I Became a Murderer in the Academy.

Chapter 27

There was a time when I thought about dying.

It was shortly after I was possessed.

Suffering from extreme hunger but not wanting to commit murder, I tried to kill the monster.

I held a knife in my hand and stabbed it into the body of the monster that ate humans.

Of course, the one stabbing is me, and the one being stabbed is also me.

When I thought I was about to die after being stabbed accurately in the heart, I closed my eyes.

Bleeding, I felt pain.

It was punishment for killing a person before killing the monster.

I endured it, thinking it was my karma.

Blood that rose up through my esophagus burst out of my mouth as if vomiting.

I thought I was finishing it like this.

I thought I could fix everything with this.

I thought that was the end of everything.

How much time had passed like that?

Before I knew it, the sunlight I hated was shining down.

Morning came without anything changing.

There was no rest called death.

Only tomorrow, which I feared more than death, greeted me.

I got up with my heart still pierced by a sword.

Even like this, I don’t die.

I fell asleep with a sword stuck in my heart.

What a strange body.

I was crying that day.

The me from the time when I still had such emotions left was crying.

***

I grabbed her forehead, feeling a severe headache.

It was because memories of a time I didn’t particularly want to recall were swirling in my head.

The magical energy in my body twisted.

I almost lost my balance and fell for a moment.@@@@

My eyes felt like they were burning.

My heart beat fast, and my breathing was rapid.

This phenomenon appeared when my condition was good.

It seemed that the Seed of the Demon King that I swallowed stimulated her instincts in the process of being absorbed.

This was an expected reaction so far.

I didn’t think there would be no price to pay for harboring a fragment of the Demon King in my body.

It was after that I felt something was wrong.

I felt a bit dazed and thought I might lose consciousness for a moment.

My vision was redder than usual, and the surrounding sounds became hard to hear, but when I closed my eyes for a bit longer and opened them, I saw Leonard’s suffering face.

I could immediately understand why he was suffering.

It was because I was grabbing his neck.

Did I instinctively attack the human nearby?

It was a bit sorry for him.

“Ah, I’m sorry.”

I immediately let go of my hand.

The headache quickly got better.

It just needed a moment to adapt until the Seed of the Demon King was absorbed into my body.

Leonard, who fell to the floor as I let go of my hand, coughed while grabbing his neck.

Seeing him stand up immediately, it didn’t seem like he was badly hurt.

“Ugh, don’t worry about me, I’m fine. More importantly, how are you feeling?”

Trying to find out about Iria was like a last bullet in preparation for when things don’t work out.

Still, I should know how I can die or my weaknesses, right?

“So you don’t know anything more about me?”

I asked Leonard.

If not, I was planning to leave right away.

Leonard nodded.

It was a bit disappointing, but it wasn’t like there was no harvest at all.

After all, I had obtained information I didn’t know before, like the fact that I was a Seed of the Demon King and the nature of the fragments.

Thinking it was worth the two gold coins, I stood up.

Leonard added one more thing as I was about to turn around and leave.

“Come to think of it, I think I heard there’s a monster that can use language like you in the underground of the Empire. Who knows? That monster might know.”

“You should have said that earlier.”

“Is it important?”

“Yes.”

“I didn’t say it on purpose because I thought you couldn’t meet it anyway.”

“Please tell me.”

I sat down again and listened.

***

There was a monster that attacked the Empire.

For some reason, it turned the entire Empire into an enemy and caused great damage.

Its notoriety was still high for killing many humans and destroying buildings, causing property damage.

For now, it’s recorded as the monster that caused the most damage to humans after the back alley monster.

Then, it was subdued by a skilled magician and was about to die, but surprisingly, this monster could use human language.

So, the Empire captured the monster for research purposes.

It was imprisoned in a very deep underground prison, and it was questionable what kind of biological experiments it might be undergoing.

“Anyway, by now you should understand why I didn’t tell you, right?”

“......?”

I expressed a lack of understanding in front of Leonard, who had finished his brief explanation.

Leonard continued his explanation as if he found such an Iria frustrating.

“So, it’s in the deepest underground of the empire, I’m telling you.”

“Why is that?”

“What do you mean ‘why’... you really...”

The underground of the Empire is a top-secret space.

It was a place where confidential documents that shouldn’t leak outside were gathered and managed.

Therefore, security is strict, and the impact is huge if someone breaks in.

He thought that no matter how strong Iria was, she couldn’t possibly win against the elite personnel of the Empire.

“Let me give you a piece of advice. It’s better not to turn the Empire into an enemy if you can help it. Those who turned the Empire into an enemy all had bad ends without exception. No exceptions, whether human or monster.”

“Is that so.”

“Anyway, it’s better for your well-being to give up. The Empire has ten elite personnel above the knighthood. You’ve probably heard their names too. Like Sword Saint Freya or Albert.”

“Albert?”

Surprisingly, a name I knew came up.

Wasn’t that the name of an academy professor?

“That’s the name of the magician who single-handedly subdued that Seed of the Demon King. He’s been called the strongest in the Empire since the Sword Saint left the frontline.”

“......”

“Well, whatever choice you make is your freedom. I’m just saying don’t recklessly break in and get caught to undergo biological experiments.”

Coincidentally, I too am a seed of the Demon King who can use human language.

I’ll probably be treated the same as the previously captured monster.

However, being told not to do something often makes one want to do it more.

I had already set my next destination as the underground of the Empire.