Became the Younger Sister of the Villainous Young Lady 28

Chapter 28 – The Princess (2)

The professor came in and the lecture started.
The tension of the cadets sitting in the front row seemed to be felt even here.
Princess Iris smiled softly as if she didn’t know anything. She seemed pleased to see the talented people of the empire quietly concentrating on the lecture.
Even though she is in fact just very nervous because her absolute top is in the back row of hers.
She didn’t have to tell me that.
However, it was a little uncomfortable to notice the small chat with Daisy, who was sitting next to her, because it was full of the professor’s words and notes.
It wasn’t because she was sorry for being particularly noisy, but because she knew that if the Duke of Chepes opened her mouth, he would listen to her pretending not to be as sensible.
Even in such a situation, she couldn’t be sober…

“So this part—”

So naturally, she had no choice but to listen to the lecture too.
An elderly professor named Rinnemann was a scholar from the Mage Tower. She majored in magic archaeology, so the name of her lecture was also ‘Ancient Magic’.
However, very few people could use ancient magic, and only those with the talent could use it. She was a professor, she said, and as a scholar she studied ancient magic, but he did not use it.
Of course, if you learned the theory like this, it would be helpful for wizards of a certain level or higher to develop their own magic, so it’s good to learn it.
However, to the extent of developing unique magic in the first place, even that requires innate talent.
Among the cadets listening to this lecture, not only among the knights, but also among the wizard cadets, no one would be able to do that.
In other words, the ‘Inherent Magic’ lecture was just a boring theoretical lecture. Most of the cadets who took the lectures did not gain anything in particular, and the level of education with few credits.
If it wasn’t for Princess Iris and me, I think everyone would have listened roughly.
Then, all of a sudden, I got curious.

‘Do I have no aptitude?’

It was a body that did not have much talent for ordinary magic.
Instead, with the magic of the void attribute through the “Emptiness” Characteristic, as original magic as its strength is, it may also have aptitude for ancient magic that requires special talent.
I drew the ancient magic circle the professor showed me on paper.
Round shape and hexagonal shape. The language of an ancient fallen kingdom. The drawing itself was simple.
Here, when the ‘reaction’ between the magician and the magic circle takes place—the magic circle finally takes on its true form.

‘I can’t.’

I put my hand on the magic circle and let the mana flow, but nothing happened and it was silent.

‘Then like this.’

Black dots form on the tips of the hands.
Using [Endowment], [Emotion] And [Understanding], And [Connecting] The sunspot, me, and the magic circle.
It’s not a standard method, but it wasn’t an expedient since it was using my unique characteristics.
As the sunspot permeated into the magic circle, each line of the magic circle, which had been drawn as a simple circle and a hexahedron, was dismantled.
Separated lines gradually changed their shape and tangled into geometric shapes.
A form that is difficult to express in words. However, at this moment, through the [Understanding] I had given in advance, I was able to understand all the elements of this magic circle.
…
ㅡ.
The vast knowledge that seeps into your mind.
It was only one, but it was the process of realizing the true use of powerful ancient magic and the sense of ‘reacting’ with it.

“…”

It felt like a pretty long time. Embodying a lot of knowledge in my head, I opened my closed eyes.
The surroundings were quiet.
… All eyes in the classroom were on me. From a cadet whose name I don’t know, to the professor, Daisy, and even the princess.

“… Why?”

To my question, the princess answered with a blank face.

“Cepesh, are you really…”
“Majesty?”
“That divine light is like… Yes? But it’s sure to be divinely shining…”

She stopped talking to me, but the princess shut her mouth as if the goddess dwelling in her holy sword had spoken to her.
I turned and looked at Daisy.

“Daisy.”
“Yes yes”
“What happened? Why are you so surprised?”
“Your master just shone… ! Didn’t you know?”
“I?”

I didn’t know because I closed my eyes. There were times when all my nerves were busy dissolving the magical knowledge that was seeping into my head.

“Just, a grain of light that sparkled like a star, circled around the master. Very bright.”
“Okay… ?”

If the duke, who had been watching them from behind, suddenly went mad, their eyes would be drawn.
I vaguely grasped the meaning of the gaze directed at me and nodded, but the gaping-mouthed professor strode forward.
His eyes, shining with firearms, glistened as if a lifelong wish had been fulfilled right in front of his eyes.

“Uh, uh, how, how did you use it?”

All cadets are equal. Regardless of whether they are actually equal, they are.
Then, who is above the equal cadets?
Professor.
A retired knight commander, a retired court mage, an elder of the Mage Tower, and more.
It is a faculty formed by scraping together those who claim to be the next generation. With the status of quite a few cadets, they couldn’t dare to resist.
However, even such professors would not dare to treat them carelessly—-, no. There are people who need to keep an eye on it again.
Excluding the territory of the different races, the legitimate members of the Arcadia Imperial Family, who swallowed up all the territory that could be called the human habitation and united the continent—-, and the seven dukes who took the lead in the imperial family’s continental unification.

In other words.
The professor was blinded by what was happening in front of him and rushed at it, but when he faced it, his opponent was me, who was several steps higher than himself.
After becoming a professor, I can’t use the highest honorific title for students, and I’m saying that it’s equality only in name, but realistically, my status is too high.
In the end, it turns around and turns into a polite tone.
I sighed. If I knew that a halo of light would emit light, I would test it when I was alone. I didn’t use magic, but I was just trying to confirm if it was possible to respond with my characteristics, and the work turned out to be bigger than I thought.

“The response has been made.”
“Oh oh… ! Unbelievable… !”

The professor was on the verge of shedding tears.
No. Tears were already welling up. He was watching as if he was fed up, so he started to beg me with the momentum to get down on his knees.

“Ha, just once. Can you show me one more time? It is my lifelong wish…”

The faces of the cadets looking back from the front are spectacle.
The sight of a human being a professor clinging to a cadet is absurd, but the white-haired old man grievously clings to it, claiming it is his lifelong wish. , Was the expression.
Perhaps the fact that the target was me also played a role. It’s a body that won’t be strange no matter who kneels.

“After.”

I couldn’t let go of it with all my eyes on it. The princess was also watching from the side.
I nodded.

“Great.”
“Thank you, Your Highness, Duke of Cepes… !”

The professor’s complexion brightened.
The professor went back to the teaching table. It wasn’t until he returned to his seat that he seemed to remember his actions. He then cleared his throat as if he had shown ugliness,

“There was some commotion. I will proceed again.”

With great effort, he pretended to be calm and continued the lecture.
However, unlike the beginning, no one was paying attention to the lecture. Even the princess, who was diligently taking notes like her model student, she watched me from side to side, but her hand writing had long since stopped.

It was embarrassing.

*

The lecture is over. Princess Iris noticed as if she had something to say, but she ignored it.
Thinking of the future, we should become close, but if we talked about it now, it would be annoying because of ancient magic.
When I went to the lab, a teaching assistant with dark circles was letting out a tired voice like a zombie, saying “Uhhh”.

“Professor Linnemann.”
“Omg… , I didn’t sleep! … Oh, you are a guest. The professor is inside, but… , I will pass it on to you, so could you tell me the name of the guest?”
“Tell them that Scarlett Tepesh is here.”
“Scarlett Chepes, okay, okay?”

The assistant’s tired eyes turned to my chest. It was a place where each of them hung an insignia symbolizing their family. The insignia in the shape of a crow that no one in the empire would know, and the pupils of the teaching assistant who briefly came and went in my face trembled.

“His Highness the Duke… !”
“Stop making a fuss and tell the professor that you are here.”
“Yes yes!”

It looks like I haven’t slept in a few days, but I didn’t mean to blame him for not recognizing a single face.
No matter how meaningless it is to say that all cadets are equal, in principle, I try to operate it as much as possible.
I decided to respect that too.
After waiting for a while, the assistant came back in a hurry. Running like that with a pale expression makes me think I’m about to collapse.

“Huh, heh… , He said to come in…”
“Yes. Take care.”
“Omg…”

When I bowed my head slightly, the assistant’s complexion turned white. Just being in front of my eyes seemed to put a strain on my heart, so I decided to quickly disappear right in front of my eyes…
When I entered the professor’s lab, the professor greeted me. It was Professor Linnemann with impressive gray hair.

“Are you here!”

Being alone, it was a very extreme attitude.
Immediately after seeing the assistant’s condition outside, it was a bit ironic that the professor who would have made him look like that was bending over like this, but he didn’t add anything else because it wasn’t something I could solve.
The professor smiled and led me naturally to the top table. I naturally took the top seat.

“So. What can I do?”

As such, there was a firm hierarchical relationship between me and the professor. Nevertheless, the professor offered me a research proposal. It must mean that you are sincere in your field.

“Hmmmm. Could you reproduce it just once?”
“You mean this?”

I drew the magic circle that I “Understood” On my hand again.
“The Grace of the Moon”.
I thought it was a type of magic that really suited me as a vampire.
The magic circle drawn on my hand, perhaps because it had already unfolded through the reaction, immediately turned into a halo of light and circled my body.
Thanks to the moonlight, I felt that my body was energized as if it was night time.
It was such magic.

“Oh oh… I never thought I’d see ancient magic come true with my own two eyes while I was alive… Thank you, thank you, Your Highness…”

The professor looked at me with close eyes, almost fanatical.
To be honest, it was a bit embarrassing.

*

Hero Iris returned to her dormitory.
It was because of the voice that kept ringing in my head from earlier.

『You received my grace, but you received another favor from another goddess? Bad guy!”
“Calm down, Goddess.”

Iris thought to herself as she pondered over how to appease the goddess who had been so angry from earlier.

‘Gong Chepeshu, who subdued the devil with the grace of the goddess, must be a true hero. Why are they hiding it?’

She kept her respect for Scarlett, who was a better warrior than herself, in her heart, and Iris had to work hard to appease her goddess.