Episode 152. Human or Insect (3)
A person’s head rolled across the floor and stopped in front of Jason. At first, he was confused, but the moment he realized who it was, his thoughts stopped.
The Holy Sword Palera, which was supposed to be indestructible, is destroyed, and the head of Demora Crevasse, one of the Seven Consorts, is cut off and rolled before your eyes.
The impossible happened twice in a row, and to a single academy cadet at that.
Nothing could explain it unless it was a dream.
“Why do you look like that? Are you by any chance your father?”
“….”
Lyman spoke as he looked at Jason, his eyes unfocused. He crouched down and stuck his head out in front of Jason with a playful expression on his face.
“Why aren’t you answering? Could it be that he was your real father?”
“….”
“Oh, I’m really sorry about this. Should I give you some makeup? I guess I should at least hold a funeral for you.”
Lyman continued to think without considering the other person’s appearance. If Jason had really been a bereaved family member, he would have collapsed from illness rather than losing his mind.
“You… what are you?”
“huh?”
“What are you?”
Finally, Jason raises his head and asks. His eyes are still dead, and his body is shaking, so his voice is unsteady.
Then Lyman suddenly said with a displeased expression.
“Ha… I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that since I enrolled here.”
Lyman suddenly takes a deep breath and thinks back to the past.
Since he entered the academy, several incidents and accidents have occurred.
Lyman solves this secretly behind the scenes, and it’s mind-boggling to hear this all the time from the masterminds.
Just a moment ago, Demora had also shouted, “What the hell are you, you bastard? Why aren’t you even slightly unscathed by my magic!”
“I’m really sick of this. And on top of that, ‘that lady’ had a reason to build a school in a place like this….”
“what…?”
“Okay. Let’s just get to the point.”
Another unfamiliar voice came from Jason, but Lyman quickly ignored it. Lyman jabbed his finger on Demora’s head and said,
“Do you have any final words about this situation?”
“….”
“Why aren’t you answering? Do you have nothing to say to ‘pests’?”
Those words pierced Jason’s lungs.
Jason, who always treated everything he saw as bugs and treated them mercilessly, had to burn the bug with a smile this time too, but his body wouldn’t move.
He is the only person in the world. Everyone should be under him.
How in the world can a person be trampled by a bug? It doesn’t make sense.
But that built-up common sense is about to collapse due to fear.
“This isn’t it… This isn’t it!!”
Jason clutching his head and screaming hysterically. With Demora dead, any plans or anything were meaningless.
Moreover, I screamed as I felt that everything I had lived up to that point was being denied.
“Just kill him! Kill him!!”
Jason finally frowns and begs earnestly.
My values were completely denied. Even though I wanted to protest, I couldn’t do anything other than tremble under the pressure of the other person.
What’s the difference between that and a bug trapped in a net at a point where nothing is permitted?
“hurry!!”
Now that he knows that the bug is himself, he has no reason to live. However, he wants to go at least without pain, so he exposed the back of his neck openly.
And a sword was summoned in Lyman’s hand. It was a sword that felt like it had more magical power than Jason’s Falera.
Such artifacts could be taken out anytime, anywhere, as long as the magical power could be assimilated into one.
However, that is only possible if the magical powers are well matched. That is why Jason carried Palera around.
“How can only guys like this become commanders of the knights?”
Lyman sighed and lifted his sword. Jason closed his eyes, thinking that he could now be at ease.
Chomp!-
“Kuaaaaak!!”
It wasn’t his neck that was cut off, but his ankle. Jason screamed in agony as the pain surged through him.
Then, with bloodshot eyes, he begged Lyman.
“What are you doing…! Stop doing something stupid and kill me quickly!”
He pointed his finger at his neck, but Lyman cut it off.
“Ahhh! Why on earth…!”
They showed their intention to surrender, so was it necessary to do this?
“And even after all this… you are a ‘human’!”
Of course, a ‘human’ should not harbor such sadism. Yes, a ‘human’, that is.
“That’s really strange. Aren’t the others, except for you, not ‘people’ but ‘bugs’?”
“Huh…?”
“When it’s to your advantage, you treat them like pests, but when it’s to your disadvantage, you treat them like people and change your stance?
Lyman continued with a dry smile.
“That’s why I can’t let you go comfortably.”
“Eek!”
In this way, Jason had to experience the pain of having his body cut and stabbed until he was about to die.
Holes appear in the palms and forearms, and blood pours out of the severed areas like broken channels.
But he shouldn’t feel wronged. Jason had always regarded the last words of the people he had killed as a melody.
This time it was the moment to stab the waist.
“Stop!”
Jason turns his head at the sudden sound.
He was still alive. As he turned his gaze, wiping away tears and snot, he saw a red-haired princess standing there.
“How did you find your way here, Your Highness?”
Lyman knew who she was without even looking at her. At Mirona’s shout, Lyman stopped for a moment.
Mirona had rushed to the Dantia Hall to catch the mastermind. She had hurriedly climbed the stairs and up the hill to the entrance, and finally came across this sight.
Princess Miro and Princess Hyakuya were terrified as if they had seen something they shouldn’t have seen. Even though such a witness had arrived, Lyman didn’t even blink an eye.
“Why does your expression look so ominous?”
“Can’t you just let that guy go?”
Mirona managed to catch her breath and speak, but Lyman just laughed.
“Yes. Yes. I expected you to say something like that. Where would the personality of a princess who can’t even kill a single ant go?”
“yes…?”
“The reason for wanting to spare them is obvious. ‘Murder is wrong’, ‘You’ll only get your hands dirty if you do that’, that’s the general idea.”
“…!”
Mirona flinched as if she had been predicted exactly, and was unable to refute anything. It was quite easy to look into Mirona’s mind, which was so innocent.
“Yes, that’s all true. It’s morally right to do as you say.”
“then…!”
“But do you know what’s really ridiculous?”
At that moment, Lyman’s once cheerful face became sharp as a knife.
“Of all the people who have said such things in their lives… there has never been a single one who ended up having a good time.”
Lyman has lived for over 300 years. If the listener had known that fact, his words would not have sounded like empty words.
Moreover, people who had influenced Lyman’s life often said such things.
But the result is as I just said…
“But even so…!”
Crunch!-
Mirona tried to stop him once more, her heart weak. But Jason’s neck was already floating in the air.
I couldn’t see when it had been cut down.
“This guy is not the commander of the knights guarding the princess or anything. He’s just a piece of trash who tried to destroy thousands of students.”
“….”
“Of course, I’m not forcing such excessive punishment of evil and reward of good, Your Highness. I just want to tell you to come to your senses.”
It wasn’t just Jason’s neck rolling around on the floor.
The neck of a man she had never seen before was lying on the floor, and the princess predicted that he was probably the mastermind behind manipulating the barrier.
And when I came running, Lyman had already taken care of everything, and that’s how we ended up in this situation.
“Honestly, don’t you think it’s strange?”
“yes…?”
“This guy is sitting proudly in the position of Commander of the Knights, and he’s openly connected to that cult.”
If it weren’t for the image projected onto the stage at that time, I would never have known about it. Mirona was also shocked when she saw that image.
And there was something else suspicious.
“Besides, the fact that the vice principal and the principal were summoned to the Magic League today was an order from the imperial family.”
“That’s not a coincidence… no….”
It’s too ambiguous to even call it a coincidence.
It would be unbelievable from Miro’s perspective. How could it be possible that this was the royal family that gave birth to her and raised her?
“I didn’t say that just now. I said to get your mind straight.”
While my head is spinning, Lyman approaches me and holds out his hand.
My head was spinning and I couldn’t figure it out, but I could tell that Lyman was not my enemy.
Even though it was radical, it was true that it saved the Academy.
“We can no longer hide. We must fight against the truth that will come out.”
I was always hiding in a box called ‘kindness’. I was so scared of the danger of my own power that I had nowhere else to run but that box.
But because of that, I didn’t notice what was going on outside.
They say that the princess’s position has weight, but… I’ve never actually measured the exact weight.
Thanks to this, I didn’t try to find out what the royal family really was.
If you do that, you might get hated by your father.
“Isn’t knowing the truth an act of hatred?”
Although she was trembling inside, she took Lyman’s hand.
And I decided.
Decided to become student body president.
* * * * *
The incident ended with the barrier returning to its original state.
The monsters no longer swarm and the entire guard has been completely defeated. The faculty and staff’s magical powers have also returned to their original levels.
By now, Lyman and Mirona would have encountered each other at the Dantia Hall.
There, Lyman and Liman hold hands as he preaches, “You’ve been gaslighted by the Emperor.”
‘It doesn’t seem like there’s any major problem.’
Back at the bachelor’s school, I was able to reunite with Jenny, Ruska, and Mary. As expected, except for Ruska, the others had rather gloomy expressions.
“You’re safe, Radon.”
But as soon as he saw me, he quickly calmed down. Of course, that doesn’t mean his expression was always bright.
It can’t be pleasant to face the mistakes you’ve made in the past.
“Hello, my friend.”
Mary was also similar. She had not known it before, but after training with Lyman, she came to know the truth that had been hidden behind a veil.
The fact that ‘some entity’ has parasitized inside one’s body.
‘But we’ll keep it a secret from everyone and go about our lives as usual.’
It’s a secret that could put even his friends in danger if it’s revealed. He tried to take it to his grave, but it ended up exploding in Chapter 5.
“I’m glad you’re not hurt, Angela.”
“Eww! Don’t hug me too hard!”
Ruska held her sister, who had become a saint, in her arms. Jenny and Mary, who had been depressed, were able to laugh at the sight.
Mary playfully places a caterpillar on Angela’s head. When Angela notices this, she screams and runs away, and Ruska catches her playing prank and uses her Fist of Terror spin move.
The atmosphere was quite lively. Angela, who was running around in a hurry, stood next to me and Nevia, very wary.
“uh…?”
Everyone’s eyes automatically turned to Nevia. Nevia was startled when she met their eyes.
Suddenly, the atmosphere was filled with ice. This was because none other than Nevia was nominally in league with the Royal Guard.
Nevia knew that very well, so she couldn’t show off her pride in front of them.
Of course, when Nebia spoke on stage, she confessed the whole truth. They must have witnessed it openly.
So Jenny took a step closer and said.
“Saint Nevia. If it’s okay with you, I’d like to talk….”
“No. Is there really any need to talk about it? You all know what I did.”
However, Nebia simply stepped back.
“But I told you honestly! So…”
“You don’t know my true feelings.”
Eventually, Nebia turned around and left.
He thought that he could not be allowed to be among them with his dirty intentions.
『Even if you turned yourself in, you were the one who joined hands with the evil organization. How can you feel at ease now that you’re confessing?』
As Muto said, Nevia’s suffering will likely continue for a while. In addition, the bachelor’s treatment of her will come soon.
Although she was a saint, she would avoid expulsion, but her real punishment would depend on her own decision.
“Are you going to stay still? If he leaves, you’ll be in trouble.”
‘I know even if you don’t say anything.’
I ran to catch up with Nevia, who was walking quickly. As I slowly caught up with her, a person appeared in front of her.
“Professor Radian?”
Radian, who blocked Nebia’s path with his large body. Judging from his expression, he didn’t seem to have any malicious intentions, but I wondered what he had to do with Nebia.
And then he takes Nebia to a place where there is no one, saying he has something to say.
“Hey Muto.”
“what’s the matter.”
When I pointed at them with my chin, Muto clicked his tongue.
“Tsk. Do you really have to make me do this annoying thing? “
“Want to taste some raindrops?”
『Ugh… It looks like fucking vomit.』
What could they possibly talk about alone? I held my breath and eavesdropped through Muto.
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