Avoid Former Co-Workers

99 – 99. Infiltrating the Octagon (1)

“…I still can’t believe it.”

To think that I really am a person with Mizar-type magic…

I was still confused.

However, this magical power wrapped around her hand still rewinds the feeling that broke Arispear in two.

I clenched my fists and relaxed them, staring at the palms that turned white.

As expected. This isn’t a dream, it’s reality.

“Whoops, you still can’t get used to it, right?”

“…Professor Meuniher.”

It must have caught my eye as I clenched my fists several times and wondered if this was real.

“It’s an achievement you made yourself, but what if you deny it yourself?”

But it has to be. Apparently, I, who was only in charge of the electrometer position, had the same type of magical power as Goden, the head of Tembris.

Besides, I couldn’t even adapt to being put on the same line as him, and I was almost shocked when I heard the name of a person from the past who had another Mizar-type magical power or a real person.

“I heard that I have the same magic type as the professor, but will you get used to it…”

To say that the professor in front of me, the first person in magic engineering, and the same type as the Imperial Chancellor.

I heard something like this, but it wasn’t easy to go over it.

But I don’t even dare to think of being equal to Professor Meuniher. But… Awkward is awkward.

For me, who has been trembling all my life and living as a useless guy, I would have thought it would be like that if I had been in the position of an avant-garde.

“…Is that malfunctioning or something?”

“Huh, you bastard. You’re saying I’m not that trustworthy when you see that I’m still suspicious?”

“No, no! It’s not that I don’t believe it… I hope I can easily understand that, but it’s because I’m not used to it.”

As I confided in him while scratching my head, Professor Meuniher laughed at my weak reaction.

“Well, you’ll know when the time comes. Denis must have been back recently. Did you get a map?”

“He taught me, but… The instruction wasn’t very long. He said he was tired.”

Around the time Professor Jake took me in, I said that I would not be able to give guidance for the time being because I had been working hard for several days.

“I never thought you’d be fooling around like this. I’ll say something later. So, what about your ability to display magic?”

“Ah. That’s what I mean.”

I pointed out a part of the coaching match with Professor Denis that was not even hinted at, as if telling me to study on my own, and asked a question.

Professor Meuniher also refused, saying, “I can’t answer that either.”

No, where do all the people who teach you go and learn everything by self-study? I think this is a real map.

Since I am complaining like that, Professor Meuniher seems to have read my inner thoughts from my expression.

“If you try to study in advance from a place like this, you won’t be able to use it. Sometimes walking slowly is more effective than running fast, so start by reviewing slowly.”

Professor Meuniher turned to his office with his hands on his back and left without saying that.

Don’t be impatient, proceed slowly.

This is the advice I heard before returning. Of course, then and now, my reaction is the same.

“…I can’t help it, Professor.”

If I don’t prepare, I’m no different from myself back then when I was incompetent.

***

After the one-and-a-half-minute lecture on magical typology, I looked into the distant sky until I saw the sky that had turned black as if a reddish sunset was cooling down.

“…It seems Cain is still alone.”

A while ago, when I checked some roads near the capital city of Lebland in advance, Cain was one of the students who could be said to have frequented Mir Park.

Mirpark County is known as the administrative district of high-tech industries, including the second most developed capital city after Les Brandts.

But it was like oil applied to make the surface look shiny.

Since most of the residents are lords and aristocrats who have amassed wealth and power, the shadows are more rough and dark compared to other administrative districts.

All sorts of crimes prohibited by the principality, such as gambling, slave trade, and drug dealing, are taking place, but if there is any chance of getting caught, they quickly cut off the tail with a kiss, so it’s almost impossible for Mir Park State’s shadowy activities to see the light of day. Was

The most serious place among them is the gambling hall.

The huge casino located underground was the arena of the slaves, the Octagon, to satisfy the entertainment of the aristocrats.

“Huh. If I had nothing to do with the students, I wouldn’t have cared about that.”

At best, I would like to know what the aristocrats’ games or gambling places have to do with the students, but there is a closer relationship than it seems.

A deal between the principality and the empire that could not be concluded due to a typhoon.

This causes prices to rise, and students belonging to the poor and lower classes living in poverty are looking for work.

These students are very good prey for them.

When they get tired of the slave fights they see every time, they wonder what would happen if the academy students jumped into the arena.

Aristocrats who are dissatisfied with not being able to lay their hands on the students because they have changed once, try to seduce them with money.

Students who are twisted like that are, of course, the ones who have just started raising their heads and opening the door to growth.

A support position that belongs to the electric field position or can take over the electric field position even temporarily.

These are the guys who will stand in the most important position in the sheet subjugation.

“If they go into the Octagon, it’s over.”

Before her return, Charlotte smelled her and Senia bit her tail, and she broke through the shadows of Mir Park State, but it was too late by then.

Because their bodies, which were destroyed as they were rolled like objects in the arena, could not fulfill their role in the sheet subjugation and lost their lives in vain. This causes a butterfly effect in which half of the sheet is swallowed due to the lack of electrometer position.

That’s half the words. It was as if 1/4 of the principality’s power and territory were gone.

The starting point of the snowball, in which the principality steps on the harbinger of destruction, is the Battle of Sheet.

So, you have to move ahead.

Since Cain has already started moving, the other guys must be trembling with anxiety one by one.

“It was an arena called the Octagon.”

It’s full of problems, but if you reverse it, you can solve everything you’re worried about.

The reason why Cain goes in and out of that place must be because he doesn’t have enough money, and she must be paying a certain amount of prize money there.

So it’s a perfect place.

My performance, which has only learned skills that are difficult for people to recognize in interpersonal battles, will be enough to catch the attention of nobles.

Due to the nature of the arena, it is also good to check my skills, and I may be able to find loopholes in the gambling hall later.

Money matters. Check your skills. Whistleblowing.

With these three goals in mind, I set off into the Octagon.

***

-Father Duck.

Waving its wings vigorously, the Jeonseogu returns to its owner.

Senia, who checked the contents of the letter tied to the leg of the telecommunications office, expected it to come someday, but since she came directly to her, she could hardly shake her nervousness.

‘You finally decided to move the base.’

In the first semester, the evaluation at the beginning of the semester was canceled, so it was held again.

Even after that, the test was postponed due to the clearing of Canola Tul and the defense of Osoptera.

Aside from the isolated incident in the Ripol Gorge, an annual festival, the abduction of Count Kutelli’s students, and the Duvet Terror.

Because the lecture was postponed several times, all the ropes that were dangerous were burned.

‘I finally took an alchemy lecture and tried to solve it… But it’s too late.’

The Sirens sent a letter stating that they could not stand against the Devourers any longer and that they would move their base.

Since another line of defense that the dukedom didn’t recognize has disappeared, now those terrible monsters will attack the sheets.

But I can’t tell anyone about this.

There is a justification for demihumans such as elves and dwarves to live in harmony with humans, not harming humans but helping them in many ways, but sirens do not.

On the contrary, they even wrote a false accusation that they harmed the people of the duchy.

No one could believe the claims of the Sirens.

“Senia unni? You didn’t come in too much, so I came to see you. What are you doing here?”

“Yes. I have something to think about.”

“Unnie’s expression didn’t look good for that kind of thing…”

I have the youngest by my side, and I belong to a team called Thembris, but of course I can’t tell this one either.

Senia said while slightly pinching Charlotte’s cheek with her calm face.

“You cute youngest. It’s nothing to worry about.”

“Umm, is that so…?”

“Sure. I thought about whether I should go to the magic typology class because I was suddenly told to take it.”

She has such a calm face that Charlotte doesn’t notice.

Senia, who has been hiding her true feelings from her people many times, has been very good at this.

Her prowess was her own trick to not being beaten the same way twice.

The roughness, the friendliness, and the dry face. It was all to cover the inside.

Did Charlotte notice this mask?

– Senia. I’m going to take a magic typology class!

“Ah, that’s Erica’s voice.”

That can’t be.

Due to the magic typology lecture, which was suddenly assigned to a two-minute class, not even a speck of suspicion remains in Charlotte.

It’s just that, Senia responds slyly and she just needs to move on.

“Ah. Seriously, why do I suddenly have to take an additional lecture? Shouldn’t I just go?”

“That’s not possible. Starting from this semester, lateness or absences without cause will be accumulated without mercy and penalty points… Ah, this is not the time…! Unni, hurry up!!”

“Yes, yes.”

Even the other Tembris members, even Charlotte, who has the flair of a merchant, cannot dig out Senia’s secret.

This secret will be revealed… Much later.