-Tick.
"Keep them out of here...!"
"Yeah! Let's throw the fuse!!! Then we can buy some time!"
"Save me...save me!"
"Shut up! You started this, so you have to take responsibility!"
-Tick. Tick… .
"We... no, it was my fault! I shouldn't have ignored the healing faculty."
"...okay?"
"My magic power is completely gone and I can barely stand. If you buff me, I'll use bombardment magic to protect you…."
"...throw it."
"what...?"
"If you did something wrong, you should hit me with your body...! Throw me!!! We're going to die from exhaustion too!!!"
"Wait...just a minute!!!"
[Current time: 1:30 PM]
I glanced at my watch, nodded slightly, and spoke to Elicia. I thought it was time to stop, if things had gone this way.
"Should we stop here?"
"I think that's what we should do. It seems like the other students have reached their limits too."
"Yes."
As Elicia waved her hand, the advancing undead army stopped and began to enter the giant door.
-Ugh...
-Salgogi...
-hungry....
It is a military force operated by an individual.
'i envy you.'
I marveled at Elicia's ability to command even heavily armored skeletons, including giant undead, and nodded in envy. Having more troops seemed like a simple way to make household chores easier.
'But there is romance in being a prosecutor.'
I shrugged, looked up at the sky, and smiled brightly at the fallen students. Those who had been fighting separately were now stuck together, as if they'd never fought before.
The healing and magic departments were as cold as ice.
"Ugh...ugh...I'm alive."
"I'm keeping quiet because of you."
"...sorry."
Ruin and Shuendo.
"Shooting meteors was fun... I want to do it again."
"Don't say anything scary."
"Shut up you green algae head!"
"ha..."
It was nice to see them looking up at the same sky and sighing in relief.
The students' expressions as they watched me slowly approach weren't pleasant, but I figured it was okay since I got decent results. There had to be a villain, no matter where I went.
I smiled faintly and spoke softly to the students, asking if they were going to fight any longer.
"Do you understand?"
"Ugh... Ugh..."
"It is easier to defeat a strong enemy by joining forces than by fighting."
"..."
"When faced with an unbeatable opponent, the 'pruning' strategy demonstrated by the Healing and Magic Faculty students is only possible through cooperation."
"...that."
"Haha! Of course, it's okay when an individual's power is overwhelmingly strong... but that's what I'm saying, cooperation is that important."
I looked at the students and said with a bright smile.
"Then, we will conclude the morning class for the second day here."
The moment the words "hell is over" left my mouth, the students collapsed to the floor, clenching their fists.
"It's finally over..."
"I'm just going back and sleeping."
“I’m so hungry….”
I clapped my hands and continued talking to the students.
"After lunch, we will begin our afternoon classes."
The day is long.
"please..."
"Please save me..."
"mom..."
***
Today, too, the Duke Desmund's residence is peaceful.
"Hoooom..."
Olivia, lying on the floor, was spending her lazy time enjoying the leisure of the world.
"Haaaam..,"
It's already been three days since Ricardo hasn't come home because of work.
"I'm bored."
At first, when Ricardo left her with Abby, Olivia was happy because she could eat chocolate as much as she wanted, but as Ricardo's absence became longer, boredom began to creep in.
"Eeeeek..."
Because playing with Ricardo is the most fun.
-Gulp...
"hungry..."
Olivia, who was lying down with Gomtang as a pillow, grabbed the jerky Gomtang was biting and spoke in a low voice.
"biltong."
-bear?
"Give it to me."
-Take care.
"Eeeeek..."
-Goooom...
“Let’s share it….”
Olivia clenched her fist at Gomtang's arrogant rebellion, which saw her trying to eat the jerky her master had given her alone.
"It's mine...!"
-Thinking...
"Eeeeek!!!"
Jerky that won't fall out of your mouth no matter how hard you pull.
-Take care.
Gomtang-i laughed and munched on the jerky as if teasing Olivia.
"On the subject of bears...!"
Olivia wanted to turn him into jerky, but decided to be a good person and held back. She grabbed Gomtang's face and shook it.
"Give it to me!"
-bear.
"octopus!"
-Muung?
"Take that away."
-Moonwoooow.
-bear?
-Wow!
Tangtang, who was pushed back in the ranking fight, was so discouraged by Gomtang's cold gaze that he went under the bed that said [Octopus Cave].
"...Pig Bear."
-bear.
"Eat it and become a pig."
-Take care.
Olivia let out a ragged breath, let out a sigh of annoyance, and went back to her boring time.
"I'm bored..."
Because no one played with me. There was nothing to play with.
Reading books is not fun.
Because Dad said he was busy and didn't play with me.
-Abby.
-Why are you calling, Olivia?
-I want to fly in the sky.
-Hmm... I think today will be tough.
-Why?
-They said the imperial family had something to discuss about authority in the east.
-I hate you, Dad.
-I hate the emperor too.
"I'm bored..."
Olivia let out a languid yawn and rolled over on the gomtang, groaning. She could tolerate other things, but boredom was hard to bear.
"...You shouldn't work too much."
Olivia, worried about Ricardo, who had become busy recently, sighed and sat down under the dresser, dragging her still legs, her eyes widening.
“There are no toys here….”
Since she had left all her toys at the mansion in Hamel, Olivia began to search through the drawers, hoping to find something, and began to unearth artifacts that she had not yet discovered.
When I lived in the capital city mansion, I would hide shiny stones and chocolates in the drawers to eat without Ricardo knowing.
-Flutter around.
Tangtang, who was interested in Olivia's back view with her face buried in the drawer, poked her head out from under the bed and started looking at Olivia's butt.
-Muung?
"It's gone..."
-Wow...
"This isn't fun either..."
The most peculiar person I've ever met.
Although he hadn't met many people because he was stuck in the deep sea, Tangtang, who saw the most animalistic people he had ever met, was constantly looking at Olivia's back.
Because the sight of Olivia rummaging through drawers looked like an octopus making a burrow.
-Muung...
"profit..."
-...
"Wow?! I found chocolate!
-Muung?
"Yum yum... ugh... it doesn't taste good."
-Muung...
"What is this?"
After providing Tangtang with something to look at for a while, Olivia took out a small notebook from deep within a drawer and tilted her head.
"oh..."
[Diary]
A diary I wrote when I was very young.
-It's a diary.
-Writing a diary is no fun.
-It's not fun, but it'll be fun to watch when you grow up.
-Is it fun...?
-I'll write it too.
Olivia, looking at her childhood diary, smiled slightly and began reading the old passages. She, too, was someone who enjoyed memories.
"good."
Olivia rolled over again and began reading her diary, using Gomtang's body as a pillow.
-bear...
"Don't ask!!!"
-Thinking...
The first diary is, of course.
[Title: Naming a Beggar]
[Date: December 1, 2013]
[Weather: Good]
It was an embarrassing story.
*
[I picked up a new beggar on the street today.]
14 years ago.
When Olivia's cheeks were chubby and puffy.
Olivia, who had the nickname of "bad boy" that suited her better than anyone else, spoke confidently in front of the rascally boy in front of the Desmund family head.
"Father."
"...you can't get married."
"Huh? I'm not getting married."
"That's good. But who is this kid?"
The head of Desmund's family looked at the child with a puzzled expression. At the time, he didn't know what purpose the child had in coming to the mansion. From his gaunt figure, which seemed unusual for his age, to the bandages wrapped around his abdomen, there were so many suspicious elements that he couldn't help but be suspicious.
The daughter had told herself.
"I'm going to raise it."
I want to raise a child that I found, not a puppy.
Seriously, I wanted to join in on my daughter's hilarious antics, but Darbab had so many enemies that I was tempted to decline. I figured if I left her at the family-run orphanage, her life would be better.
but.
"I'm going to raise it!"
"...Olivia."
"I'll give you food and water."
"This guy is not an animal."
"Hey, friend."
Darbab gave in to the request of his daughter, who had brought him here as a friend for the first time. There was no reason to so abruptly refuse the request of his only daughter.
"Okay. I'll allow it."
"Thank you, Dad!"
"Let me tell Rosanna."
"Tell Amy I said thank you too."
"Haha... I see."
[The beggar said he had no name.]
With permission, I had to give a name to the nameless little boy. The beggar had asked me to give him a cool name.
If you were going to give me a name, I asked you to give me a name that made me sound strong, like Dark Leon, but the only names that came to mind were 'Ugly One' and 'Red One'.
I said to the beggar.
"Red."
"That's a bit..."
"Why? Isn't it bad when your hair turns red?"
"...I think it'll be strange in many ways."
"Hmm... that's tricky."
"It's a name I'll be called my whole life. I think it would be nice if you gave it a plausible name."
"Then, Joo-hong."
"..."
It was fun.
Talking to this guy like this.
Other people would bow down to me and call me a princess, but it was fun because it was the first time I had ever been so quiet and didn't say a word.
So I said.
"Ricardo."
The stupidest name ever.