The Villainous Noble Who Kept Rewinding After Death: The Story Somehow Changed When I Committed Suicide

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The Villainous Noble Who Kept Rewinding After Death: The Story Somehow Changed When I Committed Suicide

Episode 82: The Assassin

~Side: Assassin~

As Lewis and the others finished their exams at the Magic Academy, a man was desperately running through a deserted alley.

“Damn it! I was told this was an easy job to just kill the folks in the mansion, so why’s there a monster like that?!”

Cursing as he ran, the man desperately fled, his unhealthy, thin body and disheveled hair flailing about.

The reason he was running backtracks to just before Lewis and the others took their exams.

He had been summoned by his client and instructed to head to a certain mansion to eliminate everyone inside.

Specifically, he was told to make sure to kill a girl about 13 years old, and at worst, just that one would suffice.

Thinking it was an easy job, the man infiltrated the designated mansion, but the moment he passed near the garden, plant vines wrapped around his legs.

Caught off guard by the unexpected attack, he was dragged into the garden.

“What the…? Is this some kind of magic?”

Surrounded by trees and flowers, all he could see were those and nothing else.

However, this marked the beginning of hell for him, as every kind of plant attacked from all sides, using ambushes and feints, leaving the man increasingly injured.

“What the hell’s going on? Where’s the enemy?!”

For several minutes, he tried to evade the attacks, slashing with his sword, but eventually, the relentless assaults forced him to his knees.

Then, the attacks suddenly stopped, and in front of him appeared a spirit exuding a chilling malice, causing him to spin around and flee.

(No way! I can’t win against that thing!)

What he felt was a clear sense of death, and from his past experiences, he sensed an overwhelming difference in power, leaving him no choice but to run.

The spirit that appeared was Dōna, Shuvina’s contracted spirit, who had received magic power from Lewis and gained an unparalleled strength.

When she was summoned by Shuvina, her power was comparable to an A Rank monster, but after receiving magic power from Lewis, she had become strong enough to be classified as upper-tier S Rank.

Moreover, the location was a plant-rich garden that was advantageous to her, and since spirits are generally more intelligent than ordinary monsters, she had reached a level where even an SS Rank adventurer couldn’t defeat her alone.

Currently, the man continued to flee without looking back, eventually collapsing against a wall from exhaustion.

“Hah, hah… If I’ve made it this far, I should be safe… Huh?”

Having finally caught his breath, he was about to stand up when he realized his legs had no feeling, and he couldn’t get up.

“What… what’s going on?”

Glancing down at his feet, he saw both of his legs dried up and thin like twigs, as if all moisture had been sucked out, along with roots like things tangled around them.

In a panic, he tried to move his arms to rip away the roots, but he soon found that his arms were also entwined with roots and had similarly dried up, unable to move.

“A, ah…”

As the roots continued to stretch, wrapping around his body, he felt a sucking sensation as the moisture was drained from him.

In terror, he tried desperately to move, but the roots that had already entwined him made it impossible.

“Y-you are…”

As his consciousness began to fade from the draining of moisture, the last thing he saw was the grim smile of a devilish spirit, licking its lips as it watched him perish.

~Side: ???~

“What!? The man hasn’t returned?!”

“Yes. It seems he has failed.”

“Damn!!”

The man, who was eating in a room while receiving reports about the assassination, swept all the dishes on the table aside in his fury and buried his head in his hands.

(This is bad, bad, bad! What should I do… what should I do? If this continues, my position is at stake. And if the secret my ancestors possessed gets out, our family will be finished.

I thought I could manage if I sealed that girl’s incredible magic, but to think it would be released! What should I do?!)

“Also, there’s one more report.”

As the man buried in his thoughts, a nearby butler calmly continued.

“The aforementioned girl has passed the entrance exam for the Magic Academy and is set to enroll.”

“What?! Damn it. Of all places, she’s going to the academy with that guy! Plus, she can already use magic to manipulate her magic power!”

Hearing that Sonia was joining the Magic Academy, the master of the room began to panic even more but then suddenly remembered that the academy was soon to hold its regular event.

“Hey. Isn’t there an upcoming monster eradication training for the academy groups?”

“Yes. It’s scheduled for about two months from now, as per the usual.”

“Then take care of it then. There shouldn’t be any interruptions at that time. Request extra assassins just to be safe. And feel free to eliminate the other group members as well. Don’t leave any witnesses.”

“Understood.”

With the orders received, the butler exited the room to relay the commands to his subordinates.

And left alone in the room, the man gazed at the moonlit night outside with a dark smile.

“Fufu. This will be the end for that girl. Once that happens, no one will know that secret. Finally, I’ll be free from this torment.”

Confident in his victory, the man chuckled again and rang for a maid to come clean up the scattered dishes and food on the floor.

~Side: Lewis~

That night, after finishing the exam, I was relaxing in my room reading a book when Shuvina and Fiera knocked and entered.

“Can we talk for a bit?”

“Sure. What’s up?”

“Dōna just came back.”

“Oh, really?”

I closed the book I was reading and had Shuvina and Fiera sit on the bed.

“So, how was Dōna?”

“Hold on. I’ll summon her now.”

As Shuvina gathered her magic to summon Dōna, she immediately flew to me, wrapped her arms around me, and cuddled against my cheek.

“D-Dōna? What’s wrong?”

Shuvina was bewildered by Dōna’s sudden behavior and didn’t know how to respond.

“What’s up?… Could it be that you want magic power?”

Nod nod!!

“Seems she really likes my magic power.”

“W-what…?”

Shuvina was so shocked that Dōna liked my magic that she fell from the bed, putting her hands on the floor.

“Hmm… Shuvina, I’m going to touch your head a bit.”

“Huh…?”

Placing my hand on Shuvina’s head still in a slump, I closed my eyes and traced the connection between her and Dōna’s magic.

(I see. The magic within Shuvina is auto-converted into a form suitable for a spirit during the process of sending it to Dōna.)

Normally, when sending magic to someone, you need to adjust it to their traits first, but it seemed that for spirits and their contractors, the magic was being converted automatically into a suitable form through their connection.

I concentrated further, tracing the magic flow within Shuvina to the point where it was adjusted to Dōna’s needs.

(The form is more like natural magic in the air than magic within the body. It feels like it’s giving the spirit a specific shape.)

Perhaps because spirits are beings born from nature, the magic flowing to Dōna resembled the natural magic found in the air, imbued with traits suitable for that spirit.

“Alright. I’ve got the general idea.”

“…Ah.”

I confirmed the necessary information to send magic to the spirit and withdrew my hand from Shuvina’s head.

But for some reason, she, who had just been upset, now had a look of disappointment.

“What’s wrong?”

“N-nothing at all.”

Shuvina said this, blushing slightly while avoiding eye contact.

“Well, whatever. Dōna, I’m going to start sending you magic little by little, so let me know with a shake of your head or a frown if it doesn’t suit you.”

Nod nod.

First, I transformed my magic into the natural magic in the air and began to slowly flow it toward Dōna.

She shook her head and frowned to indicate when it wasn’t right, and I kept adjusting my magic while checking on her, and a few minutes later, Dōna began to fly around energetically.

“Phew. Finally got it.”

Confirming that my magic flowed smoothly to Dōna, I decided to give her a larger amount of magic.

“Now then, what about the matter I entrusted to Dōna?”

“Oh! That’s right. I came to talk about that.”

Finally getting back to her senses, Shuvina called Dōna back to her side and began to explain the details of what she had entrusted her with.