I Possessed The Villain’s Childhood Friend

21 – Tangled Story – 1

“Ha ha.”

It was a spacious office.

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Portraits of different people were hung on the walls of the room, and numerous books were placed on the bookshelves.

If someone else came in, there was no choice but to be quiet.

A man sitting in a chair spoiled the atmosphere.

He was an old man with white hair and a beard that gave off a profound feeling.

“Whoa.”

The old man rubbed his throbbing forehead with his right hand.

But that wasn’t an expression of concern.

On the contrary, he seemed to be happy somewhere.

“Is it the golden generation?”

Ender Arcana, the dean of Arcana Academy and the lord of Reinen, smiled slightly.

What he was looking at was the register of freshmen this year.

Seven records. There were 7 faces listed.

“How far can we bloom?”

Most of the students enrolled in Arcana are nobles, and they will demonstrate their abilities for the sake of the Empire in the future.

Because everyone knows that, Arcana is the only Academy in the Empire where the more talented you are, the better you are treated.

Basically, in an empire, aristocrats are those who have talent.

To stand out among them means to be extraordinary.

Seven of these extraordinary students are freshmen this year.

It was an unusual number.

To give a simple example, it has been 40 years since Ender has served as dean and lord, but even during that period, talented people like him could be counted on one hand.

Senior. The crown prince, Leon Aegis Astraia, who is said to be the greatest genius in the history of the empire.

Second seat. Reina of the Duchess of Roselia, who shows great talent in the four major attribute magics.

3Rd place. Atal, the candidate for the next pope of the Central Church, who has a talent for rare light magic.

Fourth place. Helen of Count Oberon, who has recently emerged in various fields.

5Th place. Damus Menners, a merchant-turned-special student who is very good at reading market trends.

7Th place. In Arcana, only Ender knows, Ike of the Duke of Axus who defeated the Crown Prince in the Heros Dance Competition.

13Th place. A holder of light magic talent that surpasses Atal. Special student, Sophia Eris.

All of them are possessors of talent that can taste the times.

The enthusiasm of the Arcana professors boiled just by looking at their faces.

“Hmm.”

But that didn’t mean they were perfect.

Even the greatest genius in the history of the Empire, Leon, was clearly lacking.

Considering those points, there were two freshmen who caught Ender’s attention the most.

The first was the 7th place Ike Access.

Can I include him in the golden generation?

It was a subject of much disagreement even among professors.

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Professors who expected Ike believed Duke Ados’ words that he had overcome the wall of talent through hard work.

But to put this another way, Ike didn’t show anything directly.

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Professors with little expectations pointed them out.

Even if his grades were low, it was difficult to say that he was of the same class as Sophia, who showed overwhelming talent in light magic.

Extreme professors even pointed out his former nickname.

The private wealth of the Duke of Axus. Shame.

It meant that expecting too much from such an opponent could actually be poisonous.

But Ender personally wanted to raise the former’s hand.

Even if it was luck, Ike won against Leon.

When there is a fight between a knight and a beast, there is absolutely no knight that excludes the element of luck.

Luck is also a skill.

The meaning of defeating Leon, the greatest genius in the history of the empire, through luck.

It means that you can turn that luck into skill.

And that was Arcana’s role.

The second is the second seat. It was Reina Rogelia.

This was not a concern at the Arcana level.

It was Ender’s only concern.

Raina’s talent is outstanding.

It feels different from Leon, who boasts the best of all talents.

Everything else in her was at the top level, but she couldn’t be number one.

But her magic talent was different.

The amount of mana and the width of the mana path were average, but everything else was on a different level.

The speed of attribute conversion. Skills related to magic implementation. Understanding of orders, etc.

His talent was such that even Ender, the archmage who was praised in the Tower of Wizards in the old days, could admire it.

It would have been fortunate if that was all there was to it.

If that was all, it was just a matter of guiding Reina with great care in Arcana as usual.

It could have been resolved at the level where Ender stepped forward himself.

The problem wasn’t that part.

“Something that little boy went through made him look like that….”

Ender knew Reina’s nickname, “Ice Princess.”

When Ender first saw her Reyna, in her mind she couldn’t help but nod her head at that nickname.

But when I met her again because of her entrance exam.

She was a completely different person from the Rayna that Ender knew.

Most people were fooled by her acting. She

She didn’t even suspect that smile that seemed to make her feel fine.

However, Ender, who had watched so many people, knew for sure.

That her eyes are eyes that have already given up everything.

There was no hope.

The only thing left in her eyes was darkness.

“What should I do?”

Ender didn’t even want to imagine the damage that would happen the moment this talent went astray.

It goes against the spirit of Arcana to rot that talent.

Can we reap Reina’s darkness and let her talent bloom?

In Ender’s mind, that question did not disappear.

“… I will have no choice but to do it.”

Ender slowly recalled his original intentions.

He has not yet forgotten that feeling that he will not give up on his students no matter what.

How can it be said that the darkness of students is deep?

It is our role to lead the darkness into the light.

Ender headed to the conference room to discuss his future class policy.

★

“… Miss Rayna. Why are you doing that?”

“I don’t know what you mean. Do you want to tell me I did something wrong?”

Raina glances at me with cold eyes.

Her head was dizzy at the fact that she was so different from the girl I knew.

“What I did wrong was a special trainee from a commoner. I am a victim of him. If it means that you shouldn’t even point out this much, then even Prince Ike can’t listen to it.”

“That is not intellectual. It’s a simple rant.”

“Even if the other person feels that it is an abusive language, I think I am in a position to make such a statement.”

Is the one standing in front of me really the Reina I knew?

Such a question lingered in my head.

“Um, sorry over there. It’s all my fault.”

Beside her, Sofia bowed her head deeply.

Reina glanced at it, then she turned her gaze to me for a moment.

“Look, Prince Ike. If I hadn’t spoken to her, would she have realized her fault?”

“Sorry. Sorry.”

Sofia bows her head and apologizes.

Reina glared at her.

3 Years ago. It’s a similar situation to when I went to the market, but why are the emotions I feel so different?

“Sorry….”

“Yes. As Miss Reina said, she did something wrong.”

Sofia’s body trembled at my assertion.

“However, I don’t think it is wrong to hear such one-sided verbal abuse.”

“Yes?”

“Then go back to the dormitory.”

“Yeah, but over there….”

“It’s okay, go back quickly. There won’t be any problems, don’t worry.”

“Oh, I see. Thank you.”

Sophia alternately bowed her head to Rayna and me, and she left the garden.

“At times like this, if you don’t point out the mistakes clearly, you’ll just repeat the mistakes. When a mistake is made, her trust goes down, and eventually it comes back as karma. Prince Ike, does he really know that?”

After Sophia’s figure had completely disappeared, Raina opened her mouth again.

“That might be right. But what you just did was wrong.”

“… Is that so. In the end, everyone on my side is gone.”

“What?”

“No. After all, Prince Ike was also a liar.”

Reina slowly folded her mat and closed the book she was reading.

She could tell for sure that she meant that she had nothing more to say.

“Young master Ike. Now we are also 17 years old. It is the age to become an adult soon. So from now on, let’s always be polite.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I am the fiancée of Her Highness the Crown Prince. Even if it’s just the two of us, please don’t forget that fact.”

Raina didn’t even listen to my answer and she turned her back.

The intention was clear.

He meant that even if the two of us were alone in the future, we wouldn’t talk comfortably.

“Why did this happen?”

I knew that it was a luxury to think that everything that would happen in the future would go smoothly.

But she thought to at least make the best of the situation.

But why did things get so twisted?

No. It wasn’t twisted. It was completely different from the story I already knew.

“Is he the only one?”

A person who might have some understanding of this situation.

No matter how much I thought about the solution to this problem, he was the only one.

“Can you tell me about Miss Reina?”

“Yes.”

The prince slowly put the black tea he was drinking down on the desk.

“If it’s about her about her, you know better than I do, right? Ike.”

“For three years, I have not met Miss Reina. But I heard that Her Highness met and talked with her last month as well.”

“Well, that’s right. But, I assure you, there are few stories I can tell you. It was unexpected that you came to see me in person, but I think you got the wrong street number.”

“It’s okay.”

Hearing my words, the prince sighed and put the saber in his mouth.

It was a very unwilling look.

“You and Ms. Reina are called childhood friends, but we stopped seeing each other after the Heros Dance Competition about three years ago. The cause is the concern that there will be noise in my engagement. You should know by now.”

“Yes.”

“It’s a simple matter here, Ike. Then how many times do you think she and I met alone after Heros’ dance competition?”

Reina said that her relationship with the crown prince was okay.

And considering that the last time we met was last month.

“No matter how much, you must have met at least once every three weeks.”

“Wrong. Twice.”

“… Yes?”

“I met Ms. Reina a total of two times in about three years. Once after the finals of the dance competition. And once a month. And both of those times, we just drank tea and broke up.”

After hearing the prince’s words, I couldn’t answer anything.

“I wondered if I was being hated, but Duke Rickard said it wasn’t.”

How the hell is the story going?

I couldn’t understand.

“Did you say that, Ike? There’s very little I can tell you.”

The prince who said that was smiling bitterly.