Chapter 25 – 025. ‘Extra’ Presents ‘Hope’ to the ‘Protagonist’ (1)
Almost two weeks have passed since the incident.
At the same time as Riod declared the end of the investigation, he reported the incident to the court nobles, including the royal family.
Renion Hersha committed embezzlement and stolen all the gold coins stolen by Elvin Hersha, who had accused his father, and died in a battle with Riod, who was tracking him, while fleeing to another country.
In the course of the battle, it was revealed that he was a black magician, and when he told the story that he was able to escape the encirclement of the knights using a trick called black magic, all the arrows of criticism fell on Alvin.
The names of Ashton or the Duke of Armitas, who led the corruption, never came out.
There were some nobles who were not satisfied with the announcement of the results, including this poor investigation process, but three families, Marquis Olivion, who had the authority to conduct the investigation, Duke Armitas, the military minister who ordered the investigation, and Marquis Boris, the finance minister, stepped forward to make this announcement. Let’s affirm it, no nobles raised objections even though the circumstances that were not revealed or were poor were clear.
In addition, Erin Hersha, who was found to be in a coma after hitting her head in an accident, which had nothing to do with this incident, insisted that Hersha’s father and son had nothing to do with her embezzlement of her breach of trust, so she was duke of Armitas. The side expressed their intention not to ask for guilt.
This also had the support of Riod and Bernard, so it was very unusual for three high-ranking nobles, a duke and two marquesses, to actually protect Erinn’s safety.
Everything flowed as Eun-hyeon intended and according to the situation he had created.
And now, Eun-hyeon had a new job, so she was in the principal’s office in Aether to take care of it.
“I have no intention of becoming a professor.”
“Can you really not?”
“No matter how many times you ask, my answer is the same.”
“Why? If you need anything, I will support you as much as possible.”
“Teaching children is not a spirit.”
The idea of appointing Eun-hyeon, who has no proper information and is of unknown origin, to the position of a professor at the school will cause opposition from nobles and other magic professors.
It was a level that Oliver could have taken the lead in dispelling it, but Eun-hyeon also hated acting in front of others, so she quickly refused.
In the first place, the reason why Eun-hyeon claimed to be Illyana’s assistant was because she was easy to act secretly while selling her name at will.
Besides, they don’t know that her Eun-hyeon is her witch’s lover.
There was no way Illyana would let go of her Eun Hyun.
“Then, your business is done. I’ll just go.”
Eunhyun got up from her seat and said hello to Oliver, who was making an expression of disapproval.
“Okay…”
“School principal. I’ll pretend I didn’t listen to this invitation. Then.”
Eunhyeon didn’t listen to the principal’s answer and immediately left the principal’s office.
[That guy is pretty persistent too.]
‘But it’s more difficult because she’s not as bad as I thought. If she had been human scum like Ashton, she would have fed her and had her resigned as principal. Not bad. But… For some reason, she seems to harbor her ill feelings toward Illyana, so for some reason, that bothers her a bit.’
A black witch named Illyana Kennifer is one of the great heroes who, along with Riod, ended the war on this continent.
She had no reason to be called ‘Little Witch’.
In addition, Oliver Baotman is a nobleman equivalent to the count of this country and has a high position as the principal of Aether, but he is not on a level comparable to Illyana in the ranks among magicians.
I don’t know the purpose of trying to get myself, who is rumored to be a witch, away from the witch.
“Hmm.”
In that way, Eunhyeon conversed with Belldandy, the goddess assimilated with her own body, to be exact, the ‘power of the apostle’ dwelling in her heart.
A few days ago, with the help of other gods, Belldandy, who had broken through her limitations and descended to the underworld following her Eunhyeon, nestled inside her Eunhyeon’s body.
When she was living on Earth, she thought that she would have no relationship with ‘Shin Naerim’, but she herself became a ‘shaman’ like this.
[The child is having frivolous thoughts again.]
This was the most difficult thing.
He reads her thoughts on her own, and whenever she has a bad idea or a strange idea about God, she always criticizes her and strokes her head.
As if she was gently admonishing a three-year-old child, Belldandy’s motherly love was too awkward for Eun-hyeon.
However, Eun-hyeon nodded her head with a wry smile at the thought that sometimes this might have been the shape she wanted.
Eun-hyeon borrowed the pretext of distributing the books to be brought into the school library, and she was able to enter the school for the past week.
Her real purpose was to observe Erin and see what kind of school life she was having.
It was a decision she made because she respected Erin’s choice that she wanted to continue attending school.
It was a personally never good choice, but Eunhyun did not stop Erin.
“No matter how much you do, you are no different from being a complete stalker.”
Recognizing that if he saw what he was doing, he would be acting like a perfect criminal.
But, she observed, saying it was something that had to be done nonetheless.
In fact, even after the case was resolved, she returned to school, which put Erin in a very bad position.
The iniquity of Erin’s father and her brother was known to all the nobles, and there is no way that the students of Ter, the children of the noble family, do not know about her housework.
Under such circumstances, she was so proud of herself that she went to school, and her snobbish children from aristocratic families could not tolerate it.
Even before her disappearance, her adoptive father Renion Hersha’s crimes had already stigmatized her as a ‘criminal’s family’, and Erin’s heart was being torn apart by violence and abusive language. Would not have lost
By publicly expressing their intention to apply the guilt-by-association system to Erin in the dukedom and rather support them instead of asking for guilt, the nobles who don’t know the details of the relationship between Eunhyeon and the duchy just reach out to the poor former semi-noblewoman’s daughter Armitas It was seen as the duke’s good deed.
The bullying of the students at the school, unaware that they had been favored by the duchy due to unexpected circumstances, became more subtle and cruel.
Her ducal protection served to protect her from her laws by association, but it also had the downside of fueling her envy and the envy of her other nobles and her children.
Eun-hyeon was worried that Erin’s spirit, who was silently suffering her bullying, might collapse, but she did not think of solving the situation by herself, making only minimal preparations.
Erin refused the duke’s apology and goodwill to support her until her graduation, and she chose to solve it herself.
Because of her, this was not a problem she could solve herself, but a path she had chosen herself, so she thought she shouldn’t step forward.
But that was all there was to it.
This is because, contrary to the course of action that Eun-hyeon has been doing so far, she is the first to intervene in the life of a character with the potential of being a ‘protagonist’.
“Really, how did something like you catch the eyes of high-ranking nobles?”
“I mean.”
“Is it because of his face because he has a smooth appearance?”
In the backyard, in a secluded place where no one could see, only giggling and mocking voices could be heard.
Eunhyeon could clearly tell who he was talking to without even thinking about it.
“Huh? Erin? I’m really curious. How could someone like you receive the support of the duke~?”
“On the subject of a criminal’s daughter.”
“Kick-kick.”
“Eww…”
I hear Erin’s small moan.
When the girl asked her, there was no respect or intention to be considerate of her partner, and she only mocked and laughed at her girl, who was infinitely weaker than herself, but she couldn’t refute anything.
If they don’t like or resist, they become even more happy and stronger.
She knew from many experiences that it was better for her not to react and to hold on.
“Why don’t you say anything? Do you think my words sound like words?”
“Oh? Are you chewing words now? An insignificant commoner is arrogant.”
When she didn’t respond, a female student, who was getting tired of her reaction, grabbed her Erin’s navy blue hair and shook it roughly.
“Ha, don’t…”
Erin, stunned that her own hair was caught, spoke in her feeble defiant voice to her female student, who had grabbed her own hair.
Erin’s reaction made her female student more satisfied.
“Then do you want me to tell you? How did she catch the duke’s eyes, and that’s not all. I heard that the two nobles of the Marquis also stepped out to help you directly? Why the hell Did you even fawn? I want you to tell me how you trembled!”
“Kyaaak!”
As her female student shoved Erin, she let out a scream and fell to her floor.
“I don’t think my words sound like words. Would you like to lighten up a bit?”
She looked up at her schoolgirl’s face, who smiled meanly, as if she had an idea for a second.
The wind blew over her girl’s hand, and the steam that gathered gradually began to take shape, creating a single blue sphere.
Erin’s complexion turned pale at the sight of the sphere’s contents, which slid like clear water in a transparent vessel.
‘Water ball’, one of the basic water attribute magic.
Compared to magic of other attributes, the ability to kill is inferior, but the water ball that a female student initially manifested was enough magic to do something to a female student who could not resist.
Seeing her female students manifesting her magic, the other two female students, realizing what she was thinking, grabbed each of Erin’s arms and restrained her movement so that she could not resist.
“Hey, don’t do this.”
She struggled to break free from her two female students, vigorously shaking her own arms, but the more her female students resisted and disliked her Erin, as such a violent resistance was the response that her female students wanted. She was even more amused and did not stop her action.
“Eup, oops?!”
Her female student brought her water ball from her own hand to her Erin’s face and she couldn’t resist and her Erin’s head went into her water ball.
Erin’s face, unable to breathe, was bubbling inside her water ball as her bubbles came out.
The more she stopped breathing, the more her Erin’s resistance grew.
The girl who made her water ball appear in response to her actions, and the two girls who were holding Erin’s arms.
All three laughed and enjoyed Erin’s troubled face.
Erin struggled vigorously, but her consciousness gradually faded as she thought about how they were able to do such cruel things to her, and how they couldn’t understand it even after thinking over and over again.
“It crosses the line.”
Dig!
Something flew at high speed and flew past the female student’s water ball.
“What, what!”
She was startled and astonished to see a tree branch sticking upright against her wall as a female student followed her gaze at something that set off a water ball she had manifested.
“Sir, no way, did you throw a tree branch and get it stuck there?”
Thinking that it had exactly exploded her own water ball and flew away, and imagining what it would have been like if that tree branch had been aiming for her hand, the girl trembled at her frightened feeling and trembled at her tree branch. She turned her head in the direction the branch had come from.
“…”
A man was standing where the female student looked.
As if she were a commoner, she was wearing clothes of not-so-good-looking fabric, but the schoolgirl, receiving the calm gaze of a man with bright silver hair and red eyes reminiscent of blood, felt an unknown eerie sensation and looked at her. Shivered.
[Hey? Wasn’t it just watching without stepping out?]
‘I have changed my mind. Goddess. Because now I don’t even have to play an extra role. You said you could do whatever you want, right?’
[It did.]
‘Then, can I live my life doing whatever I want?’
[Whoops, that’s what I wanted from my child. Where do you want to be?]
Normally, Eunhyeon would not intervene in this.
But she was already anticipating what was going to happen to Erin, and just because she didn’t intervene didn’t make the feeling of irritation creeping up in her chest go away.
Until now, he had always focused on fulfilling his role as an apostle of the Goddess, enduring again and again.
He always stood by the sidelines and hid himself, and only played a role in helping the ‘protagonists’ resist their fate and grow.
But now it is no longer necessary.
She was given permission to do as she pleased.
Because her own goddess herself declared it.
If she thinks her own behavior is too much, she will be stopped by her goddess with whom she is with.
Eunhyun thought so.
‘Thank you.’
A man who had always endured the restrictions of the role of ‘extra’ he had always taken, and who had endured all his life until his death, now decided to act according to his free will.
It was the moment when Eunhyeon was gradually being liberated from the role of ‘extra’ and becoming a ‘protagonist’.
“Cough Cough!”
As the water ball covering Erin’s face disappeared, she coughed violently, coughing up the water that had entered her nose and mouth.
In his fading consciousness he was horrified at the thought that he could have just really died.
“Ah…”
At the same time as her whole body trembled, her magic was released, and her veil was broken, and the water contained in her body fell straight into Erinn’s body.
She hurriedly covered her breasts with her arms as her skin and her blue undergarments showed through her white shirt, her body soaking wet like a mouse drowning in her water.
Erin, now sensing the sudden silence around her, looked up at her.
She looked at the schoolgirls who had brutally bullied her.
All three female students were looking in the same direction with firm expressions on their faces.
Erin followed their gaze and turned her head.
I checked the man standing where my gaze was directed and sighed slightly.
“Ah…”
Of course, the man he didn’t want to see like this the most was standing in front of him.
Eun-hyeon, a man with shiny silver hair and ferocious beast-like red eyes, stood still and stared at the four female students, including Erin.
Among the three female students, the female student with the highest rank was nervous as she recalled in her head the tree branch that had been stuck in the previous building.
She swallowed and met her gaze with Eunhyeon, and the two female students, who were no different from her subordinates, were also looking at her and Eunhyeon in turns.
“Where did you learn the manners of interfering in ladies’ social gatherings, from whom?”
Eun-hyeon unknowingly smiled at the head female student’s expression and attitude when he said, “You don’t know where you came from, how dare you interrupt my enjoyable time?” Said.
“Smile?”
“Ah, excuse me. It was a time for social gatherings. I think it was a very different way. Do all the students at this school learn to socialize that way?”
When Eun-hyeon saw the female student, she laughed and talked, and when the female students heard Eun-hyeon’s sarcasm, they were nervous again that he had seen what they were doing to accuse Erin from the beginning.
However, the female student tried to hide her agitation and said while glaring at her Eunhyeon.
“Ha, so what? Don’t care anymore. Get out of here. And who are you? Which family is it? Do you know who I am?”
Looking at Eun-hyeon’s outfit, she guessed that he was from a poor, semi-noble family like Erin, or at best a son of a baron or viscount who couldn’t afford extravagance.
He held on to his arrogant demeanor, thinking that he did not need to appear as an author at all.
“I don’t know anything about family or status.”
Without erasing the sneer that appeared on his face, Eun-hyeon slowly walked forward.
Soon, the distance with the female student, who had maintained an arrogant attitude, narrowed and faced each other.
“I was wondering if I could join the social gathering too.”
“Under?”
“Do to me what you did to that child.”
