imperial Academy, the center of Regid’s various policies.

The reason the academy facilities were located in the city of Tridum, rather than the ecliptic, was due to the Sky Tower.

13 sky towers built all over the continent.

Prior to being closed due to renewal, the Sky Tower had several special tiers.

Among such a special class, there was a class shared by people from all 13 sky towers on all continents gathered in one place.

The so-called “shared layer”.

In other words, it means that there was a huge portal connecting continent 13.

Naturally, the movement of goods and people was actively carried out along with enormous trade centered on the Sky Tower.

Because of that, the Imperial Academy also placed itself here with high predictions for smooth supply and demand for material and human resources.

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The academy’s main building is a bit old, but on the other hand, the elegance of many years is buried.

Deep inside the dean’s office, a disapproving tongue-clicking sound echoed.

“Tsk.”

Farak.

Someone at a desk flips through a newspaper with an annoyed hand.

[Who is Lilia-san who became the owner of the invitation ticket?!]

[Regid Prince “I will hold a big audition sooner or later with an invitation ticket”]

[Those who have excellent skills but were not chosen by the Sky Tower, you and I all show expectations… ]

[As expected, ‘Jeong Shim-hwa’! He touched the hearts of the marginalized with thoughtful words!]

“Tsk… .”

Newspapers were thrown onto the desk with another clicking sound.

Profit… .

She was sitting in a chair, put a pipe in her mouth that had been hung over an ashtray, and lit it.

“Whoa… .”

She inhaled the smoke deeply.

Shiny white hair that came down to her waist with light brown skin.

She was a beautiful woman with a slightly cold and intelligent face and a slightly nervous atmosphere.

Her long ears and light brown skin made it easy for anyone to guess that she was a dark elf.

“Sigh… .”

The beauty’s thick lips open slightly, and along with a languid sigh, white cigarette smoke flows out and spreads into the air.

Squeak… .

Dark elf Benita, the dean of the Imperial Academy, leaned back in her chair and flicked the pipe with a languid face.

‘Prince Regid… .’

Of course, she also understood that the national level had to respond to the upheaval of the Goddess’ Oracle and the Sky Tower.

But that’s why you’re giving up the academy facilities?

Of course, she also acknowledged the reality that since it was an institution established by the Empire, it could not be free from the influence of national policy.

But even so… .

‘I’ve been protecting this place for over 50 years.’

To make such an important decision without even discussing a word with himself, who had been in charge of the academy for the past 50 years and had grown so well.

widely! widely! widely!

Dean Benita tapped the desk annoyedly with her pipe.

‘That’s not enough, what? Participate as a director?’

It is clear that the sacred education field will be swayed here and there by the ignorant ‘little boy’ playing in the mud.

‘On the subject of men… .’

When the cataclysm occurred 300 years ago, Benita was still a young girl.

Therefore, in the memory deeply imprinted on her as a child, the era of men who dominated society at the time remained intact.

Stupid creatures, arrogant and rude!

These vulgar men who are only thinking of taking advantage of male instincts with their strong power and power to overwhelm the females around them!

For her, the cataclysm 300 years ago was nothing short of a blessing.

‘Looks good.’

The social power relationship between men and women, which has been gradually reversed since the cataclysm, gave her a deep sense of satisfaction and pleasure.

Dark elf Benita, who clearly remembers with her own eyes the men of the previous era, the era of the rough males.

‘I’m just like my mother… … I won’t live like that.’

From the time she was born until now, she had been avoiding men all her life.

As if to wash away the instinct of blood flowing through her body with smoke, Benita inhaled deeply.

“Whoa… .”

Exhaling smoke with a languid gesture, she glanced at the clock on the wall.

Today was the first day that the rumored Prince Regid would attend the academy board meeting.

Sigh.

Dean Benita got up from her chair and stepped into the conference room.

‘Let’s take a look at that handsome face.’

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Conference room where board meetings are held.

About 30 directors were sitting in a spacious space waiting for the meeting to begin.

As befits an era in which the sexes were reversed, most of them were middle-aged to old women, and there were a few men, but the ratio was very low.

widely!

Benita, who was sitting in the chair of the board of directors, tapped the desk with her cigarette pipe with a disapproving face.

‘I opened the board of directors, but are you late? under… .’

Benita smiled with a depressed face because he couldn’t be angry.

The cheeky ‘little prince”s behavior inevitably makes me laugh out loud.

widely!

Benita hit the desk with her cigarette again.

The directors bowed their heads to touch the documents or looked elsewhere and murmured.

Indeed, the power relationship within the board of directors is clearly revealed.

Normally, there is no case where the president and dean are concurrently held, but such a rule was meaningless in front of Benita, who had been in control of the academy for a long time.

how long did you wait for that

Urgent footsteps were heard from the hallway outside the door, and without knocking, the attendant burst open the door and entered.

“His Highness the Prince has arrived!”

dripping… ! Jump!

The directors who had been waiting began to rise from their seats in a hurry.

“Tsk… .”

Dean Benita also couldn’t just sit still, apart from her inner thoughts.

She groaned and rose slowly.

Bubbly.

After a while, a man appeared with the sound of footsteps.

“ah… .”

“Hoo… .”

“gulp… .”

No matter how old you are, a woman is a woman.

Or, rather, is it because she is older that she is attracted to younger flowers?

The directors attending the meeting fix their eyes on Prince Regid’s face as he enters, following his movements with blank faces.

Dean Benita slightly bit her lip at the directors’ behavior.

‘It’s just me getting close to me and bewitching people.’

Even Benita, a dark elf who was over 300 years old, felt dizzy at the moment, so I wonder if it was ordinary women.

‘It must be a ulterior motive to charm the directors with that appearance and run the academy as it pleases.’

Benita bit her lip and raised her guard against Regid, the ‘cheeky parachute kid’.

‘It will never go according to your intentions.’

It was then.

The moment Regid looked back at Benita, he stopped and stared at her face.

‘what… ?’

Benita tilted her head at Regid’s complex eyes staring at her.

* * *

Finally, the long-awaited joining of the Academy Board of Directors has been decided.

‘Originally, I was thinking of rushing a bit more, but… .’

It was force majeure because the emperor delayed the remarriage by arguing various things.

Still, if it’s fortunate, it’s not long before the reopening of the academy seems to have been working on its own even without me.

Bubbly.

Step inside the conference room where the board of directors is held.

I looked around at the people inside and stopped with my gaze fixed on a dark elf.

‘Benita… … .’

Suddenly, memories from the last episode flashed through my mind.

─『Benita, let’s camp here tonight.』

─『Legged! I told you not to call me by name Ego. Can you say it again?”

—“… … … Mother.”

─『Whoops. That’s it. Our good son Regid.”