Are MZ Shamans In Trouble In Romance Novels? - Chapter 113

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113.

“I found out about that Eye Ghost.”

Calisia entered the club room with Izriel, holding a quill pen in her hand. She gestured toward Comisae, who was resting on the sofa in the aftermath of the eyeball incident.

[That mirror, that’s what I want to know about.]

Calisia unrolled the parchment that had been rolled up. It was premium information she had obtained by cornering a passing classmate and thoroughly interrogating them.

“The controversial ‘that mirror’ which blinded many people and turned the Academy upside down. Today we seek to investigate the North Annex mirror, no, Madam Harrie.”

Calisia held her quill pen like a pointer and struck the parchment attached to the wall with a sharp tap!

“Let’s hear the first testimony.”

She covered her eyes with one hand.

“Ah-. This voice is being modulated, right? So, I learned this while exchanging letters with my mother.”

Calisia began her story in earnest, mimicking the voice of a passing classmate.

“At midnight, if you look in the mirror while holding a candle, you can find out who has feelings for you. It was an Academy ghost story that was popular in our parents’ generation.”

This was why the North Annex mirror was called ‘Matchmaker Madam Harrie.’ Sirillin Harie. The beautiful girl with brilliant platinum hair was an Academy student who attended Hellorun 60 years ago.

“The reason Madam Harrie became attached to the Annex mirror is supposedly because of a tragic unfulfilled love.”

Jade Winterlet. Madam Harrie had a boy with whom she had promised a future. A lover who had whispered that they would cherish and look only at each other for life. But the happy times were brief-.

-Do I really have to say it out loud for you to understand? If I didn’t love you, Sirillin, would I be standing here right now?

-How am I supposed to know your feelings if you don’t say anything? It’s not like I can see them! I just need certainty. I want to hear just one small word.

As misunderstandings piled up and their hearts drifted apart, separation came to them as well. Jade had gotten engaged to someone else.

“Madam Harrie, who spent nights with alcohol and tears, made one decision. She would leave the Academy and stop the engagement ceremony.”

The problem was that finding a way to escape Hellorun during the semester was nearly impossible. Outing passes were not being issued. It was Jade getting engaged, not Madam Harrie.

“Crying while drunk, she thought of one method, saying she couldn’t let love slip away like this.”

What Madam Harrie chose was to take the sky route. After all, Leviathan was guarding the water wall. Having made her decision, she headed to the monster breeding ground within the Academy. Then she stole a wyvern and fled.

“The result was failure. She fell from the wyvern’s back before even leaving Hellorun.”

It was the wyvern’s mating season, something Madam Harrie had overlooked. Drunk on sorrow and alcohol, she couldn’t handle the fierce and sensitive beast. Death came for her. Thus she became a ghost and settled in the North Annex.

– Sirillin! Over here!

Because that was the place where she had enjoyed secret dates with the boy she loved.

“This is why Madam Harrie became a matchmaker ghost. She doesn’t want there to be lovers who drift apart like they did. Oh, wait. This is being censored, right?”

Calisia lowered the hand that had been covering her eyes. To summarize the content, it was ‘an incident where someone died from drunk flying while going to crash their ex-boyfriend’s engagement ceremony while completely intoxicated.’

Today’s lesson: Excessive drinking clouds reason and judgment and can lead to terrible accidents.

“To get engaged to someone else right after their hearts briefly drifted apart. He has no backbone as either a man or a lover. I would never do such a thing.”

Ian, strangely indignant, unconsciously looked at Calisia. His appearance was like someone pledging trust in front of their lover, making the atmosphere oddly tense.

“Wow… They say Northern men are pure-hearted. I don’t know who you like, but the young lady who marries Lakies will be lucky. But why do you keep looking over there?”

Balak put his hand above his eyebrows and joked that he couldn’t tell where Ian was looking. It was because it was too obvious even when he tried to pretend otherwise.

“Wh-where am I looking!”

Izriel opened his eyes wide with his fingers. His silver-gray eyeballs rolled toward Calisia.

“You talk about Sword Master’s Ki Sensing and training, but you can’t properly manage a single glance. No wait, you did well. Your gaze was so subtle that I didn’t notice.”

Raktar, with his eyebrows drooping in a figure-eight shape, quickly changed the subject. For him, Lakies was both a talent he wanted to keep close and a counselor he didn’t want to associate with.

‘Looking at that guy…’

I could understand why the tyrants of old sent away loyal retainers who spoke the truth into exile.

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Ian, having gotten his revenge from earlier, pulled up the corners of his mouth.

“You must have some method since you came looking for the album. Right, Chief?”

Balak sighed at the two people bickering over trivial matters.

“Of course there’s a way. Hyacinth!”

Clap! Calisia clapped her hands. Izriel, who had been giggling to himself, stepped forward.

“Have you ever heard of monster skin masks?”

He rolled his eyes, pretending to look around for no reason.

“Monster skin masks?”

“They’re masks sold by dealers at the black market.”

In Hellorun, there existed a black market called the ‘Quiet Moon.’ From items that violated school rules to artifacts banned by the Imperial Magic Department in extreme cases. Among these, what Izriel was talking about were ‘monster masks’ called monster skin masks.

“You process monster hide to change your face to someone else’s. And then you slip it on like this!”

“…Why on earth would anyone do such a thing?”

Processing monster hide and putting it over your head. Raktar frowned as if it sounded disgusting just hearing about it. Ian and Balak seemed to share similar thoughts as their eyebrows twitched.

“There are various reasons… Most of it is because of outing passes.”

Outing passes from Hellorun were always in high demand. So much so that transfers were active even when hundreds of coins were demanded. The problem was that outing passes had photos attached that included the owner’s personal information.

“It’s to fool the guard unit’s eyes. Outing passes have magic cast on them making them difficult to forge.”

Calisia added an explanation, picking up where Izriel left off.

“Therefore, we’re going to the black market.”

Calisia slammed the table with a determined expression.

“Wait! How does that Apostate bastard know all this stuff? Can we even trust what he’s saying in the first place!”

Raktar glared at Izriel with eyes full of distrust. Wasn’t it strange? That someone who was drunk every day knew more about school affairs than he did.

“He said he went to buy some strong liquor that the Imperial Food Department banned from import.”

Calisia shrugged and picked up the graduation album.

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