"Let show you what I'm talking about."
I put my hand to my neck, and as soon as I did that, Jas and all the students around prepared to pounce on , but I didn't care.
I took a necklace off my neck, and the little jewel on the necklace sparkled for a mont, and then the sparkle faded. I felt mana being drawn into my body, and then this mana suddenly burst out, and the students surrounding were pushed backward by the montary outflow of mana. I felt my body start to heat up, especially in my ears.
That was it, nothing had happened other than the montary outburst of mana and Jas continued to stare at blankly. Then, when he saw that nothing had happened, a crooked smile appeared on his face.
"Huh, so what? That's it?"
I raised my hand and held out my finger, Jas was completely focused on it. So I put my finger to my ear.
Jas's eyes slowly widened, then he jumped up.
"W- what? H- how could it be?!"
With real horror in his eyes, he froze, staring at sothing he could not believe he was seeing.
"You were an elf?!"
I lowered my finger, not changing my expression.
"Couldn't I be?"
Jas took a step back, then paused as if sothing had occurred to him. His eyes were focused on , mumbling.
"Liate... Liate! Laute Family!"
When he guessed my family from my last na, the others heard the na too. So, their eyes also widened in horror.
"You were asking what miraculous power can save , weren't you?"
He couldn't say a word. He was in such shock that he couldn't think straight.
"Anyway, it doesn't matter. I don't care what you do at the academy, as long as it doesn't touch . Although... since you know my identity, I might as well kill you, right?"
"S- sorry..."
Jas stepped back again. This ti as fast as he could. His arms just hung down the sides of his body as if his muscles were not listening to him.
He looked helpless. The boy who had terrorized the academy had kneeled so easily.
So complexes can be really hard to overco.
I ignored Jas and turned to the other boys.
"If you don't want to die, make a contract with each other, I'll tell you what it's about. Call the students from the other rooms. Don't miss a single one. And wake up that girl and bring her here."
I can't kill them even if I wanted to. We're inside the academy and there are caras everywhere. If we're seen entering the room together, I'm a suspect. Even though I'm using my family now, they're not really going to help .
That's how they made the girl and everyone in the next room co here. The students in the other rooms didn't understand what was going on when they first ca in, but when they read the situation and saw Jas collapsed, they shied away from . Then they started to pay a little attention to and their behavior changed in the sa way as the others.
Not a single one of them opposed , they didn't even try to give a hard ti. The Laute Family's notoriety was so strong that even though there was definitely soone among them who was stronger than , they could not make eye contact with .
It wasn't hard for them to realize what I was. They were so afraid of what might happen as a result of any action they might take after hearing about my family... it was almost comical.
Ignoring them, I looked at the unconscious girl, a bruised bump on her forehead, just like Jas had said.
"Wake her up."
The boys quickly shook her. She started to moan as she fluttered her eyes from the headache, but it wasn't long before she finally opened her eyes and focused on her surroundings. Looking at the students around her, she was montarily stunned to see that they were all like obedient dogs, waiting for my orders. When her eyes caught sight of Jas, she relaxed so much that it was as if she had passed from hell to heaven.
Then she finally turned to . She paused for a mont, then her eyes shifted to the side of my head and she was as shocked as the others.
Well... It was surprising to see an elf in a human academy in a human country.
"Please don't get any silly ideas about being your savior. You will have the sa contract as the others, only yours will be a bit special."
The girl didn't seem to understand what I was saying, but I ignored her.
"See if you have enough contracts."
As soon as those words left my mouth, the boys in front of started fighting.
"W- Who has a contract?!"
"I do! Co here!"
"N- no! I don't have a contract! Sobody help !"
The room was suddenly chaotic. The students started shouting at each other, while the girl in the middle kept looking around in confusion. She couldn't make sense of what was happening, but she didn't need to.
After all, she would forget everything.
Once everyone was gathered, I began to arrange the contents of the contract they would sign, the most important clause being that if they left this room in any way, they would forget the last day. They would rember neither , nor what they had co here for, nor who they had seen.
They would go straight to their rooms, go to sleep and forget everything. The girl will sleep in her room as she went to bed and wake up with her mory changed.
Of course, if there is soone out there who knows what happened here, they have to make them sign the sa contract before they go to sleep and forget everything. With their lives on the line, it's impossible for them to do anything wrong.
The students hesitated when they heard the contract terms, but without much ado, they started signing contracts with each other.
Since most of them had already kept their contract rights, there was no such thing as soone being left out.
Since they included in the contracts, I verified the content of each of them and allowed everyone who had signed a contract to co out.
Then they quickly rushed out of the room. Jas's authority was gone.
"You're staying, Jas. And..."
I couldn't rember her na, so I looked at her and motioned for her to co to .
"Co here."
Jas paused and slowly turned around to look at . There was fear on his face, an expression he probably hadn't made in a long ti.
She was just like him. She understood that I was not his friend.
Adrian was still lying on the floor and there were only the four of us left in the room, the last person to leave had closed the door and Jas and the girl were looking at nervously.
I took a deep breath and stood up. I went to the girl first, then I hit her hard on the head. She couldn't even resist. The swelling on her head got a little bigger and she fainted.
Jas looked at her in horror. He was terrified even though I had only hit her.
I picked her unconscious body up and went to her room, put her on her bed in a cursory manner, closed the door, and went back to Adrian and Jas.
This ti I turned to Jas and started to walk toward him. The fear in his eyes intensified.
"W- what do you want?"
"Ah... Nothing, actually."
I just need a scapegoat.
I put my necklace back on, which I took off, and the mana in the air was drawn into my body. And then, just like before, a warmth spread through my whole body, especially my ears, and that was the end of it.
I put my finger to my ears, confird that they were just like a normal people, and then I turned to Jas.
I sighed when I saw that he was still scared to death. I walked over to him and hit him hard on the head like I had just done to the girl. Jas was suddenly pinned against the wall, but he didn't faint. His eyes were fixed on in fear.
"I'm sorry! I swear I won't even let you see !"
I didn't say anything, I moved closer to him and hit him once more on the head. He didn't faint again.
He wasn't fainting because of the difference in strength between us, but he couldn't react to as if he was dizzy. So, I hit him one last ti, this ti a little harder, so he finally managed to faint, and before his eyes closed, he looked for one last way out, but it was futile. Even though he was stronger than , he couldn't fight back because he knew my last na.
"Haaa..."
I took a deep breath, then looked at Adrian lying on the floor.
He was completely defenseless. The one person I could bla for my act was unconscious just off to the side. The mories of all those who went out would be erased tomorrow, and those who wouldn't be erased would take care of themselves.
All I have to do is kill Adrian and injure myself in a way that makes it look like I ca out of a fight and passed out. And then it would be easy... I could finish this today.
I pulled three dinsional buttons out of my pocket, two of them containing fingerprint-proof gloves, the other a small but very sharp dagger.
I looked again at Adrian's defenseless body, slipped the gloves over my hands, gripped the dagger tightly, and walked up to him, crouched down on top of him.
I looked into his closed eyes again, then sighed deeply and slowly raised my dagger.
I prepared myself, then lowered the dagger.
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