Chapter 6 – Preparing for a Duel #02

Violet wasn’t feeling well that day.

I don’t know why, but it was because I had to feel the déjà vu constantly running through my head.

“It’s strange, why does my head keep pounding…”

Violet decided to get out of the noisy classroom and walk down the hallway to reflect on her morning activities in her.

When I woke up in the morning, I was fine. There was no such déjà vu or headache when I woke up fresh and enjoyed the cold sweet pumpkin soup.

There was no problem when I went to the flower bed behind the Gold Dormitory to take care of the herbs and went back to school.

“…Yeah, it was right after I heard the classmates talking.”

The chatter of classmates I knew at least as they passed by, strangely, kept bothering me.

“Did you guys hear that? The boy who beat up people at the entrance ceremony the other day is leaving the hospital today!”
“Ah~ The kid who said Altin or Artin? He said she’s crazy? Teacher Senia told me to stop, so I attacked and was subdued!”

In the academy, all kinds of nobility and important people gather. As such, everyone tends to be careful with their behavior, and the stress that comes with it is bound to be heavy on kids who have just finished puberty.

Maybe that’s why, in the academy, characters who pop out of the crowd are bound to be cubic by young luxuryists. Violet herself, even just walking on the street, was quite stressed by the glances around her and whispered words.

Because of this, Violet was really annoyed at sharing such trivial rumors. But she had no sense of mission to set it right. She went out for nothing, and the reason rumors spread about her was that she hated her even more.

“I heard that he will come back after being suspended for two weeks? It’s pitiful for class B’s classmates to have to live with such an asshole.”
“Aren’t you coming to class and making a fuss? You say you have no family, baron, and no talent, so why are you so outspoken?”
“So, she must know her subject her. When she asked her friend her from the kingdom, she said that she had nothing to see other than being close to Felcas.”

But now, the words of those three chattering right in front of me were so annoying. If I didn’t stop, my anger and irritation welled up to the point where I could feel my intestines twisting.

The problem was that there was no justification for wanting to stop. Who is Artin Ludwig? He had never seen him face to face, let alone talk to him in his life.

Why would he interfere in whatever that short red-haired kid was going through?

“…Yes?”

Feeling strange, Violet stopped walking down the hallway and thought again. Artin Ludwig? Short red hair?

“How do I know his last name and what he looks like?”

Weird. The name is rumored to spread throughout the academy, so I can hear it in passing, but why do I remember that guy’s family name? Violet went beyond a headache and his head started to get confused with a sense of confusion.

What’s even more strange is that even though I’ve never seen him, when I think of a boy named Artin Ludwig, I see him vividly in front of my eyes. The child in my memory that I have never experienced is smiling at me with a trustworthy smile.

“Ugh… I don’t know at all. Since I didn’t participate in the entrance ceremony, I don’t think we’ll ever run into each other, right?”

“I can’t do this anymore,” Violet muttered as she headed towards the infirmary. Her next class was her liberal arts class, so even if she missed it once, it was n’t to the extent that she could n’t catch up.

“Oh my, Violet! Class is coming soon, where are you going?”
“Ah, hello Mr. Senia..”

It was Senia Reeves who called her. When Violet, who had turned her head away in annoyance, realized that she had called her, she smiled and put on a kind expression.

Senia is a teacher who is kind and kind to everyone. She is the teacher of alchemy, which is her main focus her, and the burden of her class her. Getting close to her teachers was also a trick of her elite her if she wanted to get grades that didn’t bow down to her Grand Witch her, her Grand Witch.

“I have a bit of a headache, so I’m going to leave early this time and rest in the infirmary.”
“Oh my, are you okay? Aren’t you feverish?”
“I’m fine, I don’t have a fever, I think I just have a headache.”

Seeing Violet’s words, Senia nodded her head. As for other children, Violet was a child with a passion for learning that stood out even in her B class. She convinced herself that if a kid like that skipped her class, she’d have a good reason.

“Ah, about the homework I submitted the other day, I wrote it very well, but there were a few things I was missing.”

Violet, who was about to leave after saying hello to her teacher her, hurriedly turned her steps at those words. Alchemy is as important to witches as it is to wizards. You must have thoroughly studied the preparations, right?

“To? Is there something I’m wrong or made a mistake, sir?”
“Nothing else, if you look at this part, I wrote that the cat’s whiskers act as a neutralizer, right? By the way…”

When Violet checked where she was wrong, it was fortunately a part that had recently been revised through research. It was a part that even her grandmother’s pupil, who was her tutor during her childhood, would not know, so it was an area that she could understand.

“Then, doesn’t the cat whisker have a great effect on the potion?”
“It’s not necessarily like that. If you look here, the potions with evening primrose are…”

Still, if you don’t want to make a mistake next time, you should pay attention and listen to the teacher’s explanation. As Violet overcame the discomfort of her headache and looked at her textbook, she heard a voice that was all too familiar even though it was the first time she had heard it. The moment she heard that voice, memories started pouring into Violet’s head like a flood.

“Miss Senia! Hello!”

As I follow the sound, I see a boy with red hair. But it’s different. I know this person even though I am new to it, but this boy feels different from the person I know and am used to.

But why, why does this boy overlap with the trustworthy red hair in my memory that I don’t know. Violet didn’t know at the time.

***

Weird. The way Violet looked at me was very strange.

Usually, such a gaze is the gaze that a person looks at when he is wary of the other person. But I meet Violet for the first time in this episode. No matter how much I think about it, I’ve never done anything that would attract attention like that.

Or, have you heard rumors about me? But there’s no way they’d look at me so suspiciously just because of rumors. Violet hates judging others based on rumors alone. So what?

“Oh my, are…”
“Artin Ludwig. Right?”

Teacher Senia is about to say hello to me, but Violet cuts her words off with a single knife and asks for my name her.

Since nothing like this happened while returning, I’m so damn embarrassed.

“Uh… That’s right, you are Violet, right? Violet Purple Crow.”

Without answering my question, Violet stared at me with her mouth tightly shut.

Feeling burdened, she turned her gaze to Teacher Senia to help her, and Teacher Senia looked at Violet’s eyes as if she was embarrassed, and then met her eyes in her.

“I told the teacher that it was the same class B… Ah, I heard it when I came to visit you in the hospital! Please take good care of me. Violet?”

She was taken aback by the completely unexpected reaction, but she still tried to be as friendly as she could and offered to shake Violet’s hand.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t want to turn Zorba, Xiaomei, and Violet into enemies or pretend to be. In every episode except the first episode, these three people supported and helped me no matter what.

In reality, I couldn’t make friends properly because I was from an orphanage, but these three people were a great driving force that I was able to endure during the last regression. So I thought that one day I would repay the friendship I had received…

…

Violet, who looked at her extended hand and face in silence for a minute, told the teacher that she would go to the nurse’s office and left her seat her.

‘Did I…Do something wrong?’

If I had to ask who is the best person out of the three, I think it would be Violet. Zorba is hot-headed but often gets into accidents, and Xiao-Mei is the type who doesn’t care about anyone but me and Zorba.

But Violet was different. He was really dedicated to helping his own person, and he never refused as long as it wasn’t a burden to other close friends.

Aside from taking on the heavy burden of not harming her grandma’s reputation as her as the Great Witch, she was a good witch who wanted to help people…

‘What the fuck did I really do?’

I have no idea. Does beating Weiss really matter? Is the rumor spreading so badly that even Violet, who hates it, cares?

Come to think of it, there is a possibility. If the rumors spread enough to even get the title, it could affect most of the characters.

In other words, am I known to the world as trash to the extent that even that good Violet shuns me?

“Teacher…”
“Yes?! Why, why artin?”
“I want to die.”
“?!?”

As expected, this episode was ruined, it’s damn hard to restart.