127 – An Unintentional Discovery!
“Hello! Hello!”
“Oh, Princess Smitel?”
I grabbed the hand of a passing girl and shook her up and down. Then, after a moment of bewilderment, he smiled broadly as if he was honored.
After exchanging a short customary greeting, they part. Right after that, I took a notebook and a quill from my bosom and quickly wrote down in detail what I had just seen.
“Hare Nair… Mana form… Cactus… Mana form can appear as a plant. It’s fun.”
Check the mana form of everyone in the academy, regardless of age or gender. And make sure to record the name and mana form.
This is what I started recently, to be exact, to find the ghost of the academy.
Because I believe that one day, the ghost will definitely appear in front of me again! You have to prepare in advance.
The trigger for this action was largely influenced by Professor Luctae, a professor at the academy.
There are rumors about him who recently became an exclusive servant of the Marquis of Loatire as a replica maker of artifacts. Especially among high-ranking nobles.
If I had known you were that kind of person, I would have thought of dragging you into the Smitel Kingdom, even if I put off looking for the ghost for a while. Also, people can’t tell just by looking at the outside.
“I’m sorry. If I had known earlier… ”
On the day I gave up on meeting the ghost in the artificial dungeon and came back, filled with layers of regret, I said that to Professor Luctae, whom I met by chance.
Then the professor may seem a bit rude, but he looked me up and down slowly and said.
“Wow, the princess too… It might be possible.”
“What is it?”
The professor thought about something for a while before he spoke carefully.
“Why don’t you take a moment to learn from me?”
“So what?”
“How to detect mana.”
To be honest, I wasn’t particularly attracted to it.
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Most of my life was suffering from being overly sensitive to mana, so why should I voluntarily develop it? Just annoying
However, since hope was almost lost in finding the ghost, I was contemplating what to do at the academy in the future.
With the feeling of just grabbing at straws, I started taking private lessons from the professor during club hours.
“The mana form detects the flow of mana unique to a person. Like fingerprints, each person has their own unique mana characteristics. If we can detect mana more sensitively, we will be able to check it in the form of mana shape.”
It was groundbreaking. Above all, it was fun.
I never imagined that Mana, who only gave me pain, was so mysterious and interesting. No, it would be more accurate to say that she tried not to think.
After countless efforts, I have finally reached the stage where I can see the mana form the professor is talking about. And even more sophisticated than Professor Luktae.
Anyway, thanks to my mana hypersensitivity suppressed a lot, it seemed that just being moderately sensitive to mana helped a lot.
If you concentrate a little, you can see everyone around you in the form of mana, even if you don’t hold hands. I just don’t use it because it’s too hard to do.
“Could you check my mana form? I’ve been wondering what kind of shape I’m going to be in, hahahaha… ”
As soon as I checked the mana shape at the professor’s request, I almost burst into laughter.
A rabbit wearing glasses was vibrating slightly. I burst into laughter without knowing it because it was just like the professor.
And at that moment, a brilliant idea crossed my mind.
‘If you know the mana shape of everyone before the ghost appears, and then check the mana shape of the ghost… ?’
When I was delighted and said that I would check everyone’s mana form, the professor tilted his head for a moment and then said worriedly.
“Really… Are you okay? Not a very good experience… ”
“It’s okay! Anything to find Him!”
“He? Are you referring to the ghost of the academy?”
“Yes!”
“What does that have to do with mana form… Whoops!”
The professor trembled in surprise as he stopped talking, and he hurriedly left. It was like seeing a rabbit running away from a beast, so I burst into laughter again.
That’s what happened yesterday.
“Ah! Hello~!”
I ran to find another target, grabbed the boy’s hand, and checked the mana shape.
I don’t want to follow the ghost’s tail any longer, only regretting it. She felt it as she watched how the Great Witch of the Cold had captured the heart of the Marquis of Luatir.
For love, you have to push!
‘Wait, Ghost!’
I will definitely find out who you are! And with ‘this thing’ I received from my hometown, I will become inseparable from you!
As I was checking on each and every person at the academy, I found someone with a strange atmosphere.
It wasn’t enough that he was wearing a moderately shabby robe, and he was even wearing a face mask.
It’s not that the appearance is strange. No, of course it’s weird.
Recently, there were many cases where ordinary people from outside came to the academy as there was a monthly festival shortly after.
So there were quite a few people who came in with their faces unrecognized just to avoid being noticed. If one person is suspicious, it feels like it would be the case with many.
‘Something is strange.’
The reason why that person caught my attention was because of an indescribable strange sensation.
That too, when I was suffering from mana hypersensitivity, was an ominous energy that I felt very slight from the people who tirelessly approached me.
‘The Swamp of the Five Elements?’
You don’t know how many times I’ve been nearly killed by that unknown group. Of course, I already know the level of the unique aura that they radiate.
But I can’t jump to conclusions yet. Just in case, you can’t drive an innocent person into the swamp of the five elements. How bad i feel
‘Let’s check.’
I didn’t want to walk up to you and shake your hand, so I slowly raised my senses and decided to check this man’s mana form. He should have been properly named ‘Two Guys’.
It passed by very naturally and secretly checked the mana shape so that the opponent would not notice.
Now then.
‘… Uh?’
I felt something strange.
It’s not mana. Inside this man, there was something other than mana.
If I had to compare it, it felt like a dark, thick tar liquid. Just looking at it makes me uncomfortable… It was a hideous feeling.
It was such a heavy and ominous mana that I wondered if it was like this in the swamp of the Five Elements.
I passed the man and checked his mana shape with a side glance.
Rurrr!
Then there was a monster.
It had a grotesque appearance, as if it were sticking the skin of a person neatly coated with blood and flesh. A monster whose hideous eyes flashed between the eyes of an empty person.
“When you see the mana form… You might see all sorts of bizarre things. I don’t want to see that, so I wear gloves that block this mana.”
The professor’s words came to mind, and resentment soared over why he hadn’t warned me more specifically.
I never thought I would encounter such a monster in less than a day since I started seeing Mana Forms!
I hurriedly moved his feet as I felt like my mind would be torn apart just by thinking about being nearby. I don’t know if that guy is a swamp of the Five Elements or not, but one thing is certain: he’s definitely not the right person for this academy.
‘Do, you have to run away! And to the Great Witch of the Cold… !’
The next destination was decided naturally.
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‘Hmm? You weave pain.’
I entered the academy for a rehearsal and got an unexpected harvest. He knew at least that he was at the academy, but he never thought he would be wandering around defenselessly like that.
The weaver of pain.
That woman is also one of the targets we need to get rid of.
‘Should I kill him now?’
I thought so, but I slowly turned around. I’m not here to kill that woman. Besides, a woman walking around carelessly like that could be killed at any time.
‘Anyway… She’s a girl who is rough with people.’
Suddenly, he thought of Erech’s evangelist and furrowed his forehead.
It would be okay to leave this level of work to other believers, but they dare to put me, the archbishop, to check the work. And that’s because it’s covered with this nasty shell.
“You know how much effort I put into this job, right? If you fail, Erech’s wrath will come.”
Yes, of course I know. Although it was a big departure from the original plan.
The original plan was to draw the attention of the royal family to one side by causing Gara Troso to run wild on the night of the New Moon Festival, and then to exterminate the Great Witch of Dark Cloud, who had lost her powers.
It didn’t matter, since I always knew the location of the heat and cold, but the great witch of the dark cloud was not easy to catch because her traces were rare.
The academy’s monthly festival was the place where such dark clouds appeared regularly.
That’s why she pushed the plan for a long time…
‘Loathirra… A guy like that suddenly jumped out.’
He was the one who subtly twisted their plans one by one and led them to failure.
He was the one who showed the bitter taste of defeat to the Archbishop, who had made a grand plan to kill the Great Witch of the Cold Cold in a large-scale war of the Balaur, and he was the one who destroyed the cornerstone of this plan.
There was even a rumor that there was a traitor within the church, how they would appear and interfere wherever they planned.
‘But this time it won’t happen.’
Although it was the next best thing, I was confident that this plan would succeed.
Didn’t you create a new demon independently for this day? The time has come for the results of my long research to shine.
On the best stage of the night under the moon!