2nd Round Villain

119 – Academy nights are long – 1

After the splendid dinner, she went to her dorm room with her roommate to unpack.

Maria’s roommate was Princess Albrecht. Of course, that wasn’t the intention. Just according to the academy’s long-standing tradition, the pairing was determined by dice.

“hmm… Your Highness Albrecht. If I stumble for a moment, you don’t have to worry about it. I often do.”

“Old-fashioned?”

“That, so… It means you don’t have to hold on to it. Because I’m better than I look… .”

“… If you say so I get it anyway.”

Albrecht was a taciturn figure. The pale dark circles under her eyes further deepened her taciturn impression.

If an ordinary student were assigned as a roommate with a saintess, they would be very nervous or over-excited to talk to them. Maria had received so much of that kind of hospitality.

But Albrecht was different. Besides, she was so reticent that Maria often spoke first. Even so, the conversation did not continue amicably, nor did the awkward air flow disappear.

‘Ooh… He’s a difficult person.’

Uncomfortable with the awkwardness, Maria turned around and focused on unpacking. On the way, a boy suddenly came to mind.

‘Evans was surprisingly comfortable to be with… They seem to be the exact opposite. Oh right.’

Maria hastily pulled the notebook out of her pocket. Looking at the clock, the time is 7:50. Her ‘personality’ had 10 minutes left.

Sitting in her chair, Maria put the paper on the desk and began to write down.

It was Mary’s old habit and custom of behavior. At 8:00, another personality wakes up, so I write down things that happened during the day or things to keep in mind to that person and let them know. It was an effective means of communication between two people who could not communicate even if the sky was in two directions.

‘Once you have safely entered Eden Academy… I became roommates with Her Highness, Princess Albrecht. I was assigned to class A without any problems. and… Now I also have my first friend. They are friends of a different age than the priests and grandfathers of the denomination and the nuns and sisters. His name is Evans Grant. He has a very pleasant personality and has a good affinity. But I’m not sure, but is it common for friends to pinch their buttocks? Even of the opposite s*x?’

Summarizing a day in ten minutes is not an easy task. It was familiar to 18-year-old Maria, but today, with so many things to do, she couldn’t help but be tight on time.

Tick-.

As I was diligently playing with my fingers and scrawling my pen, the sound of the hands of the clock pointing to 8 o’clock echoed softly. For an instant, Maria’s white eyes became blank as if they were empty.

*****

I want to break into Maria’s dorm room right away, but the problem is that I don’t know her room. But I still have a way.

The cool night air cuts your cheeks. It seems like he has become a thief as he is moving silently on a dark wall. Okay, starting today I am a thief. A deviant thief from Eden Academy.

The place I’m heading to is the main building. The main building where the classrooms and principal’s office of Eden Academy are located. Why do I go to writing when I have to go to Maria?

That’s right, Maria must be ‘there’. waiting for me Of course, I am talking about Mary of the Night.

[It will be the young me during the day, and the current me at night.]

Maria’s personality changes at 8 p.m. At least as she said.

[Please do not forget to come in the year 701 of the Imperial calendar. To the reading club of Eden Academy.]

Also, Maria invited me to join the reading club at the academy. Maybe at the time I was talking, I was really looking forward to meeting you at the reading club… There is no way that a wise woman would not know that the clown named Joker is impatient.

Like a wildcat, I moved to the main building, walking in the darkness of the night. Lights and security guards were carrying flashlights and monitoring them, but if you get caught at that level, you cannot be called a professional thief.

In the hallway of the main building, there is a CCTV like a dormitory. However, any CCTV has blind spots.

The blind spot is a thief’s house. A precious home that provides a place to step on. I lightly stepped out and stepped on the dark blind spot. It went so fast.

The place I’m looking for is the library. Of course, since I am new to this academy today, I don’t even know where the library is. So, you have to go with a rough sense.

Usually, the library is located in a place where it is easy for students to get there. No matter how industrialized the world is, even in an era where you can find the information you want with a square box called a computer, old-fashioned knowledge from books cannot be replaced.

The main building consists of three floors. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders take classes on each floor. Then where the library might be… maybe on the 2nd floor. Because it is the easiest place for all 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders to go.

I made that decision and looked around the second floor. Fortunately, as I expected, there was a library at the end of the second floor.

I had to hide myself because of the guards walking around with flashlights in between, but the brighter the flashlight, the darker the shadow. Moving in the shadows, I arrived at the entrance of the library I was aiming for.

Whoa… I let out a sigh of relief. I’ve never thought of myself as a bird’s chest, but my heart is pounding and my heart is pounding.

There is a saintess behind this door. The Saint Mary who spent seven days and nights with me 500 years ago in the Tower of Babel will be waiting for me.

The seven days that changed the fate of me, Oscar Lucifer. During that time, I learned unknown emotions, and although I did not fully understand them, I came to yearn for them.

The fascination of seven days and nights led to five hundred years. It was only a fleeting moment, as if I was drunk in a dream, but the dream of being a saint made me intoxicated. Like a man in a back alley who became addicted to drugs and only followed the scent that he couldn’t find anywhere, I came all the way here in search of the saintess.

clap-.

I grabbed the iron doorknob. It was cold. Unlike my head, which is as hot as a blazing fire.

Kki-Ik-.

Pulling the doorknob opened the dark interior of the library. Inside, a person was sitting on a chair.

“Ahh… .”

A grin broke out. My ears were deafened, and nothing but laughter came out of my mouth.

“Ahahahaha.”

I walked briskly. Right now, I don’t want to care about CCTV or anything. The feeling of being thrilled runs up to the tip of my throat.

As dark adaptation progresses, the field of vision gradually becomes clearer. At the same time, the outline of a human figure in the darkness is gradually revealed.

eyes, nose, mouth, ears. Seven features on his face came into view. It is white, neat, beautiful and neat.

The corners of In-young’s mouth drew an arc. Moderately, not excessively.

I had seen Maria’s smile many times during the day, but it was an infinitely pure, innocent, and pretty smile. It was qualitatively different from the deep smile in front of me now.

“Holy Lady.”

He let out a short sigh and moved closer. Inyoung was still motionless.

However, the clear vibration of the air through my skin, the sound of her light breathing, tell me that what is in front of me right now is not an illusion.

“long time no see.”

Also, that voice that pierces your ears as clear as the sound of water in a valley in the mountains.

“Joker.”

Those white eyes staring at me calmly and clearly.

“Yeah, it’s been a while. really.”

Everything about Maria raises the corners of my mouth.

“How have you been?”

“No, because Maria is not there. I couldn’t even communicate.”

“Is that so? That’s good.”

“What are you happy about? I haven’t been doing well for a while.”

“Because in the future you will be able to get along well.”

words with clear meaning. I didn’t bother to mention the obvious meaning.

Instead, it fell forward as if it were collapsing. towards her with her arms wide open towards me.

prison-.

A slender body came into my arms. The body that I indirectly held for the past five hundred years through an ink-colored cross is now in my arms.

Warm heat permeated his whole body. The more I did, the stronger my arms were.

“It hurts, Joker.”

“It’s okay, don’t die.”

“Whoa… Did you miss me that much?”

“Why are you making fun of me now, after seeing me, asking why I was late? Shall we listen to the old days?”

“I heard that there is nothing more enjoyable than chatting and reminiscing about past memories with your significant other.”

“It’s not that I’m not good at talking, but I can’t win against the saintess with words.”

Mouth to ear, mouth to ear.

Intuitively transmitted words come out of each other’s mouth and enter each other’s ears. Feeling Maria’s right cheek, my left cheek tickled for some reason.

“Were you reading a book?”

“Yes, because there’s nothing like reading to kill time.”

“What book were you reading?”

“A book about love between a man and a woman… I found it in the library. Shall we read together?”

A sweet question rustles as if tickling an ear. I answered firmly.

“no.”

“Hmm, aren’t you familiar with books?”

“later. I want you to stay like this for a while longer.”

“You seem to be fooling around. Like a child.”

“I must have forgotten, but I am a child now. An 18-year-old academy student. Since the saintess is no longer an old maid, why don’t you act like a child?”

“Huh, is that so?”

I ran my hand up and pulled the back of Maria’s head toward me. Maria did not resist.

“Is there a scene like this in that novel?”

“Are there any romance novels where couples don’t hug each other?”

“No, the scene where they reunite after spending 500 years waiting for each other.”

“… .”

“Kuh, I don’t see it. There can be no way.”

Slowly, he stopped hugging and turned around to sit in the seat next to him. It is an action based on experience.

As Oscar, Maria is the only person I’ve had the experience of truly loving someone, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have experience with the opposite s*x. On the contrary, he has dated and used quite a few women, switching from one status to another.

Holding on to someone for too long is a good way to make a woman dislike her. The basic desire of the demons is greed, but for now, it is suppressed for a while.

It’s amazing. How can a clown like me truly love a woman and suppress her desire? Seriously, not acting.

“Maria is a model student. Can I go out with a male student to a place where entry is prohibited at such a late hour?”

“If it was to edify as an apostle of the Lord, wouldn’t it be possible to be forgiven?”

“gelation? Are you saying it’s not a matter of personal feelings?”

“People say that this is ‘comfort and misfortune’. We go on dates, and we do edification.”

“Do you also deviate from both sides?”

“… It’s because of the Joker. How did I, who was a good student who obeyed school rules, become a student who deviates like this?”

“Ha ha ha ha! The really ‘corrupted’ writers will burst into laughter when they see it!”

I want to talk even if it’s 1 minute 1 second, but there’s something I need to do before that. I raised my finger and pointed to the library door I had left open when I entered.

A plump purple magic rose from the fingertips. An intangible hand with the name telekinesis closed the door of the library.

clap-.

Academy nights are long. Slowly and happily chew and enjoy.