How to Survive as the Second Son of a Mage Family - Chapter 203
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How to Survive as the Second Son of a Magic Family (203)
“…The reason.”
I looked up at Leo’s face and let out a laugh.
It’s so absurd that I can’t help but laugh.
How is that even possible? I’m about to lose my mind too.
The Elias next to me was actually fake? Since when? Why am I caught by Leo here?
‘That bastard Elias, really….’
Right. That’s what the protagonist of that book was like. Because of his crazy personality that’s the complete opposite of mine, I used to read it without noticing time pass, but I keep forgetting that. Just because he’s the protagonist, I always looked at him fondly, but he hands me over to the enemy and runs away?
I understand since it’s a situation where he can’t kindly explain to me, but honestly….
‘I’m going crazy. It’s really hard to play along with this lunatic. Is this how Leo felt?’
I let out a long breath and buried my face in the moss covering the blocks.
“There’s no reason like that….”
“It seems you didn’t know that the Elias next to you was an illusion either.”
Just then, Leo brought up the same topic.
Of course I didn’t know, that’s why the illusion didn’t disappear and was visible to everyone. Auguste said that if even one person is certain that the illusion he created is fake, he can’t maintain that illusion.
Of course, even in this case, there seems to be a separate method for making multiple illusions appear, but this is a secret and he didn’t tell us about it.
Anyway, I can guess since when Elias was like that and what he did this for. I just shouldn’t think about it.
Crack— Clang—!
I frowned at the sudden noise.
An artifact broke, scratched my cheek, and fell to the floor.
“Why didn’t you warp?”
Why didn’t I warp? I snorted and mocked that ridiculous question.
“Why ask when you know, class president. Did you forget after directly destroying my dormitory?”
“Hmm, you really do call me that.”
I just closed my eyes and stayed silent.
What are you purely admiring? Is this Bavaria? This guy is no different from Elias. This is a scene being watched by dozens of professors, so isn’t it worth advertising that our relationship isn’t that good? My ‘class president’ was just a sarcastic form of address.
I didn’t like being called that when I was a student, but seeing that my sarcasm doesn’t work on him now, Leo seems to be different.
I tried to pull off the stems covering my hand placed on the moss, then realized the plants were tougher than expected.
Using magic is problematic since I’m outnumbered. There must be a reason why Elias dropped me here and left, so it would be better to go peacefully.
“Just pull this off.”
“….”
“Can’t you hear me? I said pull it off.”
Leo just tilted his head without saying anything.
I suddenly remembered Elias’s advice and opened my mouth.
“Leo. I need to get up now, so could you please clear away the plants?”
“Are you reading a language textbook?”
“….”
He told me to say and do things I wouldn’t normally do.
What exactly was Elias intending?
Even a request like this would have an obvious answer if I thought about it for a moment, but unfortunately, because I think I know, I had to empty my brain instead.
Haike, who had been anxiously checking the surroundings, tapped Leo’s shoulder.
“…Leo. It’s bait. Team 3 would have only sent illusions to Narke. And for the rest of our team, they probably mixed one real person and one illusion at each location. There are many places to search but few people, so they placed one person at each location, but since having just one person makes them vulnerable to attack, they created illusions of other people to stay beside them. That means, like before, Team 3 is finding something elsewhere right now.”
“….”
“There must be a reason why Team 3 handed over a key personnel like Lucas.”
“That’s what she says. What do you think?”
“This is the first time I’ve seen Haike talk this long. Are you that anxious?”
The pressure from the plants increased.
I held my breath as I felt the vine stems covering my shoulders go down to the grass on the floor and wrap around tightly.
The force of the plants trying to press me toward the floor was stronger than expected. I think this could even strangle someone to death if done well. As expected, abilities that handle natural objects are almost cheating.
Leo let out an incredulous laugh and said sarcastically.
“If we just keep being sarcastic like this, when will we finish the exam, Lucas.”
“That’s what I’m saying. So hurry up and let me go. I’ll pretend I didn’t see anything.”
Leo looked at the sky once, exhaled, then cleared his throat and placed his hand on my shoulder.
“Lucas. I know you’re worried about things becoming unfavorable for Team 3, but it’s hard for both of us to stay like this. I don’t feel good seeing our classmate like this either. I’d like you to cooperate.”
At that tone that reminded me of Julia from before, I opened my mouth.
‘Ah.’
This is it.
I figured out what Elias was intending.
“…Apotheke Aum Adler, 128:208:982. Atelier Goldner Schnitt, 127:507:392….”
I quickly muttered warp coordinates while thinking.
Elias telling me to ‘say and do things I wouldn’t normally do’ was to maximize Team 1’s wariness.
“You have no intention of cooperating. Then I can’t wait any longer either.”
Leo’s words went in one ear and out the other. The pressure squeezing my joints increased, but that wasn’t important right now.
If I act like I don’t know anything and show panic, it becomes clear that our Team 3 threw me as bait, and naturally, when there’s an obvious bait in front of them, they’re more likely to let it go rather than catch it. Just like how Haike just suggested going to find the other Team 3 friends.
So paradoxically, I need to act as if I share Team 3’s plan and have a certain role for Team 1’s wariness to work in a different direction than before. It means they’ll have the misconception that ‘if we can break Lucas’s scheme, it might be worth using him.’
This is a method to increase Team 1’s wariness and make them fall into complacency.
It sounds like contradictory words, but it’s not.
This method of making them focus and expend energy in the wrong place is a technique I like to use, and Elias had similar thinking to mine in this aspect too.
‘Since I’m already conscious of it, there’s no choice.’
I have no choice but to act with all my might.
This time I need to choose my lines well. With lines that will achieve Elias’s purpose in one shot, what should I say?
I struggled to secure my breathing and said calmly.
“Leo.”
“What.”
“No matter how much I try to endure it, it hurts.”
A cold silence fell.
A few seconds later, Leo jumped up as if he’d seen a ghost and quickly stepped back three steps.
“What?”
“Why?”
Haike looked up at him and asked.
Leo shook his head and muttered.
“He drank fountain water and already became like this. We need to report Elias to the school violence committee. It should return to normal if we turn off Mimesis, right?”
“….”
“…Are you saying he’s crazy? No way. Lucas really does look like he’s in pain as he said. The blood isn’t circulating below his finger joints already. I thought plants wouldn’t have high attack power, but they can cause damage like this.”
Haike, perhaps because she hadn’t known me for that long, didn’t react like Leo and was analyzing the situation in a dry voice.
On the other hand, Leo’s expression became worse than before.
Of course.
It’s something I’ve never said even once during all our training.
Not just during training? I’ve never said it in front of Strauchi, in front of Ainsiedel, or in front of Abraham either.
Even now, these weren’t words I uttered meaning to stop.
This place is a stage, and I had to deliver lines fitting my role for success. That’s all.
Ainsiedel, sensing something was wrong when no answer came from Leo, turned his head toward me.
“Is saying it hurts such a shocking thing to say? Why? Even I can see it looks extremely painful. Is Lucas the type who doesn’t say such things?”
“Haha…. If it hurts, what else would you call it but painful? Haike, you saw my fingers here too. They’re one step away from falling off.”
I brought out the most gentle voice I could, like when I used to go around gaining favorability.
Haike rolled her eyes around without blinking once, then looked down at me again.
“That’s right.”
“Right, so please convince Leo….”
“But, come to think of it, you were smiling earlier too.”
“Huh?”
Haike stood up from his seat.
He flicked his wrist holding the wand to cast a sound-blocking spell and approached Leo.
“Leo. There’s definitely a plan. Lucas is scheming something.”
Leo, who had turned away from Lucas, grabbed his forehead and muttered.
“…I know. He’s acting right now.”
Haike stroked his chin and glanced toward where Lucas was.
“Lucas guided you to release those vines. He was probably planning to attack us while you were controlling your strength.”
“…”
Haike continued to be lost in thought.
As expected, since they placed the two first-place winners from the second exam as enemies, this exam is gradually turning into a strategic battle. In this exam, we have to keep using our heads continuously.
I don’t really know what Lucas is intending either.
Leo is the same. Even though we’re on the same team, he doesn’t tell us what he’s thinking.
So, I have no choice but to say everything I’ve thought of.
“Leo. I think Team 3 hasn’t found the answer yet either. That’s why they sent Lucas to attack us to buy time. Lucas is already in a situation where everything he thinks is being transmitted to Narke, so rather than keeping him with Team 3 where he’d just be a waste, they thought it would be better to send him to deal damage to our team.”
In fact, Narke, who had been concentrating her ability on the distant Lucas from the start, was now constantly suffering from drowsiness. Especially when Lucas input too much information into his head, it got even worse.
However, she was still an enemy that Team 3 couldn’t ignore.
“…Yeah, Haike.”
“Hm?”
“Your logic is sound. Thanks for the good advice.”
Leo smiled and thanked him.
Haike silently looked at his face.
No matter how bad he was at reading other people’s emotions, he could immediately tell this wasn’t sincere.
Right now Leo thinks my hypothesis is wrong, and he’s considering much more.
At the same time, Lucas was just watching Haike and Leo talking in the distance.
‘They’re having quite the earnest conversation.’
I’m really curious to see how Leo, who was trying not to fall into the trap, will respond.
Will he come over even though he noticed my acting, or will he maintain his initial wariness and leave me behind.
‘Personally, it’s fine if they just leave me.’
That bastard Elias needs to suffer a bit.
Then, Leo flicked his finger to disperse the sound-blocking spell. Then he came closer to me and sat down.
“Alright, Lucas. If you figured something out, it would have been transmitted to Narke.”
“Yeah… I really don’t know anything. Now can you please remove these plants.”
I said with a grin. Because I had been focusing on Jeremaiah’s identity recently, Jeremaiah’s acting tone kept coming out without me realizing it.
At that moment, the grass wrapped around my fingers loosened, and the pressure decreased somewhat.
Leo gestured.
“Haike, can you keep watch around us?”
“Sure.”
Leo turned his eyes back to me.
“Whatever Team 3’s plan is doesn’t matter. We needed you from Ascanien, and you conveniently got caught right in front of me at the perfect time.”
“…”
“Anyone can see that our loss is clearly right in front of us. Right?”
Leo extended his hand with the same smile he showed his friends.
Sunlight shone behind his neck. As if time was rewinding, the grass began to slowly return to its place.
“I don’t mind taking a loss. I’ll let your Team 3 do whatever you want.”
I ignored his hand and sat up on my own.
“You talk as if I have a choice.”
“But… you said it hurt earlier.”
Leo ignored my words and said something out of the blue.
The moment I raised my eyebrows in confusion, something outside my field of vision flew swiftly from all directions.
“…!”
Blood stopped flowing to my fingers that had been briefly released. The grass that was returning to its place wrapped around and squeezed my palms.
“Sorry, just bear with it. We need insurance too.”
* * *
He doesn’t look sorry at all.
Of course he wouldn’t. He knew I was acting too. There’s no reason to be genuinely sorry for lies.
And, as expected, I had no choice in the matter.
It was predetermined from the moment Elias threw me here.
‘Anyway, it’s a success.’
Instead of being wary of the bait, Leo decided to take it for now.
That means he brought me to the park set as Team 1’s gathering place.
Lucas thought this with a calm face—though to Leo and Narke he looked like he was already annoyed—and looked down at his hands.
“You caught Lucas?!”
“Wow, really.”
Then, several students warped nearby.
Leo, who was controlling grass to wrap tightly around Lucas’s hands to prevent him from using magic, asked.
“Team 3?”
“Not there. The fountain really wasn’t it. They disappeared from City Hall too, leaving only newspapers.”
“Let’s remove the fountain from our candidates too.”
“…”
Leo stroked his chin.
That means Team 3 is either relying on Lucas right now or plotting something else.
“Not everyone needs to be here. Instead, prepare spare artifacts in case we’re attacked, and have Haike, Josefine, and Hildegard move together. Did you check the Relief Center?”
“We went but couldn’t find evidence. We’ll need Haike’s ability to make a judgment.”
“Right. Maybe the professors didn’t even set up the past where those two met. So always think with room for possibilities.”
“Got it. We’ll report back as we go!”
The three from Team 1 immediately moved to other locations.
Now the only people left were Lucas, Leo, Narke, and Ulrike.
Lucas looked down at the green mass wrapped tightly around his arms and muttered.
“I could make a ghillie suit with this.”
“Huh?”
“It’s something that exists.”
“Ah~ camouflage clothing.”
At Narke’s realization, Lucas made a disgusted face.
Since such a word didn’t exist in this world yet, the other two just looked puzzled.
Ulrike, who had been quietly observing Lucas, suddenly smiled mischievously.
“You look like someone who lived in the Forest for 50 years.”
“Is this what happens if you live 50 years?”
“I want to try it too!”
Leo asked, holding his head.
“What are you suddenly trying to do? Make camouflage clothing?”
“No, hasn’t everyone thought about this at least once as a kid? It would be fun if grass covered you and grew.”
“Guys~ I understand that your concentration is dropping since it’s been almost an hour, but we’re in the middle of an exam!”
Narke clapped her hands to focus their attention.
“We couldn’t catch the other Team 3 Friends, but at least we brought Lucas, so let’s steel our resolve once more and work hard.”
“Good. Now we can achieve the plan we set up from the very beginning.”
Ulrike rested her chin on her hand and sat comfortably, smiling.
That’s right.
The plan to intercept Lucas’s strategy the moment he formulates it, block Team 3’s path, and gain points.
The conditions to achieve this had been established.
Narke stared intently at Lucas’s pink eyes, which looked somewhat sulky.
“What are you looking at.”
“Haha, Lucas and I are close but today’s just not working out~”
“Is this really the time to be talking about friendships? Stop using your ability. Your eyes are all red too…”
Lucas clicked his tongue and turned his head.
Seeing the whites of someone’s eyes turned red was creepy. Of course, everyone was feeling that same sentiment.
Narke stayed still as if flustered, then snapped his fingers.
“Ta-da~ It’s fine now, right?”
Whether he used disguise magic with divine power, his eyes had somehow returned to their previous appearance. When Lucas looked at him with an expression asking if he was joking around, Narke smiled and changed the subject.
“Now, what’s important isn’t this. Lucas, we need to know what you know. Let me list out the hypotheses we’ve established so far.”
“Listen carefully and use that brain of yours, Lucas~ I still can’t forget how you helped us during the magic potion experiment competition.”
Ulrike winked.
So this is how they repay a favor. Lucas let out a hollow laugh and shook his head.
Narke pushed a newspaper in front of him and spoke.
“These are all hypotheses based on today’s articles. Now, first. They went berserk after buying and drinking contaminated alcohol from the black market due to a 50% surge in liquor taxes. Second, they went berserk after contact with contaminated food from street vendors. Third, Pleroma disguised as an environmental inspector met the civil servant and beggar. Fourth, the civil servant barged into the almshouse to crack down on beggars, and the two met. In this case, we’d have to consider the possibility that Pleroma disguised themselves as an almshouse volunteer.”
“…”
“Fifth, the civil servant and beggar each went berserk after contact with fountain water for various reasons like water quality inspection of fountains and drinking fountains, use as domestic water, etc.”
Narke put down the paper and looked at Lucas.
Lucas was looking down with a troubled expression, his lips moving slightly. He would naturally be judging the likelihood of everything he’d just heard in his head, and Narke could read that if he wanted to.
It was natural for him to make such an expression since there was no escape route.
Ulrike poured oil on the fire by smiling and clapping her hands.
“Now, please refute starting from the first one~”
Leo and Narke’s gazes bore into Lucas intensely.
Lucas let out a deep sigh, then smiled as he looked at Ulrike.
“…You don’t seem to understand economics well, but just because a black market forms doesn’t mean things become cheaper than our market prices. If it’s a black market formed due to dissatisfaction with market prices, the quality of alcohol would drop drastically below the lower limit of our market. A civil servant wouldn’t go crawling into the black market over a 50% increase in liquor taxes—not even a 550% increase—to buy low-quality grain alcohol that might be mixed with methanol.”
“How harsh~ Then what about the second?”
“Are you kidding? A civil servant eating food sold by street vendors while cracking down on those same vendors? Sure, civil servants are people too, so regardless of crackdowns they might buy something if it looks delicious. But do you think that’s the kind of incident that would appear in the Imperial 2nd Education Institute Student Military Corps final selection exam? Hah…”
At Lucas’s deep sigh filled with disdain, Leo couldn’t hold back his laughter and turned his head while covering his mouth with his hand that was propping up his chin.
For some reason, Ulrike spoke in a saddened voice.
“…Still, these are hypotheses our team friends worked their hardest to establish… How well did your team do!”
“What would be different about our team compared to yours? We probably set up the same things.”
At Lucas’s indifferent voice, Ulrike lost her words and deflated.
“Hahaha, then how about this, Lucas? Even if they didn’t necessarily buy food from street vendors, it could have been contaminated for reasons we don’t know yet.”
“…Really putting me through such ridiculous… tests.”
Lucas burst into light laughter.
“You know that’s obviously not it, Narke. Did you find evidence for that story?”
Narke remained silent with his smiling face.
‘As expected, this is why.’
This was why Lucas had been first place in the last exam, and this was why the school had raised this exam’s difficulty to extreme levels.
This was also why our team had desperately tried to remove Lucas’s eyepatch.
We had already felt that those hypotheses were weak. That’s why we introduced them first.
However, his thinking speed and accuracy always amazed us.
Victory was now right in front of us. He wouldn’t stop at those mediocre hypotheses we’d established, but would surely find a definitive answer.
‘Good, I can’t stop here.’
“You’re right, Lucas. There’s no evidence. But what if there’s something Haike and Oswald couldn’t discover at the scene? Don’t focus just on eating. When contamination levels are severe, just touching it can cause a rampage, as we can see from the Baden-Baden case.”
“…”
Lucas only moved his eyes to look at Narke sitting beside him.
“There’s something else to consider here~ Going berserk from drinking and eating something versus going berserk from water on skin being absorbed into the body are different. If a powerful drug was sprayed that could cause rampage just from contact, other people in the capital should have already exploded and died. In other words, we have to assume there was a source powerful enough to cause rampage just from contact, that it wasn’t in a public place, and that those two somehow came into contact with that source.”
“Somehow?”
“They accidentally fell into the same water, or water touched their hands. There are too many possibilities for how they might have made contact.”
Then, Ulrike spoke with a face that seemed to realize something.
“Didn’t they get into a physical fight? If they completely fell into water, it would be less questionable. If they didn’t just simply touch it but fell in, it would have entered through their eyes, nose, and mouth, and it would solve the problem of exactly three rampage incidents! If it’s water that’s stagnant somewhere rather than flowing, that low number of rampage incidents makes even more sense.”
Lucas, who had been listening to the conversation expressionlessly, spoke up.
“If they had fallen into water, the fine notice should have been wet or torn and dried stuck to the inside of their clothes, but it wasn’t. The ink on the memo was intact too.”
“Really? So they didn’t fall in…?”
“Still, if the contact hypothesis is correct, we’d have to agree that it was stagnant water that doesn’t flow.”
Lucas looked at Ulrike with a faint smile.
Ulrike, who had been dazed, rolled her eyes.
When no more objections came, Lucas lightly concluded.
“I have nothing more to say about things without evidence.”
“Good, I understand well. Then… Lucas.”
Lucas raised his eyebrows and looked at Narke.
Narke suddenly grabbed Lucas’s head and looked into his eyes. Lucas, realizing what he was trying to do, frowned and tried to pull his head away, but such attempts couldn’t work against three people who could freely use magic power.
Narke smiled with satisfaction and read the information.
“…40-year-old New Humanity member, navy blue checkered jacket, deodorant smell, gum wrapper, business card, fountain pen, finger-sized portable perfume bottle, five folded fine notices, palm-sized notebook.”
“…”
“Good, thanks. I thought you might memorize coordinates, but you even care about your friend’s health, Lucas is so kind~”
“I think so too.”
Lucas replied halfheartedly while shaking off Narke.
Surprisingly, Lucas remained calm despite having his information read. Ulrike observed such Lucas and tilted her head.
‘Is there something? …No, if there was, Narke would have already noticed.’
“Haha, what about the third hypothesis next?”
When no answer came for a while, Leo lightly tapped his fingers on the table. The plants began wrapping around his fingers more tightly.
Lucas cursed with his eyes for a moment, then shrugged and spoke.
“The third and fourth hypotheses can be treated the same way. My answer is the same. I have nothing to say about things without evidence. We shouldn’t obsess over those hypotheses when there’s no evidence of meeting Pleroma.”
“Good. As you said Lucas, since we couldn’t find any special evidence from the second victim either, we’ll have to discard those two hypotheses as well~”
The fourth hypothesis was already completed.
Now what remained was the fifth.
Only the fountain and drinking fountain hypothesis.
Victory wasn’t far away now.
When Leo tapped his artifact and said something to his teammates, the three students who had left earlier quickly returned to this place.
Lucas looked at Leo and the students with sharp eyes. Sensing that he was definitely calculating something, Narke tried to use his ability, but coordinate memorization immediately came through.
Lucas also quickly returned to his usual annoyed eyes.
Even if he memorized coordinates, he could still use his ability sufficiently, but in a situation where his stamina was depleted like now, he needed to be more cautious.
Narke half-gave up and smiled as he returned to the original topic.
“What about the fifth? Elias made you drink fountain water to verify this, right? I know you haven’t finished drinking it all yet.”
Lucas closed his eyes and fell into thought.
When everyone was waiting only for his answer, Lucas quietly agreed.
“Most likely. So this is why Elias did that.”
He nodded as if he now understood everything.
“I was mistaken about something. What I drank wasn’t fountain water.”
“Then?”
“It was probably drinking water that Elias disguised to look like fountain water. I wondered about the leaves floating in it, but he probably just picked up anything and floated it. Why would he do this?”
Team 1 members rolled their eyes and answered.
“…Who knows? Because of us?”
“Right, because of you guys. Phew… This is tiring. He had to scramble the information going to you.”
Lucas laughed lightly as if asking what kind of situation this was, then looked at the Team 1 students.
“To verify this, we’ll have to go back to the beginning. Haike, go back to where the fountains and drinking fountains are from the start. My biological experiment was fake from the beginning.”
At the natural command, Haike nodded.
Only after receiving Leo’s restraint did he belatedly realize what was wrong.
“We haven’t heard an answer yet.”
“What answer? Wasn’t it my judgment that was needed? You should have figured it out yourself.”
“Just because something is most likely doesn’t mean it’s the correct answer. What’s your answer to this exam’s question?”
“Accurate.”
Lucas continued with a smooth smile.
“Disappointing, guys. All you came up with is one hypothesis.”
“Hahaha, Lucas, you’re saying that when you haven’t thought of anything either~?”
Narke laughed while holding his head.
Lucas laughed along and said.
“It’s not that I don’t have anything, I’m just not doing it.”
As soon as he said that, blood trickled down from Narke’s nose. Narke, who had been laughing playfully and trying to refute Lucas’s words, finally nodded obediently once the evidence was revealed.
“Alright, let’s think through things one by one as you want. I’m just starting now too.”
Lucas gazed into midair and tapped the floor a couple times with his shoe.
No one was paying attention to his actions.
“Beggar, Department of Urban Aesthetics official… Fine, beautification, City Hall. Contaminated water… Contact, drinking water. Hmm…”
Lucas, who had been speaking up to that point, glanced at Narke.
Leisurely resting his chin on his hand while looking at Lucas, he had a face that clearly showed he was using his ability.
Lucas turned his gaze away and spoke to the students.
“No matter how I think about it, it’s disappointing. You were so obsessed with where the Department of Urban Aesthetics official lives and works, but why don’t you care about where the beggar lives and where he tries to sustain his life?”
“We did! The Almshouse Free Soup Kitchen.”
“Are you kidding me…”
Lucas muttered while looking into midair with tired eyes.
“Narke even directly extracted information about the second victim from my head and gave it to you, but you still can’t think of anything? Unlike the information we could get from the first rampage victim, there was quite a lot of information we could get from the second person. Why do you think that is. Have you ever thought about it?”
Unlike the students who still couldn’t grasp it, Narke and Leo’s faces were becoming increasingly serious.
“There was one important part. We caught overlapping evidence. …Deodorizer smell, a portable perfume bottle the size of a finger. Why was that necessary. I guess the place where fines are issued is quite unsanitary, an environment where smells easily stick?”
“…”
The students narrowed their eyes and looked at each other. They couldn’t understand what Lucas was talking about.
Instead, Leo furrowed his brow and called Narke quietly.
“Narke.”
“Not yet.”
Lucas hadn’t reached a conclusion either.
Lucas continued speaking as if possessed by something.
“It’s time to synthesize the previous information. The terrain has been particularly disadvantageous for combat, especially with manholes left open. There was also an article about replacing old water and sewage pipes in the newspaper you shoved in front of me earlier, though I don’t know if you remember.”
“…So…?”
“Do I have to repeat what I said? Why don’t you care about where the beggar lives and where he tries to sustain his life?”
Lucas, as if trying to disrupt their thinking, smiled and immediately continued.
“The disappointing thing applies to you too, Leo and Narke.”
“What?”
“You probably got careless because you knew too much. But it’s not like I was memorizing coordinate books out of boredom.”
Anyway, I have to say thanks for giving me a chance to think.
Everyone sitting in this place suddenly stiffened. Lucas’s mana began to be felt in the air.
The gazes of Narke and Leo, sitting right next to him, swept toward Lucas’s heart. If Lucas was showing this kind of reaction without doing anything…
The moment Leo, realizing the situation, drew his wand, Lucas raised the corner of his mouth with a mischievous face.
“You should have tied my legs too, Leo.”
“…!”
“See you later.”
CRASH—!!
As soon as Lucas violently stomped the ground with his foot, bright red mana surged up.
A flash and shockwave struck everyone. Narke put up a barrier and jumped up from his seat.
It was already too late.
Thud—
The plant stems that had been restraining Lucas fell to the floor.
Now, only mana remained where the light had cleared.
The faces of Team 1 students, who had been in shock, hardened.
They had been had.
Now they couldn’t help but know.
Since it would be discovered anyway, drop him in enemy territory and have him reach the conclusion there. If nothing else, it was a perfect method for catching them off guard.
This was Elias’s plan.
Leo, clenching his teeth tightly, jumped up from his seat and shouted.
“…Quickly find the sewer coordinates!”
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