Chapter 116 : Chapter 116
Chapter 116. Circumstances of Adults
“Hello.”
As Radel entered the grade representative office, enthusiastic gazes from the seniors flew towards him.
They were looks that said they had been waiting.
“Junior is here!”
“How long we have waited!”
Pasion and Anesha approached Radel with quick speed.
“It was fortunate there was a meeting today.”
“Really.”
The two rubbed their palms together, laughing hehe.
“Shall we listen to what happened last night from now on?”
“There is a rumor that a tremendous incident occurred outside the grand auditorium yesterday, right?”
“That is right. We heard a story that Junior happened to be there.”
There was no way the two, who liked interesting rumors, would miss the opportunity to find out about the commotion that occurred on the night of the exchange meeting.
It was a commotion where a cursed magical beast appeared at the grand auditorium where a banquet was being held, and the Inquisitors of the Supreme Deity Order were mobilized to the Academy.
Since no one knew the truth except Gusto the apprentice holy knight, the Inquisitors, and Radel, it was natural to be curious.
Radel gave an appropriate excuse as he had thought of beforehand.
“That is…… although I was outside, I do not remember the situation exactly because I was frantically evacuating.”
In times like this, saying he didn’t remember well was the best.
It was one of the secret techniques usable when one had to hide the truth.
“You evacuated?”
“Yes. My apprentice holy knight friend felt demonic energy and hurriedly came to find me saying it was unusual.”
The content was that he went out to the garden, but the movement of the sky became chaotic, and Gusto, noticing that, ran over and evacuated Radel.
“Why did you go out to the garden in the middle of the night?”
“A Helsington student said he had something to say.”
Then Anesha grinned.
“What, you are popular?”
“It was a male student.”
“……Ahem.”
At Radel’s answer, Shartea, who was quietly drinking tea, cleared her throat.
It seemed she was suppressing laughter.
Pasion also asked Radel while suppressing laughter.
“Ahem, then you don’t know what happened in the grand auditorium either.”
“Yes. I did hear that some slime appeared but…….”
“It was truly amazing after a long time.”
After a long time?
Does this happen often?
While Radel was puzzled, the seniors just happened to start talking.
“It has been about 3 months, right? A monster of this level.”
“Was it a chimera back then?”
“Because it secretly escaped from the research building, everyone didn’t notice. It was fortunate Shartea sunbaenim happened to be nearby.”
Chimera?
A monster of that level roaming around the school shouldn’t be a common occurrence.
But the seniors had calm demeanors.
They said magical beasts the seniors were researching or creatures kept for experiments often escaped.
Usually, it gets resolved at the students’ level, but if severe, the Academy turns upside down sometimes.
“I was merely training swordsmanship at the training ground. It was perfect as a training partner.”
“Sunbaenim, that was an improved chimera…….”
Radel, who was listening to the heroic tale that Shartea alone beat up a chimera that became more violent due to being improved for research, asked.
“Who caught the slime that appeared this time?”
“Ah, Professor Lilian caught it.”
They said Professor Lilian excitedly jumped in while everyone else didn’t approach closely and drove it into a corner with long-range magic because it was a slime polluted with terrible demonic energy.
“Since she is a person who likes it more the trickier it is to deal with.”
The story was that with Professor Donton of Cryptozoology joining in, not even a trace was left of the slime.
Just what did the two people do for the existence summoned by a heretic to melt away.
He was to the point of being curious about the battle that took place in the grand auditorium then.
“I heard an undead monster also appeared outside. So we intended to ask Junior.”
Undead monster.
Considering it reacted to holy water, it certainly was an undead monster.
Radel recalled the memory of last night.
* * *
Ding.
A cluster of white light spread with the sound of a bell and wrapped around the magic circle.
As the evil hands coming up along the magic circle were surrounded by light, Gusto’s complexion brightened.
“It is the Bell of Purification. It seems the Inquisitors have arrived.”
It was as Gusto said.
The Inquisitors brought by Kirio unfolded Divine Power while reciting prayers.
Flash!
The garden covered with demonic energy and the chaotic sky slowly regained their original appearance.
Then Obsidian, who tried to summon an existence of the Demon World by offering himself as a sacrifice, twisted his body.
“These dirty dogs of god! Aaaack!”
To devil worshipers, strong Divine Power was no different from a curse.
Obsidian gradually lost strength in the space full of Divine Power.
“I will never, never leave you be!”
Kirio looked at Obsidian, who was spitting out words of curses, with cold eyes.
And nodded to other Inquisitors.
“Take care of him.”
The Inquisitors opened the struggling Obsidian’s mouth and poured holy water in.
It was to block his mouth just in case he bit his tongue or chanted a curse spell.
“Keuak!”
Obsidian, who was already spitting out words of curses, screamed at the pain of his tongue burning.
Hearing that sound, Radel looked at Obsidian and made a pitiful expression.
“Oh my, dear me.”
It was an expression asking why he sold his soul to a devil.
Obsidian struggled looking at the detestable 8th Prince.
“Keuph! Cough!”
If only that bastard hadn’t played tricks with the key!
But an opportunity to spit out proper words was not given to Obsidian, who was gagged with holy water.
“How dare you glare at the Prince?”
“You dirty heretic!”
The Inquisitors roughly bound the seizing Obsidian and dragged him somewhere.
Obsidian felt like going crazy from frustration at his situation of not even being able to curse at Radel rather than being dragged away by Inquisitors.
But Radel was seeing him off with eyes sympathizing with him.
Obsidian twisted his body in anger until the last moment he was dragged away and had to be beaten several times.
“Prince, it is truly fortunate you are safe.”
Kirio approached Radel after instructing the cleanup of the surroundings.
Radel couldn’t hide his delight.
Honestly, it wasn’t easy for Radel, who had no Divine Power and never received education about devils, to endure this much.
Just in time, Kirio, a skilled Inquisitor, appeared and relieved his worries.
“I lived because Kirio came.”
“It was certainly an urgent situation.”
Kirio patted Gusto’s shoulder and said.
“You served the Prince well. It would have been dangerous without you.”
“I was the one able to endure thanks to the Prince.”
It wouldn’t be strange to call Radel’s performance literally a miracle.
Kirio briefly offered a short prayer to the Supreme Deity and heard the circumstances of the heretic appearing.
Kirio, who received a brief account from Gusto, hardened his face.
“Someone called out the Prince, and of all things, it was the Black Order.”
Thinking this was the time, Radel asked Kirio.
“What happens to that person?”
“If it is that despicable guy who attacked the Prince, you do not need to worry.”
Kirio smiled faintly.
‘Hmm, he will be tortured.’
Radel could instinctively predict Obsidian’s future.
“He is a person who kept his life thanks to the Prince interfering with the summoning magic. He has received undeserved grace.”
Kirio explained simply to Radel.
That he opened the door to the Demon World by offering his life, that he intended to finish Radel for sure, and even what would have happened if the summoning succeeded.
“It was almost really dangerous. I don’t know what they were doing at the Academy until the Black Order entered.”
Kirio frowned.
Even if he infiltrated as an official of Helsington Magic School, to fail filtering out a heretic.
It was a moment doubting the Academy’s security.
Swoosh!
Then a flying golem flew in front of Kirio.
Kirio conversed with the flying golem for a moment.
Radel and Gusto looked at each other.
“Could a flying golem speak too?”
“I suspect perhaps the Principal sent it. I have heard a story that the person who designed the flying golem is the Principal.”
Seeing a flying golem conversing with someone was amazing compared to only seeing golems guarding the herb field during alchemy class or when secretly roaming the Academy at night.
Kirio sent the flying golem back and opened his mouth.
His head ached about how to convey this to the Prince.
To have to convey such words to the person who might have lost his life if things went wrong.
“I just spoke with the Academy side. I think I should tell the Prince first. It is a request to keep silent about what happened today. It might be difficult to understand but…….”
“Ah, I understand sufficiently.”
Radel spoke nonchalantly.
“There is no need to make matters bigger. It is not good for the fact that a heretic appeared at the Academy to be known to students. Even if we say he was defeated, they will only become anxious for no reason. For everyone’s peace, I also think that way is better.”
Kirio’s pupils trembled.
How deep is his heart!
If Radel’s performance of fighting bravely against a heretic becomes known, not only his honor but also his position as a royal would become much better.
However, to show such an appearance as if such things are nothing before peace!
‘I dare not fathom his depths.’
Kirio smiled, deeply impressed by Radel once again.
“Really, one cannot win against the Prince.”
Ding.
[The target’s Affinity breaks through 10.]
[The target’s Affinity has become 60.]
‘What does he mean he cannot win?’
He just meant he understood the adults’ circumstances.
Common sensically, there was no way they would want to make known that the Black Order appeared at the Academy.
And why did Kirio’s affinity rise.
It was something unknown to Radel…….
* * *
“Who caught that undead monster?”
“Wouldn’t it perhaps be the Inquisitors?”
Listening to the seniors’ words, Radel nodded calmly.
“It seems so.”
From the Academy’s standpoint, there would be no trouble later if they put it as an undead monster appearing.
It was the same from Helsington’s standpoint.
It was obvious they wouldn’t want to make known to the outside that the professor they hired was actually from the Black Order.
“I heard a certain professor from Helsington was defeated by the undead monster.”
“Ah, I heard that too. They say he went back to his hometown to recuperate.”
It seemed Helsington handled Obsidian’s matter in that way.
Sometimes it is better not to know certain facts.
Radel thought so and drank the tea placed in front of him.
‘Come to think of it, there wasn’t an opportunity to talk about the key either.’
He wanted to ask Kirio if he knew about the black key, but there was no chance to do so.
Listening to Obsidian’s words, it did seem related to the devil’s resurrection.
But it wasn’t accurate information.
Informing the temple of wrong information for no reason could bring confusion.
He couldn’t trust all of Obsidian’s words either.
‘Trusting a heretic is a foolish act.’
Weren’t they the existences furthest from honesty or trust?
Radel looked at the clock.
It was time to move soon.
Because a meeting with the Principal was scheduled.