I Became an Outcast in the Academy

8. Change (7)

“… Dangerous. “This is really dangerous.”

Lobelia muttered while biting her thumb nail.

It was Lobelia’s habit. She bites her own nails when she thinks she’s cornered.

In recent years, Lobelia has never bitten her own fingernails. Because she was always the winner of her life and had nothing to do with her failures.

But in the past few months, everything surrounding Lobelia has become a mess.

Her affinity with spirits, which Lobelia was proud of, was declining day by day, her reputation surrounding her was falling day by day, and her plans for the future she thought were perfect were already ruined. It’s been a long time since I left.

And at the center of it all, there was none other than Xian.

To be more precise, nothing has happened since Lobelia betrayed her Xi’an.

When things got to this point, Lobelia eventually had no choice but to admit it.

She realized that at that time, she was so blinded by her petty desires that she ended up making enemies of people who should not have been enemies.

‘What should I do? ‘What should I do?’

No matter how much I think about it, no good idea comes to mind.

Of course it has to be that way. In Lobelia’s plan from the beginning, her brother did not have this much importance.

Who could have predicted that one day her older brother would suddenly become her biggest enemy and oppose her from the front?

Just when Lobelia was in her prime, Leticia, who had been looking at her Lobelia in silence until now, clicked her tongue at her.

“Do you think you’ll come up with a good idea now that you’re complaining in front of us like that? “Please, can’t you only moan like that in front of your lover?”

“On this occasion, I also agree with Leticia’s words. Haven’t I warned you about that over and over again? If you only believe in His Highness the Prince and act like an unofficial person like that, you will get seriously hurt. “If you think about it, it’s all self-inflicted and retributive justice itself.”

“… I’m sorry, but we share a shared destiny and this isn’t just my problem, right? “Have you forgotten that your brother has his sword pointed at all of us?”

Lobelia, whose patience ran out, ended up contorting her face at Leticia and Sepia, who were talking like it was none of their business.

“This is just my guess, but it seems like you have the ability to interfere with our talents in some way? And if my prediction is correct, you guys would have been having problems with your talents recently.”

“Certainly, that is quite an interesting statement. “I can’t believe that this symptom I’ve been experiencing was actually a trick my brother pulled on us.”

Leticia holds up her own finger and lights up a flame created by her magic above it.

Moo Young-chang, and they didn’t even cast him properly. But as soon as she has the will to do so, her spark begins to flutter in the air so naturally.

Her talent was such that even the owners of the tower, who were at the top of the magicians, couldn’t help but drool and admire her, but Leticia, who showed off such miracles so casually, licked her tongue as if she didn’t like something about her. Kick it

“My ability to control the magical energy in the atmosphere as I wish, and my ability to control the magical energy in my body as I wish, have declined significantly compared to the past. “The person I am now is probably less than half the person I was when I entered school.”

“About a third of the divine power I had within me also evaporated overnight. What’s scarier is that this is just the beginning, and we don’t know what more side effects may occur in the future.”

It would be fortunate if the talents they had lost so far no longer caused any problems to their bodies.

Although it was quite a shame to lose the best talent in the empire, the talent that remained was also something that could be ranked among the top ten in the empire.

But what if these symptoms that are afflicting their bodies do not stop here and continue to spread?

What if, as a result, they lose all their talents and become incompetent overnight?

For them, it was no different from a nightmare itself.

The reason they were born at the bottom of the empire and were able to enjoy the wealth and honor they have today was only because of their own abilities.

“If, as Lobelia said, your brother has really been interfering with our abilities all this time… We must also keep in mind the possibility of our abilities returning to nothingness. “If an ability can be diminished or reduced, it can be completely eliminated.”

“But is there a way in the world that allows other people to interfere with their natural talents? “Under my teacher, I have also done quite a bit of research into taboo magic, but I have never heard of such a method.”

According to Leticia and Sepia’s common sense, it is impossible to interfere in any way with the talents of others.

There is a way to drastically increase one’s achievements by making a contract with a demon, but it only involves forcibly activating one’s body by accepting black magic into one’s body, and it is said to truly strengthen one’s talents. I couldn’t accept it as a concept.

“As you said, it is impossible that the talents of all four of us declined in one day, even by coincidence. “But I think it’s strange that only you know a method that no one else in the world knows.”

“Well, if the guess is correct, there is only one way to neatly explain all these hypotheses.”

Saying that, Leticia looked at Lobelia and Sephia with her quite meaningful gaze.

“To her brother… “It means that you had some kind of ability to interfere with other people’s talents.”

Lobelia muttered as she closed her eyes tightly.

Although she had already predicted this to some extent, she felt truly terrible hearing those words from someone else’s mouth in this way.

“Then what are the measures? “Shouldn’t we come up with some kind of countermeasure at least once?”

As Lobelia spoke in her urgent tone, Leticia looked at her with a sly smile.

“Measures? What measures? If it is true that my brother has a talent that can interfere with ours, what can we do about it? Would it be a solution to rush to my brother and beg him to look at me just once because I will become a good little sister again?”

Of course, that is not a solution. Because it was a method that Lobelia had already tried before, and it only reaffirmed the fact that it was a method that did not work at all for her vision.

“Then, connections… How can we leverage the connections we’ve built?”

Leticia is the previous disciple of the Magic Tower Lord, and Sepia is receiving training directly under the High Priestess.

It was a plan made with the idea that if the beloved disciples who would succeed them in the future made a earnest request, they would use their influence to keep Xian in check.

“Well… Right now, just by looking at the Duke, Orphée, as soon as she sees her brother’s potential, abandons that girl, Ellie, and goes around singing about her brother as her son-in-law? “Just because he is our teacher, it is hard to expect him to act very differently from Duke Orphega.”

At Leticia’s words, Sephia unconsciously nodded her head.

She was as she said. The reason why the Mage Tower Lord chose Leticia and her High Priest chose Sepia as her own disciple was because they had truly overwhelming talent.

In other words, it meant that it was not a relationship formed out of affection or love like other priestly relationships, but a relationship that was strictly for mutual benefit.

Of course, I’m not saying it was a bad thing, but in this case, there was a strong possibility that their teacher would abandon them like Duke Orphega and stick to Xian’s side.

What they wanted was a ‘talented person’, not an orphan girl clinging to them desperately, hoping for a little affection.

“How about spreading bad rumors about your brother throughout Luthra once again? To be honest, just because you’re my brother doesn’t mean you’re that morally clean, right?”

“It’s not a bad idea, but I remember Lobelia’s current reputation being much worse than your brother’s. Moreover, unlike in the past when there was only Princess Cartesia on her brother’s side, now the number of people who will take her brother’s side has increased considerably. “If you spread such rumors in this situation, you will face backlash.”

Although it could not be said to be an official relationship, there was at least no one within Luthra who could touch Xian, who maintained a romantic relationship with Cartesia and even received the secret support of Duke Orphega.

This was even more so considering the fact that among the cadets who had argued with Xian so far and dueled at the end, none of them had even managed to brush the hem of his clothes, let alone defeated him.

At this point, I had no choice but to admit it.

It may be true when their talents reached their peak like half a year ago, but it would be close to impossible to bring down Xi’an from its current position with their own strength.

‘It’s unfair, it’s unfair!’

Lobelia thought she was so unfair to herself.

She thought to herself that she had not done anything wrong.

If she had anything wrong with herself, it was only that she was faithful to her own life and put in a lot of effort to reach a higher place than others.

But what on earth did she do that she has to feel like this at this moment? Why?

“Looking at your face, it seems like you think this current situation is really unfair… In that case, there is no way to get her brother out of Lutra.”

“Well, there is a way?”

At that moment, Lobelia felt her own ears flash and open as Leticia spoke in her languid tone. Did such a method exist in the world? No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t find a way?

“It’s because you think things are too difficult. We can’t defeat her brother with our strength alone. And it is already too late to borrow the power of power. Then… “At this point, there is no other way than to turn the game upside down.”

“… Turning the tables? “What does that mean?”

“Well, it’s simple. Let’s clearly admit that we can’t win this game. After all, our goal isn’t to win the battle of wits with you, right? Then… To put it conversely, if only one brother disappears, wouldn’t that mean that the situation will somehow be resolved in the future?”

As she said that, Leticia put a cold smile on her lips.

“Let’s just get rid of my brother. “It seems like he’s someone we no longer need anyway.”