Episode 23
Translator: RaidenTL
Episode 23
There was no reply. Noticing the chill in the room, Elysia shrugged and left, the clicking of her still-unfamiliar shoes echoing behind her.
He’s such a diligent, hardworking man; he must have gone to his lab at the crack of dawn.
Savoring the cool morning air, Elysia walked to the main gate of Minerva, only to frown at the sight of a crowd murmuring near the entrance.
“What the hell is this?”
The roundabout, which should have been a smooth flow of carriages coming and going, was completely blocked as if something were in the way. Tilting her head, Elysia pushed her way through the tightly packed students.
It was, for lack of a better word, a totally shitty feeling. And whenever she felt this way, something always went wrong.
Just then, a crackling system window popped up to deliver the fucking news.
SYSTEM: Congratulations! You have arrived at the scene of <1st Degree Property Damage>, where an artwork valued at 120,000 Gold has been destroyed!
Why the fuck are my bad feelings never wrong…
With a hollow expression, Elysia stared at the brutally damaged canvas, which was easily over two meters long.
As if to mock its creator, the painting was horribly torn through the center and lay in a heap at the carriage entrance. And at the bottom right, a phrase was scrawled in bright red paint.
Elysia tilted her head, reading the words that had been written in deliberate block letters, as if to hide the writer's true hand.
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
Whoever did this, they really wanted to fuck with someone.
Just as she was about to whistle, she spotted the back of a man trembling as he stared at the ruined painting. Elysia slowly walked closer, and as the angle shifted, a face steeped in despair was gradually revealed. She frowned.
That couldn’t be…
Then, she suddenly realized.
Ah, that was the piece Little Count Violante was going to submit to the Art Festival.