Chapter 116
TN: Thank Nepper for the chapter.
TL/PR: Ruminas; ED: novicelily
Clana was in a good mood today as well.
For her, even walking outside the church was happiness.
Everything was new.
The Saint Clana was loved wherever she went.
The pouring attention from outside was a bit burdensome at first, but once she got used to it, she liked that too.
Above all, she was doing what the abbesses had told her to do now.
The outside world was beautiful.
At least more so than the dark interior of the church.
If the restraints that were tied were released, would it feel like this?
Somehow, she felt liberated.
However, that feeling didn’t last long.
‘What should I do when I’m alone?’
It was because Clana had never done anything without someone’s orders.
She had never learned to think for herself.
So she repeatedly walked the streets inside the academy without a destination.
For now, she has the status of an academy student, but she couldn’t join any department.
She doesn’t have mana in her body to enter the Combat Magic Department, and it’s ambiguous to join the Swordsmanship Department.
So Clana is classified as a special department, and even attending classes is of her own accord.
But Clana, who has never thought for herself, didn’t even know what classes she should take and what she should do by taking classes.
It was the result of the abbesses, who cared for her terribly, raising her with the wrong education.
Clana was floating on a vast ocean in a small boat.
Without a compass or a map.
I don’t know.
‘She, who hasn’t learned anything about this world, doesn’t know anything.’
She was just wandering.
***
When there are beautiful flowers, bugs are bound to follow.
Even more so for an innocent girl like Clana who knows nothing.
The Imperial Academy has quite a lot of beauties.
Iria in the 1st year is like that, and Sera in the 2nd year is pretty good-looking if you exclude her unique personality.
But the two people mentioned earlier are big trouble if you mess with them.
No one didn’t know what happened to the bugs that approached Iria or Sera without knowing they had thorns until now.
So, their next target was Clana.
She was wandering with a face that looked like she knew nothing and was clueless.
As the abbesses ordered, she followed Ariel’s footsteps, and delinquent-looking guys approached her.
Just in time, they pressured Clana, standing in a corner of the academy as if surrounding her.
“Hey, do you have a boyfriend?”
“What? No, I don’t.”
“Then do you want to hang out with us after class? What class are you taking, Saint?”
“Uh…… I’m taking the basics of swordsmanship class today.”
It was a lecture that Ariel was taking.
She doesn’t know what it is, but she followed along to complete the task the abbesses ordered.
She had to become close with him to carry out the order.
And,
“That’s great. I’m taking that lecture too. Wanna go together?”
Coincidentally, the delinquents surrounding Clana were also students in the Swordsmanship Department.
Clana had a bit of a troubled expression.
Because becoming close to the delinquents wasn’t something the abbesses had ordered.
She doesn’t do things that aren’t ordered.
And even Clana knows that they approached with impure intentions.
Their expressions were ominous, and their hands stroking Clana’s arms were sticky.
Clana felt the emotions of unpleasantness and fear for the first time since coming out.
She, who had just come out of the warm greenhouse and into the world, was unsophisticated in many ways.
She learns that there are beautiful things in the world outside, but also things that are not.
“I, I have somewhere to go now……”
It was her own way of refusing.
Because before going to the academy, she was taught by the abbesses not to follow strange people.
The strange people the abbesses talked about must be those kinds of people.
Clana could instinctively know that.
However, Clana also doesn’t know how to strongly refuse.
There’s no way she would know.
So she couldn’t push them away.
So this is the result.
“Where do you have to go? We’re just asking you to hang out for a bit. What’s the big deal. We’re not that bad of people. Right?”
“Ugh, ugh……”
The delinquents saw Clana’s half-hearted reaction and stuck to her more.
It was a situation where Clana, who was terrified by the treatment she was feeling for the first time, was about to use the blessing of holiness.
“Kuh-huk!!”
The sound of something getting hit with a thud rang out.
The rough-looking man who touched Clana flew into the air.
Did someone come to help her?
The man who was kicked was kicked so hard that he couldn’t move for a while.
Clana slowly raised her head, which she had lowered.
She thought of the face of the hero she had exchanged words with this time, but the one who helped her wasn’t Ariel.
In the first place, he, who is kind to everyone, rarely uses violence against regular students.
The person who helped Clana had a much colder and youthful face.
Silver hair fluttered long.
She had the same hair color as herself, but she was a little different from Clana.
The red eyes that contrasted with the blue color were flashing.
“Ah, shit…… Who are you?”
The kicked man scratches his head and turns his head irritably.
“Gasp!”
But he immediately lowered his head.
Because the person he should never turn against in the academy was in front of his eyes.
“It, it’s Iria! Run away!”
“……”
As they were good-for-nothing guys, running away was instantaneous.
Was it the influence of the match against Amelia?
After that, many ran away as soon as they saw Iria.
Regardless, Iria turns her gaze towards Clana.
She reached out to the fallen Clana and helped her up.
“Are you okay?”
“Gasp……”
To Clana, Iria, who came to save her right away, looked like a hero.
***
Iria sighed lightly as she looked at Clana with bugs attracted to her.
Was she originally that kind of person?
Probably not.
Iria has lost her memory, but to her, Clana’s appearance like that felt very awkward.
At least she wouldn’t have been a fool who knows nothing.
‘How far has the development changed?’
The most suspicious thing is, of course, Sertia’s death.
Considering the circumstances so far, Clana entering the academy is something that happens because of Sertia’s death.
Then, she wouldn’t have been able to avoid death, even in the original novel.
But with Iria’s intervention, Sertia died faster than scheduled.
As a result, it would be reasonable to think that Clana came to the academy when she wasn’t ready yet.
Iria was directly seeing with her own eyes the catastrophe and butterfly effect she had created.
Looking at Clana in a predicament, Iria pondered for a moment.
Whether she should help her or not.
Perhaps the development that should have happened in the original novel was twisted because of her.
It was something that inevitably happened as long as Iria existed in this world.
Then, is everything related to her twisted and messed up?
Or, from a third-party perspective, is it something that has nothing to do with Iria?
“……”
To conclude, it wasn’t completely unrelated.
‘Because I have to end this world and return to where I originally was.’
At this rate, she may not be able to see the end of this world.
‘That isn’t what I want.’
She was most concerned about being trapped in this world without an ending.
So she decided to move.
If Clana came out without knowing anything about the outside society, she would only let her see the cruelty of reality.
Iria, who fell into a world she doesn’t know, also grew up in back alleys.
When you don’t know, the fastest and most certain way is to learn roughly by getting hit.
Iria recalled the back alley-style etiquette education while reminiscing about the past momentarily.
“Uh…… Thank you for saving me. May I ask your name……”
“Are you thankful?”
“Yes, yes.”
Clana shone her blue eyes brightly and looked at Iria’s face.
And.
“Then pay me money. Don’t you know there’s nothing free in this world?”
Iria responded to Clana with a cold expression.
“……What?”
Clana’s face was colored with perplexity.
She looked like she doubted her own ears.
She blinks her eyes and tilts her head on the spot.
Iria recites the back alley survival knowledge she learned from her friend in front of Clana one by one.
“In this world, you should be wary of ‘white’ people; kindness without reason doesn’t exist…… Ah, and surviving means you’re strong.”
Iria was nice, showed kindness without reason, and was strong because she survived.
So she extorts money.
This is Clana’s fault for not being wary, even with three risk factors.
Clana washed her two eyes and looked at the person before her again.
“What are you doing? Not taking out money right away. Do you want to become like them, too?”
The “white” girl Clana faced again wasn’t a hero.
If there is something called the Seed of the Demon King, wouldn’t it look like that?
Clana opened her wallet with tears in her eyes.
White is used in the sense of good. I’m not gonna say more.
