Episode 49. Devil

The story spread that the lead team members who were hit by Lethe were still suffering from the aftereffects, and no one dared to go around Agoge 3-28.

Rumors about Lethe had spread so widely that even Paideia was talking about it, and even ghost stories were circulating that she might really be a devil.

Only Carly was aware of her clumsy figure as she struggled to open a bottle while wearing cute bunny gloves.

“I will do it.”

“As expected, there’s only Carly-“

Lethe’s rabbit glove handing over the bottle caught the moonlight pouring through the window.

The bloody color of her white gloves appeared in the moonlight, but Carly, already accustomed to her cruelty, was not surprised.

“Who are you again this time?”

“Akula kids. It suddenly went quiet about two weeks ago and I had a hard time finding it.”

“Sir, how many times-”

“No, I didn’t lose that much. 6 people so far? Originally, I was going to catch them one by one and find out where the others were hiding… .”

According to the last captured member, Akula was disbanded and the executives leading the organization suddenly disappeared.

“I must have heard that Akula has more than 100 members… . Senior, can such a large organization disappear in an instant?”

Carly tilted her head.

“Can’t you believe it either? But the last one caught didn’t appear to be lying. He was a kid who really valued his life.”

“It’s really strange, it’s not like we’re possessed by anything as a group… .”

“Anyway, it was disbanded. What a relief.”

smart-

at that time. Among the students, someone started knocking cautiously on the door of this place, which is rumored to be avoided even passing in front.

Until now, there has never been a sane person who has ever stuck his head into the devil’s den.

Lethe silently lifted the broken bottle upside down, and Carly got up and opened the door before any misfortune happened.

Beyond the open door… .

“I-I… . here… .”

In front of Carly, a girl wearing big, round glasses was hugging a bunch of books and trembling.

“Room 3-28, right… ?”

“Right, what happened?”

“that… . He said that he could stay here from now on, and told him to move rooms… .”

After seeing the half-crying girl, Carly looked back at Lethe, whose eyes were shining with interest, and then washed her face.

“It’s your first time meeting, freshman?”

“Yeah… .”

“name is?”

“This is Jun Steva. I’m a first year magician… .”

“ah… . Jun?”

Carly put her heart into Jun’s shoulders and hugged her.

“cheer up.”

“Yeah??”

Instead of answering, Kali prayed for the safety of the lamb, who would live with the devil in the future.

Due to my senior’s personality, I won’t harm Jun, but it won’t be easy to adapt to the murderous atmosphere here… .

* * *

Pond 1 water pressure.

Greyvine, or rather, a drowned body, laughed at his shattered drawer.

It’s been two weeks since I found out that Professor Ian stole his invention, but I couldn’t stop laughing at the broken lock.

“I underestimated you. I was ignorant, I admit it.”

As the person at the bottom wants.

The drowned body observed humans, and further brainwashed and manipulated them.

There were no difficulties at all in the process. His inventions were overwhelming, and humans all acted within his predictions.

He ruled over weak humans, and his organization, which was like a toy, grew endlessly in the dark.

Until Professor Ian shows up… .

“I can’t believe that he read and interfered with my intention to recruit Mina and Sepia… .”

I never expected to jump into a pond and steal an invention.

None of the humans managing the pond properly identified themselves.

However, Professor Lee Ahn, who appeared without any notice, accurately found his laboratory in the pond, and brought out only the inventions he wanted and were using them proudly.

It couldn’t have happened unless I knew everything about the pond and the invention in advance.

‘How on earth?’

Even though all members of the organization were mobilized to collect information on campus, the drowned body could not find out the identity of Ian.

All sources completely denied his relationship with Pond.

‘Amazing, Professor Ian. You definitely overwhelmed me.’

Now, Professor Ian’s power has grown to the point where he cannot be defeated even with all the members of the Akula organization.

Although the number is small, a few loyal and powerful students are supporting him.

The drowned body quickly admitted defeat. And he completely revised his evaluation of human beings.

Humans are mostly inferior, but there are occasional instances of frightening exceptions.

Outlier.

Its exceptional few individuals overwhelm the general rest.

When trying to bring Sepia to Akula, 100 brainwashed gang members were defeated by less than 10 members of Ian’s party.

‘What causes exceptionality?’

The drowned body thought about it endlessly, but this time changed its perspective to observe Ian carefully without disturbing him.

I checked the contents of his lectures, the goals he pursued, and the grounds for his bold judgments. And, the drowned body was able to throw off one layer of the limits of thought.

How to recognize and use your influence?

A speech technique that attracts opponents without brainwashing?

It was important, of course, but that wasn’t the point.

“Let’s go out now.”

the girl smiled

* * *

bang-!

Princess Euril, who was looking at the student list in the pale moonlight, couldn’t stand the frustration and slammed the desk.

“Shit! There are no good guys!”

To be precise, useful guys don’t want to join the student council.

‘Rize, how is the 2nd year head of the element research department?’

‘I tried to bring her in as general manager to replace her, but was rejected. He doesn’t have the confidence to stand up to a unique magic user… .’

‘ha… . What about Carol? Will he come in?’

‘that… .’

to yield a hundred times. It is understandable that he was afraid that he would get into a fight with Mina if he joined the student council.

Haril’s defeat has become so famous that Mina at school now says that just passing by will open the way.

However, no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand that there were kids who were engrossed in Professor Ian’s lectures and avoided the student council.

‘Karl has stated that he intends to officially support Professor Ian in the future.’

‘No, it’s not the other kids, why is Carol again!?’

Euril’s stress reached its peak because she never imagined that Carol, who only knew magic, would fall for him.

Since the de facto defeat by Frill, the main executive position of the student council has been vacant.

Heryl, who was the head of the general affairs department, completely lost confidence in the battle with Mina and resigned.

The only remaining executive was Rize.

At this rate, it would be difficult to get the student council back on track, let alone gather forces to take revenge on Frill… .

“How come I… . Did you drive all the way here?”

“Because you broke the members’ will.”

“… ?”

Euril’s movements stopped at the sudden unfamiliar voice.

Swoop-

Euril slowly raised her head from her desk and looked around, but there was no one in the student council room.

‘So, who could come in without my permission in the middle of the night? The Guardian Knights are guarding this place fiercely, but intruders… .’

I must have heard nonsense.

The time when Euril was about to sink her head into the desk and fall into trouble again.

‘… !!!’

I felt a cold hand right behind me.

“Your hair is unusual. Did you change it like this to show off your social status?”

Euril froze at the sight of the girl’s silhouette created by the moonlight on the desk.

“Who, who are you… .”

“Piletta.”

I felt the wet, cold water on the fingertips of the girl whose name I had never heard of.

‘How long have you been here?’

Euril, who came to her senses from the cold air, carefully moved her hand to the pen on the desk. And… .

‘done… !’

hooked!

As he did, he stamped the tender girl’s thighs with a pen and slipped away in front of the desk.

Even though the feeling of the pen tip penetrating the flesh was so vivid, there was not even a scream that followed.

‘It must have reached almost to the bone… ? That’s not human… !’

Auril, white with terror, rushed out of the bedroom before looking back and screamed.

“What are you guys doing-!! A strange person has invaded my bedroom right now-”

‘all… .’

I have to tell you.

There are guardian knights right in front of you.

My body stiffened and my voice couldn’t come out.

“Calm down.”

Leaving Filetta behind me before I knew it.

Auril’s whole body froze from the corpse-like cold breath that seemed to caress the nape of her neck.

* * *

Blood stained black like spilled ink flowed down the pen, drawing a line on the floor.

‘Evil.’

Auril was convinced that the demon Professor Ian worshiped had come to kill him.

‘It’s that evil spirit that appeared in the auditorium and was attached to Ian… !’

I-

The bedroom door Auril had opened slowly closed.

There was no one in the hallway, as if the guardian knights who were always waiting in front of her bedroom were beaten by the devil without even screaming once.

Realizing that there was no escape, Euril broke the silence with a trembling voice.

“you… . Do you think Ian will be okay if you do this to me?”

“… Ian?”

“Don’t pretend you don’t know. Didn’t Professor Ian send it? You don’t know how big this is going to be, but if I die, all the professors in this school will die… !”

“Hmm.”

“Kill it, try it! If I die, neither Ian nor you will ever be safe!!”

“My eyes are not wrong. I like it.”

“What is that-”

“Don’t be afraid of me. I have come to help you.”

The devil who finally looked up and looked at it was as dry and beautiful as an artificial flower placed in front of a tomb. There was no vitality.

Like a doll, the impression was extremely calm and calm.

Even though the water was dripping down on her dark hair, there was no shine at all, and her disgusting pink eyes were shining like a strange moon.

Blood, water, and liquids that had fallen on the floor were sucking up the pink eye light without reflecting it.

Without even pulling out the pen stuck in her slender legs, the devil spoke as if to soothe Euril.

“What do you want most right now? I can give you the strength to achieve it.”

black star.

The devil put Auril a star-shaped hairpin the same color as Professor Ian’s Mana.

The black fog that Rize once said began to sway in Auril’s eyes as well.

“The black mist you are looking at right now is mana. It’s so dense and powerful that even Kiruna’s professors wouldn’t dare respond.”

“This… .”

“Aside from this, there are many unconventional things for me that you guys can’t even imagine. Not only you will become stronger, but the members of your organization who follow you will also be able to develop this kind of strength.”

“sleep… . for a moment!”

Auril shouted, pushing the demon away so close that he could feel his breath.

“First, explain your true identity! If it’s not from Ian, what the hell are you… . what?”

“Hmm.”

Filetta pondered for a moment before answering.

“Akula. I am Akula.”

* * *

“As you might think, I am not human.”

When the moon that had been hidden by the clouds reappeared, black veins were reflected on the white wrist of Filetta.

“I’m not used to being a human yet. So at first, I expanded my influence by controlling the minds one by one in Agoge.”

“Brainwashing? Somehow, those bastards never blow their heads… .”

“And Ian suffered a crushing defeat.”

With your student council.

“The results were pretty shocking to me.”

“… .”

“The past two weeks, I have been immersed in analyzing the factors of defeat. And I realized It was a problem for humans whose minds were controlled to move only to follow orders.”

“… Organizations lose flexibility. is this?”

“That is correct. Incidentally, brainwashed humans do not grow further. From the moment I lose my mind, the possibilities of a man who has lost his will stop.”

Willpower is the core of human capacity.

It is inherent in human desire in various forms, and once expressed, the power of growth induced by will was unpredictably lethal.

“Everyone here lives with a bomb in their head. Professor Ian was well aware of that.”

Because Ian is not bound by customs or customs, each of his remarks attracts the hearts of oppressed and discriminated students in Kiruna.

after. The anti-establishment of the students, accumulated as much as the contradictions in the world, is transformed into a desire to escape reality and a will to change reality after meeting Professor Lee Ahn.

Ian was able to grow his students explosively.

“Before Ian showed up, did you ever think that frills would threaten your position like they do now?”

“… no. never.”

“You and I, if we go on like this, we will be destroyed.”

One step.

The girl came to Euril.

“I will give you strength. All you need is a will.”

“Wait a little… .”

“Is that not enough? If that’s the case, I might even make you servants who will lay down their lives for you. In addition-“

“Stop, stop! okay! however… .”

Euril looked at Pyleta with eyes that were still questionable.

“After all, what do you want? He’s not even human, and he has that kind of power… . Why are you doing this?”

“The collapse of this school.”

“What?”

“To be precise, I guess my goal is to set the right time to unleash the forces of demons and bring down this tower of hypocrisy in one fell swoop. If I help you, you must help me too.”

“You are crazy! No frills until I wrecked this school… .”

The demon looked at Euril without saying anything.

Time passed quietly enough for the moonlight to fall on the clouds.

The clouds are getting thicker and the room is completely dark… . Euril asked herself in a much cooler voice than before.

“Wait, even if the demons destroy this school… . What does that have to do with me?”

The devil’s smile was enchanting.