I Became an Outcast in the Academy

9. Branch (2)

“… “You didn’t know that my brother actually had the ability to interfere with our talents?”

“Yes, Lobelia and Leticia’s guess is correct. Of course, it is not certain, but it is a matter of family.”

On the very day that they decided to get rid of the draft, Ellie did not attend the meeting until the end.

Due to Ellie’s personality, not only did it not suit her temperament to gather in such a place and talk dirty stories, but she also thought that if she talked about it now, her situation would not be much different. .

That is why she did not attend such meetings. No, from the beginning she didn’t get involved with those women because she liked them.

She was just anxious. By some coincidence, Orphea became the Duke’s disciple and was able to acquire all kinds of wealth and honor that she had never enjoyed before, but she was very afraid that all of this would one day disappear like a bubble.

She wanted to be comforted. She wanted to take action. So she confided her anxiety to her three sisters who were in the same situation as herself and tried to come up with a proper solution.

Kicking out her brother Xian from Lutra was also one of the things she committed in that sense.

To be more precise, the idea of her kicking him out of Luthra was not an idea that Ellie had envisioned.

In the first place, she never once expressed her opinion independently in her sisters’ gathering.

Just as water always flows, she neither actively agrees nor actively opposes the opinions of others.

On the surface, he was claiming to be neutral and saying that it didn’t matter which way things went… In reality, Ellie was just indecisive.

Without her own independent opinion, she was just swayed by other people’s opinions and ended up here, and that’s why she is now so pessimistic about her situation.

‘So, don’t ever call someone out here by saying you regret your past actions or anything like that. ‘She shouldn’t have even started in the first place to say something like that.’

In the past, Lobelia’s words of advice to Eli seemed to finally make sense.

Lobelia was right.

Ellie said she should have set straight from the beginning how she should have behaved.

If she was going to be her brother’s enemy, she should have acted viciously from the beginning, and if she had not wanted to be her brother’s enemy, she should have left her sisters and stuck to her brother’s side and helped him. Did.

If she had clearly decided on her own will from the beginning and acted independently in all her affairs, she would not have regretted her past actions as she does now.

“Then why did my talent suddenly decline, and why did the princess who was by her brother’s side suddenly stand out… “I guess that means there’s a high possibility that it all has some kind of connection to her brother.”

As Ellie muttered absentmindedly, Sepia looked at Ellie blankly, and then she blurted out her words.

“So Ellie, what on earth are you going to do?”

“How do you plan to act?”

“Let me start with the conclusion. Leticia defined her brother as completely our enemy. And… “She said that one way or another she had to get your brother out of our sight.”

Clean it up.

It may have seemed like a very pure statement on the surface, but Ellie wasn’t stupid enough to not understand what it meant.

This is probably something completely different from the attempt to secretly spread bad rumors related to Xian throughout Lutra or to expel him from the school like he did a while ago.

The Leticia that Ellie knew, unlike Ellie, was a woman with the tenacity to achieve a goal at any cost.

Since the words ‘get rid of’ her draft plan came out of Leticia’s mouth, it must have been clear that Leticia was determined to put an end to her draft plan for the sake of her own ambition.

But.

“Well, okay. In the current situation, she doesn’t think it’s such a bad idea… “

Ellie looks at her sepia with a puzzled expression.

“I, too, am in the same boat as you, so I can’t help but ask one question.”

Ellie’s expression as she spoke was filled with only ridicule towards her opponent.

“How on earth are you going to deal with her brother? Huh?”

In Ellie’s opinion, Leticia’s words were nothing more than an empty delusion that had no possibility of coming true.

If their situation had been the same as it was six months ago, there might not have been any problem in processing the draft perfectly.

Because the gap between her vision and theirs was truly overwhelming, to the point where words would not be enough.

But now the situation has turned into the exact opposite.

Just looking at Ellie’s situation, Duke Orphega, who had been her strong mentor and supporter, already wanted to maintain a close relationship even if it meant handing his daughter over to Xian.

“I know very well that the three rats gathered in a corner and made their own desperate plans for the future… How are you going to hang the bell around the cat’s neck? Huh?”

Even with Ellie’s sarcastic words, Sepia’s expression does not change.

“According to Leticia, there is a way. She also doesn’t want to use it as much as possible, and if she gets caught by someone else, it would be the end… “Once you use it, you can definitely deal with your brother.”

With that said, Sepia put up a barrier with her divine power to prevent her words from leaking out to those around her, and in a very quiet voice, she told them about the ‘method’.

And after a while, when she heard those words from Sepia, Ellie’s complexion turned pale.

“… You’re crazy. You guys are absolutely crazy. “Are you sure you don’t want to let go of what you’re holding in your hands, even though you used that method on her brother?”

“In the first place, power is something that can make people’s heads spin. “Especially if you are a stubborn person like us who crawled up from the bottom, you are bound to have that habit.”

Her disillusionment and ridicule about herself were reflected in her sepia face as she spoke and made a mockery of herself.

“As I said, that method is so risky that Letitia only reserves it as her last resort. But it’s probably just a matter of time. Because out of the four of us, Lobelia is especially cornered. “I’m sure some shameless nonsense will come out of her mouth in the near future suggesting that we should use that method.”

Seeing Sephia insult her sister Lobelia without hesitation like that, Ellie felt something off about her.

Sephia gossiped about Lobelia. It’s not right to react like that over such a trivial matter.

Ever since they were a family, Sepia has been an extremely cynical woman who likes to be sarcastic to others.

Although her innate divine power was so great that her high priest personally accepted her as a disciple and became her priest, in Eli’s opinion, she was no more suitable for her job as a priest than Sephia in this world. There was no woman who wouldn’t do it.

But as much as she had that personality, Sepia often acted as if she had no attachments to the world itself.

She wasn’t greedy for material or power like Leticia or Lobelia, and that didn’t mean she personally disliked Xian, nor did she end up in this situation by being like Ellie, as if she was drowning in water.

But why does Sepia say that she is now acting with them, and that she is clearly on their side and rejecting her Xian?

“… Well. If I had to give a reason, it would be that I want to take responsibility. “Not to you or to your brother in any way.”

“… What?”

“That is not important now. So, Ellie, how do you want to act now?”

“How do I want to behave?”

As Ellie mutters to Sepia’s question, Sepia nods her head and gives her answer.

“If you don’t want to be with us, you can quit at this point. Anyway, you’re not cornered like Lobelia, and you’re still maintaining your status as Duke Orphega’s disciple, right? Of course, if news that her talent has greatly declined reaches the duke’s ears, she may be kicked out as a student, but she will not be expelled from Luthra.”

In the first place, unlike Leticia or Lobelia, who were too open with Ellie in front of her, she just maintained a somewhat mediocre attitude towards him.

So, Sephia thought that if she ran to Sian at this point, knelt down and apologized, she could at least avoid the worst.

You could make an excuse for kicking him out of Lutra by saying he hit puberty a little late, but what Leticia and Lobelia were planning now was on a completely different level.

So it is right to stop at this point. Especially if you are a person like Ellie who is indecisive and has no clear decision to make or break things.

But.

“No, thanks for the advice, but I won’t do that.”

“… Yes?”

Ellie flatly rejected Sepia’s advice without even considering her thoughts.

“Even though I was swept up in you guys without thinking at first and ended up in this situation… In the end, I made the choice to betray her brother solely of my own will. But now that the situation is going against me, I’m going to put an iron plate on her face and go back to her brother and beg for mercy?”

In a way, such behavior felt even more disgusting and obscene than the behavior of Lobelia or Leticia, who were talking about disposing of her brother without any problems.

If it’s sweet to you, you swallow it, and if it’s bitter to you, you spit it out. Isn’t this truly an ugly thing that only human scum would do?

“Just like Lobelia said, if you play a villain, you have to do your best. “Her brother would be very disappointed if he found out that his sister, who betrayed him, was such a mean little person.”

If you decide to become your brother’s enemy, you become an enemy worth cutting down from the front.

That was Eli’s own atonement for Xian.

“However, we will not cooperate with you guys. This is just a matter between me and my brother, so I will see to it one way or another. It’s already too late… I don’t hesitate anymore. Never.”

Light dwells in Eli’s eyes.

It was the eyes of a woman who, although very weak, was determined to see the end of this story in some way.