Became the Mafia of the Academy

Palermo, a city in Sicily.

-Victimae paschali laudes.

– (Praise the Paschal Sacrifice.)

Inside the Palermo Cathedral there, the voices of the choir were resounding.

The light leaking from the ceiling, and the marble statues that give off a warm feeling.

The man who was sitting alone in the cathedral praying, as if surrounded by them, slowly stood up when he heard the sound of footsteps echoing from behind.

“Amen.”

After praying, he slowly raised his head and asked quietly.

“… … What’s going on. I would have told you not to disturb me during Mass.”

“sorry. money. Because the matter is urgent.”

“Is the matter urgent? yeah, let’s hear it Why did you interrupt the mass?”

He hesitated to speak for a moment, then slowly put his head to his ear and said.

“This is Carlione. Carlione Jr. came to see Don.”

“… … what?”

The man spits out a laugh as if he hadn’t expected it.

“Carlione Junior. He said he came all the way to Italy?”

“That’s right. The items that symbolize belonging to Carlione are, of course, similar to what the boss said in the past… … .”

“Stop-.”

The man gently raised his hand to cut him off.

“I had to stop… … Bring Carlione Jr.”

“yes. Don Medici.”

The man who received Medici’s order walked out again, and Medici looked blankly at the cross in front as the choir sang.

-Agnus redemit oves:

– (The Lamb saved the great flock)

At the same time, the sound of footsteps coming from behind.

-Ttogak

-Ttogak

-Ttogak

-Again–

The sound of the shoes standing tall was also momentary. Someone in a black suit naturally sits next to Medici and puts his hands together to pray.

In response, the man slowly turned his head and looked at the person sitting next to him.

“Amen.”

After briefly praying, the man raised his face and slowly turned his head to look into Medici’s eyes.

“Nice to meet you. Don Medici.”

A bit of relaxation and tension. And, seeing him talking to him first with a mixed expression of interest, Medici feels interested and lowers his sunglasses slightly.

“… … Carlione Jr. I never thought I would meet you here.”

“I also did not expect to see you this soon. It must have been the last time I saw you… … Wasn’t it Walpurgis last time? I saw you from afar.”

Saying that, Eugene completely straightened her back. The Medici raises the corners of their mouths as if they were having fun at the sight.

“Yeah, I definitely saw it then. By the way, what did you come to this place by interrupting other people’s masses?”

At those words, Eugene glanced at the cross.

“It’s not really a big deal.”

I looked at the Medici in front of me again.

“I just wanted to offer you a suggestion.”

“proposal?”

-tu nobis, victor Rex, miserere.

– (Have mercy on us, King of Victory)

“──A debt owed by Maestro. Please reimburse me for everything.”

-Amen. Alleluia.

-(Amen. Praise the Lord.)

* * *

As the choir sings, the cathedral descends into silence.

He silently stares into my eyes through his sunglasses.

However, he can’t do anything to me right now. This is the ‘cathedral.’

Because it is a place of sacred promise where force is taboo.

“under!”

And finally, the first sound he uttered, breaking the silence, was a loud laugh.

“hahahaha! Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! So it was. That’s why you came to me! Ugh! hahahahaha!”

He burst into laughter as he left the cathedral and wiped away tears as he put his hand under his sunglasses.

“I never imagined that inspiration would bring Carlione. Yeah, what was that inspiration? Did he offer to help you if you made his debts go away?”

“Precisely because Carlione owed him… … In the first place, as far as I know, was there anyone in Sicily who was not indebted to Ludvio Maestro?”

I was pretty sure it probably wasn’t.

He is a nobleman who has generously used his property for the sake of Sicily and its people from a long time ago.

“… … To that old man, at best, he only ate a few slices of bread. This job is fine.”

“The Medici family thinks so. Unlike Carlione.”

“Carlione must be stupid. ‘Medici present and future. And it finds reality in the past.’”

I unknowingly snorted at the Medici family’s rumor that came out of his mouth.

When he said this, he really meant that he had no intention of backing down from this.

“Then I can’t help it. Seeking mercy must have been difficult for Don Medici… … We have to approach it a little differently.”

“Approach it differently… … What, are you planning on starting a war? Here?”

Saying that, Medici looked around and shrugged.

A sacred and inviolable space where even the mafia cannot commit any violence. That’s why most of the mafia used to trade or negotiate in the cathedral.

“War, no way did I come here with such radical thoughts? We Carlione are not like anyone who dares to start a war.”

“Your boy… … .”

Even though it’s behind the sunglasses, the staring gaze is sharp enough to pierce a person.

However, I calmly smiled and answered those eyes.

“What I propose to Don Medici is business.”

“business? Unfortunately, Carlione Jr. No matter how you are, the debt he owes is——”

“——Etna Volcano.”

He stops talking to me.

“Aren’t you in trouble because of Mount Etna?”

When I smiled and said it was nothing, he slowly took off his sunglasses with trembling hands and placed them on the chair table.

Deep eyes and rough hands where you can feel the years.

As he washed his face dry and pressed his face back, he looked at me with a gaze that felt the weight of the moment before quietly opening his mouth.

“——Who did you hear from? Is it Carlione?”

The atmosphere is completely different from the one before.

His voice mixed with playfulness was cold as ice, and the corners of his mouth, which always had a smile, drew a line.

“Callione.”

“… … It’s a fact I’ve been hiding for years. But if you know that too, doesn’t that mean that Carlione’s information room has already noticed this?”

Medici was an ordinary man, not an Awakener.

He rose to the top with his own skills, and was the one who led the awakened people even though he was a non-awakened person.

Is that why?

“Don’t say you don’t know, Carlione. If that’s the case, shouldn’t I kill you, Carlione Junior, with my own hands… … .”

I felt a lot of pressure from him right now.

This is the man called Sicilian’s godfather. ‘Shylock Medici’.

but.

“Would it be easy?”

I smiled as relaxed as I could and glanced at the cross in the cathedral.

“From here.”

It seems that I figured it out then. His eyebrows twitched lightly.

“I thought of this from the beginning. It was intentional to come to the cathedral in the first place.”

“Wouldn’t it be natural? I’m coming to see Don Medici, no one else, but I must have come without thinking. and… … To answer the question you asked me a moment ago, no one in Carlione, except me, knows the facts about ‘Etna Volcano’.”

“what?”

“What does this mean… … I bet you don’t know.”

If I know him, there’s no way he wouldn’t know. If you don’t know, it’s just disappointing.

“hmm… … .”

Hearing my answer, he leaned forward and leaned against the backrest.

“That’s right. But, why are you telling me about it? Didn’t I say it with my own mouth? If only you knew about it, you would die.”

This man was seriously speaking this now.

He said he could hide information about ‘Etna Volcano’ by killing me, Carlione’s heir, and concealing it.

Because he was not the one who saw the future, but the one who saw the present.

one.

“Did I look like someone who would die easily on Walpurgis Night?”

Without losing my smile, I pulled out a piece of paper that I had folded in my pocket and waved it at him.

Then, in an instant, Medici’s expression distorted.

“… … that.”

“Don Medici would know. What kind of thing is this?”

[ጿOne Free Pass to Midsommar!ዽ]

A kind of strategic weapon that can summon dozens of crazy fairies just by tearing it apart.

“Try it. I can rip this right now and leave the Medici with only the past.”

I said that in a tone full of sincerity to make sure that my words were not lies.

I don’t know if they’re not properly prepared.

He was confident that if he called the fairies right here, he would inflict devastating damage to not only Shylock Medici but also the Medici family.

“… … Are you going to use it in the cathedral?”

“The person who threatened to kill me in the cathedral in the first place is even arguing about this. And violence is done by fairies, not by me. The fairies… … You know?”

They followed only their king, the ‘Fairy King’, and did not care about Catholicism.

“… … Things are really scary these days.”

“It was far from being this scary.”

The real story hasn’t even started yet.

“I know what Don Medici is trying to get from Mount Etna. I also know why he made a debt to Maestro Ludvio by playing around with the contract.”

“You know that?”

“Isn’t it because of the fire giant?”

A monster crouching in the deep dungeon of Mount Etna.

fire giant.

The Medici family, they had been preparing for years to get rid of that monster.

“… … I know there. Then you know why I’m trying to hunt the fire giant.”

“By-products from hunting fire giants. Many people know that it is an intention to shake up the European economy using it, but in fact this is to create a plausible reason. Isn’t the real reason the Ignis essence?”

And for the first time, his expression wavered.

“Well, how do you do that?”

and at the same time.

[The other party is beginning to feel fear from the user.]

[“An offer you can’t refuse” is activated.]

Everything started to go as planned.

I said to him, lightly tapping my finger on my temple.

“What matters now is not how I know it. Don’t you think, Don Medici, why I am telling you this information so eloquently?”

In an instant, the atmosphere changed, and his proud expression completely collapsed before he knew it.

He would, too, because a secret that only he and a few of his henchmen knew about for the rest of his life came out of my mouth.

So I throw out some hope.

“I will help you.”

“… … what?”

“This means that I will help in the attack on the fire giants in Mount Etna. As Don Medici knows, I’m pretty sure I’m an expert in this area. For example, guys like Fafnir in Jeju Island.”

Humans find hope in fear.

“I will help you at a low price. With a little sincerity in hiring me and a very simple task of clearing Maestro Ludvio’s debt, you can obtain the essence of the fire giant. How is it?”

──He will inevitably pick up the hope that has fallen before his eyes.

“Don Medici.”

at last. Because human beings have no choice but to fear the future rather than the reality.