(EP.66) Casting Shadow # 2
066 – Shadows on the Arc #2
Monday lunchtime.
I had a decent meal at the restaurant with Elgar.
It was quite strange to see Elgar, the youngest of the great family, eating 5,000 coin pork cutlet.
“Well… .”
In fact, she was drooling without even eating. Marmar, who was next to him, said.
“If I won’t eat it, is it okay for that Marmar to eat… ?”
The only thing in front of Marmar was a bowl of bean sprout soup that cost only 2,000 coins. It seems that the quantity alone was not enough.
“If you don’t want to eat it, I’ll let that Marmar eat it… !”
Marmar finally brought the pork cutlet placed in front of Elgar in front of him and started eating in a hurry. Looking at it, I was skeptical.
“Marmar. I gave you a meal ticket and 150,000 coins that I stole from Silvers Conde. How did you do that?”
“It is something to be saved for in case of emergencies… !”
That seems to be the case.
“But to get the tail to grow back, you need to eat a lot of nutrients… !”
At Marmar’s words, I looked at the imp-tailed wand wrapped around like a bracelet. How did you know that Marmar would cut off her tail and give her flying?
“This pork cutlet is very imp-friendly and delicious… . The price is also cheap. It’s cheap and very tasty… .”
Watching Marmar eat 5,000 won pork cutlet like high-quality beef with excitement, I felt sorry for nothing.
So I handed Marmar the two leftover dumplings, trying to figure out how to do it.
“Eat this too.”
“After all, a comrade has a very wide heart… ! Giving you something to eat… ! Is it really going to be an example for the denomination? !”
Is it because of Marmar’s noise? Elgar, who appeared to be in deep thought, frowned.
“It’s so noisy that I can’t concentrate. What the hell is this imp? Why the hell is the imp here?”
“I am Marmar Marnoi… !”
“What is Maru? Tae-oh, what is he, are you eating with us?”
It must be the first time Elgar has met Marmar like this. After all, when I was with Marmar, Aira was always by my side.
However, I was a little worried about how to explain this to Elgar.
“He is, what is it? It’s like my intern.”
With a bit of smirk, Elgar looks like she can’t understand any more, making wrinkles between her eyebrows.
“What is an intern?”
“Interns are very nice and wonderful… ! There is tea time, and there is also monthly tea… ! How many times better than a teaching assistant? !”
“What is he saying now. Anyway, it happened. Where else did my food go?”
Elgar noticed that the bowl in front of her was empty. Beside him, Marmar answered with a small crawling voice.
“That Marmar already ate… .”
“What? Who wants to eat my food? Would you like a honey night?”
“Hey… !”
Marmar trembles at Elgar’s growl. His mouth, which was screaming similar to mine, was filled with pork cutlet sauce.
I thought that Marmar might have a honey night with Elgar if it went on like this, so I decided to intervene in the story.
“Elgar-sama said it was okay to eat.”
“Did I?”
“Yes. I can’t seem to remember because I was thinking about something else.”
“I did.”
“What the hell are you thinking?”
After the lecture, I hinted at Elgar, who seemed to have gone somewhere else. In fact, he seemed to know what Elgar was thinking.
He was probably thinking about the undead Jundong and the evil necromancer on the outskirts of the city that the cadets were talking about.
“Are you still paying attention to what other people say?”
“What do I care about?”
“About that evil necromancer. A necromancer who wields a high lich.”
“… … .”
Elgar didn’t really deny what I said. Soon she glanced around, bowed her head towards me, and quietly answered a few words.
“What do you think?”
“What?”
“Mirna Draco, do you think he’s wandering the suburbs, digging graves, stealing corpses, and raiding people, turning them into undead?”
In the past, I would have thought so too.
Among the cadets of this Ark, there is no other guy as famous for his necromancy and black magic as the daughter of the Draco family.
A necromancer who wields a high lich.
Isn’t that Draco’s little girl?
But yesterday, I was invited to the Draco family’s villa, and I looked over there. I know very well that Mirna Draco is actually a coward who is afraid of ghosts and skeletons.
Does that make Mirna Draco an evil necromancer?
Impossible.
“It won’t be Miss Mirna.”
“Then who would do such a bad thing? Mirna Draco, who else does that but that girl?”
I was speechless at Elgar’s question.
It seems that Elgar doesn’t know about Draco’s twin sister, Narmi Draco. That’s why it’s probably not going to be on the dragon’s boat.
Of course, their sisters are not criminals. At least I thought so.
Other people seem to have a different opinion.
– Did you hear it? I heard last night the necromancer attacked the citizens of the outskirts.
– I heard it too. Draco’s seal found on the fallen dead?
-Isn’t that necromancer the daughter of the Draco family? Since it’s a single number, you can go back and forth between the campus and the suburbs at will. In fact, it seems like he’s been out to the suburbs every night lately.
Rumors are made quickly.
The story of a young girl from a famous family on the continent who attacks people every night and turns them into corpses is passing over everyone’s heads like a ghost.
-Gold brooch cadets seem to have suffered as well. If the gold brooches who are within the top 100 of the rankings are beaten, it means that they are one of the most talented in this arc.
-Mirna Draco is the 6th most talented person, so it’s quite possible.
The circumstances of the case were perfect for driving Mirna Draco into an evil necromancer.
Because the Draco family was a family that had many secrets and carried eerie curses.
But I didn’t like it when the twin sisters, who wait for the sun to rise every morning in that dark mansion, were slandered by the rumours.
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Cursing the Kingdom of Angmar means that I, the descendant of the Demon King, will someday return and curse everything that I should have taken control of.
“Then Marmar is the first to get up because it is Professor Belhawk’s errand. !”
“okay. See you later.”
I waved to Marmar and I got up too.
“Elgar-sama, then, I have work, so I’ll get up first.”
“okay. I have a job too.”
* * *
The place where I went after eating was where the professors’ labs were located.
I’m looking for Professor Balan, a famous warlock who teaches ancient sagas.
I wondered if she knew the seal I found on the tongue of a zombie on Saturday morning.
Even if it doesn’t have to be, there might be a clue about anything, and then there is a high probability that it will become evidence to reveal the rumors about the undead situation and necromancers that are popular in the school right now.
“Are you there?”
So I stopped in front of Professor Balan’s lab and knocked on the door.
Professor Balan’s lab was in a much more luxurious and splendid research building than Professor Belhawk’s lab he had visited before.
It seemed to be true that even among the professors, like the brooches of the students, there was a class, either knowingly or unknowingly.
There’s even a tropical fish aquarium in the hallway.
smart.
“Are you there?”
I knocked on the lab door again.
Is lunch time over? Are you in class? While I was watching the reaction for a long time, a woman carrying a heavy load came up to me and said,
“Professor Balan went to the faculty meeting… !”
It appears to be a blue-haired nymph who works as a teaching assistant under Professor Balan. Is ‘Miris’ written on the nameplate a name?
“Assistant Miris, when will Professor Balan return?”
“I don’t know… ! The professor is busy because of the dead people chasing around the fortress… ! I think I have a pile of documents to pay… !”
That’s right.
I am an expert in black magic and necromancy, so there must be many other people looking for Professor Balan in the current situation.
I reluctantly took a step back.
I’ll probably be able to meet the professor tomorrow anyway.
So the next day after time.
I headed to the classroom to attend Tuesday’s lecture, an ancient language.
As I slowly opened the door and walked in, the cadets who had been chatting for a while shut their mouths and felt a little sad because it felt like they were being bullied.
I put my luggage down on the table in the corner where I was sitting last time and waited for the lecture to start.
Is Mirna Draco not here yet?
As I looked around, it was already 9 o’clock. Finally, the door swung open and a woman with a fairly large chest entered the classroom.
Dark blue hair in a black dress. It was Professor Balan, a woman with red eyes and dark circles. The complexion seems to be paler than the last time.
She looked around and slammed the table with her palm.
“Come on, everyone, take a seat. Lecture begins… .”
I glanced at the only empty seat next to me. Mirna Draco hasn’t come to class yet.
Are you trying to figure it out?
“Oh, today’s lecture is practice. And there are challenges. Practice and assignments in the city, near Gracia. Exploring the ruins. ancient lions. this scroll. I am writing it down.”
Lectures continued with or without absenteeism.
It seemed that the second lecture of the ancient language was called practice. The content was to get out of this arc and directly explore the ancient ruins.
someone raises a hand
“professor. I heard that undead are coming out of the suburban ruins. Would it be okay?”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. our professors. It is. ‘Cause I’ve got it all cleaned up There were some guys who ran a little bit. I only go to the places I designate. Does not matter.”
Professor Balan began to scribble something on the blackboard.
It was a kind of map, and he explained that it was to draw a large site of the ‘old castle ruins’ that existed above the north side of the arc.
“People listening to my lectures. S, twenty. 2 people in 1 group. paired up. ten teams each. Ten zones each. You have to come and investigate. There’s a sign I hid. if you bring I’ll give you extra points.”
2 people 1 piece?
At those words, I felt like my chatter was getting colder.
It’s a group assignment.
there’s no one by my side
“Tae, Tae-oh. Do you have any friends or mates?”
In the end, I was left alone, and I had to go through a shameful situation.
I’m the only one who doesn’t have a mate
It would have been better if it had been a lecture I took with Elgar and Aira at the very least. The only people I know in this lecture are Mirna Draco.
“Okay, then, pair up with Draco. What I said today. Instead, let me know.”
So I ended up pairing up with Mirna Draco, who was absent from class.
“Well then, until this morning. All marks and patterns, found in my lab. Please submit. Then come on.”
After the lecture, I decided to go find Mirna Draco. Because I had to let you know that you were in the same group as me.
So he knocks on the door to the luxurious dormitory where she will be staying.
“Are you there?”
ㅡuh… .
There was a sound of excruciating pain from within.
“Miss Mirna. are you there This is Tae Oh Gospel.”
Awkward, gleeful.
The door wasn’t locked.
Inside the slowly opening door, I could see the interior of the gorgeous single-person dormitory, the soft-looking bed, and Mirna Draco lying on it and slowly getting up.
It looked very disheveled, not like an aristocrat.
Bare legs and breasts were visible under the long shirt that looked like a nightgown, but Mirna Draco didn’t seem to care.
“Where are you sick? I didn’t say anything, so I just came in. sorry.”
“Fortress, I couldn’t sleep at all… . Why did you come to my room, commoner?”
“I am here to inform you that there is an assignment. Today, you should take a walk with me in the ruins of the old castle to the north.”
“eww… .”
Mirna Draco’s face was very red. I haven’t touched it, but wouldn’t my forehead and cheeks be boiling?
“What can I do to help you?”
At that, Mirna Draco pointed at something with a wrinkled expression on her forehead. It was like kelp on the table. dry kelp?
“Give me that. to heal the body Because it’s very good… .”
“That’s right.”
Mirna Draco put the kelp in her mouth and murmured. However, chewing the tough kelp seemed very difficult because of the lack of strength in the body.
“Ugh.”
Eventually, Mirna Draco spit it out.
As I picked up the hard kelp lying on the floor, I inquired.
“Why are you so broken? The reason I couldn’t sleep… .”
What came to my mind was the rumors the students were talking about.
Rumor has it that an evil necromancer who appeared last Sunday night is making trouble by raiding people and indiscriminately raising the dead.
Mirna now looked like a necromancer who couldn’t sleep at night.
Mirna Draco exhaled a very hot breath slowly.
“I’m sorry, but really, I don’t want to say this either. There is no other way. Commoner, can you wipe my body with a cold towel… .”
Mirna Draco finally lays down on the bed. It seemed that he couldn’t hold his mind any longer.
I nodded, looking at the washbasin and towel next to her.
“That’s right.”