37 – #037 Marianne
“Can you include the original girl?”
When Marianne, emitting golden mana, descended from the dark sky, everyone looked at Marianne, who lightly landed on the ground in a cold sweat.
Was this her second, no, third time seeing her? She’s met three times, but apart from the fact that she doesn’t get along with Vivian, she honestly doesn’t know.
But maybe because of the impression that she didn’t get along with Vivien, I thought that she might hate me as well, even though I’m on good terms with Vivien.
Landing on her land, Marianne looked at me and slightly raised the corner of her mouth, and she immediately turned her head away.
The place where her gaze is directed is where the restless professors are like children who have caught her wrongdoing.
When Marianne’s golden eyes turned to them, her professors knew that Marianne hadn’t said anything yet, so she started making excuses.
“Oh no!! This is not a solicitation or anything like that, I was just trying to purchase research materials!!”
“Yes! You’re right!! We still have nothing….”
“Seriously. What are you so upset about? I have no intention of blaming you for this.”
Marianne, who appeared to be around 14 on the outside, calmed her older professors by talking like an old woman, and I felt a sense of extreme alienation.
But I thought about it from the first time we met, isn’t that the level of looking young?
I don’t know how old she is, but she looked too unnatural to be her age.
Perhaps she is a mixed blood of a long-lived species such as an elf that I have only heard of through rumors.
“What do you mean you have no intention of rebuking?”
“That’s literally it. If the request you made was something naive like asking for grades to be manipulated or for convenience, I would have considered it as a request.”
“Are you saying my request is not trivial? To be honest, I have nothing to say even if someone asks for it.”
“Joe, John Do student!! Shut up for a moment!”
While Professor Peter was screaming in horror, Marianne said in a warm voice.
“Well, if you were a ruffian who started fighting anyone, that request from a moment ago must have been a dirty request. But you weren’t the one who initiated the incident a week ago, were you?”
Yes. Neither what happened a week ago nor what happened today was the originator of the incident.
There is nothing to say about excessive defense, but apart from that, the cause itself was always on the other side.
“But most professors don’t take that into account. Rather than the fact that many students bullied one student, they cared less about the fact that an oriental commoner assaulted a nobleman. Isn’t it?”
Marianne turned to her side and asked for the consent of her professors, who nodded her head desperately.
“It seems to me that what is not normal is the academy and you, student John Doe, are just trying to protect yourself. So I will not blame the student for his efforts to protect himself.”
“… ….”
Perhaps because of a bad first impression, when Marianne came out strangely benevolent, she began to suspect that this was a trap.
No human with a normal way of thinking would take my side in a situation like this.
Maybe they’re plotting something?
‘They might be trying to kick Vivian out of the academy by tying Vivian into this….’
As if that thought had surfaced, Marianne grinned and put her hand into her arms.
“It seems like you can’t believe what the original woman says, so let’s do this.”
With that said, what she took out of her bosom was a 100 zeny coin, which can be found everywhere.
I put money in my hand and moved my gaze towards the black dog’s corpse, which was piled up like a mountain. Golden mana enveloped the black dog’s corpse, and the black dog’s corpse floated into the air.
“I’ll buy something that the original girl doesn’t really need, but to gain your trust. Can you believe this a little bit?”
The confusion and distrust that filled her heart began to grow even more when she said that she would be her accomplice.
“Why? Won’t you accept it?”
She couldn’t trust her at all, but she didn’t have her options here, she didn’t take me.
Because if I didn’t get it here, her professors might not accept my offer, and she didn’t know what she would do if she didn’t get it.
“… I will take it.”
When I finally nodded her head and said that she would accept it, she smiled happily and held my hand as she received the coin.
“Good. You seem to speak her words, unlike that vulgar b*tch. Then let’s see next time. John Do student.”
Marianne lifted her black dog’s corpse at the end of her words and disappeared far into the sky.
When Marianne left, her professors were able to breathe properly, and they felt that they were dead and barely alive.
“What a stormy man you are. By the way, the way she speaks is a bit bizarre. Even though she looks like that on the outside, is she like an old woman who is hundreds of years old on the inside?”
“… I don’t know the details, but I’ve heard that she’s the same age as Professor Vivian.”
Even with that said, I don’t even know how old Vivian is. She said her professors weren’t exactly sure that her age wasn’t particularly a concern.
“As far as I know, I heard that both of them are in their 30s, despite the appearance of her, but….”
“30S… So, both of them are aunties, that is, her grandmother’s reserve. If so, did you practice that tone a little while ago to use when she becomes a grandmother?”
“… Student John Do, please be careful with your words!! If you’re not going and you’re eavesdropping, what are you going to do?!”
The professors were scared again, but I wasn’t scared at all.
Could it be that an academy professor is doing such trivial things because he has nothing to do?
It was a time when everyone thought that they were worrying for nothing.
The dark sky lit up for an instant, and then a golden light bullet fired at the speed of an arrow, narrowly passed my shoulder and exploded on the ground.
While everyone was frightened at the fact that Marianne hadn’t left yet, I said calmly.
“…… I was listening to the plague. So is it true? Or are you not?”
“… Now that you’ve earned Professor Marianne’s wrath, is that the only reaction?”
“If I really wanted to kill you, I wouldn’t be a person in this world by now. I’ll take care of my work, so the professors don’t have to worry about it.”
“Huh, really….”
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“So what are you going to do?”
“… ….”
The professors couldn’t answer easily and looked up at the sky where Marianne would be.
“Is it because of Professor Marianne? You seem to be getting on my nerves, so I’ll throw a spear at you and chase you away.”
When I took out a suitable spear from the inventory and tried to throw it for real, the professors waved their hands in groups and shouted.
“Stop!! I will live, so please stop!!”
*****
About 30 professors promised to help in case of emergency in exchange for the body of a black dog, but nothing changed.
They also didn’t argue this morning, as if they had something to think about when they saw Louise being thrown out of the window yesterday.
‘… It’s peaceful.’
I had never felt a sense of peace or comfort after stepping into the academy, but when I did, I felt something like anxiety.
Just as the sky is clearest before a storm, isn’t it that a storm that is incomparable to the one before will come at the end of these peaceful days?
It is doubtful whether it is possible to do something worse than knocking out 100 students, but now what is impossible?
“Professor, what kind of person is Professor Marianne?”
During lunchtime, I went to Vivian’s professor’s office to ask, and Vivian frowned at her as if she had heard something she couldn’t hear.
“Why? Is he arguing about something?”
“No, it’s not like that… I wondered what kind of person she was because she seemed to have a bad relationship with her professor.”
“Um….”
Vivian gave me a suspicious look and sipped her tea.
“Did something happen in the past?”
“It’s not like what happened…. It’s just that I didn’t like the first impression.”
I tried to ask the reason in detail, but I couldn’t get a clear answer because it wasn’t because there was some special reason in the first place.
Just as she doesn’t need a reason to like people, she doesn’t need a compelling reason for hating people.
Vivian said that he just naturally disliked her because everything was opposite in terms of physique and status.
“If they start to argue with you for calling you a savage, just punch them. Even if I die, I will take revenge.”
“… If I die, then what does it matter whether someone avenges me or not?”
“Ah, that’s what it says!! Anyway, don’t get close to him because he’s a human who has nothing good to get close to. Got it?!”
“Oh, okay.”
After lunch with Vivian, when I returned to my class, students were gathered around my seat.
It’s only been a few days since the incident happened, and I wonder if I’m going to graffiti again. Let’s go back to our seats with footsteps. .
“Mmm.”
Waiting in front of my desk, surrounded by students, was a middle-aged knight who did not look like a student no matter how well he tried to look at it.
… Oh, what’s up again?