For an absolute being like Tia, other people’s complaints were nothing to worry about.

But that didn’t mean she didn’t care about how others looked at her.

awe and authority.

Those are the two things Tia wants from humans.

Within this ＜Skientia＞, she gathered awe and authority as a price for bestowing knowledge and safety on humans.

Awe is to keep you from ignoring yourself.

It corresponds to the instinct of a dragon to prove that it is superior to anyone else.

Authority is to avoid trouble.

It was a necessary device to prevent beings who dared to challenge themselves externally.

“That… … I’m all good.”

She is a being that corresponds to the strongest in the world view. Why is she reluctant to challenge others?

“Can’t you look down on me?”

If I had been alone, there would have been no reason to worry so much.

But she had something to protect.

“No, it’s not that I’m actually weak or scared, but wouldn’t it be annoying if stupid guys challenged me?”

Chapter 12 of the main story.

An SSR-grade character who joins after Tia’s death.

[The one who inherits the will of the SSR]

Spina Ereda El Tiamat

The only thing she wants is to protect her only family, who is still sleeping in the depths of ＜Skientia＞.

“But you can’t just kill all humans, can you? A peaceful world if possible… … . Well, yes, I like a peaceful world.”

That is why she does not forgive those who invade ＜Skientia＞.

She does not forgive anyone who disturbs her territory.

“Did you understand what I meant?”

“of course. Head of the academy.”

hundreds of years. These are the years she has been living alone without a family.

What if she has a family?

What if there is a being that could not be born right now but will someday break out of its egg and come out into the world?

Yes, ＜Skientia＞ is no different from a huge nest prepared by her.

“Principal, you can treat this as if I took off my magic tool on my own.”

“yes… … ?”

“Isn’t there nothing you can’t take off if you remove this bracelet by force?”

“Yeah, but… … . But how can you do it with your own power… … .”

Awesome—!

I take off the bracelet myself for Tia, who can’t assume that I, a wizard, will pull the bracelet out by force.

My wrist made a weird noise, but that’s okay.

“What… … . Are you also mentally ill? I guess I’ll have to get tested by Arrieta later?”

Tia looks at me as if she is tired. I’m sorry if you help me

“Uh-huh, headmaster. You have to cover up your words.”

“… … .”

“Don’t you understand the situation? Didn’t the accident happen in ＜Skientia＞, which should be said to be the safest? If so, if you are to blame for this incident, you do not know whose fault it will be, right?”

“yes… … . It’s my fault for judging that the magic tools are perfect.”

fast–

Tia gritted her teeth and answered.

The past time of humiliation and persecution… … . It was a boring car.

Now it’s time to teach these giant fire-breathing lizards who has the upper hand.

“therefore? What do you want? You know what I can’t do about the succession of the spelling, right?”

“Yes, what I want… … .”

Pillars to support the plan.

The first thing to be assumed is fixed. A prerequisite to deftly twist Tia while protecting justice.

“Safety of all students.”

By using the word ‘of all students’, she adds Marie Sistus to the target she must protect.

“What bullshit… … ?”

Tia tilts her head as if she doesn’t understand for a moment.

But her pigtails started waving like a tail, and her expression began to grow serious.

You understood what I was saying.

“What do you know?”

“Answers come first.”

“… … .”

chin!

When I came to my senses, Tia was holding me by the neck. As if time had been cut out, only results were visible.

Still, the fact that she didn’t twist her neck means that she still has reason left.

Acting aside, it’s too scary.

“… … I will put conditions on it.”

“Yeep… … .”

Since the neck is being held, it responds with a shrill voice.

“Yeah, what… Responsibility for safety within the realm has always been my job. But there can never be a word ‘all’? No matter how strong and smart I am, there is no way I can protect everyone in this wide area.”

Tia’s pupils split vertically and her horns radiate heat. It’s been a long time since wings sprouted from behind.

She is already ready for battle.

“So I’ll always leave the ‘choice’.”

“… … .”

“When ‘everyone’ you said can’t be saved, I’ll choose the next best thing. Do you understand what I mean?”

If I don’t finish the case well, Tia is thinking of killing Marie second.

“… … good. I’ll have to coordinate that part.”

That’s enough concessions from her.

My plan is a plan that puts students at risk.

She’s already noticed. It is the students who are doing the work this time.

And the scope covers the whole of ＜Skientia＞.

“Then tell me now.”

“Marie Sistus.”

The name alone was enough.

Tia said as if she understood, but at the same time, as if she didn’t understand.

“[King] The baby attacks me… … ? Are you crazy?”

“With her as a medium, the ＜Underworld＞ will be opened within ＜Skientia＞. I think there will probably be 472 locations in total.”

“… … Fool, that’s not what I expected, I just knew it. Why didn’t you tell me until now?”

“No, actually, I tried to say it last time, but the atmosphere seemed too dangerous, so I couldn’t.”

Tia looks at me suspiciously and touches her cheek.

The scars on her cheeks have long since disappeared, but the traces will remain in her heart, not on the outside.

“Come to think of it, maybe you… … . No, it’s done. This is not something to talk about right now.”

“… … ?”

“More than that, I think the timing sucks.”

“It could have been aimed at.”

What she is talking about is the existence of security guards in ＜Skientia＞.

Of course, there is no way that the careful woman did not prepare for this situation. But, as she said, the timing was bad.

Because the guards protecting the academy were none other than her dragon soldiers.

There were more students than usual this year, perhaps because of the sky problems. There must have been a shortage of mercenary soldiers to hand over for training.

In short, it is said that her loyal soldiers are now scattered among the students at the academy for practice.

There is no way there will be time to recover.

“Now, here’s a map of 472 suspicious places where you can feel the fraud for some reason.”

“You, you bastard, really… … .”

Caught by the nape of the neck

Did I say it too playfully? I should have said it with a serious expression.

“Calm… … Calm down. Head of the academy. The human body is more fragile than it looks, and if you grab it like that, you will die… … .”

Tia throws me to the floor.

I thought I was going to die.

I don’t think I should provoke her any longer.

The expression of dissatisfaction is jumping up several steps in an instant.

“Among them, I took simple measures for 71 places that seemed the most dangerous. I also wrote down the efficient movement lines.”

“I don’t need a route. Can’t you just look at it for a second?”

“You are indeed the head of the academy. You are amazing.”

“Sometimes I really want to kill you.”

“… … .”

“therefore? What did you do with action?”

“I dug the ground right in front of the door.”

All I could do was dig a very deep hole right in front of the place where the door to the ＜Underworld＞ would open.

If beginner magic has [Dig], intermediate magic has [Sinkhole].

I don’t know why I like digging magic so much, but this time I’ll be able to feel its performance.

“How deep did you dig?”

“50m?”

“This crazy bastard… … . What the hell are you doing in the academy?”

It was hard.

I don’t know how many times I’ve used the [sinkhole] to dig up to 50m.

Perhaps the soldiers of [Myungwang] will be plunged into physical hell as soon as they crawl out of the ＜Underworld＞.

＜Undine’s Water Drop＞ restores mana by itself.

However, compared to refining with potions, the efficiency is inevitably low.

Moreover, because I ran into ＜Parade＞ the other day, I couldn’t even buy the ingredients to make the potion.

That’s why I had no choice but to save ＜Undine’s Water Drop＞.

If you use it here, you won’t be able to use it when it’s really important.

So leave the rest to Tia… … no, leave it to me

“With the academy’s ability, even if you can’t destroy the door, can’t you block it for about an hour?”

The door to ＜Underworld＞, which has already been completely opened, cannot be easily destroyed even by her.

Since the key is an object created by the power of God, it is unavoidable.

However, she can physically block the door.

Even so, it is impossible to block the door forever.

In the end, there is no choice but to find and kill or persuade the person who opened the door.

If it was T-I, he would have prioritized killing rather than persuasion, so it was a problem to bring out the same conditions as now.

“No, you more than that. Did you know about the key?”

“Do you think I was called the successor of the King of Darkness for nothing?”

“Still, it can’t even be read by anyone other than the ruler or officials… … . No, wait. Didn’t you steal it and get caught and chased?”

“uh… … . Maybe so.”

I don’t know why I had to be chased by Salem.

As she said, there is some credibility to the fact that Oz read the information about the key at will.

Because Oz was definitely challenging divinity.

“This crazy… … . No, well, that’s okay. By the way, can I ask you one more question about the plan?”

“Yes?”

“Why is this timing right now? You could have just told me beforehand.”

As expected, I don’t think I’ll believe the excuse that I didn’t catch the timing to say it. Well, I wouldn’t believe it even if it was me.

Thinking back to when I brought up that excuse, the number of suspicious places I had identified was too many.

“Even when I said that, did the head of the academy really leave her alone?”

“I wouldn’t have killed him.”

“But you wouldn’t have left me alone.”

“Yeah, that’s right. Because you can’t hold a bomb that you don’t know when it will explode. I shouldn’t have worn it since I was wearing the surname Cistus in the first place.”

Yes, it can be said that Mari’s existence was created as a time bomb from the beginning. Those with the surname of ‘Cistus’ are tools of [Pyeongwang].

I just thought that Mari was particularly strong, so she wouldn’t be used as a scapegoat.

And if Tia had known the bomb would explode, she would have kicked Marie out of ＜Skientia＞.

And Mari, who was kicked out like that, would have been recognized as a useless hand by [Myungwang] and eventually killed.

The only way for her to survive now is to stay here in ＜Skientia＞.

“This one time is enough. Because the lock made by [The King’s] key won’t be able to perform its role twice.”

“… … But is there any way to close the door? It would be quicker to knock down the locks connected to Thanatos.”

“there is. So, the head of the academy, please do not come to the place where the [Myeongwang] is.”

“why… … ?”

“What do you think [Myeongwang] is aiming for?”

“How am I supposed to know what a madman is thinking? If you were sane in the first place, would you pick a fight with me?”

“It is information gathering. They must be trying to find out something about the head of the academy.”

Tia hears me and frowns as if she’s guessing something.

She’ll get caught too.

[Myeongwang] can know the information of the living and the dead.

That’s why I was suspicious.

Another dead or possibly alive dragon was nowhere to be seen on the list.

Yes, the purpose of the [Myeongwang] is to confirm Spina’s existence.

“Right… … .”

Tia’s eyes began to harbor a murderous intent that had never been seen before.

But that intent to kill soon disappeared. I forcibly suppressed her so she wouldn’t burst out.

He could kill that fiery personality for his own family.

“Is there any reason you would do that for him?”

“Sometimes I don’t like [Myeongwang]… … . For my personal reasons, I needed proof.”

“proof?”

Marie Sistus, who was destined to be killed at the end of [The King]’s plan.

And Oz, who was destined to die mysteriously in Chapter 15 of the main story.

Yes, you could say we are both doomed to death.

Chapter 1 of the main story.

I could twist it somehow.

They managed to get Gerard away from Eleanor and subdue him before he could hurt her.

But I couldn’t do anything about that flow. Gerard died in the end.

The direction was a little different from the main story, but it died.

Originally, I had planned to kill Gerard, but I was horrified by the result as if death was predestined.

“We have to prove that there is no such thing as destiny.”

Perhaps no matter how I intervene, the main storyline may not change.

I was afraid of that. I needed reassurance that I could defy the ordained fate of death.

Yes, I needed proof that I could reverse that fate.

“Wait a minute? I’m just asking, how old are you? uh… … . So, were you 15 years old?”

Tia, who had heard my resolution, said with a surprised face. The long-awaited spleen atmosphere was shattered.

“I am not a second grader.”

“Uh, um… … . Yes, there are times when you don’t know that. Don’t think so hard.”

This damn fire-breathing lizard?

In this situation, I am trying to wrap my long-awaited determination into a second grader on a subject I don’t know.

However, if you look at it from the perspective of a third party who does not know my secret, it is true, so I can not protest even if it is unfair.

“Yeah, what… … . okay. In short, you didn’t want to let Mary die. Isn’t this?”

“In conclusion, yes.”

“Yeah, let’s do that. Don’t cry Arietta.”

“Why am I playing Arietta?”

“It seems to be ringing in real time even now… … .”

“… … ?”

I don’t know what you mean.

Since Arrieta is a saint, she must be proud of me for trying to save people.

That’s ignoring Arrieta.

Flutter-

Tia floated into the air with her wings spread.

The door hasn’t been opened yet, but it may be that he’s trying to prepare something like I’ve done beforehand by using the [Sinkhole].

“By the way, Oz.”

“Yes, head of the academy.”

“You’d better keep that in mind.”

Tia, who is floating in the air, grabs my chin and lifts me up.

It might seem romantic, but seeing her burning eyes makes me feel like a subordinate before being executed.

“There is no special human being up to the soul.”

“Yes… … ?”

“At least from my point of view, human life is all there. Even though there may be differences in liking between people, it is said that all lives are equal. Do you understand what I mean?”

It was a word that hit me right in the middle.

Contrary to what she said, I may not have seen people as equals until now.

Because my eyes were marking people by grade.

“One life is one life. By my standards, it’s not someone else’s life, it’s one person dead. Even though you have natural talent, you are of equal value to other people.”

“… … .”

“So if even one person loses their life in your plan… … You will have to pay the price with your life.”

“… … understand.”

She did not discriminate against humans.

The method was grinding to the extreme of the value of life, but the will was respectable.

“yes? Then pray.”

“I don’t believe in God.”

Its existence is too opaque to pray to God.

There may be gods in this world, but I didn’t think they would listen to me when I prayed. If he listened, the probability of [Ruler of Mana] wouldn’t be like that.

So I think it’s better to believe in myself and roll instead of being such an unreliable person.

“Then pray to me. Save all the students so you can save your life.”

But what she was talking about was different. She is infinitely similar to a god, but more like a demon.

“I beg you so.”

Arrogant and tyrannical, but at least a transcendent who can answer prayers.

“… … Then, please answer this foolish human’s prayer and take responsibility for everyone’s safety.”

“Yes, I will hear your prayers. You stupid human being.”

And it was a being who returned answers to prayers.

The dragon spread its wings.