Execution (2)
Duels between students.
Since the competition system is more systematically established than anywhere else, it is not uncommon to encounter such events at Galimar.
Should I say it's a kind of Spartan education?
It was an educational policy laid down by the headmaster.
Conflict promotes children's growth and brings out their potential.
It is to blossom using pain as fertilizer.
Perhaps because of this academy atmosphere, the procedures related to it are also well organized.
So that it can always be carried out smoothly.
- I request a duel.
Duels are conducted sequentially.
The faculty members who observe this perform their designated roles and supervise the students.
The roles are roughly divided into [Judge, Administrator, and Executor].
To explain it roughly, it is as follows.
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Hello, this is the strategy guide.
Today, I would like to inform you about what some of you have asked.
Periodic duel events.
Many people have asked what roles professors play every time,
I think I can answer you briefly.
1. Judge
-> Literally the role of judging a duel
(Usually the headmaster takes on the role)
2. Management
-> The role of preventing safety accidents or managing injuries during a duel
(Medical faculty or Professor Kadel takes on the role)
3. Executor
-> The role of supervising the fulfillment of the stakes after the duel is over
(Randomly determined regardless of position)
That is all.
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"Hmm."
A post I uploaded sometime.
It was an informational article I wrote when I was working as a game creator before possession.
I quietly ponder the content.
Maybe it's because it's the situation I'm going through right now.
Memories related to it come to mind one by one.
As I was lost in thought like that, my eyes suddenly met with blue eyes.
A blue-haired girl sitting across from me.
"······."
Emilia immediately averts her gaze.
A room with only the two of us left.
A deep silence has been lingering since earlier.
Originally, Selena should have been here too, but she vacated the seat at my request.
I remain silent.
'The initiative is on my side anyway.'
The final stage of the duel, execution.
It was the process of paying the price they had placed on each other, an unavoidable judgment.
The girl's breath trembles.
-The price of defeat... is to leave Galimar Academy according to the winner's discretion.
A forced withdrawal.
Now all that was left in front of Emilia was expulsion.
Because the [Execution] that takes place in Galimar is absolute.
If Selena just signs her name, the girl will be kicked out of the academy immediately.
'She must be burning inside.'
The girl's complexion hardens.
Whether she does or not, I'm leisurely killing time for show.
It wasn't me who was in a hurry.
The key to negotiation.
You have to drive the other person crazy.
Don't reveal your weakness until they kneel down in desperation and beg and cling to you.
To completely subjugate them.
'There's no way.'
Emilia had nowhere to go.
Due to internal circumstances, her treatment in the Vanity family was like a kite with its string cut off, and her position was extremely precarious.
If she gets expelled because of this incident...
'It's over.'
She really can't turn things around.
She's dead.
I'm not just talking about her life as a noble. The thread of life is cut off.
The girl was walking on a knife edge.
- I have a proposal for Lady Vanity.
- It's about the execution. I want to talk to you alone.
I deliberately spoke loudly so that the other side could hear.
A faint haze shaking in front of the wall painted with optimism.
I was sure.
That she had no choice but to take this bait.
"······Um."
And the moment the red lips part.
Certainty turns into certainty.
A fishy smile spreads across my lips.
"You said you had a proposal earlier."
"I did, didn't I?"
"But why, why aren't you saying anything...?"
"Well."
I reply nonchalantly.
The slyly flickering tongue resembles a deadly viper.
"What kind of proposal would you like to hear, Lady?"
A sentence as if giving her a choice.
However, the meaning contained within was completely different.
"Tell me what you want."
=You can't do anything.
It was a passage that engraved their respective positions.
As long as Emilia's lifeline was hanging by my fingertips, I could toy with her however I pleased.
In this situation.
What kind of reaction would our Lady show?
It's too obvious, but.
"······Aren't you afraid of the name of the Vanity family?"
Yes, she's going to bring up the family name.
Emilia would naturally think I wouldn't know anything.
It was a pretty good escape route.
But.
"I'd appreciate it if you'd put away the clumsy threats."
=Are you sure you want to threaten me?
"W-What are you talking about...?"
"Because if you bother me, I might want to continue with the [Executor] right away."
=I'm holding your weakness, Lady.
Maybe she was a bad opponent.
I knew better than anyone what was going on in the Vanity family.
Even deeper than Emilia.
"I know a lot."
=I know what kind of situation you're in.
It was all said in a roundabout way, but it was something she would have understood.
A blatantly provocative expression.
A clear attitude of maintaining the upper hand.
An ominous smile that doesn't break even when Vanity is mentioned.
It was suffocatingly meaningful.
"I just want to have a sincere conversation."
Panic flickers in her blue eyes.
She tries to pretend to be calm, but the peculiar trembling doesn't disappear.
The girl falls silent for a moment.
"······."
Is she calculating in her head?
She's pretty quick-witted when you look at her like this.
If it were ordinary children, they wouldn't even grasp the atmosphere and would continue acting brazenly.
Emilia was different.
She changes her judgment as soon as she smells danger.
She shut her mouth so as not to make a mistake.
She combines the dropped clues and infers the possibilities.
'She's got a first-rate brain.'
Well.
She wouldn't have survived otherwise.
In an environment that's no different from hell.
"Hehe, are you done thinking?"
"······Yes."
Screech-.
Emilia gets up, quietly pulling back her chair.
She takes a staggering step.
She hesitates for a moment, then walks towards where I am sitting.
Her shoulders are trembling like an aspen.
"······Please."
The girl stops right in front of me.
Her gaze fixed on the floor.
The villainess began to bend her posture and slowly knelt to the floor.
The pupils that are faintly visible are lifeless.
"Please have mercy and allow me to avoid expulsion."
"Hmm."
I didn't expect her to kneel.
Seeing the arrogant Lady bowing down, I realize once again how desperate her situation is.
Her voice has lost its poison.
"I······ I want to live."
It was just pathetic.
She knows.
That if she returns to her family like this, there's only death.
'She's struggling like this.'
Well then.
I'll have to see how sincere she is.
I lean towards the girl kneeling on the floor. Their breaths mingle.
I whisper in her ear.
"How does it feel to beg for your life so pathetically?"
"······."
Emilia can't answer.
She just turns pale.
I continue to poke at her sore spot.
"You used to torment me so much... but now you're kneeling before me?"
"······."
"You lost pathetically in the duel, didn't you?"
"······."
"I'm telling you this now, but it was the most bland duel I've ever seen. You were terrible."
"······."
"It made me wonder how such a fool could be in the third position."
"······."
Inferiority, pride, desire for recognition.
Even though I'm poking at her wounds without a single gap, Emilia doesn't even let out a groan.
She just nods her head obediently.
Of course, it wasn't that it didn't hurt.
Her tightly clenched lips, her slightly ragged breathing, her moist eyes.
She was overflowing with emotions.
Emilia was just swallowing it all down.
To survive.
'Is this enough?'
I don't think she'll bare her teeth recklessly.
I smile with satisfaction.
I open my mouth, thinking this is the last.
"Lady."
"······Yes."
"It's quite amusing to see you so dignified. It reminds me of a certain scene."
My eyes narrow wickedly.
"Were you alright with the wet pants?"
"Ah."
"Wetting yourself in front of everyone, then bursting into tears pathetically... You're no different from a newborn baby."
"······."
"Oops."
Did I go too far this time?
My words pierce deep into the girl's heart.
Her pale complexion turns red.
Drip, drop-.
Tears well up in her eyes that were full of dew.
A faint sob is added.
In the end, it was tears that she vomited out.
"Sob··· Sob, sniff, ah."
"Oh dear, oh dear."
I made her cry again.
I was going to stop here, but it seems there was a miscalculation in my deal.
She breaks down at the mention of lemonade.
'Well, that makes sense.'
To be branded as a bed-wetter in front of the entire school.
If the culprit was tap-dancing in front of me, I would have cried out of frustration.
She can't even complain because of her weakness.
"Oh my, oh my... I pushed you too hard, didn't I?"
I calmly reach out my hand.
Warmth touches her fingertips. I cup her soft cheek and wipe away the moisture.
My fingers wiping away her tears.
The girl couldn't bring herself to resist.
"You seem to really hate that expression."
"N-No... Sniff, sob."
Emilia hurriedly tries to fix her expression.
Her awkwardly forced smile contains an indescribable sadness.
Even while crying, she seems to be overwhelmed by the situation.
"S-Sorry... I was just, surprised, that's all."
She doesn't have to go this far.
I feel strangely guilty.
I never intended to expel her in the first place.
I was just teasing her as revenge because I didn't like how she had been bullying our protagonist.
I opened my mouth quietly.
"You're more desperate than I thought."
"Hicc, ugh... I want to live, so..."
"Hehe, good."
"G-Good, does that mean...?"
"It means that since you're so desperate, Lady, I can grant you a small favor."
"······!"
The girl's pupils dilate.
As if she saw hope.
Of course, I had no intention of simply giving in.
"But there's a condition."
"W-What is it?"
"I want something small in return."
"Yes...?"
The blue-haired girl looks up at me hesitantly.
I smirk, twisting the corners of my lips.
Emilia Vanity.
In the original story, she was just a supporting character in the position of a villainess, but I saw her potential.
She was a person of high value to use.
If I could bring her over to my side, I would be able to use her someday.
I even had her weakness in my hands.
I was going to tie her up completely.
"For three years until graduation..."
I grab the girl's chin and lift it up.
Our eyes meet at close range.
Towards her blue eyes that are shaking anxiously, I give a wicked smile.
"I will make your body mine."
=I will make you my pawn.
[T/N: That’s one nasty skill to have]
The girl's face hardens.
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Interesting phrasing lol
ReplyDeleteThe MC really should test phrases in private before he uses them, no way this was the only way to say she would become his subordinate
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ
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