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◈ Academy’s Pure Love Dark Knight
Chapter 81
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Episode 81. Who Is the Uninvited Guest?
The summer festival began. The academy was bustling and overflowing with people,
“The Magic Club’s horror experience booth! Please come visit us!”
“Ariel, it’s about to start, so let’s get ready to go in.”
“Okay! Got it! Kai..!”
Couples were holding hands or wandering around interesting booths together.
“Licht, what are you doing..?”
“I’m just enjoying the sight. Ah, Mardol, isn’t there anything you want to do at the festival?”
“Not really. No.”
The whole world seemed excited, mixed with memories and happiness. Except for the two of us. Mardol, dressed as Quercus, stared at me blankly.
“..Licht.”
“What is it?”
No matter how I think about it, this person seems to have no romantic connections. Maybe, like Dennis, she’s someone whose love line only connects after defeating the Demon King.
“..Are you enjoying the festival?”
“Well.. of course, right? Because I get to see sights I don’t usually see.”
“I see.”
The tree monster lowered its head. Why are you getting depressed again? I’m afraid the imperial guard might come. I subtly spoke to her.
“Perhaps, are you not enjoying the festival?”
“..I’m not sure. It’s just a lot of people.”
“That’s a good thing.”
“Huh..?”
What a great timing to watch pure love. It’s pitiful that she doesn’t know this kind of joy.
“Look over there.”
“A harpy…. and an oni?”
Yeah. I pointed with my finger at a woman with bird wings and a man with horns, sticking close together and walking side by side.
“They look hot.”
“It’s still early summer, so it’s natural, right?”
Inside my helmet, my lips naturally curled up. The timid oni man and the slyly smiling harpy woman clinging even closer.
“..What about that?”
“I think those two probably like each other? And they’re just one step away from becoming lovers, like friends.”
“How do you know that..?”
“It’s intuition.”
I deliberately spoke a bit loudly so Kainel and Ariel could hear. My voice resonated from the burning helmet Mardol was holding,
“Eep.”
“...”
The yellow Cerberus and the red Cheshire Cat, who were finishing up the booth preparations next to us, were startled and looked my way. You two, hurry up and raise your love to get married.
“That fresh feeling. Can’t you feel it?”
“..I don’t know. They’re just shy with each other.”
Golden wolf eyes gleamed from behind the branch-covered helmet. Is she still cold toward others besides me?
Out of habit, I rested my chin on my hand and thought. If the main heroine acts like this, it’s quite problematic. She’s supposed to be at the center of every harem situation.
I can’t keep helping Mardol forever. Because I also have to connect other couples eventually.
‘What will happen to this person’s love line.’
I gave a bitter smile. I wondered if a character who could truly love this Glass Knight would ever appear.
Actually, because of Magic Hat, even her mother turned into a card. It’s not easy for someone to understand and help this person….
‘Thinking about this kind of worry is useless. Really.’
I stopped my thoughts, lamenting myself at the dizzying sensation I felt for a moment.
Love is fair. There’s a saying that even a rat’s hole will see the sunlight. Even someone like me, who was like a sewer rat, changed a lot after meeting the Nameless Saintess.
‘I was thinking negatively out of habit. I need to fix this too….’
Like the unlocking of the Northern Grand Duchess’s favorability. Probably once we catch Magic Hat, she’ll meet a good person and naturally fall in love.
Her emotions seem to have returned a bit, which is reassuring, but it seems the Magic Hat incident hasn’t been resolved yet, so it’s probably too much.
‘Though a good-for-nothing husband is rare.’
What matters is the heart. Even if it shakes, as long as it doesn’t break. Like me, the Glass Knight still has a chance for recovery.
“Don’t you think you’ll find out someday, Mardol?”
“Will you, Licht, tell me?”
“..As a ‘friend,’ I’ll help you.”
“Wow. I got a promise.”
Mardol said it was a promise, as if she was aiming for it. I’m helping only as a ‘friend.’
People often say that in male-female relationships, friendship doesn’t exist.
But no matter where you look in the world, there won’t be a relationship like mine and Mardol’s. She’s just a rival and a friend. It’s important, so I said it twice.
“I only intend to give advice as a friend. A promise like that….”
“It’s not a promise?”
“Because I’m not doing it because I like it either.”
Main heroine. No, I’ve recently become certain that if I hadn’t mistaken her for the Crown Prince, I would never have gotten involved with this person.
At the very least, I thought her gender had changed, like with Magic Hat.
‘Because I didn’t know she was a new character, a princess.’
There was a lack of information where it was needed, and too much information where it wasn’t. Getting this close was largely due to my carelessness.
“But your eyes, Licht. They look happy.”
“My eyes? That can’t be.”
“..Liar.”
But still, it felt wrong to push away someone who looked so pitiful just because she was a woman. She was also kind.
In the pastry shop, she cried in my arms. She noticed my trauma and worried about me, and she was the first person to meet me after the fight with Magic Hat.
‘At that time too, she was probably looking for me.’
Inside the strong-looking armor hid a heart more fragile than anyone else. Humans are contradictory beings. No matter how clueless I am, I know that much.
“Don’t regret it later. If you decide to make a reverse harem, I’ll scold you right away.”
This much consideration should be enough. She’s a person I know too much about to dislike now. I chuckled inwardly and spoke to her.
“..I’ll be looking forward to it.”
So she was saying that aiming for my reaction from the start. She seems to find teasing me amusing, leaning her body forward and showing obvious interest.
‘Is she really a wolf?’
Her golden eyes turning into crescent moons like someone’s, she looks just like a sly fox, giving me the feeling of dealing with Nex Aureus.
It looks like a black wolf tail is moving inside her.
I sighed softly. In truth, even if flags were stacking up, it didn’t matter.
Because in my heart, there’s no way Mardol will ever take priority over our Saintess.
“Mardol. Let’s get ready. The festival is really starting now.”
“That’s three promises, Licht.”
“I know….”
I tried to change the subject to avoid falling into the trap, but it only confirmed her excellent memory.
‘Take care of the Nameless Saintess is one. The second is the Dragon Heart…. The last is helping with love as a friend.’
There were no words that could become flags. Besides, even if her favorability rises, it won’t change into romantic love, which requires mutual feelings, so it’ll be fine.
“I’ll hold the helmet, Licht. Tell me if it’s hard.”
“..Thank you.”
That day, I moved my unusually heavy steps and walked into the club’s booth.
***
At that moment. At the main gate of Grand Hearts Academy.
“This is a random inspection, sir.”
“Oh dear… I’ve died many times too.”
Head was blocked by two men guarding the entrance, showing a troubled expression. The gentleman put on a face of resignation.
“You’re one minute late.”
“If you refuse, we can use binding magic.”
“Don’t rush me. I definitely have a permit from the Magic Tower….”
Seeing the guards, he tried to pull something out from his bosom, and as soon as he did, the men in front of him immediately thrust their spears and threatened him.
“Raise both arms!”
“..Fine, fine. I can’t handle the hot blood of you young ones, I suppose.”
As if he had expected it. Head obediently raised both arms. Then, a permit dropped to the ground with a thud. It was a small parchment that read ‘Sage of the Magic Tower.’
“Ah, by the way, I’ll warn you.”
The Demon King leisurely warned the two men approaching him.
“Don’t touch my body.”
But ignoring Head entirely, the two armored guards rummaged through his suit, checking for any dangerous items.
“This…. What is it?”
How much time passed like that. One of the guards found something inside Head’s bosom.
“A magic tool..?”
“Anyone can see it’s a strange object. Confiscate it and immediately…. Confiscate?”
In his hand was a striking red revolver with eight chambers. An object that didn’t fit with medieval fantasy.
“Ughhh..?”
“Hueh….”
At that moment, the two men’s focus went blank and they collapsed to the ground. Saliva dripping, they fell on all fours and started crawling.
“..Oh dear, did they touch the holy sword?”
Like newborn babies. As if the sight was familiar, Head showed no reaction.
“Wah! Wahhh!!”
Soon, the guards cried out like babies looking for their mother, appearing to have been hit by something before they could even use their spears or magic.
“That’s why I told you to be careful. Hmm, the name was definitely….”
As if something was about to come to mind but didn’t, he leisurely moved forward. Even though there were guards acting strangely like babies right in front of the academy,
“..I don’t have time to recalculate. Sorry. At least your lives were spared, weren’t they?”
He seemed unconcerned with the people around him. The crowd was chatting and enjoying the festival as if nothing had happened.
“If you had touched it a bit longer, you would have forgotten how to breathe… so consider this luck.”
The Demon King sighed, picked up his revolver from the ground, then retrieved the permit marked ‘Sage’ as well.
“Now then, what kind of hero is the protagonist of this anomaly that appeared in the grade exam?”
Head smiled as if amused. It was unusual that his calculations had gone wrong, but because this degree of variable was within his assumptions.
“Emotion, intellect, reason, will…. It was definitely swordsmanship, so it must be Tardun’s hero.”
The screams, like a child’s cries, grew distant, and before his eyes, the entrance with ‘Grand Hearts Academy Summer Festival’ written in large letters appeared.
“First, I’ll try to sway him… and if he’s a person who doesn’t match my ‘prophecy.’”
Touching the revolver in his bosom, he continued his words. A cylinder with only one bullet missing.
“..I’ll have to eliminate him. In the most probable way, that is.”
As Head blended into the crowd, the surrounding air vibrated and momentarily felt cold.
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