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211. What is that guy saying right now?

Before the Magical Banquet began, Luska had a dream.

On a night when the full moon was shining, something unfolded in her comfortable slumber.

It was a vivid memory that was hard to dismiss as just a simple dream.

In the dream appeared Talema, the king whom she once considered her enemy. And her little sister and friend, who could be said to be her reason for living.

Her little sister Angela suddenly fell from the sky, and her friend Radon’s body turned to sand and vanished.

From Luska’s standpoint, it was the level of a nightmare, no matter who said otherwise.

Above all, the fact that Talema appeared made it even worse.

‘It wasn’t just a simple nightmare.’

Due to the strangeness felt in the dream, she wondered if it might be a prophetic dream.

At first, she thought it was impossible, but a story she heard from the Spirit King brought her assurance.

She was certain it was indeed a prophetic dream.

‘I have to stop it right away.’

At that time, her whole body had gone cold.

The feeling that every bone was frozen due to the imminent danger.

Angela would die from falling, and Radon would perish as his body turned to sand.

To avoid that prophetic dream, Luska had to work tirelessly every day.

Everyone felt the crisis from the information given by the Spirit King, but Luska was the most proactive in avoiding it.

– On the fifth day of the Magical Banquet, bodies will appear. The leader was a man who was once the king of Papias. And another…

The former king of Papias.

Just hearing that made Luska nearly lose her sanity.

Since then, she had been training without rest.

To prepare for the decisive battle on the fifth day, making the best use of her special skills was the shortcut.

Starting with training to withstand Jenny’s ice attacks, she even drenched herself in Purgatory Volcano.

Despite both environments being hard for a human to endure, Luska managed to hold on for several days.

‘Ah, I almost forgot that.’

Every time she trained to strengthen her body, all her senses were maximized.

During those times, a certain vision began to appear before her eyes.

However, she already knew that it was the near future.

The ability to see the future and her fortified body.

With the added power of the full moon, she could explode all her talents greatly.

‘But…’

In truth, her ability to see the future was far from perfect.

Every time she used it, she felt dizzy, and when she first had that prophetic dream, she didn’t see any detailed circumstances.

No matter what, dizziness was the main issue.

At least she could somewhat cover it with Divine Beast Transformation, but once it wore off, the accumulated dizziness flooded in at once.

It felt like a dam bursting in her head from not being able to contain the collected water.

‘But with the full moon, there’s no limit to Divine Beast Transformation.’

In a state of transcending her limits, she wouldn’t experience dizziness.

She felt relieved knowing that the Spirit King could provide her with a full moon.

No matter what, she would definitely prevent that prophetic dream.

She would take down Talema, who had returned from hell.

She would protect the only hopes of her life.

“No… nooo!! Luska… you bitch!!”

And now, she had achieved all of it.

If all the preparations hadn’t been in place, she might have fainted after taking a few hits.

Although Talema was her mortal enemy, he was indeed a formidable opponent.

‘But the prophetic dream came true.’

Angela fell just like in the dream.

Fortunately, Professor Radian caught her from below, so she was unharmed.

And Radon was also in the process of turning to sand.

“No…!! I can’t die like this! I can’t die like this!!”

Talema, transformed into Radon’s form, was screaming his last words.

His body was gradually turning into grains and disappearing.

It matched the scene she had seen in the dream.

“I… I am the man who will soon reach the pinnacle of the world! I remember… I remember! That silver-haired girl who oppressed me during the Magical Banquet in school!”

The figure of Radon she saw in the dream was actually Talema.

With that realization, Luska smiled in relief.

But…

“I will kill them all! Anyone who hinders my path must die! I am the strongest! I mean it!!”

She was not pleased with the insane words he was spouting while disappearing in Radon’s form.

“All of you who oppose me… die!!!”

Even as he vanished, Talema showed madness and obsession.

Luska, filled with rage, stepped on him and said,

“Try to kill me once.”

Luska spoke coldly. Hearing those words, Talema’s eyes lit up with fire as he moved his arms.

“Yeah, you too… huh?”

But both of his arms were gone.

One arm was cut off, and the other was turning to sand and vanishing.

The same went for his legs.

No mana was flowing from his body.

There were no means to kill her.

“What are you doing? I said to kill me?”

“Ahh… ahhhh!!”

With only his upper body remaining, Talema suddenly burst into tears.

“Please! Just acknowledge me! Acknowledge my talent!!”

Now he began to throw a tantrum like a kindergarten child, begging strangely.

Unable to watch any longer, Luska turned her back on Talema.

She didn’t know what kind of life he had lived. Surely there must have been some bad past.

But still, what did it matter?

“Please, just…”

Talema, known as the worst monarch of Papias, ultimately vanished.

His particles were blown away in the wind, scattering everywhere.

No will remained of what he left behind.

“It’s all over.”

Luska, having ended the bad relationship, looked at the moon and silently wished.

Hopefully, a little of her mother’s regret in heaven had been relieved.

“Good job.”

“You too.”

Then Luska sat beside the real Radon.

Exhausted, her fox ears and nine tails drooped.

Of course, Radon was also covered in wounds.

“That doesn’t mean the situation is completely resolved.”

Civil unrest was still unfolding throughout the village.

Thanks to countering Diablo Rain, our side had regained its fighting spirit, but enemies continued to emerge.

Although significant figures were holding back external enemies, there were still plenty of others.

“Who the hell invited those guys to the festival?”

“Who else? It was the Emperor and his cronies.”

“Is he really a Sage Monarch?”

“That’s what I’m saying.”

Originally, there were plenty of factions hostile to Aligieri.

Even if the royal family got embroiled in the controversy of this incident, they could still resurrect themselves with their full support.

In the village, there were elves and beastmen.

And from the sea flank, dark spirits were rushing in.

“What should we do? I don’t have the strength to stand up anymore.”

“Me neither.”

As of now, the two of them couldn’t fight.

Of course, that didn’t mean they lacked forces to hold back the enemy.

“Let’s leave the rest to Mary and Princess Mirona.”

“Regarding the princess, I’m fine, but I wonder if Mary can handle it?”

Well, she had plenty of quirks, so it was hard to trust her…

“But she knows how to get things done when it counts.”

Having heard that, Luska quickly nodded.

She had experienced a mission with Mary before.

“Does this mean our turn is over?”

“Are you feeling sad?”

“Not really…”

Luska sighed, feeling as if she had been pushed into the sidelines as a supporting character.

The moonlit night was truly beautiful, but it was regretful that she could do no more.

Reading her expression, Radon pulled something out from within his cloak.

“Do you know what this is?”

“Huh?”

It was a piece of paper with blue flames that had been taken from Talema.

Interestingly, it was not hot at all to the touch, even barehanded, and the paper didn’t turn to ash.

It was not a flame with burning properties.

Radon explained what it was.

“It’s Eternal Flame.”

“If that’s the case, it must be the seal on the Aligieri diploma.”

“I’ve been attending this academy all this time to get this.”

When asked what for, Radon smiled and said.

“You said back then that you wanted to know my secret.”

It was when he had awakened from the prophetic dream and was anxious.

Jenny seemed to have known Radon’s unavoidable circumstances, but Luska herself was oblivious.

That was frustrating. But that frustration was relieved that night.

“Have you heard of the Curse of the Liar?”

She could hear everything from Radon.

Why he was acting as a scammer.

And what curse the Crawler family had been afflicted with.

Only after hearing that explanation could Luska understand everything.

“So that’s why your family always blurted out strange things at times…”

“It’s all because of that curse.”

“Haha…”

However, any information regarding the curse could never be uttered out loud.

To ignore it, she’d need the Eternal Flame in her hand.

Upon hearing that information, Luska silently shouted in her mind.

“That’s why Jenny noticed it first, because the diploma was at Chain Silver Mansion!”

“So that makes me the second?”

“That’s right.”

Even though she wasn’t the first, she didn’t feel too bad about it.

She was now sharing a secret that only Radon knew.

Swoosh—

The burning flame gradually extinguished.

It seemed the effect had ended as its truth was spoken.

“The flame went out? Is there no more?”

“I checked the other corpses, but they have already disappeared.”

In the end, the only way was to graduate and acquire the seal.

At that moment, Luska felt weak and leaned against Radon’s shoulder.

Her fox ears and nine tails were fading, causing dizziness to kick in.

“Hang on, is it okay if I lie next to you?”

Had she seen too much of the future while fighting earlier?

This was the worst dizziness she had ever experienced.

Now, she didn’t even have the strength to stand.

“You did well. Rest comfortably.”

Radon patted her head, lulling her to sleep.

Thanks to that, Luska was able to fall asleep with a pleasant expression despite her headache.

“Mmm…”

Luska, who usually had the gaze of a fierce predator.

But under the moon, with her eyes closed, she looked like an elegant and distant girl.

“Mom…”

Her sleep talking could be heard as Luska, resting on the boy’s shoulder, fell asleep.

*

“Mom…”

“I’m not your mom.”

It was pointless to talk to the already sleeping Luska.

I adjusted Luska’s rumpled brown scarf.

She usually walked around with a fierce gaze, but seeing her like this, she looked just as silly as Jenny.

‘It’s not particularly surprising, though.’

Due to the impact of the earlier battle, my whole body felt sore.

Right now, I didn’t even have the energy to call Aisha and Muto.

“Thinking back, I was even bleeding.”

Suddenly touching my head, I found it smeared with blood.

I hadn’t noticed when it had flowed, but I took out a droplet of the Rain of Ten Thousand Shadows and applied it to the wound.

“It’s been a while since I’ve used this.”

Just dropping one droplet healed the wound to some extent.

On a whim, I also dropped it on Luska’s wound and passed another droplet into her mouth.

“Yum yum yum… hehehe…”

Her face turned cheerful as if she had eaten something delicious.

It almost made me laugh as if I were watching a little child.

At that moment.

[The power of the Divine Beast awakens within you.]

[All attributes will increase dramatically.]

[Duration is 24 hours.]

“Finally, the time has come.”

Suddenly, strength surged into my fatigued body.

The 30% power I received from Lyman had finally awakened within me.

‘It took a while, didn’t it?’

Days had passed since I receiving the power from Lyman in a hidden space underground in Aligieri.

Immediately after I received it, I couldn’t apply that transcendent power.

If I had applied it carelessly, my body wouldn’t have been able to withstand Lyman’s Divine Beast power.

‘I probably would have popped like a balloon.’

Divine Beast power doesn’t fit the human body.

I had waited days to develop it without manifesting so that it could fit my body.

Now that I was ready to unleash the power, I gently laid sleeping Luska down in a comfortable spot.

And as I stood up, I began to move towards my next plan.

‘But I must not wipe out the enemies just with this power.’

I am now a student of Aligieri.

It was obvious that many would question where I got my Divine Beast power.

If that happened, negative public opinion towards Aligieri would increase, leading to a bad ending.

‘But I don’t need to be in this form.’

<Genetic Alteration Lv10>

Just like before, I tried to change my appearance using a skill.

Then, a tremendous sound echoed from somewhere in the village.

Boom!-

As a giant shadow loomed over the village, I looked up.

There stood a gigantic battle robot right in the center of Aligieri Town.

‘What is this?’

Why is there suddenly a genre shift?

… I thought so, but it turned out to be a massive golem made up of countless smaller ones.

While it was a type of golem that belonged in the fantasy genre, it sparked confusion regarding the genre regardless.

Only one person in Aligieri could manage such a large-scale golem.

Sitting in what appeared to be the control center of the golem was Baimon Dreadnote.

And…

‘Huh?’

What is Amy doing over there?

My younger sister was fast asleep next to Baimon.

What kind of situation is this?!

Boom!-

Kawokokowk!-

A torrent of magical attacks rained down upon the giant golem.

However, the golem remained unfazed and swung its massive arms at the attacking wizards.

As if a building were crashing down from the sky, the enemies fled in terror.

And from high above came Baimon’s shout.

“I shall protect my love!!!!”

What is that guy saying right now?

Surviving as an Academy Scammer?

 

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