No Dark Secrets In This Book

Episode 150

“Haha, Father. I’ll go borrow some Hanra military uniforms too. Don’t worry, I’ll make sure not to harm the family and even cover my face…”

“No! You are the thousand-year prodigy who will inherit the history of Vinckel…! You could become the head of the family just by staying still, so why are you…!”

At that moment, Diedrich’s lifelong regret couldn’t help but sarcastically reflect.

“Who wanted that?”

“…What?”

The half-assed delinquent who never wanted to become the head of the family… but couldn’t betray the family’s expectations nor conform to them.

For the first time in his life, he saw his father’s eyes tremble. His throat choked up. But he didn’t want to take it back.

“I’ve been a good son all this time. So let me live a little too. I’m suffocating.”

If a father gets hurt just by his son speaking the truth, it already means they’re not a healthy family.

So he thought both his father and himself should properly accept reality. That may be the only valid argument to navigate this dirty world.

‘I used to scoff at valid arguments.’

If Diedrich were to decide the way he has lived at this moment when Demillang is trying to kill the young head, he would naturally run away.

Even now, a part of his mind is ringing an alarm that running away is the right thing to do.

But there’s only one reason he’s not running away.

Diedrich Vinckel remembered his own self who desperately wanted to act according to the ridiculous valid argument. And he remembered how he felt extremely pathetic in front of the Hanra warriors who threw themselves into the valid argument without a second thought.

Diedrich Vinckel couldn’t live carrying such shame.

“If you want the family’s treasure to live, it would be best to let go now.”

“You…!”

Of course, there was no need to listen to the rest. Diedrich Vinckel ran away right away, and while doing so, he saw Hae Yuna taking a combat stance as if to fight with her grandmother.

“No use arguing! If you want to go against my words, defeat me first!”

‘No, why is she listening to those words?’

Hae Yuna looked like she was about to cry. It was understandable since she might have to beat up the person who raised her.

So Diedrich picked up Hae Yuna and ran away.

“You! How dare you do that to my granddaughter…!”

“I’ll return her nicely in a bit! Please let it slide just this once!”

The shout of the solemn warrior made the young student’s liver tremble. Still, Diedrich didn’t stop dragging Hae Yuna and hiding in the gaps of Hanra.

The adults naturally couldn’t catch up to them because they shouldn’t get involved with Hanra.

The adults’ words that the students can act out like this because they’re not in a position to take responsibility for the family are also correct if you ignore their old-fashioned power to some extent.

So, it has to be done now.

‘At an age when we don’t have to be tied to the family.’

‘When we’re even a year younger!’

We mustn’t miss the moment when we can call justice justice and call valid arguments valid arguments. Because people always use such moments as motivation to cherish themselves.

In the eyes of the adults, Cassice Demillang would have already been brutally murdered. They judged so because it didn’t make sense that he had endured in the Black Wilderness until now. No matter how much Ryuseong, who was born in the Black Wilderness, was with him, it was unreasonable for him to still be alive, so Hanra’s struggle to send a rescue team was futile.

But the young people had the right to not listen to the adults’ advice at all. The youth decided to believe in their less mature intuition instead.

“He’ll definitely come back alive!”

“Right! He absolutely won’t die!”

“With that temper, he seems like he’ll grab the King of Hell by the collar and return.”

The young people who borrowed military uniforms from the Hanra warriors looked at each other and chuckled. They’re just students anyway. Would much change just because they participate? The adults didn’t think so. But the young people were the elite ranked at the top of Areah Academy, which had a tougher competition rate than any other academy.

“I’ll be the ADC.” (Attack Damage Carry)

“I’m the tank.”

“Okay. I’m the damage dealer and support.”

“I’m the melee DPS.” (Damage Per Second)

“What about the healer?”

“As if we have one.”

Without saying a word, a formation was completed with Capone Jones at the center, occupying the four corners of a square. Hae Yuna, who took on the role of the tank, took the eastern position at the very front tip of the diamond shape, and Shin Myohan, who became the damage dealer and support, took the very end of the west. Naturally, Diedrich Vinckel and Logan Esteban took the south and north. Lee Hyang was standing silently behind Capone Jones, and Capone Jones looked at Lee Hyang for a moment with the ‘eyes’ of his family’s vision that he nearly lost but protected thanks to them, and just nodded.

Just before charging into the battlefield, Capone Jones decided to use his family’s long-inherited vision magic for long-range attacks.

‘Screw whether the Jones family gets ruined or not.’

A pure white lightning directly struck the descendant of Demillang who was fighting against the Hanra warriors. Despite being vigilant of all 24 directions, the price of not being vigilant of just one direction above the head was the limbs being fried by electric current. However, the descendant of Demillang was a rude bastard who didn’t die from this one hit, and their eyes met in an instant.

“The Jones family has betrayed us!”

“The Vinckel and Esteban too!”

At the moment when it was clear that the parents would grab the back of their necks… However, Capone Jones, who had leaked confidential information about the head of Demillang to the head of Jones and ran away while the head was frozen, was not sorry at all for using such a conspicuous family vision magic, but rather very excited. He wanted to cackle with laughter. The head of Jones, his father, was the main culprit who ruined Capone Jones’ life.

Logan Esteban muttered as if he had a bit of a complaint though.

“Did we have to use the family vision magic after going as far as changing into Hanra military uniforms?”

But with this one remark, he succeeded in shutting them up.

“It had the greatest destructive power.”

“…Then, it can’t be helped.”

And the students jumped into the battlefield while maintaining their formation.

“Those damn brats!”

If there was a person who would just quietly watch that, they wouldn’t have become a professor in the first place.

Aple burst into anger and swung his staff to cast a flame magic, striking down the ambush the students had not yet discovered. If Aple had been even a little late, they would have died, but the students didn’t stop their charge, and only Lee Hyang acted oddly among them. With extremely cold, sunken eyes, he found the magic caster and was about to flick his finger, but as if relieved that the caster’s identity was Aple, he bowed his head with his usual neat face and even exchanged greetings.

“No, ha.”

At that moment, Aple realized that the damn bulldozer-like brats wouldn’t stop. As long as Lee Hyang was among them, and as long as Capone Jones was the center, he could predict that no one would die easily.

Capone Jones showed outstanding performance in one-on-one combat. It felt like they were realizing Capone Jones’ true value only now, as the academy’s education had been conducted against demons all this time. When other students restrained their killing blows to avoid killing the opponent, Capone Jones shot magic at vital points without hesitation.

The mindset of not wanting to kill the opponent is, to be blunt, not something to consider when one is much weaker than the opponent. It was a softness that could be tolerated since they were beating up one person together with Hanra. And Capone Jones was urging death by throwing killing blows at the enemy who let their guard down, thinking the students’ attacks were soft.

However, the descendants of Demillang should not be taken lightly. To put it bluntly, they were no different from killing machines. It was fortunate that the skilled and seasoned Hanra warriors took the attacks instead to protect the magicians; otherwise, someone would have died a solid death. It’s just that the Hanra warriors had the ability to avoid the impact to the point of not dying, and that alone was a welcome thing in the midst of the damn battlefield situation.

Even though a massive number of people from Hanra rushed in, they couldn’t kill a single descendant of Demillang. Of course, it was because assassins and the remnants of the Demon Realm’s heavenly beings, who were scattered everywhere, all flocked together and formed a front line, but the fact that they couldn’t take down a single one of the most vigilant enemies meant that the battlefield situation was going to hell. Lee Hyang knew that, so he conserved his strength more coldly than anyone else. There was only one thing Lee Hyang had to do. To save lives. When someone was truly about to die, that’s when Lee Hyang steps forward. Until then, he had to store up his strength. Saving someone’s life is that difficult.

But at that moment, the first kill came up.

“Damyeon…!”

“…Call me Teacher!”

The principal of Areah Academy, who was once called Teacher Damyeon, and the strategist, succeeded in throwing a descendant of Demillang off the cliff along with the head of Hanra.