Chapter 77

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Translated by Sylph

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The front of the professor’s office was a mess.

Ezriella was panting with her hair in a mess and buttons torn from her clothes.

Across from her, Irene was glaring at Ezriella in a similar state.

However, the two were on the tidy side compared to Evi.

Evi was trembling behind Irene, clutching a cardboard box that was dented in places.

Naturally, her hair was disheveled, and her buttons were already all torn, leaving her Gifted Center uniform vest in tatters.

But what was even more miserable than that was Evi’s face.

Several red handprints remained clearly on her small cheeks, and blood was smeared all over her nose and lips.

“I’m telling you that thing did the stealing!”

Ezriella, who had now thrown away all remaining etiquette, shouted while pointing her finger at Evi.

Then Irene stood up and shouted back, shielding Evi with her body.

“What are you doing without evidence! Furthermore, to flock together and beat a person like this! Are you all crazy?”

When she shouted in a voice even higher than Ezriella’s as if she wouldn’t back down, the students who had beaten Evi along with Ezriella flinched and stepped back.

“You guys, do you know what happens if you hit another student according to the Gifted Center school rules, yet you do this kind of thing? Furthermore, five of you against one 7-year-old child!”

Irene, who was shouting, trembled and her eyes reddened.

It wasn’t because she was sad. It was because she couldn’t suppress her anger.

Ezriella had suddenly come looking for Evi and acted unreasonably, telling her to hand over an item.

Then, seeing the box Evi was holding, she tried to take it away, saying she must have hidden it there, and Evi had hugged the box with her whole body.

In the end, Ezriella, who failed to take the box from Evi’s arms, couldn’t overcome her anger and slapped Evi’s cheek.

As a large hand slapped a small face, a nosebleed had ended up occurring.

And immediately after that, Irene had run over and pulled Ezriella’s hair to separate her from Evi.

At Irene’s words, Ezriella answered even more arrogantly.

“That’s the story when the opponent is a student. She did the stealing. Then it’s expulsion! So what does it matter whether I hit her or not? Once she’s no longer a student of the Gifted Center, that’s just a beggar from an orphanage!”

“Can’t you watch your mouth!”

“You’re the one who should think well and act! If you keep covering for a thief, you’ll end up being punished together!”

Ezriella shouted with spite and then cried out to the students surrounding them as well.

“Everyone saw, right? You’re watching! That box Evi Alden has! I’m telling you she must have put everything in there!”

At that time, Evi, who was behind Irene, shook her head.

“No! I didn’t take them.”

“Liar. Then show me that box!”

At Ezriella’s demand, Evi hugged the box in her arms even more.

At that appearance, Ezriella had an expression saying she knew it would be like that, and Irene had an expression as if she were going to burst from frustration.

‘How on earth did it become like this?’

She had been studying in the cafeteria when suddenly a group of students ran over and shouted.

That Ezriella had gone to catch a thief.

“A thief?”

“You said Selena lost her bracelet last time. So there was a commotion searching all day, and it seems Ezriella said she knew the person who stole it.”

“Who is it?”

“Evi Alden. That brat. So it’s a mess where they are now.”

At those words, Irene had stood up abruptly.

It was Ezriella who had been staying quiet since they clashed greatly last time.

In fact, rather than staying quiet, she was staying discouraged because it was Ezriella’s defeat.

Since Irene’s side didn’t care at all, her reputation had rather gone up thanks to Arcel and Ruska.

So the children who had ignored Irene bowed their heads again and greeted her first.

Every time she saw that, Ezriella would stare wordlessly for a long time before leaving.

But that was all she could do.

So she thought Ezriella would stay quiet without any particular problem from now on, but suddenly to drive Evi as a thief?

‘Is she really crazy? I won’t leave her alone.’

Irene asked the student who told her the news where everyone was and then ran toward that place.

And when she came to the building, it was already crowded with students who had heard the news and flocked over.

“Move! Move!”

When she pushed through them and came to the front, what Irene saw was Evi crouching while hugging a box in her arms and the appearance of students kicking such an Evi.

In an instant, her eyes rolled back. Irene ran in just like that and rammed her body into the child who was kicking Evi.

Then she pulled the hair and kicked the other children as well.

She didn’t care about her image or anything.

These things? Flocking together as a group and beating a person? Furthermore, Evi?

Even though she had raised her hand to Evi, they were basically girls who had grown up delicately in noble families.

But suddenly being kicked and pushed to roll on the floor, they couldn’t endure it and retreated while crying.

And it had reached the present.

“Evi.”

Suppressing her desire to shout, Irene called Evi in a low voice.

“Can’t you show them that box?”

It was such an easy thing. She just had to open the cardboard lid and confirm to them that there was no such thing as the item they were looking for inside the box.

But Evi tried not to show the box no matter what.

Because of that, the gazes of the students standing around became even sharper.

“If you didn’t steal it, there’s no reason you can’t show it, right?”

“Right. Can’t you just show it confidently?”

The attitude of hiding made people think she was concealing a stolen item.

Backed by the support of other people, Ezriella tried to take Evi’s box again.

But this time too, Irene stood in her way.

‘I should do something about Irene first after all.’

Otherwise, it seemed there would be little progress.

Ezriella tidied her hair and clothes.

Looking around, students were surrounding the area completely, perhaps because the commotion had become widely known.

‘This much is enough.’

She needed as many people as possible. People who would see, hear, and spread rumors.

At that time, the students buzzed and parted to the side.

Looking to see who had come, it was Arcel and Ruska.

“What is this commotion… what is this. Evi?”

The expression of Ruska, who entered inside first, hardened.

“Who did this kind of thing.”

At Ruska’s low voice, the students standing next to him flinched and took a step back.

It was Ruska, who was always bright and playful.

He had never once shouted at or browbeaten other students.

As such, the students heard Ruska’s angry voice for the first time.

“Evi? Irene?”

Arcel, who followed, was the same.

He didn’t even ask more.

Approaching Evi immediately, he helped her up and then wiped the blood smeared on Evi’s face with his sleeve.

At the sight of the two protecting Evi as soon as they arrived, Ezriella shouted as if for everyone to hear.

“Don’t be deceived! She didn’t just do the stealing, she also lied about her guardian!”

“Guardian?”

“Yes! She said a professor named Sian Roshen was her guardian.”

“Is there some problem with that matter, Miss Ezriella?”

Arcel asked back coldly.

When both Arcel and Ruska took an antagonistic attitude toward her, Ezriella said in a flurry.

“The professor who is currently coming and going from the Academy claiming to be Evi Alden’s guardian is a fake!”

At her words, everyone had expressions asking what on earth she was talking about.

To think the professor was a fake.

“I’ve been following and watching for a few days. They said the young male professor who uses this professor’s office behind me is Professor Sian Roshen.”

Having said that much, Ezriella glared sharply at Evi.

The appearance of her trembling behind Irene, Arcel, and Ruska looked merely abominable.

‘After telling such a huge lie.’

To think she was acting as if she were the victim, as if she knew nothing.

She was the victim. Because she was suffering like this to uncover that orphan’s lie by throwing away her dignity.

At this rate, it seemed the antipathy toward her from Arcel and Ruska would only grow.

So she had to quickly inform everyone of the matter of the fake professor.

Ezriella snapped at Evi again.

“Don’t even think of lying and saying it’s not so. Because I’ve been following and saw that fake professor for a few days!”

At that time, Ruska cut in.

“I’m not understanding right now, but are you saying the professor who uses this professor’s office is a fake professor?”

“Yes! I found out. Professor Sian Roshen is not in the capital right now. It’s been a long time since he went back to his hometown because he wasn’t feeling well! Furthermore, he is a person who is already over 70 years old. My brother confirmed not only his identification card but also all his family members! I speak while staking the name of my family!”

The person who was flustered at the words Ezriella spoke so resolutely was Evi.

“That’s not it. Director Seraphina even delivered letters personally…”

“Another lie! Do you think the Director is a person idle enough to do that kind of errand?”

“It’s not a lie!”

This time, Evi also couldn’t hold back and shouted.

At that time, the sound of heavy footsteps was heard from behind the students.

The students, who turned their heads wondering if a staff member of the Gifted Center had come, could see a tall man whose expression was stiffly hardened.

Even though he was just walking out slowly without a word, everyone retreated and made a path at that overbearingness.

At the handsome face that had never been seen in the Gifted Center, the students whispered asking who that person was.

At that time, Evi saw him and shouted.

“Professor Sian!”