How To Live As An Academy Extra Villain

74 – Wings (5)

These days, even ten bodies are missing.

In addition to classes at the academy, I continue to train separately, and there is always plenty to do during the rest of my time.

When I come home, I take the time to organize and memorize the knowledge that comes to mind each day.

In addition, I sometimes have to check Drakton’s investment status, and since Adele, who has now learned to read, has received countless letters, the number of replies is also considerable.

When the sun goes down, I meet Eugenia and practice for the ball. Although he was rejected from the Academy, his meeting with Ellie still continues outside.

Originally, I didn’t think much about vacation, but now I’m looking forward to the end of school. I feel fortunate that the first semester ended early. If I go down to Maidhead, wouldn’t I be able to spend my time more leisurely than now?

“Hello, Edwin. Good morning.”

Sparring time. Someone talks to me next to me as I sit down after defeating my opponent. When I look up and check the other person, I see a female student with gray hair and blurry light blue eyes.

“…Sisela.”

“Can I please excuse you next to me?”

Sisela de Bellini, a foreign student in Seongguk, looks around. As if looking for someone.

Perhaps he is looking for Ellie, who was his interest last time. However, Ellie is now waiting for her turn on the other side of the sparring hall.

Sisela took action before I could even reply. Sisella, who was sitting down next to me, kept glancing in this direction and finally brought up her business.

“…Well, I’m sorry about what happened last time… I never thought there would be such a commotion…”

“Are you saying you’re going to apologize now…?”

“…I also wanted to do it a long time ago. I also have some circumstances…”

“…It’s okay if it wasn’t intentional. Instead, I hope you won’t do anything that stands out like that in the future. Thanks to that, I was called in by the professor and scolded harshly.”

“Of course. I’ll be careful from now on…! Then, I accept your apology, right?”

Sisela’s voice rises brightly after hearing my words.

Although he was looking at the sparring hall, not at her, he could clearly feel Sisela’s gaze looking at him from the side. I felt it last time too, but Sisella has a persistent side, like that gaze.

I have a feeling that if they don’t accept my apology, I will continue to faithfully demonstrate that persistence in the future.

“I will accept it. I will accept it, so stop now…”

“Can we stop being friends now? Okay, let’s do it!”

As I was about to give the order to welcome guests, Sisella grabbed my hand as if shaking my hand and started shaking it up and down.

How can you act like this even though you know the story about me and Ellie? Our relationships are not as intertwined as the students of the noble school, and our family is local nobles, so there is nothing special about being close to each other.

Maybe on the contrary, since there is nothing politically involved, it seems like they just do whatever they want.

“Your tastes are unique. Do you think the nobles of the Holy Kingdom are the same when it comes to treating people differently? Then, was that flawless appearance in class all just a pretense?”

“Well? It’s not like that in particular. I guess I’m just a little interested… I thought it would be pious, but this is a new feeling…”

If you look at the way he exchanges greetings with Eugene and other commoners without hesitation, it doesn’t seem like he is particularly concerned about his status. There is definitely a unique aspect to his personality.

If I had not first seen Archbishop Timothy, my impressions of the people of the Holy Kingdom would have been entirely based on Sicella.

“What does that mean? Is it a proverb from the Holy Kingdom?”

“hehehe, well?”

Even though she heard my words out of frustration, Sisela paid no heed to her.

It seems clear that my attempts to oust her have failed.

-Tangrang!

“Winner, Eugene!”

When I suddenly hear the sound of metal, I turn my head and see a male student lying on the floor of the sparring hall. There is a sword not far from him. And it is Eugene who proudly assumes the attitude of a winner.

The facial expression of the male student who reluctantly shook hands and turned away was not very good.

I think he was one of the group of students who took my side last time.

Since he was defeated by a commoner who looked down on him so much, he couldn’t help but feel bad.

Although I have seen him several times in Dalian, it is clear that Eugene’s talent for radish is innate. The lack of practical experience and learning is offset only by animal-like movements derived from instinct.

“…That kid’s movements are definitely amazing. If he was from a commoner background, he wouldn’t have been able to learn properly. Should I really say he was born with it…”

And the opinion of Sisella next to me doesn’t seem to be much different from mine.

If learning is added to that talent, and he is later chosen as a holy sword, there will certainly be no rival among students.

Thinking about using that force to preach his views on justice, my head is already starting to hurt a little.

It would be great to be on the same side as him, but unfortunately, my seat seems to be on the other side of him.

“You’re next. Ellie, and Baxter. Come out.”

As soon as the nominations are made, Ellie and a male student come out to the sparring hall and face each other. Ellie is wearing comfortable cotton pants and leather boots, but in contrast, her expression doesn’t look very good.

“Take a seat, say hello. Let’s start on the count of three. One, two…”

As the counting begins, Ellie begins to mumble and recite the spell. Five embers appeared in the air, and they gradually grew in size. Perhaps it will end with Eli’s landslide victory? Her magic skills are truly outstanding.

Even thinking about it again, I still don’t understand why Ellie like that was in D. I wonder if he got demoted because he had an accident like I did.

Considering Ellie’s personality, which is usually calm but sometimes jumps into strange places, it seems quite possible.

With her eyes focused on the sparring hall, Sisela asks me a question.

“By the way, Edwin, who are you going to the prom with? No matter how much I think about it, I don’t think I’ll go with that girl. That doesn’t mean I accepted other girls’ requests… Are you going to be alone? If you don’t have someone, please ask me…”

“I’m not going to the prom.”

“Tsk. That’s not fun.”

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Sisella pouted after hearing my dry answer. Listening to the words coming out of her mouth, a question suddenly arises.

“Now that I think about it, is it possible for students from Seongguk to participate in events like this?”

“What do you mean? Aren’t we people? We’re all the same. Even in our home country, there’s a dance held every other day.”

Sisella, who heard my question, looked a little puzzled.

“…I’m sorry. I just thought I could be more reverent.”

“Well, I’m a little different. The old people in my family are a bit stubborn, so if they grab a random man’s hand, they start foaming at the mouth right away. They might even fall backwards. Come to think of it, it wouldn’t be a bad thing to see them do that… “Cook, cluck.”

Sisela laughs quietly. From what she says, it looks like she doesn’t get along very well with the adults at home, so she may have chosen the academy as a place to escape.

“You never know. It might be okay if it’s not just any man. Actually, there’s a reason why I came here. There’s a noble person I must find.”

“Uh…yeah. Did you find the person you were looking for?”

“Well… it wasn’t like that. I did find someone similar to that.”

“Really? That’s really congratulations…”

As I continued to answer half-heartedly, Sisela suddenly tilted her body towards me.

“But I’m really confused… It seems clear that there’s something, but I can’t even guess what’s going on…”

Sisella’s face is located very close to me. Every time she opens her mouth, I can almost see her long, soft eyelashes fluttering.

“He looks like a saint from afar, but up close he looks like a madman… Sometimes it’s as cold as ice, and sometimes it’s warm like a spring breeze…”

“Isn’t he…a strange person?”

“It seems a bit like that. I’ve been having a lot of trouble these days because of that. Even my first good friend got screwed up really badly. Edwin. How can I become friends with someone like this? Or, could you help poor Sisella? “

“Okay, I’ll come out for a moment…”

-Quaaang!!

Sisela keeps whispering something incomprehensible. As I was trying to escape from that burdensome movement, a loud noise suddenly rang out from the sparring hall, and smoke filled the room.

After a while, when the smoke clears, a male student can be seen lying on the floor and shaking. There are potholes in the floor all around him.

“Winner, Ellie. But this is a bit harsh. It’s just a practice sparring, so you don’t have to focus too much on winning or losing.”

“…I’m sorry…I got a little emotional at the moment…”

“Emotions can become strong during sparring, but you have to control them to make the situation go your way. Well, you can do that since you are still a student. Now, greetings from both sides.”

Ellie says hello and turns back. And before returning to his seat, he looks towards me for a moment.

The coldness in her eyes makes me feel like my limbs are feeling slightly numb.

Who could see our relationship? Ellie doesn’t like to be left out, but when she does, she does it right.

“It’s really amazing… I stare at it like that all the time, so I should be able to get closer…”

Sisella, who suddenly caught my attention, muttered something in a low voice next to me.

***

“Of course, we have no choice but to get along. Canias was originally a duchy like the other four families. To be precise, the current royal family is descendants of Duchess Levina of Canias and the first warrior Valerio.”

The Academy’s library. Sitting next to me is a tall female student with ponytails. Even as the explanation continues, the light purple eyes do not leave me. Like the gaze of a wild beast that has found its prey.

“During the descent of the Great Devil, all members of the previous royal family died. Luella, the last princess, married Valerio, but the two never had any children. So the throne went to Canias, who shared the same hero as her husband. “It was passed over. Luella and Levina were both members of the warrior party of the time.”

“I don’t understand. Other families just watched what happened?”

When I asked again, Epania raised her index finger and continued speaking.

“Well? Even if it were me, I don’t think I would have been able to do anything differently. Who would dare criticize the hero who brought down the great evil? And because of the aftermath of the war, I probably didn’t have the strength to fight back at the time.”

“After hearing it, it seems like that…”

“Is that so? But as time goes by, it gets more and more annoying. The subject, who was previously conquered by the royal family, is now on top of his head and telling him to do this and that.”

“hmm…”

“Isn’t that why your cousin especially hates Austin? Austin, who was just a family of horsemen, rose in power when Canias was promoted to the imperial family. There are conflicting opinions on everything, so of course we have no choice but to grind our teeth.”

Listening to Epania’s words, I remember Estel and Patricia clashing not long ago. The appearance of the two at that time was truly brutal, as if they had encountered enemies.

“In the past, the royal family was able to control mana users through Yongeon, but since Luella had no descendants, Yongeon has long since ceased to exist. There is no means of controlling the great nobles like before, so the royal family can do the same as it does now. “They’re using hard-line methods. Do you think you understand this much?”

“I understand clearly. Thank you, senior.”

“What? I can do this much for my cute junior. By the way, junior, if you do the last genealogy and this, you know that you will have two wish rights, right?”

After hearing my greeting, Efania spreads two fingers with a wicked smile.

“Don’t worry, I remember it well. What on earth are you asking…”

“Well? I don’t know yet. But you don’t have to worry too much. Are you sure I’ll order something strange?”

At my sigh, Efania’s eyes roll up like a crescent moon.

Epania never refuses my requests. However, he always gets his share in an obnoxious way.

But I think her explanation this time was worth it.

Perhaps because she was always in the library, she surprisingly had extensive knowledge of history.

Scylla, Austin, Canias. After learning about the relationship between the three families, I understand more clearly why Estelle hated Patricia so much.

At first, I wanted to live peacefully without worrying about such things, but now I realize that reality is not so easy.

If I were to be honest, my tendency is to conform to the system, but that doesn’t mean I can’t pretend to be with Estelle.

Not to mention our personal relationship, Silas is my family’s biggest ally.

If it weren’t for Estelle, the attacks against me would have been even more intense.

Come to think of it, Patricia’s family is second to none, and Iris’s family, Robinette, is also one of the families that strongly supports the imperial family.

Although we were once fiancés, it feels a little bittersweet to think that we might clash for that reason in the future.

The moment I left the library, trying to ignore Efania who was teasing me,

“…Edwin.”

Two deep, dark brown eyes stare at me straight ahead.

As if he realized that I was thinking of him,

Iris Robinette came to distract me again.

This is senior Epania, the head of the book club and the student librarian at the library.