"Rudel-san, watch out!!!"
"I saw it!!!"
I swung my sword at a half monkey half cat creature coming from high above, the creature was cut in half and the guts and blood were coming out like a broken pignata. After a few seconds without moving the strange creature began to decompose and turn to ashes.
"I've been with this one for eight and it's barely been ten minutes since we came in here!!!"
I was saying to Irisdina who was behind me. We were both wearing leather clothing as armor and carrying weapons. The reason was because of something that happened a few days ago.
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Once again I was holding a meeting for people to meet Baron Bradford, but it turned out to be a misfortune as usual, but I didn't care since there was a reason that made it special.
"Rudel-san, today's tea and snacks are very delicious. ♡"
"I'm glad that's the case, I had to order them a week in advance since the order store is always full."
"I-I understand... Is it okay for me to eat all of these?"
"Of course. After all, no one but you is coming, so it's better to have a girl eat them than to have them rotting out in the open."
"I-I see. With your permission I will continue to drink tea..... Umm, this rice cracker is really tasty!!!"
Irisdina is the only one who comes here, since I invited her after seven failures in a row. It's very nice to have someone as sweet as her here, but that was the main reason and the secondary reason was.....
(Now is the time!!!) -I said to myself.
Picking up a cookie and bringing it to her mouth, Irisdina has the habit of closing her eyes to savor the sweet, unfortunately (for) her, she makes a movement where her body gives a slight bounce and I can observe how her big breasts that look like twin billiard balls jump happily.
In my mind I was lamenting and apologizing to her for being a lousy person. But in my heart I was engraving the sacred image of her and thanking all the forces of the universe for this miracle.
As I finished gazing at her splendid twin hills I asked her how the meeting went.
"Irisdina, I don't want to pry into your life, but could you tell me how your meeting with that girl went?"
"Huh? Um, is that really important?"
"Sorry if I made you uncomfortable it's just that I wanted to know if something I heard was true."
"Something you heard?"
"Yes. I wanted to know if it was true or not."
"Okay what happened was..."
And so Irisdina told me what happened at their meeting and what I heard. Her face suddenly mortified, she dropped her tea on the table.
"It can't be... something as terrible as that..."
"She's supposed to be his fiancé, isn't she? There's no way a man would do something like that!!!"
"You're right, but you forget that they're not on our level. They are sons of dukes, people who are next in line for the throne if something happens to the royal family and people like us are insignificant to them."
"Even if that's so, it's very horrible what he did! Don't you think so?"
"It's just as you say, but there's nothing we can do and even more so in a couple matter."
".."
Irisdina was thoughtful after hearing what I told her, I changed the conversation to another piece of information that I also wanted to discuss with her.
"Irisdina, did you know that all of us first years will be made to take an adventurer skills test in one of the nearby dungeons?"
"Hey! Oh, umm yes I did know, why do you ask?"
"I was wondering if you wanted to team up with me? I talked to several guys and no one wants to team up with me and so I wouldn't be alone I thought I'd ask if you'd like to add me to the team of your-"
"I do! That is, if I want to team up with you since I don't have anyone else to go with, the boys in my class will be supporting a boy they say is very strong while the girls will want to be part of the group that will be with the prince."
"I see. In that case, do you mind if I prepare the equipment for us?"
"Th-That would be..."
"Ah, I'm not talking about things like taking your measurements and stuff, I'm talking about the combat equipment we'll be using? Do you have equipment first?"
"I've never gone on a dungeon adventure before..."
"Huh?!!! So then how did you manage to get in if commoners are supposed to get a scholarship for their achievements?"
"In my case it's very different since I got in by another means, I can't tell you yet, sorry!"
"Never mind, if you don't want to tell me that's fine, after all, I'm no one important in your life, just a classmate."
"Yes..."
I had secretly left more money in his pockets thanks to Ixion's optical camouflage, so she needn't have worried.
While Irisdina was looking at a flower ornament on the table, in my head a memory came to me.
I was with the guys from the winery eating and there was one of them who seemed to be very intellectual. He was into gardening and was always telling us about the beauty of flowers and his favorite was....
"The name Iris originates from a flower that like those lilies there means purity and gentleness, and dina means arch, therefore the name Irisdina means arch of beautiful flowers. Very beautiful indeed."
As I thought about its meaning I stared at the ornament on the table, after a few seconds I noticed something strange. Irisdina was looking down, but her face was red as a tomato. I asked her a little worried.
"Is something wrong, does the tea or cookies taste bad?"
Quickly raising her hands and her face she waved it from side to side as she said.
"I-I'm not fine!!! I'm really fine!!! I mean it!!!"
After saying that she went back to drinking tea, but with her head still bent down, I kept eating still wondering what happened.
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A few days passed since I talked to Irisdina and after getting organized and changing we arrived at the dungeon. It is a very big place as it is subway, it looked like a mine as there were lamps with aether every two meters and several soldiers around. I was a little uncomfortable to see them with their spears and swords ready to cut.
After a few minutes of walking the path indicated by a sign, we arrived at the place designated for the students, it was so wide that even though there were two hundred students and a few teachers, it still looked very spacious. A teacher was giving directions, but I didn't pay any attention to him.
I saw around me the boys and girls ready to fight with equipment that I didn't know if it was good or decent, but only two things caught my attention, the first one was a girl with golden hair.
Just as Irisdina described her image to me, I kept looking at her because it was the first time I saw such an intense and beautiful color, but it seems that Irisdina omitted something and that was... huge and splendid mountains.
Despite being covered by a leather and iron mesh, the voluminous size could be clearly appreciated, if Irisdina had bowling balls this girl had a cannonball at each end. My hands made a thank you position and Irisdina noticed it and asked me a little worried.
"Rudel-san, is something wrong, are you feeling sick or uncomfortable?"
"N-No, not at all!!!! It's just that I'm a little anxious since this will be my first time entering a dungeon hehe."
"Mumm...? Rudel-san haven't you been on an adventure before?"
"Well yes, but I never entered a dungeon, it was just an island, but there was nothing subway."
I lied obviously. Yes there was something subway, but I couldn't tell him what was there.
I looked cautiously at Irisdina's equipment. I was glad she had spared no expense as her gear was the same as mine.
Leather gloves with metal plates on the knuckles, boots for walking on any kind of surface, a leather mesh reinforced with iron and several straps attached at the most visible parts to pad the gear. How disgusting of people to sell mediocre gear like that.
But the two most remarkable things were the short skirt she had, she wore pants so she didn't have to worry about anything. A nice headband on her head she wore, it made me want to take a picture of her. Another detail of her outfit was a purse with several items inside, among them was visible a spiked mallet sticking out, I was a little mortified to think that she will have to get her hands dirty.
It was there that I decided within myself "I will protect her and take care of defeating all the monsters to come!" yes, that sounds the best.
As we finished talking the teacher said we should go in a group of ten. The two of us were a little shocked as we didn't imagine about going in a group when it was supposed to be team. I looked around for a group that was available and when the search seemed lost, a terrible opportunity appeared.
Precisely there was a group that was missing two members, but the problem was the person who stood out the most in the group.
"What's wrong, why don't we move forward at once, I want to kill magical beasts!!!"
"Klein-sama, apparently the teacher wants us to have two more members in order to advance." (Sama is an expression of utmost respect.)
A blond-haired boy with his left eye hidden by his hair was shouting, while a man of the same hair color, but much taller answered him.
"Hah? Look for anyone who is free after all they will be the rear guard and won't matter at all."
"Understood young master... You two don't have a group, right? Be lucky, you have a chance to be part of Archduke Kingsfort's group."
We were called by the tall guy, I stood in front of Irisdina, so that he wouldn't see her. After hearing what he did I don't want her anywhere near him, is this what he must have meant, Lyle, by not approaching or interacting with him?
I looked back to confirm with her and she sheepishly agreed and I told them we agreed. It was the worst decision I could have made.
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"Rudel-san, are you okay?"
*gasp gasp*
"Yeah, I still can't believe that after a few minutes of starting those bastards ran off leaving us behind."
Klein and his group saw an elephant-faced, ostrich-legged creature which chased them and they ran screaming out of there. We were left to fend for ourselves by the wretches.
As I swore to protect Irisdina I was very tired, she made a face of discomfort and sadness seeing me fighting against those things. I was envious of the man who will become her husband.
"D-Don't worry, I'm very well you see. More important, it's to see what items released that monster."
"...Sure. This one, oh!!! Rudel-san, the creature you defeated released a very bright gem!"
"Is that so? Well, you can keep it."
"But, Rudel-san, it was the one who defeated it!"
"Even if that's so, I was only able to do so thanks to you warning me in time. It's your reward."
"..."
"Y-yes, Rudel-san, you say it's like that, I'll gladly accept."
Irisdina grabbed the strange glowing material that the creature dropped. Apparently some monsters eat something and it materializes inside them creating a unique mineral that serves a variety of uses.
I stood up and as I did some stretches I lit another aether torch and we walked forward.
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While Rudel and Irisdina were hanging around as lovebirds somewhere in the dungeon, the protagonist's group was yawning with boredom. Among them was a person that no one counted or expected, that person was Erselica, who seemed to be shouting internally.
(Kyahh~~ what a thrill!!! I never imagined that I would be in the same party as the prince, what a thrill!!!!)
Erselica felt such a great happiness that she was screaming inside. To the other party members, she just seemed anxious and they couldn't imagine the crazy things going on inside her head.
While Erselica was deep in her inner craziness the three main characters were chatting quietly.
"Ahhh I'm so bored, no monster came out." -said Chlust.
"That's good, so we don't put the prince in danger or the ladies of our group." -Frey replied to him.
"Hehe, it's certainly a bit good that no magical beast came out, but I feel a bit sad since I wanted to test my skills that I could only use in training practices."
The three main characters of the game were chatting about trivial things in a place of utmost danger. It was then that Frey said something that made the prince react.
"Your Highness, I know you don't like riff-raff gossip, but I think this might interest you," Frey said to the prince.
"Umm, are you talking about the strange rumor that Klein beat Alicelotte? That is clearly a lie. I have known Klein since my childhood I even treat him as a childhood friend and I know he would never lay a hand on anyone."
"Is that so? Umm, then I will do what I can to disprove those falsehoods about Klein." -Frey answered him in a gentlemanly tone.
Chlust also joined the conversation.
"If that is true, then is that Alicelotte girl a liar who wants to make her fiancé look bad?"
"I can't say anything for sure as since my childhood I always saw Alicelotte as a girl who was very proud of being born into the aristocracy. I even heard from my mother, who was her charge in her training as a society woman, that Alicelotte made the maids take care of the jobs my mother put her to." -Said the prince.
"Woo~ that's the kind of girl I detest the most. I wouldn't be surprised if she's the one with the infidelity rumors and is covering them up. I feel sorry for that Klein now. "-Said Chlust grimacing at what he had just heard.
The three continued talking while Erselica behind them heard what they said and in her thoughts answered them.
(Alicelotte finally made her move, huh? That girl is definitely the worst.)
(In the game that girl was the worst kind of woman, her designer, voice actress and script writer did plan her character well. That girl was a real slut in the game, she always had men around her and several maids would see her enter her room with them at night and not come out until the next morning).
Erselica laughed between as she walked.
(Klein was the most tragic character of all. He knew his fiancée was sleeping with several men and yet he said he loved her with a pitiful face).
(Truly, Klein, is one of the best tragic characters with a strong will. That's why many girls loved him and wanted him to be happy).
(Fortunately, the prince discovers the slutty acts she did and even that she tormented Irisdina. She was undoubtedly a trashy character, but she'll never top the scum Rudel.)
(I can't wait for when that special event comes and Alicelotte suffers for her sins!)
Erselica was thinking with a smile when she is hit by a back, reacting a bit awkwardly.
"Hey, what's up?" -Said Erselica confused.
"Your highness we are surrounded!" Frey exclaimed.
"Obviously we are, are you seaweed headed idiot?" -Responded Chlust.
"You two, this is no time to argue we must protect the others!" -shouted the prince towards his companions who took an attack position.
They were surrounded in front and behind by creatures shaped like giant hands, snail eyes at the wrist, with hairy crab legs.
Chlust made a terrifying grin and pulled from his bag a bat-shaped weapon that turned into a trident-edged spear.
Frey pulled from the back of his shirt a Thompson one-handed pistol. Normally, students are forbidden to carry firearms because they might injure others, but he was the exception for a reason.
"Your Highness, stay behind me!" -Frey shouted as he pointed his right hand gun at a monster coming towards Liam. He pulled the trigger and the monster writhed in pain and turned to ash.
Erselica screamed in her mind. (That was a Origin bullet! Wow, I never expected it to use an ability from the future at such a young age.)
The bullet Frey fired was so called because, when it came in contact with a living being it distributed a poison at high speed that quickly killed its target returning it to the origin from whence it was born, nothingness.
Chlust looked jealous and impregnated with a strange red glow the weapon in his hands making the sharp points grow more and dyed red making the spear two meters high.
"Alright show me your skills!!!!! Eat this, uriiaahh!"
With a battle cry, he lunged towards the enemies and cut them up like paper leaving only ash by his side. Erselica was dumbfounded.
"Ooohh! That's the Gáe Dearg! He was supposed to master it in the event of the forest king's assassination!)
The two boys fought arduously against the creatures while the prince watched.
Then one of them dodged them both and was heading towards the prince. The students looked on in horror when suddenly....
"You people forget that I am not a weakling." -Spoke in a low voice the prince, who was putting one hand back as he pulled an all-white sword from its leather sheath. He placed it correctly in its center and waved the same hand three times like a wave.
The creature did not know how or why, but it was cut into three pieces immediately turning to ash and releasing a precious mineral.
"You forget that I possess the foil style and do not need more than three strikes nor two hands to finish off a simpleton enemy." -With a smile, the prince smiled at the boys in front of him who smiled as well making a formation of three consisting of Chlust at the head, Liam in the middle and Frey in the rear. This was originally the fighting formation in the game and Erselica was in a wet dream as she watched them.
Tears welled up in her eyes at such beauty, but she didn't realize she was ignoring the combat in the back.
The other students were concentrating on the rearguard fights while Erselica, watched the feast up front. One of the boys was pushed by a monster and ran towards Erselica, who was not paying attention to her surroundings. By the time she realized what was happening it seemed too late for her, or so she supposed.
Suddenly a boy penetrated the creature from behind and from below, slashed upwards at the creature making a bloodcurdling sound. The creature disappeared and released an ore and, Erselica stared at the boy as he spoke to it.
"If you're not going to do anything, better not come. Many of us here earned our scholarship through sacrifice and sweat."
"S-sorry..." -Erselica said quietly.
(No way, he was here and I never even noticed!)
Erselica was stunned by the boy with shabby clothes, short brown hair and sapphire green eyes. His name was Fritz, and he was not only a commoner, but also one of the characters who helped the prince learn about the academy, the life of the commoners and to stop Rudel and his obscene acts towards the commoners.
Fritz was also one of the few who could be the fourth member of the prince's team, Klein held that position as well, but sometimes he was unavailable and Fritz filled in for him.
He was also a lover of justice, so he never forgave Rudel for his misdeeds.
Erselica's mouth dropped open at such a cast of characters assembled.
(Wow. I mean, amazing, if they are all here it means that event is coming and it will be the downfall of that person). -In her mind, Erselica was saying horrible things while the others were struggling arduously.
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We had walked for several minutes and were happy.
Irisdina was smiling with happiness as she had in her bag, a lot of precious minerals that she had found defeating monsters or digging in the ground.
Unlike her, I had few in my bag as I had given them to her with many excuses.
We were walking along a path with arrows pointing the way out to the safe area where the other groups and teachers were. Suddenly, we came to a large section of the dungeon which looked like the inside of a stadium.
There were no lights or guides or anything, the place was only illuminated by the flashlight I had, Irisdina spoke to me.
"Rudel-san, this place is very dark, I'm afraid that something will appear and attack us from the darkness!" -Irisdina spoke nervously while holding her bag with one hand and her mallet with the other.
"Don't worry, maybe those fools from our former group broke them for fun. More people are supposed to come through here."
"If that's how you say..."
He was talking to Irisdina to calm her down, but that was where that peace was wrong.
Suddenly, something fell from the sky hitting the ground very hard where it landed.
We were frightened by that sound, I pointed the flashlight where we heard it. We could see in horror the body of a creature whose viscera were almost completely devoured.
I quickly pointed the flashlight upwards and observed a monstrous creature hanging from the ceiling with its fingers embedded in the rock.
It was not a spider, but its body was shaped like a figure eight. The back end looked like a beehive of wasps, the front end had a torso that looked like a buffalo's, four arms on each side that looked like insect legs, but had skin like scales, and the legs were like chimpanzee legs that clung their toes to solid rock.
The most terrifying thing was not only its body nor its frightening black color, but its head, which had the humanoid shape of a bald man, no ears only large holes that seem to be its eardrums and its sockets had no eyes nor the impression that there ever were, the most disgusting thing was that from its mouth came out a pair of red pincers and yellow teeth shaped like shark's fangs.
Even though the creature doesn't seem to have any sense of sight, it gave the impression that it was looking exclusively at me. Suddenly, it let go of the ceiling and swung itself to the front of the cave and, from that same place, made a much bigger jump towards the direction where I was.
I gave my lamp to Irisdina and pushed her away from the place where the creature would attack. After miraculously dodging that attack, I stared at the creature slowly turning around.
"Holy crap!!! What the hell is that thing?!!! It's different from the monsters I've seen before and for some reason it seems to see only me. It's a good thing I don't attack it, but I still can't let it get close!"
"Rudel-san, I'll throw some smoke grenades so I can escape!!!" -Said Irisdina in a frightened tone, but worried for Rudel's life.
"It won't work, this thing doesn't seem to see, but it still managed to jump from one place to another at a great speed."
"Irisdina, I'll defeat it just point the flashlight at it as long as possible!!!" -I shouted to Irisdina who nodded her head and pointed the flashlight at the strange creature.
Then I pulled out the weapon I had used so far, it was a sword, but its shape was longer and wavy. It was what they called a katana and it was totally black and sharp.
Striking a combat pose, with one foot forward and one foot back, with both hands pointing the weapon horizontally towards the creature which seemed to be smiling at me.
I quickly lunged towards the creature and it responds by using two of its legs to try to grab me.
But it doesn't work as I have experience dodging fast enemies.
It does the same move again and this time grabs my arm.
Irisdina shouted.
"Rudel-san!!!"
The creature forcefully pulled my arm and with a jerk yanked it off.
"Gyaaahhh!!!" -I screamed.
"Rudel-san!!!!!" -Irisdina exclaimed loudly in a piercing scream.
That was what we saw, but it wasn't so. The creature retreated and when it tried to eat my arm, my arm felt only the taste of the fabric. It was still screaming when I noticed my arm was still there.
"It tore off just the cloth and left the flesh and bone intact!"?
(I hate that what Ixion said happened.) -I thanked Ixion in annoyance.
Ixion fixed and modified all the equipment as he could not accompany me due to the low density of the earth would cause his systems to fail.
After dodging more attacks I moved my longsword up and down slamming into one of its legs which I cut a little and left its leg with a large open wound.
The creature backed up and took distance, watching me with its non-existent sockets, the creature opened its disgusting mouth which emanated a putrid stench and fired a kind of missile which was made of excrement, rotten meat and minerals being a powerful enough projectile to leave a large crater where I was, but I dodged it.
"What the hell was that? And even more so this annoying stink, I must finish this as quickly as possible as I am very tired and will not last long. "
"I'll have to use this it seems."
I clicked my teeth and with my left hand pressed a button on the bottom of the katana which was a gift from Ixion.
The katana suddenly or rather its blade started to spin and vibrate turning blue white. The sound was so loud that it made Irisdina, who had never heard anything like this before, shudder.
With the katana that looks like a chainsaw, I wielded the weapon towards the creature which made a horrible scream.
"JIIIIIIIIIooouuuuuhhhhh!"
The creature lunges towards me opening its mouth and I in an almost samurai style swung the katana from the horizontal side impacting the creature's jaws.
"Eat this, you bastard!!!!"
I shouted with all my might as my arms forcefully thrust the embedded katana into the creature, slashing in a clean cut from the mouth to the underside.
After cutting the creature it falls in two pieces to the ground with its guts showing. After a few seconds of stopping moving, the creature began to turn to ash and dropped a black cube shaped ore that changed drastically to purple.
"Rudel-san, I was scared!!! -Irisdina screamed and dropped the lamp on the floor while clinging to me.
I watched her crying and stroked her head to calm her down.
After removing her head from my chest, she wiped her tears and as she did so she could see that I had been wounded on the side of my left arm which had the fabric of the equipment ripped off.
"Rudel-san, there's a lot of blood coming out!!!" -Irisdina shouted, telling him to calm down.
"I'll be fine there are creams for this- Ouch!!!"
After appearing to be fine, I moaned because of the severe pain from the wound. Irisdina seeing me in pain bit her lips and then stopped to speak.
"Rudel-san, I'm so sorry."
"Huh? What are you talking about it's not your fault that I'm like this."
"It's not that, but something else? Remember you asked me how I had entered here without having experience in being an adventurer before? Well this is why."
As I finished speaking, Irisdina reached over to my arm to place both hands on the wound. Suddenly a white light brighter than the lantern, which illuminated the entire cave went out after a few seconds of shining.
I could feel the pain disappear along with the blood and the wound.
"What was that!!! Hey, Irisdina what did you just do?" -I asked in amazement at what had happened.
"Once I fell as a child and my leg hurt so much that I tried to close the wound and suddenly a light came out and healed my wound. A few years later, an older gentleman passing through my village saw me healing some animals and he said it was light magic, a rarity that hadn't been seen in decades."
"I'm sorry for not telling you, I was scared that, maybe Rudel-san would hate me for being a commoner possessing magic power?"
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Nobles possessing magic power is the normal thing in this world, but a commoner possessing magic power was something inconceivable and unforgivable. Upon discovering in the game that Irisdina possessed magical power, the protagonist distanced himself from her for lying to him only to later forgive her for deceiving him several events later. But what did Rudel think when he found out?
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"That... That's amazing!!!" -I shouted towards an Irisdina who looked like she wanted to cry.
"I don't understand why you hid it, but isn't it amazing that not only are you the smartest girl in the whole academy and the best cook, but you also possess magic and healing type power it seems. I of you would be proud to possess so many talents!"
(But light magic? I feel like I've heard that somewhere before) -I thought about that unknown.
At my honest words. Irisdina shed tears which made me freak out.
"I'm sorry, did I say something weird or that will upset you?"
"It's not that... it's just that it's the first time someone congratulates me after discovering that I possess magical power and not criticizing or insulting me for it."
Tears welled up in Irisdina's eyes and I tried to calm her down.
"What!!! Someone made fun of you!!! Tell me who it is and I'll beat the crap out of them on the way out of here!"
My face turned into that of a demon and she was telling me that it didn't matter as she wiped her tears.
"Rudel-san, that doesn't matter anymore. It makes me happy to know that you're still the same kind person you've always been by learning my secret. Thank you so much."
Irisdina gave me a smile with her eyes closed and I suddenly clutched my chest wondering "What was that?"
"We should leave as more of those things could come out at any moment." -I spoke and Irisdina nodded.
She picked up the fallen lamp and I was on my way to grab the ore the creature dropped as I signaled Irisdina that it was time to get out of there.
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Rudel did not turn back to look at an Irisdina who watched his figure from behind with warm, moist eyes as she murmured to herself.
"You really are the best thing that could have happened to me in my life."
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As we reached the meeting place we heard a rumbling coming from the center. Still behind me, Irisdina asked me what was going on and I replied that I would go find out.
What I looked there was a slight fight lost.
"Your Highness, I swear I'm not lying to you!!!"
"Alicelotte please, Klein told me those rumors are false, but he really yelled at you since you had crossed the line."
The two people in question were Archduchess Alicelotte and he Prince Liam.
I didn't understand what was going on, but I heard some guys muttering something.
"Hey, is that true that she was scolded by her fiancé for being unfaithful?"
"I don't know, but if the prince says so, it must be true."
"Truly, that girl is the worst."
Terrible voices were coming from the surroundings and Alicelotte could hear them. After a while she turned around and slowly walked out of there after not being seen by anyone she shed a few tears and made to run from the place.
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In the distance stood someone in the shadows who laughed maliciously.
"I told you to stay out of my way. Pig."
Rudel was thoughtful after seeing her leave and went back to Irisdina telling her it was nothing.
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After defeating the strange creature, at the bottom of a floating island there was a black spot which grew bigger and bigger and splashed like boiling water.
The stain grew darker and darker to the point where it looked like tentacles were growing out of it.
After a few underwater strokes several bubbles came out and burst a strange sequence which could be interpreted in the human language as...
"Rudel... bastard... mistake."
Sorry for not uploading anything, I was busy. But I'm back and this week I will finish volume 1.
As another important news, Razel volume 4 will start next week!!!
It has been four months since classes started and we are just a few days away from the end of the semester and the beginning of the vacations.
A week before the end of semester exams a dance is held, to show the students what they have learned in etiquette class.
The general ballroom was such a huge place that it took up an entire building on the west side, where the Lunar Light dormitory was located.
The decorations, servants, food, and musicians were some of the finest I could imagine. Lyle - my stupid older brother - told me about this celebration when we were still in our territory.
This party was meant to not only celebrate a final, but also to give students a chance to socialize with those of higher status and marriage proposals. All the young people who were here were four of the five classes. I would try my best to try to hook up with someone of high status or some girl of viscount rank, but my luck was always foul.
"Hah? You're just a miserable baron I'm not interested if you're not at least a viscount."
"I refuse, I wish to live in the city and the country is the worst choice for a fine girl like me."
"Your lands are nothing and yet you want to establish connections with me? Know your place trash!"
I had been rejected by several girls and boys with the latter being the worst of all as he pushed me to the ground.
"Damn!!! Every single one of them are human scum!!! Die you fucking pests!!!"
I was so annoyed that I went to a buffet table to swallow instead of chewing.
"Shit!!!" -I said under my breath as I took bite after bite and then downed it with a glass of mineral water.
I was annoyed and saddened as despite it being a first year party they had separated us nobles and commoners into different areas. I was in this place while Irisdina went along with the other commoners to a bar.
I entrusted the holy task to Ixion to protect her from any trash that tried to take advantage of her. So currently it's just me. It had been a long time since the party started and I was about to leave for Irisdina's since no one wanted me here.
After I finished eating and cleaning up I was heading for the door when....
"Klein, explain to me what this means!!!"
I heard a woman's shout coming from the center of the room. The music suddenly stopped playing at someone's voice.
"Hey, Alice Are you really sane to suddenly start screaming?
The two people in the center were the sons of dukes. Klein in his uniform with two girls in his arms and Alicelotte who wore a beautiful red dress and shoes with thin gloves as part of her attire.
Her hair was pulled back in a Victorian style for this dress and she had a pair of glowing red earrings, even her lips looked beautiful and sensual with that crimson shade on them. But the part that caught my attention the most was her well covered neckline that still showed the shape of her magnificent and huge mountains.
Apparently she was demanding something from him and Klein was indifferent.
"Explain to me, Klein what was all your talk about me lately and also you have the audacity to..... making out with those girls in front of me!!!"
Alicelotte was telling Klein a lot of things, but Klein only answered her.
"And!?"
Grabbing one of the girls he put his hands on her rear end and then proceeded to stick his tongue in her mouth like a dog. Both people watching were stunned, Alicelotte had a sad face with mixed feelings in her expression; pain, sadness, helplessness, frustration among other things was reflected in her look and grimaces.
I stopped immediately before leaving to stare hatefully at Klein. Even though what he was doing was grotesque I didn't care, it was none of my business what Alicelotte feels because of her fiancé, but....
A part of me for some reason felt a deep hatred and aberration towards Klein. I couldn't explain it, but Klein was an existence that made me hate him just looking at him, like... if I was seeing a sort of reflection of myself.
It was silly to think that since I never did dastardly things like that. I slowly approached him, looking at Klein.
He pulled his tongue out of the girl's mouth and a trail of saliva was visible between the two of them. He wiped the dripping drool with his sleeve and stared at Alicelotte.
"Do you see, Alice, do you think I care one bit about even your opinion, you're just a woman who was born to be the womb of the future heir to the Kingsfort principality!!! Nothing more and nothing less than that!!! Stop pretending that you're anything more than just a walking vessel!!!!!
It was there that I stopped. The words he said, were something I had never heard in my life, this scumbag who calls himself a human...how does he see women.
The bastard kept talking.
"Engrave this in your hollow head. I am the heir of the most storied archduke house in this country. If there were no prince I would be the next king and rule as I please."
"Your family was the one who came to my father years ago to form this betrothal, so you should be grateful that a sow like you has the right to be mate to the great me!!!"
Klein kept talking and talking crap until....
"Stop talking nonsense!!!!! -It was Alicelotte who yelled that at him.
"I am not your servant or anything, I am Alicelotte von Bismarck, the duke's daughter and I will not allow anyone, even you being my fiancé to insult and disrespect me!!!!"
Alicelotte's words sounded loud and powerful, all people were shocked at her words and she made her earn my respect.
(I always thought upper class women were materialistic scum, but I see she is not like that). -I said in my head as I glanced at her.
But Klein...
She gritted her teeth at Alicelotte's strong strong words and he rushed towards her grabbing her dress. Everyone saw that scene and did nothing.
The moment I saw it I tried to move, but Lyle's words came to my mind.
I mumbled back. "Is this what he meant?" a feeling of helplessness was born in me and made me see my origins.
(I am a baron, an insignificant and inferior existence compared to that of an archduke) -That was in my head and increased the regret.
(If I try to do something, I am putting my life and my family's life at stake! She is just a stranger with whom I never established a connection so no one can judge me or label me as a coward!!!) -I was thinking while watching the scene with trembling eyes.
Suddenly Klein let go of Alicelotte and ripped off one of her gloves to throw it at his bulky chest.
"Pick it up," he uttered as if giving a command to a dog.
Alicelotte looked down fearfully then back up at Klein.
She knows what this means, she knows what will happen if she picks him up, she knows what the consequences will be no matter what.
But still she looked at Klein with a strong-willed face in her eyes. Then she was trampled by reality.
She turned to look at the people who were part of her entourage, but they all averted their gaze.
"Huh, guys?"
Alicelotte turned from left to right more than once, the students, those in her entourage even the teachers and other members of the party did.
They know what it means to challenge an archduke, but no one wanted to do it and even more so one who is very hostile.
Alicelotte's eyes were teary looking around for someone; anyone, anyone who could help her at this moment. It was there that her eyes met mine.
It lasted only a few moments, but the look between us met, it seemed that everyone in the place had disappeared except for the two of us.
We had never seen each other.
We had never spoken a word.
We had never bumped into each other until today. However...
At this moment Alicelotte's eyes looked at me like a child asking for help after being separated from her parents. Her lips seemed to want to blurt out a word that would have made any decent person help her, but...
I closed my eyes and with a half-turn I disappeared into the audience.
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Alicelotte had lost her last hope which could be seen in her gaze. After cleaning herself in a refined manner she spoke to Klein.
"Even if I have no one around me, I will still stand firm as the daughter of Archduke Bismarck!"
Her words did not seem to be weakened and that bothered Klein so much that he wiped away the smile he had for one full of anger.
Then suddenly he walked with strong steps towards Alicelotte and grabbed her by the dress with his left hand and shouted at her.
"You talk a lot for a pig!!! I'll teach you a lesson this very instant!!!"
Raising his free hand to the top, Klein formed a fist, Alicelotte immediately tried to cover herself. The people around averted their eyes so as not to see as Klein laughed frighteningly.
"Do you think any of the trash around here will do anything!!! I'll strip you naked and walk you like a dog!!! So that way you'll learn once and for all that no one can mess with the heir of the King-principality!!!"
Before he finished speaking, a brown sphere-shaped dessert hit his cheek.
Klein himself as well as Alicelotte and the others were stunned at what they saw.
Then a second brown sphere hit the same cheek, a voice was heard coming from the background.
"Sorry, but it accidentally landed on your cheek, my goal was to get it into your stupid mouth bigger than an elephant's butt."
The person making those sarcastic comments was Rudel, who had two of those fleshy spheres left, which he finished throwing without hitting.
Everyone present watched with shock the bizarre scene they were witnessing.
Suddenly, Rudel approached Alicelotte and with one hand pushed Klein's hand away and then bent down to pick up the glove.
Alicelotte could not process what was happening as she watched Rudel stand in front of her to speak.
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"Now, please appoint me as your begleiter." -I said in a mocking and sympathetic tone.
(Begleiter was a squire in imperial Germany).
"Eh?" -Responded Alicelotte on the basis of my answer.
But Klein interrupted us.
"Hey, scumbag I don't know who the hell you are or who you are, but let me tell you, you're getting into a place where riff-raff like you shouldn't be getting into."
His sharp words rang throughout the room, but I didn't flinch.
"Ojou-sama please appoint me as your begleiter. I cannot answer to him if I am not treated as his squire." (Ojou means upper-class lady.)
"Huh? Sure... Huh?!?!?"
The whole room shouted the same - "huh!!!" -that she did. A begleiter was a personal knight of the squire type, in the royal and military academy were the only places allowed for this title.
By making someone a begleiter it meant becoming that person's patron or patroness during a duel. And that's what had happened just a few minutes ago.
Alicelotte had accepted me to be her squire and with it Klein's duel.
I smiled.
"I do now. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting." -I said, smiling at him synonymously Klein.
"The ojou-sama has accepted the duel and accepted me."
"As you are a great archduke I would like you to allow me to select the venue."
Klein was looking at me with a murderous look given how tall I was.
"Hoo, why should I do that and not settle it here and now?" -He said too eager to hit me.
But I answered him calmly.
"I have two reasons for it; the first is that it will benefit you more than me and the second is that you will thus show the riff-raff how kind-hearted the archduke's son is in spite of being insulted by an inferior being."
Saying that, Klein looked at me for a few seconds and then turned his gaze to the people around and while he was at it I leaned close to his ear and whispered a few words.
"And as a bonus, the prince is already on his way here and I don't think you have enough time to make excuses, do you?"
The moment he heard that, Klein felt a shiver and only Alicelotte saw it.
In his head he wondered what I had said to him to make him go like that.
Then I withdrew from Klein's ear and held out my hand to close the deal. Klein saw it and extended his hand to me and spoke.
"Okay scumbag. Tell me, where do you want to do this?"
"After next week the inter-school is coming and I'd like to settle that there. It's the best way and the most appropriate way to show your true power, isn't it, Archduke?"
He was answering confidently to an irritated Klein. After hearing that he tightly squeezed up and down my arm to close the deal.
"All right. In two weeks I will put an end to your life in front of this riffraff. I also promise you that no one will hurt you until then." -He said with a sinister smile.
I smiled as well and turned to Alicelotte.
"Did you hear ojou-sama? In two weeks you will have your duel, don't you have any requests in case you lose your fiancé?"
The people gasped at what I said. The archduke himself only laughed and replied sarcastically.
"That is very simple I will vouch for her as I know it very well. If I win you will never interfere in my life ever again, but if you win..... pff hahahahahahahaha!!!"
I laughed at the possibility of me winning. The others laughed at that too. But I didn't mind their laughter. Alicelotte looked at me to very confident.
Then she spoke.
"I-if I win I want you to stop your misdeeds and behave like someone worthy of the aristocracy." -Those were Alicelotte's words.
She looked with intense eyes at Klein and he in a sarcastic and mocking tone agreed.
Saying that Klein said - "Deal" -And grabbed the two girls he was with and before retiring he said to both of them - "I'll look forward to these two weeks. Alice and trash. Hahaha." -With a maniacal smile he left there laughing and the stage returned to normal and the musicians started to play.
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Alicelotte was still dumbfounded and the people who were her entourage also left leaving her alone. Rudel watched them go and from a distance made a victory gesture to Alicelotte which she had no idea what it meant.
Everyone wondered why this happened, but no one knew the answer.
Of course there was an answer and that was something called an "event".
Although the three main characters were on adventures and had no idea what was going on, and even Erselica herself was locked in her room studying for having wasted time in her fantasies to come.
In the story of the game, the situation was more or less accurate with the differences that the one insulting a victim was actually Alicelotte.
She had been flirting shamelessly with an unknown man, and Klein saw that and retorted her immoral behavior. But Alicelotte simply laughed it off calling him exactly the same thing he was saying to her.
People laughed at Klein and when he couldn't take it anymore he grabbed one of her gloves and threw it at her. When he came to his senses he couldn't process what he had done and tried to apologize, Alicelotte spat in his face calling him an impotent coward.
It was then that Rudel entered the scene and also challenged Klein who was torn up inside. Alicelotte accepted Rudel as her squire in awe of the way he humiliated Klein.
That was how the situation was supposed to happen.
But once again the factor called Rudel altered the order of things, but leaving the same result. No one imagined the disaster that was to come in the inter-school.
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Somewhere below an island at the bottom of the sea for some strange reason there was a shadow, this shadow was large but now it had become so dwarfed that it disappeared.
From the water emerged a wasp with a very long tip which had trouble flying. It is not known where its target was, but that thing intended to look for "something or someone".
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It's been two days since that and Klein has kept his word not to hurt me in order to pulverize me in the inter school. It was supposed to be okay that, but the situation was different.
"How dare a miserable country baron like you get in the way of a duke!!!"
"Defending that archduchess bitch was your biggest mistake!!!"
"Know your place, peasant!!!"
For some reason the boys started beating and kicking me since the next morning that day, the girls told their servants to do it too.
I don't understand what they gain by doing this to me if according to Klein he will mow me down in a few days. These guys always pull me out of class with the exception of etiquette where my instructor flunks them if they do it, he looked at me very hurt as if he could only do that for me.
Truly, this man is an example to follow and even more so that he told me - "Standing up for a lady is a gentleman's duty no matter what his status" -I cried when he applauded me for what I did.
Another person who cared about me was pretty Irisdina. Seeing me, she cried and used her light magic that healed my wounds. She was shouting at me - "You fool, you fool, Rudel-san, you are a fool! Why do you get into trouble that doesn't concern you?" -I just laughed seeing her crying for me. My heart was happy to see this side of her.
After getting up from the beating I was given I headed to the place where I had been summoned. It was a very small meeting room and inside there was only one person standing. Unlike me that person, that girl only had her uniform trampled on while I was a mess.
It was Alicelotte who was looking at me with concern.
"I see. So they did this to you too, but in your case it was worse." -Alicelotte told me in a sad and melancholic tone.
"Don't worry. It's nothing this, I'll make sure those guys pay at the end of it all, by the way, they were your lackeys and they seem to be trying to curry favor with Klein. Do you know why they're trying to do that?"
I asked Alicelotte who only averted her gaze to the floor.
"They are no longer my entourage, but worst of all, I thought they were my friends."
Supporting herself with her hands from behind her back, Alicelotte vented.
"Maybe they want to weaken you so Klein can defeat you faster and win their affection."
"What a pitiful woman I am. Even my family won't try to help me."
Oh. Now this I didn't expect.
"They said it was my problem and I should solve it myself. It seems I was born under the star of tragedy no doubt."
Alicelotte put a hand to her eyes to hide her tears and continued speaking to me.
"You should quit now while you can before it's too late. I'll try to appease him so he won't do anything to you-"
"No!!!"
I interrupted her before she finished speaking.
She removed her hand from her face and looked at me, her eyes were teary and only made me more determined.
"Don't misunderstand me. I'm not doing this for you or anyone else."
"I'm doing this for me, because I really want to beat the shit out of your fiancé!!!
"But..." -She said in a nervous tone.
"Here's my condition as squire! You'll end your engagement with that jerk when you see him cry for my hand you understand!"
My words sounded piercing in her ears which rather disconcerted her.
"So don't talk about me losing before my time!!! I'll crush that bastard and everyone who looks down on me!!!"
I turned around to get the hell out of there.
"Both you and them I will have my name engraved on their bodies and minds!!!"
"Remember this well!!! Rudel van Bradford never goes into a fight where he can't win!!!"
As I left I slammed the door hard and got the hell out of there.
"I know you're in there, Ixion."
I called out to Ixion who I kept close to Irisdina so he wouldn't get hurt by hanging out with me.
"I want you to set everything up and find out who will be participating and what mobile knight unit Klein will be using!"
"Understood, Master."
"Would you like me to bring that boy too?"
"Of course. these idiots will never imagine the calamity they have caused, I will show them a spectacle of pain and suffering they never imagined!!!"
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Rudel walked with a furious and demonic face. Erselica who was in the vicinity saw that and grabbed her skirt at the sight of him while mumbling.
"He's finally here!!!"
"I've waited a long time for this event and it seems to be going like gangbusters!!!"
"It won't be long now until we can see it. Not only the ruin and downfall of that woman, but I'll also get to see in the flesh your end... and death, Rudel."
"Fufufu."
With a few wicked words Erselica proclaimed Alicelotte's ruin and Rudel's tragic end.
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The academy arc still continues.
The inter-school mini-arc has just been unlocked.
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