* * *

In the confusion, Philip noticed something trying to get out of the back of Dorvon Wilson’s head. It looked like a cloud of black smoke.

‘That’s a command.’

The necromancer was literally the basis of necromantics and a kind of spirit. Almost all necromancers made contracts with demons, or through ruins or old secrets, and were able to raise corpses or use curses based on those spirits.

In other words, if you follow that commander, you can meet the person who orchestrated this.

‘I don’t think he’s a very high-level necromancer. I don’t think it would be too dangerous to follow. No, would it be better to annihilate that spirit?’

If the command was destroyed, it could deal a great blow to the contractor of that command. He wouldn’t be able to use necromancy for at least a few years.

The moment of judgment was very brief.

Philip tried to form a sword steel using the magic of the moonlight sword, but realized that it was impossible at the current level and pulled out the sword. The pale-colored aura accurately cut the spirit in half as he was about to leave the corpse.

The spirit died as it was, screaming so terrible and disgusting that it could not be made into sound, and Iner, whose mental strength was weak, sat down in his seat with his face turned white.

“Hee!”

The seat she sat on was covered with luxurious carpets, and soon the stains began to spread down her buttocks. In the face of the fear of the spirit she had never experienced before, she felt as if she had really stopped breathing and her soul was draining.

The fear was too heavy for a girl who was only sixteen.

Philip felt pity, annoyance, and anger at the same time.

“Now do you know what you brought to my house?”

Iner called as if he had no time to answer. Philip sighed and called Lua.

“Luah! Come down here for a second.”

Lua, who was playing with Tania without knowing anything, heard Philip’s voice and came down to the parlor with Tania in her arms. She surveyed the situation in the drawing room and blinked with a puzzled expression.

“What is going on?”

“There was, but it’s already over, so don’t worry.”

Tania, held in Lua’s arms, felt the traces of the necromancer and straightened her fur, baring her teeth. Philip took the remaining black powder at the place where the spirit had disappeared.

‘Why am I doing this troublesome thing?’

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There were several professors residing at the academy, but he didn’t have to go after the necromancer. If you just take this essence and pass it on, the wizards will take care of it.

“You know that the Knights Headquarters is located a little west of the shopping district, right? Go there and tell them I’ve found the necromancer’s trail. And since there is one person to arrest, could you tell me to prepare the rope?”

“yes! By the way, is that sister okay? rest… I think I did… no?”

“That child has done a great wrong and must be punished, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

“yes! I’ll be back!”

Philip, who was looking at Lua’s back as she ran away without a single doubt, looked down at Iner. Iner, who had returned to some extent now, understood the situation he was in a little bit.

She felt so much fear that she even forgot that she had disturbed the parlor floor.

“I… I am… I really didn’t know, Instructor!”

Philip shook his head with a stern expression.

“You already told a big lie. You don’t have to explain or make excuses that you didn’t know. have to prove Not for me, but for the Knights and the Mage Tower.”

It was a completely different expression and voice from the Philip I met in the previous case. Iner, who became impatient, hurriedly shouted.

“There is no reason for me to do this! I feel so bad!”

“So what do you want from me? Are you asking me to cover this up? Even if you’re really innocent, you can’t be. This place is near the academy, and the safety of many students may be at risk. It would have been the same for anyone but you.”

“but… But I… … !”

“The knights and the professors from the Mage Tower will investigate this case fairly. If you are innocent, it will end safely.”

Philip thought that Iner might really be involved in this. The Wilson family was new to him, so no one could know what might have happened inside the family.

Meanwhile, Iner was sweet. The only place she could lean on was Philip, who was here.

“at last… In the end, nothing happened… Instructor… yes?”

“That was because I had an eye for necromancer, and it was because I had the power to subdue the necromancer. And it’s also because the necromancer who handles that spirit looked down on me, my swordsmanship instructor. What did you do in the process? Iner Wilson?”

While we were talking, the door to the parlor was thrown open. A knight in a plate breastplate had arrived with Lua.

It was a quick action like an Auror user.

The knight looked at Dorvon Wilson’s corpse scattered in the corner of the drawing room, Iner, who was sitting down while urinating, and Philip in turn, then took a deep breath.

“… hello. Instructor. What is all this about?”

He seemed to have sharpened his nerves quite a bit. It was because even though he was the son of a great nobleman, he didn’t like it when an instructor without a title ordered a knight to come and go.

“Ah, sorry for the trouble. knight. Could you take a look at this for a second?”

However, Philip’s attitude was polite, so he hid his irritation and checked the black powder in Philip’s grasp.

“I don’t know if you know about necromancy, but this is a powder called ‘Essence of the Necromancer’. It is a trace left in the place when the spirit possessing the form disappears.”

First, Philip, who explained the essence of the spirit, told the knight from beginning to end what had happened in the drawing room, and the knight nodded as if he understood.

“no. I’m not. I really didn’t know. Really, really. Please believe me!”

Iner begged desperately, but the circumstances revealed were too clear for that to work.

Necromancers were terribly feared by nobles because they dealt with corpses, death, and curses.

No matter how strong the army and superior military force were, not one or two nobles died of illness due to a curse of unknown origin.

The knight, who summoned the maids and servants who had come to work to collect testimonies, was able to confirm that Philip’s words were true.

“… This must be the first time you’ve arrested an academy student. The circumstances are clear, and the testimony is consistent. For now, I will hand over that girl’s recruit to the Knights.”

The knight grabbed Iner by the shoulder and roughly raised him up. It smelled unpleasant, but he didn’t care.

When I tried to tie my wrists with a tight rope, Iner resisted desperately. Then the knight knelt on her side.

“Huh!”

The knight frowned and threatened Iner with a growl.

“Originally, just know that humans related to necromancy can be summarily disposed of.”

“It’s dark… cool… Instructor… Are you really going to leave me like this? If I’m dragged on like this, I might die… please… please.”

Hearing Iner’s plea, Philip opened his mouth with a small sigh.

“Iner Wilson. Before you ask anything from me, isn’t there something you should say first?”

Embarrassed, Iner hurriedly asked.

“… What is it?”

Philip shook his head at the words that didn’t seem like an answer.

“done. I hope that the investigation goes well and if possible, I hope to see you alive and well.”

* * *

After the knight left, Privia in her nightgown came down to the drawing room.

“What’s the fuss? It’s noisy and I can’t sleep.”

She had no choice but to cover her nose with her fingers because of the strange smell wafting from the fine carpet on the floor.

“… What kind of smell is this?”

Freevia’s gaze turned to Lua, who was standing next to her. Surprised, Lua hurriedly shook her head.

“Not me!”

“Is it you or him?”

When Privia said that and pointed at Philip, Lua grinned and grabbed Privia’s arm and leaned against it as if clinging to it.

“Eying. I really mean no!”

For a moment, Philip was startled. It was because he thought that Freevia would be angry like fire.

However, Privia pulled out her arm with a troubled expression and just pulled Lua’s cheek hard.

“Or not, are you annoyed with me right now?”

“ah… sick. Mage sister.”

“I’ve said it many times, but I’m not your sister.”

As Privia muttered incredulously, Philip nodded.

‘Still, you seem to have a conscience. What is your sister, how old is the age difference?’

Even at the minimum, the age difference was over a thousand years. Even when Lua’s great-grandmother was just born into the world, the dragon’s age precedence would not have been different from now.

“You seem to have become very close with Lua.”

When Philip said, hiding her inner feelings, Privia let out a blank laugh and shook her head.

“I was resting quietly when that little boy came to my room with a ball of hair the size of him. I was going to yell at them and kick them out, but I didn’t have the energy to do so, so I left them alone, and it was so nasty that I thought it was just my world.”

‘I guess I’m just saying thank you for coming to me when I was bored.’

Phillip, who roughly interpreted her words, nodded. It was a bit funny to see him acting like a stubborn old man.

“Does your sister hate me? What did I do wrong?”

When Lua asked with tears in her eyes, Privia was visibly taken aback.

“No, not that… .”

* * *

A few days after the series of events, Philip received a call from the academy. It was a call to all faculty and staff in the premises.

Emil Panoy, head professor of swordsmanship department, and Professor Evelyn, who had come out on behalf of the head professor of magic department, gathered half of the faculty members in the conference room and revealed the unbelievable news.

“Thanks to the efforts and sincerity of the idiot-like knights and the Hogu-like wizards, the operation to search for the necromancer who appeared on the site was a success. These bastards requested full cooperation from the academy, and the dean said he would.”

Emile Panoy’s mood was very low. Having had a fruitful vacation with alcohol and cigarettes, he hated being here right now.

Professor Evelyn, who was standing next to her, couldn’t breathe well because of the momentum emanating from Emil Panoy.

“Therefore, from now on, you must form a team of one instructor from the Faculty of Magic and two instructors from the Fencing Department, and search all over the academy grounds to make sure not to miss a single ant. If you have any complaints, go directly to the dean, not me, and no, I have to move too, so don’t just have complaints.”

Having said that, Emile Panoy added the last word.

“If you don’t want to get lost.”

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