Surviving as a Villain at the Academy

34 – Midterm Exam – Practical. (2)

Leonard, the second-year swordsmanship professor, looked at Prah with sharp eyes.

‘Were you hiding your skills?’

He had no choice but to judge Prah’s skills in that way. This is because during the past month, Prah’s skills that he had observed were no different from before. Moderately good basic swordsmanship and moderately good skills.

He’s just a hard worker. In Leonard’s judgment, that was the end of Prah.

He thought it would be difficult for Prah to advance further. The number of students he has seen while serving as a professor at the academy exceeds thousands. Among them, there were many students with brilliant talent and many students who worked hard.

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Compared to them, what Prah had shown so far was not that outstanding.

But, from that scene just now to the situation that followed. Leonard’s suspicions were becoming reasonable suspicions.

Just now, when Prah struck down his sword, he wanted to test Prah’s skills. If he were just an ordinary criminal, he wouldn’t have been able to block Leonard’s sword strike.

But he struck down Leonard’s sword very fluidly, as if he had expected that. The fact that his posture changed so quickly means that he had already anticipated what Leonard would do.

However, even if it was an expected sword attack, the problem was that it was a sword attack that could not be responded to at the student level at the speed just now.

You parried that kind of sword strike? The fact that he lost his sword afterwards appears to have been nothing more than an intention to hide his skills.

I’m not sure why he’s trying to hide his skills, but in Leonard’s opinion, Prah’s skills aren’t that far behind Ruslan’s skills, which have risen explosively not long ago.

It was the professor’s discretion to properly evaluate a student’s skills. First of all, the movement leading up to the process of striking the sword at oneself was quite good, so the score was expected to be quite generous, but the evaluation was completely over due to the scene just now.

Leonard immediately smiled at Prach, who had an embarrassed expression on his face, and wrote down Prach’s score as the highest on the evaluation sheet.

* * *

If you look at that, it looks like the expression on which my name was written with the highest score on the evaluation sheet. An expression as if expecting something……. I couldn’t help but feel discouraged. No, if this is the case, what about the second episode? That episode wasn’t just about expanding Ruslan’s harem.

Ruslan clearly gains something from that episode, but he might lose it entirely.

I shook my head.

No, this is not the time to be discouraged. I’m sure the second heroine wouldn’t be interested in someone like me. Who would fall in love with an attempted rapist for no particular reason?

No matter how probable or realistic the world is, such a thing will not happen.

Yes. There is no need to overreact. In this case, Ruslan will be in second place, and the heroine will be in third place.

Ruslan is above him. There is a much greater possibility that the heroine will use that as an excuse to cling to Ruslan, so let’s not think about that for now.

What is important now is the demonic flood and what happens before and after it.

Yes. There is no need to worry about unnecessary things. There is nothing more foolish than worrying about what will happen next and missing out on what needs to be done.

First of all, we need to see how things are going with Asti tonight.

Nea will have to play her role well.

* * *

Nea looked at the two lesser demons in front of her.

“Hey, Nebiros…… ? “Do you have something to tell me?”

“I told you to call me Nea. Anyway, it’s true that I have work to do.”

“What’s going on…?” ….”

The lesser demons, Dantalion and Andromalius, looked at Nea’s notice and spoke in hushed voices. This is because it was better not to confront demons higher than oneself no matter what.

“Tonight, there will be Ruslan and Aris Winslet in the dance hall. Attack those two.”

“Yes, yes? Wow, it’s an attack.”

Dantalion was a fairly smooth male demon with pale skin, but his already pale face was starting to turn bluish instead of pale.

Andromalius had nothing to say.

The church’s influence is so great, and they’re asking you to attack a student at the academy where even a saint was sent this time? Is she making sense, that woman?

The two thought like that and looked at each other’s faces. In any case, the two came to the academy to have fun and have fun together, so they seemed embarrassed by the sudden incident.

“Well, that’s…” … Wouldn’t that be impossible? “Our strength has been greatly reduced due to the church, and isn’t Ruslan that scary guy?”

However, Nea’s expression as she looked at it was unusual. Even as Nea, she couldn’t help it. She asked, looking fiercely at her lesser demons.

“So, you say you can’t do it?”

Dantalion and Andromalius were completely frightened by that ferocious force and shook their heads. How could you say no? To put it bluntly, the hierarchy of demons is completely determined by the logic of power. Since Nea is a mid-level devil, there is no way the two low-level devils could resist it.

Like Nea, there was no need to do such a hassle, but why isn’t a good thing a good thing? They say they will somehow find the remains of a saint that I wanted to find but couldn’t, so I guess I should at least win their favor this way.

Even in hell, Astaroth is one of the top ten high-ranking devils, so if you score points at a time like this, you might receive some kind of favor later.

“Ha, I will!”

“Okay. I don’t want you to die either, so just do it in moderation, in moderation. Got it? “All you have to do is threaten.”

“Yes, yes!”

In the end, the people who suffered the most from the flow of transactions were the two low-level demons who were kept under their control without receiving any benefits.

It’s unfortunate, but what can you do? The world originally runs on the logic of power.

* * *

Aris crossed her sword with Ruslan and let out a sigh.

‘As expected, it’s outrageous.’

Recently, in the past few weeks, Ruslan’s skills have started to soar like crazy. Even Ruslan himself can’t figure out why, so he tilts his head to the side, so would you guess it’s Aris?

She simply accepted that his enormous talent was finally beginning to shine, but she was a little tired of the overwhelming gap between him and Ruslan.

‘If it continues like this, it’s just practice and nothing will come of it.’

Because I had an exam tomorrow, I was staying up late at night in the training hall with Ruslan, but to be honest, Aris didn’t really want to do it. Because even her practice was out of the question for her in the first place. What kind of practice is this when the gap is overwhelming?

Even if Ruslan admired her swordsmanship, Ruslan was a typical genius. Aris’ concerns would not be felt by him.

Things that he does as naturally as breathing are things that Aris must act upon after much deliberation.

Being a genius at something means that you have no talent for teaching. What is so easy for a genius is terribly difficult for a commoner.

Ruslan did not have anything like the old habit engraved on Aris’ body when swinging a sword. Ruslan can tell him to get rid of such a habit, but how can he change an old habit in one day? It’s probably something that’s slowly being fixed.

Of course, this time itself was not meaningless. If you look to the future rather than tomorrow. It will be almost impossible to change the habits you learned today during the test tomorrow…… If you take your time, you can fix it.

However, even with all the reasons aside, Aris was reluctant to be alone with Ruslan.

I might not have known it before I was fully aware of my feelings, but after I became aware of it, I thought that being alone with Ruslan was not a good situation. And only then did she know. Why did Prah say that he was playing with his mind?

When she watched Prah making out with other women, she felt a pang that made her stomach twist. Perhaps Prah felt the same pain, perhaps even deeper, when she was with Ruslan.

However, by keeping Ruslan by her side, she did not think about the suffering that Prah would receive, and she was receiving the karma in its entirety.

‘This is how it felt, Prah.’

Being with Ruslan wasn’t as comfortable as it used to be.

The reason she felt favored toward him was probably because she was excited about meeting something new and unfamiliar.

As her situation surrounding her changed, her hidden essence was revealed.

When Aris realized the whole situation, she realized what a terrible thing she had done to Prah. He and she both ended up hurting each other so much.

What Prah did to himself was truly unforgivable. But could her actions also be forgiven by Prah?

Only then did Aris admit her own fault.