There’s nothing quite like a mana potion to get your brain buzzing!
If my reckless, barbaric medieval self were to jump out here, it would be a disaster.
She sees the humans she hates as nothing but self-moving protein blocks.
The problem is, that’s exactly how they looked to me right now.
After taking a deep breath of the bitter potion, the adorable aspects of the female middle school students began to appear one by one.
‘From now on, these girls are nothing but bullies who hurt humans.’
Surprisingly, it worked.
Cutness really softens the heart.
Is this the secret of how cats can survive on this planet?
“How did you get in here?”
“Hey, that’s NoName…!”
Looking at the name tag on her school uniform and her facial structure, it was clear these were the bullies who drove Jeong So-hye to hell.
I started counting out loud from the left.
“One, two, three, four… Why is one missing? Where’s your friend you sold off?”
“Did you just talk to us like that? Wow, so you’re famous now, huh? This is ridiculous! Wait, isn’t that a cigarette in your hand?”
“Se-bin, don’t provoke them for no reason. She looks dangerous.”
“Come on, why should we be scared? Clearly, she’s alone!”
The female middle school students began to approach me slowly.
None of them let go of their cigarettes until the very end.
The girl with the heaviest makeup and the longest legs stepped forward as the representative.
Kim Se-bin bent down to match my eye level and glared at me fiercely.
I exhaled potion vapor into her face.
COUGH COUGH! What is that smell?!
“Is it not alright for me to smoke?”
“Huh? Aren’t you nine? That shouldn’t be allowed…?”
“Who says it’s not? Is it written in the Constitution? Seriously, is it!”
The girls were clearly flustered.
They might have had no fear when facing adults.
But faced with a six-year-old me who was glaring back, they looked utterly lost.
“Hey kid, did your mom teach you that?”
Kim Se-bin grabbed me by the collar and shook me.
I popped the cigarette back in my mouth and chewed harshly.
“Seriously, these kids nowadays have no sense of fear.”
Without a moment’s hesitation, I kicked Kim Se-bin’s knee hard.
I delivered a strong blow infused with aura right at her joint.
CRACK!
Kim Se-bin’s calf twisted at an odd angle, and her slender leg crumbled beneath her.
“AAAHHH! K-KAH…!”
“SE-BIN, YOUR LEG! AAAGH!”
The other bully girls screamed in panic.
They looked like frozen statues, too stunned to move.
I was planning to set up a barrier just in case I had to flee, but maybe I really underestimated them.
Just look at them, in a total panic, unable to take care of themselves.
These ridiculous girls thought they could ruin an innocent child’s life.
In the midst of that, the girls’ gazes fell on my wand.
Were they trying to snatch it and do something?
CASTING: Adjust Thermal Conductivity
I swiftly grabbed the wrist of a girl reaching for my skirt pocket.
SSSHHHHHHHH!
“AAAHHH! IT HURTS! IT’S HOT!”
“Yeah, everyone gets burned when they touch something hot. You girls just didn’t know that when you did it to So-hye, right? Don’t worry, ignorance isn’t a sin. I’m going to teach you slowly from now on.”
This is why learning is important.
Everyone’s environment shapes them differently, so unless you’ve experienced it yourself, it’s hard to understand.
You won’t realize that being stabbed hurts, that fire is hot, or that getting hit with a club breaks bones until you experience it firsthand.
SWOOSH!
Sharp aura sliced through the long hair of the girl.
Bright yellow strands danced in the cool autumn breeze.
“Be careful. If that had pierced your neck, you’d be in the afterlife by now.”
“This is just wrong… You shouldn’t be doing this to us!”
“Who gets to decide what’s right or wrong? That’s up to me.”
CASTING: Glacis Teorabra
I conjured sharp ice spears in mid-air.
The ice spear lodged itself right into the girl’s thigh.
“…! AAAARGH!”
A crimson stream shot up into the sky as the transparent ice glimmered with a beautiful sunset hue.
The girl trembled and collapsed, barely able to let out any sound.
She looked like a freshly caught fish, gasping on the cold ground.
“Oh.”
I was surprised by myself.
I couldn’t believe I honestly felt no guilt whatsoever.
It felt like crushing a dirty piece of jellied candy under my foot.
But maybe it was the hormones rushing through me because my heart was pounding, and my limbs tingled.
Yet, my reasoning remained calm throughout.
Even now, I could see clearly how I could efficiently take the lives of these bullies.
I took a deep breath and locked eyes with the last standing student.
HIC… HIC…!
It seemed that she had shed all the tears she’d hold onto for a lifetime today.
“Your name.”
“Sniff… Hah…”
“What’s your name?”
“J-Jo… Joo Eun-seo. Joo Eun-seo! P-Please just let me live, I-I’ll beg you.”
Joo Eun-seo knelt on the asphalt and cupped her hands as if begging like a fly.
In the meantime, the other female middle school students kept moaning.
I slammed the Light Transmutation Circle Inscriber down hard on the ground.
CASTING: Interference
The noise subsided, and the atmosphere shifted to allow for conversation.
Joo Eun-seo wasn’t in good shape either, with blood running from her hands and nose, and her cheeks swollen.
I motioned for her with my finger.
“…?”
“Gather the students in one place.”
“Hah… Hah… I-I’ll gather them…!”
She now obeyed my command with a demeanor that couldn’t even compare to before.
CASTING: Tissue Regeneration
I roughly jammed my wand into the ground and cast the spell.
Using tissue regeneration magic like this carelessly leaves scars and doesn’t heal properly.
Instead, it just stops the bleeding enough for it to be bearable.
I squatted down, gripping my skirt tightly against the wind, and spoke to Joo Eun-seo and the other female students.
“So where’s one of them? Was her name Yeosolbi?”
“…”
“Do I have to ask twice?”
“She’s in 3rd grade, class 8…”
“Why hasn’t she shown up yet?”
“Probably caught by a teacher in between and is stuck in class…”
Making me go look for her? How typical of a third-rate trash.
I sighed heavily and lightly patted Joo Eun-seo’s shoulder.
“Guys, don’t think of tricking me. If you did something wrong, just take your punishment quietly. Why are you trying to slip away like an eel? How kind is modern society where just serving time wipes away all sins? Right?”
“Ugh! That seems true!”
“Especially you, Kim Se-bin. What was that about a stay of execution? I heard everything from down below. If you try to use the law, I’ll have to use the law too. You wanna bet I won’t chase you to the ends of the Earth and kill you within eight months?”
SHUDDER!
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE!
She might just break her neck at this rate.
I warned Kim Se-bin, poking her cheeks playfully.
It’s not over yet.
If you don’t handle this properly until the very last one, there will definitely be loose ends.
“Hey, you guys! What are you doing there?! Get up here now!”
From the fourth floor of Sea Star Middle School, a teacher yelled at us from the stairwell window.
Even though we were far from the classroom, it seemed the structure was connected somehow.
“I’ll be right up!”
I shouted back.
“Hey, the one who talked just now, who are you?! You all better wait there!”
The teacher shut the window and disappeared.
“You heard that? Let’s go up. Guide us to 3rd grade, class 8.”
CASTING: Arabesque Knot
I created a thin rope and tied the girls up in a line.
Now, they couldn’t move at all with their arms and legs bound.
I grabbed the knot and threw it over my shoulder.
Joo Eun-seo, who had been at the front of the line, hurriedly spoke from behind.
“How are we supposed to walk like this? You have to at least free our feet!”
“When did I say you could walk?”
“Huh?”
In the past, in the Kingdom of Alphenheim, there was an execution method called the Wheel of Fate.
They believed that once the dead depart, they ascend to either heaven or hell, but for traitors, they disfigured their bodies beyond recognition, not giving them the chance for judgment in the afterlife.
One method included tethering them to a wagon and dragging them around for days on end.
Considering these girls are still young, I wouldn’t treat them quite as brutally.
Really, this was a warning to many bystanders at Sea Star Middle School.
This is the way of bullies.
CLACK CLACK CLACK!
THUD!
The combined weight of four female students undoubtedly reached 200 kilograms.
CASTING: Erichiton
Each time I climbed a step, the middle school girls were jostled this way and that.
With its ‘M’ shape resembling a prison, the middle school had the stairs at its center, allowing everyone from every floor to see me as I came up.
Middle schoolers glued to the railing murmured as they watched me approach.
THWACK!
One girl’s leg hit the stair railing.
Her slipper tumbled down.
“Phew.”
I dramatically dropped the students in front of a friend recording the incident.
THUD!
Even Joo Eun-seo, who was the only one holding on, fainted from the impact of falling down the stairs.
“Huff!”
“Wow, what the hell? That’s so scary.”
“Ugh, UGH…!”
A student unable to hold back rushed to the bathroom.
Teachers rushed out of the staff room to usher all the kids back.
Meanwhile, I leaned against the railing to calm my pounding head.
I had burnt through a massive amount of calories in no time, and my vision was spinning.
“What have you done to our school?! Kim, quick, call an ambulance!”
The life department teacher who had been talking to Kim Se-bin earlier came rushing over, scolding at me.
“Isn’t Jeong So-hye a student of Sea Star Middle School? Why are the bullies here today? With what face do they show up?”
“…”
“Enough! Bring me the student Yeosolbi from 3rd grade, class 8.”
“School bullying is not for outsiders to get involved in. You need to leave our school now.”
“NoName…”
Breaking through the crowd of students, one girl staggered forward.
“Solbi! You’re in danger, step back!”
“You came for me, right? Right? W-what did you say? I’m sorry for what I did, ugh…”
The last bully, Yeosolbi, knelt down and lowered her head.
“I don’t know why I did that. I regret every single thing I did. Sniff… I didn’t want to be bullied by Kim Se-bin’s gang either.”
“Yeosolbi, you said you were close to So-hye, right?”
“Ugh, I’ll face my consequences! I know what I did wrong… so please…”
“Sigh… So-hye is waiting for your call. Call her later.”
“Sniff, yes. I’ll apologize…”
According to Jeong So-hye, Yeosolbi was also bullied in her first year of middle school.
But now, she had become one of the most ruthless tormentors of Jeong So-hye.
With a heavy heart, I dusted myself off and got up to leave.
“I’m sorry for causing trouble. Don’t worry about legal issues; just carry on with the school bullying meeting as planned. They won’t have the guts to do anything anyway. If you send me the bill for the school damage, I’ll send you the money right away. Now, I’ll take my leave.”
“Is this really the best you could do, NoName? Just leaving after causing chaos in a sacred school?”
The head of the life department spoke with a serious tone.
I shrugged and nodded my head up and down once.
“A sacred school? That’s quite a stretch.”
