chapter 6
6 – Similar to the original
The part that can be called the second half of the first chapter of the original, The Child of Yggdrasil.
One day, the main character, Alan Ludwig, becomes friends with Liliana Edwin, a hard-working girl who always has a shadow on her face.
He sees Liliana crying.
The cause is Kyo Wentos, Liliana’s fiancée and heir to the count family.
After learning that Liliana is being abused by her fiancé, Alan confronts Kyou Wentos.
Unable to forgive Kyou for his vicious actions, Alan challenges him to a duel.
He uses his wealth and power to carry out cowardly tricks, but
Alan succeeds in overcoming all of them and winning.
After that, everything he did was exposed and he was banished from his family and fell.
Liliana is freed and has a happy ending.
Yeah well, so…
This composition actually matches the original to some extent.
The difference from the original story is that now, this place and I did not bother Liliana.
And maybe it’s just that Riel is here.
“You weren’t a proper guy after all, Kyo Wentos.”
“……”
“To make a weak woman cry, are you still a kingdom male?”
Ugh…
Coming here, receiving education as an aristocrat, and meeting Alan made me feel…
Isn’t this guy too helpless?
No matter how much they say they don’t care about status within the academy, that’s a story limited to the academy.
There is no such thing after graduating from the academy.
As the main character hates arrogant aristocrats, Alan frequently clashes with various aristocrats both in the original work and here.
It’s a personal conflict within the academy right now, but what will you do after graduating from the academy?
I don’t know because the original work ends with the academy graduation ceremony, but this guy is probably madly producing silence.
Won’t it be quite hard after graduation?
“Ah…Alan! No…It’s not like that…!”
“Lily, stay still. I’m fine now.”
Liliana is also taken aback by Alan’s appearance, and she tries to stop him, but Alan doesn’t seem to hear her.
Perhaps because of what happened the other day, it seems that I have already been confirmed as the bad guy inside Alan.
“Ri Eldo, she gets away from him right now!”
“……”
Riel, who had already been hiding behind me with a hardened expression from the moment Alan appeared, didn’t even move at Alan’s words.
Alan’s expression crumpled.
“Riel!”
“Don’t be loud, Alan Ludwig”
I pushed Riel back with a gesture and confronted Alan.
“I’ve told you before, she told me not to yell at women”
Alan glared at me with a sharp gaze.
“Shut up, tell him what you did to Lily!”
“It’s a problem between Lady Edwin and me, it’s not a problem between you and me.”
“Lily is my friend!”
“Even if you’re friends, there are places you can and won’t, unlike the relationship between you and Riel.”
As soon as Riel’s name was mentioned, Alan’s face became more ferocious.
“Don’t call Riel carelessly!”
“I don’t know why you messed up that she allowed her name”
“What…!”
Alan’s eyes moved towards Riel, but Riel was still staring at her floor without even looking at Alan.
I could feel her body shaking.
“Riel, are you sure?”
“……”
“Riel!”
“I think this is the third time I’ve told you not to scream.”
Alan gritted his teeth.
“Lady Edwin.”
“…!”
Liliana startled when I called her name.
“You’d better tell me what happened with your own mouth.”
“That…It is…”
Liliana was hesitant to say that.
That’s right, it’s no different than asking her to reveal her private parts to the person she likes.
“Or I can explain.”
“Oh no! I’ll tell you!”
That’s how Liliana explained each one to Alan.
That me and Liliana had been in a fiancée relationship for over ten years.
That Liliana stopped loving me and she unilaterally broke off the marriage relationship with me.
Because it was Liliana’s unilateral destruction without consultation or anything, the Baron Edwin family had to pay a huge amount of compensation.
And to the fact that in order for Liliana to continue attending her academy, she ended up asking me for forgiveness.
Liliana She confessed everything honestly, except that she hid that she fell in love with Alan.
Alan, who heard that, opened his mouth.
“Isn’t that strange!?”
“What do you mean?”
There’s nothing strange about this process, but Alan says so.
“Why does Lily’s family have to pay reparation unilaterally?”
“Are you not listening to Lady Edwin’s words? It’s because she unilaterally broke off her engagement.”
“But isn’t it you, Kyo Wentos, who provided the cause?”
Huh?
What is this guy talking about?
“Isn’t it a problem that Lily is not attracted to you?”
“You sound funny, that’s just a personal feeling. Do you think that will shake the issue of reparations?”
“Does it make sense that Lily can’t attend her academy for that reason alone in the first place?”
…No.
It was Baron Edwin who told Liliana to quit her academy in the first place.
“Is that why you made Lily cry?! You can’t forgive even that much. You’re so selfish, so it’s only natural that Lily loses affection for you!”
… It’s not my fault that Liliana made her cry…
In the first place, I was going to forgive Liliana so that she could attend her academy.
Alan who makes a grand mistake by saying that he came at her strange timing and speaks her strange voice.
Riel’s expression behind her grew colder, and even Liliana stared at Alan with her mouth gaping open.
“This kind of compensation, absolutely wrong!”
“Nothing changes when you talk, Alan Ludwig.”
“Then…”
At that time, Alan threw something at me.
A student plaque with the academy crest on it to prove that you are an academy student.
Throwing this at your opponent means challenging you to a duel.
“It’s a duel, Kyou Wentos.”
It is definitely a development according to the original.
If anything else, the original Alan found Liliana crying and after investigating the truth, she enraged and challenged Kyouwentos to a duel.
However, the Alan in front of me was probably already in a high state of hostility towards me, so he challenged me to a duel right here, right now.
“If I win, I’ll nullify the reparations owed by Lily’s family!”
“…You’re talking crazy nonsense, Alan Ludwig. Do you think that the reparations mandated by the strict kingdom law can be voided with nothing more than a duel between students?”
Compensation determined according to the law of the kingdom after the administrative officer of a state agency has investigated and judged all circumstances.
It’s not something that can be done with a duel between students.
“Can you say that you’re challenging the kingship that enacted the kingdom law?”
“…That…Then if I win, apologize to Liliana, and let her continue attending her academy!”
…In the first place, it wasn’t something I would apologize for, and I didn’t intend to care whether or not Liliana attended the academy.
“…Well, I’ll take it.”
I also threw my student card at Alan.
Because bottoming is not a business
“But if I win, don’t be around me anymore.”
“Good.”
If we win the duel and at least when Riel and I are together, we can block Alan’s approach.
Alan looked at Riel for a moment, then she sighed and turned her back.
“Lily, let’s go back”
“Ah…Alan, wait a minute! It’s not like that!”
Being dazed by the sudden development Liliana belatedly regains her senses and chases Alan.
As the two of them disappeared from sight, I relaxed and let out a sigh.
Riel, who was trembling from behind, came over and grabbed my hand.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes, I’m fine.”
Honestly, I’m worried if you’re better… I swallowed the words in my heart.
I picked up the student card that fell on the ground again.
Mine I threw at Alan, and Alan’s thing I forgot to retrieve in my excitement.
The duel is formally established by submitting both student cards to the professor, but that idiot seems to have forgotten even that.
“Are you all right? Alan, that bastard is real.”
“It’s okay Riel. I’m fine.”
Yes, Alan is strong.
The original Kyo Wentos was also defeated in the end despite all kinds of sabotage.
“I’m not just having fun, so it’s okay”
Yes.
I, Kyo Wentos, are different from the original.
Even if the development is similar to the original, the result will be different from the original.
The next day.
Riel promised to have lunch with Kyou, and she briefly went to the bathroom.
After finishing her errands, someone blocked Riel’s way to the rooftop where Kyou was waiting.
“Lady Ignis, is it okay for a moment?”
“……”
I immediately knew who it was.
The girl with long brown hair tied back was her classmate.
And that Alan Ludwig was a girl who always acted together.
It must have been a commoner girl named Arya Owen.
She had never really had a conversation with her, so she looked at her with her queer expression.
“I have a story I want to tell you, please follow me”
She doesn’t know her very well, but she’s close with Alan.
It’s not even worth dealing with. Judging by that, Riel tried to reject her.
Another figure approached behind Riel.
Looking behind her, there were two other girls.
I could see that they were also Alan’s frequent followers.
“I don’t mean to be nasty, I just want to talk”
“……”
In her opinion, she was Riel, whom she wanted to blow away with her magic on the spot.
However, it is forbidden to recklessly attack someone with magic without permission within the academy.
Riel clicked her tongue inside her and nodded her head.
How far did she walk along Aria.
She was guided by Aria, and Riel’s expression hardened coldly when she saw her opponent standing there.
At the same time, her breath caught in her throat and cold sweat broke out. The sensation she squeezed down her throat with him blocking it.
She has been with Kyou for a long time, and her forgotten senses have returned.
Alan Ludwig, the man Riel really hates and hates.
“Riel, I’ve been waiting”
“……”
“I’m sorry I brought you this way, because I knew you were avoiding me.”
I’m sorry, please leave me alone. I wanted to scream like that, but the voice didn’t come out of Riel’s throat.
Eventually, Riel turned her head away without even looking at Alan.
“…Is the reason you avoid me because of him, Kyou?”
“……”
Riel’s speech choked her jaw.
No, originally she was speechless in front of Alan, but this time she was speechless for a different reason.
“I don’t know what he did to you, but please rest assured.”
“……”
“I will definitely protect you. I will prove it with this duel.”
“……”
It was absurd.
Who protects whom?
There was nothing worth fighting for anymore.
Riel tried to leave the place by forcibly moving her still body.
“I sent her a letter to her father to report that some bastard is threatening Riel.”
“…!!”
As she was about to leave her seat, Riel’s head jerked.
She looked at Alan’s face.
He was smiling.
It must have been a smile intended to reassure Riel, but to Riel it only seemed like her demonic smile.
“I’ll probably get into the duke’s ears soon, no matter what he does, I can’t do anything about you.”
“…Ah…Ah…”
No! No!
Riel wanted to shout that, but her words didn’t come out of her throat.
Please come out. Why can’t my voice come out at this time?
Thinking so, Riel desperately squeezed her strength, but the feeling of her choking didn’t go away at all.
“Don’t worry Riel, everything will be fine.”
“…Ah…Ah…”
Also
From me again…
Beside me again…
Again, a demon who wants to steal someone precious from Riel
She was laughing right in front of her eyes.