Chapter 18 – Are You Trying to Seduce Me?
The next day, it finally happened.
I was taking my first class.
Suddenly, the classroom door opened, and women in suits and sunglasses burst in.
“Ian Drakhin. You must come with us.”
I wasn’t upset.
Because the undergraduate trial wasn’t far away, I knew something was going to happen.
It was just a pity that if the eye that sees death had given more information, it would have been possible to prevent or prepare more in advance.
Even if he wasn’t panicked, he wasn’t quietly dragged away.
She pretended to resist vigorously, thinking that being calm would make it look like she was accepting a false accusation.
In the end, he was subdued by the sunglasses sisters and went down to the basement of one of the school’s many buildings.
“Go in. Stay calm here for the time being.”
Following the instructions of my sister-in-law, I entered a small underground room.
All there is is a bed and a desk.
Looking at the small door next to it, fortunately there seemed to be a bathroom.
In fact, rather than a room, it was a prison itself.
One side of the room was open so that the whole room could be seen clearly, and instead of walls or windows, there were iron bars.
I grabbed the bar and told my older sister on the other side.
“What brought me here?”
I guess to some extent, but I asked first.
Sunglasses noona took out a piece of paper from her and said.
“Ian Drakhin. You have been temporarily arrested for violating the Magical Security Act. Originally, you would have to go to court, but since you belong to this school, the Scarlet College of Magic’s authority will determine your disposition.”
Just because I am a student at this school, ignoring public laws and deciding my own disposition, it is a great school in many ways.
Perhaps, in order to prevent damage to the school’s reputation, they intend to settle it quietly among themselves.
“Six days from now, next Wednesday, you will be tried by the faculty for using black magic. Until then, you will have to stay here.”
As expected, I was falsely accused of using black magic.
Sunglasses sister took one look at her paper and continued her words.
“You may plead during the trial to prove your innocence, and you may request the summons of witnesses.”
“Wait a minute, how do you get a witness if you’re stuck here until the trial?”
“Resent yourself for being accused of the felony of using black magic.”
As Sunglasses sister said, black magic is a serious crime in this world.
Black magic feeds on the unclean feelings of the wizard who is obsessed with it, and grants it powerful power.
Then, it gradually eats away at the user’s consciousness.
In the end, the user constantly commits dishonest acts such as rape or murder in order to obtain stronger black magic.
This is why black magic users in this world are treated like psychopaths who committed serial murder in real life.
It’s also why a guilty verdict is tantamount to a death sentence.
Still, it is too much for me to be locked up here until the trial.
“So you’re saying we should just wait patiently for the trial?”
“If someone comes to see me before the trial, I can ask for help. Other than that, I don’t expect anything in particular.”
Then we have no choice but to wait for Michelle to come.
Since she was the one I was closest to, she would know better than anyone else that I was dragged in unjustly.
“Now, this is the food for today.”
On the plate were several pieces of bread and milk.
There was a water purifier in the prison, so there was no separate water supply.
“The next food ration is tomorrow morning, so adjust yourself and eat.”
Sunglasses exchange glances.
It looks like it’s slowly getting out of place.
“You’d better not do anything stupid until the trial. Even if you want to, you can’t.”
Sunglasses noona pointed to a thin bracelet on my hand.
It was a magic suppression bracelet that the girls forcibly filled in when they came here.
The wearer cannot emit mana from the body and cannot use magic.
“Even if you’re lucky enough to get out of the bars, the mana sensor over there will detect the mana in that bracelet once you get out of here. Then we’ll come in right away.”
After giving that warning, the sunglasses sisters left the basement.
“Whoa.”
I groaned and sat down on the bed.
As I heard earlier, I can’t use magic because of the bracelet, and even if I escape, I’ll be caught right away because of the sensor, so there’s nothing I can do right now.
Still, my heart was at ease.
According to her death eye, Michelle gives a conclusive testimony at the undergraduate trial, which leads to a guilty verdict.
But now, Michelle and I have become closer than anyone else at school.
If she testifies in my favor, she will be acquitted, or at least buy time to prove her innocence.
So just wait patiently and ask for help at the trial when her girlfriend arrives.
… I’m bored because I want to do nothing and just wait.
Are you doing some exercise?
—
It was night like that.
The cell phone was confiscated, but fortunately the watch was hanging on the prison wall.
11:55 p.M.
It has already come to the point before the date changes.
So far, no one has ever visited this cellar.
That means Michelle wasn’t looking for me either.
Still, I didn’t feel nervous.
Originally, I heard from Michelle that she might be a bit busy today.
She was so busy that she thought that even if her boyfriend was taken to prison, he would not be able to visit her, but since she did not know the situation, she decided to understand.
Anyway, the undergraduate trial is next Wednesday.
If the date changes after 5 minutes from today, which is Thursday, it becomes Friday, so there are about 5 days left.
Michelle has plenty of time to visit me.
—
The time now is 10:00 at night.
It’s been about a day since I was brought to prison yesterday.
Except for a day’s worth of bread and milk brought by Sunglasses in the morning, no one visited the prison today either.
So is Michelle.
Is yesterday’s busy work not over yet?
I’m not particularly nervous, but I’m a little frustrated because I can’t do anything and just wait.
Should I take another shower?
It’s really fortunate that the prison has clean toilets.
In the shower, in case Michelle came by, she listened out of the bathroom, but she didn’t hear anything.
But as she finishes showering and sits down on the bed, she hums naturally as she feels refreshed.
It’s late, but it doesn’t matter.
As a result of last night’s test, it seemed that I was the only one in the basement as nothing happened even after making a loud noise.
I was humming for a while when I heard footsteps.
“…?”
I was glad to hear that my mouth stopped when I was about to call out to Michelle.
The person who came to me was an unexpected person.
“Anna?”
“I-Ian. Hello…?”
“Huh? Uh, yeah… Bye.”
Because he was such an unexpected person, his reaction was broken.
Anna was looking at me through her bars, making an awkward expression.
“What’s going on here?”
“I-I heard that Ian was imprisoned… I was worried so I sneaked in.”
No one else is going?
She is very calm and quiet in class, so she doesn’t talk much with the other students.
Of course, there was no contact with me at all.
Although she unexpectedly heard the other day that she often had delusions about me.
She said “I heard she used black magic… Really?”
“No. Someone framed it.”
“That’s right. I’m glad.”
Unexpectedly, he believes me easily.
I’m not a very friendly visitor, but I was grateful that he came to visit me and believed in my words.
Having said that, I’ll have to ask her about her situation outside.
“Who said I used black magic?”
“Selena…”
“Selena?”
“Yeah. The person who reported Ian is also Selena.”
… What?
“Did Selena say it herself?”
“Yes. I told my classmates directly. I was suspicious for some reason, so I checked the mana marks in the sand you used, and they said there were traces of black magic.”
That’s when.
The mana management practice time came to mind.
Trying hard to make a square out of sand, when Selena came and challenged her.
I thought he had come to show off his slovenliness as usual, but it is clear that he took the sand I used at that time.
It probably didn’t stop at just taking the sand.
I don’t know what method, but I must have manipulated the mana traces of the sand I used.
Mana marks can be seen as a concept similar to a magic user’s fingerprint.
When a wizard casts magic on an object using mana, traces of mana remain.
It’s mana scar, but I don’t know much about it, but each wizard says that the shape of the mana scar is slightly different, like a fingerprint.
Ha, that year….
Seeing him openly hostile to me, I was thinking that someday he might be able to play tricks on me.
But I would have thought that she was the dark side of the first obstacle I faced.
Angry in the head
Shouldn’t I have forced her to surrender by at least raping her in the first place?
No, let’s calm down.
It would have been impossible because of Dania anyway.
As I tried to calm down my emotions, a question suddenly came to my mind.
“By the way, Anna. You said you came here secretly, right?”
“Huh? Eh…”
Weird.
According to Sunglasses sister, shouldn’t her mana sensor detect her mana and trigger it when she enters this place without her permission?
“Didn’t the alarm go off when you got here?”
Noticing my question, Anna opened her mouth.
“Ah. That, that’s actually my specialty in mana manipulation…”
Anna has a special talent?
I’m not surprised that I’m special for nothing.
Anna doesn’t have good grades.
She remembers that even during her break time, she sat at her desk and read a book and her grades were not very good.
“I hid my mana and sneaked in.”
“Isn’t that very difficult?”
“T-It’s my specialty…”
Not understanding, I asked more, and the story that came back was this.
Originally, Anna’s aptitude for mana manipulation magic was SS rank.
If the aptitude is SS rank, it is a genius level that is difficult to come out once in ten years.
However, due to her timid nature, she did not want to be in the spotlight, so she took the magic aptitude test incorrectly.
After hearing that story, I belatedly recalled the fact that there was an introverted character who deliberately hid his skills in this game.
That it wasn’t
If my mana-related aptitude was SS rank, wouldn’t I have been able to cope with my seduction magic in some way?
Since people in this world don’t even recognize the seduction magic itself, it might have been eaten by Anna as well.
It was at a time when she was having such thoughts in her head.
“It’s SS rank… It’s hard to believe just by talking about it, right?”
“Uh?”
I don’t really doubt Anna’s words.
I’ve never said a word or gesture that would make the other person feel that way.
“I’ll show you.”
Still, Anna reached her hand toward her grate.
To be precise, it was a door lock hanging from an iron grate.
To open and close the grate, you have to recognize Sunglasses noona’s fingerprint on that door lock.
At that moment, blue mana swayed from her hand.
They moved to the door lock, and after a while, the iron bar opened like a sliding door with an electronic sound.
Since the machines in this world run on mana, not power, can you manipulate mana as you like?
“Probably, even an S rank won’t do something like this. Oh, I’m not bragging! That, and…”
Anna pointed to her bracelet wrapped around my wrist.
“The anti-magic bracelet is a more complex structure, so even if you can’t neutralize it, you can hide the mana that comes out of it.”
That means that if you use Anna’s ability, you can get out of here without getting hit by her mana or her sensor.
A good idea popped into her head.
… I’m going to ask Anna to meet Michelle.
She believes that Michelle will visit her.
But with no idea when that was, she wanted to go to her in person and ask for her help.
My sister in sunglasses watching over me doesn’t even pay attention to this place except when she brings me bread and milk in the morning.
She actually said she would come at this time tomorrow as well as this morning and since then she has never come.
That means if you leave now and come back before tomorrow morning, you’ll be fine.
That was when I tried to ask for help.
Anna came inside her, and pulled her bars shut.
I couldn’t help but panic at the electronic sound of the door lock locking, and Anna looked at me and said,
“Ian… Do you want to get out of here?”
“How did you know?”
Anna, who had become close to me, bowed her head more than before, befitting her timid character.
“Actually, I secretly watched from the entrance all day. Ian was waiting for someone. Mi-sorry. I said something unpleasant.”
The fact that I was being seen by someone without even knowing it is a little scary.
But is it obvious that I’m waiting for Michelle?
“You want to meet Miss Michelle?”
Suddenly her name came up and she asked in surprise.
“How…?”
“When others believed Ian was a black magic user, only Miss Michelle said Ian could never be like that…”
“Teacher?”
“Yes….”
I knew that only Michelle would trust me.
It seems that Anna easily believed me when I said it was a false accusation because she heard what Michelle said beforehand.
“Besides, she was put on probation for several days because her teacher kept arguing with the school.”
Because of her probation, she can’t come to school, so she can’t even visit.
Anyway, I don’t know how he reasoned, but that level of probation is too much.
Since the use of black magic is such a serious crime, is it possible to get probation just by covering the suspect?
When she was thinking about that, Anna asked.
“If you meet Miss Michelle, will she be able to prove her innocence?”
I nodded her head with a confident expression.
“I see. With my abilities, I can get Ian out.”
“Does that mean you’re going to help me?”
“I’m sorry, but that’s not possible. It’s against the law… I don’t know if you’re forced to threaten me…”
What?
I feel a strange atmosphere in the words I just heard.
My feeling that something was out of the ordinary was not wrong.
“Ah, ah… It’s so hot in here.”
Anna suddenly began to take off her uniform top.
Her clean shoulders were visible, followed by her bra, which covered her larger breasts than her age.
I couldn’t help but stand stunned by Anna’s actions, which I couldn’t understand her meaning.
“Mi-sorry. It’s hot, so I don’t know…”
The basement is cool rather than hot.
Besides, her face is shy, but her body is turned towards me, showing her breasts.
Only then did I realize
Now this woman is seducing me.
She is leading her to rape herself.
This conclusion may seem strange if the woman in front of you is someone else.
But Anna, as we saw in Michelle’s office, is a pervert who often fantasizes about being raped by me.
The outspoken behavior of her now, and the fact that she said she could get me out of here, also reinforce my conclusion.
I’m hoping I can force her to use her powers to get out of here, and get her out of a situation where she rapes her.
Then you have no choice but to do what you want.
“…Anna.”
“Yes?”
“Are you trying to seduce me now?”
