‘I’m going to live and live and become the second in command of the Demon King’s army.’
I arrived in front of the duke’s mansion in an instant due to Dmir Khan’s ability to move through space, and I took a deep breath and started walking towards the gate.
“”Oh, hello.””
When the gate was opened, the commoners of Class A, who were lined up in a line with shameful expressions, bowed their heads and greeted.
Boys in maid uniforms and work clothes are better, but girls in maid clothes… If anyone sees me, I think they’ll curse me quite a bit.
“come in.”
Of course, I went into the peacock mansion with a mean smile.
“”……..””
Seeing the girls looking at me with disgust on such a day, I think my judgment was right.
“…Brother, what the hell are you doing?”
Anyway, I entered the peacock’s mansion with the gaze of seeing insects pouring in from all directions, but Arya stopped me.
“Ah, Arya. From today, take Cadia out of my house.”
“What!?”
When I spoke to Arya like that with a casual expression, Arya, who had raised her face, began to growl and speak.
“Be in moderation, oppa. Stop doing this ridiculous thing and apologize to those who are innocent…”
“Get out of my house until the vacation is over.”
After cutting off her words and speaking coldly, Arya sighed and began to approach the common people behind me.
“sorry.”
When he bowed down and apologized, the common students opened their eyes and began to panic.
Did you think that he was no different from me because he was the younger brother of a man who was well known in the Empire? For some reason, I feel sorry for Arya.
“My brother caused trouble. I’ll ride well, so you can just die… Huh!”
But since she was going to send the commoners back home, I was forced to grab her arm and start heading upstairs.
“Oh! Oppa, what are you doing right now? Don’t you put this on? Don’t you let it go!!”
“Shut up and follow me.”
Arya, who continued to struggle, soon began to collect star mana in her hand, but glanced at the commoners who were watching us from below, and then spoke urgently.
“Do you want to fly with star magic in front of your classmates? If you don’t do this, in front of those students…”
“Shut up before you are expelled from the family.”
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Even so, I was in a state of sentencing because I was beating the second-in-command of the Demon King’s army, but if I get hit with a star’s magic by Arya, my younger brother will become a murderer.
So Arya spoke coldly once more before casting her spell on me, and she started muttering with a shocked expression on her face.
“You mean… are you serious, brother?”
“……..”
“Are you serious about that?”
“…okay.”
When I answered with an annoyed expression on her face, Arya looked at me like that and started to say something.
“Brother, no more me… hey!”
However, I pushed such Arya into Cadia’s room, which had already arrived.
“F, Frey-sama…?”
Kania’s little sister, who was playing with the doll, was looking at me with her eyes wide open.
“Right now, pack your bags and leave our house until the vacation is over. If you don’t go, you will be expelled from the family, Arya, and you will be kicked out of the street, Cadia.”
“Uh, your sister…?”
Hearing that, Cadia cried and asked me, so I raised the corners of my mouth and answered.
“Of course I’ll take your sister with me. It’s mine.”
“Uh, ooh…”
Hearing this, Cadia went until just before she burst into tears, and Arya, who was clenching her teeth next to her, began to scream.
“Why the hell! Why are you doing this, you bastard!”
“Can’t you see that I brought those commoners?”
Giving her a sinister smile, I began to tell the story I had planned in advance.
“It’s going to be a crazy party. Alcohol, drugs, and… heck.”
“…stop it.”
However, I was beaten in the stomach by Arya without even half of the lines I had prepared in advance.
“Cadia, let’s go.”
“Yes, yes? But…”
“Is it okay if I go out until the vacation is over? I’ll prepare and leave by tonight. Then, have a good vacation.”
After saying that, Arya grabbed Cadia’s hesitant arm, looked at me disgustingly, and left the room with Cadia.
“…cool.”
I was rightly hit by a punch wielded by my younger brother with a whopping 4 force stats, and I sat down, leaning against the wall, wiping the blood flowing from my mouth.
‘I have to secretly hire mercenaries to protect their residence.’
The reason I kicked them out is simple.
If the two of you stay in this mansion for the entire vacation, you will surely face a dangerous situation someday.
Currently, I am being threatened with assassination by Clana and the Moonlight family.
And this unprecedented test that has now taken place is probably a trap created by ‘Clana’.
So, sooner or later, when Clana’s team invades here, there is a high probability that an assassin will infiltrate, a wiretapping device, or a bomb will be brought in.
Therefore, it was necessary to evacuate Arya and Cadia at least until the test was over.
Of course, I would like to have commoners take refuge somewhere, but… I can’t help it because of the rules of the exam.
And for various reasons, I wanted to do good things to those who are swayed by poverty, so this time…
“Ah, that’s right. About the last incident… Huh?”
While I was thinking about it, Arya suddenly opened the door and came in and asked me a question, and then I stiffened.
I looked at Arya with a blank slate wondering what was going on, and when I touched the corner of her mouth, I noticed that blood was dripping out of it.
“Uh, so this is… uh…!”
“Oh, brother. Why? Where are you hurt?”
I tried to get up from my seat, wiping off the blood, but my legs loosened because I had used too much energy and I fell back down on my seat.
And then, Aria, who was staring blankly at me, began to clench her teeth.
“Where the hell are you doing?”
“I don’t know.”
“Yeah, I knew you would say that. Now I’m really sick of it.”
Saying that, Arya pulled something out of her pocket, threw it at her feet, and trampled it down.
“I won’t even say a word to you from now on.”
After saying those words, Arya left the room with a cold expression on her face.
“…What is this?”
When I saw that she had left the room, I began to bow my head and look down at the floor, wondering if something had been trampled on.
‘Made by magic of light… I think the key was brittle.’
I looked down at the dented key for a moment, then quietly covered the key with my hand and closed my eyes.
“…done.”
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Eventually, as I practiced the magic of light and made a flash of light on my hand, I smiled as I saw the key that had returned to its original state.
– Sharr…
“…oh.”
However, the key that was held in my hand suddenly disintegrated into sparkling particles and scattered in the air.
‘Damn, it’s because I put too much of the star’s mana without my knowledge.’
I was happy with my newly improved mana skills, but at the same time, I felt the discomfort of not knowing where Arya’s key was used, and then I sighed and left the room.
“Oh, Puff… Mr. Frey. Dinner is ready.”
Then, a timid-looking girl came to me and reported to me, blushing.
“Since when did you prepare?”
“Hey, it started as soon as I got here.”
“okay?”
As she nodded and approached the girl, she suddenly shut her eyes tightly and began to tremble.
“what’s the matter?”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry… I’m not used to talking to that person…”
Then, when she reached out her head and asked a question, she, whose face was completely red, began to speak in a trembling voice.
“…are you cute?”
“Ugh…!!”
As I said while stroking her chin, the timid-looking woman hardened.
“what is your name?”
When I asked a question because it seemed like I had seen it somewhere before, she, who had been hardened, moved her lips slightly and answered in a low voice.
“It’s Lulu…”
“…ah.”
Then I remembered who she was, stopped tormenting her and took a step back.
‘I’ll see you here again.’
After thinking about the previous episode for a while, I passed her and said in a low voice.
“From today on, don’t do housework and stick with me.”
“Yes, yes?”
“I want you to stick with me.”
Lulu, who looked at me with a stupid expression for a moment, then quickly shook his head and said:
“Ah… I see! I’ll do my best!””
As I went downstairs listening to her hoarse voice coming from behind, I stopped walking with a quiet sigh.
‘…it’s annoying.’
It seems that something annoying happens when you come to my house for some reason.
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The dining table, where the dinner was all set, was full of colorful colors.
“…what’s this?”
“Uh… It’s my family’s favorite stewed potatoes.”
“It’s stir-fried carrots that I often make for my brother.”
“I made eggplant tempura because there are eggplants, don’t you like it?”
Of course, when it comes to unwinding.
“Obviously there must have been a lot of high-quality ingredients in the food pantry? But do you make dinner with these pastes?”
Of course, the girls’ vegetable dishes boasted a pretty good level, so I was confident that I could eat them, but I started to take offense at the girls who were watching me.
‘…were the kids too burdened?’
I was quite excited to fill the stomachs of common people with expensive ingredients from the Starlight family during vacation, but come to think of it, even like me, I would not have touched expensive ingredients because I was afraid that I would get angry after using expensive ingredients.
Well, from now on, from now on, it’s enough if I order you to cook with expensive ingredients…
“We’ve never touched expensive ingredients.”
“…ah.”
Common students are staring at me quietly.
In the meantime, Ferroche, who is wearing a small maid suit and has a lot of bandages on his hands, is also staring at me.
“Since the lady has eaten high-quality food a few times, I tried to cook it using that memory… As you can see, her fingers were almost cooked instead of high-quality ingredients.”
Among these children, a naughty-looking girl who was in charge of the representative of common students began to talk while glaring at me.
“So, we had no choice but to cook with ingredients that we had even touched. I’m really sorry for being poor.”
After the president had finished speaking in a hoarse voice, he bowed his head, and the other common students also bowed their heads at once.
“…Did you say your name is Aris?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
After staring blankly at them for a moment, I remembered the name of the representative of the common people and fell into thought for a moment.
‘That guy was originally a student who took the lead in the protests that took place after the ‘attack of the commoners’ dormitory’…’
She, who led the protests of common people in the previous session, eventually became one of the leaders of the revolution in the future.
Because of that kind of woman, the resentment towards me seems to be several times greater than that of other commoners.
“If I had to dare to say something that I was only a commoner, how about having a professional chef instead of us, who are poor and can’t even touch high-quality ingredients?”
“…ha.”
I looked at her quietly as she spoke with the same sarcastic tone as her appearance, then sighed and said.
“Anyway, commoners want to use it, but there is no place to use it… Yeah, I’ll take care of that.”
“Thank you very much for considering our position. Frey Raon Starlight.”
After hearing my words, Aris opened her eyes and tried to say something, but Arianne, who was standing next to her, quickly intervened in front of her and bowed her head to answer me.
“Ahhh… Then throw it all away or you guys eat it all up, it’s up to you. I can’t eat those disgusting grasshoppers.”
After staring at her for a moment, I got up from the table and started going up to my room, leaving those words behind.
“Hey, that motherf*cker…”
“Aris…! Hold on! My opponent is Frey!”
“That’s right, even if it’s f*cking… I have no choice but to put up with it.”
As I calmly climbed the stairs, I gathered the mana of the stars in my ears, listened to the conversation coming from behind, took a deep breath and fell into thoughts.
‘…Should I hire a cook?’
In this case, my fault for ignoring the fact that commoners have never touched high-quality ingredients is very much my fault.
I guess Kania, the commoner I’ve seen the longest and I’m most familiar with, is very good at cooking, so I guess my prejudices have been ingrained without my knowledge.
Because of the ignorant mindset of the aristocrats, I know better than anyone that the Sunrise Empire has become a miracle, and I can’t raise my head because I’m so embarrassed that I’m committing such a mistake.
‘Come to think of it, Kania and Irina were out for a while. So… when we get back, shall we ask the two of us to cook?’
For such a long time, in a place where no one could see me, with my face red and banging my head against the wall, I began to ponder whether to entrust the cooking to Kania and Irina.
‘No, two is not enough.’
But then I shook my head and began to sigh.
Of course, Kania and Irina’s cooking skills are pretty good, but… if it’s just me, I’m sure if I keep preparing meals for common students until the end of the vacation, I’m sure I’ll get sick.
However, it is not possible to call back the users who were expelled.
I have to extort money from my father’s ‘preferential employee policy’, which will be presented to me at the end of the vacation, but… if I bring them back in, it’s a bummer.
Then the only option left is to hire a cook, but it’s not a very good option as this house will soon be plagued by numerous intruders and assassins.
“Eh, I don’t know.”
In the end, I staggered into my room, grabbing my hair, which started to hurt after pounding my hair continuously.
I guess I’ll have to close my eyes for a while.
“Uh?”
However, as I lay down in bed to sleep, something caught on my back.
“what’s this?”
When I tilted my head and picked up something hanging on my back, there was a box.
‘…a keyhole.’
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Eventually, I discovered the small keyhole in the box, and I knew that it was the space for the key that Arya had trampled on earlier.
“I’m sorry… Aria.”
Thanks to that, I was about to open the box by force, but with a gloomy expression on my face, I put the box down on the desk next to the bed and began to close my eyes.
For some reason, I miss my cat dream.
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“Young Master? Young Master!!”
“Umm… Kania?”
I had a dream that a giant owl was weighing me down instead of a cat, and I woke up in a cold sweat at Kania’s call.
“You’re safe!”
Then Kania started hugging me with a bright smile that she had never shown before.
“I believed that the Young Master would come back safely. Really.”
“Kah, Kania… choke.”
As I was having trouble breathing because of being hugged so tightly, I spoke urgently, and Kania, who hurriedly fell away from me, returned her expression to her original state as if she had always done so.
“Irina? What’s on your face?”
Seeing her like that, I smiled, but noticed that Irina’s face was exhausted next to me, and I tilted my head and asked a question.
“Kania… all day…”
“By the way, Young Master, Arya misses Young Master.”
Then Irina started answering with a hazy expression on her face, but Kania quickly stopped talking and started talking to me.
“…why is she?”
When I asked with a sullen tone at Arya, who was a bit sulky at the subject of having a suspicious box in my room and trampled on the key to open it, Kania shrugged and said.
“Well, I have something to tell you before I leave the house.”
After hearing those words, I fell into silence, Kania said with a slightly worried expression.
“…Mr. Arya shouldn’t have to worry about the Young Master all the time.”
“It’s okay, I think I’ve lost a lot of sympathy for this incident… I only need one big incident.”
As I spoke calmly, Kanai and Irina’s expressions hardened at the same time.
“If it’s not this chance, I won’t be able to see you all summer… I’ll have to go out. What time is it?”
“It’s one in the morning.”
I, who asked these questions calmly, got up from my seat and started walking towards the door.
“Kania and Irina. You guys take Arya and Cadia to a safe place. I’ll ask.”
“Just leave it to me.”
“…I’ll be back tomorrow morning, so you’re resting.”
Having asked the two of them in that way, I began to head towards the main gate of the duke’s residence.
“…brother.”
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Eventually, finding Arya standing in front of the gate, I sighed and started talking.
“If you intend to gossip again…”
“…the last incident, you were the one who saved me back then, wasn’t it?”
But after hearing Arya’s words, I stood still and stiffened.
“”…..Suck.””
And it was the same for Kania and Irina, too, so they inhaled and looked at me without realizing it.
“I’ll believe so. Even if it’s just a dream… I still believe in you.”
However, fortunately, the penalty window did not appear.
[Aria Raon Starlight’s Current Emotions: Disappointment/Resignation/Guidelines/Hate/Worry]
“So please… don’t let me down anymore…”
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Eventually, looking into Arya’s feelings, I realized that she wasn’t aware of everything, but that she was denying reality.
“If you’re even a little more disappointed, I won’t let you…”
Arya, who had struggled to keep talking, finally could not finish her words and lowered her head, reaching out to me.
“…This?”
I reached out my hand involuntarily to pick up what she had put out, and in my grasp was the key that she had trampled on.
“Bye.”
Immediately after giving the key to me, Arya turned around and left the mansion.
‘Is that hallucination again?’
Immediately after that, I heard a cry from somewhere, so I tried to ignore it because I thought it might be the hallucination I experienced last time.
“…Aria is crying, Frey.”
The words of Cadia, who was looking at me while carrying her luggage, clearly revealed the truth I was trying to avoid.
“I just think I should tell you.”
After leaving these words, Cadia left the mansion with Kania, who was quietly biting her lip, and Irina, who was looking at me pitifully.
“…So, what gift did you give him to be so condescending?”
After standing there silently for a while, I began to go to my room, muttering with a pleasant voice.
“…Okay, it just goes in.”
When I finally arrived at my room, I put the key made of star magic into the key hole of the box I had kept on the desk and turned it.
– Click!
“This?”
And what was inside the open box was quite unexpected.
– Don’t vomit blood, it’s dirty.
“…ha ha ha.”
Inside the box, a handkerchief embroidered with a silver cat was neatly folded.
“Is there a self-cleaning magic?”
After looking at the handkerchief for a while, I smiled softly and tried to fold the handkerchief firmly and put it in my pocket…
“…don’t move.”
At that moment, I felt a cold touch on the back of my neck, and a murky voice began to be heard that I couldn’t tell who it was.
‘How did you get behind me? How did you get in here? Are there still protective spells on it? If you listen to the tone of her voice… First of all, it must be a woman. So is it Clana’s assassin? Or is it the Moonlight assassin? If not… Maybe the Demon King?’
And from that point on, I was thinking a lot until the moment passed, and I hurriedly spewed out the mana of the stars to subdue the opponent, but…
“I know it won’t be fun if you resist.”
At that moment, an unidentified person behind me gave more strength to my neck, so I had no choice but to stop moving.
“…what do you want?”
If I had known this would happen, I would not have used my life force earlier, but I asked the other person a question in a calm voice.
“If you think about it, I’ll kill you right away.”
Hearing the next person’s words, he intuited that he was a person who did not speak the language and began to contemplate whether he should use the last resort with his eyes tightly closed.
“…maybe?”
Until I hear a brief addition.
“…Selena?”
When I asked with a hopeful expression on my face, the person behind me unlocked the voice modulation and whispered softly in my ear.
“Tonight is going to be a long one, Frey.”
“what?”
“…So be prepared.”
It seems that the dream I had earlier was a foreshadowing.