Became a Lazy Confucius at the Academy

4 – Meeting the Villainess

Ruid took out a feather from a phoenix and put it in the pillow.

“I brought it because I said it would be enough.”

Of course, there was no tag with just one feather. As she pondered what to do, Ruid grabbed the Phoenix’s feather and infused her with mana.

Most of the problems here can be solved with magic, so it was an action.

“Wow.”

Fortunately, it was the correct answer. The phoenix’s feathers were stretched in two.

Ruid continued to multiply. After about 3 minutes, a bunch of phoenix feathers gathered.

“But I wonder if this is really good as a pillow material.”

The feathers of the phoenix are strangely shaped. It was distinctly different from the feathers of common birds. It looked like a mixture of blue and golden flames.

It wasn’t hot, though. The pillow cover was cloth. Physiological rejection took precedence.

But since I brought it, I decided to test it out. Louise gathered a lot of broken feathers on her floor and put them in the pillow’s blood.

Fortunately, the pillow blood did not burn.

“A bit lacking.”

It seemed to be less than expected, so she put her hand in the pillow’s blood and put mana in it.

The blue light flashed several times, and before I knew it, the pillow had swelled to a suitable size.

Ruid started to do some magical treatments on the cloth. Waterproof magic, frequent washing magic, durability increase magic, and so on.

“Is this enough?”

Ruid, who cast several overlapping spells, looked at the pillow. The pillow, which was covered with white cloth and mixed with blue and gold, was very pretty.

“Hmm… ….”

Ruid reached out and added one of his spells.

That was thermal magic. It’s an idea from a burning feather. Wouldn’t there be something like a massage effect?

Gulp.

Ruid swallowed.

He put the pillow right in the middle and lay down on it very carefully.

“——!”

A warm pillow wraps around your neck. Phoenix’s feathers were like cotton candy. It supported my neck perfectly without any resistance.

The feeling of cutting through the clouds.

Feels like floating in the sky.

Overall review of Phoenix’s pillow…….

“Zzz… ….”

No words were needed.

**

——

– The president’s anger.

Around 10:30 am today, the feathers of Phoenix, the President’s family, were forcibly robbed.

Upon hearing the news, the president was furious and announced that he would take action to retrieve the phoenix, which was fully disclosed for the students of the Great Imperial Academy.

The name of the person who stole the phoenix’s feather without permission is .

He is a first-year wizard freshman who is also famous for being a genius, but he has harmed everyone with the arrogance of a genius. On the other hand, Ruid’s student is known to not even have an apology and is being criticized by many.

Skills are important, but he seems to lack the most important virtue as a mage, ‘personality’.

——

In front of the poster of the Imperial Academy.

Many students were gathering and chatting.

“Isn’t that too much?”

“It’s really selfish…… “

‘Phoenix Feather’ used as a very important magical material

Until now, it was possible to get it for free if you were qualified with the consideration of the president, but now it is no longer possible.

That confused many wizards. Naturally, the arrow was directed at Ruid.

“I didn’t like that sloth Gongja from the beginning.”

“Right. They boast about being geniuses. You said you never came to class?”

“Ha…… I really could have gotten it with just a little more. I mean, I became friends with Phoenix-sama.”

“The rumor that Windsor is a madman must have been true.”

Among the dogs, the people who were most angry were probably the people who could be obtained with just ‘a little more’.

The feather of a phoenix was a reward given as a sign of trust when you became friends with a phoenix.

And here.

There was a person who was particularly angry.

“What?!”

Hersi Minerva, the daughter of the Marquis of Minerva.

She looked at her poster and couldn’t contain her astonishment.

“Hey, you can’t get the phoenix feather anymore?”

Her eyes seemed to go dark.

Hercy also went up and down the 1004 stairs every single day to obtain the ‘Phoenix Feather’, the best magic wand material.

I could have gotten it with just a little more……

“Ah, ah.”

Hersy tore her hair. Her efforts over the past month have been in vain.

“I can’t forgive you.”

Hersy shook her car in her rage.

Unable to stand it, she quickly moved to her place.

To the Lakes of Delrin—

**

Meanwhile, Ruid, who had no way of knowing about this commotion, smiled.

“Hey, this is a thing. It is a thing.”

He lovingly stroked a pillow made of phoenix feathers.

It was truly a magical pillow that made me fall asleep as soon as I lay down.

It was time for Louis to feel grateful to the professor and decide to buy him a present later.

“Louid Christopher! Are you there?!”

A high-pitched voice pierced the forest.

Wanting someone, I looked in the direction where the voice came from.

Soon after, a girl with red hair approached merrily.

“Who?”

“…… This is Minerva Hercy.”

Hersie flinched briefly at the sight of Ruid, who seemed harmless again, but her anger did not subside because her only person was rather handsome.

“You. What have you done now…… “

Just as he was about to speak in an angry voice, Hersey saw a pillow shimmering with colorful lights in her field of vision.

“Stop, no way.”

Hersy strode towards her with a look of disbelief on her face.

Louis thought as he quietly hid her pillow behind her back.

‘Why is he here?’

Minerva Hercy was a familiar name.

One of the main villains in this novel.

The character who will play the biggest role in the series of events in the beginning.

‘I have to send it back quickly.’

“That, that. What’s in the pillow, no way, no way… It’s not a phoenix feather, right?”

“That’s right.”

Hersy sighed.

Are you using the feathers of the phoenix, called the ‘repository of magic’, for just such a thing?

“Me, me.”

“Mi?”

“Are you crazy!”

Hersie shuddered and tried to snatch the pillow from Louise’s hand.

Ruid dodged.

For a moment, Hersy tried to touch her pillow, and Luid tried to hide her pillow.

Hersy grabbed her by the back of the neck.

She asked with a puzzled look.

“… Do you know what it is now?”

Ruid pondered over how to defeat Hercy.

This is because she wanted to avoid situations where she was involved with a major character.

This is in a novel. There was no doubt that a lot of annoying things would happen if I got involved with them.

“Why did you come here?”

“The president retrieved the phoenix. You disregarded the procedure and stole the feathers of the phoenix at will!”

‘That’s how it happened. I was nervous for no reason.’

As soon as it seemed like it was no big deal, Ruid’s interest faded.

“I’m sorry. Then go.”

“Ah, yes I see…… Hey?”

“Huh? Anything more to say?”

As if it was the end of her story, Louis got into a sleeping position.

“It’s over… ?”

“You apologized.”

“This will be an apology…… !”

“Then what more do you want?”

Ruid said with a yawn.

“It is already in the past.”

“That is, but.”

Hercy got caught up in Ruid’s pace.

I admitted my mistake and apologized.

Any more than this is just a waste of time. That’s the past It was up to the president to decide what to do with Louis, and he wasn’t the one to argue.

“Is there anything else you want to say?”

“No, I mean, that’s it.”

But I hated stepping back now because it felt like I was losing something.

Hersy bit his lip.

Come to think of it, he doesn’t even know why he came here.

Doesn’t anything change even if you vent your anger?

‘What changes… ?’

At that moment, like lightning, a feather passed through Hercy’s head.

Ruid’s pillow.

What’s in there is unmistakably a phoenix feather.

“Hey… !”

“Huh?”

“I also need the Phoenix Feather. It will be used for something much more important than the pillow.”

Ruid wanted to get rid of Hercy as quickly as possible.

But that request was difficult.

Ruid really liked this warm pillow.

“Do you know how many hours I’ve been trying? To get that feather!”

“I tried, too.”

It took less than 10 minutes to get this feather, though.

After possessing this world, it was very annoying to go out to do something because it overlapped with the original character setting.

It is a precious feather obtained at the cost of such annoyance.

“Then.”

Hercy wanted to stop useless warfare and get feathers.

“Tell me what you want. Even so, I am the daughter of the Marquis of Minerva. The ability to pay any price.”

Having said that, Hercy closed her mouth.

Come to think of it, this man in front of me.

…… It was the ceremonial rite of the only duchy in the empire.

There is nothing lacking.

“…… Even money.”

“Why do you need feathers?”

Ruid tried to listen.

It is not good to be hated. Hersey is an important character. Trying to avoid the immediate annoyance could end up being an annoyance forever.

“… I have a magic test in a week. You never took a class, so you wouldn’t know.”

“A magic test?”

“This is a class assignment evaluation. It is a very important evaluation that determines one year based on grades.”

The Imperial Academy is a place where people from all over the world gather.

Of course, each person’s ability is different, and classes are conducted according to that level.

The quality of education varies greatly depending on the class. Every wizard wants to be assigned to the top class.

“I was making personal weapons for testing. This is the last step… Because I lost my phoenix feather.”

“Lost?”

“…… Yes. Maybe it was stolen.”

Hercy spoke to Ruid with a desperate look.

“I absolutely need that. To pass the placement test safely. Even if it’s to keep my father from finding out that I’ve lost it. …… Please. Please hand over the feather to me.”

Hercy bowed his head.

Ruid thought with a puzzled expression.

‘This is how it works.’

Hercy Minerva is a typical villain, as if drawn in a painting.

A character who is jealous of the main character and his group, and does everything in his power to steal the respect of the people who should come to him.

Publicly embarrassing, openly insulting, using family and power to disturb the main character’s party, and so on. The evil deeds she commits are enormous.

And the relationship between Hercy and the main character began to fall apart in this episode.

Because it was the main character who took Hercy’s feather.

Of course, from the main character’s point of view, she just picked up a strange looking feather on the road, but-.

From Hercy’s point of view, they mistakenly believe that the main character, a commoner and a beggar, stole her feathers.

Of course, the two are confronted, and from this point on, Hercy has a great bad feeling towards the main character.

In other words, this feather trigger.

The problem is that now, the object hated by Hersy is not the main character, but she has become herself.

‘I almost got into trouble. I did well not to stand out as usual.’

This is why you have to beat the stone bridge to cross it.

Now, if you hand over her feathers, a fearsome villain like Hersy won’t think of you as an enemy.

But—.

“Then I’ll help you get assigned to an expert.”

No matter how hard it was, Ruid couldn’t give up on the pillow.