After the Magic War, there were not a few side effects. It was a really annoying side effect.
“Hello, Prince Ludwig. do you know me We’re in the same class… … .”
“I’m in the room right next to the dormitory… … .”
“I met you in a dream… … .”
It was the usual way to school, and I just went into the classroom as usual, but these things are annoyingly sticking to me and chattering. especially female students.
“Wait, you don’t have to tell me your name.”
I have already memorized your names… … If you had expected the sweet line, “I didn’t know Rain, I didn’t know it for a long time.”
“Because I have no intention of memorizing and I have no intention of getting close. First of all, I can’t remember names very well.”
The students seemed to be frozen with shocked faces, but laughed, saying that perhaps because they are the nobles of the Sega family, they play sophisticated pranks.
“No, isn’t that a joke?”
“Oh, Gongja-nim is also true.”
“You’re not joking?”
Even after saying that, Lane’s expression hardened as he looked at the guys laughing. Are these crazy as a group… … .
“Look at that, Gongja has been doing his personality since morning… … .”
“Deceiving me from the morning, what an amazing personality… … .”
And the men gossiped about it and then gave it another strange nickname. I don’t really care what other people say, so it doesn’t matter.
“Hey, get out of the way?”
At that time, there was a voice that resonated in the classroom like a cool sand breeze. The thorns mixed with the clear tone harshly scan everyone’s back and waist.
Christa Warden.
Immediately, both female and male students stepped aside or sat back to their seats as if they were running away.
“joy.”
Krista snorted as if to listen as she passed Lane. Gertrude Panton, who was accompanying him, laughed mischievously and leaned his head toward Lane and whispered.
“Isn’t Gongja’s nickname actually a female Confucius?”
The female Confucius… … Where else did that nickname come from? For some reason, it seems that she has more nicknames than Rin.
Then they sat down, but Christa, who sat next to her first, turned her head toward the window and didn’t even pretend to know.
It was so immobile that it felt like a stone statue.
“Why do you look angry?”
“… … .”
“hey.”
“… … .”
“Why are you angry?”
After poking at the beehive for a long time, Christa crossed her legs and raised her chin arrogantly.
“I wish you wouldn’t talk to me. did you say that then? I don’t know anything like you.”
“Oh sorry. I won’t pretend to know in the future.”
“And you’re not mad? If I had to ask, it would have to be exhilarating.”
Suddenly, Christa crossed her arms as if revealing the appearance of an arrogant aristocrat. The expression on his face was haughty.
“I was getting sick of seeing you pretending to be weak when you were really strong. You beat this Christa Warden. Please straighten your shoulders a little.”
This guy also says something similar to Aunt Elin. Do nobles always have to be strong?
“But now I have to say it’s worth stepping on you right? In the past, you would have only heard the sarcastic remark that you had to beat a degraded Confucius to beat you, but now that you have captured Chaihaq, the game has completely changed.”
“?”
“I’m looking forward to it, Lane Ludwig. The day this Christa Warden will trample you flat like clay. So until then, don’t lose to anyone. If that’s the case, I won’t let you go.”
Christa stood up, stomping on her desk, provocatively looking down at Lane. When Lane did not avoid his gaze, a sharp silence formed.
‘Inseong Confucius University Senior Student from ＜Ribarden＞… … .’
‘What a match-up… … .’
Then Lane glanced at Krista’s desk and raised an eyebrow.
“It’s Owen in class 1, don’t you take out your textbook? You get deducted after that.”
“Oh right, yes. It could have been a big deal.”
However, the silence ended absurdly with the sound of Christa sitting down and taking out a textbook.
In the front seat, Gertrude Panton raised her forehead with a sigh.
‘If you’re going to do it, you have to do it right until the end… … .’
I just practiced that declaration of war line all day last night.
* * *
After taking classes at school and studying runes after school, it was already the weekend.
“There is a problem.”
And on the weekend, I was supposed to meet at the library with Karen, a minor librarian. Karen looked around and cautiously raised her voice.
When I heard the story, it was like this.
Inquiries were made to all five publishers in the empire, but most of the books about Turaina were temporarily out of print.
“Why is it out of print?”
“I don’t know the details. The ‘Golden Children’, a heresy interrogation agency affiliated with the Kwangryong Orthodox Church, suddenly put all books related to Turaina on the censorship list this year.”
“That, huh? Are you saying Turaina’s book was declared heresy?”
It was a curious thing. If Turaina wasn’t committing heresy, why would she do such a thing… … .
And if you’re going to do a heresy question, you should do it while you’re still alive. Why suddenly after you’re dead?
“Have you read that book?”
“of course. For a librarian at the central library, that much is a must-read. Because he is a disciple of Archmage Rin and Fire Dragon Priestess Friede, and he has left as many achievements as the two of them.”
is that guy?
I was about to burst into laughter.
“Was there anything particularly strange about it? Like explaining the benefits of black magic.”
“It’s a strange part, I didn’t see it when I saw it. On top of that, since it is a biography of a great person, all the strange parts must have been censored.”
Didn’t Turaina have an accident involving black magic?
That’s fortunate… … .
otherwise why?
It wasn’t a matter where the answer would come from thinking about it here, but the situation was undoubtedly complicated.
“Then you will have to go to the black market.”
“The black market?”
“Everything comes out on the black market. From books that have been judged heretical to magic tools that have been eroded by the abyss, they appear. You should be able to find Turaina’s books in no time.”
“But the problem is that Turaina’s book is currently under review for heresy.”
It was. There is no need to explain why the price has skyrocketed, and crucially, you will not be able to borrow money from your family to use it.
If you try to buy the book with family funds and get caught by the ‘Golden Children’, a heretic interrogation agency, the problem becomes complicated.
Of course, the Ludwig family won’t be burned at the stake for heresy, but… … It’s going to be annoying for your parents.
‘But when you buy it personally, the story is different.’
If you run into problems with your purchase, you can excuse yourself by saying, ‘I really wanted to read that book out of respect for Turaina.’ It will end up as a personal matter only when things get bigger.
“It feels like things are getting too big… … I really have no face, Gongja. I will add as much as I can.”
“How much do you get paid per month?”
“Thirty silver coins of Hyeonmu.”
In general, since the daily wage a worker receives for a day’s work is one silver coin, it can be said that it is not small. But going to the black market is not enough.
“I don’t know what the market price is right now, but I think I should have enough of three gold coins.”
“Three gold coins?”
Karen’s eyes trembled.
Hundreds of Xuanwu silver coins had to be collected to be exchanged for one gold Huanglong coin. Perhaps she was counting on that, Karen coughed as if she had been choking.
“This is a big deal. Even Confucius said he couldn’t spend his family’s money… … Even my salary is not enough.”
Okay, I’ll have to think about it for a second here. After reincarnating in this body, I thought I would never worry about money… … .
how to make money
Shall we use magic on the street and sell it to humans who need it?
that is a dismissal It is illegal because there is no wizard license (it is automatically issued when you take the rank test).
‘I’m a magic instructor… … ?’
This is also dismissal.
In the world, I am called a degraded Confucius. Who would hire a guy like that, and even if he did, who would want to learn?
And that’s mostly because it’s an annual contract. Because what is needed is an emergency.
‘Wouldn’t it take a little time but make a lot of money?’
The supreme truth of life history, high risk, high return. Risk is stake… … The biggest stake I can bet is my life.
Are you risking your life to make money?
Wait, you didn’t even have to think too hard. After finally reaching the correct answer, Lane nodded in satisfaction.
“Do not worry. There are things I want to do separately, so while doing that, I get a job as well.”
“What do you want to do?”
“I was thinking of doing some activities as an adventurer because I had something to experiment with magic. I make some money doing it.”
It’s not about doing good.
I was going to be an adventurer anyway, and the money that came out of it was useless. It’s just a combination, a combination, a combination.
“Adventurer, how could Confucius of Sega do such a menial thing… … No, Gongja. This is me being disciplined and at the Central Library level—”
Karen’s concerns were blown away with a rough shake of her head, and I quickly finished what I had to say.
“—I think it will take roughly two to three weeks to make money and buy a book on the black market, but wouldn’t this be much faster?”
“… … !”
“Then we will meet here again.”
The story seems to be over, so I’m going to go downtown to register as an adventurer. The only time I was allowed to go out was on the weekends.
It seemed trivial, but the problem that later hatched into a big problem broke out the next day, when neither of them were around.
The chief librarian, who had gathered the librarians and checked the list of loans for this week, must have raised his eyebrows.
“What is this, the person who borrowed Tureina’s biography of great men… … Prince Lane Ludwig?”
Everyone knew who the boy was, because it was a name that was making a lot of noise at school these days. However, the reason the chief librarian mentioned this was for a more serious reason.
“What is this? how did you get the loan? 1st graders can’t borrow during the 1st semester. Who approved this loan?”
Then, the wrinkled first-class librarian looked over the binding and let out a short groan.
“I checked the time and it was Karen. He has just been working for four months.”
“Where are you now?”
“Today is a holiday… … .”
“Didn’t you hear that the first grader couldn’t borrow in the first semester?”
“It’s possible, but… … It seems that Prince Lane made a reckless request. I am not a child who would make such a mistake.”
Most librarians knew what a clever librarian Karen was. That’s why the second-level librarian, who was puzzled by this issue, ah, eyes lit up.
“Professor Elin came often, so I wonder if he spelled the name wrong on the one he borrowed?”
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“Karen’s handwriting is messy, so at first glance it looks like Elin. I wrote Ra like El.”
“On top of that, it could have been that I wrote it down as Lane because I was distracted because I said ‘Rain’, ‘Rain’ a lot these days.”
That was partially true. That Karen was distracted enough to make a mistake.
It wasn’t because of Lane, the book he had been keeping disappeared like a lie, but when he tried to place a new order for it, it was out of print by ‘Golden Children’.
And I was distracted by a series of ridiculous coincidences, such as Sega’s Confucius, who said he would buy it at his own expense while working as an adventurer.
The second-class librarian then chuckled.
“Besides, I’ve been enjoying a tryst with Karen and Prince Rain lately. When a woman falls in love, she makes mistakes like that.”
It was a ridiculous logic, but most of the female librarians nodded as if they understood. The male librarians shook their heads.
But it made the most sense to think so. There was no way Karen would make such a mistake, and it was also true that Professor Elin had visited the library often these days.
If you think like that, everything becomes simple. And since Lane, unlike other freshmen, is a descendant of Sega, the solution to a problem is fairly simple.
“okay? If that’s the case, no problem. After the meeting, make sure to properly mark the borrower’s name. As Professor Elin Ludwig.”