How to Survive as a Villain in a Novel

64 – Dicke’s Scales (3)

Avoiding the sight of the laws, we safely arrived near the back entrance of the library.

“It’s definitely comfortable thanks to the strategy team at the front gate.”

Ryu Seo-ah, who used to tremble every time she encountered the laws, confidently crossed her arms and spoke as soon as she arrived.

She acted as if she had never shivered.

Well.

He is such a person that you cannot dislike him. He is the type of person who would say something like that not for his own face, but for the morale of his teammates.

For example, it is quite effective.

Seon-ah-yeon, whose eyes were openly filled with fear, carefully nodded her head.

On the other hand, Seo Ha-eun is already playing the role of bait and looks a little distraught, perhaps because she has been through too many laws.

Well, I feel a little sorry. Unfortunately, there are still things she needs to do more of. I think she’ll get hit if I tell her this, so I’ll have to say it later.

“……”

I quietly closed my eyes and opened my mind’s eye.

Various energies captured in the strengthened mind.

Among other things, an energy similar to those flabby laws is felt very strongly in the center of the library.

Seon Ah-yeon muttered in a quiet voice, wondering if I was the only one who felt this.

“There’s something strange in the air…”

“Definitely. It’s a little heavy and cloudy. The flow of magical energy is different from other places.”

Ryu Seo-ah agrees with Sun Ah-yeon’s words.

She stared blankly at her library for a moment, as if she were using detection-type magic.

At that time.

– The Quaguaga River!

There was a tremendous roar and vibrations.

“Oops!”

She peeled off the clinging zinc wire and found the source of her explosion. Is it the front door? As expected, black smoke rises from across the library.

It looks like the strategy team led by the student council and the fake saint used some kind of destructive ability.

I naturally frown.

Do you have no ability to judge the situation?

Excessive attacks on a crouching target will only increase the opponent’s aggression.

I think I understand why their strategy failed in the novel.

– The Quaguaga River!

The sound of an explosion is heard once again.

“…Something is strange.”

Ryu Seo-ah’s meaningful mutterings last for a moment.

– Kuuung

This time, heavy vibrations accompanied by an ominous black light enveloped the surroundings.

The center of the library is shaped like a huge, square donut.

A huge face rises from there.

“Well, what is that…”

Someone muttered.

It is literally an overwhelming scenery.

Enough to make the academy’s library look as small as a mere fence.

The image of a huge goddess came to mind.

“Were the laws and this building itself a kind of summoning circle?”

It is just as Ryu Seo-ah said.

The laws were merely a kind of medium. It connects the cause of all these events and that external existence.

A huge statue of a goddess that can easily climb up to several dozen floors of a building.

Holding a sword in one hand and a scale in the other.

Beyond the half-loosened bandages, gray eyes stare at the surroundings as if judging.

Dike’s scales.

It is the appearance of a servant of Dike, the constellation of the law.

Although it is exactly a kind of replica of that being. What’s important now isn’t personal information like that.

The moment the goddess statue’s eyes gazed in the direction of the main gate.

– Wow!

Numerous summoning circles unfold in the sky.

Laws pouring down like rain.

In an instant, the atmosphere in the air changed and screams were heard from all over.

Luckily, this place is outside of that range.

“It’s not a monster, but at least Class A. A disaster on the scale of a small city.”

Ryu Seo-ah’s confusingly mumbling words further heighten the sense of crisis.

Of course, that is an underestimate. She doesn’t seem to need to tell her teammates about it. Moreover, since the current goal of Dike’s scale is not the annihilation of humanity, what Ryu Seo-ah said may be even more correct.

Rather than looking up at the being blankly, Seo Ha-eun turns her head.

“… So what do you plan to do now? At this rate… I think we should just go in the direction of attacking the barrier…”

I shook my head at her words.

“There is no way to lift the barrier. That would be the center of the barrier.”

“Well… Then what on earth are you going to do?”

Seo Ha-eun looked up at me with anxious eyes and seemed to already know what I was going to say. Her senses are as quick as her feet.

“We’re going to enter the library.”

Of course, everyone kept their mouths shut at what I said.

Ryu Seo, the most calm of them all, struggles to open her mouth.

“…What?”

“I’m going to attack that.”

She looks at me with astonished eyes.

In the case of Sun A-yeon, she starts to tremble.

“You’re going in there? I can’t go in!”

Even if you make such a cute fuss, it’s not a problem because you can carry it with one hand.

“Don’t worry too much, there is a way. We have enough power.”

“What method…”

I explained her plan to the girls who looked at me with half-mad expressions.

There is a way.

A way that only I can do.

“Hit me.”

* * *

– “Kaaa!”

A loud scream is heard from afar.

This is Seo Ha-eun’s scream.

1St floor, back entrance of the library.

After climbing over the broken wreckage and entering her, Liu Seo-ah held her breath as she waited for her companion.

The gorgeous and magnificent library building collapsed in places.

I don’t know if it’s the aftermath of the explosion or the effect of that huge being being summoned, but I definitely feel deeply that it’s a crisis situation.

– “Seo Ha-eun will attract the attention of the miscellaneous mob, that is, the law. While Seo Ha-eun scans from the back door and draws aggro, Ryu Seo-ah, you and Seon A-yeon can enter. If possible, I recommend that Seon A-yeon pick up and run.”

I recall once again the instructions Lee Han gave.

As soon as her child named Seo Ha-eun started running, her children rushed to catch her. In the meantime, she was able to enter the back door of the library without difficulty. Besides, ‘I can walk on my own!’ Even the sight of Seon-ah-yeon, who declared, whining that she would go over the wreckage.

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There is no deviation from Lee Han’s words.

Foresight and judgment as if he was looking into these situations in advance.

How much experience do you have to be able to handle a situation so skillfully?

When she thinks about her relationship with him, this thought naturally comes to her. If it weren’t for Lee Han, would I have been able to get a clue to the solution right now?

“I guess not…”

Ryu Seo-ah shook her head with a sigh.

Lee Han.

Her own enemy.

There still seems to be a long way to go to catch up with him.

He has studied hard and trained hard until now. Thanks to his father, who was a professor at Orbis, he had fun and worked hard to the point where he thought there was no better way to grow up. So much so that you can’t even see rivals, let alone any obstacles in sight.

But.

The wall that suddenly appeared before my eyes was so high.

Even. That wall is even the enemy that took my father away.

“……”

Liu Seo-ah closed her eyes tightly.

She cannot blame herself for her shortcomings.

The fact that I am lacking means negating the efforts I made with her father.

Not even the slightest bit of self-reproach is allowed.

So just. She dismisses it as lack of experience.

Lee Han just has more experience than me.

During the golem incident and the blackening incident.

If you think about it, these are all cases that were somehow solved because of Lee Han.

Cases that would not have been resolved without his activities, whether they had a negative or positive effect on the case.

I felt it while experiencing them.

The difference in experience cannot be explained simply by entering school a year early.

She felt it as she watched him closely.

The kind of skill that makes you feel like you have survived through some ridiculous things.

When I think about Lee Han being a villain, I get goosebumps, even if only for a moment.

She was talking about the gap between her experience and that of him.

“…Maybe that’s why.”

If things had gone the way they were, I would have handled this incident on my own according to my standards.

But the moment Lee Han suggests something and gives an order.

I had no choice but to follow as if I was possessed.

The reason is… I hate to admit it, but it’s obvious.

It must be the result of his presence being imprinted unconsciously.

While I was thinking about that.

– Hood knocking

I turned my head when I heard the sound of small rocks falling.

“aaah!”

Seon A-yeon fell down with a scream and a pile of rubble.

He said he would get over on his own.

There are already a lot of small scratches.

I mutter with tears in my eyes.

“…It hurts.”

When I saw her using her sacred power on herself to heal her wounds, I remembered what she said to Sesam Ihan.

– “If possible, run with Sun A-yeon in tow.”

… How far are you looking ahead?

At this point, I started to think that way.

Is it okay for a villain to be so smart and skilled?

That person. Is he really a villain?

Even if it is an enemy, such thoughts suddenly occur.

Maybe that guy is someone who plays a villain.

If he wasn’t a villain.

If it weren’t for the enemy who killed his father.

Couldn’t he have been a colleague?

“… That’s probably not possible.”

Don’t think too emotionally about the target of revenge.

Anyway, the important thing right now is that at least he will be needed to resolve this situation.

Ryu Seo-ah looked back at Sun A-yeon, who had finished healing herself.

“Can you do what Lee Han told me earlier?”

She nodded, with Zinc at her side,

She ran towards the rooftop of the library.

It’s definitely not an easy path.

Paradoxically, it was worth following because Lee Han said it.