"Please, no more… I don't know anything else…."
A painful voice of the girl echoed around the fluttering wind. Her clothes were tattered, and smoke was rising from her skin….
Some burnt marks, some little particles of electricity… Her pink hair could no longer be seen as beautiful.
"I know," I replied with a cold tone.
"Then…Why?" Seeing that, Lily had a horrified and sad expression on her face. An expression of being wronged. After all, she was right. I had been torturing her for almost half an hour, and after a minute of ten, she didn't give me any quality information.
But I still kept going because of a simple reason.
"Because of this…."
Raising the black vial from my pocket, I approached the girl.
"What is this?" The normal expression would be the expression of fear and opposition, but for her, it was acceptance.
Accepting everything that would come….The mindset of those that lost their hope…. It was such a response.
"Nothing." With that, I grabbed her from the corners of her mouth, putting the contents of the elixir in her mouth.
"Kurgh-"
And soon her eyes turned black as if they lost their color, following that she was ready to listen to my orders….
Just like that, I started instructing her on the things I needed her to do….
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The information I got from Lily could not be said to be groundbreaking, but at the same time, it confirmed my suspicions.
Huge amounts of agents were inside the academy trying to turn students into demons, and they were also planning to attack at the club festival's time.
Just like that, my day ended.
Now, this duel period contained quite a lot of interactions in the game with other heroines, instructors, male characters, and many others.
But if I was sure of one thing, that would be that Arthur wouldn't know about such things.
'I feel like he didn't play the game thoroughly.'
That was just my assumption, but it felt like Arthur didn't know the details of the game and events too much.
Like he played the game shallowly, he remembered the characters and some big events, but I had never seen him trying to find some easter eggs or hidden questlines that would be beneficial to him right now.
'Well, it doesn't matter too much.'
Just like that, as I was about to reach my dorm, I found a girl waiting outside the door.
"Brother."
Of course, she was Diana…Approaching me with a smile, she showed me the small recording of the duel I had with Emilia.
"Who is this girl?" However, the smile on her face was not warm at all. If it was something, I would say it was chilly.
Knowing her tendencies, it would be weird if she welcomed it with a smile.
"A soul that was trapped in the past," I answered, shrugging.
"A soul?"
"A soul."
"I see. So, I can kill her then?" The chill in her eyes was evident, as she was serious about killing her.
'As expected, this girl really is crazy.' I thought. After all, there was a reason why this girl was a villainess in the game.
"You can't." But that didn't mean I was going to let her walk the same path.
"Why?"
"Because she belongs to the church." Even she, a member of the Augustride Family, couldn't randomly kill a person that belonged to the church, especially if she was a paladin candidate.
"Church…So what?"
"What do you mean so what?"
"So what if she belongs to the church? She insulted you."
"We had this talk before, so don't make me repeat myself, Diana," I replied with a cold tone, and from the tip of my eyes, I could see her eyes shone brightly for a second.
This was what she liked, and I knew that.
"I know."
"Then-"
"But I feel like your attention is elsewhere nowadays, brother." A chilly voice echoed as Diana's eyes turned bright green, showing she was using the power of spirits right now.
"What?"
"Just now, aren't these traces of a girl?" Small green particles started rising, formed by the spirits as she spoke, and a smell of perfume entered my nose. It was the smell of the perfume I had cleaned using the spell clean, but it seemed the spell didn't cover everything.
'Sigh… I forgot…'
Since I was occupied by the interrogation and other things, I didn't pay much attention to my clothes resulting in such a situation.
"Who is this girl, brother? Do I know her? No, I don't think so…. None of your classmates has this smell." Diana kept talking to herself, answering her own questions. Though between her words, one could hear a bunch of creepy ones.
"Sigh…."
But as I always have said, no matter how strong one's emotions are for me, that never gave them the right to limit me.
"Diana." Just as I was about to repeat the same routine that I had done before while activating my [Tyrant's Aura] trait, I heard her voice.
"Brother, I know you don't like when I behave like that." It was her acknowledgment. After all, this girl was not stupid, and she knew what I liked and what I didn't like.
"So, why are you doing that, then?"
"I am annoyed," Diana said, raising her face and locking her eyes with mine.
"What?"
"I am annoyed that your attention is somewhere else." She said, bringing her face closer to me.
"….."
"It is like you are drifting apart with each passing time." She said, touching my chest with her fingers.
"What should I do to get your attention, brother? Should I just throw myself in danger like the last time?" Reminding me of the times of the past she spoke. After all, her obsession probably began at that banquet.
"Or should I just kill everyone else so that you can only look at me? What should I do? TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD DO!" Hearing her raised voice and the spirits surrounding her, I knew her emotions were strong.
They were so strong that she was unconsciously affecting the environment around her. She was unconsciously using her authority that she had no knowledge of she had yet.
'This is not good.' And it was not a good sign because I didn't want the eyes watching us to see learn about her authority this early. After all, no matter how much the times changed, authority was something that only a handful of people had knowledge of around the world.
At the same time, I knew why she was like that. Looking back at my life after the academy started, I could see that it was mostly filled with monotonous training, but at the same time, it was necessary.
THUD
Putting my hand on her shoulder, I released a small sigh while my other hand touched her cheek to calm her down.
The green eyes that were glaring at me, different from their original color, showed that she was still using her authority and had yet to calm down. Of course, one simple touch on the cheek would never be able to calm a girl like her.
At that moment, an idea came into my head. An idea from the game that I played would use to subdue a heroine.
"Let's make a bet," I said with a smile.
"What? A bet?" Her eyes still glaring at me, Diana asked.
"Yes."
"What bet?"
"If you can beat me in a duel tomorrow, then you can have me for the whole weekend."
I answered. In a way, almost every successful person has one common thing, no matter their special situation. It was the fact that they had the ego that stemmed from their success and their drive to compete.
And this was also the same for Diana. Unless the said person is me, Diana would always look down on other people no matter who they are, just like she did with Emilia.
"Whole weekend?"
"Yes. But, that is if you can beat me…."
Thus giving her a chance to find salvation at the same time poking her pride was something that she could never refuse, and I knew that.
"Heh….Brother….Are you sure?"
And as expected, a beautiful smile bloomed on her face, immediately different from her past emotions.
"Yes."
"Hehehehe….Then, I can apply for the duel now, right?"
"Now? You can't. My duel cooldown has not finished." I answered. As I said, there was a cooldown for duels to make sure that some students didn't take advantage of the weakened strength of higher ranks.
"….Okay, then. I will apply for a duel tomorrow. You must look forward to it." With a smile, Diana turned back, entering her dorm.
Just like that, I reserved another duel of mine while entering my own dorm. After all, I needed to contact Aliya about the situation and make sure that she was ready….
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I am feeling better now, though my fever is still higher than normal.
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