Chapter 290

As Roan, who was held by Kaina’s hand, trembled, False Divinity vibrated and joked.

Wow─

That level of deluSion was severe.

Coincidentally, Kaina also spoke in a similar tone.

“Excessive humility is poison. Look at this ring! If you weren’t a Darc student, how could you have been purified so quickly?”

Kaina asked, showing the ring on Roan’s finger.

… … Certainly, in Roan’s opinion, the speed of purification – or, more accurately, taming the dark magic – was fast.

Although I controlled my own speed, the ring was rushing so violently that it was now almost assimilated with Roan’s dark magic.

On the surface, this means that the purification was almost complete.

“Well, but this professor understands everything. I’ve also received many similar misunderstandings!”

“……yes?”

Roan looked dumbfounded.

A similar misunderstanding?

‘Is Professor Kaina also a warlock?’

Just thinking about that gave me goosebumps all over my body and felt like my spine was turning upside down.

Kaina said with her shoulders slightly slumped.

“I always feel like I’m not good enough, but other people value me so highly. I’m grateful!”

‘Ah, in that direction.’

The misunderstanding was resolved, but that didn’t mean I agreed with what she said.

If she falls short twice, all the seeds of warlocks in the world will dry up.

Kaina glanced around the room, clapped her hands, and said.

“Oh my, since I’m in the lab, I should at least treat myself to some tea, but class time is almost up!”

“it’s okay.”

It was really okay.

It seemed natural that the tea in Professor Kaina’s lab contained an extreme poison that only worked on warlocks.

“Be sure to stop by again next time! Then let’s go straight to the prison!”

And finally to the main point.

Kaina walked ahead, passing Roan to lead the way.

Roan followed her in silence.

Of course, I knew the way to the dungeon, but I had to be careful about my actions in front of Kaina.

‘Pretending to be a pure freshman, pretending to be a pure freshman… … .’

Kaina walked briskly down the gloomy underground hallway, humming to herself as to what was so enjoyable.

Roan followed her, carefully observing the path she was walking on from the corner of his eye.

After that, I felt a little more at ease.

‘Luckily I’m not there.’

As the basement of the Theotrics Hall was a prison where many warlocks were imprisoned, various crime prevention measures had been prepared.

One of them was a maze-like hallway that was intricately tangled like a spider’s web.

Anro () was a road that ordinary people pass by, not black magicians or criminals.

The rough road, on the other hand, was the route used to transport those who would be imprisoned.

The reason was that in emergency situations, people instinctively had the habit of finding a familiar path.

Of course, the rough road was full of enormous traps, and the Paladins were on strict guard.

Roan was relieved that Kaina didn’t choose that path.

Kaina, who was happily walking down the street, seemed to be bored and called Roan as she walked ahead.

“Dark student!”

“Yes, Professor.”

“But you came a little later than I thought?”

Roan answered calmly, as if he was hearing something new.

“I came from having lunch with my friends.”

“No, I thought you’d come right after breakfast!”

“……?”

But it wasn’t a new sound.

Roan looked at Kaina’s back with slightly embarrassed eyes.

That early?

“Why did you think that?”

“That’s right, it’s about imprisoning warlocks! It’s also about kidnapping a Darc student!”

Kaina, who spoke cheerfully, suddenly stood tall.

Bang──!!!

Then, the wall to her right suddenly shattered with a loud noise!

[Aaaah! He’s a crazy professor!!!]

Kirrrrrrrrr!!

Of course, the debris flying towards Roan, Bell, and Charlotte disappeared thanks to Kaina’s careful holy magic.

‘If that’s going to happen, isn’t it better to just not destroy it?’

It wasn’t that I could control my anger, or that I couldn’t, but it was a very vague consideration.

“Crack! If I hadn’t trained just a little bit, I would have gone to find the Darc student myself.”

Kaina gritted her teeth and said something scary.

“!!!”

Meanwhile, Roan was shocked to see that the wall had a hole all the way to the opposite passage.

Beyond that, there was a paladin who was patrolling at that moment, and we came face to face with him.

The paladin looked shocked when the wall next to him suddenly broke through.

─ Huh uh ─! That face… … ! Is this really a jailbreak?!!?!?!

… … In fact, he seemed more frightened by Roan’s face seen through the wall than by the hole in the wall.

Kaina suddenly showed her face through the hole and apologized to the Holy Knight.

“Aiko, I’m sorry, knight! I accidentally broke the wall!”

Only then did the paladin nod his head with a bright expresSion, as if he was relieved.

─ Ah, the professor was escorting a prisoner! What else do I say?

“Huh? Oh, yes. That’s right! We’re transporting prisoners!”

─ It looked just like that! Hahaha!

There seemed to be a huge difference between the ‘prisoners’ that Kaina and the Paladin were talking about.

The school’s Holy Knights were now quite familiar with Roan’s face, but that knight was still working in the basement of the Theotrics Building.

‘That human… … !’

Roan clenched his fist without realizing it.

I’m trying hard to get through it, but it’s like I’m running out of time!

─ But Professor, why were you escorting us inside? Not a rough road?

“Ah, because the prisoners are trapped inside the Bell of Eternity!”

Kaina smiled and looked back at Roan.

“Here, this student is the owner of the new Bell of Eternity~”

Only then did Kaina introduce Roan.

The paladin, who naturally thought that the gloomy and dangerous face was a prisoner being escorted, was dumbfounded and tilted his head once.

─ Yes? Bell of Eternity, then… … ?

The paladin, who was thinking about something for a moment, was shocked and jumped up a couple of times before falling flat on the floor.

─ Oh my, Darc student! I was rude without even knowing it!!

“…….”

This wasn’t something he had experienced once or twice anymore, so Roan didn’t say anything and just stayed quiet.

“Huh? I didn’t know you were a Darc student. How did you know it was an escort?”

─ That was… … .

The paladin hesitated, unable to immediately answer Kaina’s question.

How could he say that he was so embarrassed that he mistook the Acherandir student for an escaped warlock?

… … It’s not the first time Roan had been misunderstood like that, but since he was in front of Kaina, he had to be even more careful.

When the paladin’s expresSion looked so troubled, Roan stepped in instead.

“Professor, just go. It’s not that big of a deal, and I’ll be late for class.”

“Oh, that’s right, by the way, we’ll just go!”

─ Four! Thank you, Prince Darc!

The Paladin bowed deeply and expressed his gratitude to Roan, who appeared like a relief pitcher.

‘If I say this for no reason, I’ll only be suspicious.’

… … He would never had guessed that Roan had turned his horse around for his own safety.

On the way back to the dungeon.

When they were almost there, Kaina suddenly wrapped her arms around her and trembled.

“Ugh, but even though it’s the building I work in, I think the basement is really creepy, don’t you think?”

It was eerie.

Professor Kaina himself was the best.

… … And the screams and moans already coming from beyond definitely intensified the eerie atmosphere.

“Sometimes, if you listen to students or faculty, they say there are ghosts. Of course, I’ve never met one.”

Roan nodded calmly.

Kaina had never met a ghost?

That couldn’t had been possible.

“Now that I think about it, I saw it once too.”

“Huh? Really? A ghost?”

“Yes. He’s called Doldol-ie.”

Kaina chuckled at Roan’s words and waved her hand.

“Hey, what can I say~ I meet Doldol-ie often too!”

Kaina might not had thought of it, but people usually called beings like Doldol-ie ghosts.

However, there was a reason why Kaina proudly said that she had never encountered a ghost.

“Doldol-ie is not a ghost, but a remnant of evil warlocks who cannot leave even after death, right? As long as you have sincere faith, you have nothing to be afraid of!”

I already knew the reason, but hearing it in person made the logic even more absurd and novel.

“Ugh, other than that, what if a real ghost appears? I’m really scared of ghosts and stuff!”

If that’s true, wouldn’t Kaina never encounter a ghost in her life?

‘I am most afraid of you.’

It was scary to begin with, but seeing him say things like that so casually made me even more confident.

Roan said, trying to keep a calm expresSion.

“Well, I don’t think you need to worry, Professor.”

“Is that so? Darc students also think there are no such things as ghosts, right?”

‘No, there are ghosts, but you don’t have to worry.’

Roan was a little frustrated, but he didn’t had the confidence to resolve Kaina’s deep misunderstanding(?).

Meanwhile, the two finally arrived at the dungeon.

On either side of the dungeon’s massive doors were statues of gods holding large swords and axes.

‘Alangar, the god of punishment, Ilangir, the god of condemnation.’

As can be inferred from their similar attributes and names, Alangar and Ilangir were twin gods.

The characteristic feature of Alangar was that it bleeds from its eyes, while Ilangir bleeds from its ears.

Each symbolized the sadness of inevitable punishment and the pain of hearing screams when condemned.

‘Yes, doing everything you need to do… … .’

From Roan’s point of view as a warlock, it was nothing more than outrageous hypocrisy.

From the perspective of the victim, it was of no particular comfort whether the other person shed tears of blood or laughed at them.

On the other hand, Kaina, the Heresy Questioner, politely bowed to the two gods.

… … Roan also expressed his gratitude to aVoid arousing suspicion.

If the two gods got caught by mistake, Roan was the one who aVoided it.

Kaina said in a voice full of sentiment.

“Now that I think about it, the Darc student must have a deep connection with the two gods.”

“yes?”

Roan asked absurdly what that meant.

Alangar and Ilangir were minor gods that few people except the Inquisitors believed in.

‘Do you mean the same thing: be interrogated by two gods?’

It couldn’t had happened.

“I heard that you are already well-versed in holy magic, right?”

“Aha. That’s too much praise.”

It was curse magic, not punishment holy magic, but Roan nodded his head roughly.

“I guess it’s because the two gods felt sorry for my situation. I guess… I’ll have to borrow more from their strength than from others.”

Roan said with a truly pitiful and sorrowful expresSion.

[Wow, the owner is really… … !]

Wow!!

A person who calmly said things like this even in front of a statue of God always said in his heart, “Demon Punishment, Heavenly Punishment!”

Bell and False Divinity were impressed by Roan’s acting skills.

How can people be so different on the outside and on the inside?

Wooooong─

If you were born as a warlock, you would truly achieve greatness… … Oh, you’re already a warlock, right?

Leave the False Divinity nonsense aside.

“As expected, the Darc student….”

Kaina finally opened the door to the dungeon with tears forming at the corners of her eyes.