I'll Make It a Bad Ending Like a Villain

“Sir Debussy.”

Carmen frowned and spoke in a low voice.

“Do you already know how to handle mana?”

At his abrupt words, Philina questioned with a puzzled face.

“Do you want to drink?”

“…… When you dealt with the demon earlier, you used mana.”

Apparently, Carmen’s question was referring to divine power.

This was because the power that burst forth from the attack pattern was very similar to mana on the surface.

Only then did Filina relax her nervous. Fortunately, it wasn’t a suspicion of Leone.

“Well, I don’t know. I’ve never done anything like this before……. That’s called mana, right?”

Filina acted with a smirk. Then Carmen stared intently into her red eyes, then turned away.

Filina scanned his back in bewilderment.

When I ask a question first, and when I don’t get a plausible answer, I just ignore it…….

I was completely ignorant of where I had learned to communicate.

Philina pursed her lips and was about to take another step when Henry, who had been following behind her, stepped up to her side and stretched out his forearm.

Filina looked up at him. Beautiful purple eyes were staring down at her silently.

Henry said in a plain voice.

“If you go forward, it’s going to be dark again.”

It was dangerous, so I meant to rely on me to move as before.

Her dry gaze turned to Henry’s hard forearm.

“…… I don’t want to catch much.”

Even though she didn’t pay for it because it was in front of Carmen, she still couldn’t hide the anger in her heart.

I remembered his face asking me what he was going to do for me instead of letting Leone go.

It was genuinely contemptuous to let Leone go after getting the answer he wanted.

On the one hand, it was a reminder that Henry is the black curtain in this novel.

Henry paused to see if he had read her dark expression.

“I’m not going to force you to grab it. However, the terrain here is slightly lopsided, and if you are not trained, you can fall off a cliff.”

In the end, he meant that if you didn’t want to die, get him.

Filina let out a low sigh and couldn’t help but put her hand on Henry’s forearm.

At least Henry knows more about this terrain than she does.

After all, he grew up under his father’s watchful eye from a young age, shooting from place to place, and receiving all kinds of training.

Surely one of them was the Black Rock Mountain.

Henry began to walk slowly. Philina, too, moved in his footsteps.

Carmen immediately met with the Imperial Knights and reported where Leone had been found, and after a massive investigation, they did not find a single hair of him.

Further investigation was a waste of time. I had already searched every nook and cranny I could find.

What’s more, the black rocky mountains quickly took away people’s energy. If he missed the slightest hint of tension, he might fall, as Henry said.

It was dawn, and the surroundings were filled with drowsiness.

As dawn wore on, the number of knights stumbling gradually increased, and in the end, Ian decided to return to the imperial palace.

Philina might have been in danger without Henry’s help.

Every time she stepped to the side, Henry, gently tugging at Philina’s forearm with his hand, led her to the right path.

It was only when she finally reached the forest of the winds and walked a long way back that she stepped onto the flat pavement before she was relieved.

When a bright light finally leaked into the space that had been dark, I was breathless.

It was the same with the Knights of the Imperial Palace, and everyone moved their feet with a stunned heart.

On the other hand, the people who seemed to be in the worst mood right now were Carmen and Ian.

In particular, Ian was even more unhappy because he had missed the members of the Unknown Guild, who had been attacking the imperial family little by little for a long time, right in front of him.

Leone had been in the swordsmanship academy for three months, and if he hadn’t attacked Carmen, he wouldn’t have known that a traitor had gone into hiding.

He seemed even more upset about that.

To be precise, it was anger at myself for not knowing anything.

He was an overly perfectionist person.

He had a temper that did not tolerate even the slightest mistake. So for Ian, this must have been quite a jarring issue.

With the exception of Carmen, the chief of the imperial knights, and the vice-chief of the Order, all the others went back to their seats.

Philina also accompanied Henry to the swordsmanship academy.

He didn’t specifically mention Leone.

I thought I might do something to her, but I didn’t open my mouth until I reached the military academy.

Maybe it was a good thing. If Henry had rekindled Philina’s anger now, he might indeed draw his sword and pounce on him.

As soon as she came out of the military academy dormitory, she walked past Henry and went inside.

I wanted to avoid climbing the stairs alone with him.

Henry didn’t stop her, either. He just stared at the back of Philina with a silent gaze.

***

Filina went to Huey early in the morning.

Blindly knocking on his door, Huey’s face, still unawakened, greeted her with a smile.

“What’s going on in the morning, Philina.”

He walked slowly into the room, grumbling. As I followed Huey in, I grabbed him by the forearm and pushed him blindly into the bathroom.

“Wash it up quickly. I’m going to the hallucinatory forest right away.”

At Philina’s words, he furrowed his eyebrows and looked back at her.

“A forest of hallucinations? Now?”

“yes, get ready quickly.”

“No…, it’s morning? What’s your class?”

Huey’s frown contorted, still unawakened. From the look on her face, it seemed as if she didn’t understand what she was saying.

Philina said plainly to him.

“I’m not going.”

The answer was simple and straightforward.

Huey asked again, his brows narrowed.

“You don’t go to class?”

“yes.”

He stared blankly at Philina for a moment, then sighed softly.

“Oh, you’re not going to class at school today, are you?”

She frowned and opened her mouth.

“Why would you skip classes in a high-minded place like a military academy? Even if I couldn’t, I would have told you to do self-training.”

Huey nodded involuntarily at her blunt answer, then looked at Filina again.

“So, you’re just not going to class?”

“yes, the forest of hallucinations comes before the school lesson.”

It was a no-brainer.

Wasn’t the reason you decided to join the swordsmanship academy in the first place to survive in this world?

There might be an opportunity to do that a little more efficiently, but I couldn’t use my time unnecessarily.

Of course, I was a little bothered by what Lawrence said, but…….

Whether or not he knew Philina’s feelings, Huey sighed and patted her on both shoulders.

“Philina, I don’t know why you’re so aggressive in going through the forest of hallucinations.”

“…….”

“I want you to be sincere in your schooling. That way, you can live a life that you won’t regret when you grow up.”

Philina, who had been listening to him silently, snorted low as if she were the same.

“You’re my dad?”

To Huey, who had closed her mouth with a sullen face at her words, Filina spoke once more.

“And honestly, isn’t it a little prickly of conscience to pronounce sincerity with your mouth?”

Classes are also on topics that are as bad as eating.

She swallowed the back words with difficulty and glanced at Huey. Then he burst out laughing with embarrassment, and then quietly went into the bathroom.

Filina waited with a relaxed face for Huey to wash up and come out.

The sound of a cool stream of water reverberated far and wide through the quiet room.

I felt awkward. Somehow, I felt overwhelmed to sit on the bed, so I walked around the room and looked out the window at the smoke hall.

I caught sight of the kennel across the street.

It was said that the monster who had previously fought Huey in the kennel was sent to the freezer.

…… So, is it easier to go to the forest of hallucinations now? Or did he bring another monster?

Predictably, it’s closer to the latter.

First of all, the military academy doesn’t seem to like the idea of them going in and out of the hallucinatory forest.

Soon after, Huey came outside, wiping his hair with a towel.

He smelled a strong scent of soap.

Huey, who made eye contact with Philina, staring at her, narrowed her red iris.

“Why? Can’t you take your eyes off it because it’s sexy?”

She looked straight away, her eyes sunken low.

Then, leisurely passing by Philina’s side, Huey let out a mischievous laugh.

She turned her head again to look at Huey.

Philina’s calm voice drifted into the quiet room.

“The demon you fought before is no longer in the kennel.”

Huey replied roughly, using magic to dry his hair lightly.

“That’s good. I didn’t want to lose my strength because of him.”

“Deputy Lawrence, I can’t bear to tell you how much you’ve killed. That’s why they said it was sent to the freezer.”

“Cold storage? I mean, he looks dangerous if you let him loose outside.”

Huey, who had been muttering like that, suddenly turned his head with a puzzled face.

“But should I have put it in the freezer? The pure power of the demon should be well controllable with drugs.”

“Drugs?”

Philina asked, puzzled, and he shrugged his shoulders as if he didn’t care.

“Normally, when the monsters that were managed at the military academy were no longer useful, they injected them with behavior-modifying drugs and released them outside. Very few are sent to the freezer. For example, they were used as test subjects at military academies.”

He was probably talking about what Lawrence had said.

During the war in the imperial palace, the monster was injected with drugs to use it as a kind of combat weapon.

“They can’t control their behavior because they’ve strengthened their bodies with drugs. So the only way to do that is to take them to the freezer and freeze them completely. Especially the high-ranking monsters.”

After briefly explaining to her, Huey quiggled his eyebrows and said to himself:

“It’s weird. I know from Carmen that the high-level demon hasn’t succeeded in drug experiments yet…”

His eyes staring into the air drew a line of amusement.

“Could it be that our cute Weaver captain deliberately deceived Carmen? Somehow, the monster bastard was more demanding than the others.”

I couldn’t understand what the hell Huey was talking about.

Philina stared at him with a frown, and Huey raised his gaze to look at her silently.

Then he smiled brightly and opened his mouth cheerfully.

“Are you going to take my clothes off now?”