I Possessed an Academy Without a Protagonist

Episode 33. Raven Henderson(1)

“I’ll treat you to appetizers first.”

A maid appeared with a cart and placed a bowl on the table.

It was a dish topped with cream on a tomato cut in half.

Although I had learned aristocratic dining etiquette from Emilia, I had already forgotten about it by this point.

Reluctantly, I picked up a fork and knife and savored the dish so as not to look the messiest I know.

Well, the taste was pretty good.

“Shulus-kun. I want to say thank you once again for saving my life.”

“No, Mrs. Once is enough.”

“That’s right….”

“Yes.”

“I understand that you asked for it through my daughter.”

“you’re right.”

“If it’s my benefactor, please ask me directly. This time it’s a simple request like an invitation to a dinner party, so it’s okay… but I hope you don’t ask Erica too much using me as an excuse.”

Liechtenburg’s expression hardened.

He must be on the lookout for asking Erica for something outrageous in return for saving him.

Erica is the Achilles heel for Liechtenburg.

Beyond the level of pampering, she is almost obsessed with Erica.

As long as the Count dies in the war and Julia, the second daughter, is suffering from an incurable disease, it is only natural that Erica is the only one who can inherit the family.

So, it is inevitable that the woman will be sensitive to those who approach Erica.

“Hold on to your worries. You won’t be asking for anything after this.”

“Then I’m glad.”

“And it wasn’t because of Erica that I asked you to invite me to dinner.”

“Yes?”

“It was to see Ms.

“············”.

An uncomfortable silence passed between the woman and me.

Only Erica, who was sitting in the middle, could not understand the situation and was bewildered, only looking at the two of us alternately.

“You seem to love your daughter a lot.”

“Absolutely.”

“Surely you want to prevent a bastard from approaching your daughter.”

“You call it a horse.”

The woman’s tone of voice had suddenly changed to aggressive.

It was only natural for me to ask a rude question on purpose.

How the woman reacts from now on will also be an important fun point.

“This is a different story, but I was actually attacked by a terrorist attack shortly before I started school. Someone poisoned Suwon.”

“That must have been a big deal.”

Erica, who has been called a prodigy among prodigies since childhood, was virtually certain to advance to the elite course.

In the midst of all that, the chief from a commoner who suddenly appeared could not have looked good in the eyes of the lady.

It would be a thorn in the eyes of not only taking the chief’s seat from Erica, but also affecting her in a bad way.

And the Liechtenburg lady I know is a person who does not hesitate to use rather radical methods for her daughter’s future.

“Yeah. It was a big deal. In the end, both me and my attendant almost died.”

Yes. I suspect Mrs. Liechtenburg was behind the poisoning of the well.

I suspect that I was trying to get rid of me because I was approaching my beloved daughter as a dangerous person.

As I spoke, I did not take my eyes off the woman’s eyes.

However, the woman did not show any embarrassment or agitation, just maintaining a displeased expression.

Was it unreasonable to even think about it against an iron man?

“So, why did the story of the well being poisoned suddenly come out?”

“············”.

caught up

I only said Suwon, but I didn’t even say it was a well.

This terrorist incident was thoroughly covered up by the Imperial University Investigation Department, so it would not have leaked out at all.

So, the woman’s mention of the well was practically a confession.

Realizing that, the woman’s mouth shut tight.

I’m going to put myself in an unexpected place.

Even an iron man seems to be making mistakes.

It is dangerous to press more than this.

It will be difficult if you turn Liechtenburg Ms. Liechtenburg into the enemy completely.

The fact that the assassination attempt stopped at once means that even the lady is debating whether or not to kill me.

Now that we know who was behind the assassination attempt, that’s enough.

It must have been a warning as I had told the other person that I was aware of it.

“I ate well. I’ll get up first.”

“Huh?”

After pushing the chair to get up, Erica slammed the desk with a bewildered expression and stood up.

Erica looked at Ms., hoping to restrain me, but she just stared at me without saying a word.

“Butler. Take Schlus-kun to the dormitory.”

“Okay. Let’s go on foot.”

I just left the restaurant.

Unsurprisingly, the sound of busy footsteps was heard from behind, and the door thumped and opened again.

It was Erica.

“Hey! What are you doing! The main dish hasn’t even come out yet!”

“I’m hungry.”

“Does that make sense? Even so, it’s not polite!”

courtesy imma. You’re arguing with your mother who poisoned the water that people drink.

The words kept running through the tip of my tongue.

“And it’s not because of me that you asked me to invite you, but to see my mother…. What do you mean by that?”

“Okay. It’s already been resolved.”

“What do you mean it’s resolved?”

“You don’t need to know the details. Thank you for inviting me to dinner today.”

“Hey! Yaa! Aren’t you standing there?”

I walked down the hallway leaving Erica, who looked bewildered and confused.

She tried to call me in several times, but she didn’t even listen to me, and her voice only gradually diminished. There was no physical restraint.

When I opened the door at the end of the hallway, it was raining lightly outside.

As I was driving through the garden through the rain, I felt a gaze from behind.

“············”.

The moment I turned around, the curtains on one of the windows were hurriedly closed.

Was it one of the users of the mansion?

Or was it Julia?

Well. I do not know.

An unexpected encounter.

And one more harvest than expected.

It must have been an evening that could be called a success.

Oddly enough, my mood was gloomy.

***

“Wow. Really, this bastard. It was you who asked me to invite you…”

Returning to the dining room, Erica patted the ground in a rising irritability as she walked.

I kept thinking of the words I should have said to the back of Schlusus’s head.

When Schlus was in front of my eyes, my lips didn’t fall off, but when I left, it suddenly popped up.

That made it even more annoying and frustrating, which made Erica go crazy.

“What were you two talking about…?”

Recalling the brief conversation between Liechtenburg and Schluss, Erica tilted her head.

No matter how much I thought about it, the two were talking about meaningless things.

It was a conversation that made no sense or context, but what is certain is that the woman looked very upset.

It didn’t seem like it was simply because Schlust’s manner of speaking was rude.

There was no basis, but Erica’s chok was saying that.

“uh······!”

Erica, who was about to open the dining room door while calling her mother, froze.

Liechtenburg’s figure could be seen through the narrow doorway.

The main dish, steak, has become a colonel, and the woman is biting her nails without even thinking about the fork, and she looks nervous.

It was the human side of a woman who was never shown in front of guests other than her family.

By the way, my mother is so nervous.

What was the meaning of Schlust’s story…?

“Ugh….”

No matter how much I thought, I couldn’t come up with an answer on my own.

I couldn’t understand the reason why he suddenly switched to a story of terror while talking about his love for his daughter.

And the reason I asked for the invitation was not me, but my mother, so what does that mean?

“ah!”

With a startled thought, Erica clapped her hands slightly.

Schlusus said he was acquainted with Julia von Eisburg.

In other words, he came here to see Julia, not to have dinner, to see me, or to see Mrs.

But when Julia didn’t come to the restaurant, she felt bad and left.

“That’s right. That’s right!”

Erica felt as refreshing as a puzzle fit.

Schlusz was clearly looking at the already dead Julia, who lived in a land far away from her younger sister Julia.

Maybe with the eyes of lust…

With that thought in mind, Erica felt goosebumps all over her body.

‘You have to protect Julia…!’

A sense of duty that had never been before was radiating out like a spring.

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Just… just right…

Periodic bouncing echoed through the quiet dining room.

sloppy…

And at some point, the woman’s nails broke.

Blood was dripping from the tips of his split nails.

The woman kept the blood from her fingers in her mouth as it was, and narrowed her brow.

‘How the hell did you not know….’

Schlust suspected that I was behind the terror.

No, it wasn’t a suspicion, it was a level of certainty.

Would he have had the guts to notice this?

Even thinking about cancer, the answer to this was ‘no’.

The woman hired was a man called the strongest crow in the system.

It was hard to see that someone who had built up such trust betrayed me and blew everything to Schlus.

So there would be no reason for Schlust to notice this.

‘Could it be based solely on circumstantial evidence…?’

What if Schlus wasn’t convinced?

What if you were pretending to be sure?

What if I had set a trap for my rude tone to arouse my anger, and to make mistakes in the meantime?

In fact, the fact that the woman got the checkmate was due to the mistake of referring to the ‘well’ that Schlus did not even mention.

I couldn’t ignore the possibility that I had only been suspicious until then, but became convinced by hearing the confession that wasn’t the woman’s confession.

Then, in order to convince the doubts that may or may not be true, Schlust was so rude to the head of the Liechtenburg family, one of the influential families.

“under······.”

He wasn’t an ordinary young man.

At this point, it was like a provocation.

‘I know you sent an assassin. If you twist it, send another one.’

called provocation.

‘Then you should do as you wish.’

Liechtenburg took out a note and a pen from her arms and began to write on it.

It was a letter, not a command.

The strongest crow. An order for Henderson.

‘Kill Schlus Heinkel. by any means. Surely.’

It was a short and concise order.

With Henderson’s ability, it could be done enough.

It was also a surprise attack, so no matter how extraordinary Schlusus was, he almost died without a single scream.

“This… ttt.”

Instead of calling the butler to hand over the note, the lady put it back into her arms.

Come to think of it, it was right to give this to him directly for security reasons.

I had to pay even more attention to security since I caught something that Schlus shouldn’t have caught.

But the thought of hearing that raven’s mean, eerie laughter again made my stomach churn.