25: The Villainess Attends the Opening Ceremony
There was a thump, and when I looked down, I saw a flower pot rolling on the ground. It must’ve fallen. I smiled at my benefactor. If not for him, the flower pot would’ve hit me squarely in the head.
“Hey, Eivind, nice timing!”
“Shouldn’t you thank me for saving you!?”
Well, I mean, I was looking for you…
Even as I tried to express my gratitude… Something stood out to me. The balcony where the flowerpot fell… Wasn’t that place the green house? The third floor, then? Still, how unnatural. Despite falling from such height, the flowerpot was intact.
“Lend me some of it!”
“Eh?”
I hugged Eivind back. Then, I extracted magical power from his body and used it to conjure a formidable barrier around us.
A second later, the flowerpot exploded. Debris flew as red hellfire surrounded us. Of course, we didn’t feel any heat.
“…Sorry, I owe you this time around.”
“You helped me first, don’t worry about it. Still, with an explosion so powerful, I can’t laugh at it.”
If the barrier hadn’t created in time, we’d have been burned to death.
Eivind looked regretful, but if I hadn’t noticed that the flowerpot wasn’t broken, I wouldn’t have felt any traces of magic. Considering the camouflage feature, it could be said to be a fairly advanced magic bomb. Once the smoke cleared away, the “flowerpot” was nothing more than junk.
“Are you all right!?”
Of course, with such a huge explosion, panicked teachers would rush over. Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any casualties.
All right, I’ll let the teachers to take care of the rest.
Thus, I decided to pretend that I’d been saved by the Genius Magician, Eivind Dahl, and feigned ignorance.
After gently letting go of me, Eivind leaped off without a word. With magic, he successfully landed on the third floor. The place where the bomb flowerpot was supposedly dropped.
Is he trying to chase after the culprit? He should’ve taken me with him…
After all, dealing with the teacher myself is boring.
“Cecily Travasta, what on earth happened!?”
“Well, uhm…”
Of course, I couldn’t hide the existence of such a dangerous incident, as it might harm other students. Nevertheless, depending on how I worded it, the sports festival as a whole would be cancelled.
While forced to choose between the two, I spun my words as I saw fit.
“We swear to—”
—Thanks to my hard work, the sports festival was able to proceed as usual.
Before the platform on the field, the somewhat nervous team players were vowing to do their best, with half-tense expressions, to the guest of honor, His Majesty the King.
That’s His Majesty the current King…
I looked up from afar at the man standing proudly on the pedestal.
A well-built man, perhaps due to the magnificent cloak he wore.
Is he in his early thirties? His eye-catching bright blond hair and blue eyes, reminiscent of the sea… He’s truly a handsome middle-aged man… No, an older brother type. His confident and dignified appearance is very similar to the man I loved 800 years ago.
Atavism aside, I think they are too similar…
[Nora, are you okay…?]
I didn’t give a direct answer to my kind housemate who was worried about me.
How much does Cecily know about the Incorrigible Villainess, Nora Noz?
[Uhm…]
The stories of historical figures were long, and boring.
So, in order to make the most of this opportunity, I asked Cecily.
Cecily spoke. The Incorrigible Villainess was furious when the then crown prince, the Future Sagacity, Hiel von Nouwen, uncovered all her misdeeds. Thus, she tried to kill the crown prince with her own hands only to be stopped by the saint. Afterwards, she was subjected to the heaviest punishment at the time. The Sentence of Sealing.
Do you know what exactly did the Incorrigible Villainess did?
[She successfully researched miasma, which is the source of impurity, and was set to bring cataclysm to this world.]
You are aware of this and yet are unafraid of me?
When I asked that question, the king started preaching.
“—Our great Ancestor, the King of Sagacity—Hiel Von Nouwen—succeeded in sealing away the miasma that was manipulated by the Incorrigible Villainess, and even confined her in an eternal prison. I’m proud to have inherited the wisdom and courage of the King of Sagacity himself. I sincerely wish that everyone will compete fairly and squarely using their knowledge and martial expertise. I hereby declare that I’ll witness all that courage!”
Amid the cheering of the students, Cecily was laughing.
[You are scary, in the matter of half a day, my life underwent a complete one eighty after I lent it to some villainess!]
I see.
In other words, my current words and deeds were scarier than anything done in the past.
…My heart feels very, very warm. So much that I want to cry.
At that time, I felt a tap on my shoulder. When did he return? Eivind Dahl secretly whispered to me.
“I haven’t caught the culprit yet, but I saw him running away. By him, I mean your fiancé. What do we do?”
What a shocking reveal… Not.
The king, who was receiving boisterous cheers, smiled slowly and then turned to us.
At that moment, his eyes widened in shock.
***T/N: If the king started catching feelings…
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