“Young Master, why are you going to the back alleys?”
“…I have something to live for.”
I was well aware that my mental state was not the same, so before I got to the dormitory, I went to a psychiatrist or a psychiatrist and tried to get some counseling.
However, for some reason, after seeing Serena’s letter, I was greatly shocked, and after a little bit of exhaustion, my mind became clearer, so I overturned my judgment.
Apparently, the shock I received after seeing the letter was so mild that my mind was cleared. I will be using this shock therapy more often in the future.
Anyway, I put off my visit to the psychiatric center because of my cleared mind, so I turned the carriage to the back alley I had been trying to stop by sooner or later, and now I am wearing a cania and robes and heading to the back alley entrance on the market street.
“Young Master, did Serena find out the truth?”
“Um… Since the penalty window doesn’t appear, I don’t think that’s the case.”
“But then, how does Serena know about ‘Hangul’?”
“…Well.”
Unwittingly imitating Serena’s mannerisms, I took a deep breath as I looked at Kania with a worried expression on her face and started talking again.
“There are so many variables these days… I feel like I’m getting more and more derailed from the scenario.”
“…scenario?”
“Yeah, ‘scenario’. The only way that exists to save this world.”
Hearing those words, Kania’s expression began to harden.
“The only way… you mean?”
“Yeah, I don’t know if it’s a boring sun god… or a fancy system, but anyway, such a transcendent being is the only way to give the world a happy ending.”
“……..”
As I spoke in a calm voice, Kania stopped and looked straight at me and asked a question.
“…Is that really the only way?”
“What?”
“Are you really forced to suffer and be swayed by that ‘system’ or something?”
After hearing those words, I was silent, and Kania took one more step forward and continued speaking.
“I haven’t seen the Prophecy, so I don’t know… Surely there must be another way?”
“It’s another way…”
“And, the Young Master tends to rely too much on the ‘system’. Then it’s definitely a big deal…”
“I can’t help it.”
I cut off her words and started talking with a bitter smile.
“There is another way. But, if I don’t roll, it all ends in a sad ending.”
“…for example?”
“One of the happiest endings to come if you don’t take this ‘route’ is to survive with only one of the ‘main heroines’ and live in a ruined world.”
“……..”
“Of course, there are other options, but most of them end up like this. So I had no choice.”
Kania, who was at a loss for words at those words, spoke to me again in a low voice.
“Well, even so… The ‘system’ limits Young Master’s behavior too much. Besides, it’s even malicious. So, don’t trust too much…”
“…on the 1000th anniversary of the disappearance of the demon lord, his successor will devour the world.”
To her, I quietly recited a phrase that was all too familiar.
“To stop the successor, you’ll need a hero with the same strength as me.”
Then Kania, who looked at me blankly for a moment, recited the next verse, and immediately realized something.
“I hope, that ‘same power’ is…”
“Yeah, it was the ‘system’. Of course, it wasn’t the ‘path of the false evil’ like me… but he also used ‘system’.”
Looking up at the savagely bright sun above our heads, I added briefly.
“And, with that system, you finally caught the Demon King.”
Kania, who looked at me with such sad eyes, opened her mouth as she quietly looked at the sun like me.
“…I hate the sun floating above me today.”
“I know.”
We looked at the sun for a while, and when we heard a complaint from behind not to block the road, we sighed and started moving forward again.
‘…Is it really right to follow the system?’
And from that point on, even though I didn’t express my feelings to Kania, I started to have more and more doubts about the system.
Doubts like why the convenience system that solves everything takes my false evil as a nutrient, and why almost all of the capabilities the system provides are only abilities that help spread false evil.
However, as I withheld my judgment as a result of thinking about the prophets last time, I was on the verge of losing my mind, and I thought I would not be able to stand it any longer if I touched such an essential problem, so I decided to postpone my judgment.
“there…!”
I was walking down the market alley with the entrance to the back alley with blank eyes, and suddenly I heard a sound from somewhere.
“Um, give me something to eat…”
“I starved for three days…”
“Help…”
When I came to my senses and looked around, I saw children with kinky bodies surrounded me and Kania, pleading with earnest expressions on their faces.
“…Kania, give me a bag of gold coins.”
“Then what if you find out about your good deeds?”
I was so pitiful for such children, so I tried to do good, but Kania looked at me with a worried expression and pointed out that good deeds could be discovered.
Seriously, it’s a big disappointment on the days when you make a mistake while sailing the enemy ship with such force. Even though he’s wearing a white robe instead of the black robe he used to wear… Still, he doesn’t know what a human being is.
“That’s right. Then, you give it to me instead.”
But I couldn’t turn my eyes away from the hungry children, so I ordered Kania to hand out the gold coins instead, and I started looking around at the smiling children.
“…there are some kids who took gold coins back then.”
I sighed deeply and shook my head when I realized that most of the children I had rescued from Succubus Qun in the past were begging again among the beggars.
“”Thank you, sister!!””
“”Thank you, sister!!””
After thinking about it for a while, I quietly spoke to Kania, who was smiling and waving at the children running around.
“Kania, I can’t stand it.”
“…..?”
Kania tilted her head at my outrageous words and started to make a mysterious expression.
“I want to do charity work.”
“Yes!?”
And it didn’t take long for that expression to turn into astonishment.
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“Young Master, think again.”
“…No. I’ve thought enough.”
“Please, Young Master…”
As I entered the back alley, I lowered my voice as much as possible, but Kania was still pleading with me.
“Young Master’s vitality and lifespan will not be left. Please. The charity work is over…”
“I know my life well.”
“…yes?”
I took out something I had in my arms and showed it to Kania.
“what is this?”
“The rest of my life.”
“…..!!!”
And speaking calmly, Kania opened her mouth and then bowed her head.
“It’s a life test that I got as a reward for beating Irina in the performance evaluation. How about it, isn’t it pretty brutal?”
“young master…”
I smiled and said, scratching my head as Kania took my trembling hand and looked at me pitifully.
“It’s okay, I just need to stay alive until I make a final with the Demon King.”
After I finished speaking while avoiding Kania’s gaze, I put the meter back into my pocket and opened my mouth.
“Anyway, I am well aware of the importance of longevity.”
“Then… even more…”
“So, I’m going to make one and only one anonymously.”
“…What?”
Upon hearing this, Kania frowned and asked, and I answered with a smile.
“orphanage.”
“……..”
Kania, who looked at me with eyes touched by those words for a moment, took out a fountain pen from her pocket and tapped her head to open her mouth.
“However, if you move the Starlight family’s wealth, eventually the tail will be caught.”
“I can use my personal assets.”
“Young Master’s personal property?”
“Yeah, I have a lot of money.”
When I spoke confidently, Kania shook her head with a bitter smile.
“I know the Young Master has a lot of money, but no matter how much he still runs the orphanage…”
“…ruler.”
“…..!”
But when she saw the statement I took out of her pocket, she widened her eyes for a moment, then looked at me and asked.
“When the hell did you save this much money?”
“I didn’t collect it, my father did.”
“…ah.”
Hearing that, Kania quietly shut her mouth, and I turned my eyes away from her and watched the children disappearing in the distance, then opened my mouth again.
“I can tolerate everything else, but I can’t stand the young children who will become the hope of the Empire wandering around like beggars.”
“…okay.”
“And, somehow, I don’t think I’ll be able to hold on until everything is over. I’m just going to do it from now on.”
“ah…”
After hearing my words, Kania cried for a while, then opened her mouth with a determined expression on her face.
“I will put all my strength into establishing the best orphanage in the empire.”
“Yeah, of course… Don’t have anything to do with the Starlight family and me.”
“All right.”
Kania nodded her head with a sad expression on her face, and immediately began to write something down in the notebook she always carried.
‘…By the way, how’s the little boy doing?’
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“Ew… twitts, you sound like a crazy b*tch…”
Meanwhile, at that time, for some reason, Matapju, who returned to the Sunrise Empire from the Western Continent in one day, was walking down the street muttering in pain.
“I want you to put mind-restoring magic on the last letter I wrote before I lost my memory… Do you think that’s the magic that dogs and cows use? It’s a magic that the emperor receives while standing in line for a year… Hell…”
Ma Tap-ju, who had been frowned at Serena for a while, looked up at the sky with a sad expression and started lamenting.
“Hey, it looks like you’re going through a lot of hardship at this age… Even if you don’t have any weakness for that majestic b*tch…”
“Buy bread!!”
“…Hmm?”
Then, Matapju, who heard the smell of fragrant bread and a powerful cry, frowned and muttered.
“Bread is what kind of frozen bread. I can’t digest it at this age…”
Matapju, who was so nervous about his beloved place, sighed and tried to pass the bakery quickly, but…
“Hey, don’t do that, just take one bite!”
“…Kid, I’m busy right now. So get out of the way.”
A little boy stood in front of him and handed him a piece of bread, and he murmured in an annoyed voice.
“Bar, are you busy?”
“Yeah, I’m very busy.”
“…I don’t know what’s going on, can I help you?”
As he said that, Matapju, who quietly watched the girl with her twinkling eyes, smiled involuntarily at her cute appearance and accepted the girl’s bread.
“This is my job, the owner of the tower.”
“Mate tower?”
After taking a bite of the bread, Matapju started talking in a tired voice.
“Yeah, the magic tower that could shake the world was sensed around here, and the tower overturned.
“That’s right?”
“Yeah, so you keep selling bread. You don’t need the help of a kid who can’t even do magic.”
After leaving those words, Matapju, who handed him the bread again, took a gold coin from his pocket and put it in the girl’s hand, muttering bluntly.
“Ah… it’s delicious, but it’s still not digestible. Do I need to develop a digestion magic or something…”
“Hey, I’m a wizard too!!”
“…What?”
After doing a good deed to such a cute girl after a long time, Ma Tap-ju, who had been on his way again, opened his mouth with a smirk once again when the little boy hurriedly shouted.
“Yeki, if you lie, you can’t use it. I didn’t feel any magic from you, but what kind of magic is magic…”
“Look! I can do magic too!”
“…..!”
However, when the girl began to emit a dazzling light from her body, Ma Tap-ju, who opened her mouth for a moment and looked at it,
– Boom!!
“…what?”
suddenly disappeared from the spot.
“…Lord of the tower?”
– Bump!!
“Hey!!”
The girl staring blankly at the place where the mate had disappeared, and then the mate reappeared again, widened her eyes and strode closer to her, and dropped the bread basket she was holding in shock.
“Maybe, the huge magic that was being felt around here… all…?”
“…Hey, what’s going on?”
“Kid, what’s your name?”
The little boy, who had been looking at Matthew with a puzzled expression for a moment, answered with a bright smile when he asked his name while holding his hand.
“…glare!”
“Okay, you are my disciple from now on.”
“…yes?”
However, when Matapju looked down at him with ecstatic eyes and declared a disciple, Glare began to tilt his head again with a puzzled expression on his face.
And the lucky ring that had been cherished until then on her left ring finger was shining in the light from her body.
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“…Huh, I think I’ll live a little.”
“You worked hard today, Young Master.”
When I returned to the dormitory after purchasing a lot of things I needed for my future work in the back alley, the evening sunset was in full bloom in the sky.
After lying on the bed and staring blankly for a moment, I realized that Kania was looking at me with a nervous expression.
“…Finally, the time has come for the ‘attack of the commoners’ dormitory’.”
So I was about to ask what was going on, but after hearing the words from Kania’s mouth, I understood why she was making that face.
“Yeah, it’s coming soon.”
“The students who caused the raid in the previous episode have already been identified. If you give the order, it will be suppressed immediately…”
“It’s no use.”
“…yes?”
Shaking my head and cutting off Kania’s words, I said, with a notification floating in the system window popping up in front of my eyes.
[You have successfully cleared the Hidden Route!]
[Content: Win the duel with Irina!]
[Reward: Life Meter]
[Changed: The protagonist of ‘People’s Dormitory Attack’ changes randomly]
“Because I defeated Irina, the scenario changed.”
Originally, the ‘People’s Dormitory Assault Case’ happened when Irina overwhelmingly defeated a high-ranking aristocrat in Dalian for performance evaluation.
The high-ranking aristocrat, who has become a laughing stock among the common people because of her horrific treatment, carries a grudge and sets fire to the commoners’ dormitory with his comrades.
And as a result, there were no casualties due to the performances of Ferroche, Irina, and Kania, but there were many injuries.
And, the many common students who got up and exploded.
The movement, which started from common students, spreads out of control, and in the end, the entire empire is engulfed in rebellion and chaos.
Of course, the Demon King, who controlled everything from behind, will be revealed to the world in earnest from that point on.
In other words, the ‘attack of the commoners’ dormitory’ is a case in which the empire is headed for destruction in earnest, and at the same time it is the debut battle of the demon king.
As it is such an important event, it must be stopped… but things got twisted because I defeated Irina.
Originally, the strategy for this event was to become a high-ranking nobleman who was horribly defeated by Irina, then take a few nobles and set fire to the dormitory, but get caught…
From the moment I defeated Irina, the ‘attacker’ became random.
As a result, it became impossible to predict who would attack the commoners dormitory for what reason and in what way.
“…Then, it’s a pretty big deal, isn’t it?”
After hearing my explanation, Kania asked with a worried expression.
“I mean… Kania, you are my servant, staying in the noble dormitory, and Irina is mana exhausted… Ferroche is able to power up, but I’m still a little uneasy with that one child… .”
I couldn’t find a plausible solution because I had a lot of work these days, so I grabbed my head and started thinking about how to respond.
“Is it okay if I keep looking around the commoners’ dormitory?”
“No, it’s dangerous.”
“…yes?”
While I was thinking about it for a long time, Kania asked carefully, so I shook my head and answered.
Then Kania, who had a slightly bewildered expression on her face, opened her mouth as an aura came out of her body.
“Young Master, I don’t know until a few days ago… If it’s me now, I can subdue most academy students.”
“But if you use black magic, the energy of black magic will remain. Then it will be quite difficult when the investigation team comes later. Even if you can cover the power and bribes of the Starlight family… .”
“I mean, I was using general magic, not black magic. Noble students who are not commoners… can honestly suppress them with their eyes closed…”
“…it’s because you don’t know.”
“yes?”
I sighed and said to Kania.
“This event… it might be the first turning point for us.”
At those words, Kania began to make a bewildered expression on her face, and I quietly stood up and continued.
“Most random events… the Demon King intervenes.”
At those words, Kania bit her lips tightly, then opened her mouth with a determined expression.
“…then I guess I’ll have to step in.”
“Hey, let’s think about that later.”
I tried to dry Kania like that, but I felt tired all over my body, so I put off persuasion and closed my eyes and asked in a low voice.
“By the way, do you have any new reports? If not, let’s sleep.”
“…there is one thing.”
“Yeah…? Then tell me…”
So I gradually fell asleep while listening to Kania’s words in a dreamy state, but…
“…the imperial family has sent you an invitation to the prom.”
“Invitation to the prom?”
Hearing Kania’s next words, I had no choice but to open my eyes.
“Yeah, at that ball, Clana-sama’s fiancée was decided.”
“…I’m really going back.”
“…Yes?”
This is because the event that will occur a long time later has suddenly occurred now.
Really, it’s astounding.
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“…ask again, who are you?”
“I…”
Meanwhile, at that time, not far from Frey’s dormitory.
“…a loyal servant of the Demon Lord.”
Suddenly, the curse on the ship Kania walked on had been lifted, and Isabel was muttering with a hazy smile.
“Very good. Then, I’ll tell you about your first mission as the Demon King’s henchman.”
And the crow sitting by the window gave her a command in human words to her surprise.
“Let’s hit the commoners’ dormitory.”
The setting sun was gently shining on Isabelle, who smiled upon hearing those words.