The Graduate Student Wants to Assassinate the Professor - Chapter 35

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Chapter 35

“Are you an idiot? Have you lost your mind? What will you do if you leave that behind?!”
Just as I expected, Khalid erupted. I shrank my shoulders.
“Oh no, I’m so sorry, Professor! I’ll go to the Airport right now and find it! I’ll be back in no time, so could you wait just a moment?”
I scrambled to my feet first.
“I’ll really be quick! I apologize!”
Khalid clicked his tongue disapprovingly and waved his hand.
“Fine, fine. Now go and come back quickly. You must find it.”
“Yes, yes! Then I’ll be going!”
The moment I left the Dining Room, I ran in the opposite direction from the Airport.
“Good, good. I’ve successfully deceived Khalid and slipped away…”
Leaving the documents on the Flying Airship? I did that on purpose. That way, I could use the excuse of retrieving the documents to leave my seat.
Thinking about executing the plan I’d discussed with Zeles, I felt a little excited.
“Maybe this time I can actually take down Khalid!”
If this goes well, I can finally go Home!
Entering a dim Alley, I removed the outer garment that had been wrapped tightly around my entire body. Then I covered my face thoroughly with a mask so it wouldn’t be visible.
Having concealed my appearance, I ventured deeper into the Alley, and someone surrounded me. They were wearing masks like me and were each armed.
One of them pointed a sword at me and asked.
“Are you the person who said you’d cooperate with us? The one from Yorken…”
“Yes, that’s right. You’ve heard the general outline, haven’t you?”
“I understand that you want to kill Professor Huaderica. But we don’t simply want to eliminate just that person—we also want to kill other related individuals. Is that acceptable to you?”
“Hmm…”
I rolled my eyes and then nodded.
“That’s unavoidable. Developing lethal weapons is also difficult for us. It seems Petila of Mercy wouldn’t permit such a thing.”
I spoke seriously, but this too was a lie. In fact, I had a different plan.
It was to leak information about the terrorist attack to Veldract Company!
By pretending to cooperate with these terrorists, I would leak information to the people at Veldract Company that they could be targeted at any time, giving them time to prepare.
The terrorists had no idea about this. Who could have imagined that Yorken, operating under the name of God himself, would use them and betray them in such an unpriest-like manner?
So this terrorist attack was entirely for Khalid’s sake.
“Good. Then let’s proceed with the first phase of the plan.”
I followed those people to confirm the bomb that had been installed in advance in the Dining Room. The bomb was set to explode only the table where Khalid and Aesop were sitting.
After double-checking it, the people adjusted it to detonate in five minutes. Then I and the others climbed up to the Building Rooftop where we could see well.
And after five minutes passed…
Boom!
With an enormous explosion, the Dining Room erupted.
“Was it successful?”
One of them muttered with anticipation, but I felt a slightly ominous sensation. Whenever a villain spoke like that in novels, the protagonist always seemed to survive.
And as if answering my anxiety, Khalid burst out from within the flames and dust.
“Blast! Professor Huaderica is alive!”
“We need to escape! It’s only a matter of time before Khalid finds us!”
I withdrew my staff and slashed it through the empty air. A sharp crack echoed from the staff’s tip, and as a mist-like substance shimmered, space itself tore open. Beyond the rift lay an entirely different realm.
It was spatial translocation magic.
“Come now, hurry through.”
At my command, the group rushed into the alternate space. Once I confirmed everyone had escaped, I followed them through and sealed the passage behind me.
We emerged in a desolate empty lot some distance from the Dining Room, surrounded by abandoned factories that ensured no passersby would disturb us.
“Damn it. That bastard Khalid survived the explosion unscathed…”
I clicked my tongue, and someone asked me a question.
“If Professor Huaderica is alive, what happened to the others?”
What happened? They’re all fine, naturally. He must have prepared contingencies for this sort of thing.
But I straightened my expression and spoke with calculated confidence.
“If they’re fortunate, they survived. Khalid is alive because the defensive magic woven into his clothing activated. Once we neutralize that garment, we can do as we please—kill him or spare him…”
“So what do we do now?”
Everyone’s eyes turned toward me. I shrugged and replied.
“We move to Plan B, of course.”
The group exchanged uncertain glances at my words.
Can we really trust her…?
“Ah… but…”
I scratched my head, letting a hint of unease show through.
“Khalid can’t abandon me…”
I wasn’t certain how much Khalid truly cared for me, but the success of this entire operation hinged on the depth of his affection for me. That’s why I felt so anxious.
That bastard Khalid—he really does cherish me, doesn’t he? He calls me a walking disaster in everyday life, so he must think I’m precious to him, right?
I smacked my lips at the unease gnawing at me, but I pushed forward with the original plan and addressed the group.
“Let’s do this!”

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Khalid had meticulously searched the area surrounding the Dining Room where the bomb had been planted, yet he hadn’t discovered so much as a suspicious person—not even a stray cat.
“Damn it, I missed them.”
As Khalid clicked his tongue and returned to the Dining Room, Aesop and the others—their faces wearing expressions of utter bewilderment—sat haphazardly along the street, receiving treatment from paramedics.
“It doesn’t look like anyone suffered serious injuries?”
As Khalid surveyed the surroundings and spoke, Aesop nodded in agreement.
“We were all able to remain unharmed because we were carrying defensive magical artifacts.”
Aesop explained that lately, the Anti-War Activists who had been protesting in front of his company were displaying increasingly violent behavior, so out of caution, he and his employees had been carrying defensive magical artifacts with them as a precaution.
“I too have been uninjured thanks to the defensive magic circles I maintain around myself. But the fact that I couldn’t apprehend the perpetrator….”
Khalid’s face contorted with frustration.
“The perpetrator must be from the Anti-War Activist Group! They’ve been showing increasingly violent actions, so we’ve been on alert, but I never expected them to detonate a bomb like this….”
Aesop appeared to be in severe shock. His legs had given out, and he remained seated on the ground, struggling to catch his breath. Just then, Leoryna came running from the distance.
“Professor! Are you alright?!”
As she checked on Khalid, he looked her up and down before speaking.
“What about you? You weren’t caught in the explosion?”
Leoryna dropped her act and spoke with a serious expression.
“I’m fine. I heard a loud explosion from this direction while I was heading to the Airport, so I came back. But what happened here?”
“Someone committed a bombing attack. It seems they were targeting us, but fortunately, no one suffered serious injuries.”
“That’s fortunate. But do you know why they committed the bombing?”
“From what Beldract said, it seems the Anti-War Activists were behind it… but I don’t know if they were specifically targeting me or if they just happened to carry out the attack when I was here.”
Khalid ran his hand roughly through his hair.
“I searched this entire area but couldn’t even catch a trace of the perpetrator. I suspect they used spatial transfer magic, which means there’s a mage involved with them. If that’s the case, things become complicated.”
Khalid glanced around and noticed the Police taking statements from witnesses, then muttered to himself.
“I should give my statement to the Police too… Ah, what a hassle. Why did I get caught up in something like this?”
“Tell me about it. Who would want to go out anywhere with this fear hanging over them?”
Leoryna’s eyes trembled delicately. Of course, it was nothing but an act.

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