Episode 18 – Bait (2)
18. Bait (2)
4Th period, class D.
“The change in mana that occurs during multiple chanting and the load on the core are always constant…”
“······.”
Aria’s eyes looked extremely bored as she listened to the professor’s lecture.
Because it was something we already knew.
I had high expectations because she was the best academy in the empire.
In reality, the content of the class was too easy for Aria.
Aria was a genius among geniuses.
I can understand most of the content just by reading the provided textbook.
With just a little bit of concentration, she can perform the spell in no time.
She realized its true meaning just by casting the spell a couple of times.
To her, the classes her first-year freshmen took were essentially a waste of time.
Sigh.
To overcome her boredom, Aria habitually stroked the choker around her neck.
A choker that looks like an ordinary accessory, with a circular ring in the middle of the black string.
‘I want to see my master…’
Swoosh swoosh.
She carefully adjusted the leather strap of her choker.
This choker gave the feeling of a strong connection between Leon and himself.
Although she was a ball of restraint that would explode immediately if she made up her mind to harm Leon, there was no way she would make up her mind to do that, so she was not dangerous at all.
Rather, what was better was that Leon firmly trusted himself by wearing this.
‘The closest relationship than anyone else…’
Aria was the only one who knew the secret that Leon had made a contract with her demon.
If you collude with the devil in any way, you will be immediately judged as a heretic and become a public official on the continent.
The fact that Duke Crusiv’s spirit made a contract with the devil is a huge secret.
‘hehehe.’
Aria was glad that she shared such a secret only with herself.
As she was thinking about random things, her lunch time quickly arrived.
It seemed like she had been planning for this moment.
Aruel Sylfiniti and her gang arrived.
“I said I’d see you at lunch earlier, right?”
Crack.
Instead of answering, Aria pointed outside her door with a gesture of her chin.
Her mood, which had been improving just a moment ago as she was thinking about Leon, sank, and her eyes became cold.
“Ha…But let’s see how long.”
Aruel couldn’t help but grit his teeth at Arya’s consistently arrogant attitude.
They began to head out of her main building, with Aria leading the way.
“Aria… I guess it was captured in the end…”
“That too to Aruel…”
Seeing Aria being dragged away by Aruel’s gang, her number of cadets.
“······.”
Aria smiled inwardly as she saw that.
In order for her to easily achieve Leon’s plan, she had to show herself being persecuted by her nobles.
The more they talked about this and spread rumors, the better.
* · * *
Aria has already arrived at the back of an abandoned building.
The area near the abandoned building located in the corner of the academy was famous as a place where delinquent students mainly gathered because there was little traffic.
Aruel’s gang pushed Aria into the wall and surrounded her.
“Aria. “Do you still have anything to say?”
Aruel smiled and laughed at Aria.
I thought I could finally educate this cocky b*tch.
“······.”
Aria looked straight up at her without moving a muscle.
“······Good. “Are you saying you’re going to come out like that?”
“······.”
“For some reason, I didn’t like it from the first time I saw it. “Going around with your eyes open to the dirty commoners…”
Tuktuk.
Aruel raises her index finger and gently pushes Aria’s forehead.
Aria began to be bombarded with verbal abuse.
However, to Arya, who had been living in Hevilon, the noble woman’s conversation was so cute that it made her yawn.
Aria thought as her curse words flowed through her ears.
‘The wound on the cheek is probably the most noticeable, right?’
You could knock them all out right now, but that would disrupt your plans.
To be precise.
It’s not Leon’s plan, but Aria’s plan to help Leon.
They probably didn’t drag him here just to say a few curse words.
Because you can do that anywhere.
It is certain that he will probably try to do hand-to-hand combat soon.
If you give her a few blows and leave her with scars, her cadets will feel even more pity for her after seeing how harshly she was treated by Aruel.
If that happens, there is a greater chance that someone named ‘Burrow’, who is trying to rally her commoner cadets, will contact her.
‘Just getting hit a few times, okay?’
She had always been beaten since she was young, so she was used to being beaten.
“This…!”
Wheeik!
When Aria continued to show no response, Aruel, who was feverish, finally raised her hand.
Her palm, leaning back, was just before it reached her cheek.
Sigh.
Aria even slightly adjusted the angle of her head to make it easier to fit.
At that time.
“What are you doing?”
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A cold voice descended upon them.
* · * *
Her intestines were frozen cold.
“Leon, Leon…?”
“···f*cked.”
Aruel’s gang hurriedly backed away from Aria, her face turning white.
I don’t know what their relationship is, but it’s clear that Leon and Aria are close.
Trudge, trudge.
Leon walked towards them with a stiff smile.
“Leon, this is…”
Aruel waved her hand and tried to say something, but Leon completely ignored her and went straight to her Aria.
“Aria.”
Aria’s pupils trembled slightly as she felt Leon’s subtle anger.
“Master…”
“Why are you still? “What are you doing?”
Leon laughed out loud at the absurdity.
This is perplexing and absurd.
It’s been a while since I came here with excitement at the thought of seeing Aria’s skills, but she’s in a situation where she’s being beaten by the wrong people.
She was even more embarrassed because Leon knew her fighting skills better than anyone else.
“That…”
Aria’s wall was pushed down beneath her.
“I was afraid that Burrow would come to me sooner if I did this…”
“······Ah.”
Leon immediately realized what she wanted to do and sighed.
Feeling stuffy, he took out a piece of tobacco from his arms and bit into it.
“Ha. Aria.”
“Yes…”
“When did I tell you to do something like that?”
I understand her loyalty, but this was too much.
“It doesn’t make sense for you to get beaten because of that plan.”
The plan you have in mind is just a slightly easier path.
If it didn’t work out, there was also a way to throw it all away.
Coming to this world, Aria was the only person Leon cared about.
‘Did they bring me to the academy so I could get beaten up?’
Because I know her miserable past.
Because she and she have lived a life similar to herself.
Leon said she didn’t want Aria to be unhappy.
Also, she prayed as her only trusted companion.
To take it easy, sacrifice her own comrades?
In Leon’s dictionary, such petty behavior was never tolerated.
To sum it up in one word, what she was trying to do was to tell the truth.
“I will never use you as an outcast like that, so don’t do that again.”
“······!”
Aria’s eyelashes, which had been down, went up.
The round blue eyes shone brightly.
“Master…!”
Aria, touched, ran into his arms with tears in her eyes.
“And.”
As if he was used to it, Leon continued to speak to her, sneaking away from her and avoiding her.
“There is a better way.”
“······?”
Leon grinned as he lit the candle.
“Let’s just keep doing what we do.”
“Ah!”
Aria understood what he said right away.
She waved her hands in the air, muttered softly, and unleashed her magic.
Whaaah!
In an instant, noise-blocking and perception-impeding magic spread widely around them.
‘My skills have improved.’
Leon nodded at the magic, which was much cleaner than the last time he saw it.
As expected, rescuing her from Hevilon was an excellent choice.
“Hey, Leon…?”
Aruel sensed that something was not unusual and tried to talk with a smile on her face.
“······.”
Leon touched his ear with a sour expression.
“Leon, are you finished talking? “Is it okay if I just beat them all up?”
Celia, who was standing behind blocking the escape route to prevent them from escaping, asked.
“Uh. “You can beat as much as you want.”
“I like that.”
Carotene approached, clenching her fist.
“Now, wait a minute! “Our Sylfiniti family-.”
Aruel, who habitually mentioned the family name, stopped talking.
And I looked around.
Crucipp, Bastio, Hellbridge.
Compared to the duke’s name, it was difficult to even touch the Sylfiniti family, which he had always proudly boasted.
“······.”
Aruel closed her eyes tightly.
······Their screams rang out desperately for a while, but the noise-blocking magic that Aria unleashed was truly solid.
* · * *
30 Minutes later.
“Lunch time will end soon, so let’s leave it at this.”
Leon said, wiping the blood from his hands with his handkerchief.
“Huh, huh!”
“Mommy…”
Aruel’s gang, whose entire bodies were covered in blood, were shedding tears.
When did they, noble wizards, experience such physical violence?
Unlike the warriors who had to use their bodies, these people had never been beaten anywhere and grew up with respect, so they were even less accustomed to this kind of pain.
For that reason, Leon put even more effort into beating them.
So that it doesn’t become a bother later on.
To the point where I can never make eye contact again.
This clearly engraved fear into their minds.
Leon tapped Aruel on the cheek and asked.
“Tell me what I ordered.”
“Ugh…Aria-.”
“What?”
“Ah, Aria! “He continues to act like a bully in front of the cadets…”
Aruel looked at Leon’s hand trembling as if he was about to hit her at any moment.
“How long?”
“Until you tell me to stop…”
“So, are you just pretending? However, acting shouldn’t be awkward. Let’s do well?”
Aruel nodded her head slowly, her face covered with tears.
“Good.”
Leon took out potion bottles one after another from his subspace pocket.
Aria quickly took it and started spraying it on her guys’ wounds.
“Hmm? “Do you also provide treatment?”
“It’s strange when the people who went to harass you come back covered in blood.”
“······But why do we have to do such a play?”
Celia, who was quietly watching what Leon was doing, asked.
“Everyone has their own thoughts.”
“Oh, is that so?”
Just lift her shoulder once.
Celia, who has a cool personality, did not bother to ask questions.
Soon, Carotene and Celia also joined in and poured potions on the guys.
Chiikik!
Let’s use that expensive advanced recovery potion generously.
The ruptured blood vessels are repaired.
The torn muscles are healing.
The skin that had become pale also turned white.
“Is this why you said not to touch the bones?”
“Yes. Bones don’t heal well even with advanced potions.”
If you broke a bone or joint, you had to get help from a priest, but that was a problem because you had to go to the infirmary.
One bottle per person, two-thirds of the bottle was poured into the body and the rest was given by mouth, and the Aruel group was quickly cured.
Finally.
“Clean.”
Sssss-!
When Aria used her cleanliness magic, her dirty clothes and face became clean, as if nothing had happened.
Absolutely perfect bottle giving and medicine giving.
However, those people who were deeply imprinted with fear did not even dare to think of getting angry.
Aria, who said something in the corner, approached Leon and examined him.
“Master – no, Leon. “Is this enough for me?”
“···Well, is that enough?”
Aria’s hair is all matted, and her face is covered in charcoal soot.
It was the perfect way to show that she had been through hardships.
* · * *
Once the long lunch break was over.
Aruel’s gang and Aria returned to the main building in the same condition, and many cadets witnessed this.
After that, Aruel continued to pretend to harass Aria.
Just a few days later.
“Can we talk for a moment?”
“······.”
The target takes the bait.