I Became The Academy Necromancer

78. Volta, son of Hernu

peck.

Eleanor sneaks a look around the lab while drinking the drink Erica has provided.

I went to other professors’ labs a few times, but since Erica Bright wasn’t in charge of the first year, I thought there was virtually no point of contact.

“Hmm.”

After finishing her drink, Eleanor asked with a light smile as if she was slightly happy.

“You don’t get along very well with your fiancé, do you?”

“… … .”

Erica’s eyes sharpened at the fairly rude question. Even so, Eleanor does not lose her princess dignity and crosses her legs.

“I was wondering if I could hang up at least one photo or something.”

When asked with a shrug, Erika answered calmly.

“Not all fiancés in the world have a picture of their partner hanging in their room.”

“Yes? It seemed like it would be me.”

Eleanor shrugged her shoulders and strangely held her back. Erica didn’t understand why she was asking this.

Because I didn’t know the relationship between Eleanor and Deius.

However, I only know that I don’t have very bad feelings for defending Deius to the dean last time.

“I’ll be direct.”

In the end, it was Eleanor who drew the sword first. Her eyes had changed from a calm, napping student to that of a determined and noble princess.

“I adore Deius Verdi. More than you think.”

“… … ?!”

Erika’s ice-like expression cracked as she was taken aback by the straightforward way of speaking.

Eleanor did not miss such an opening and continued to stab her.

“I have already heard from Deius that the engagement was designated by the family. I don’t think there will be much affection between the two of them.”

“… … .”

“As long as Professor Erica is good enough, you can meet a lot of good men. I may be able to find it separately through the connections of the royal family.”

Every word from Eleanor, filled with willpower like a flame, heats up the inside of the lab.

It was shocking, not embarrassing.

A country’s princess.

It is also that Eleanor, the only remaining blood relative of King Orpheus, wants Deius.

But that much.

Erica’s pupils calmly sank. If the feelings of the princess were hot and passionate courtship.

As a fiancée, she was something cold like the cold that would freeze everything.

“Student Eleanor.”

don’t call her a princess

Eleanor also felt that her emotions were instantly cooled by the cold voice.

“Do you know what line you have crossed?”

Eleanor Luden Griffin has grown up.

She overcame her nightmares, her personalities merged, and she stood firm without kneeling under the pressure of being a princess.

Although, it could be said that Deus Verdi’s influence was great.

“Even if I forgot my position as a princess, I said something I shouldn’t say carelessly as a simple student.”

Erica Bright, too, was not what she used to be.

It’s not just me at the time when I was blinded to save a man. She is not a weak woman who is swayed by her family.

To become a woman that the man he loves can look up to.

Because it was Erica Bright who came back to her radiant and beautiful appearance with her unshakable conviction.

She was cool and continued.

“It doesn’t matter what my personal relationship with Deius Verdi is. A marriage made in the family? What does that matter?”

Erika’s expressionless expression, frozen in the cold, sharply pushes Eleanor.

“I am his fiancé. The world will point fingers at Student Eleanor if it is known that she said that in front of me.”

“… … .”

“I’ll assume you didn’t hear it. I will regard it as a childish emotion.”

Erica slowly returned to her seat and began to look at the papers.

It wasn’t particularly urgent, but it was clearly an order to celebrate.

He also sneaks up on the bottom drawer of the desk with his foot.

The clasp was hanging, and inside was a letter of breakup with Deius.

“… … .”

Eleanor bit her lip, clenched her fist and bowed her head.

Eleanor herself knew best how reckless she was.

But to the point where I want to force it.

To the extent that she could use her position as a princess to her heart’s content.

The blunt man took too big a place in Eleanor’s chest.

“Think of it the other way around.”

Slowly getting up, Eleanor turns her head to Erica, who is still looking at the papers.

“As a princess, I am sincere enough not to notice the world.”

“… … .”

Erica slowly lifted her head as if she couldn’t let it pass.

The eyes of the two fit perfectly.

“I am not giving up.”

Because Eleanor’s footsteps, which quickly turned around and walked outside, contained determination and determination.

Erica, too nervous, looked back and answered inwardly.

‘I have no intention of giving up either.’

like that.

The moment when the fight between the two people seemed to end.

The door rattled open right in front of Eleanor. Surprised, the princess stepped back and came inside a woman with impressive long black hair.

Aria Rias, who departed from Greypond, has just arrived at the academy.

“Gyo-professor, I heard you came?!”

Seeing her reaction, the two of them couldn’t help but sigh.

* * *

“Hmm.”

After applying for a business trip to Robern Academy once again, I headed to the western town of Fernan.

It wasn’t just me moving, but the sorcerer judges for the warp were also accompanying me to escort me.

Originally, it was appropriate to bring Finden-Eye, but she actually left it in Gray Pond because it was better to let her go wild rather than protect someone.

It’s probably just buying time for the church’s assassins, who are going out to the city on a regular basis.

Since they are running amok, their eyes will naturally be on that side.

‘The talk with the academy is over.’

Through a conversation with the dean, it was decided to start teaching after summer vacation.

Even if she became a memorial service chosen by the king, she had no intention of leaving the academy where the main character, Aria, attended.

And by that time, the fuss would have subsided, so I thought it wouldn’t be hard to accept me.

“I brought you.”

The sorcerer judge brought an old woman with wrinkles, a stooped back, and a lot of stagnation under her fingernails.

As if he hadn’t eaten properly, he was skinny and his bones were all exposed, and his eyes were swollen and filled with sadness.

“I, I, there… … .”

An old woman trembling and avoiding my gaze. I cautiously approached her and asked.

“My name is Deus Verdi, the memorial messenger of the Griffin Kingdom. Are you Hernu, Volta’s mother?”

“Ahh. you’re right.”

Was it because I was talking about my son?

Hernu looked at me with an expression about to burst into tears.

“I heard about the incident. Can I see your son for a while?”

Hernu widened his eyes at my words and nodded hesitantly.

The news was late, so I didn’t seem to know what kind of person I was.

Well, since he came here secretly, it must be strange that he knows more about me.

Because there are magic judges, they just believe that I belong to the royal family.

Following Hernu, I entered the village. The west of the Griffin Kingdom was connected to the sea, so there were many people involved in fishing.

Perhaps that’s why the town was filled with the salty smell of fish and the smell of intestines.

Unlike Greypond, where discussions about me are passionate, it is a peaceful village.

Seeing them engrossed in their work in line with the cries of the seagulls somehow calms me down.

Of course, attention was focused on the splendid golden robes of the sorcerers following me.

Anyway, I entered Hernu’s old house. A black shack that looked like it was about to collapse at any moment.

It was a place where it felt as if the sun did not shine.

“Hey, here you go.”

And what Hernu showed me was a man who had cleared a corner of the filthy front yard and kept it there.

Both arms and legs were cut off.

Volta, the son of Hernu, who is divided into 5 parts.

The important thing was that the condition of the corpse was different for each part.

In his left hand, flies were still flying around eating them and laying eggs.

The opposite right hand is thick and swollen. Crustacean insects like beetles were clinging to each other.

On the left leg, along with the stench, the most insects were gathered, and what looked like maggots wriggled.

There was not a single piece of flesh left on his right leg. As if time had passed, only bones remained.

and the last torso.

The head is in a state of being cut off where it disappeared.

I felt the warmth as if I had just died. It wasn’t breathing, but it seemed like I could feel the pulse of life right now.

“Hmm.”

The important thing is that I learned about this incident before the big debate.

One of the unsolved cases that was talked about once in the great debate.

A young man living in a fishing village.

Hernu’s son Volta.

He was killed by someone one day. If you look at this, you can see it as a simple murder case.

What mattered was the location and condition of the body.

Corpse fragments spread throughout the Griffin Kingdom.

And a corpse that does not change further than that, with different death times that can be seen from the corpse.

“Am I, am I relieving my son’s resentment?”

Hernu sniffed and asked. Originally, I had to wait for the right moment and proceed with negotiations with the church.

Assassins will come from time to time to assassinate me.

But this case just couldn’t get over it.

I judged that I had to solve it quickly even in the face of the assassins’ threat.

“Yes, I will solve it.”

I nodded and looked down at Volta’s dead body.