172 – Reinhardt’s Name
After confirming that demonic energy was flowing from the top, I went into the small classroom with Autumn.
“If you have something to say, tell me I’ll listen first.”
“… Why do you save me?”
At the first word that jumped out, I told him why I had saved Ga-gul without hesitation.
“Because you look so much like someone I know.”
“… And what?”
Looking at Ga-gae’s face when he said that, it seems that he still doesn’t understand.
Well, when I save someone, if the reason is just because I resemble an acquaintance, then of course I will be suspicious. Rather, they would be careful not to sell them as slaves after saving them.
But what can I do?
“Really, that is the end.”
“yes?”
Because I resemble Ceres, I do this because I want to get rid of the lingering lingering feelings in my heart.
I know it’s not the real Ceres. The real Ceres is being treated in the Reinhardt family to purify the demon, or he is completely expelled from the family and wandering the streets, but there is no way he will be punished like me.
It wouldn’t be easy for even Ceres to commit evil acts that the gods would directly punish like me.
I’d call it evil, but it would be almost impossible for Ceres, who can’t buy anything at the god’s shop like me and doesn’t have the help of the system, to come here.
fake lianne… Let’s just say it’s a very special case.
“No, is that really the end!?”
“Yeah, and besides, I don’t intend to stay here long.”
It’s just a little lingering left.
A lingering lingering feeling that could not be resolved from Ceres now.
“In just a week or so, I’m leaving. So, please stay with me in the meantime.”
“Is that really the end?”
“Yeah, I don’t really want anything from you.”
Even if it’s still, at least it’s better than Ceres.
The system tells me that my evil karma has just increased, but there is no feeling of a shady desire rising or wanting to kill.
I just want to do a little on my own.
“Is that really the end?”
Maybe he didn’t believe me yet, but when he raised his sword while looking at Gaul, he flinched and pulled his foot back, but there was no way he could escape with that.
“If you were going to do it, wouldn’t you have said it?”
right?
It’s a bloody word to say with a smile, but it’s the right theory.
If I made up my mind and treated Gaul as a toy, I could do it right now.
I don’t know if I really had magical talent like Ceres, but the one in front of me right now is not Ceres Reinhardt from a wizard family, but an ordinary woman named Autumn.
There is no status window, no magic.
She’s just a weak woman.
“… That’s right. I’ve been around with you, but if I didn’t look like a lunatic psychopath who would kill me after playing with me for 14 days, would it be okay?”
“Quick acceptance is good.”
When he puts the drawn sword back in, Ga-Geul sighs and sits down on the floor, then takes a chocolate bar out of his pocket and puts it into his mouth.
Surely, even if he tried, he couldn’t be worse than Ceres, right?
*****
“Ah, Father… .”
“Shut up.”
The room of the head of the head family of Duke Reinhardt.
Aaron Reinhardt, the head of the Reinhardt family, stared down at his daughter and sent cold eyes to a space that Ceres, who had just become an adult, would not have been able to enter.
As if she was heading to a child she had picked up rather than her own child, Ceres, who was cowering in the cold gaze, naturally lowered her head.
Aaron, who did not even allow himself to take care of his pride, grabbed Ceres by the collar and lifted her body up.
“Ugh… .”
As soon as she opened her eyes, Ceres let out a quiet voice and met Aaron’s blue eyes.
Ceres, who was staring at Aaron’s eyes that shone softly like an abyss, couldn’t hold out for even 30 seconds and turned his head away, and Aaron clicked his tongue and said:
“… I ate too much.”
I just threw out one word.
However, that one word came back as a nail to Ceres.
“why… yo. this?”
I fell for that hell because of my father’s flattery.
So, in the name of an experiment in that hell, everything was taken from me.
The magic circuit that had begun to regenerate even a little bit collapsed, and it became a body that could no longer have children due to menopause, not menstruation. My memory deteriorated, so no matter how much I studied, I couldn’t study like I used to.
there was nothing.
The conclusion according to my father’s words was this.
ruin… If you say it’s self-sufficient, you only have to punish Lian. Why am I so impatient that irrelevant things intruded into my life and couldn’t kill me like this?
why.
why.
Is this only for me?
“… Why only me?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Why only me… Are you doing this?”
It’s as if the world has defined me as evil.
Yeah, I know I’m a bitch to suffer like this for Rian. So let that Lian suffer!
“Are you asking why is this only for you?”
“okay! Why do you hate me like this… Big!!”
Kwak!!
Blue veins swelled up on the back of Aaron’s hand, which was clutching his collar.
His face was flushed red, and blood vessels sprouted from his pure white white skin, and it looked as if it would explode at any moment.
“It’s because you made a mistake!!”
“I… what’s wrong… I did… !!”
“You don’t know!? Ever since you entered the academy, the Reinhard family has been going downhill! What did you do wrong when you didn’t do anything well!?”
Awesome!!
Aaron threw a mountain of documents across the room and threw Ceres to the floor.
“Kyaaak!”
“You entered the arcade academy with the name of our proud Reinhardt family, so you didn’t get the top prize… This much can be mercifully handed over. There were monsters at the same time.”
However, as soon as Ceres read the phrase written on a piece of newspaper Aaron held out in front of Ceres’ eyes, Ceres bit his lower lip and lowered his head.
“Then how would you explain this?”
[The Reinhardt family used imprinting magic on Minel Iris!]
“That was a mistake… .”
“There are degrees of error. If the mistake ends up being personal, it’s a mistake. And if you can make up for that mistake with your own hands, that’s a mistake. However, this incident that took place over the course of four years was not a mistake, but a disgrace to the name of the Reinhardt family. Is there anything wrong with what I said?”
“A case that could wear out enough if you helped… .”
“So from the point I couldn’t solve it alone, four years were wasted.”
As if it was still far away, two sheets of paper were thrust in front of Ceres’ eyes again.
[The eldest daughter of the Reinhardt family, a self-proclaimed demon!]
[The culprit who collapsed the academy! Her real name is Ceres Reinhardt!?]
“And I couldn’t stop it, and it caused such a big incident…” From the beginning, it was planned to slowly connect with the demons. Even if you didn’t do anything so stupid, it was being talked about implicitly!”
“Then did you tell me from the beginning!!!”
“I wish I could tell you!!!”
bang!!
Aaron, who hit his fist so hard that he was worried that the desk might collapse, met Ceres’s eyes half-crying.
“I didn’t say anything because I had a rough idea of what you were going to do.”
When Ceres wasn’t corrupted?
With a useless sense of justice and a reckless side without thinking, it was not strange to betray the family. Rather, the family must have made known the back side and filled the small pride.
However, if he had said it when he was corrupted, it would not be at the level of ruining the case with the entire Reinhardt family, but enough left after two or three incidents that would have nothing to say even if they were truly destroyed.
It’s a stupid year.
The result of struggling to fill his pride was not good, so he fell and turned humans into enemies. However, the result is also not good, so now they talk nonsense about why they didn’t help themselves.
“… I will give you one option.”
Aaron threw the parchment for making a scroll in front of Ceresui, saying that it was his last mercy.
Aaron gave Ceres a last chance, handing over a parchment full of magic and a pen that would allow him to use magic if he knew how to draw a magic circle even if he didn’t have magic.
“Draw a magic formula. A magic circle that no one can imitate, and no one can touch.”
“No one can imitate, and no one can approach.”
In fact, I was embarrassed to even call it an opportunity.
There is no way that Ceres, whose intelligence has declined due to Magi’s boosting effect, has the intellectual ability to draw a proper magic formula. In fact, it was just an act to shake off Aaron’s lingering feelings.
To brand them as completely useless.
On the parchment handed to her, Ceres began to draw a picture while biting off her fingertips.
And soon after, the scroll was beautifully completed with a six-pointed star drawn in blood.
*****
*Ceres Reinhardt perfectly crafted the ＜Superlative Summoning Scroll＞ by overcoming extreme odds.
*Hope for someone who will grant her wishes.
*The King of Spirits is summoned.
*His name is the fallen angel Lucifer.