Chapter 31 - Volume 3 (2/2)
“… Do you have any more?”
Millaine seems to have liked it quite a lot.
But…
“I’m sorry, Millaine. At the moment, I can’t easily give away a soul with [Karma] as deep as this [Traitorous 40-year-old Priest].”
In his youth, this pitiful man had no money to hire a healer to save his younger sister, who died from illness. As a result of his deep affection for her, he resented the church, and tried to drag innocent believers into his multiple-decade revenge plot on the church…
“When Fannie was taking a night stroll, she came across this present and took a slice of it.”
“Ehehehe”
When I patted her on the head and praised her, Fannie looked innocently happy.
Besides the Harlequin mask…
“Is that so …”
As Millaine gave a dejected expression, I jumped into the main topic for the night.
“Um, as I was saying, you should come take a stroll with me tonight, Millaine.”
“…Eh?”
A purpose of tonight’s tea party was to try to teach the vampires the taste of [Souls] and also to [Feed the Animals].
The other purpose was to have Millaine and her [Underlings] manage some of the [Underground Community] in the Holy Kingdom.
I smiled sweetly at her with a Demonic smile, and grasped her hands as I unfurled my wings.
“After this, we’ll teach you how to differentiate between the deliciousness of [Souls].”
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Although we moved to the Royal capital for the sake of going to school, there’s been practically no change to our lives.
I get to have Shelly’s fluffy sweetness during reading lessons and I was forced to have etiquette lessons with Betty. It seems my opportunities to play with them have increased.
And now we come to the problem, which is the talk going around the Magic Academy.
I expected there to be [Issues] from my performance during the opening ceremony, but underestimated them.
I’d enter the school, at first being drawn in and having my perspectives broadened, I’d become friends with my classmates, even if there were only a few, we would help each other in our studies, exchange side dishes from our boxed lunches, stray off into a forbidden flower garden where only upperclassmen could enter, spy on our elders, be helped by an attractive school council president after being persistently bullied…
I used to have those sorts of delusions daily.
Let me show you the reality.
*Zawa*…
Even though there are a lot of aristocrats at the school in the Royal Capital, they’re still children. Rather, due to the self-indulgent upbringing of many of these noble children, the unthinkably luxurious cafeteria in the school campus was very noisy. Suddenly, a commotion happened, and hundreds of people fell so silent that you could hear a pin drop.
But… I just showed up.
*Katsun*…
“ … Tch”
In the middle of that silence, a commoner girl a little in front of me dropped her spoon, unable to take the tension, and it rolled in front of my feet.
The nearby girl and the students around her instantly turned pale.
“……”
In that frozen atmosphere, Nia, who wore a weak smile, and Tina, who was perfectly expressionless, went out quietly ahead of me and gave the girl a quiet look.
The girl’s face passed through blue and went ghastly pale, trembling while visibly.
Upon seeing it, Nia leaked out a dangerous presence, and in the silence where one could hear a pin drop, Tina murmured “…Termite…” under her breath.
“……”
Ah, not good. This no-good servant.
Why did they become like this? Yep, it’s my fault.
Although all students are supposed to be treated as equal, regardless of whether they are nobles or commoners, a girl who was cherished by the Royal Family, with the wealth and power of a Ducal house, who was the [Princess], the [Face] of diplomatic relations for the Holy Kingdom, who displayed the power of a [Saint], and was treated by church officials like a tumor; if I was a normal girl, I’d never approach them either.
Now, what attitude should I be taking here…?
Option one. Riding on the flow of the mood, I ignore the girl and move on.
Actually, this would be the least harmful thing to do. The [Evil Ojou-sama] route is a straight ahead.
Option two. I pick up the spoon and hand it to her.
Although it sounds good, to put it bluntly it’s just self-satisfaction. If I get careless both she and [I] will be judged by the surrounding people.
Option three. Leave no witnesses. Although this would be the easiest to do, it’s a poor choice overall.
The result: The first option… Well, whatever. Properly thinking about it, things shouldn’t change too much.
It’s necessary for me to behave [Like a Human] for the sake of my peaceful life. After all, an inconspicuous life is for the best, really.
That being the case, when I tried to pass right by in my [Prickly (TL: Tsun)] Duke Daughter mode, I felt the release of a little Demonic magic from Nia, who was eagerly playing the role of a rough-mannered guard.
“Tei!”
I instinctively did a hand-chop to the back of Nia’s head, and she hits the floor.
Again, the dining hall became painfully quiet.
I’ve done it again.
A large shock wave moved through the air from the swing, if I acknowledged it, it’d be my loss.
Still, Nia is sturdy. Despite me having loaded enough magical power to shatter the thin bedrock, Nia lightened the blow considerably with [Absorption]. She looked up at me and sulked while rubbing the back of her neck.
“Sorry for the commotion.”
Saying that before anyone else could play the straight man and correct me, I hurried to the back of the dining hall.
My daily school life went on like that.
Let’s pray to not enter a suspicious [Route].