“Not only did they engage in illegal gambling, but they also engaged in theft, robbery, injury, and drug distribution.”
“When did I?! “Don’t talk nonsense!!”
Seeing him jumping up and down, I held out additional documents.
“This is evidence collected by the city. “It has been confirmed through documents that you gave illegal instructions to your friends by putting your seal on them.”
“W-what? no way?”
Wilhelm’s complexion turned pale.
I’m not stupid at all.
He realized the whole story.
“You guys actually borrowed my seal?!”
“Damn, I was going to take a big hit and blame it all on that stupid pig. Damn it at the end. Everyone jump out!!”
Of course, I had no intention of letting go.
“You guys, how dare you run away! Bow down to this great magic of Hans!”
“… “Mister, you know that even if you try to show off against common criminals, you end up looking ugly, right?”
Wow!
Although they may seem like they’re always playing tricks, both Linden and Hans are excellent wizards in their own right.
They couldn’t escape for long before they were all captured.
I spoke to Wilhelm, who was sitting down with a devastated face.
“Get up. I don’t have time to sit down. “You have somewhere to go too.”
“… Um, where are you going?”
I answered as if it were obvious.
“Of course you have to go to jail too. Even if you were just taken advantage of by those guys, it is true that you were involved in drug distribution, so you will be sentenced to at least 10 years in prison.”
“Well, that was framed… !!”
“Who will believe you? Don’t be mistaken. “Now that you have been excommunicated as a marquis, you are no different from anyone else on the street.”
I crossed my arms.
“I said it was a false accusation, but didn’t you know that they were involved in drug distribution? “Just knowingly turning a blind eye is a serious crime punishable by more than five years in prison.”
The guy shook his hands.
Then he suddenly looked at me.
“All you have to do is prove my innocence!”
“why me?”
“Why! You are my class teacher… !!”
“I don’t know who it was that didn’t treat me like a professor. I have never acknowledged someone like you as my student. Don’t be mistaken. “It is in my interest if troublemakers like you are expelled from school.”
Slam!
The guard knight who followed twisted the man’s wrists back and handcuffed him.
When he was locked in a cage, he screamed at the guards.
“you guys! This is a big mistake! Do you know who I am?! “Don’t regret it later, release it now!”
“He has already been excommunicated from the family, so there is no need for special treatment. Please follow the rules.”
“I understand, Professor Ban!”
By accomplishing many tasks so far, his status within the security forces has risen.
The knights of the guard shouted as if asking them to leave it to them, and sent a grim smile towards Wilhelm.
“hehehe, you are the marquis’ precious son? “I will place you in a room with a lot of cuties.”
Gwiyomi was a security guard’s slang term for a cockroach.
“Then I’ll just go back to the academy.”
“No, Professor Ban! Just wait! Is it really going to go on like this?! I can’t be in jail!! Ugh, what is this cockroach?! go away!”
When I came out of the prison, leaving behind Wilhelm’s screams, there was a person waiting for me.
As expected?
It was Wilhelm’s father, the Marquis Lemming.
They rushed to the portal from the North Sea.
“… Won’t this be enough? “That child must have reflected sufficiently.”
Marquis Lemming looked at me and said.
“I will definitely tell that kid. “I must follow your instructions carefully from now on.”
“All right. “Enough.”
“… “Really?”
When I nodded obediently, Marquis Lemming gave me a puzzled look.
“I will give up my son’s work.”
“!!”
“Actually, when I started, I was prepared that it would be very difficult. However, looking at the Marquis’s attitude now, I realized that it was impossible to change his temperament. “Let’s stop at this point so that we don’t waste our energy on each other.”
Marquis Lemming gritted his teeth.
“Aren’t these words too harsh? What do you know about my family? “I don’t even know why that child ended up like that!”
Margrave.
It is a title given to a family that protects the border on the outskirts of the empire.
However, Marquis Lemming was not an ordinary margrave.
As the threat to the North Sea, which I was in charge of, eased, I ended up taking control of numerous mines in the North Sea.
‘I suddenly became rich.’
The problem was what happened after that.
He should have handled it in a sophisticated manner, but he was always distracted by the wealth he gained after living in poverty and showed the behavior of a rich man.
When I came to my senses, I found that I had become despised and ostracized in aristocratic society.
In other words, the entire family suffered from an inferiority complex.
The reason Wilhelm was crooked was because of his inferiority complex.
“I know.”
“You know? “You?”
“Have you forgotten who I am? My name is Banregi. “I understand inferiority complex better than anyone else in the world.”
‘It’s true that I suffered from an inferiority complex.’
The family environment was worse than that of an orphan.
I couldn’t help but feel inferior.
“You say you know, but why are you acting like this…” .”
“Do you think you can shake off feelings of inferiority with a few good words of encouragement?”
Marquis Lemming could not answer.
“There is only one way to overcome feelings of inferiority. That’s right, experience. “You have to feel for yourself that you are not inferior.”
“… “There’s no way that kid could do that, right?”
“You can. “I will make it happen.”
“!!”
The Black Flame Dragon added majesty to my voice.
“Being a student in this class of Ecclesia. “You will realize what a blessing it is.”
In the end, the Marquis Lemming shrugged his shoulders and returned to the North Sea, while I spent my time attending to personal business.
Exactly 48 hours later.
I went to see Wilhelm again.
The guy’s demeanor had completely changed.
“Professor, I was wrong! I’ll do whatever you say, so just get me out of here! I will live steadily from now on! Ugh, I’m scared of cockroaches!”
It’s not just that he’s weak-hearted, prison is a place that is difficult for anyone to endure.
“You’re going to follow whatever I say from now on?”
“yes yes! If only I could get you out of this prison… !!”
“I will be ranked 5th overall in my class in the midterm exam in two months.”
“… yes?”
“If you promise to go in here, I’ll ask for special leniency.”
The guy gaped.
“How can I?!”
“If you can’t do it, don’t do it. At first glance, it looks like I will be sentenced to at least 10 years in prison, but I can spend a long and happy time with cuties here in prison.”
“I’ll do it! 5th place? “I will even be a senior!!”
I can guarantee that this will be the most desperate promise of his life.
Of course, I didn’t believe it.
‘The moment you get out of prison, your mind will change like a ghost.’
Shackles were needed.
“Keep in mind. “If you do not meet the conditions, you will have to return to prison.”
“Well, where is that?”
“They are taking it out in the name of providing guidance on campus as a professor in charge. “If you don’t follow my instructions, you will definitely have to return to prison.”
“!!”
The guy’s face turned as blue as a corpse.
From now on, he will work hard to become top 5 in his grade.
‘I don’t know if I can really make it into the top five.’
Still, if you follow that resolution, you will achieve something you have never been able to achieve in your life so far.
‘First of all, Wilhelm put out the fire in a hurry, and the remaining students are the problem. Wilhelm is just the weakest of my troublemakers. ‘Not some kind of Four Heavenly Kings.’
As I was sighing, the sky above the Free City suddenly became dark.
As if dark clouds had appeared out of nowhere in the dry sky.
‘This?’
My face hardened.
My senses were tense.
As if a great crisis was approaching.
The surroundings were buzzing as if their guess was correct.
“Look at the sky!!”
“aaah!! What is that?! monster?!”
“No, it’s a dragon!!”
A dragon appears in the dry sky!
Just as the city was about to fall into panic, Paaa! The dragon’s body became smaller along with the light.
It is humanized.
In the form of a middle-aged woman with an impressive diagonal scar across her face.
The citizens of the city who recognized the identity of the middle-aged woman, no, the dragon, were shocked in a different way.
“It’s Sir Karla, the Light Dragon of the Knight of Terror!!”
“Why suddenly become one of the five great swordsmen of the empire?”
Yes.
The identity of that being is Sir Carla, the fifth great swordsman of the empire.
Although he is a dragon, he uniquely mastered swordsmanship to the limit, became a naturalized member of the empire, and even received a title.
It was a being commonly referred to as a ‘light dragon’.
Why did you suddenly come here to the Free City?
“Are you half-regi? “Do you want to die?”
… It was because of the ‘duel arena’ I sent.
* * *
‘Damn, it’s even scarier when I meet you in person. I was out of my mind.’
I wanted to immediately kneel down and scream that I was wrong, but I forced myself to hold back.
In order to remain at the Academy, I had to overcome this obstacle.
… I have to face Gwangryong to stay in the academy. Hyeonta tried to lift it, but he pretended not to notice and looked away.
“If you kneel down right now and apologize for the disrespect you have done to me, you will live especially well.”
Paaat!
I felt dizzying, but I held on.
‘If you get pushed out of here, it’s over. Gwangryong despises the weak.’
Fortunately, I had a black flame dragon.
“That’s rude. You raise your voice towards your student’s professor from the first time you meet him. “This is the spirit of swordsmanship pursued by Gyeong, abandoning his pride as a dragon. It is so pitiful.”
“!!”
… Although the help was a bit excessive.
Gwangryong growled.
“… “You look like you really want to die.”
Perhaps he was genuinely angry, but his murderous intent was incomparable to before.
Lv. 8 It was a time when my spirit was so hardened by the knight’s momentum that it was difficult to lift a finger.
-Kyuyu! Growling! Growling!
The baby dragon, Marie, jumped out of the magic bag and raised her teeth towards the light dragon.
‘omg! What’re you doing? What should I do if someone else catches me raising a pet?! ‘Go in now!’
I got cold and put Marie’s head back into my pocket.
However, perhaps because he misunderstood(?) my appearance, Gwangryong’s eyes became slightly brighter.
“Still trying to protect the baby dragon. “I guess you’re a coward.”
“??”
“If you had tried to hide behind the baby dragon, I would have killed you right away.”
As mentioned before, what Gwangryong despises are the weak.
Here, the weak does not refer to the strength or weakness of power.
It means will and courage.
It looks like his caring(?) for Mari earned him some points.
Of course, it was only ‘a little’.
“Please formally apologize for the disrespect you have committed against me. “If you apologize properly, I will let go of my mistake.”
“Why do you keep saying strange things when you have nothing to apologize for?”
“This guy is really… !”
“It’s just a letter I sent because I didn’t want the student to go astray.”
I continued before Gwangryong could say anything.
In a strong tone.
“There is a problem with the sword that the Lord pursues. In the end, the disciple of the Lord will be eaten by the wrong sword.”
Gwangryong laughed.
“What do you know?”
“I can guess just by looking at the way you are scaring me like this. “If your swordsmanship is correct, would you persecute me so carelessly?”
“!!”