Damn Academy chapter 209

209 – Host (6)

The remaining members watched blankly as the fake couple entered the gate.

No one expected this method to work.

Everyone there enjoyed a comfortable life in a well-maintained estate, so there was no way to know the physiology of the world below.

And when Damian, who seemed to have grown up to be the most valuable person in existence, skillfully accomplished the task, everyone looked dumbfounded.

Sierra, a second year student in the art department, said.

“There is no place he cannot enter, including the Magic Society.”

Cecil also added a word.

“It looks like it’s going to be really annoying.”

“Hey, that’s rude to Damian. “How sincere he is.”

“Are you meeting all these women?”

“Do you just want to be kicked out of here too?”

“It’s just that the rumors and reviews are different.”

“Compared to what he looks like, he doesn’t like receiving attention and is short-spoken, so it’s full of speculation and rumors.”

“… Is it so?”

Cecil took a piece of tobacco, lit it with a magic stone, and continued speaking.

“Where is Damian from?”

“He’s called Wiesel, but he hasn’t revealed anything about his past. “There is no explanation as to his relationship to Professor Sylverin, I don’t know his last name, he doesn’t seem to be from a noble family, and no one knows his family name.”

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Cecil let out her smoke once and muttered with an expression full of doubt.

“… “The more I look at it, the weirder it gets.”

“What’s strange? “If you look at what he’s doing, he’s reliable.”

“After being attacked by Gale, the northern barbarian, I’m not that dependable. In fact, if we are to fight as equals, we need a leader as brutal as Gale.”

“Hey, Hubert. “What do you think of me as a member of the same combat club?”

“… “What are you asking?”

“Do you think Damian has a fatal weakness that prevents him from dealing with Gale?”

“Everyone has weaknesses.”

“Hmm, really?”

“Aren’t your bonds with your family weak and closed? She doesn’t come from a wealthy family, and she doesn’t depend on anyone else. “Even though they seem strong, they are easily broken by motherly love.”

All the female students except Cecil reacted with wide eyes to the unexpected sound.

“… ?”

“… ?”

Hubert pouted his mouth in a playful way and shrugged his shoulders trembling.

Only Cecil looked at Hubert with eyes full of disgust.

“This is why I hate you. “That dwarf bastard is still digging into the mating dynamics in this situation.”

“You were dumped by a man because you weren’t good at this… !”

The conversation ended there when Cecil threw the magic stone in her hand at Hugh Burt.

***

As the day grew dark, a chilly wind blew from beyond the canyon. My nose felt cold, like it was early winter. This is an area that is affected by Eternia’s seasonal magic, but it is said that it is not beyond the canyon. So it seemed like a frosty wind was blowing over the mountains.

Fabella continues to walk with difficulty, still holding her stomach.

“Damian not yet….”

Fabella extends her hand towards me and stirs her air. She was giving us a signal that she still had her eyes on us.

We came here as a married couple. I shouldn’t have quit acting just because I passed the gateway.

For the countless time, she stretched out her arm and touched Fabela’s hand with hers.

“Let’s find accommodation first.”

“Yes.”

Perhaps because it is evening, people are hard to see. Drab gray stone buildings are clustered along the steep slopes of the canyon.

The sound of hammering echoes from a workshop somewhere.

The fishy smell of iron powder blows through the wind and tickles my nose. As expected from a blacksmith village, the air is thick and the interior of the village is as dull as a piece of iron.

Suddenly, I was filled with sentimentality. If I were really a wandering family man with a pregnant wife, I might have been taken aback by this bleak landscape.

What would it have been like if we had raised a family in a place like this instead of going to Eternia?

Before I could think deeply, I shook my head.

I was an immature being who couldn’t even take care of my own life properly. If I tried to escape in that state, the end was obvious.

Even if Lisa’s family didn’t find us, we would have been slowly crushed by the weight of life and suffocated without being able to hold out for long.

We headed to a shabby inn with soft lights. I spoke to the favela there at the door.

“I think it would be a good idea to take off that belly band now.”

Now we were about to begin the investigation in earnest. However, there was no need for us to continue pretending to be a married couple since there was no gatekeeper following us all the time and watching us.

Then Fabella stroked her stomach and shook her head.

“No, this can still be used more usefully.”

“… “Do you really need to do that?”

“Yes.”

“You’re a bit smarter than me.”

She laughed.

“I also have a plan.”

As we open the inn door and enter, the five or six travelers staying inside glance at us. It only lasted a moment, and they were absorbed in their meal again.

An old woman with a bent back greeted us.

“How many days will you be staying?”

“It only takes one day.”

The old woman glared at Fabella’s stomach with a serious expression for a moment and then motioned for her to follow.

So, we went up the stairs and gave us the triangular attic on the roof.

There is only one bed. I haven’t been able to calculate it up to this point. If you pretend to be a married couple, it’s natural to stay in the same room.

“Have you eaten?”

“Could you please bring it to this room?”

“I can’t come here twice, so come down in ten minutes and pick it up yourself.”

As the old woman left, Fabella just looked around her as if embarrassed.

“So what are your plans, senior?”

“Nothing special. I’m asking a lot of questions about the people staying here. People let their guard down when it comes to pregnant women. Because they are the type of person who has no choice but to be moderate. What are your plans?”

“I plan to come and investigate the house where the missing people were staying.”

“Good idea. Ruler… then.”

Fabella unconsciously glanced towards her bed, then looked away as if she were embarrassed.

“What are you going to do if your fiancé finds out?”

“… “My fiancé will be very upset if he finds out.”

“….”

“No one we meet here will remember us anyway. “Let’s get started before it’s too late.”

***

Fabella looked down at her window at the end of her attic. She saw Damian’s back wearing a robe and leaving the dark street.

Damian finished the discussion and went straight to the investigation. Favela also planned to investigate the case by posing as a pregnant woman.

However, she had work to do before that.

She moved her gaze to the roof of the building opposite.

There was a silver crow sitting there, looking towards Damian.

No one who enters or enters the inn can sense that suspicious spirit. It was the same with Damian. He didn’t notice the white crow following him all the way from Rigbed.

Magic power faintly exuding from the tip of the feather. It was a spirit body.

Caw- Caw-

The favela opened her attic window and rolled it open.

She had sensed the existence of this spirit for a long time.

Fabella stretched out her arms forward.

“… “This is all I tolerate.”

As she clenched her fists, her air began to stir. Soon, the crow spirit’s form distorted at once and then disappeared.

***

At a temporary camp set up in the forest, members of the theater club sat together around a bonfire.

Rilke, leader of the theater department investigation team, continued his explanation.

“Time will be running out for the art club to move from Luden Village to their next destination. “They might realize that it would be too much to finish in four days like that and change their plans.”

The theater department, like other rival groups, had skipped Luden Village. There was a reason for that.

Rilke placed his hand on one place on the map.

“In order for the art club kids to complete the investigation peacefully and without looting, they have to split into two and move. “Right at this point where the mountain ranges split.”

The theater department’s plan was to ambush the art department’s forces when they were divided in two and move, and then attack them and extort the investigation data from Luden Village.

“Do you have any predictions about how the art department will be divided?”

Rilke, the second-year head of the Magic Department, was also a fairly good strategist.

“There are no carriage roads, a rocky road that is gloomy all year round and foggy even in broad daylight, and a comfortable paved road that divides into two… According to Luna, Damian is the type of person who solves difficult problems on his own. I wouldn’t send three delicate ladies down a difficult path. “There is a high possibility that Damian will travel alone along this rocky hill.”

Icarus said, nodding his head.

“Then the problem is how we should share power.”

Louis, who had been listening quietly, spoke as if he had been waiting.

“Let’s deal with the Ministry of Magic among the Ministry of Magic, and let’s deal with the Combat Department with the Combat Department.”

Icarus, a first year member of the Magic Club, said.

“I want to deal with Damien.”

“Yes, I can handle Favela and Lilith on my own. Actually… There is no need for Luna to be with us. Luna, where do you want to go?”

Luna was not concentrating on the conversation, but when she sensed something, she turned her head and looked up at the empty sky.

Her face suddenly became serious.

Everyone’s eyes were on her.

“Luna?”

Louis, a second year senior in the theater department, asked kindly.

“Luna, what’s going on?”

Only then did Luna turn her head back to its original position and pretend that nothing had happened.

“… It’s nothing.”

“What are you so worried about?”

Luna spoke briefly.

“No. Nothing.”

Then Louis went on as if he knew everything.

“I guess it bothers her that she’s at odds with her friend Damian, but it’s common for her to split up with her friends while participating in Eternia group activities.”

“….”

“It becomes awkward, and sometimes a better person comes in to fill the empty position.”

She completely ignored Louis’ burdensome gaze.

Rilke asked again.

“Luna, who do you want to be with?”

“I….”

“Since we are in the same first year, let’s hang out with Lilith….”

“No, I will take charge of Favela Senior.”

There was not a single worry. Additionally, Luna’s voice had a rare power to it.

As if she had been waiting for a long time.

***

Damian opened the door to the inn room with wood shavings all over her body.

Favela sat down at the table and greeted him.

A whole roast duck is on the table. There was potato stew and thick slices of rye bread. It was a nice table for a meal prepared in a shabby inn.

“Welcome.”

“What are these foods?”

“I was a little hungry so I ordered some food. “This duck meat was just given to me by my grandmother.”

“… “The situation didn’t seem good enough to just give something like this away.”

“So I offered to give him money, but he flatly refused.”

“Isn’t there something you want?”

“I looked enviously at the other tables downstairs, and they even prepared it for me, saying that the sadness of not being able to eat when I was pregnant will last a lifetime.”

“….”

“You even curse at my husband, asking me to wander around leaving my baby behind.”

“I learned something. “If I have a wife later, I will have to be careful.”

Favela smiled brightly.

“But why weren’t you eating?”

“How can I eat alone without you?”

Damian said as he sat across from the favela.

“You don’t have to worry about that.”

“Hurry up and eat. “Have you found any materials?”

“Yes, we found a note left by the missing person’s family.”

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“Where did you find it?”

“I secretly broke into the house. Although she almost got caught by the patrolman…. “Have you found out anything?”

Fabella nodded her head.

“Yes. “She acted like a naive woman who didn’t know anything, so she told everyone without caution.”

Then he cut up the duck thigh and placed it on Damian’s plate.

“… Since it is late, I will compile the information I have collected when I join the members.”

“… Good idea.”

Then Damien hesitated for a moment and opened her mouth.

“The reason I waited for the meal was… Thank you.”

Favela responded with a slight smile.

***

The noise from the guests downstairs has now subsided.

The sound of the floor creaking as people went up and down the stairs has now subsided.

As the night deepened, silence came to the attic room.

Damian laid down a blanket on the floor far away from the bed and tried to sleep.

“It’s okay if I sleep on the floor.”

Damian spoke firmly.

“If a mother has to sleep on the floor, won’t that leave her with sorrow for the rest of her life?”

Favela said with a smile as she lay on the bed.

“… “I guess that’s true too.”

She closed her eyes like that. Damien doesn’t respond anymore, as if he’s trying to get her to sleep.

Silence hovered over the room.

After a while, the moon waned and blue moonlight came through the attic window.

Favela slowly opened her eyes under the moonlight. Then she raised her upper body and looked at Damien lying on the floor.

Regular breathing sounds.

She knew the sound of Damien’s breathing when he was deeply asleep.

So there was no hesitation.

Even though she got up from her seat and her bed shook.

Even though the floor creaked as she approached Damian.

Even though she knelt down next to him and looked at his sleeping figure for a long time.

Damian did not wake up. She was just as she remembered.

Favela carefully grabbed one of his wrists.

Then she slowly placed her palm on her own cheek.

Her shoulder-length blue hair caught the moonlight, turned silver, and gradually grew, hanging down to the floor.

She closed her eyes as if she was deeply asleep.

She felt warmth and reminisced about her past.