The Graduate Student Wants to Assassinate the Professor - Chapter 96

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Chapter 96

“I think you owe us an explanation, Professor Khalid.”
Watching Khalid crouch beneath Zigzagel’s work desk, Leoryna felt a strange sense of déjà vu wash over her.
Khalid muttered something incoherent from under the desk.
“Explanation? There’s nothing you need to know about this.”
“Still, you never mentioned having a fiancée. Weren’t you perpetually single?”
“P-perpetually single… Hey! What kind of image do you have of me?! I don’t want to hear that kind of thing! And that woman is not my fiancée!”
“But she’s claiming to be your fiancée. Are you saying she’s lying?”
“It’s not that she’s lying—she’s just unilaterally insisting on it.”
As Khalid responded with frustration, Zigzagel chuckled and spoke.
“How often do you find someone willing to take you away? Just accept it gracefully.”
That remark only fueled Khalid’s anger further.
“Hey! You said you hated blind dates too! I don’t need a fiancée either!”
“How did you end up engaged to her in the first place?”
“Didn’t I just say she’s the one insisting on being my fiancée?”
Leoryna and Pongko, their curiosity piqued, began pressing him with questions.
Khalid knew that if he didn’t provide a proper answer, these two would undoubtedly continue pestering him. He shrugged and opened his mouth.
“It was an engagement arranged by my Family Clan when I was young. My opinion was never asked! And about 120 years ago, I formally sent a letter of dissolution, but….”
“The other party completely ignored it. I heard she didn’t even open the letter—just burned it cleanly.”
Zigzagel spoke with amusement still coloring his voice. Hearing this, Leoryna tilted her head in confusion.
120 years ago would have been after Khalid had slaughtered his own Family Clan members.
‘If that’s the case, wouldn’t that be around when the rumors about Khalid became absolutely terrible? Even among the Demon Race, didn’t everyone avoid him? Yet she maintained the engagement?’
Leoryna found herself increasingly curious about this matter. After all, other people’s romantic affairs were always entertaining to hear about.
“Don’t you like her, Professor Khalid?”
“Before we talk about liking or disliking, I have no intention of getting married in the first place. What’s the point of an engagement?”
“Why not? Seleya is quite beautiful.”
At Pongko’s words, Khalid let out a derisive laugh.
“Beautiful or not, I simply don’t want to marry anyone, regardless of who they are! I won’t! I can’t!”
“Now I understand your feelings, Khalid.”
At Zigzagel’s words, Khalid glared at him and spoke.
“No, you’re getting married.”
“Why are you being such a troublemaker?”
Khalid was now quarreling with Zigzagel, each insisting that they wouldn’t marry but the other should.
“Why don’t you professors want to get married?”
When Pongko asked with a tilted head, both stopped bickering and took a moment to choose their words. It was Zigzagel who spoke first.
“I have someone I care about. If it’s not that person, I have no intention of marrying.”
“Zigzagel!”
Khalid suddenly opened his eyes wide and shot a sharp glance at Zigzagel. He seemed about to say something more, his mouth opening slightly, but then he clamped his jaw shut and said nothing further. Zigzagel merely shrugged at Khalid’s reaction.
“Oh, someone he likes! Who is it?”
Pongko asked without tact. Since Leoryna hadn’t mentioned that Zigzagel and Nifra were suspected to be lovers, Pongko was unaware of the relationship between them.
Leoryna’s mouth felt inexplicably bitter.
After all, Nifra was someone I didn’t even know if she was alive or dead.
Khalid crossed his arms and spoke to Zigzagel in a crooked tone.
“Hmph, there’s no law saying you have to marry someone you like.”
“That’s a rebound, you fool.”
‘Are these kindergarteners or something?’
As Leoryna clicked her tongue inwardly, Khalid shook his head vigorously.
“No, I don’t want to be responsible for someone else’s life! All that would do is exhaust me!”
“You’ll change your mind once you fall in love with someone.”
At Zigzagel’s words, Khalid scoffed.
“Even if I do fall in love with someone, it won’t be Seleya. That woman is….”
As Khalid was about to continue, a wild voice came from outside.
“Khalid! You brat, why won’t you come out?!”
“Mom, that guy came all the way here?”
Khalid, who had squeezed himself under the desk, gestured toward Leoryna, who was looking at him with pity.
“You do something about this!”
“Me? What am I supposed to do?”
“Get rid of Seleya! If I go out, it’ll backfire!”
Leoryna was exasperated. It wasn’t as if she had any particular solution either, so what was he talking about?
“Just sweet-talk her and send her away. Got it?”
As Khalid whined with a pathetic expression, Leoryna waved her hand dismissively.
“Does it seem like she’ll listen to me?”
“Just try anyway!”
“But why should I?!”
“Because I’m your advisor and you’re my graduate student!”
With Khalid saying that, Leoryna had nothing to say.
Right. As a graduate student, I had to obey when my professor commanded it.
Leoryna sighed deeply and approached Seleya, who was running around the Campus shouting at the top of her lungs. Seleya was now grabbing students one by one and asking about Khalid’s whereabouts.
“Excuse me, Seleya.”
As Leoryna spoke with a clearing of her throat, Seleya spun around and grabbed Leoryna’s shoulders firmly.
“Do you happen to know where Khalid is?”
“Um… No.”
Leoryna denied it first. At those words, Seleya became indignant.
“That cowardly bastard! Running away from me won’t solve anything?!”
Seleya clenched her fists in frustration. Veins bulged prominently on her forehead.
‘Why are all Demon Clan Members like this?’
Leoryna was about to develop a prejudice against the Demon Race, but decided that wouldn’t be morally right, so she raised both hands to try to calm Seleya.
“But you are Professor Khalid’s fiancée, aren’t you?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Seleya nodded with an unabashed expression, utterly devoid of shame.
“According to Professor Khalid, he said you sent a letter announcing the engagement break. Didn’t you receive it?”
“You heard that from Khalid? He said he didn’t know where it was?”
At Seleya’s sharp observation, I felt a pang of guilt and waved my hand dismissively.
“I, I did ask him about it, but then he ran away again and I’m not entirely sure where he is either…”
But Seleya didn’t seem inclined to believe that explanation easily.
“Hmph, as expected, he cowardly hid away and sent you instead. It’s painfully obvious!”
Seleya knew Khalid far better than I did. I found myself increasingly curious about how this beautiful Demon Race member had become so devoted to Khalid.
“This may be presumptuous of me to ask, but didn’t the Demon Clan members shun Professor Khalid?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Well… because of the 108 Clans massacre incident that Professor Khalid committed.”
I lowered my voice and spoke in hushed, confidential tones. That incident was still quite a sensitive matter, both then and now, so it didn’t feel right to speak of it loudly.
Yet Seleya answered without any particular displeasure.
“The fact that he slaughtered 108 members of his own Family Clan cannot stand in the way of the love between him and me.”
‘Love…’
I choked involuntarily at a word I hadn’t even considered. Regardless of my reaction, Seleya continued with her chest held high.
“On the contrary, it’s the opposite. Even if everyone turns their back on Khalid, I will always love him. Adversity only strengthens love. Besides, the strength to massacre 108 members of the Huaderica Family Clan—where else would I find such a powerful Demon Race member?”
The faint glimmer of madness that flickered across Seleya’s face was surely no illusion on my part.

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