Became a Lazy Confucius at the Academy

48 – Sleepy Dragon in the Forest (1)

Nia Ryan arrived at Delrin’s Lake.

As always, the sparkling emerald lake was pretty.

“… There is none.”

But Nia didn’t smile as brightly as usual. Because she wasn’t here with the person she always seemed to be.

“I won’t come again.”

Nia shook her head and shared her gloomy thoughts.

She came to collect Adrane’s flowers. It’s late in the morning, but she was urgently needed during research.

It was the moment when I crouched down to collect Adrane’s flowers.

My pupils shook when I saw a much smaller number of flowers than before.

-You can only collect three per day. No more.

… It’s like hearing someone’s hallucinations.

“There is no one to manage… You just took it. At this rate, it will soon disappear.”

Nia smiled bitterly. The collection of flowers was stopped.

She stared at the protective shield that gently wrapped around her body. It was a protective spell that Louis had cast on herself who was having a hard time with her past.

Thanks to that, she was able to collect rare items from Delrin’s lake without being affected by the enormous magic power.

“You didn’t even say thank you once.”

Nia stretched her little body limp.

“Should I ask Hersy? I want you to meet me.”

But Hersh remembered that he was asked that question dozens of times a day.

As expected, let’s stop.

“If it is meant to be, we will meet someday!”

She moved her pace to another place, fighting instead. She said it was a chicken instead of a pheasant, just as she was about to collect some other magic ingredient.

Grumble—.

Turned her head at something that made an eerie cry.

Nia’s eyes were stained with fear.

Her vicious, three-headed black dog was staring at Nia.

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**

“Robin Hood’s Steakhouse” Located in the heart of the Islands

After the training, the knights had a dinner time here.

“Try this too, Ruid.”

Louis sat at her high table and was treated luxuriously. These ladies showed great interest.

“I would have asked you to stop paying attention.”

Cheong.

Amelia blocked Irina’s fork with her fork.

“Ah, don’t be petty.”

“And when did you pretend to be friendly? I know it’s the first time I’ve met my brother.”

“But, isn’t that a relationship that will become a relative in the future?”

“Whoever wants… !”

Louise was slicing her steak with it as a side dish. She sliced it up enough to eat it, picked it up with a fork, and put it in her mouth.

‘It doesn’t taste good.’

Still, it got better because I sprinkled salt on it beforehand. However, it is still not as good as the inn I went to last time.

“Ruid. Go back now.”

Amelia said, wiping Louise’s mouth with her handkerchief.

It’s already 5 in the morning.

It was too early for a 12-year-old to walk the streets.

More than anything else, I feel that these beasts are aiming for Ruid, which is quite unpleasant.

“Ame noona?”

“… My sister has to go investigate the site.”

‘They’ll say no again.’

– Aren’t you bored?

– It’s interesting.

The training of knights is not much. Just repeating the same action countless times.

So I thought I would go after a few hours, but Ruid said it was fun.

She thought maybe she wouldn’t want to go back.

But now she had to go solve the case.

Never had her words overcome Louis, but Amelia had her hundred words ready for her rebuttal.

“Isn’t it okay if I follow you?”

At that time, Irina interjected with a smile. I put her breasts on the table. Amelia was indignant and covered her Irina’s breast with her arm. It’s not good for children’s mood.

“We are all tired, but Ruid will cheer us all up. Seeing only the dull kids, my eyes are cleansed.”

The female knights nodded their heads in sympathy.

The men who sat a little further away flinched.

“Besides, isn’t Prince Louis a genius? I don’t know why the leader is wrapped around him.”

Irina laughed wryly. It was her eye smile that almost closed her eyes.

Amelia glared at Irina. She didn’t care about Irina.

In fact, everyone was sympathetic. Amelia also thought this because she was a human being. ‘Am I too wrapped around me? Ruid hates it.’

“I want to eat and go home.”

“Huh?”

However, unexpected words flowed from her lips.

He said, looking straight at Amelia.

“Because my sister’s words are more important.”

“Ah.”

I could hear the sighs of the members who couldn’t hide their disappointment.

Amelia was overjoyed.

‘Still, I’m the first one.’

Listening to her nagging, it is not easy for her to like that person. But, as expected, Louis was a thoughtful child.

Amelia smiled heartily.

It was at that moment that she thought that she should affectionately hold her hand and send her back.

Quadang!

The door to the restaurant was smashed open.

“This is a big deal!”

A knight in full plate mail entered and shouted urgently.

“Oh, one of the academy students has gone missing.”

Louise chewed on her tongue as she was chewing on a beef jerky steak.

‘It hurts.’

Her tears welled up.

**

[January 5 – About 20 children disappeared from the slums. No trace]

[January 12th – 3 children disappear from the nearby village of Ledin. No trace]

[January 17th – Four children disappeared near the Leipno forge located on the outskirts of the capital. No trace]

[On January 24, a child went missing in the ‘tavern where the wind stays’ in the center of the islands. No trace]

[On February 15th, a black magician’s minion appeared in the secret passage of the Imperial Academy, and the sleeping guardians of the cup of magic awakened.]

[On February 22nd, Nia Ryan went missing at the Imperial Academy ‘Lake of Delrin’. Traces of an intense magic war]

Louise put her penholder in her mouth and stared at her book. She should have moved a little faster, she didn’t have the same regret.

Because Nia Ryan’s disappearance was a predetermined future.

However, it was a question about the fact that the place of disappearance was Delrin’s Lake, and why the episode, which should have been in the latter half, was being played now.

“…… A psychopath in his 70s, near an archmage, with a strong desire to rise, and with no remorse for exploiting children.”

Her own guess was obviously not wrong.

But she missed one thing.

“… Warlock.”

A minion of the black magician whom I witnessed during the ‘Every Library Occupation Incident’ the other day.

I knew one was Nia Ryan’s appearance, but-

The other was clearly an outside intrusion.

I just stopped paying attention because I dropped out because of the president’s behavior that crossed the line.

The darkness was breaking the system. It’s still in the beginning, but I didn’t know that I would be craving for a big episode in the middle.

Ruid admitted his mistake. The fact that the two were not related was a mistake that came from distinguishing between the ‘plot in the novel’ and ‘events that occurred in reality’.

This is foolish. Both of them are true to themselves. Whether it’s the original story or something outside the original story.

“What should I do with this?”

Louise looked up at the ceiling of her mansion with a free look.

**

The Archmage Clifford is a thing of the past.

My body has aged so much that I can’t hold it back with magic, and my thinking skills aren’t as good as before.

So, in reality, he didn’t have the ability of a great wizard. In the first place, Clifford was a genius made through hard work. Since his growth was slow in the first place, his heyday was also short.

He wouldn’t have an old body if he had achieved his achievements 20 years earlier. But Clifford did not regret it. It was also one of his achievements.

But he feels very old these days.

It’s hard to walk, and I can’t see the papers I’ve been repeating for ten years.

Clifford was sleeping in the bedroom. He tossed and turned over his body, as if he were dreaming of something.

It was the moment when his elaborate rings matched. Clifford’s eyes flashed open.

“Kuh.”

The pain stayed in my heart. Clifford groaned and grabbed his heart as if tearing it apart.

At that time, someone entered his bed.

“Oh, Father.”

It was Phenicia. She caught her breath as if she had something urgent to say. Clifford rose from his seat.

Phenicia stiffened at the sight of Clifford grabbing her heart. She quickly approached and helped him.

“Oh, where are you sick? All right, the priest-“

“…… I had a dream.”

Phenicia had something to say urgently.

But she couldn’t bring herself to say anything about Clifford’s behavior, which seemed like he was about to die.

It seems as if this will be his last will. Phenicia looked sad and took the old man’s hand.

“It is a story in an old legend. It was the life of a very foolish adventurer.”

She didn’t want to miss a word of his words, which she started with a bit of confusion.

“The adventurer was a genius with ordinary talent. A few goblins are supplied and live for a day…… The adventurer went into a certain cave one day to hunt goblins as usual.”

Clifford was clear about the dream he had just had.

“Dragon. There was a dragon A huge dragon that existed only in legends was sleeping.”

At Clifford’s tone of voice, as if seeing reality, Phenicia swallowed her dry saliva.

“But the fear was short-lived. The adventurer was possessed by a giant scale that fell near the dragon’s body. The scales, sparkling with emerald light, looked more precious than any jewel he had ever seen. It gave him the belief that if he took even one of them, he could live on for the rest of his life.”

“The adventurer mustered up the courage to pick up the scales and take them. His predictions were right. He made a lot of money, and people praised the third-rate adventurer, calling him the ‘Dragon Slayer’. However, it was difficult for him to maintain the legend as a mediocre adventurer without any powers. So, the adventurer goes looking for the dragon again.”

Clifford sneered.

“At first I was thinking of taking a few scales – but for some reason, the dragon seemed very complacent. Is it because he started receiving compliments from people around him over the years? He felt like he really had the power to kill a dragon.”

The adventurer held up a spear. Filled with his magic power. He climbed onto the dragon’s neck. It seemed possible. The dragon was sleeping like a dead mouse. No, I thought maybe he was already dead.

The adventurer imagined his own future. Brilliant future. The future when you really carry the dragon’s corpse.

And with dreams and hopes, he pierced the dragon’s neck.

The cost of that stupidity.

-Agjak.

“That was the end of adventurers. It was a reward for the uninvited guest who disturbed her sleep. I know it’s a dream, but even watching it was stupid.”

Clifford said pathetically. A feeble loathing lay dormant.

“Why are you touching a sleepy dragon that doesn’t do anything? That adventurer only brought about his own death. Tsk tsk. If I saw that adventurer, I would be very embarrassed-“

“President.”

Phenicia bowed her head and said.

“…… Nia Ryan, Year 1 of the Ministry of Magic.”

“Why would you do that, baby? You make such a sad face-“

“You are missing.”

Clifford’s eyes widened.

**

Clifford smiled at the sight of the miserable Delrin Lake.

“Heh heh.”

Traces of fierce magic warfare that remain in Delrin’s lake.

Nia Ryan’s magic remains everywhere.

I was certain that I could feel the reverberation of the black magic.

The black magician took Nia.

Clifford stumbled, his head extremely dizzy.

“Father!”

Fenicia hastily helped.

Clifford’s hand trembled weakly.

“… First time. My student is missing. Shiaya, is this my karma? Is it something like that?”

“… ….”

Phenicia didn’t say anything. The fear in Clifford’s eyes. Because it was the first feeling.

“I have never regretted the past. Even if it took 20 years for him to become a great wizard with an inexperienced teacher. Even when a big storm hit the family. But now I regret it.”

Everything goes back to that time.

A month ago. Around the time Louis Christopher left the academy.

It was unfortunate, but I didn’t think too much about it. Past days. There’s nothing I can do to stop it.

That kid, even if he didn’t have to be himself, he’d be a great wizard in the future.

It was a mistake. The one to ask for help was the academy. He was himself

Louid Christopher was already having a huge impact just by existing. He was protecting students from warlocks and eliminating any danger.

“If it had been for that bastard sleeping peacefully in Delrin’s lake, none of this would have happened.”

The lake in Delrin was empty.

Clifford’s eyes were stained with deep regret.

“…… I must have awakened the sleepy dragon in the forest. The foolish adventurer was me.”

In Phenicia, Clifford looked weaker than ever.

“…… Send a message to the imperial family.”

Clifford winced and regained his balance.

He is now clear about what he must do.

We must rescue the missing students.

I’ll accept any sacrifice or cost for that.

“The Academy has no ability to solve this case on its own.”

“…… !”

Clifford’s words meant that he would admit his incompetence.

That meant the president’s resignation.