2nd Round Villain

114 – clown friend

Continental Jewel.

daughter of the Lord.

church’s faith.

virgin mary.

She has been greatly loved by the Holy Church, and as if in return for that love, she has grown up kind, upright, and flawless. In fact, she has two secrets that she cannot tell others.

The first is that she is in fact a dual personality. I didn’t know when I was young. I just knew that the day started at 8:00 in the morning and ended at 8:00 in the evening.

The first time she sensed something strange was when a bishop said, ‘It was very strange that the saint fell asleep while reading a difficult book last night.’

Obviously, I don’t remember reading such a book.

Shortly thereafter, Maria discovered that she had a dual personality. An unusual double personality whose personality changes at exactly ‘8 o’clock’.

Fortunately, Maria’s other personality was not an eccentric character. His behavior during the day was no different.

However, I just find a lot of high-quality books and read them. Like ‘the history of the continent, the demon king and the Lord’ or ‘where did the demon king Kanos originate’.

That is Maria’s first secret, which few others know.

Maria’s second secret was a bit unusual, but unlike the first, no one knew about it except her. In fact, it wasn’t something to tell anyone.

‘Something… It’s empty… .’

The feeling that life is lacking somewhere, or something.

What most culprits don’t feel even after a lifetime, Maria was by her side every moment.

No matter what I eat, the taste is not fully felt, and no matter how pleasant the experience is, I feel like 2% is not enough.

Maria, who had kept that feeling by her side all her life, was conscious that it was as natural as breathing.

‘… what?’

From the time I came to Eden Academy with a throbbing heart and started the entrance ceremony.

Technically speaking, from when I met ‘a boy’.

‘Something… I feel weird. I feel like my troubled mind is being released… .’

Maria was surprised by the ‘comfort’ she felt for the first time in her life.

*****

When I opened my eyes, something came into my field of vision faster than the light of the sun.

White, thin eyelashes, white hair that you want to stroke, and round crystal eyes. It was little Maria.

As soon as I saw her, I involuntarily reached out my hand. I’ve been waiting for so many years, just for her.

When you have something in front of you that you have been craving for a long time, it is your instinct to covet it. I just woke up and my head is in a daze. I am the incarnation of instinct.

He held out a rude hand that was not mixed with rational judgment at all.

Sharak-.

The soft cheeks touched the palm of my hand. A fragrant smell settled in his nostrils. It was while caressing Maria’s cheek without thinking.

“what what what… !”

“… ah.”

“What are you doing!”

Maria, her face as red as ruby, stood up in fright. Thanks to that, the support for my neck disappeared, and I slammed the back of my head into the chair.

puck-!

“No!”

“Ah, ah… Are you okay? So why did my cheek suddenly… !”

Oh right, she’s not the Maria I know. If it were Maria of the night, she would have laughed rather hard the moment I touched her cheek.

I forgot that young Maria and I had just met for the first time.

I tried to raise my upper body by covering the sore back of my head with the palm of my hand, but Maria, who had run away from me, came back. She held out a small palm to me, with her palm neatly folded.

Then, the shining divine power rose from the white hand.

“Lord, who always looks down on us with two omnipotent eyes, please grant your precious grace and heal the sheep that have been injured because of me.”

Ugh-.

As a demon, I must not accept the original divine power. because they are mutually exclusive.

But Maria is an exception. I don’t know why. Is it because she is a saint?

“That’s divine power, right? Are you giving me bottles and giving me medicine? The medicine is too big for the bottle.”

“ha… I mean, you shouldn’t have touched my cheek all of a sudden. Your actions just now were clearly indecent… !”

“If you put it like that, Maria also molested me. When I opened my eyes, I saw my hand on top of my head.”

“Are the flesh and hair the same!”

When he was imprisoned in Tartarus in the Tower of Babel, he only thought it was because the saintess burned his life force.

But just now, even with young Maria’s heel, I was healed. There is no way that Maria, who knows me as a human, would have spent her lifespan, so it just means that Maria’s divine power can heal a demon like me.

Well, since Maria is the only saintess who can even heal demons, there is no way to know whether Maria is special or a saintess is special.

“Uh, stop and look at the podium. The freshman representative takes the oath.”

“Representative of freshmen… ? Ah, you are a warrior.”

Merlin of the natural sleeping pills lesson went down from the podium. Instead, the warrior Frey went up to the podium representing the freshmen.

Frey was reciting common freshman representatives. Maria looked at Frey with eyes full of anticipation.

I listened to Frey’s speech with one ear, and stared only at Maria.

“It looks like Evans doesn’t like the hero.”

Maria asks if she cared about how I looked. I shrugged.

“Rather than not liking it, I just don’t care.”

“Why? He’s a warrior who will save the continent in the future, but ordinary people have no choice but to be interested.”

“It’s not my style.”

Not on the outside, but on the inside.

Even when Frey was called an indomitable warrior, I was quite interested in her. How wonderful it is to be a noble warrior who does not let go of the good no matter what trials and tribulations come upon him. At the time, I was contemplating Frey with this mindset, how to tear that indomitability to shreds.

Now that I know her sincerity, I don’t even have the slightest interest in her.

“I… Do you see the hero as a woman… ?”

As if misinterpreting my words, Maria casts a suspicious look. I crossed my hands.

“Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like that. I am speaking from person to person.”

“Do you have a relationship with the hero?”

“Destiny? there was no It’s just an impression.”

It can be said that I remember things from my previous life, but now I am not a Demon Duke, but a mediocre student. If you’re a student, you should behave like a student.

“Hmm… Evans is a very special person.”

“okay?”

“Yes, I don’t think it was a normal relationship after all. I met you.”

what a normal sound. How many years have I gone back to meet you, Maria?

There was a time when I playfully packaged it as an instant, but that was just a joke. It means that 500 years is a burden even for me.

“Fellow freshmen! Everyone, gather here!”

Finally, after the oath, the demi decoration of the entrance ceremony, the boring entrance ceremony finally came to an end. I woke Aru, who was still lying on my thighs, at the sound of students calling.

pinch -.

“hey! wake up!”

“Break! Kwong Kwong Kwong! Woof woof!”

Aru, whose ears were folded in half, reacted violently and growled at me. That guy’s head, I’m a bean! and squeezed

“How long are you going to sleep, you lazy puppy?”

“Err… .”

“Stop fooling around and get up. have to go They call us.”

“bruise… Sleepy, pick me up.”

“You don’t even care about other people?”

“Pick it up though. It’s convenient if little Evans carries it.”

What else is little Evans. Is it the result of fusion between the small demons and Evans Grant?

On paper, he is an academy student, but his spirit is still the Rangwang of Masurim, and there is no way that Aru will listen to the teacher. While grumbling, I carried Aru on my back.

Perhaps it was funny to see us like that, Maria shed a faint smile.

“Poohyo, how is the relationship between the two of you?”

“It’s just that we’ve been close friends since childhood. That’s why we came to Eden Academy together.”

“okay. envious. I also dreamed of having at least one friend with whom I could open up.”

“Are you saying you don’t have friends like that now?”

“… I hope to form good friendships at Eden Academy.”

The smile on Maria’s lips is bitter. I guess I don’t have any friends.

It wouldn’t be because of her personality. There is no other person in the world with a personality as good as Maria. It’s just that the environment given to the saints of the church did not allow Maria to get close to her peers.

On the day of Heoguheon, it is good to see the clumsy priests of the denomination reading the Bible with thick handwriting. A terribly boring life, a magician who pursues spectacle like me can’t understand.

uh, wait a minute.

“Maria. Then is it okay if I become Maria’s first friend?”

“yes? Chi, are you friends?”

“Maria just said that she wanted to make friends at Eden Academy.”

“Gwa, it’s okay! But Evans and I still don’t know each other well… Can we be friends?”

“Is your friend different? If we see eye to eye, then we are friends.”

“That, that… Umm… .”

Maria’s face is somewhat unappealing. Is there anything that bothers you about my words?

“What did I say wrong? what’s the matter?”

“I think Evans takes his friends too easily.”

“Does it look easy?”

What do you mean?

“A friend is one who plays together, eats together, suffers together, rejoices together… It was a word used to describe a life partner. It’s not something light that you can or can’t just because your eyes are right.”

“… .”

Holy lady, that’s what I’m talking about. A saint whose head is the Bible by learning the world through the Bible cannot understand such a thing.

“Then do it.”

“yes?”

“Let’s do what Maria said. A friend is a life partner who plays together, eats together, suffers together and rejoices together. Then I can become a life partner who can play with Mary, eat with her, suffer with her, and rejoice with her. So are we friends? Am I right?”

“ah… Well, if that’s the case… Yes, I like it. I am happy to be friends with Evans.”

Maria blushed as she tried to hold back the ruddy smile that was about to break out.

I grinned. On the outside, it was a smile that seemed infinitely good and innocent.