Episode 247. Real Man
My gaze was focused in that direction, wondering if it was a commotion inside the station.
Of course, since it had nothing to do with us, we were just going to glance at it and go our separate ways.
Until I found out that the guy who caused the commotion was a cadet from our academy.
That’s a guy I know very well.
“My brother-in-law…, my love…. I will protect them all!!!”
People turned away as if they were disrespectful to the strange sound that they could not understand at all, but we could not do that.
“Hey! Stop!!”
I reached out to stop the guy and yelled at him to stop.
The other kids followed me to stop him.
“uh…?”
“Hey Bayman! Why are you here!”
“huh…?”
Bayman stops controlling the golem the moment we stop him. In the meantime, the mercenaries who were being attacked quickly run away.
This part shows how strong the guy has become, as he can easily overwhelm active mercenaries.
But Bayman looked at my face carefully and then said.
‘Oh, I forgot!’
Come to think of it, I’m currently in a state of disguise with a feminine appearance.
If I keep going like this, they won’t recognize me and will be on their guard, but since they’re following me, I’ll be able to give them a quick, rough explanation.
“Oh, you’re my brother-in-law! How are you doing here…!”
“what?”
“When did you grow your hair like that? I almost didn’t recognize you!”
“….”
hmm….
Obviously, their appearances are different and even their voices are worlds apart, but did you recognize them through that?
This is just crazy. As a result, it doesn’t seem like there’s any need to explain it.
And seeing this made me feel so moved that he didn’t see me as a woman.
I really like it, Bayman.
From today onwards, I acknowledge you as my sister’s brother-in-law.
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It was surprising that he recognized me at a glance, but it helped him explain the situation quickly.
We explained to Bayman what had happened to us, and Bayman explained to us why he was at Papiyas Station.
“Two saints are here?”
“Yes, brother-in-law! You two also expressed the same anger at having the courage to make your brother-in-law a wanted person!”
I never dreamed that Nevia and Angela would come here under the pretext of going out.
I am beyond words in my anger at the way Alighieri’s innocent students are being treated as if they were criminals.
“And the board members were also extremely angry when they heard this news. In particular, Headmaster Cage of the Battle Department and Principal Keiten were on the verge of exploding.”
He said he showed my flyer to them too.
Their reaction to the fact that their only cadet was being subjected to such humiliation was beyond words.
Besides, I’m not just a cadet, I’m a cadet from Class A. I’m a treasured asset of Alighieri Academy.
“That is why the two saints were allowed to be drafted on their own.”
“But why did you follow me?”
“Why, why? Read this.”
Bayman points to the words written underneath the leaflet.
There was an absurd statement written there saying that if anyone could capture my family, they would be offered a reward.
If it’s my family, Amy would of course be included.
“Hahaha…, Amy, you know, is my first love. I’ve never felt this hot in my body and mind before. But since I met her, I’ve become so passionate. It’s the first time in my life that I’ve experienced something like that!”
Amy was a turning point in Bayman’s life.
In reality, he was a loser who had turned his back on the world and stayed in a corner of his room, building golems.
I don’t know what kind of event occurred between Amy and me at the Magic Banquet… but anyway, it’s clear that people have changed.
“Therefore, those guys who spread these leaflets… must all be killed without exception!!!”
The problem is that it has changed too much.
It’s true that it became more passionate, but it has degenerated beyond passion into something like a nuclear bomb.
In short, I couldn’t help but think he was crazy.
“Hey, bear with it. I feel the same way, but what will other people think if you just kill them all?”
“Just a little while ago, there were a ton of guys trying to catch my brother-in-law! If things continue like this, Amy will be in danger too!!”
In response to his anger, all kinds of weapons burst out from the body of the artificial golem placed next to him.
On his forearm is a magic tool reminiscent of a chainsaw, and on his face is a hideous awl that resembles a shark’s tooth.
It was a normal golem used for hospitality that was modified into a golem that was made for combat.
“Keeeeeek!!”
Bayman, who raises his blood pressure by screaming strangely again.
What on earth could have possibly gone through her head to make her like this? By now, she was on a level of ingenuity that was on par with Mary.
It’s fortunate that they’re allies, how terrible it would have been if they had turned into enemies.
“Guys, help me out.”
Jenny and Ruska then calm Bayman down by saying they understand.
Even if I tried to calm him down, all I could do was pat him on the shoulder and tell him to stop.
Fortunately, the screaming stopped, but his temper remained the same.
Of course, my blood pressure rises because I’m being treated as a wanted person unfairly, but it’s not as exciting as this guy.
“Senior Bayman! What are you doing there!”
A girl runs towards me from a distance.
She calls Bayman as if she had been looking for him for a long time, and is surprised to find us.
“Uh, Senior Jenny and… Senior Ruska?”
For some reason, she had a familiar reaction when she saw Jenny and Ruska.
She was a brown-haired girl, but her basic appearance and voice could not fool me.
Because that was Mirona’s disguised form.
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After reuniting with Mirona and Bayman, we headed to the hideout where they had taken up residence.
In the room located in the basement of Papyrus, several priests were guarding the entrance.
It seemed like they had been dispatched by the church to protect the two saints.
“Please sit over here. You haven’t eaten yet, have you?”
We sat down at the table that Mirona had guided us to.
Perhaps because it was originally a place reserved for a saint, the light was so vivid that it was visible on the pure white table.
The space itself was decorated in a luxurious and beautiful manner.
-Beep. Enjoy your meal.
As soon as we sit down, artificial golems bring us various foods.
“I don’t know what’s going on yet… but I’ll eat well for now!”
“Well, let’s talk after we finish eating.”
“Hahaha! What a sweet cake!”
Jenny, Ruska, and Mary decided to start with breakfast after seeing that.
I, too, ate the food that was served on the table with relish. I couldn’t refuse a meal that was prepared with great effort.
Then Bayman spoke to me with a bright smile.
“Brother-in-law, what do you think? How does the banquet I prepared taste like?”
“….”
Did you make this?
You, the only person who knows how to make things, are a Gunpla fanatic who sits in the corner of the room and fiddling around with golems?
“Cough! Cough!”
“…!”
Jenny and Ruska seemed surprised too, one coughing and the other opening her eyes wide with her mouth swollen.
Anyway, after finishing the meal, we got to the main point of the conversation.
Two saints and Bayman. I never imagined that Mirona would come along as well.
Of course, that won’t necessarily work for me.
“Your Highness… No, did the Chairman come here after seeing that flyer too?”
“That’s true, but to be exact, I came here because there’s something I need to know personally.”
Mirona answered Jenny’s question with a frown.
Jenny asked cautiously, seeing her look quite serious.
“What do you need to know?”
“That’s… a memory from my past life.”
“yes?”
“Can you believe what I say from now on?”
Everyone tilted their heads in confusion at those words, but I frowned and gave them a sensitive look.
If it was a memory from a previous life, it was because it was from when she was Saint Maria.
Mirona began to tell me a story, about her past life and the future she had foreseen in her past life.
“The future?”
Even from my perspective, knowing the main story, it was a very novel story.
Of course, her past life, Maria, is a character who only appears in flashbacks, so there is no accurate information about her.
Except that there is a record of her being a saint who wields a red sword.
“I was once a saint and visited Papyrus to offer my condolences. As soon as I set foot on the ground, I saw something.”
A scene where an evil god awakens from the ground in Papyrus with a huge explosion, and at the same time, another god descends from the sky.
And the desperate situation where that god destroys everything.
That is Maria… the future that Mirona saw in her previous life.
“Although I thought it was just a temporary visual phenomenon, there is evidence that it is a definite future.”
The evidence he took out was a flyer with my face on it.
When asked what this meant, she replied,
“I saw this flyer clearly in the future I saw back then.”
It is said that the future that she happened to see at the time was somehow engraved in Mirona’s mind to the point where she could not forget it.
So I remembered it just by looking at the flyer once.
Maybe it has something to do with the future I saw in my last dream.
“And there’s one more thing I remember besides this leaflet.”
They say they saw someone in the midst of the devastation.
I’m talking about an old elf with blond hair and pointy ears.
He was a person that even Mirona knew who he was.
“Grisha Highend. He is the man once called the Hwangtapju.”
I couldn’t help but be shocked when I heard that sound.
It was Grisha who persuaded many nobles to distribute my leaflets and who planned to summon the God of Destruction.
If that’s the case, then the future that Mirona saw might be real.
As expected, arriving at Papiyas was not in vain.
“So are you saying that the real mastermind is Grisha Highend?
“I’m not sure, but I saw Grisha a few times when I was still living in the palace. He was one of the people who would come and go from the audience room often.”
Grisha is the 4th of the 7 constellations that led Doomsday.
It is obvious why he received such special treatment in front of the Emperor.
“From the moment I first saw him, I felt an instinctive rejection of him. At the time, I was just a child who only listened to my father… no, Machia, but I could instinctively tell that he was strange.”
In fact, the current Mirona was a being that had inherited most of the power from her previous life.
The reason she excelled so much in swordsmanship was because the skills she had accumulated in her second and third lives were ingrained in her.
Although swordsmanship was sequentially developed first, it is highly likely that other abilities were also developed unconsciously.
For example, the power that Saint Mary possessed to discern evil beings.
“For some reason, whenever I saw Emperor Charis, whom I once regarded as a father, I felt no aura. However, when I saw Grisha, I temporarily felt a surge of discomfort. It was as if I had witnessed a being that was not human.”
Does that mean that even though he couldn’t detect the Demon King Machia within Emperor Charis’s body, he did react to the ‘something’ within Grisha?
What on earth is that something? Is it dangerous enough to be treated like Machia?
Grisha, once a kind elf elder.
Even if he says it’s for revenge, the reason he’s acting so aggressively is…
“Surely not… the God of Destruction….”
Boom!-
As my head rolled, there was a loud noise and a hole opened in the ceiling.
It was nerve-racking that something had broken through the ground and reached here.
As the dust that had been flying due to the impact cleared, a man began to appear.
You could tell what was going on from the way he was wearing the Papyrus Knight Captain’s uniform and the fact that he appeared so aggressively.
“We received a tip that some Alighieri cadets are hiding here.”
As he said that, other soldiers came down from the open ceiling.
They surrounded us openly.
Even though it was a place guarded by priests, seeing them go out like this, I could roughly guess who gave the order.
“Jenny Chainsilver, Ruska Mad-Eye, and Mary Ludsiel are all as reported.”
“….”
“I heard there’s a boy who hangs around with you guys.”
The man who appeared to be the captain glared at me with sharp eyes.
Then I borrowed Muto’s power again and spoke in a woman’s voice.
“A boy? I’m just an ordinary lady….”
“Don’t be a jerk, Radon Crowler.”
I got caught in an instant.
It was a shocking situation, but it also made me feel at ease.
Because he was the second person, including Bayman next to me, to see through this fucking disguise.
“Follow me now!”
Okay, thank you.
Thank you for making me a real man.
Surviving as an Academy Fraudster
