No Dark Secrets In This Book

Episode 4

Ryuseong, who had to take the entrance exam again according to the original rules, defeated the associate professor who tried to break his nose with a single strike, and then decided his next step.

‘…… I will become your surveillant.’

He could not neglect the one who would destroy the world. If there could be a surveillant who would dedicate his life to protect the world, it was something only he could do.

Now, Ryuseong’s life was solely an arrangement to protect the world, and that was all.

His own feelings were nothing.

Your emotions were also nothing.

―Unlike Cassice Demillang.

***

‘Wow, damn. So cool.’

The scene where the protagonist, who was trying to investigate my body, took the entrance exam with the infuriated associate professor was much more overwhelming than expected.

―Kwaang! 

With a single strike. As one slash sent the associate professor flying, exclamations flowed out from everywhere.

Thanks to the self-hypnosis of ‘I am Cassice Demillang of this area!’, I was able to display superhuman patience and maintain a faint smile instead of gaping in admiration, but it was truly a protagonist-level charisma.

With a handsome face and body, swinging a sword to flatten the opponent and casually sheathing the sword as if nothing happened…

‘Keu-eu, it’s amazing.’

It was just a shame that the body I possessed was Cassice Demillang’s. If it was the body of any supporting character, I could comfortably throw some nasty flirting by asking if they would sleep with me, but if I did such a thing with Cassice Demillang’s body, there would be no greater character collapse.

In short, the original protagonist and the final villain were in a relationship where even sleeping under the same blanket required meticulous scheming.

‘What could be more suitable for the final villain than schemes?’

Running an amazing happiness circuit, I got up from my seat. The professors fussed, asking if I was leaving already. Well. Although there was an unexpected happening, there was no need to watch the extras ramble on after seeing the protagonist’s performance, right?

“……”

“……”

When I gave them the signature suspicious and doubtful smile of the villainous young master, everyone shut their mouths and understood. Even without any explanation. Yes, as expected of the young master of the world’s top prestigious family.

‘The best…!’

***

Didn’t I mention earlier that this novel has a nationalistic setting that only the pure energy flows through the Korean Peninsula?

Then you might wonder why the European noble families who combined their forces through marriage and formed the huge family ‘Demillang’ are considered the world’s top prestigious family, instead of a family from Korea where you would expect it.

The reason is simple. In this novel, foreign forces frequently invaded the Korean Peninsula.

What is there so much to covet in this small land that they keep biting into it.

‘Well, there is a lot to covet, but anyway.’

In this world, the Korean Peninsula also endured well. It’s just that they failed to prepare for the Japanese invasion in the modern era. While maintaining a pro-China strategy, when China collapsed due to opium, they fell into the abyss together.

This flow is similar to the original history, but as soon as the Japanese took over the land of Joseon, they drove stakes into the ground according to Feng Shui to cut off the energy of the Korean people and prevent rebellion.

And that’s where the European imperialist noble forces found an opportunity to intervene.

“The purest energy must not be harmed!”

“We cannot entrust the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese who are destroying the world cultural heritage!”

“Let’s manage it together!”

Land with good energy has the effect of randomly doubling the efficiency of qi circulation and mana circulation. That’s why everyone went crazy trying to possess the Korean Peninsula, but frankly, there’s not much difference between the Japanese and the Europeans for us.

If the damn Japanese bastards broke into someone else’s kitchen and made a feast with someone else’s ingredients, the damn European imperialist bastards just rushed to put their spoons on the table that was already set.

Anyway, as the war atmosphere intensified, the imperial alliance on the European side, which does not exist in the work, dropped magic bombs specially developed for the Japanese, and its power was at the level of an atomic bomb, shocking the world.

While the world was in shock.

The Demillang family stepped forward.

“Shall we start coordinating?”

That’s how… like many colonies became that way, the Korean Peninsula also achieved independence. Of course, there was a tremendous independence movement in between.

The independence movement in the Korean Peninsula was truly fierce and breathtaking. However, it cannot be said that Demillang had no influence at all in the smooth and prompt progress of independence. In that way, our Demillang gained everything – dignity, image, and practical interests. The title of a benevolent, world-class prestigious family.

‘Damn, it’s so annoying.’

Now it didn’t matter that they were no different from the kings of the European imperialist noble forces, and the truth that they watched their subordinate forces greedily rush to the Korean Peninsula with their hands behind their backs.

Everyone just praised them.

Life in the world is dirty, but there is a particularly damn corner in this family. Indeed, the family that produced the final villain.

Is trash inherited through blood?

‘Ah, but now this has become my body? What do I do?’

By the way, if I were to guess why there is no United States in this novel, it seems that history and tradition have been important settings since a thousand years ago, so countries with short histories were excluded.

In that sense, Demillang was a great noble family that possessed titles and nationalities in almost all of the major European imperial alliance powers such as Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Germany, etc.

‘When I become the head of the family, will I have to carry dozens of surnames other than Demillang?’

Of course, there are also many prestigious families in China.

It’s just that the European countries did not split and firmly formed an alliance under Demillang, but in terms of numbers, China has far more. However, due to the aftermath of civil war and defeat, they are currently faltering.

Until a century ago, it was the home of overwhelming qi and martial arts that swallowed the continent, so they are dissatisfied with the current state and are building up their internal affairs to dominate the world.

In contrast, Europe is the home of mana and magic, as well as knights and sword masters.

‘To summarize simply, the East accumulates qi in the dantian through internal cultivation methods, and the West gathers mana in the heart through mana circles.’

You can think of it as each developing strength with settings suitable for their own history.

There are also other settings, such as the natives of some places wielding the power of shamanism, the Pope of the Vatican having the power of prophecy, and priests having the power of healing, but let’s put that aside for now.

“…… So.”

Witnessing the scene before my eyes, my heart pounded with excitement.

After finishing watching the entrance exam, I holed up in a hotel I had reserved near the academy and thoroughly read the textbooks.

As a result, I couldn’t understand the secret book of awakening mana at all, and ended up screaming ‘What the hell is this nonsense?!’ for about five hours while kicking the blanket like crazy.

Then, when my toes couldn’t reach the blanket that had fallen on the floor, I got so angry that I screamed at that moment.

“Ah! Damn mana! Manak! That damn whatever, just come out so I can pick up the blanket!”

Just as I thought something was boiling up from my dantian, a storm-like wind swept through the area. A huge flow that I couldn’t even open my eyes was rushing in.

And the result given to me was this.

“…… Is this the life of a talent-blessed bastard?”

Even if I couldn’t understand anything, to be able to display this level of destructive power……

I smiled contentedly as I looked at the shattered hotel room, and then immediately went down to the counter and asked to change rooms.

Along with the frustration, my fighting spirit was stimulated.

Damn mana bastard, are you picking a fight now just because you’re in my dantian?

‘Okay, let’s wait and see.’

You will now know who has the upper hand.

Power is wielded by people. You’re just a tool, you bastard.

“…… Whew. Inner peace.”

Sitting cross-legged in the newly acquired room while simultaneously accelerating and mind-controlling, I thoroughly chewed, dissected, and analyzed the original work in my head.

In the original work, Cassice Demillang was a rare case who could master not only European magic using mana but also martial arts using qi. It was because he gathered mana in his dantian.

It’s not like others hadn’t tried it. For over a thousand years, curious people tried breaking the law that qi is in the dantian and mana is in the heart. Some tried accumulating qi in the heart and mana in the dantian.

And the conclusion was ‘Don’t do it.’

‘No more, no less.’

Qi and mana are similar but different types of power that split from the roots of the World Tree, and the location to accumulate them and the location of the qi meridians and circuits were different. If you deviate from the originally intended accumulation location, it becomes that much more difficult to circulate, which means the control of the energy becomes unstable.

What would happen to a person if they couldn’t control the flow of blood or nerve signals?

In the worst case, they could bleed from all seven orifices in their head and die from their brain exploding.

‘…… Or they might go on a rampage like a madman, blow up the surrounding terrain, and commit double suicide.’

But Cassice Demillang was born with a weak heart. With such a body, he couldn’t accumulate mana in his heart. This was the reason why Demillang didn’t properly recognize him as the heir. They said that the heart disease inherited from the maternal lineage had an impure influence on Demillang’s blood.

A Demillang who can’t even use magic is not a Demillang.

So young Cassice put mana in his dantian. And he showed magic.

That was the story.

‘It’s just a supporting character’s narrative that will be trampled by the protagonist anyway.’

There’s something like that, right?

A past revelation to highlight the coolness of the protagonist who defeats the arrogant talented young master with his skills, in the sense of ‘The rival is also cool. But he’ll be trampled by the protagonist anyway.’ 

It was just an interesting portrayal, but thanks to that, I, the possessor, gained a clue. Cassice Demillang is a talent-blessed bastard who can accumulate such tremendous evil deeds even while walking a tightrope where his body might explode.

Textbook approaches are useless for geniuses. I just need to ‘command’ what I want.

―Mana is already under my control.

Such self-assurance is important. Because magicians must be arrogant.

I reached out my hand. And shouted.

“Kneel before me, mana bastard……!”

―Kwakwakwang!

…… In that way, I, who destroyed rooms fifteen times in one night, got to the point where I was too lazy to even throw tips to the terrified hotel staff and instead threw them stacks of checks. Hehe.

I have no conscience, but if I rent a training room, there’s a chance my clumsiness and inexperience will be recorded on CCTV, so I spent a week like a loser, settling the destruction with money.

Even the day before entering the academy, I had little progress and thought I might be on a hopeless death route. But.

“Oh.”

Surprisingly, on that day, I learned how to control mana in a decent way.

Of course, I couldn’t make it submit to me as much as the original Cassice. Even now, I could feel the mana residing in my dantian growling, not wanting to listen to me. But still, it looks plausible on the outside, so it might be okay for the time being.

“Now I don’t have to pick up the remote with my toes when it falls!”

I grinned and used a gesture to summon the wind to pull the remote, and the remote came flying straight at me and hit my nose bridge. Aak! Damn mana bastard!

***

When the heir of Demillang was said to be staying at their hotel, the staff steeled themselves to serve the VVVIP. Because there were rumors about how picky and sensitive he was.

But when they actually met him, he didn’t seem as picky and sensitive as they thought.

‘Maybe it will pass without incident?’

Everyone had such expectations.

But that feeling turned to shit as night fell.

Bang! Kwakwakwang!

The VIP rooms had strong formations and barriers to prevent external entry. It was natural that they couldn’t be penetrated by guns, and bombs also couldn’t collapse the sturdy barriers, which was the selling point of this place.

Koo-goo-goong―!

And Cassice Demillang was demanding to change rooms while tearing through such barriers like ripping paper.

‘Even if barriers can be broken by internal energy or mana of a higher level than the barrier master…….’

It was truly overwhelming even in the eyes of the hotel manager who had a glimpse of the world of the conquerors.

Just in case, he asked Demillang’s security personnel if it was a dangerous situation, but the loyal dogs didn’t give an answer. They were truly Demillang’s dogs who couldn’t even bark without orders. The manager, trembling with rising fear, had the staff collect the checks scattered as tips.

What on earth is happening……

He could only hope that the checkout would end peacefully without any incident.

***

When the morning of the academy entrance day dawned, I was so happy that I could handle mana that I scattered checks even while checking out.

It’s not my money anyway, and tipping is a noble’s manner.

But why do the faces of the staff and security personnel look much more haggard than when I first arrived? It must be my imagination, right?

“Young Master.”

“What is it?”

“I have obtained and brought information related to the dormitory assignments.”

Then, the boss among the security personnel quietly approached me and whispered. By the way, the dormitory assignments are not even prepared at this time. In short, they stole it.

‘Wow. So bold and cool.’

I really liked this kind of thing.

Law-abiding? Screw that.

I finally found something to praise.

“Well done. Let me see.”

“……! Thank you……!”

The reaction seemed excessive, so I wondered if Cassice didn’t praise them much. Isn’t that it? But such thoughts were completely washed away by the contents that appeared on the screen the next moment.

“……”

“……”

“…… Ho-oh.”

Under the list stating that I would be assigned to the same room as the second son of a prestigious family once the dormitories were decided.

[Note: Ryuseong of the Hanra Faction requested to be Cassice Demillang’s roommate. Politely ask for his opinion and reflect it if there is anything to reflect.]

Very interesting.

There was an interesting note.

“Yo-Young Master……”

“This is fun.”

I smiled brightly.

‘Are you preparing to get laid, protagonist?!’

Hiding my excessively radical thoughts, infinitely elegant and beautiful.

It’s not something I can do anything about if the people around me tremble at the sight of it.

Right?

Translation Notes: 

The chapters are so long, lol I like it.

-YengLi