The Main Heroines are Trying to Kill Me chapter 81

“What if… I was only trusting the contract…”

“Should I find a part-time job right now…”

The common students who came out of the Starlight Mansion began to mumble with dark expressions.

This is because when I first entered the mansion, I trusted only the contract that I wrote without knowing it, and I was kicked out without receiving a single penny.

They are outstanding enough to proudly enter Class A of Sunrise Academy, which has a long tradition, but these problems are unavoidable.

It was at a time when the unwritten rule that one had to graduate from an academy to enter a profitable job or guild was widespread in the Empire, so despite being in Class A, they could only do short-term part-time jobs or hunt monsters.

Of course, their abilities are quite good, so you can make some money with those things. However, it should not be forgotten that most of the students in Class A are boys or girls.

After distributing the hard-earned money to his family and paying taxes according to the absurd tax collection laws of the empire, the remaining amount of money was always small.

Still, for the past few years, they have managed to run around here and there, but they spend a considerable amount of time with the Starlight family, and in the end they have fatal financial problems.

“…Hey, guys. There’s still hope!”

Among the children in such a dark atmosphere, a female student stepped forward and started talking.

“According to this contract, in case of unilateral dismissal without fulfilling the contract deadline, compensation is paid to the employer…”

“Hey, we all know that, right?”

“…uh?”

However, the male student, who had had a depressed expression on his face since before, cut off those words and sighed.

“Such a contract is useless for anything. All those who judge it in the first place are on the side of the aristocrats.”

“That, but…”

“Then go back to Frey and ask him? It’ll be nice if he’s caught like Lulu and doesn’t turn into a toy.”

“Oh, no…..”

The girl who understood the situation only after hearing that, sat down on the floor and started to cry.

“If I can’t find medicine this month… my brother is in danger…”

The nobles, including Frey, did not have enough money to spend in one day, so it was a dark and pitiful situation where they could not get their brother’s medicine, but the students who watched the situation quietly turned their attention.

No matter how good they are, they too have a sick family or are in a poor situation with no money to buy food right away.

In other words, they couldn’t help the crying student in front of them, who were so weary of money that everyone saved up a little bit of money to read each textbook.

“…Guys, I’ve decided.”

The girl, who had been weeping for a long time while being so unavoidable, said with a determined expression on her face.

“I… I want to go back to the Starlight Mansion.”

“…What?”

Then the boy who had told the girl about the reality earlier said with a bewildered expression.

“It’s no use going back? Frey will disable the contract anyway. Even if you give him money, he’ll use you as a prank…”

“If I can become a plaything and save my brother, I’ll be happy.”

The eyes of the girl who said that were full of determination too early for a young girl of her age to have.

“Come on, hold on a second! You can’t do that!!”

Among the common people who looked at her like that, Perloche came out with an urgent expression on her face.

“I’ll help! If it were me, I would be able to fix him with all my might! Let’s go now! If we go now…”

“But the treatment of the saint is expensive.”

“…yes?”

Hearing that, Perloche began to look blankly, and the girl spoke with a dark expression.

“If you want to receive blessings or treatment from the saint, you have to pay the denomination. This is a fact that everyone here knows.”

Saying that, the girl looked around, and the students quietly nodded their heads.

“Well, it can’t be…? Am I always giving free treatment?”

Such a reaction was incomprehensible to Perloche, who had always been rewarded with free treatment without receiving a penny.

“Are there any impersonators impersonating me around?”

So, she came up with the most rational inference she could draw.

For Perloche, who would normally just tilt his head and put a question mark on his face in such a situation, it was truly a major development.

“”……..””

However, the common students simply stared at Perloche like that quietly.

If that remark had been made by Frey or other nobles, they would have been despised or ridiculed.

But they were well aware of Perloche’s usual attitude toward them, and they knew her personality well.

So the commoners knew the truth, but no one dared to step forward.

If something goes wrong and the denomination takes revenge, it’s because their hard life is over.

“That’s right, impersonators are wandering around.”

“It was like that! Then, by any chance, do you even know its identity!”

However, someone stepped forward in front of Perloche and brought up the story.

“If you reveal your identity, I will immediately go with the church…!”

“It’s a church.”

Among the students who looked at themselves with eyes full of anxiety and worry, Aris, the representative of the common people, began to tell the truth to Perloche in a calm voice.

“Actually, I should call him a robber, not an impersonator.”

Hearing this, Perloche bruised, while some commoners quietly bowed their heads.

Because they too have experienced terrible memories that they will never want to experience again.

“If Mr. Perloche gives free medical treatment or provides protection, within a few days, the denomination’s collection officer will visit him.”

“A collector…?”

“Yes, they get paid for the treatment and protection of Mr. Perloche.”

Hearing that, Ferroche began to mumble as if it was ridiculous.

“Oh my God… He’s been doing that from now on… The denomination is…”

“Perloche-sama?”

“Ah, no. Anyway! I understand what you mean!

As Perloche was about to head towards the church with a zealous spirit, Aris shook her head and said:

“Even if the saint came forward, it would be quiet for a while, but it would be more secretive and seriously extorting money. And, I’ll probably be kidnapped for telling you the truth.”

“……Ugh.”

At those words, Ferroche began to moan without saying anything.

“Hehe, thank you for your concern, Saint.”

“ah…”

The girl who hugged her tightly said in a trembling voice.

“Don’t worry about me. Even if it’s Frey… would you even kill me?”

She said so, but the rumor that every Sunday a wagon loaded with corpses in black sacks came and went in and out of Starlight’s mansion, provoked her fear.

“Everyone… Goodbye.”

However, because she had no choice but to save her younger sister, the girl tried to hide it, smiling, and headed back to Frey’s mansion.

“please wait for a moment.”

“yes?”

Kania, who had gone somewhere for a while, stopped her.

“I don’t think there’s any reason to come back to work in our mansion.”

“What do you mean?”

As the girl tilted her head at Kania’s relaxed expression, Kania replied with a smile.

“Because there is going to be a reward for all of you.”

Saying that, what Kania gave to everyone present was a statement with the amount of compensation.

“Hey, what is all this…?”

“This is a gold coin, not a silver coin, right?”

The common students, who received the statement without much expectation, began to widen their eyes when they saw the dreadful amount printed on the paper.

“It is the sum of the penalty for your unfair dismissal and retirement expenses.”

As Kania calmly spoke to the common students once again, the students’ expressions began to harden.

Usually they should be happy at times like this, but when they suddenly receive an amount of money that they have never touched in their life, and that is also paid by Frey, who is rumored to be a villain, suspicion, anxiety, and fear outweighed happiness.

“Hey, how did this happen? How the hell is this possible?”

Thanks to this, among the confused students, a male student who had reminded the female student of reality earlier asked a question in a trembling voice.

“I’ve never seen contracts between nobles and commoners properly kept like this… Maybe this is a trap, isn’t it?”

“It’s a trap, but it’s not a trap for you.”

When a male student, who had a toothache because of the contract fraud he had suffered several times, expressed his doubts with a suspicious look, Kania started answering with a grin.

“It’s a trap I dug for Frey.”

As the commoners tilted their heads at those words, Kania slowly began to explain.

“The contract you signed is a contract based on the rules set by Abraham, the official head of the Starlight family.”

“rule?”

“Yeah, legally… magically unbreakable.”

Saying that, Kania waved the contract paper, and a light magic circle came to mind.

“Abraham, who always valued trust with his employer, put various legal devices and magic in his contract with him.”

“Well then…”

“Yes, no matter how much Frey, that amount of money has no choice but to compensate you.”

Hearing this, the commoners began to make bewildered faces.

As Kania finished speaking, the fact that this unimaginable amount of money had become theirs was starting to come to an end.

“Wait, Kania, are you sure… were you planning all these things?”

And at that point, Irina, who was noticing, naturally intervened.

“Yes? What do you mean?”

“You were the one who gave us the contract on the first day while dressing up as a maid and a servant. You were the one who told Frey never to show the contract.”

At those words, all the common students began to look at Kania.

“And… You were the one who triggered the magic that was in the contract after getting the confirmation from Frey that he would ‘fire’ the common students today. Considering all this, you…”

“…ha.”

As Irina, who was drawing her acting skills to the limit, blurted out her words, Kania sighed and said to the students who were looking at her with a hopeful expression.

“I just wanted to see you guys happy.”

Hearing these words, commoner students began to mourn.

“You haven’t done anything great, so there’s no need to make those faces…”

“Ka, Kania! Thank you…!”

Kania, speaking calmly while looking at such students, began to make a troubled expression when a girl who was able to get medicine for her sick sister burst into tears and hugged her.

“You, thanks to you… My younger brother… Hee-geuk…”

“Whew…”

Nevertheless, as the girl cried and muttered, Kania gave her a slightly dark expression and patted her.

“But… Kania. Are you really okay?”

“yes?”

A student who saw such Kania asked her a question.

“If Frey knew we were given such a huge sum, he wouldn’t let you go…”

“It doesn’t matter.”

To the student, Kania answered with a bitter smile.

“I’ve already made up my mind.”

The commoners who looked at the red handprints on Kania’s cheeks and the stomach that they were constantly stroking with their hands, whether it was quite painful, immediately lowered their heads with a solemn expression.

“Then, good-bye.”

Kania smiled at them and bowed her head.

The commoners wanted to help her somehow, because somehow it looked dangerous, but they soon realized that it was a futile dream.

Because the Starlight Mansion behind Kania was too huge for them to deal with.

The commoners just left the mansion and bowed to Kania over and over again.

Kania, who was accustomed to crouching, or watching the sad movements of the commoners who only knew about crouching, felt unpopular and turned away.

“Mr. Kania… are you really okay?”

“Yeah, that’s fine.”

There was Ferroche with a very worried expression on his face.

“If it’s okay with you, can I stay at Frey’s mansion? If it’s me as a saint, I might as well protect Frey from harming you…”

“…No, thanks.”

Kania, who looked at her softly like that, heard the words coming out of Perloche’s mouth and answered with a straight face.

“Then goodbye, Mr. Perloche.”

“Yes? Ah… I see. Good bye.”

Overwhelmed by Kania’s unknown aura, Perloche tilted her head for a moment and then went out of the mansion.

“…are you going now too?”

“I, why am I?”

Kania, who was watching the scene quietly, said with a cold expression to Irina, who was standing blankly next to her.

“Then, are you planning to stay here all vacation?”

“Yeah, of course. To pay off my debt to Frey, hanging out every hour isn’t enough.”

“ha…”

Kania, who was frowned upon at Irina’s reply, who had returned after a while, began to speak in an annoyed voice.

“It’s enough for me. I’ve had the Young Master since I was little…”

“But, why do you keep stroking your stomach? Can you stop acting now?”

Then, after hearing Irina’s curious question, Kania blushed and quietly shut her mouth.

It was because he didn’t have the confidence to tell Frey that his stomach had been stimulated by the fact that he had recently turned into a cat frequently and became sensitive because he had his feet pressed against Frey earlier.

“Anyway, the conclusion is…”

“What, what? He?”

After being in silence for a while, Kania, who quietly opened her mouth, looked back with a momentarily hardened expression as Irina suddenly turned pale and pointed to the Starlight Mansion.

“……!”

And at that moment, Kania doubted her own eyes.

It was because Lulu was sitting by the window of Frey’s room with a blank expression on his face.

“Hey, stop him! You have to stop him!”

“Calm down, that’s on the second floor. You won’t die if you fall.

“Oh, yes.”

Kania responded softly to Irina, who was trembling with fuss, but left Irina scratching her head behind and tried to approach her.

– Sreuk

“”…….!!!””

Suddenly, Lulu took out a small knife from her arms and brought it to her arm, and she and Irina began to look sullen.

“You really have to stop this time!”

“I know.”

At that time, panicked Kania was preparing to use black magic, and Irina was chanting even wind magic, as it was disappointing.

“Ugh, that must have been a big deal.”

Frey appeared from behind the window and hit Lulu on the back of the neck, knocking him out.

“…it was fortunate that the Young Master was there.”

“I know.”

The two of them watched the scene nervously, and when Lulu, who was droopy, was dragged into the room, they began to mutter in a reassuring voice.

“So, what does he do?”

“Well, shall we tie it up?”

“Can’t you brainwash me with black magic?”

“That’s the magic of evil warlocks.”

Then, the girls suddenly changed their expressions cold, and they started thinking about how to deal with the nuisance who was dragged back into the room.

The conversation between the girls, who only get along well at this time, continued for a long time after that.

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“Ugh, that was going to be a big deal.”

I sneaked into Lulu’s room and observed if she was Mull, but when I saw the knife pulled out of my arms, I immediately stunned her.

Apparently, when Kania down there comes back, I’ll have to do a body check.

[Come on, check out the second reward!!]

“…uhh.”

As I was thinking like that, a system window popped up in front of me. Did you feel bad about being ignored for a long time? The content of the message is quite urgent.

– Sharr…

I can’t just ignore it forever, so when I checked the reward, a strange looking jade appeared in front of my hand.

[If you show this jade to the legendary blacksmith ‘Rosinante’, you can entrust one quest!]

“Yeah, this should be enough.”

According to the prophecies, ‘Rocinante’, the man who made the decorative box obtained at the old auction house, is an excellent master enough to make a mark in the history of the empire.

And, like most of those masters, he is said to be very eccentric.

So, it is said that entrusting him with a quest is as difficult as picking a star from the sky, but if you show him this jade, he will probably be able to make a machine for picking stars.

“…Well?”

With that thought in mind, I carefully put the jade in the desk drawer, and I started to smile when I saw a white bird flew through the window.

“coo?”

“…Eh?”

However, after a while, it was Jeon Seo-gu, not the white owl I was expecting, sitting on the window sill.

“Gugugugu!”

“What letter…”

After staring at the dove with a puzzled expression for a moment, I found the letter imprinted with the imperial seal and hurriedly snatched it away.

– Clana Solar Sunrise.

“…Clana a letter to me?”

Soon after, I found Clana’s name written on the envelope of the letter, and panicked, and I began to open the letter with a slight trembling heart.

– This is an official letter to the three dukes. A request for support came from the Cloud Kingdom of the Western Continent.

“Oh, this is it.”

I expected all kinds of situations, but when I checked the contents of the letter, I muttered with a lost expression on my face.

– As it is highly confidential, there will be a secret meeting of the three dukes at Mr. Frey’s birthday party. In that regard, please understand.

“…the raid on the slave market should also be taken care of.”

The secret Clana says is a ‘slave market raid’.

Well, the princes and princesses of the Cloud Kingdom, the kingdom to which the princess belongs to the first year of the Sunrise Academy next year, are captured in this slave market… It’s understandable that security is so thorough.

‘It’s all about freeing the slaves and being hated by the princess. It’s nothing.’

It’s very sad to be hated by her, who is a sub-heroine, but it can’t be helped. This is because the main quest can be cleared.

“…what?”

As I was trying to put the letter in the drawer with that thought in mind, I found a very small sentence at the bottom of the letter and started to freeze slowly.

Ps. What have you done to me? Frey?

“What does this mean again…?”

After all, the world doesn’t seem to go as planned.