wish (2)
By the time we arrived at the greenhouse after hearing the news, Dwarves, Imperial Knights, and Academy staff were already tangled up in a mess.
“I have to tell you several times. This child is an academy student with proper identification.”
“He’s an academy student who broke the holy magic here and trespassed.”
“You said you would investigate and punish that part at the academic level!”
“What do you mean by trusting the actions of a student belonging to the academy and entrusting it to the academy? We will investigate on our own.”
“Look, this is not your land? After all, it was the academic’s consideration to designate this area as a restricted area, not your right. At the academy, you can take that right right away.”
Before we could grasp the context, our eyes naturally turned toward the tumultuous sound coming from one side.
Where the gaze was directed, the dwarf knights and the academic staff, led by the vice-president, were confronting each other, and the imperial knights were looking at both sides as if they were in trouble.
As you can see, this is the place where the key personnel who are controlling the current incident are gathered, so as I approached it, I worked hard to infer what I had just heard.
Surprisingly, the person who committed the crime is an academy student.
It’s hard to say this, but to be honest, I was somewhat relieved.
A devil worshiper, an as yet undisclosed traitor mixed in with a group of dwarf saints, an Imperial intelligence officer who was specially commissioned by the emperor, a bishop who received orders from the church… If such a person is caught, they will fight again with the forces behind the person caught. It would have made me even more tired if I had no choice but to fight and get swept up in some huge conspiracy.
And if they were behind such a background, the academy students would not have been caught, but unknown persons or some faculty members who were free to enter and exit would have been caught.
If an outsider was going to sneak in, there was no reason to choose the student status, which was managed inside the academy for several years, making it difficult to intervene and with great restrictions on behavior.
And if it was simply a student, as I thought before, there was a high possibility that the work was done out of personal curiosity, pranks, and beliefs, and I thought that even if there was someone behind it, I could easily handle it.
However, since the person caught is rather a student, it seems that there is friction with the academy, which is responsible for the student’s personal safety… That part uses my reputation and the princess’s reputation to elicit cooperation from the dwarves and conduct a joint investigation. I thought I could solve it if I grabbed the strands in the direction.
Above all, the right to trees, which is why the dwarves are so strong, actually belongs to me, so if I said I would do that, there wouldn’t be much resistance.
Noticing us approaching them just in time, the vice president and the dwarf knight paused for a moment, then stopped the conversation and exchanged greetings.
“Are you coming, Saint Betura, Saint Ronan, Gorg.”
“It’s been a while, Saint Ronan. …and the Saint next to you too.”
“Reckless…!”
The moment the vice-president greeted the saint, as if he didn’t like the dwarves who made work difficult, the knight next to him tried to raise his voice again.
“Stop it, stop it. We owe it.”
The saint intervened appropriately and stopped the article.
They probably don’t know that the dwarves here are fanatics who can really take out their weapons if the need arises, but that deputy dean who doesn’t even blink an eye when the fanatic wearing a weapon right next to him shows signs of anger is also quite strong.
“I think this is an excuse.”
“It’s really fortunate that you understand. I was worried about what would happen if the Holy Son didn’t understand the language.”
Even the attitude of naturally taking the initiative and negotiating with the person in charge of the situation.
“But can you tell us more about what’s going on? All we know is that there is an intruder breaking into this greenhouse, so we don’t know what the situation is right now.”
Upon receiving Sungjae’s question, the vice-president was silent for a moment as if he was organizing his thoughts, but soon opened his mouth and began to give a detailed explanation.
“The whole story itself is simple, as you know. An academy student broke into the greenhouse here on purpose, and in the process, even damaged the holy magic that was installed, and was caught.”
“It’s something an academy student did…”
“And if an academy student did something that could cause a problem inside the academy, not anywhere else, our academy is also responsible for dealing with it. However, it seems that the drivers here are not aware of that obvious fact.”
“Saint Betura, the opponent is a person who has trespassed into the space where Sacred Magic was installed. It may be related to devil worshipers.”
“So! That student has already been identified? There’s no way he’s a devil worshiper.”
“There is no evidence that the person being identified is not a devil worshiper. Rather, we should investigate all of the student’s guarantors as well.”
“I can’t even speak…!”
The deputy dean looked at the dwarf saint with a tired expression, as if he had been repeating this argument for a long time before we came, and then started looking at me.
It was a desperate glance that meant to do something.
I understand what both sides of the argument mean.
Wouldn’t it be strange if the academy only came forward to investigate the mistakes of the students and punish them?
It is only a matter of time before the reputation as the best academy in the empire is shattered if rumors spread that he was swung here and there by priests of different races, not even the imperial family.
Is that all. Broadly speaking, all of this might give a very good justification to the faction that ostracizes the different races and is opposed to the emperor by saying that the imperial family is unnecessarily starting an open policy toward the heterogeneous race. am.
Of course, as the academy, they had to solve this situation themselves.
On the other hand, from the point of view of the Dwarf priests, the church headquarters in the capital was damaged by all kinds of terrorism by the devil worshipers, and this intrusion occurred just at the right time when the Dwarf saint visited? is that the place you were?
Naturally, the name of a devil worshiper comes to mind. And the moment you think of the suspicion of being a devil worshiper, other secondary factors will only feel like a hindrance.
It’s embarrassing… Even if I mediate this, can things proceed in the direction of concessions by holding hands amicably?
“Why did that student break into this place?”
The saint also began to ask other questions with a look of embarrassment to see if he had similar thoughts to me, and to see if there was anything that could be a clue.
“They said they couldn’t stand it because they were curious about what was inside after seeing the dwarves patrolling periodically after they suddenly restricted access to the back mountain where there was nothing.”
“That must be an excuse, of course.”
“It wasn’t an excuse, it was a planned procedure. Didn’t you make it clear when I followed your words and supported you? It would never last long.”
That’s also true. I’ve gathered hot-blooded teenagers, kids from all over the world who are likely to have lived on my pride, whether it’s their background or their own abilities. has been banned from entering?
I can’t stand this. I wonder if there are aliens or sealed monsters inside, so I can’t stand it.
However, if the trigger is really that pure curiosity of the person himself, the situation becomes even more complicated.
Rather, if you are related to a devil worshiper or have infiltrated under the orders of an ulterior motive, you just have to decide what to do as soon as you get a clue about it, but what if it’s really an individual student’s deviation?
We can’t rule out the above, so we have to continue the investigation, but since there is no evidence like this, we can’t come to a conclusion. It would be a big disappointment if we released it and didn’t find evidence on this side. In the end, until evidence or something is found I have to catch it, but if it’s an individual deviation, there’s no way something will be discovered.
A vicious cycle in which both the investigator and the recipient are exhausted.
Of course, I can find out whether the student is hiding something or not, but even if I find out that there is really nothing to hide, there is no way to convince others of it.
I would rather have done something with my reputation and authority if it hadn’t been for the dwarf saint, but it’s not easy because there is someone on the other side.
Why the hell did that student do something at this timing?
“Then what happened to that student now?”
While I was swearing at the student, saying, “I’m a ignorant guy,” the saint brought up the story again.
As the main issue in this case has shifted to whether the student’s behavior stemmed from pure curiosity or whether there was an ulterior motive, it seemed that he intended to meet the student.
“Originally, it would be probation in the dormitory at the undergraduate level, but this side objected, saying that it was absolutely not possible. It is still here.”
“Sent to the dormitory, knowing what to do in the meantime!”
“So he’s not the kind of cunning, evil devil’s minion you think he is, but a kid who’s already been frightened by his own irresponsibility!”
The two of them fought repeatedly after each word, until we arrived.
“Keuheum…then could I possibly meet that student?”
“Saint Betura!
The saint looked at the knight who was holding back his words and patted him on the shoulder.
“I understand that recent events can make you sensitive. But nothing can be solved by being paranoid like that. By any chance, you didn’t even do a physical exam after you caught the student?”
“Of course I did!”
“Did you feel an object belonging to a devil worshiper, a suspicious object, an object of unknown purpose, or a strange aura in your body?”
“…no.”
“Yes, that’s right. If such a thing had been discovered, it wouldn’t have been the stage where we were already talking like this. So what’s the matter? It’s not like a demon worshiper, but a naked human can claim to be able to harm amidst so many knights. Is that count? If so, it seems to indicate your incompetence.”
Cucumber… this holy man. When I was blind, I felt like a drunkard from the neighborhood, but maybe it was because I was in front of others, it seemed amazing that I was talking like a very intelligent and rational person.
So that’s what you mean by pretending.
Even though I couldn’t convey my true feelings that I was trembling with pretense, I started to feel an inner intimacy.
“that…”
“Don’t talk nonsense, bring them. I don’t think we dwarves are that incompetent.”
Hesitating at the authoritative tone of wielding a suitable whip and carrot, the knight lowered his head and began gesturing towards somewhere.
Then, from the distance where the gesture was directed, a commotion arose to some degree, and soon a short boy, tightly gripped by the imperial knights on both sides, began approaching.
Shall I see the face of the interested student who made things very complicated by trying to solve curiosity in the worst possible way at the worst possible timing?
…
Deputy Dean Claire secretly sighed as she looked at the student being captured by the imperial knights with a frightened expression on her face.
Of course, it is true that the student is entirely responsible for this incident.
But why on earth did he choose such a timing and hit such an accident? The timing was not good.
But just because you had an accident at the wrong time doesn’t make it a good reason to be punished beyond what you did wrong.
So, I was defending the student as best I could, but the problem was that the situation was not going so well.
The Dwarves, who were in a situation similar to the beehive they had already touched once, were thinking of connecting everything in the world to the devil worshipers, and no matter how much the academy was taking care of the dwarves’ convenience, the moment the judgment was made that the matter was related to the devil worshipers, all initiative was taken. was more likely to fall to them.
Regardless of whether a student’s identity was certain or not, from the moment he was labeled a devil worshiper, as the knight said, rather, all the people, families, and organizations that helped prove that identity could come under suspicion.
The only hope was that the dwarven saint was a much more rational person than he thought, and that there was a Ronan saint next to him.
Claire had the belief that the Saint Ronan would, of course, not leave a student in this situation.
While Claire was pinning her hopes on Ronan, the student who approached the party fell on her knees and, unable to raise her head, lowered her head and began to apologize over and over again.
“I’m sorry! I’m so sorry! I just did it out of curiosity! I never had any strange intentions, please forgive me just once!”
If that voice is acting, that student should change majors right now.
There was a vague sense of remorse and urgency in the student’s voice, enough for Claire to think that way.
“I’m not trying to harm you, so keep your head up.”
The student who barely raised his head at Betura’s words looked at Betura and Ronan alternately with trembling eyes, and then looked as if he would shed tears again at any moment.
Thanks to the fact that there were two saints in front of him, he felt again how serious he was in the situation.
“Okay, what’s the student’s name?”
“I-I’m Theron.”
“Are you really just here out of curiosity?”
“Yes, yes yes! Really!”
“What were you so curious about?”
“There aren’t many places inside the academy that are restricted from entering… It’s strange that this place wasn’t originally a restricted area, but it suddenly became restricted… At first glance, it looks like they’re building a huge building, so I’m curious about what I’m going to do. ..”
“hmm…”
The boy’s voice contained a desire to somehow explain the situation, and Betura clearly felt that earnestness.
A truly cunning demon worshiper might even imitate him, but isn’t this boy such a devil worshiper?
“This is very embarrassing.”
Betura also sighed when she felt that this boy had done it out of curiosity.
I was really at a loss as to what to do.
“Did you say your name was Theron?”
“Ah yes!”
It was at that moment that Ronan, who had been quietly watching the situation without saying a word, opened his mouth.
Come to think of it, I think I said that this saint has a lot of talent and often spits out clear words.
Betura also did not believe in all the rumors floating around in the world, but he had memories of hearing rumors about Ronan with some interest.
Brother Berg, who was sitting next to him, mentioned the name Ronan so much that it stuck to his ears, so it was impossible not to be interested.
Besides, if you look closely, isn’t he the one who created the clue about the fundamental problem of the current situation, the greenhouse, and the dwarves’ secret wishes?
It was a car that was even more interested in hearing that a gentle attitude in everything was not a mask, but a true face.
Even in this situation, because it was this situation, I wondered what Ronan would say.
Could there be a clever idea to solve this case? Or is Saint Ronan just curious about something?
The moment Betura looked at Ronan with an interesting expression.
“Then, may I ask what the name of the person hiding inside Mr. Theron is?”
As if asking if he had eaten, Ronan spat out an absurd remark with an expression asking for something obvious.
Hiding inside…?
It took an instant for the atmosphere in the hall, which was already like a plate of thin ice, to freeze.
