༺ Wounded Little Sister ༻
“Why are you rushing in like this? What’s going on?”
Nurse Caren couldn’t help but be baffled. Since Loberne Academy taught both swordsmanship and magic, there were always a lot of injured people.
Due to that, the infirmary had the most floor space in the academy and was always kept up to date.
However, the academy was strange today, so strange that even the infirmary was full.
Besides, it’s not even the middle of the semester; it’s vacation time.
The infirmary was so crowded, that she wondered if most of the children who stayed back in the dormitory were brought in.
“What in the world is happening?”
In addition, most of them had fainted due to unknown causes and it all began with the new professor, Fel, who was found lying in her lab with froth in her mouth.
Some of the children who were using the training ground fainted, had bruises that looked like they had been hit.
According to eyewitnesses, they suddenly shouted at the air and swung their swords.
This was also happening in the libraries, cafeterias, hallways, classrooms, and other places.
There were anomalies in which students simply fainted, regardless of the location.
In particular, there was one place that was causing the most incidents.
“The central entrance on the first floor.”
Caren exhaled deeply as she slid her hand into her white gown.
The majority of the students who came down to the first floor today to visit the Academic Affairs Support Team passed out and had to be brought in.
“Among the students who visited the Academic Affairs Support Team, all the children who used other stairs did not pass out.”
As a result of their own investigation, they found that only students who came down the Central Stairway or used the main entrance passed out.
“I have to go.”
Most of the students present at the academy were children who stayed back in the dormitory during their vacation.
It was safe to say that the rumors would not spread outside, but it would be difficult if this situation persisted even after the semester began.
They could approach the other professors, but that would take time. So Caren decided it was better to go deal with it herself than to remain here.
Even though she was in the infirmary, there was nothing she could do for the students.
Putting down her stethoscope and syringe, Caren picked up her own sword, which she had wrapped in fine cloth.
‘If an enemy injures an ally, I kill the enemy to protect the ally.’
That was one of her philosophies.
“Everyone remain here. If you leave before I return, you’re dead, got it?”
Rattle.
She tied her gray hair together with a hair tie and placed the prescription glasses perched over the bridge of her nose in her front pocket.
“It’s true! There was an Undead at the central entrance on the first floor!”
“B-But look. There’s nothing here, though?”
Arriving at the main entrance, Caren approached the insistent voice piercing her ears.
It was Meirin, who was famous for being a bad-mouth prodigy among the security guards and second-years, who stayed back during the vacation.
“Oh! That’s what I said! Don’t you know about all the children being taken to the infirmary?”
“I know, so I’ve investigated this place multiple times, but there’s nothing here.”
“There was!”
Caren’s lips twitched as she stared at Meirin, who was screaming.
Even though she despised rude students…
“Shall we talk for a minute?”
…Meirin deserved the title of genius, as she was the only one who had come down the Central Stairway and remembered what she saw.
*
“Then, I’ll be on my way.”
After I finished eating, the maid who was waiting to clean up the tableware seemed quite uncomfortable.
I was sure she was probably in a difficult position.
Even though I tried to be as polite as possible, I could see that she was worried that I’d ask for something unreasonable.
Once again, I was left alone in the room.
I wasn’t lonely or bored. In the first place, it was difficult for me to feel lonely.
Ghosts were everywhere, unconstrained by space.
[You’re quite hated, Young Master.]
“It can’t be helped.”
An elderly man stood next to my desk. The well-groomed appearance and neat clothes, that were difficult to distinguish in dead people, was impressive.
He was a man who served the Verdi Household many years ago and was still doing so.
‘I hadn’t seen him before I left for the Academy.’
Originally, ghosts popped up here and there and sometimes they hid, so I didn’t think much about it.
I didn’t understand all of their actions.
“So, I want you to help me.”
[Do you need my help?]
The man’s voice trembled for a moment at my words. After crying as if he were moved, he slowly put one hand on his shoulder and bowed deeply.
[Even though I have already become a ghost, there’s only one reason why I cannot leave this mansion. It was to pay off the Verdi Household’s debt.]
“What is your name?”
[My name is Sukla Am, and it is an honor to finally be able to repay the grace I received 150 years ago from Dietros Verdi.]
“Even though I intend to go against the words of the current head of the household?”
[You, who awakened me, are the true master of Verdi.]
“………….”
I closed my mouth for a moment and looked at him. I felt uncomfortable when he said that he would follow me a bit too easily.
‘Anyway, I can’t act without him.’
Even though I wanted to jump out the window, I couldn’t even stick my face out due to the neatly utilized confinement magic known as Protection.
“Then, Sukla, are you an earthly spirit?”
[No, that’s not true. I can’t go too far, but I can move within Norseweden.]
“What about the mountains?”
[It’s possible.]
“Good. Then go to the Norseweden Mountains. I heard that the battle with the barbarians is in full swing, so I need to see how the situation is progressing.”
[I will serve you, Master.]
Sukla passed through a wall and disappeared. I sat calmly and tried to decipher the magic that kept me locked up in the room.
Then, the sound of heavy footsteps coming from outside disturbed my concentration.
After guessing the visitor’s identity, I asked the maid to bring a teapot and heat it to boil water.
Click.
The door, which didn’t even budge, no matter how much I turned the doorknob, opened smoothly.
“So, I guess you’re back after all?”
A woman with the same short black hair as me, wearing a light dress shirt and a skirt.
Deia Verdi, my sister as well as a woman who hated me with a burning passion.
Deia sneered with her big eyes, crossing her arms.
“What was it? I heard you came back after being called a Devil Worshiper.”
“Hoo, did you finish what you wanted to say?”
Deia, like the wind rushing in through a crack in the open door, reacted with anger as her veins bulged at my words.
“I told you not to talk like that, didn’t I? Did puberty arrive late? Where’s your old way of talking?”
“—I’m sorry if you miss my old way of talking.”
But this couldn’t be helped.
From now on, since I became Deus, I had no intention of changing my tone.
Because it was very frivolous.
“Do you really think I would miss it? A fucker who kept speaking to his younger sister about sex whenever he felt the slightest bit bored? Do you really think I would miss something like that?”
“…That.”
Yes, Deus Verdi was a crazy person. Even in this foreign land of Norseweden, he indulged in pleasure and enjoyment. He even made sexual advances toward his own blood-related younger sister, and actually propositioned her for a night together.
He was truly a madman among madmen.
A debauched man among debauched men. In terms of womanizing, he was a pro, and in terms of fondness for alcohol, he was a master. But he was not particularly strong or gifted with magical talent.
Deus Verdi was just a man who had a Noble Household of the frontier as his backer; someone who acted as if he was a tiger when he was only in a well.
“I’m sorry.”
After all, it was the original owner of this body, that I had possessed, who did it.
I had to apologize. I apologized several times already, but Deia just snorted.
“What a fucking joke. Take that shitty acting somewhere else. Or do it in moderation. How dare you act like an aristocrat when you’re anything but?”
“…………..”
“I know your nature. Do you know what I thought when you said you’d go to Loberne Academy, leaving your girlfriend and giving up sex to focus solely on your fiancée?”
Deia kicked the sofa I was sitting on. As a result, the tea I was brewing for her overflowed and spilled onto the floor.
“I thought you’d be back in just a month, because I know how many times you changed girls in a week. For your fiancée, I thought she’d last a month or so.”
“…………….”
“But it lasted for three months? How badly did you behave to be called a Devil Worshiper and get fired?”
“There’s a reason for that.”
“Reason! Yeah! There must be a reason why you’re blabbering away! Seeing that the Bright family hasn’t asked for your engagement to be broken yet, I guess you’ve been coaxing your fiancée well, haven’t you?”
“Haaaa…”
I was starting to get a headache.
I knew that I hurt her, so I was trying to be understanding, but now she was slowly going beyond the bounds.
“Stop it.”
“Stop it? Just because you asked me to stop, do you think I would…!”
Dark mana spurted out from my fingertips. It gently wrapped around Deia’s body and pushed her out the door.
“Fix your speech! I don’t want to see you come here everyday, laughing like a clown and spouting vulgar jokes! I can’t stand the sight of you! Moreover, it’s disgusting how you try to act as if you’re normal!”
“………………..”
“Just get out of the mansion! Get out of here!”
Bang!
The door closed, and Deia’s voice, still filled with rage, echoed from the outside.
“Whoooo.”
It’s been 6 months since I came to this world.
I spent three months at the mansion and three months at the academy.
Life was still difficult.
