Chapter 31 – #030 Uncovered

Step out of the concert hall.

Look up at the sky and take a deep breath.

‘Whoa… Good. I think I’ll buy something.’

Why did I feel so nervous after taking classes over and over again for over ten years?

When I lowered my head again and looked around, I saw countless people laughing and chatting happily.

Most of them were commoners, because the five days of the academy’s opening anniversary festival were open to everyone.

Many people come as families or friends and gather together to enjoy the festival.

And I, too, joined the crowd and took a step forward to have some alone time.

No, I tried to take it off.

But I couldn’t.

Kuuk.

I turn my head when I feel someone approaching and pulling my clothes.

A child with hair as pure as snow on my roof in the middle of winter.

He looked to be around 18 or 19 this year, had blue eyes, and smiled brightly as he looked back at me.

And then he spoke in a low voice that only my ears could hear.

“Aslan?”

***

“Wow…! Isabelle, welcome♥♥”

“Isabel~”

The woman with golden hair laughed softly at the cheers of her friends.
He still looks quite young and is relatively short.

And the girl with green eyes that looked like a field on a midsummer day was Isabel Grayport, a third-year student at the Academy.

The youngest daughter of the family in charge of the south gate of the metropolitan area.

At the academy, he is the head of a military class for students from commoner backgrounds.

At her appearance, the girls who usually walked together in groups screamed and cheered, while the commoners trembled in fear and avoided them.

“How have you been while I was gone, you guys?”

“Giggles. Ugh. I feel so comfortable without you.”

“That’s right.”

“Why are you guys so comfortable?”

When Isabel asked, a woman answered on behalf of her.

“Not us, commoner bastards. Tsk tsk.”

Isabel and the group decided to hold a separate party to commemorate their long-awaited reunion.

She told her maid, who accompanied her, to tell this to her family.

“Miss, are you sure you’re okay?”

“Yes. Don’t worry. Will I get lost in this academy, or will I get into some trouble?”

“That’s right, maid. Isabelle’s magic skills are among the top five among her third-year peers.”

Students who are excited for the first time in a while.

They gathered food with familiar steps and headed to Isabel’s lodgings.

Because there is no place like her room for seven people to eat and drink.

However, on the way, a child suddenly came running and ran into Isabelle.

The child was holding something to eat, and because of that, her clothes… Became covered in sauce and became a mess.

“Ah…”

Silence that flows for a moment.

A woman who appears to be the child’s older sister runs up to her and kneels down in front of her to apologize.

“Sin, sin, I’m sorry…! I’m so sorry! Please just spare my life…!”

The boy, who looked to be only about 7 years old, was frightened by his older sister’s behavior and burst into tears.

Still, he knelt down next to her and apologized.
After seeing her sister’s actions, she realized that the person in front of her was a nobleman.

Isabelle looking down at the dress.

Fuck it… She’s annoyed, but she decides to just send them back.

“Go away. When you say nice things.”

But the friends seemed to have different ideas.

“Isabel. Are you just going to let me go?”

“That’s right. We need to set an example for this.”

“Look around.”

Look around at her friends’ stories.
Many people are watching them.

She was troubled by that.

If she just sends them away, the commoners will praise her for her benevolence.

And soon, word will spread, and his name and family will be praised everywhere.

But at that moment, she becomes a laughing stock among her friends, and indeed among the nobles.
Because it was behavior unbecoming of a noble.

But let’s set an example… Isabelle has not yet forgotten the horror of that day.

Things that happened at Christian Mansion.

I haven’t yet told anyone about anything that happened there. No, I couldn’t.

Only Christian and I know each other.

‘It definitely seemed like he was retaliating for my bullying of commoner students.’

Let her imitate the sound of a horny pig, and she has no reason to emphasize that she is a commoner.
Originally, I didn’t want to come to this festival, but I only came out because my family felt like I couldn’t do anything about it.

But she still couldn’t forget the horror of that day.

‘I’m also concerned that this guy named Jeffrey suddenly disappeared.’

For one reason or another, she tried to just forgive them, but her friends had already made the first move.
They take her woman and her younger brother and head to her academy dormitory.
She just followed them and told them to let things happen.

‘Okay. I wonder if anything will happen…’

Pair.

My head turns.

Every time a woman swung her arm, the head of the woman in front of her moved significantly to the left and right.
The other women watching laughed, the boy cried, and Isabel just showed an expressionless expression.

Her blood drips from the woman’s nose and her mouth.
She had no clothes on from head to toe, and her body was covered in bruises as blue as her face.

“No… How easy it must have been for us to look like this, my junior, would your younger brother make our Isabelle’s clothes like this? Huh?”

“Sin… I’m sorry… Please forgive me…”

“You know that one dress costs more than the lives of two of you, don’t you?!”

“Mo, just my life… Please save me…”

When the woman got down on her knees and the abuser grabbed her foot, the other person next to her lifted her foot and kicked her.
Kudangtang. The woman rolls over and bumps into the furniture, causing things on it to fall.

“What are you going to do? Huh? Rather, pay for it with money and take it. Isabel, how much did you pay for this?”

“340 gold.”

“Did you hear?”

With that one word, the woman she had beaten hit her head and fell flat on the floor.
Just 1 gold was enough for a commoner’s family to live comfortably for a year.

She cried and begged for her misery and the harsh reality she faced.

“Please, please have mercy. Please…”

“I, too, would like to ask you…”

The boy who was waiting next to me, crying, also fell down again.

The women smiled and sipped their drinks at that sight.

And then he said.

“Then let’s do it like this. What was your name…, My junior?”

“Ah, it’s Aisilla. But what…?”

“I’ll introduce you to a whorehouse, so you can pay me back by working there all my life. How about that?”

“Well, like that…”

“If you’re from an academy, you’ll probably get a premium, right?”

“Oh! Marian, is that good?!”

Her friends also laughed and cheered at the suggestion of a woman named Marian.

Aisilla could only cry and look at them like that.

In her eyes, they were no different from evil spirits, demons, and demons.

“Now, what do you want to do? Do you want to be beaten until you die by us and be buried with your younger brother, or do you want to sacrifice yourself and at least save your younger brother?”

“Well, I…”

There was no way.

There was no choice.

There is only one path given to her.

Aisilla cried and answered.

“Ha, I will…”

However, before I could finish answering, people suddenly started falling one by one in front of my eyes.

Women falling to the floor like mannequins whose strings have been cut.

My younger brother next to me also collapsed.

She tried hard to resist the rain pouring down with magical energy, but it was no use.

My eyes slowly close.

‘Oh, no. I have to run away now…’

In the room where Aisilla herself collapsed, only one person had their eyes open.

A woman with golden hair.

Her green eyes shake violently from side to side.

“It’s been a while? Isabelle.”

I turn my head with difficulty to the door where I hear the voice.

Tap, tap, tap. The sound of shoe footsteps is heard, and a figure wearing a black robe appears.

Even under the bright light, his face was obscured, and she couldn’t recognize him, but the moment she saw him, Isabelle was sure.
This man who appeared before my eyes was the same man who appeared at Christian Villa before.

“I guess the warning back then wasn’t enough?”

It can’t be.

Isabel shook her head left and right vigorously, saying no.
And then I cried.

“… Sniff.”

***

“Aslan?”

“What…?”

– What. Do you know this kid?

‘Now, be quiet for a moment.’

I tried to calm my confused mind and looked at the child in front of me.

It’s a familiar face.

Why don’t I know?

Among the reasons why I was executed, this child played the most decisive role.

It is an internal communication with the enemy country.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with this child.

He was just a poor child who was taken hostage to a foreign country.
There are no friends, no acquaintances, no one… It was to the point where he came to me, who was struggling with magic experiments, and asked me to at least talk to him.

‘That was my first meeting with this child.’

But how did you know I was Aslan?

When I just looked at him and didn’t respond, he smiled and opened his mouth again.

“Are you confused?”

“What?”

“Aslan, when you’re confused you always keep your mouth shut and remain silent like that? Looking at this, you really are Aslan!”

I looked into the guy’s eyes.

The eyes are full of confidence.

How did you recognize me?

However, a decisive clue that could serve as evidence came out of the child’s mouth.

“But what about that woman?”

“A woman?”

“The woman hiding between your legs and watching me.”

– Huh!!

You said you saw Perez…?

How? She grabbed both of the child’s shoulders and was about to ask her something, when there was a big commotion right next to her.

I tried to ignore it, but the noise was so loud that I had no choice but to turn around.

I don’t know the details of the situation, but a commoner girl and a young boy were lying face down on the floor, begging for leniency from the noble female students.

A familiar face seen among them.

– Uh? It’s him. A girl who is Isabel or something!

She was dressed in a rather beautiful dress, but the expensive blue dress was ruined with food.

The full story is understood the moment you see it.

In the end, the two commoners are taken away by the nobles.

Others around him just hissed and expressed their sadness.

After watching that, she turns her head again.
A boy with blue eyes is looking at me.

With a bright smile, I wonder what’s so funny.

“Is it okay if I don’t go?”

“Why am I…”

“Because that’s Aslan Dow. He’s the kind of person who pretends not to be a student he taught and takes care of him. By the way, the one who was taken away was Aisilla.”

Aisilla…

A student from a commoner background who is currently in his second year of study.

A passionate child who constantly learned magic from me by attending every social gathering the nobles framed him as… So-called a social gathering with an unknown purpose.

“… Let’s meet again later and talk.”

“Yes. I’ll wait!”

I walked on with a feeling of uneasiness and many questions.

I think the first priority is to rescue the two children who were taken away, as that child said.

When the distance increased to some extent, Perez opened his mouth.

-Who is he?

‘There is. He is a prince from a foreign country. He was held hostage… A kind of hostage. But how did I recognize you? Do you know anything?’

– First, I have something to point out… But he’s a prince? Aren’t you mistaken?

‘Why?’

– Is she a girl?

‘What…?’