I Killed the Academy Player

Illustrated by Miriam Elisabeth L. Ras (7)

The punitive army returns.

The combined army of the Kingdom Army, the Old Church, and the Guardian Association, which had been gathered together in the name of judging the criminal who attempted to assassinate the princess, lost its cause and had no choice but to disperse.

The association’s guardians were the first to leave, and the kingdom’s army returned.

The Nine Churches gritted their teeth, but without the Guardians and the Kingdom Army, they could not do anything alone.

“Corin, everyone’s out.”

“Wow, I can finally come out~”

Marie and Estelle jumped towards me. Since both of them have a social position, they only help in places that are not visible.

“Thank you for your hard work. By the way…”

Madame Joséphine, who was an essential part of this operation, patted me on the shoulder and looked around.

“This is serious damage to nature.”

Josephine clicked her tongue as she looked at the completely destroyed surroundings. On the other hand, Mariena Estelle is shocked.

“The punitive force has been completed, but follow-up processing will also need to be done.”

“Yes, I guess so.”

Now that the kingdom’s army has been sorted out, Dana Xu should also be sorted out. We entered Danash and were able to see many demons we encountered along the way.

“Fairy King…”

“Corin Locke…”

While the eyes of the demons were focused, Estelle slowly approached.

“Everyone will be friendly. I spread the word while serving as a medical volunteer.”

“Are you my sister?”

“Yes, yes. They need to know who is fighting for them.”

Estelle said, smiling heartily.

“As soon as this matter is completed, the church will deliver relief goods. Of course, in the name of our Fairy King Finnvara. Well done, right?”

“No, here I am only a king for the sake of name. If I did that outside, wouldn’t it really be a crime of treason?”

“They say it’s an honorary position. In the first place, ruling is something that should be carried out based on image propaganda. Did I do a good job?”

Well… it would certainly be better to make it easier to rule in order to lead Danash in the right direction in the future. But I’m not particularly interested in governance…

“Well, you did well. Thanks to you, it will be a bit easier.”

“Right? Then I’ll kiss you.”

“Eh?”

“Kiss on the cheek~”

“Ah, kinda! Gross!”

Unlike me, who hates me, Estelle smiles brightly and wonders what she likes so much. Sister, can’t we play pranks like this when we’re alone?

“Corin?”

“Well, Marie-senpai.”

“Why am I a senior and the princess is an older sister? Corin, are you discriminating against people now?”

“Senior, why are you like that again…?”

“······I’m sad.”

“No, is your senior a kid?”

Why are these sisters like this?

When I slowly turned my head, I saw Lady Josephine shaking her head. Madam…

The pressure and bickering between the two sisters ended only when they arrived at the Temple of the Dagda, the meeting hall of the mound, due to a third party.

“Oh, aren’t you our hero? Fairy King Finnvara.”

The cat king, Edna Ilusan, approached me one after another and suddenly whispered in my ear.

“After seeing this incident, I decided that I wanted to tie Nari up and eat her until she begged and begged again and again.”

“uh···.”

“You know you haven’t received compensation for a night with me yet, right? I’m looking forward to it.”

That’s SM. Oh, I know. Did I really have to say it here?

“Corin?”

“Brother?”

“Student Corrin. You are still a student.”

“······It’s not like that.”

The women’s gaze stings.

Huh… This reminds me of Misha’s prank on Earth some time ago.

I always made s*xual jokes in front of my friends, which gave me a lot of trouble. Even though Fujiwara and Seyoung looked at him with a straight face and gave him notice every time, the roar of destruction did not stop.

He’s a very nice person, but maybe he’s too open because he’s a friend of Brown Gomguk. Why is it that a girl who is as beautiful as a fairy when doing artistic gymnastics is like that in private?

“Now… let’s go in quickly.”

As I enter the Mound conference hall, putting aside the stinging gaze, I see the leaders of the Mines.

In front of them, Edna welcomed me with an exaggerated gesture.

“Is there still anyone who can deny that Corin Locke is the head of Mound?”

“······.”

“······.”

None of the demons said anything.

They know it too. That I alone stopped the punitive forces and saved them.

“Fairy King Finnvara…”

Unlike when they first made contact, their gazes were filled with goodwill and awe. In general.

“Kush-sama… it will be difficult for you to survive.”

The beasts that followed Kush. They were unable to prevent their leader, Kush, from being taken away. It was also his own will.

“I’m going to die.”

He killed too many humans. Although he is a high treason from the kingdom’s point of view, the prisoners will think otherwise.

Considering the subsequent episode in which werewolves with a grudge against the kingdom launched a guerrilla campaign due to the subjugation of Miriam’s mound, this must be completely blocked at this point.

“The beastmen will be led by golden wolves from now on. Ren and Ron are the pureblood royal family of the Wolf King.”

In the original, it was those two who led the wolves, so there shouldn’t be any major problems. Because beastmen tend to be more obsessed with lineage than you might think.

“If you are dissatisfied, tell me now. I have no intention of tolerating any hostile acts against the kingdom in the future.”

“······.”

Some will understand Kush’s sacrifice, others will not. However, Danash now must follow the kingdom’s laws.

“Don’t worry. I will clearly warn my young people.”

The person who said that and stepped forward was Leprechaun, the elder of the mound. A good shoemaker fairy. He is one of the people who supported me from the beginning.

“No, the beastmen… To be exact, all of them who followed Kush and were in charge of combat operations are all summoned by Danash to me and my Guardians.”

“Are you telling me to leave my hometown?”

“About a year. After that, you can take care of it. I’ll also have to introduce you guys to our Geumrang kids.”

Kush was also of a lineage similar to that of a great noble when considered a beastman, but Geumrang was literally of the lineage of a king.

It seems that when those two people were mentioned, the prisoners put aside their major complaints and decided to follow suit.

“What happens after that?”

“There will probably be an official inspection team from the kingdom. It will be a bit noisy due to city condition inspection and tax issues.”

“We are poor. To be honest, we depend on mercenary work and Ilusan’s business for most of our income.”

“Don’t worry about that. I’ll support you for the time being.”

Marie and Estelle came out as if they had promised what I said.

“First, I will provide food assistance. When I came here, I saw that the food problem seemed serious because it was an underground land that was not suitable for farming.”

“Hmm? How much food support…?”

Leprechaun, who was always worried about Danash’s food problem, brightened up when he heard the word food aid.

“Hmm, shall we start with 100,000 tons of potatoes?”

“omg!”

“Si, one hundred thousand tons?”

“Well, that much?”

“I will also guarantee jobs. Farming, ranching, miners… In addition, there are many jobs that require energy, such as bodyguards and highway security required in the shipping business.”

Next was Estelle.

“The church will also provide daily necessities and volunteer work. As you know from previous interactions with us, the new church has no particular prejudice against demons.”

“Well, if it’s the saint’s guarantee.”

“But, saint, the god we serve is Dagda, who built these underground cities. We have no intention of serving your god.”

“Ah… don’t worry about that part.”

Estelle took out the large cauldron she was carrying on her back. A holy relic of God known in the world as the Holy Grail. And a large club was also with him.

“Well, that is…!”

Leprechaun was astonished. That’s not all. Some old fairies who lived in the age of gods recognized the cauldron and the club.

“Dagda’s club!”

“Even to Undri….”

As soon as they saw Undri, some people fell flat on their faces and worshiped him.

“I met him in Mag Mel. Undri officially recognized me as his master. I am his descendant.”

“Oh…a saint.”

“He was a descendant of Dagda…”

Those who originally looked favorably on Estelle, the saint of the new church, have now gone so far as to worship her. Estelle smiled and linked arms with me.

“And since Corin’s younger brother is the official successor to the sun god Nuada, please take good care of his missionary work in the future.”

“No, I have no intention of playing God.”

Things on the mound went better than expected.

When I visited later, I was worshiped as the new sun god and Estelle as the earth goddess.

* * * *

After the great storm of subjugating the Demon Union passed, the royal capital was noisy for a while.

The hero’s act of treason, the registration of the residents of the demons was passed, and the magistrate’s trial as if they had been waiting for it.

There was a lot of talk in many ways, and there were some who tried to turn the trial itself into a failure, saying that immunity should not be recognized.

‘In the end, there was no central point.’

As the central point of the kingdom’s largest faction, Miriam, did not move, things went smoothly.

There was something strange about watching Vice Minister Gorgol of the administration proudly criticizing the human rights of the Ma people despite the hearing.

Dude, aren’t you that kind of character?

With Princess Miram’s faction remaining silent, all of these events ultimately proceeded along a pacifist path.

The royal family was satisfied that they could execute Kush, the evil beast in this case, as the royal family did, and took the nuance that they would not bother to disturb Danash, the beehive.

‘King David also seemed relieved.’

King David and Queen Asher also had an audience to formally use the immunity.

“Thank you.”

He said so.

He also confessed the truth about the Queen Maria incident that was told in the previous episode.

“He was a believer in a slightly radical Catholic religion. “I’m not a villain, but when I was young, my cousin was killed by a vampire.”

In the end, Queen Maria was also part of a chain of evil intentions.

“At that time, a policy of guaranteeing rights and harmony for the demonic people was being promoted. As it was revealed that Estelle was a saint, the influence of the Demon-friendly New Church was also expanding…”

“If the case against him had been made public at that time… the current political situation would have turned around for the Old Church.”

As king, he tried to integrate the demons into the kingdom for a better future. And that incident was a fatal event that would bring to waste all the efforts made during his reign.

So he covered up the incident. I knew it would be a great pain to Miriam, but I made the choice as a king rather than as a husband and father.

On the way out after meeting the king. I asked the servant for directions.

“I’m going to the dungeon.”

“Yes, I will guide you.”

Guided by the attendant, we head to the palace prison. It would be the last time I went to trial, but it also meant sending Kush.

“hmm?”

There was a passenger in the prison.

“Princess Miriam?”

“······.”

It was Miriam.

“You have come, Fairy King Nari.”

Kush, who was in prison, welcomed me in his captivity. I glanced at Miriam, but she glared at Kush with a cold gaze and spoke.

“You’re going to die.”

“Know.”

“I’m going to kill you by tearing your limbs apart.”

“Under the kingdom’s law, the only death penalty is hanging, right?”

“······.”

“It’s just a joke, princess.”

“you···!”

“sorry.”

Miriam kept her mouth shut at Kush’s words. I wanted to say curses and revenge, but I knew I wouldn’t, so I swallowed those words.

Kush looks at Miram like this and continues his conversation as if he is confessing.

“My daughter is dead. She was brutally murdered, and not a single bone was left intact.”

“I wanted revenge. I hated the world and people.”

“The damned priests who killed my daughter. Those pigs. The believers who follow them. The politicians who support them. The royal family who condones the existence of those bastards. I wanted to kill them all. All of them. Every day, I tear them all to pieces, kill them, and burn them all. “I imagined it.”

“I didn’t think about the hurt, the pain… that they would inflict the same hurt on their spouses and children. I tried to look away and mocked them for being nice.”

“I’m sure. I must have passed the ending point. I must have crossed the line.”

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Everyone is the same.

Just as there is no future for parents who lose their child.

He continued the chain of revenge and malice.

“Anger at me. Your anger is all justified. I’m sorry, but please…don’t hurt innocent people like me. Don’t fail like me.”

“······.”

Miriam turned around without answering. She probably won’t come back.

So only me and Cush were left in the prison.

“thanks.”

“what?”

“The dedication, the love, the mercy you showed. All of it.”

“That’s all you need to know.”

We were silent for a while. As if each person had something to say to each other.

“This will probably be the last time.”

I was the one who got lucky first.

“Yes, that’s right. It’s just me, so I have a lot of change left over.”

Just the attempted assassination of the princess is the death penalty. In addition, a case from 10 years ago is also receiving new attention, so Kush will be hanged only after a lengthy trial and the discovery of his crimes.

It wasn’t a pity. Because it was the price he paid for his sins. still······.

“This was only possible because you were willing to step forward. Thank you for that.”

“Nothing compares to your dedication.”

“The golden tigers will follow you. I introduced you to Ren and Ron, right?”

“Yes, if they are, my men will have no choice but to follow.”

“okay.”

“From now on, it’s a story about what happened after that.”

He took a moment to catch his breath and confessed to me.

“Dumnorix. He had something to offer us.”

* * * *

After leaving the prison, Miriam is nowhere to be seen on the ground. Well, I’ll wait.

“You should go meet me on my side, then.”

Since I wasn’t invited, I avoided the palace’s defense mechanisms by climbing the wall instead of the official route.

-Beep!

Got on alert. Wow, I can’t be like Park Si-hoo.

Anyway, as I landed on the terrace of the 2nd Princess Palace, I ran into Miriam, who was enjoying the fresh air outside.

“Well, it’s better than I thought.”

“······It’s trespassing.”

Is it because I received a sincere apology from Kush? It was a hollow voice, devoid of venom.

“I committed treason, but they will accept this.”

“joy···.”

She leaned helplessly on the terrace and looked away from me.

“So in the end, what did you want to do? Did you just like people? After preparing so carefully?”

“It’s just that I acted in good faith.”

“Ha, you single-handedly stopped tens of thousands of troops with just one ship?”

I admit that I was reckless. In fact, if anything was wrong, it would have failed.

But it worked. I believed it would succeed.

“It all started with saving a girl named Marie.”

Marie Dunareff was saved. The reason is just that. Because he is a good person. Because I wanted you to be happy.

“That was the beginning, and the more I helped others, the more it came back to me.”

Saving Marie, helping Arisha, protecting the Hwaran… Because of all those things, we are where we are now.

Master, Estelle, Runia, and Lady Josephine.

They believed in my good intentions and helped me in both material and spiritual ways.

With all that reputation, Mound didn’t refuse any help I offered. He will help me without any problems in the future.

And in this life, just as the source of all my good intentions comes from my teacher, who risked his life to protect me.

All of this is the result of a chain of good intentions, not malicious intentions.

“In the world, provocative things are more noticeable. Hatred, revenge, murder. Many provocative malices are not as big as you think.”

“Like most of us, far more things are done with good intentions than with bad intentions. This world is definitely built on countless good intentions.”

I won’t say that all the good influences will come back, but they definitely…

“It will get better. I hope so.”

“······.”

Miriam gave me a strange look. It’s a detached, detached expression, as if it’s somehow pathetic.

“You… are such a good person that it’s stupid. To the point where you feel sad after killing your enemy.”

“Uh… he’s not that stupid? I think he’s quite determined.”

“No, that’s stupid. If you define them as enemies, kill them for sure and throw their bodies on the street.”

“Why so much?”

“I would have done that.”

Miram chuckled and made a gesture with his hand to congratulate the guests.

“When I see you, I lose strength. Go away quickly. I don’t want to see you.”

“Well… the alarm will soon sound and the knights will attack, so I’ll have to run away. But before that… there’s something I need to get from the princess.”

“······What?”

“You have to give back to being a mentor this week.”

“······return courtesy?”

Miriam, who was about to ask what kind of nonsense that was, eventually realized it and made an expression of disbelief with his mouth wide open.

“Try smiling.”

“you···!”

“I went through all this trouble, but I need to sort it out. That’s enough for me.”

This time, in this life.

“Ha… You’re such a fool. I heard that fools don’t have medicine.”

I hope you smile.

I wish I could smile brightly like an idiot.

I hope you let go of your hatred and malice and show a pure smile.

“You said something stupid.”

She stopped dead in her tracks as she entered the room. Then, in a lighter voice──

“Yes, he was very cool. If I wasn’t a villain, I would look like a handsome knight from a hero story.”

for a moment.

Quite a long time. She turned her back to me and mumbled something. While raising the corner of my mouth with my finger.

and.

Looks like everything is ready.

Turn your head.

I smiled so wide that I looked like an idiot.