Chapter 37
Chapter 37
An Overwhelming Favor?
“Lady Betelgeuse… earlier, you deflected the stray magic projectile that was flying toward me, did you not? I am grateful.”
Surprisingly, Isolde Polzen expressed her gratitude to Idnia.
Though she had disliked Idnia for the rudeness of publicly breaking off her engagement with Crown Prince Rudolf, that was one matter and this was another.
It was an attack she could have blocked with her own skill, but since it came from a blind spot, it had been dangerous.
Moreover, from the moment Idnia deflected it, Professor Rakias had suddenly begun acting strangely and went berserk….
‘Of course, it’s because of the Overlord Technique, but she wouldn’t know that….’
Idnia cleared her throat and accepted Isolde’s thanks.
“Please, just call me Idnia. I will call you Isolde as well. And there is no need to thank me. I merely overstepped. You could have handled it yourself.”
“No. It was a great help. I cannot even imagine what might have happened if I had been caught up in that.”
“More importantly, if Professor Rakias’s class is like this, it will be troublesome going forward. What do you think, Assistant?”
Idnia asked Assistant Clarisse.
Do such incidents happen often in Rakias’s class?
“It’s not something that happens often, Lady Idnia. It’s quite rare. So, um… about once a month?”
“…….”
Was that considered rare?
But Assistant Clarisse spoke with complete sincerity, not as a joke, and even yawned.
“Ah… anyway, since class ended earlier than expected, I should at least get ten minutes of sleep. Later, when I’m on duty, I have to monitor the magically cultivated creature cells in the lab so they don’t escape….”
“…….”
Hearing that, Idnia clicked her tongue.
‘Those escape pretty often. As events in the game….’
After experiencing such a shocking incident, the students naturally made their way to the shop.
Until now, they had only cared about snacks and food, but this time their attention shifted to other items in the shop.
Talismans were being sold on the display stand, but rather than proper talismans, they looked like cheap tin badges with a string attached to wear as a necklace.
No wonder they burned up like that….
But perhaps the academy intentionally mass-produced these fragile, disposable talismans to make money off the students.
A fallen-angel talisman to resist Professor Rakias’s charm cost 10 Aka Coins.
A heat-resistant talisman to endure Professor Magram’s flames cost 5 Aka Coins.
“Hmm. If these were permanent items, they’d be incredibly cheap… but as consumables with durability limits, they’re quite costly.”
After examining them, Idnia reluctantly bought a talisman to resist Professor Rakias.
Unlike the other students, she possessed traits that provoked Rakias, so she had no choice but to buy it.
“Ah, um, Lady Idnia. Are you alright?”
Marie, Idnia’s roommate and rival candidate for sainthood, approached her.
“Ah, yes. Lady Marie. What about you?”
“Embarrassingly enough, I ran away.
The aura I felt from Professor Rakias was so ominous and… how should I put it…
Sinister.
So I got scared and fled. Even so, I’m supposed to be a candidate for sainthood….”
“No, you did the right thing by running. There were too many people at the time, and if things had gotten chaotic, it could have blocked the exits and people might have fallen and been trampled.”
“Still, it’s embarrassing. I heard you jumped out of the window, Lady Idnia? Are you alright?”
“Yes.”
At that moment, Sendia Aspinal approached them.
“What are you two doing here? Hungry? Did you eat everything I gave you?”
“Ah, Lady Sendia.”
“By the way, now that the shop has opened, the students of the southern Notos dormitory don’t look too pleased. Well, they were selling mediocre goods, and now the academy has opened a shop and is selling proper items. Hehe, it’s quite satisfying to see them at a loss.”
Sendia spoke with clear amusement.
Considering how eagerly she had used the black market run by the Notos dormitory, her enjoyment of watching those merchants lose their competitiveness suggested she had a rather spiteful nature that took pleasure in others’ misfortune.
‘Young Master Lorenzo already knew about the items sold in the shop.
The black market is merely a ploy to obscure their true objective… but I must not reveal that I know this.’
Thanks to the game, Idnia already knew the real purpose behind Young Master Lorenzo starting the black market in the academy.
However, revealing that fact would turn Lorenzo and his subordinates into enemies.
Not just enemies, but possibly irreconcilable ones, so Idnia decided to remain silent.
“Still, this academy is frightening. I can somewhat understand now why graduates are told to keep their mouths shut. If monsters like that could appear in Dunais through teleportation gates, people would definitely be terrified.
Even the Trinity Church would be shocked. No matter that they’re prisoners, if they learned that such blasphemous beings are teaching students….”
“The Church already knows. They just don’t make it public.”
At Marie’s reply, Sendia nodded.
Meanwhile, some students could be seen approaching the Notos black market merchants to purchase their goods.
The shop’s items were expensive and mostly snacks, but the seasonings sold by the Notos merchants acted like side dishes that made the cafeteria food more palatable.
Since one couldn’t survive on snacks alone, and considering cost-effectiveness, the Notos goods still held value.
‘More importantly, what should I do tonight? I still have some mana left, so I’d like to sneak into the alchemy lecture hall again, but the headmaster already knows…
Come to think of it, I’ve now seen all five prisoners of the Empire with my own eyes.’
Having now personally witnessed all five prisoners of the Empire, whom she had only seen in the game before, Idnia decided to evaluate their individual dangers and characteristics.
First, the dragon mage Vuremhilde.
He is willful, violent, and greedy, but precisely because of that, he dislikes being confined in the academy for long.
In other words, he hates extending his sentence by causing trouble, making him relatively easy to deal with.
Though he speaks harshly, he would not harm students if it meant prolonging his imprisonment.
Next, the succubus revolutionary Sadia.
She is a political prisoner.
Devoted to her ideology and revolutionary spirit, if her beliefs demanded it, she might willingly extend her own sentence—unlike Vuremhilde.
In that sense, she is extremely dangerous….
Fortunately, Idnia understands her ideology and does not inherently conflict with it.
‘Well, I’m not particularly in favor of a rigid class system either.
Though her peculiar tendency to support… unconventional love is something I’d rather not become the target of.’
Next, Magram, the genie of the lamp.
At first glance, he appears gentle and reasonable, but as a being who grants wishes, a genie is in some ways more dangerous than a demon.
Magram is obsessed with wealth, goods, and treasures to fulfill others’ wishes, and he considers Dunais Academy the easiest place to obtain such riches, which is why he deliberately remains here.
His wish-granting magic is powerful, complex, and bound by fate—something even the other prisoners cannot replicate…
If one has no intention of making a wish, the only trouble he poses is dealing with his greed.
The fallen angel Rakias.
This one is dangerous by his very existence.
In the Trinity faith, angels are regarded as messengers of the divine.
However, according to magical research, angels are independent extra-dimensional beings, separate from the gods. Some of their domains are appropriated by benevolent gods, but even the gods do not fully control them—they merely summon them.
Angels are entities distinct from gods. Though individually weaker, they are still beings from another dimension.
They cannot be understood or measured by the human mind, and Rakias embodies this nature.
He feels intense love and affection for all living humans, but he is especially obsessed with Overlord Yurik, the ancestor of the Betelgeuse ducal house.
However, his love manifests as a grotesque curse that mortals cannot endure…
In the worst case, one ends up becoming a teaching assistant.
‘Hmm. That’s serious. I don’t want to become a teaching assistant. Absolutely not!’
And finally, Headmaster Ludwig Blackblad, the vampire.
While the other prisoners’ crimes and how they were defeated and imprisoned are known, his identity, reasons for being at the academy, and even why he is the headmaster remain undisclosed even beyond Season 3 of the game.
‘At least, that’s all the information that was revealed while I was alive.’
Speculation from online communities suggested that he was one of the academy’s founders.
Among the five prisoners of the Empire, he plays a role in controlling the others, especially Rakias, and even the arrogant Vuremhilde yields to him.
As the headmaster, he is likely the strongest among them… though as a vampire, he has the inherent weakness of being in poor condition during the day.
Still, considering he does not turn to ash in sunlight, he is far better off than vampires of old tales.
Compared to the other professors, Idnia found him relatively reasonable.
She also sensed that he held a certain favor toward her.
Because she is Yurik’s descendant?
Or because she stood against Rakias during his rampage?
Either way, it seemed she had made a good impression through an event that did not exist in the game.
‘Though I did end up revealing my Overlord Technique.
Hmm. Personally, I think appearances don’t matter, but they’ll probably assume I suppress it for the sake of high society.
Ah, but because of Professor Rakias, I have to suppress it within the academy anyway.’
Recalling how Rakias had gone berserk in response to the Overlord Technique, Idnia shuddered.