Chapter 343 – #75_Pride and Prejudice (2)

#341

One.
3 days of closed training.
Diana was engrossed in studying magic and exploring the location board for revenge.

Although her life as an apprentice witch was not very long, it was the first time she had delved into anything like this.
No matter how much she says the location board is fun, it’s a game in the end.
She never felt the need to set aside time to study.

But she realized it for the first time.
That vengeance is a strong enough motivation to overcome innate laziness.
Seeing Diana concentrating on studying in her room from morning until late at night, Countess Yesod stole her tears, and her handkerchief exceeded 100 pages.

She analyzed the notation of famous witches and personally thought that she was lacking in study. As for Dispel, she learned by flipping through magic books.
And as a result of her analysis in connection with Siwoo’s ethos, Diana found out a surprising fact.

“A shameless lie….”

That male witch will never.
She was never a beginner.
A method of setting a paving stone in advance and capturing the dispel angle from time to time.
The fact that this was a tactic used by a witch in the 19th century as her specialty, she found out by looking through the notation book.

Of course, it seemed that I had arranged it in my own way, but the location and method of the paving stones are almost the same.
It is similar to even strengthening the one-point breakthrough power by combining three magical power sources at one point.
The tricky dispel method that a male witch couldn’t do was actually just a copycat, not his original.

And pretend to be doing it for the very first time.
Pretend not to hear or see.
He caught Diana off guard and proudly stole her victory.

Of course, I have no intention of catching it.
It was a very dirty and despicable thing, but the last game was lost in a melee, not a dispel, so it won’t change anything by arguing with it again.

“However… The winning plan is already prepared… !”

However, Diana’s growth, which was devoted to her studies in earnest, was fierce.
The situation where the power reinforcement of about 1.5 times the perceived power has been completed.
There is no defeat as long as a countermeasure against the only variable dispel pin is in place.
Diana spurred her seat and headed toward the host bar with a majestic stride.

2.
“I… Now Siu is already with her guest.”

Diana, whose vengeance was so full of her heart that her frost fell even in her May month.
I arrived at 7 am to have ample time for her Duel, but she did not come to pick me up.
Instead, the gatekeeper she had seen before looked at Diana with a puzzled face.

“Shouldn’t I just order a more expensive drink?”
“Ha, but… ! Now, wait a minute… !”
“There is no time to wait. Guide me right now.”

If she had been Diana before, she would have waited or come back tomorrow.
But now I can’t afford that.
He had been training so hard that he couldn’t be relieved without beating the man right away.

Diana walked past her bewildered gatekeeper and went straight to table number 1, where Siu always sits.
Emotions were added to the thumping footsteps, and the moment the temporary blinds were pulled back.
Surprised by her sudden appearance, three pairs of eyes turn to Diana.

“… Uh, how are you?”
“…….”
“…….”

A completely unexpected person was with Siwoo.
A half bonnet bigger than her face and a dress that looked as expensive as Diana’s.
She was an apprentice witch with a cute, doll-like appearance, with fine black hair with long curls and purple eyes.

“Uh? You?”

When Lucy scolds Diana, she always appears as a supporting character, the daughter of her mother’s friend.
Here she is, the only twin witch who is one of two, the apprentice witch of the Earl of Myrnai.

“That sloth?”
“A witch apprentice who doesn’t listen to her mother?”

Diana is furious at the bizarre evaluation of her twin who recognizes Diana.

“Don’t call me weird.”

As much as my Murnai family and Yesod family interacted, I was familiar with her twin.
However, she is only acquainted with her, and there is no such thing as an acquaintance.
Therefore, there was no way to know why the twins were here.

The sudden presence of twins here is another scene that surprised Diana after beating her second.
It was that the twins were clinging to Siu from her left and right.

If intimacy can be judged by the distance between the two, that is the distance that only lovers can take.
One of the two was even dipping a fruit snack with a fork and putting it into the man’s mouth.

“I was going to introduce myself, but you seem to know each other.”
“No, not very close.”
“We only know each other by face.”

Diana, who is dumbfounded by Siwoo, who accepts and eats the fruit as if it were natural and receives her greeting.
I don’t know what happened.

However, I don’t know why an apprentice witch from someone else’s family looks so close to this male witch.
The only thing that mattered to Diana right now was revenge and revenge.
So, she speaks boldly.

“I’m here for a rematch.”
“A rematch?”
“If there are other people, get in the way, so get out of the way.”

Diana declared in a solemn voice with her hand on her waist.
Even though she is an apprentice witch from the same county family, there is a gap.

The opponent is an apprentice witch whose training to inherit the stigma has not yet been completed.
Diana, on the other hand, is an apprentice witch who has advanced her succession ritual education by three years.
She is not only older in age, but also ahead of her in her magic skills.
She confidently thought she could make this request.

“What are you? Why intervene? Are you close with my assistant?”

At that time, one of the twins raised her twin wick and glanced at Diana.

“Assistant, you said you would play with us today.”

The other of the twins tilts her head and holds Siu’s hand tightly.
If there is one thing in common among the quite different reactions, it is that she listens to Diana’s words with the back of her ears and exudes an atmosphere that will never happen.

“You’re just going to be messing around anyway. The purpose of my visit is far more important than that, so I ask you to move away….”
“Uh? It’s a location board. Assistant, can you do a location board?”
“We’re pretty good at this, would you like to try it together?”
“Don’t ignore me!”

However, as if the twins had lost interest in Diana, who suddenly intruded, they focused their attention on Siu again.
Diana shifted her gaze to Siu and gave her impassioned speech.
She didn’t seem to get much use out of telling her twin anyway.

“Play with me first! You came back because you asked me to come back!”
“Since you haven’t seen me for several days, I thought you wouldn’t come in the future….”

Diana, who is scolding, and Siu, who makes an embarrassing expression.
Seeing this, Odile expressed her disapproval in a sharp voice.

“Hey, we booked first, so why are you cutting in the line? Are you closer to your assistant than to us?
“Did you say hey now?”
“A person who has nothing to say. A horse tail catch.”
“I didn’t catch the horse’s tail… ! It seems that my side is more important, so you’re going to take care of it first… !”
“Is it important that we came first? Why are you so pushy?”
“Josu, but why ishehere?”
“First of all, let’s not fight. Let me explain.”

Siwoo took the time to explain the situation to the twins.
Upon hearing this, the twins look at Diana with strange eyes.
The hostility had subsided a little, but rather, the eyes were filled with relief and a sense of victory.

“Aha, you mean it has nothing to do with anything? We just played a few games, didn’t we?”
“Then it must be over there that I have to move away. You tried to tear our relationship apart just like that. I don’t even have a chin.”
“Diana-sama, it’s really nice to see you again, but as you can see, Odile-nim and Odette-nim made an appointment first. As you said, I don’t think it would be embarrassing to kick them out.”

For some reason, Diana gets even more heated when the three of them seem to be on the side.
He bit her lip and sat down in front of Siwoo.

“Then I won’t tell you to go out separately, so let’s play games.”
“Mrs. Odile, Mrs. Odette. My work is until today and I will make time for myself this evening, so is it okay to sit together?”

The twins who briefly consult with each other.

“What if my assistant is okay? We don’t care!”
“Me too! I also want to see how the assistant does it!”
“Thank you.”

While looking at the relationship between the three, who seem closer than expected, with a strange eye.
Diana maneuvered her location board and sank her mind.
Actually, there were things to say and things to ask, but it’s hard to get her words out because her twins are watching over there.
How is she supposed to reveal the fact that she lost the location board to a man, and that she was studying because of that?

“Do it first. And….”
“Yes.”
“… Do it right. Because I won’t be fooled anymore.”

Eventually, the game started with Diana’s warning.
Diana took a small deep breath and calmly counted.

It is different from the past, which only pursued strict standards.
In order to make a clear choice, prepare various builds and make the opponent aware.
Diana took control of the runes as she normally did, while she was ready to pounce on her opponent and put pressure on her to fight.
It is not to blindly pursue a stable game or push ahead at the beginning, but to balance in the middle and progress through the game.

“Hmm….”

I don’t know if it’s because of my mood, but I can definitely see the flow of the game than before.
Diana’s rational tactic of discarding what to throw away and taking what is to be gained was accruing small and small gains.
If Siwoo wanted to lay a dispel paving stone, she would chase after him and interfere, so her variable was also blocked.

But she’s amazing apart from that.
Siwoo’s magic power gathering deployment is a strategic one-tool deployment in the early stages that lacks a back heart even if it only goes mid-game.
However, the game is still tight as the mid-game is slowly coming to an end.

In terms of good or bad, it’s about 5.5 to 4.5.
Even in a situation of endless pressure, somehow find a way out by breaking through one point and continue fighting.

However, no matter how wide the location board is, the number of each other is limited.
Even if it struggles like a poisonous snake, if you press down on it, one day it will explode and die.
Diana read her edition with her calm mind, wary of dispels to the end.

-Widely!

When Diana put her count.
The bored chatter of the twins could be heard.
To be more precise, it was a local broadcast where they were whispering among themselves, not instruction or anything.

“Oh, that’s not how you do it….”
“Why are you putting it there?”

Ignored
I’m saying that because I’m not familiar with the game.
She didn’t even think it was worth responding to.

“If you put it there, you’ll catch hemp.”
“The game is really weird….”
“But assistant-nim is really good at it.”
“As expected, assistant!”

It’s something you just have to close your ears and ignore.
The cannabis that had been flickering before my eyes was an ambush.
It is a dangerous trap that you will be sucked into as soon as you make a move.

He didn’t even know that, and even though the situation was going in Diana’s direction, he unknowingly said such things.
Diana, impatient, opened her mouth.

“Hey, could you please close your mouth?”
“We’re going to come first and give you a concession? Can’t we even chat among ourselves?”
“The score is really bad.”
“Ha, really… That’s Okay…. Say what you like.”

It’s not a very wrong word, but it’s more pissed off.
But it doesn’t matter.
What should be seen as a result anyway.
However, the twins’ intermittent mental attacks damaged Diana’s mentality.
It was because there was a stupid move that would never normally be made, a so-called ‘beep’.

“Oh….”

Diana, who belatedly realized her mistake, felt sorry for her.
And Shiwu shrewdly dug into that mistake with her sharpness, overshadowing her blind prayers.
It is like limping her leg in a tug-of-war that was held tight.

“Keugh… !”

Diana tried again and again to make up for her mistake.
Siwoo relentlessly pursued and eventually succeeded in dispel that Diana had prepared so much for.
Just one mistake turned her table upside down.

“As expected, there is no way I can beat my assistant.”
“Assistant! You are amazing too!”

Diana lowered her head and shook her shoulders.
Siwoo stopped the twins.
There is no need to pour oil on a burning house.

“Odile-sama, Odette-sama, stop it. Diana-sama, it was a really tight match. If you haven’t made one mistake along the way….”
“I know!”

Diana gritted her teeth and looked at her twin.

“Are you guys that good at location boards? Then stick with me.”

Obviously, Siwoo was the target of anger until he sat in this seat, but now the twins who interrupted the game by chattering next to him are more pissed off.

“Hoo? Are you going to attack us?”
“We are good at games, so you must be confident?”

Accepting the sudden challenge, Odile raised one eyebrow and snorted.
Odette also crosses her arms and resists Diana’s provocation.

“I said I would do it because I was confident. Make a bet instead. The one who loses gets out of the way.”

Diana tossed her gauntlet with her flair to get rid of those her obstructions and once again engage in a proper duel.

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This is Amelia made in 3d version by Orcamission.

How the hell did you do this… ?
I think it came out very nicely.