I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 21

[ Marie Dunareff (2)]

The Mandragora seeds obtained from the immortals shone like jewels.

Simple Mandragora seeds have the effect of greatly increasing magical power, but these golden and silver Mandragoras have a very special effect.

This is a hidden piece that cannot be obtained in any other way than in [The Legend of Arhan Heroes].

In the previous episode, Park Si-hoo ate the gold and I ate the silver, and that alone was huge.

This time, the gold and white are all mine because they are regular mandragagos.

If you just make it into a decoction and eat it, you can share it with two or three people, so eating gold and silver raw is the most effective.

The problem is harvesting the ones that scream loudly the moment you pick them, but what’s the big deal?

I smiled and headed to the dormitory.

This day ends peacefully as well.

About three weeks until D-Day, when Marie awakens.

Until then, he trained Arisha, hired Doron, a mercenary of the Sword of Swords, persuaded the druids of Avelorn Forest, and became friendly with the golem wizard Cranel.

“Mmm it’s perfect!”

It’s such a perfect plan that there’s nothing more to add!

* * * *

On the fourth day since the Hunting Ground practice, I was walking down the hallway after morning class and happened to see second graders coming out after class.

-Have you seen Isabelle these days?

-No, you weren’t with Marie?

-He said he wasn’t feeling well. Professor Josephine had an accident during practice.

-I heard that visits are prohibited.

-Marie and Isabelle too? What’s going on with the pair?

This is not Marie, but the story of a second-year student named Isabelle.

Normally, I would have just thought that was the case, but the name of the person I heard was Isabelle.

Isabel Kirmin.

Marie’s dorm roommate and first vampire victim.

The reason I know her name, which is an extra whose name is not revealed in the game, is because of my experience in the previous episode.

A girl who was found dead after being sucked by Marie. Why is she in the infirmary? Is that also a ban on visits?

Is it a coincidence?

Rationally, I said yes, but intuitively, I felt anxious.

There is still insufficient material to judge. Breaking through the infirmary is the last resort. There is somewhere to go first.

* * * *

A Western-style building located north of the Academy. There are dormitories here for special students.

Although it is nominally operated as a private lodging for seniors in the year, it is actually a facility for only one person.

Bicheon Yacha Hwaran.

A special mine that devastated the entire Wolya Castle on the eastern continent.

The director, who had invited her as a student, prepared this place as a place for Hwaran.

Perhaps out of an effort to respect her lifestyle as much as possible, the building was also remodeled to resemble the Eastern style.

“Please stay alone for a while. “If you need to study, I will provide you with personal guidance.”

It has already been four days since the witch with a prickly personality said that.

The witch who said she would give special guidance every day had not yet appeared.

Are you quite busy with work?

In the Western-style house where only one girl lives and no guests, the only sound that is exaggerated is the sound of paper turning.

“……Not funny.”

The story in the book has a happy ending. However, the girl closed the book with a dissatisfied expression.

Just today, I read my first few books and realize once again that I am stuck.

Being in a state of semi-confinement is a reaction to participation in practice.

A desire to simply observe what the weak boy was like in this practice where students sometimes fight with each other.

In the end, even that failed.

If you stare with empty eyes at the trees in the garden visible from the second floor window, something called rebellion will develop.

Shall we climb over the fence?

The noisy woman declared no, but she had no reason to follow the order.

There was no particular reason to do so, so I hesitated for a moment and stared beyond the wall hidden by the flower trees…

“Oh, oh, there was one, as expected.”

The boy, who would have been mistaken for a wild man if he had not been wearing clothes, landed on a tree branch.

“What is fire? Have you seen it before? It’s Corin Locke. It’s out of the blue, but I brought it here with my bare hands.”

Corinne Locke smiles while showing a box of cakes sold at the academy’s dessert shop.

The Dutch lack the common sense to criticize such behavior as being polite or illegal trespassing.

“Can you please open the window?”

“…….”

Looking at the scene, the boy scratched his earlobe and snooped around the window, saying, ‘Can’t you hear?’ Then he put his foot on the window frame and opened the window.

“Ah…”

The boy, who looked like he was going to jump into the room at any moment, seemed to realize something, just put down the tissue and returned to the tree branch again.

“Because entering an unauthorized facility is against the school rules.”

“…It would already be a violation.”

“I just climbed a tree whose branches stretched out everywhere.”

Corinne shows a new horizon of delinquency by saying that words are different and different laws.

“There’s something I want to ask you.”

“What.”

At this point, it seems like you would listen to what the boy says. Hwaran had been bored for the past four days, so Hwaran became a little more tolerant.

“Has Lady Josephine come in these four days?”

“…….”

To ask this one question, to infer the correct answer from the answer.

How much does Corin Locke know?

The young, instinctive, yet brilliant brain of a girl judges Corinne Locke with one question. Even if you ask what the intention is, it probably doesn’t mean much.

Information has different values depending on the position and situation. The correct answer that the boy can infer from Lady Josephine’s direction is something that Holland does not need to know.

“None. Never.”

“thank you.”

As if he knew what he knew, the boy turned his back and suddenly made eye contact with Hwaran again, as if he remembered something.

In the East, the red eyes of a ghost are feared as ominous.

Corin’s gaze does not waver even in the face of a wild beast that still shows an absolute level of difference.

“I’ll buy you food later.”

“…….”

Corin Locke disappeared into the world beyond the wall, leaving behind one promise as if he were a master of information.

* * * *

Lady Joséphine was away from her seat, leaving Holland, the subject of the most attention, at Merkava Academy.

Even if Chairman Eriu can’t help it due to his special nature, Lady Josephine, one of the Academy’s strongest forces, left Hwaran’s side?

I don’t know what’s going on, but something different from the real world is happening.

‘Enough of suspicion. ‘We need to find evidence.’

I was already half convinced at this point… but my suspicions were confirmed in the infirmary.

“I’m sorry. Miss Marie is currently prohibited from visiting. Miss Isabelle as well. Head Professor Josephine has instructed that both of them should rest.”

Desk in the infirmary. When I applied to meet Marie, I received a sharp rejection.

“Uhm… How can I just look at your face? I have something urgent to tell you.

” “I’m sorry. We can’t do anything to ensure the patient’s stability. If you have any items or messages to leave, we will deliver them.”

“Ah… I see. Please say hello instead. Let’s meet separately when I’m healed.”

I was cut from the meeting request. Normally, this doesn’t happen unless there’s a serious injury. Besides, the two people are in the same hospital room. It’s suspicious as a coincidence. “Students are not allowed here.” Guard in front of the hospital

room

. Mr. Cron of the 3rd Security Department. There’s nothing he can’t do to break through forcefully, but at that moment, he will turn against the entire Merkava Academy.

“Ah, are you Mr. Cron of the 3rd Security Department? “I came here because Chief Professor Josephine sent me.”

“Huh? Lady Josephine? For what reason?”

There is no particular question that these are Mrs. Josephine’s instructions. After all, it was Mrs. Josephine who posted the security guard here. “I’ll bring you

some food and drinks so you can have a drink.”

“Mrs. Heo-he? As expected, you take good care of your subordinates.”

After being refused a meeting at the desk, I was handed a meat sandwich and strawberry milk that I had prepared.

For reference, the sandwich has the rune 『 ᛝ 』──Ingoise engraved on it.

For a pregnant woman giving birth . It’s a rune for fertility, but if you eat food with this rune engraved on it, ordinary people get ‘diarrhea.’ “Keuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu but

us xoxo…!”)

Sorry, Mr. Cron. You are suffering from constipation, right? Please pack up and come home.

While waiting near the hospital hallway, I urgently checked on Mr. Cron, who was heading to the bathroom, and entered Marie’s room first.

In the single-person room, there was someone covered in a blanket, breathing heavily. I approached slowly, hoping that I was overreacting. What I confirmed was……

“…….”

Isabelle Kirmin. Only Isabelle was lying in the hospital bed without Marie.

Probably not.

Probably not.

It’s a month early. Even if it’s fast,

it’s too fast.

Be careful . I politely took off the hospital gown that covered Isabelle’s nape. There were

two scars on the nape of her neck that were healing. A crust of blood remained around the wounds that looked like they had been bitten by sharp molars. * * * * I hurried out of

the

infirmary and thought a lot.

Why?

Why?

The wound on Isabelle’s neck is a trace of ‘blood sucking’.

The place where vampires instinctively bite when sucking blood from humans.

Marie Dunareff awakened as a vampire.

Why did the demonic element within Marie awaken? I don’t know.

There are all kinds of reasons for awakening as a demon in this world. Like

looking at the full moon from the front, or a demon possessing the body, or being artificially created.

In this world, quite a few people are possessed by demons. I had it, and the reason it is triggered is truly random.

There is no meaning in looking into the cause. The scenario has already gone out of business, and this changed scenario is probably due to the butterfly storm I caused. I have no idea

what it is!

Anyway, it happened. . Since the situation arose when we were unprepared, we must respond.

Madame Joséphine’s absence,

and the search operation by Mutupa professors and guards.

Considering these two issues, which are still ongoing, Marie has not yet been found. He must have run away somewhere like in the previous episode.

‘It’s not an experiment building like the original.’

If so, it would have been discovered long ago.

『My friend sucked it too. And then you dragged your feet and hid in the forest? Did you have a hard time finding it? Who would have thought that a poisonous bitch would dig a hole in the forest and survive for a month?』

Even now, I recall the horrifying past.

In the previous episode, Park Si-hoo captured Marie. And the blood of high-ranking vampires is used as an ingredient for elixirs… You bastard.

The guy said that Marie survived in the woods. That too for one month.

forest. In Merkava Academy, there is only one place called a forest.

“Hunting Ground.”

A deeper place that is probably not even allowed for students. Marie must be hiding somewhere like that.

If it were there, the professors would still be searching. You must reach Marie before them, attack and subdue her.

‘are you okay. Still… if you gather enough power, you can progress to the 3rd phase even if you can’t defeat it.’

The final boss of Act 1, Marie, goes through a total of 4 stages of attack.

My goal… And if the hypothesis is correct, there is no need to go all the way to clearing Phase 4 to completely defeat Marie.

What you need is to attack Phase 2, where Marie takes charge, and then start Phase 3. Even if you just get this far, you can do anything.

Although he is a final tier boss whose level rises as he becomes a vampire and is rated special, a five-person party with sufficient strength can somehow subdue Marie.

In the first place, the final boss battle is about Marie desperately resisting her vampire instincts and the player party taking advantage of the gap created by this.

If there is no penalty to that degree, the player party in the early stages cannot overcome a special mine that is out of standard.

This is a survival game where the party can survive until Marie’s final phase.

If it goes according to my plan, even that is a limited strategy that is not necessary.

Easily handle the monster wave in Phase 1,

endure the magic battle in Phase 2 and gain the upper hand by inflicting damage, and then

face the rampaging Gwonsu in the Blood Zone in Phase 3.

If you defeat Gwonsu in the 3rd phase, it moves to the last pattern and the final phase is activated. This last pattern is the key to this strategy.

Even if there are no players, it won’t be difficult to get to phase 3 if you gather all the first-year names…????

Arisha Aden injured. I did it.

Doron Warsky weapon damaged. Did I do it?

Destroying the Cranel Luden Golem Core. Is it me again?

…………

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1st year named students destroyed?

“…Fuck.”

Fucked.