How To Live As An Academy Extra Villain

67 – Double Side (6)

“Nice to meet you, Edwin. My name is Lance Wise. Next to me is Brian Corbin.”

“Hello, Edwin.”

“Yes. Nice to meet you too. Wise of Redham, Corbin of Osthorn, right? Let’s get along.”

“I’m Milton Langstaff. Could you…”

“I…”

Break time after the first class in Class C until the next class. Several students approach me.

Until I was at D, the students were a monotonous group of commoners, but here at C, the distribution is very diverse.

As some time has passed since the beginning of the semester, ordinary students who stand out have slowly moved up to the upper classes, and now their number is considerable.

Currently, the students in this classroom seem to be roughly classified into three categories based on their attitude toward me.

First of all, those who approach me in a friendly manner are the least in number. Most of them were students from local noble families, and there were also a few children from families with political ties to our family and Estelle’s family.

Except for them, it’s just Eugenia who secretly smiles at me while avoiding people’s gaze.

Those people don’t really care about my past mistakes, and among them, there are quite a few who accept it rather coolly.

If it had been in the past, I would have just maintained a bleak relationship with them. Aside from my appearance, my personality was also very eccentric. But now it doesn’t seem necessary to go that far. Wouldn’t it be okay to just keep an appropriate distance?

Indifference is the attitude that most students have. Most noble students and some commoner students who only care about their own future fall into this category.

They are not interested in political debate, and they take the same attitude toward my notoriety. The majority of students who study abroad also belong to this group. Only a few of them gave me and Ellie an interested look.

And of course, there are those who look at me with hostility, most of them commoner students and noble students who faithfully follow the ideology of the academy.

Many of these students come from central aristocratic families or families settled in the west, close to the capital. Of course, the tendency is to absolutely support the imperial family and their policies.

They faithfully follow the rules of equality, and there are many who get along well with students from commoner backgrounds. It seems like there are quite a few people who have already become acquainted with Eugene. As he solved various cases and became a hot topic, Eugene’s name was now known to many people.

If it were from the protagonist’s point of view, wouldn’t they be friends who are good and helpers who uphold the law?

It is natural, but they do not look upon students like me who are muddying the academy’s waters.

And unlike Eugenia, who is smiling heartily, Eugene, who is sitting next to her, gives me a look of intense hostility.

What is the reason? It must be because you are watching me drag Ellie around right in front of you.

Besides, there are more than one person with similar thoughts, and their stinging eyes are pouring in the direction where I am sitting.

If I had known that I would run into him, I would have readjusted my relationship with Ellie a long time ago.

The reason I wanted to create that look in the first place has already been achieved, and now I feel like the excessive image is acting as a poison, so I tried to bring up the story with Ellie.

But she threw up her hands in response to Ellie’s fierce rejection, and now that I think about it, I think it was right for her to speak out strongly as well.

‘Ugh… ‘

It’s not that I haven’t thought about this possibility. I realized early in the evening that my luck was not good. Still, maybe it’s a bit too much. Why on earth did that guy roll into C?

In the original work, he was able to get up to C on his own. If he had received Iris’s teachings, it would have been normal for him to rise above that level. As expected from the main character, he is not a bad person. It’s just a short learning curve.

Now, the area that I cannot guess with my knowledge has expanded so much.

“Nice to meet you, Edwin Reed.”

After taking a moment to catch my breath, I hear another person’s voice along with the light scent of roses. When I turned her head, I saw a female student smiling brightly in front of me.

He has slim features and the corners of his eyes raise slightly when he smiles, similar to a cat. His hair is a dull rat color, and his eyes are a dull sky blue. The color is very pale, as if water had been removed on purpose.

“My name is Sicela de Bellini, and I am studying abroad in the Holy Kingdom. Let’s get along, shall we?”

A rat-colored female student, who identified herself as Sisela, offered to shake her hand. When I hold her hand, her bright smile deepens.

The number of students coming from Seongguk to study at the academy has always been significant. I think the saint went through that process and came to the academy. Probably about 10% of the academy’s students are children of the Holy Kingdom.

Sisela has a confident and elegant attitude, and there is always one student following her like a shadow. Looking at that, I think she is probably the daughter of a fairly high-ranking family.

She was probably the one who had been staring at me from before. Why did she come to talk to me even though her seat was quite far away?

She shook her hand lightly and tried to take her hand away, but Sisella tightened her grip and wouldn’t let go of my hand. She then brings her face closer to mine and raises her eyes wide. It’s as if they’re taking a close look at my features.

“Hmm…It’s definitely much better to see it up close…”

-Wooduk

I think I heard the sound of something breaking from where Ellie was sitting. She wants to check on her condition, but Sisela just can’t let me go.

“Have you seen me? And I want you to let go of this hand now.”

“Oh, I’m sorry…I’m not used to the Empire’s etiquette yet…Can you forgive me just this once…?”

When I showed a bit of displeasure, Sisela let go of her hand and pulled her body back as if she had made a mistake.

“Have you ever seen it? Of course it has. At least once, from afar, I really wanted to see it up close. I didn’t know that I would be sent down to a lower class. But I can’t go down either…”

Sisella smiled lightly, earning her attention once, and then she shifted her gaze to Ellie sitting next to me.

“But… what is your relationship with the girl next to you? Seeing her hanging around like this, she seems to be very close.”

“That’s none of your business. I’m starting to get a little uncomfortable now, so why don’t you go back to your seat?”

“K…No, Sisela…”

“Fiore, just stay still. And I told you not to use formal language at the academy. We’re all friends here, right?”

“…Sicella…That kind of question is a bit…”

When Sisela’s question about to cross her line, her female student, who was standing behind her, stops her. This is a fact that everyone knew but kept quiet about, but she proudly asked the question.

I wondered if she didn’t know much about rumors because she was an international student from Seongguk, but considering she knew me, she didn’t seem that ignorant at all. Is she just a clueless person?

As our conversation continues, others suddenly stop what they are doing and listen intently to our conversation. And I don’t really want this kind of attention.

“That’s right. I’m curious too. Why do you keep dragging that kid around?”

Because you can witness the emergence of justice right before your eyes.

***

A man’s voice, clear and pleasant, is heard from behind Sisela.

“Eujin, I told you not to do it!”

Eugenia, who was sitting next to her, tried to stop him, but Eugene stubbornly approached my seat. She sees the hostility in his eyes, and Sisela looks somewhat embarrassed. As if this situation was not expected at all.

When Sisela, embarrassed, takes a step back from her, it is now Eugene who takes her place.

“Edwin, I told you. Stop harassing others as you please!”

Hearing his voice, the now familiar anger boils inside me again. It was okay when he was far away, but the more he came and started playing with his mouth, the more I couldn’t bear it.

Even though what he says doesn’t make any sense, my mind is filled with thoughts of wanting to hit him hard on the muzzle.

It was my first time regaining my memories and talking directly with the bastard, but the hostility that had seeped into my bones was clearly conveyed.

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“…I should have told you clearly.”

I barely swallowed the urge and stood up and responded to his words. Even though he glares at him with eyes full of anger, Eugene remains unwavering.

“Don’t presumptuously meddle in other people’s affairs, but please live within your means. Or do you want to be like your friend? Like that guy who was dragged away by the soldiers, howling like a dog. There’s nothing you can’t do if you want to. .”

“…You!!”

But when I brought up Walter’s matter, Eugene’s complexion, who had been trying to maintain his composure, changed completely. Just like I am now, maybe he was suppressing his emotions quite a bit.

I don’t know anything else, but one thing seems very certain: we are completely incompatible.

“Edwin Reed, stop it, right? Is there anything honestly wrong with what he said?”

“Yes! What are you doing without dignity? How can you still say you know honor? Free that child right now!”

“Quiet! What right do you have to interfere in other people’s business!”

“Isn’t it because idiots like you are asking me if I’m coming or not that I don’t know anything about the subject and run amok like that? Who’s telling whom now…!”

“You don’t even know the subject! We entered the academy because we were definitely qualified! Who are you to talk like that!”

And the surrounding area instantly became chaos. The pro-Empire students who took Eugene’s side intervened, the aristocratic students who reacted violently and criticized the commoner students all at once, and even the commoner students who rebelled against the unfair treatment of them.

Voices shouting here and there are mixed together, and now only the sound of swearing can be heard.

In the center of the chaos, Eugene looks at me, clenches his fists and shouts.

“…There was no need to go that far. If Walter had survived, he would have regretted his mistake later!”

“…What?”

Eujin at this time is, to put it in a good way, still innocent, but in a bad way, he is immature. First of all, the sight of him crying out for forgiveness served as a significant unfavorable element in the original work.

This aspect changes a lot later, and a certain level of generosity is a natural trait for a protagonist. But seeing it in front of me instead of in print, it’s really hard to express that feeling in words.

“I guess you’re so stupid that you don’t know, but false accusations against nobles are usually punishable by death. Even then, they are hanged and their corpses are torn limb from limb. Now you’re talking like that…”

-Tingling!

Just as I was about to pour out my anger, I suddenly felt a stinging sensation on my back, as if something had stung me, and the anger that had been growing uncontrollably was momentarily put to rest.

The discomfort I felt towards him was still considerable, but my sense of reason had returned to some extent.

I have asked Ellie one favor since last time. If I get angry and lose my temper, then ask me to use the needle magic.

Perhaps Ellie faithfully listened to my request. Even so, she didn’t know it would be this classroom…

When she turned her gaze to the back of Eugene, she saw Sisella in an awkward position, unable to find her way.

Sisela rolls her eyes. Her face looked as if she had never expected something like this to happen. Maybe she asked that question because she was genuinely curious about our relationship.

-Drur!

At the sudden sound of the door opening, all students’ words and actions stop in an instant. The person who opened the front door of the classroom and entered was Professor Erasmus, the homeroom professor of Class C.

“I’m sorry, but your loud noise echoed even to the first floor of the stone tower. And looking at it, I can guess the cause of this situation. Eugene, Edwin. Is it you two again?”

A young professor with ponytails and a messy beard who looks annoyed by everything looks around at the students and sighs.

“You bastards. Come forward. The rest of you should go back to your seats and sit down right now.”