Chapter 101 – Family and Heroine Crazy About Concept Quality ( 3 )
“Now…! Now it’s all over! If the family finds out about this… I’ll be kicked out for failing the trial…”
“I won’t tell you.”
“..Really?”
At Croa’s question, which was filled with tears, Hiro nodded his head with an expressionless expression as usual and opened his mouth again.
“Because I have no reason to say.”
“…”
Hearing Hiro’s voice, which somehow feels stable, Croa wipes away her tears, staring at herself with green eyes and facing her golden eyes.
“Aren’t you curious why you pretend to be a man?”
“Well…”
While he was already changing Croa’s clothes, it was Hiro who heard all the circumstances by Cheols.
“A little… You might be curious.”
.. However, Hiro replied to the serious gaze of the other person, seeing that it was someone else’s notice for the first time since entering the academy.
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Kugoong..!
Light bursts into the dark space and five huge chairs made of gray stones appear.
All five chairs are empty with no one sitting on them.
Jerk… Jerk…
After a while, with the sound of quiet footsteps, five figures walked out of the shadows behind the chairs.
Clap..–
All of the figures wearing black robes and iron masks that cover the entire face except for the eye sockets find their assigned seats and sit on chairs.
“Ugh..”
Beneath the platform where such a chair is placed, a small girl stands with her body trembling.
‘They are the shadow elders of the family!’
The green-haired girl, Croa, couldn’t bear to raise her head due to the anticipation and fear of meeting great people from a family that had only been passed down in legends.
“Raise your head and face us, Pureblood of Maga the Great Shadow.”
When the elder sitting in the center opens his mouth, the space vibrates and a quiet, low voice resonates.
“Yes..Four!?”
Young Croa raises her head in amazement.
When he was worried that he would be scolded for the moment he thought he answered too stupidly.
“Do you know why I called you this time?”
“Uh… That… That’s…! Are you going to talk about whether or not I can become the heir to the family?”
“That’s right. Pureblood… It’s because there are people who think your qualifications as an heir are insufficient.”
“S-I’m sorry!”
Hearing that he was lacking as an heir, he wondered what he was lacking, but because it was the family elder’s words, Croa bowed his head.
“If my ability is not enough…”
Croa looked up straight at the elders while shivering.
‘I want to inherit the family too… But it’s not something I can be stubborn about.’
“..More befitting of an heir! I will hand over the successor position to someone else in the family.”
Expressed his own opinion.
“This girl is so–!!”
At that moment, the large Robein, who was sitting in the seat to the right of the center, jumped up and shouted.
Whoa–!
“What?!”
At the wave of magical energy that reverberated through the space, Croa stomped his buttock behind him and put on a puzzled expression.
“How could someone who inherited the shadow Maga’s blood give up the position of successor to the family so easily!?”
“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
Croa hit the ground again and shouted the words of apology at the voice of rebuke that poured out in a high-pitched voice.
“Whoa- He’s still a child? Don’t bother me too much.”
An elder, presumably a woman seated to the left of her center, supports her frightened Croa with an enchanting voice.
“It’s true that he’s still a child… It’s not something that can be easily overlooked, saying that he will give up his position as the successor to our Shadow Maga so easily.”
When Wonro 1, sitting in the center, cleaned up, Wonro 2, who had a huge body, sat down again, and Wonro 3, too, covered his mouth with a hand with prominent blue nails and shouted a correction.
“Since you were born with the pure blood of the Shadow Ma family, you will have to take the qualification test as her successor. This is not an option, it is your destiny. Do you understand?”
“Yes..Four!”
“From now on, I will tell you about the trials you will have to undergo, so listen closely.”
At the request of her family elders, Croa, who was so young, had to undergo a test to become her family’s heir at her academy.
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“Our Maga orthodoxly said that only men can become the heirs of the family. But since I was born as a woman… Originally, I had no qualifications as an heir, but if I could hide my female identity and graduate from the academy, I would hide my gender from now on. He said he would qualify as the successor if he could. Everyone.”
“That means… Hiding the fact that you’re a woman for the rest of your life? Is that possible?”
“If I can become Maga’s family head, my gender is a trivial matter.”
Hiro made a bitter expression at Croa’s answer, which seemed transparent as if of course.
‘You can hide your gender for the rest of your life…’
Although he has a body that is indistinguishable from that of a woman and even has a remodeled female genital organ, he undeniably also has a male organ.
The question that Croa asked if she could hide her gender was also a question she asked herself.
“Well… I’m saying it’s a minor problem, but I got caught by you like this.”
“Hiro. It’s Kim Hiro.”
Hiro’s sudden self-introduction.
“I know. Because Hiro is so famous. And I’m Croa. The academy just says Croa.
Croa smiled and replied.
No matter how you look at it, with a girl-like smile, Hiro mumbled Croa’s name in her mouth.
“Your name is unique.”
“What is that… Ah! There! Hiro!”
Croa tried to grab Hiro’s hand by stretching out both hands at an important thought that suddenly came to mind, but Hiro’s outstretched hand stirred only the air due to Hiro’s movement that quickly avoided his hand.
“Please! Please keep it a secret!”
“I said it before. I won’t tell you.”
“..Really?”
“Yes.”
“Thank you… I really want to be the successor.”
Hiro tilted his head and opened his mouth at Croa, who seemed relieved but was obsessed with the successor position.
“Why do you want to become the successor even while hiding your gender?”
“That’s…”
Croa scratches her cheek as if organizing her thoughts for a moment.
“Our Ma family was born with magical abilities and special properties in the elemental world.”
“Yes. I heard.”
Of course I heard from Cheols.
“But even though I’m a direct pureblood, I didn’t get specialized abilities like the others in my family. Rather, it’s because I’m elemental, but I’m born with mutant-like abilities that affect my physical movements.”
“Why?”
Croa, who was speaking in a self-help voice, raised her head with a stiff face at Hiro’s question.
“I want to show it to everyone! I, who have abilities that are not flashy, will be recognized as the successor!”
I shouted at Hiro with a voice and expression full of determination.
“..Umm.”
Hiro gives him an uncomfortable expression.
“I’m sorry. I shouted out of nowhere.”
“It’s not like that…”
As Croa had guessed, it wasn’t that he suddenly shouted and made an uncomfortable expression.
-Dad, so you’re saying that the reason you dress as a man is because of the family test?
– Right. The Ma family is a family with a lot of strange people…
– You’ll be very surprised when you wake up… You’ll think you’ve failed the family test because I found out.
Hiro answered while watching Croa who was asleep at Cheols’ explanation.
– Well… That’s really nothing to worry about.
I realized that Croa’s situation is not so bad at Cheols’s words that followed.
‘In fact, should I tell you that the family has already marked Croa as the successor?’
Yes.
Contrary to Croa’s assumption that he was being tested by the elders because of his lack of ability, Croa was already considered Mark’s irreplaceable successor… No, he was considered the late head of the family.
– Unbelievable..! To think that a child with this ability was born in our Maga…!
– It’s elemental, but… It’s more like an ability to accelerate the body. Absolutely fast!
The family’s oriented point is ‘assassin’, but strangely, in a situation where only magic-specialized talents are born, the existence of Croa, who is born with abilities similar to the concept of an assassin, albeit an elemental system…
– This must be the blessing of Magiaron, our ancestor and the great assassin (the great wizard)!
– This child is the one who will achieve everything the Ma family has dreamed of!
Starting with the elders, the elders of the family, all family members either hated or did not approve of Croa. When young Croa said he was giving up on his successor, it was all because of that reason.
– Still, it takes trials to become a great assassin…
– I have an idea that I’ve been thinking about.
– What is the ordeal of an assassin?
The ordeal that Croa had to dress up as a man at the academy and win first place with the background of a commoner was also a plan that came out of their concept quality.
‘What do we do..’
If you tell me this fact, Croa, who is worried and suffering, will feel at ease.
“Dad told me not to talk…”
However, Cheols, who was unable to leak information about the unreleased spoilers anywhere, emphasized that he should never tell anyone about this while explaining to Hiro.
Hiro was troubled by his friend’s difficult situation and his father’s request not to tell him.
“But why did that brunette attack you earlier?”
He ignored Croa, who needed help, and turned to a new topic of conversation.
