Chapter 140 Volume III - Chapter 61: Daughter of the Feared Family
"Let me show you what I'm talking about."
I put my hand to my neck, and as soon as I did that, James and all the students around prepared to pounce on me, but I didn't care.
I took a necklace off my neck, and the little jewel on the necklace sparkled for a moment, and then the sparkle faded. I felt mana being drawn into my body, and then this mana suddenly burst out, and the students surrounding me were pushed backward by the momentary outflow of mana. I felt my body start to heat up, especially in my ears.
That was it, nothing had happened other than the momentary outburst of mana and James continued to stare at me blankly. Then, when he saw that nothing had happened, a crooked smile appeared on his face.
"Huh, so what? That's it?"
I raised my hand and held out my finger, James was completely focused on it. So I put my finger to my ear.
James's eyes slowly widened, then he jumped up.
"W- what? H- how could it be?!"
With real horror in his eyes, he froze, staring at something he could not believe he was seeing.
"You were an elf?!"
I lowered my finger, not changing my expression.
"Couldn't I be?"
James took a step back, then paused as if something had occurred to him. His eyes were focused on me, mumbling.
"Liate... Liate! Laute Family!"
When he guessed my family from my last name, the others heard the name too. So, their eyes also widened in horror.
"You were asking what miraculous power can save me, weren't you?"
He couldn't say a word. He was in such shock that he couldn't think straight.
"Anyway, it doesn't matter. I don't care what you do at the academy, as long as it doesn't touch me. Although... since you know my identity, I might as well kill you, right?"
"S- sorry..."
James stepped back again. This time as fast as he could. His arms just hung down the sides of his body as if his muscles were not listening to him.
He looked helpless. The boy who had terrorized the academy had kneeled so easily.
Some complexes can be really hard to overcome.
I ignored James and turned to the other boys.
"If you don't want to die, make a contract with each other, I'll tell you what it's about. Call the students from the other rooms. Don't miss a single one. And wake up that girl and bring her here."
I can't kill them even if I wanted to. We're inside the academy and there are cameras everywhere. If we're seen entering the room together, I'm a suspect. Even though I'm using my family now, they're not really going to help me.
That's how they made the girl and everyone in the next room come here. The students in the other rooms didn't understand what was going on when they first came in, but when they read the situation and saw James collapsed, they shied away from me. Then they started to pay a little attention to me and their behavior changed in the same way as the others.
Not a single one of them opposed me, they didn't even try to give me a hard time. The Laute Family's notoriety was so strong that even though there was definitely someone among them who was stronger than me, they could not make eye contact with me.
It wasn't hard for them to realize what I was. They were so afraid of what might happen as a result of any action they might take after hearing about my family... it was almost comical.
Ignoring them, I looked at the unconscious girl, a bruised bump on her forehead, just like James had said.
"Wake her up."
The boys quickly shook her. She started to moan as she fluttered her eyes from the headache, but it wasn't long before she finally opened her eyes and focused on her surroundings. Looking at the students around her, she was momentarily stunned to see that they were all like obedient dogs, waiting for my orders. When her eyes caught sight of James, she relaxed so much that it was as if she had passed from hell to heaven.
Then she finally turned to me. She paused for a moment, then her eyes shifted to the side of my head and she was as shocked as the others.
Well... It was surprising to see an elf in a human academy in a human country.
"Please don't get any silly ideas about me being your savior. You will have the same contract as the others, only yours will be a bit special."
The girl didn't seem to understand what I was saying, but I ignored her.
"See if you have enough contracts."
As soon as those words left my mouth, the boys in front of me started fighting.
"W- Who has a contract?!"
"I do! Come here!"
"N- no! I don't have a contract! Somebody help me!"
The room was suddenly chaotic. The students started shouting at each other, while the girl in the middle kept looking around in confusion. She couldn't make sense of what was happening, but she didn't need to.
After all, she would forget everything.
Once everyone was gathered, I began to arrange the contents of the contract they would sign, the most important clause being that if they left this room in any way, they would forget the last day. They would remember neither me, nor what they had come here for, nor who they had seen.
They would go straight to their rooms, go to sleep and forget everything. The girl will sleep in her room as she went to bed and wake up with her memory changed.
Of course, if there is someone out there who knows what happened here, they have to make them sign the same contract before they go to sleep and forget everything. With their lives on the line, it's impossible for them to do anything wrong.
The students hesitated when they heard the contract terms, but without much ado, they started signing contracts with each other.
Since most of them had already kept their contract rights, there was no such thing as someone being left out.
Since they included me in the contracts, I verified the content of each of them and allowed everyone who had signed a contract to come out.
Then they quickly rushed out of the room. James's authority was gone.
"You're staying, James. And..."
I couldn't remember her name, so I looked at her and motioned for her to come to me.
"Come here."
James paused and slowly turned around to look at me. There was fear on his face, an expression he probably hadn't made in a long time.
She was just like him. She understood that I was not his friend.
Adrian was still lying on the floor and there were only the four of us left in the room, the last person to leave had closed the door and James and the girl were looking at me nervously.
I took a deep breath and stood up. I went to the girl first, then I hit her hard on the head. She couldn't even resist. The swelling on her head got a little bigger and she fainted.
James looked at her in horror. He was terrified even though I had only hit her.
I picked her unconscious body up and went to her room, put her on her bed in a cursory manner, closed the door, and went back to Adrian and James.
This time I turned to James and started to walk toward him. The fear in his eyes intensified.
"W- what do you want?"
"Ah... Nothing, actually."
I just need a scapegoat.
I put my necklace back on, which I took off, and the mana in the air was drawn into my body. And then, just like before, a warmth spread through my whole body, especially my ears, and that was the end of it.
I put my finger to my ears, confirmed that they were just like a normal people, and then I turned to James.
I sighed when I saw that he was still scared to death. I walked over to him and hit him hard on the head like I had just done to the girl. James was suddenly pinned against the wall, but he didn't faint. His eyes were fixed on me in fear.
"I'm sorry! I swear I won't even let you see me!"
I didn't say anything, I moved closer to him and hit him once more on the head. He didn't faint again.
He wasn't fainting because of the difference in strength between us, but he couldn't react to me as if he was dizzy. So, I hit him one last time, this time a little harder, so he finally managed to faint, and before his eyes closed, he looked for one last way out, but it was futile. Even though he was stronger than me, he couldn't fight back because he knew my last name.
"Haaa..."
I took a deep breath, then looked at Adrian lying on the floor.
He was completely defenseless. The one person I could blame for my act was unconscious just off to the side. The memories of all those who went out would be erased tomorrow, and those who wouldn't be erased would take care of themselves.
All I have to do is kill Adrian and injure myself in a way that makes it look like I came out of a fight and passed out. And then it would be easy... I could finish this today.
I pulled three dimensional buttons out of my pocket, two of them containing fingerprint-proof gloves, the other a small but very sharp dagger.
I looked again at Adrian's defenseless body, slipped the gloves over my hands, gripped the dagger tightly, and walked up to him, crouched down on top of him.
I looked into his closed eyes again, then sighed deeply and slowly raised my dagger.
I prepared myself, then lowered the dagger.
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