Love Letter From The Future

3. Dragon’s Eye, Human Mind (8)

Dawn came again.

Everything that happened yesterday seemed like a dream. Through my hazy mind, I groped for a canteen.

With a thump, I felt a heavy feeling in my hand. Soon, a familiar gesture poured water from the canteen into his esophagus.

It was only then that I felt a little come back. I suddenly woke up and raised my upper body.

The events of last night slowly began to play. I think I spent the whole day in a daze yesterday, but looking back on my memories, I accomplished quite a few things.

First of all, they secured the testimony that he touched the princess.

I also told senior Elsie that I would not see her for a while.

At that time, Elsie’s senior looked pretty miserable, to the point of holding on to my collar while crying. She looked up at me with sad eyes and asked.

“Eh, is it because Elsie did something wrong? Sin, sorry… Everything, never again! Never again, I won’t… That, so… please don’t throw it away… … .”

My heart was about to waver for a moment, but I made up my mind.

It was for Elsie-senpai. A sigh escaped from my mouth.

“Elsie-senpai, it’s not like that. You know very well why… … .”

I stroked Elsie-senpai’s head one last time and turned my back. However, despite the reward she liked so much, only tears fell from Elsie’s eyes.

It reminded me of senior Elsie’s sobs that dripped, dripped, and wet the ground like raindrops.

Even thinking back on it, it was a sight that made my stomach ache. I emptied the canteen and drank cold water.

Come to think of it, there was an incident even early in the morning.

There was a periodic knock on the door. At first, I thought it might be a mistake, so I tried to move on, but as the prank continued for nearly two hours, my patience was stretched to the limit.

If you’re willing to bully, it means you have the means.

Apparently, the other person wanted to give me a sleepless night as a gift. So I decided to repay that heart.

A surprise gift would have been enough.

After holding my breath behind the door for several minutes, I finally felt someone approaching the door.

I stopped breathing and erased every trace of it. And just as someone was about to knock on my door, my hand pulled the doorknob.

A male student was looking at me with a uh-huh look in his eyes.

After that, there were several students who seemed to be part of the party. I smiled slightly at them.

His hand, which was about to knock on the door, was yanked.

And with a thump, the door closed. Until the last moment, the boys’ gang didn’t even notice what had happened.

The male student who was thrown to the floor looked up at me with puzzled eyes. You don’t have to look at me with such curious eyes.

With a bang, my fist hit the boy’s face.

The bridge of my nose collapsed, and I heard the sound of cartilage shattering. The male student immediately grabbed my face and screamed.

“Quaagh!”

Only then did I hear whispers outside the door, followed by a bang on my door. It didn’t matter.

The door was locked anyway, and if they didn’t have the courage to open the door, the male student’s identity would be in my hands.

I immediately jumped on top of him and punched him.

Knock, knock, knock.

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Just three punches were enough.

At first, the male student screamed, but after being hit by one blow, his teeth flew off, and after being hit by another blow, only the sound of the wind that could not even pass through the vocal chords properly.

The last three strikes, the traces of bruises were scattered on his face before he knew it. The sound of crying tickled my ears.

“That, stop… My, what did I do wrong… … .”

I swallowed a laugh as if it was absurd. So sata again.

The man wriggled violently at the closed fist. I tried to punch one more time, but I held back. It seemed that the opponent was not from the swordsmanship department.

You could die if you do it wrong. Trying to calm down, I asked the sobbing male student.

“Then why are you getting on people’s nerves?”

“Sir, I will report… Heuk, you, report and expel me… aagh!”

I broke the finger of the man who was wiping away tears. With a booming sound, the bent fingers trembled in the opposite direction.

The intense pain arose again. Only then did I put on a smile.

“Did you really think that someone who disturbed the imperial family would be afraid of being expelled?”

Then, the boy’s eyes were filled with fear. The trembling eyes looked at me.

It was like he never imagined that I would come out like this.

So I was even more curious.

Common sense made no sense that someone who touched the imperial family was afraid of being expelled. However, I was talking about ‘expelling’ these people who took me.

It was the male student’s trembling voice that cleared my doubts.

“Hwa, didn’t the princess escape expulsion?”

It was great bullsh*t.

The tradition of the academy was long, and the imperial family also respected its authority. It has been like that since the days of His Majesty Aedalus, one of the greatest emperors in the history of the Empire.

The imperial family had never interfered with the discipline of the academy.

Following the tradition of the ages, it was the rule of the imperial family not to intervene in incidents that occurred at the academy.

Even if he insulted the imperial family, it was the same.

I don’t know if it was a physical murder case, but there was no way the imperial family would intervene to the extent of pouring water on it. This was because it would undermine the authority of the imperial family that had been going on for hundreds of years.

Instead, the imperial court tended to act more indirectly.

For example, sending the 5 most prestigious families of the empire, or mobilizing various personal connections to apply pressure.

The way the princess was now responding to me was not much different from this. Therefore, there was no possibility that the princess would convene the academy’s disciplinary committee.

There was no winner who bet money on a match without a win. Even so, it was obvious that the judgment would be made in self-defense.

It is wrong to pour water on it. However, it was even more wrong to run to kill him with a real sword. So my response was justified.

First of all, it was because in the academy, whether they were royalty, nobles, or commoners, they were just one student. Even nominally, the odds of the disciplinary committee ignoring these regulations were infinitely low.

Therefore, the premise that the princess supported my expulsion in the first place was an untenable premise.

Of course, it would have been possible if the imperial family showed the will to do so, but they had no loyalty to do so for the princess, who was far behind in the line of succession to the throne.

If it was the first prince and the second princess, who were said to be influential as the next emperor, he did not know. However, Shien’s power and influence were weak compared to them.

So I couldn’t help but be more suspicious.

It was true that most imperial nobles were blinded by their loyalty to the imperial family. But even so, there was little chance of confusing the basic facts.

There was only one answer. Someone is spreading misinformation.

The only questions left were who, what the hell, and why.

“Will Her Highness look after my expulsion? Who is it?”

“Yes, you said you used unreasonable violence against Her Highness the Princess… … .”

“Only the escort knights were a little hit, I didn’t even lay a hand on Her Highness the princess.”

However, the male student only looked at me with eyes full of disbelief.

Tsk, I clicked my tongue.

I was sure. Distorted rumors were circulating within the academy right now.

However, as far as I know, there was no group in the academy with that kind of organizational power.

Even when some influential families controlled rumors within the academy, they kept their mouths shut and the truth itself was bound to spread.

On the other hand, the attitude of the male students now is completely different.

He seemed to genuinely trust the information.

If so, we had to assume that there was an organization capable of conducting an information warfare that would crush even the testimony of dozens of eyewitnesses that day. At best, for the sake of the 5th princess, who is far away in the line of succession to the throne.

I smiled and delivered the final blow.

With the sound of bones collapsing, the male student lost consciousness.

His head snapped and fell. It seemed that he was not dead, fortunately, as he was breathing.

I rummaged in his arms. The dormitory I was staying in had many low-ranking nobles, so if he was a noble, he would have at least one dagger for self-defense.

Indeed, a rather crude dagger was found. I put the dagger in the limp man’s hand, then lightly slashed my cheek.

The minimum requirement for claiming self-defense was met.

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Just as he was about to throw the stunned male student out of the room again, he noticed a piece of gray paper protruding from the male student’s inner pocket.

After a moment of silence, I took out the paper. It was a newspaper.

[The truth of what happened on the central street that day! How far does Her Highness’s mercy go?]

It seemed like there was one place I had to visit.

I put the newspaper in my arms and dragged the boy along. Then he opened the door and threw it outside.

The group of male students who were stamping their feet outside looked at me in amazement. I smiled slightly for them.

“He was a bit violent. I was going to have a conversation, but he just jumped at me?”

Their eyes were absurd, but when they saw my friend’s messed up face, their faces soon turned pale.

The silence was awkward, so I cleared my throat and left a word.

“If you want to talk to me in the future, tell me to knock on the door anytime. Enough then.”

After that, there were no more students knocking on my door.

It will be like that a long time ago, I thought so and tried to fill the canteen.

Then, my hand stopped because an idea came to me. My eyes sneakily turned to the bottle.

I remembered when I was a freshman. On days when I didn’t want to practice or study, there was a time when I put alcohol in my water bottle instead of water and drank little by little.

And today seemed to be a particularly bitter day.

After hesitating for a moment, I finally picked up a bottle of whiskey and poured it into the canteen.

It was the start of another day.

Today, it was his turn to think about how to counterattack the princess.

**

It was around the time that I was moving my languid steps to the news that the mail had arrived.

Originally, there was a mailbox assigned to each room in one corner of the dormitory, but this morning, it was a mess.

It’s normal to see ‘die’ written in red letters, and leftover food was put in various trash.

It was the classic way.

In the end, the post office, which decided that it could not receive mail normally, sent me a separate message. It was the sound of coming directly to the post office to pick it up.

It was annoying to have the imperial family as an enemy. While I was yawning at that thought, I suddenly saw a group of people coming through the alley.

Giggling and shaking their hands, they stiffened their bodies as soon as they met my eyes.

After that, it’s not like he’s running away with a sneaky look.

My curious eyes followed them. Then, with a sudden ominous feeling, I ran straight into the alley.

There was a pile of garbage there. It was not aesthetically pleasing, so the place where the dormitory discharged garbage was located in the alley.

The face of the man buried in the garbage was too familiar.

“Leto!”

He groaned and groaned among the piles of garbage, then threw the banana peel on top of his head and said.

“… … Welcome, Ian.”

Although the attitude seemed deeply dissatisfied.