2nd Round Villain

123 – common scam

‘Why didn’t I think of this?’

The regressor’s bleak gaze scanned the boy in front of him.

‘I had to think about the possibility that the Joker could come to the academy under the name of Evans himself. No, it’s still too early to conclude… .’

The sunlight filtering through the window lit up the radiant blond hair of the regressor.

‘Even though it’s a little different from what I knew… The Joker is a master of disguise. It’s not even a thing for him to change his appearance. Rather, what we should pay attention to is his signature serpentine smile.’

A sweat of tension ran down her spine.

‘Gingamin, but the probability of being the Joker is about 70%. I didn’t know that I would be greeted like this. You have to manage your facial expressions well. I’m turning away from the Joker anyway, but my expression or emotion could be revealed through my gaze.’

Sitting upright, the regressor gulped down his saliva.

‘But why is the Joker here… ? Is it because of Maria? If that’s really the case, you can say things are going smoothly. It means that Maria is on good terms with the Joker. Daytime Maria is not a regressor… Oh right.’

When the thought reached that point, the regressor’s pupils trembled.

‘Damn it, Maria isn’t a regressor now. He’s still an immature kid. If you get the water of the devil called the Joker wrong, you can cross the irreversible river! I just have to stop it… ! But, obviously, Maria says the Joker is repenting… !’

The regressor’s heart beat loudly.

‘If I get in between the two…’ Couldn’t you think that the Joker is annoying me or suspicious? Then, in the worst case, I could be killed by the Joker or fall into the category of investigation… sh*t. For now, is it best to just watch and not say anything about nonsense? If the Joker is right, what does the Joker keep doing to Maria?’

Tuk-tuk-tuk- The boy’s hand touches the white-haired girl’s back. The girl bursts into laughter. Next to him, the dog Soo-in purrs and sleeps on the desk.

At first glance, it is a peaceful sight. In fact, they were enjoying the refreshing peace. However, the heart of the regressor watching from the side was only nervous.

‘This dog he brought with him… There is nothing to catch. You have to watch it a little longer and figure out the identity slowly. Miss Beatrice, Miss John, and the teacher with the narrowed eyes… Yep, but he couldn’t possibly have noticed my sweat, right?’

When a person is worried and tense, pain in the abdomen comes. Digestion is not good.

The regressor did that now.

‘My stomach hurts… Ugh… .’

*****

Mornings at Eden Academy are focused on theory and writing. However, I have no intention of taking classes.

Am I better at math than the teacher who teaches me math? If you ask me, it’s not. However, the teacher teaches classes at a level suitable for first-year students in the academy anyway.

And even if I’m worse at math than my teacher, I can solve the level of first-year math at the level of a freshman by lying down and eating gum. Other subjects are no different.

If you do, what is a bastard who doesn’t even listen to is sitting in the classroom?

Swoop-.

“Aha, what did you write down?”

“Maria guess that. You can tell by focusing on the touch on your back.”

“I have to pay attention in class, but… .”

“It’s sophistry to say that you can’t pay attention to touch just because you’re paying attention in class. Because you’ve pushed yourself to the limit. Imagine practicing double casting.”

“oh… This was part of the training. Evans seems to be a deep thinker.”

No, I’m just bored, but there’s Maria in front of me, so I’m joking around.

Every time you poke your finger in the soft Maria’s back, Maria responds with a smile. The strange thing is that he is still paying attention in class.

“bruise… I’m sorry… .”

As if sitting at a desk above the classroom for the first time in his life was not used to it, Aru kept tossing and turning and expressing his boredom.

A guy who endured 18 years of solitude alone in a pitch-black cave may wonder why he is doing this with only these things, but at that time, Aru has already blown away all resistance to ‘boredom’. It could be seen as a kind of trauma.

“Aru, are you bored?”

“bruise… .”

“You can sleep if you are sleepy. Are you unable to sleep?”

“no… I will sleep… .”

After babbling, Aru gathered his arms neatly on the desk and buried his head into it. For some reason, it was a sleeping position that reminded me of the saying that students from any country have the same sleeping position.

Whirik- Pak!

“Keep it!?”

“There students! Don’t fall asleep!”

However, Aru’s sleep did not last long. It was because the chalk that flew like a flash hit Aru’s forehead. Although it seemed slow to me like falling snowflakes.

Aru raised her upper body drooling over the textbook she had taken out as a pretense. The teacher who threw the chalk yelled out.

“How can I sleep from the first day of class! Aren’t you a student of that rumor? You say that you showed extraordinary performance in the Dalian evaluation, but the teachers have high expectations of you!”

It was a female teacher who wore glasses with round glasses and thin frames. My subject is Mathematics. By the way, I thought that it was not nonsense to say that the teachers of Eden Academy had both literary and martial arts to hit Aru’s forehead precisely by blowing chalk from that position.

Except for Inwang, who is a PE teacher.

“Err… Woof woof! Evans said you could sleep!”

“Evans? what is that? Is the student religious? If you are forced to sleep at this time due to religious doctrine, I will especially tolerate it!”

“religion? god? no! Evans is… It’s a person!”

“Anyone can’t tolerate it, even if it’s the student’s parents! At least in this class, students, please follow my words as a teacher first!”

Wow, that teacher is so strong. When Aru heats up, most people can’t even look at her face to face, but she doesn’t show any sign of kneeling down.

Of course, right now I’m suppressing Aru’s life by grabbing Aru’s tail under the chair.

“Grrr… ! bad! bad!”

“Aruya, just take this opportunity to meditate. Don’t fight for nothing. In any case, the teacher vs. the student, unless the parent is the emperor, the student loses.”

“bruise… I thought I could sleep… .”

“How do you deal with that teacher? wait for the next class A loose teacher’s class will come someday.”

However, contrary to my expectations, like the best academy in the empire, none of the teachers allowed Aru to sleep well.

“mmm… .”

In the end, Aru spent the time until lunchtime seemed to come out of his body.

“Eww… Maria, I’m going to go to the nursery for a while… .”

“yes? Warrior, are you sick? I will heal you with divine power, so tell me where it hurts.”

“no… I just feel like I’m a bit stuck… I’ll take some digestive medicine… .”

“Ah, that’s right… All right. Or should I help you?”

“It’s okay… .”

Divine power is the power of healing. It’s best suited for healing cuts and broken wounds, but it’s role as a digestive aid is to keep your metabolism running smoothly.

As if his body couldn’t properly accept the breakfast, the sluggish warrior went to the health room as soon as it was lunchtime. I grabbed the left Maria by the wrist and led her.

“Maria, let’s go to lunch.”

“Oh, yes. Do you want to go with Aruni too?”

“bruise? go? Where?”

Aru, who had been beaten with chalk and scolded for dozing off throughout class, gets up and asks. The tip of her mouth was full of saliva.

“Wherever we go, we are going to eat. Aren’t you eating?”

“no! no! hungry!”

“Okay, so let’s go to the lunchroom. Ayu, it’s like raising a baby. Why is he so low in intelligence? Is it natural for dogs and humans to be together?”

“Puhyuk, Aru-sama and Evans-sama are really good friends. Share a joke without hesitation.”

Maria burst into a faint smile, probably feeling friendly as Aru and I exchanged words.

“Isn’t that a joke? That’s right, he’s stupid.”

“bruise? Kwong Kwong Kwong! I’m not stupid!”

“okay? Hey, what is 9 times 9?”

“… bruise? therefore… If there are nine 9’s… Because it’s 9 and 9… .”

Aru shook his head and started counting with his fingers. How can you derive the result of 81 with only ten fingers?

“18?”

I managed to calculate more than ten numbers with finger counting, but that’s it. I snorted and turned to Maria.

Maria, who dismissed what I said to Aru as a joke, laughed awkwardly.

“ah… hahahaha, mo, you may not know. The multiplication table is not the principle of all things.”

There was a shock that could not be hidden in her round, white eyes.

“But no matter how, how can I play the multiplication table… What kind of environment did you grow up in? .”

For Maria, who grew up in a church where intelligence is a virtue, the wild Aru, who didn’t know anything about the multiplication table, seemed like a fresh shock. Maria’s surprised expression, which she couldn’t bear to hide even if she tried to hide it because she knew it was rude, was quite funny.

Although Aru himself doesn’t seem to have any thoughts.

“Ahahahahaha! Since 18, 18! It’s like a student who confidently took all of his notes and was assigned to Class A with only practical work!”

“bruise! I’m great! Everyone says I’m amazing!”

“okay! What if you have a stone head! You just have to eat well!”

He put his hand on Aru’s fluffy hair and stroked it with a broom as if sweeping away the dust. Stupid Aru laughed hysterically without knowing anything.

“Come to think of it, I don’t know anything about you two.”

As we were walking to the lunchroom with us, Maria asked a question.

“If you’re not rude, may I ask where you two are from?”

“… .”

when did you ask You’re finally asking that.

The answer is determined from the beginning. I just had to answer according to my identity provided by Beatrice.

“Excuse me? Then it’s okay if you don’t tell me.”

As I waited for a while, Maria misunderstood and asked. It was deliberately delayed. I cleared my throat and opened my mouth.

“It’s not like that. However, I’m a little worried that Maria will treat me as a friend after hearing about my background… I’m not from a very proud place, am I?”

“yes? Oh no! You don’t have to worry about that at all! How can you judge people based on their background! I will never turn my back on Evans, so please feel free to tell me.”

With that certain answer, we will become even closer.

“Yes, I have to reveal it someday anyway… Then I’ll trust Maria and tell her. I am, in fact, not from the Empire.”

“That’s what most of them are, isn’t it? This is Eden Academy, a place where students from any country can enter without discrimination. I am also a member of the Holy Land.”

“That’s right. Where I came from… It is a place called Dark Country. Did you hear?”

“… !”

Criminal State, Dark State. A drug cartel organization is openly running the country from the back of the country, and the power of the government, public power, police, and prosecution is dragged here and there by the money of thugs, organizations, gangsters, and scammers. However, it is quite large and is one of the seven kingdoms.

Drugs and cannabis abound across the country, and underground fight clubs lurk around the corner. There are very few citizens who have not committed a crime even once, and of course, public order and diplomatic relations are also at the bottom.

However, the dark country does not perish. why? When other countries don’t want to get their hands dirty, they use dark country criminals and cartels. Where there is light in the world, there are also shadows. Dark country is that shadow.

That’s why the name of the country is Am (暗: Darkness).

“ah… That’s right… . Oh my God, you were from that dark country… .”

Maria with a dark expression.

“I told you at best, but what is the reaction like? Have you ever heard the elders of the church telling you not to get close to people from the dark country?”

“Uh, how did you know?”

oh, was it really like that? Then you can’t. I purposely put my enemies in an unordered dark country so that I wouldn’t be able to find my family name, but should I say that it was actually a joke and change my enemies?

“Is Maria afraid of me too? Because you’re from the dark country?”

“Huh… ! Oh no! It made me feel ashamed at the moment, but it’s not right to denigrate people based on where they come from! It’s because I’m still lacking in discipline, so I’ll reflect on it!”

“It’s okay, everyone is like that. When they don’t know where I’m from, they treat me with a smile, but when they know that I’m a cancer citizen, they look at me like a criminal. Why is such rubbish still roaming the streets? It’s not like there are only criminals who are cancer citizens.”

“Does that mean that Evans has never committed a crime? Even though you lived in a dark country?”

“… To be honest, I’m a human too, so I’ve tried stealing, pickpocketing, and robbery a few times. I had to eat and live. It’s such a sh*tty neighborhood. But I swear, I’ve never committed a violent crime. I am deeply reflecting now. That’s why I joined the academy.”

“Such a story… ! Don’t worry, I can help! Staking the name of a saint!”

Maria takes my hand with a feverish expression. Soft fingers wrap around my hands.

Oh, what should I do? It looks like arsenic will come out. You shouldn’t laugh at a time like this. I skillfully organized my expression and chanted with a self-deprecating face.

“However, the elders of the church told me not to keep people from the dark country around. Can I break their word?”

“Generalizations are wrong in any case. I’ve only seen him for one day, but the Evans I’ve seen is the most kind person! He guided me when I first came to Eden Academy, and he became my first close friend! I believe in Evans who I saw and felt more than priests and grandfathers who don’t know about Evans… !”

“Maria… !”

Aww, look at what I’m talking about. pretty i’m dying

If I were an ordinary student, I would have been so moved that I couldn’t even say the words right now.

Unfortunately, right now I only have the feeling that our Maria is so proud, but acting out the emotion is not that difficult for me.

As if thrilled, she covered her mouth with both hands and burst into tears.

“hehehe, look. After all, Evans-sama is a good person.”

Maria smiled at me. Maria probably won’t know for the rest of her life that my tears are the tears of a crocodile because she enjoys this hoax so much. I’ll talk to Maria of the Night later.