Are MZ Shamans In Trouble In Romance Novels? - Chapter 106

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106.

“Valus. What’s wrong with your hair?”

Raktar frowned as he entered the Main Building Training Hall, looking at the hair with blackened tips. In short, it looked patchy and unkempt.

“…It’s a style that’s popular in the Western Region these days.”

Calisia tied her hair up high with a leather string. The black hair caught at the edge of her vision felt particularly awkward.

“Valus. Your back hair.”

Ian, who had been loosening his shoulder muscles, reached up to tuck in the protruding strands of hair. Calisia naturally accepted his touch.

‘I can’t really feel anything different.’

She fell into thought for a moment as Ian tended to her hair. The physical changes from drinking the Imugi Elixir hadn’t returned to normal even after several days. On the other hand, her Divine Power and Special Ability hadn’t changed much. To put it simply, she had just become someone with a mole under her eye.

“Popular? That Apostate-like hair?”

Raktar clicked his tongue, saying he couldn’t understand the Western people’s aesthetic sense. Calisia swallowed the words that she wasn’t even the Crown Prince, so why should she care about the ‘3rd Prince’s’ aesthetic taste. It would obviously cause another uproar.

“What’s wrong with the Apostate anyway?”

Izriel, with half-glazed eyes, whispered in Raktar’s ear. Of course, he was completely ignored.

“What strange trends exist these days. Tsk.”

“Your way of speaking is stranger. Are you an old man?”

Calisia replied lightly and rotated her wrists and ankles. The Basic Swordsmanship class would start soon, so she needed to loosen her muscles and joints.

“But why are those kids gathered together like that?”

Calisia tilted her head as she looked at the children huddled together. Biltor, the swordsmanship instructor, was notorious for his extremely harsh physical training. If you were lazy with warm-up exercises, you couldn’t expect to leave with all your limbs intact. The new students weren’t unaware of this either.

“So did your future husband really appear?”

“Who appeared? Is he handsome? Hurry up and tell us!”

The new students with sparkling eyes surrounded someone. At her friends’ urging, the girl standing in the center shyly blushed. A mysterious mirror that could reveal your future husband. The incident had started with a scary story told in the middle of the night.

-You know the abandoned bathroom in the North Annex? If you go there, you can find out about your future spouse!

-Future spouse?

-Yeah. If you hold a sword in your mouth and look in the mirror at midnight, your future spouse will appear. There are already kids who’ve tried it.

It was a common ghost story. Though actually confirming it hadn’t been part of the plan.

“Um, a little?”

The girl smiled as she recalled the man who had appeared in the mirror. Her pink eyes were filled with pleasant excitement.

“What, he must be handsome then!”

Envious screams erupted among the children. Looks weren’t everything, but it wouldn’t hurt to have them.

“Should I try it too?”

“You already have a fiancé.”

“There’s no law saying I have to marry my fiancé.”

“That’s called breaking an engagement, my friend.”

The new students chattered about the North Annex without exception. A destined partner. It was pure romance in their harsh Academy life.

“That damn spouse ghost story exists everywhere you go.”

Calisia, who had rapidly lost interest, finished her stretching. Fill the sink with water, light a candle, hold a sword in your mouth, hold a hand mirror, go up and down stairs. She didn’t know why everyone was so curious about their spouse, but mirror ghost stories had dozens of variations by country.

“Valus. Aren’t you curious about your future husband?”

Ian, who had been watching their pink-tinted classmates, suddenly spoke up.

“Not really. We’ll all find out when the time comes anyway.”

Calisia scratched her eyebrow. It was because she had never once thought about marriage in her entire life. Besides, if there was anything she wanted to know right now, it was the market price of Leviathan’s shed skin.

“Why? Are you curious? Want me to come with you?”

Calisia looked back at Ian, who stood tall like a faithful wife waiting for her husband’s return. He pressed his lips tightly together with a sullen expression. From his displeased look, something seemed to be bothering him.

“I said I’d come with you?”

“…Never mind.”

Ian sighed and turned his back.

***

It was exactly ten days later that the romantic mysterious mirror transformed into a creepy ghost story.

“Did you guys hear that rumor?”

The new students gathered in the Imperial History Classroom talked with serious expressions. It was because of a mysterious incident that occurred in the North Annex.

“A second-year senior was found in front of ‘that mirror’ with her hands covered in blood.”

The protagonist of the incident was Elia Rohan. She was popular among her classmates for her lively personality and excellent magical aptitude. This was why the unfortunate rumor spread so quickly.

“That mirror?”

“You know, that mirror that’s supposed to show you your future spouse.”

“But why were her hands covered in blood?”

“This is what I heard from my older brother… That mirror, it’s possessed by a ghost!”

The classroom instantly became as quiet as if cold water had been poured over it. In an age of magic and magical engineering, things like ghosts and spirits were relics of the old era.

“Suddenly a ghost?”

One of the new students who had been listening seriously frowned. Senior Elia’s accident wasn’t some school ghost story. It was an incident with real substance. But suddenly bringing up ghosts was puzzling.

“You guys don’t know what state that mirror was in when Senior Elia was found, do you?”

“What state was it in?”

“It was completely red.”

It was an Academy servant who discovered Elia. Even if it was an unused bathroom, it still needed to be cleaned.

-Aaaaaahhhhh!

And the first thing the servant encountered was their own reflection through the blood-stained mirror.

“Completely red?”

“Yeah. Senior Elia had rubbed the broken mirror with her hands. Until the entire glass was covered in blood.”

At the eerie story, the new students briefly glanced at each other. Though it wasn’t long before all sorts of opinions started flying out. Sleepwalking, false rumors, black magic, abnormal behavior due to stress, and so on. The children each put forward their opinions and the classroom quickly became noisy.

“What do you guys think?”

Balak asked the COMISAE club, also known as the ‘Coin-Crazy Bastards’ club. To add a word, he had strongly opposed this name.

“Isn’t it an exaggeration? Rumors are always blown out of proportion.”

Raktar answered with a completely fed-up expression. The Imperial Palace was always full of false rumors due to political intrigue.

“She might have been attacked.”

“Ah, it’s not easy to find out the market price of Leviathan shed skin. There need to be items for sale to calculate an average.”

Ian was considering an ambush, while Calisia was preoccupied with thoughts of selling the shed skin at a high price.

“Illu, sion magic! When you drink, drink alcohol, the land of illusions unfooolds.”

And Izriel was spouting nonsense as usual.

“Haah….”

Balak let out a sigh and opened his history book. It was because there wasn’t much nutritious conversation to be had. And a few weeks later-.

“You know. That mirror….”

“I heard about it too. That mirror….”

“That mirror, you know….”

The Academy corridors were buzzing with talk about ‘that mirror.’ It was because victims were continuously appearing one after another, starting with Elia.

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[Club Commission Notice]

Northern Annex 5th Floor Mirror Replacement Work

Reward: 500 Coins

Client: Helorn Servant Labor Union

Students gathered in the corridor murmured as they looked at the notice posted on the wall. The Northern Annex 5th Floor was definitely ‘that mirror’ from the rumors.

“500 coins for just replacing a mirror? Not 5 coins?”

A passing upperclassman stretched his neck out and rubbed his eyes.

“Were you trapped in some desert? That’s ‘that mirror.'”

A classmate next to him glanced at the upperclassman, saying he was talking nonsense. The school had been noisy with mirror ghost stories for weeks now.

“That mirror?”

The upperclassman scratched his head, saying it was the first time he’d heard of it. He hadn’t been at the Academy much due to external classes and commissions.

“The Northern Annex mirror that caused a huge fuss for supposedly showing your future spouse!”

The classmate scolded his friend to pay more attention to campus affairs.

“Geez. How was I supposed to know that?”

The upperclassman showed his annoyance as if his enthusiasm had completely deflated. If it showed future titles or career paths that would be one thing, but spouses? It sounded like child’s play.

“But why are they replacing the mirror? And what’s with the 500 coins?”

“Right now there are quite a few kids who got hurt because of that mirror. Even more servants fainted while going in to clean.”

That was why the Servant Labor Union had posted such a high-paying notice. Their days were already filled with work. Having to clean up pools of blood every other day – how severe must their hardship be? Moreover, as the mirror ghost stories spread and everyone flocked to the annex, the number of victims only increased day by day.

“Really? Then since I’m here after a long time, should I earn some coins?”

The upperclassman stroked his chin. Mirror replacement would take at most 30 minutes to an hour. His merchant escort commission was in two days, so he happened to have time free.

“You’re going to do that?”

“Yeah. 500 coins for one mirror replacement is sweet. I should apply quickly before someone else takes it.”

“No one’s going to apply.”

The classmate with crossed arms shrugged his shoulders toward his friend. If it were that easy, would they really offer 500 coins?

“Why?”

Helorn had at least dozens of clubs with eyes red for coins. Even if upperclassmen busy with external schedules might not know, there was no way 2nd and 3rd years would miss this opportunity.

“The servants who tried to remove that mirror are all lying in the hospital room right now.”

With glass shards embedded all over their bodies. The classmate recalled the servant who was carried out on a stretcher covered in blood.

“The rumor is spreading far and wide that a ghost cursed them.”

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