Playing the Perfect Fox-Eyed Villain Chapter 198

Episode 198. Proof of Loyalty (2)

– 'So what do you want me to do?'

Pintel's words left no trace of hesitation.

Gerard kept thinking about it.

'I don't understand.'

Even if you have a distorted view due to misplaced respect.

Serving someone who had built his position on his own mistakes was a category that Gerard could not understand.

“I don’t expect you to understand.”

As if he had been looking into his mind, Pintel's calm words could be heard.

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand. I wasn’t expecting anyone to understand in the first place.”

“You crazy bastard!”

The more he talked to Pintel, the more Gerard felt a sense of alienation creeping into his skin.

Thanks to that, a lot of swear words came out of my mouth.

I'm in a position where I have to cause confusion to Pintel.

Instead, it was Gerard who was so flustered that he couldn't keep his wits about him.

“Are you crazy!? The Pintel I know wasn’t that stupid!”

When I first joined the Dawn Society.

If I were to describe Pintel in one word, Gerard would say he was an 'ambitious magician'.

A person filled with pure curiosity, not someone who walks the path of evil like Aiden.

He was a wizard who truly tried to break his own 'limits', rather than trying all sorts of gruesome methods like conducting human experiments.

– 'I still can't understand. How someone like you could join the Dawn Society.'

That's why Gerard laughed at Pintel.

Why would someone like Aiden, who can't even pursue moral deficiency for the sake of research, bother to join the 'Dawn Society'?

– 'I promise. If that guy runs out of here, I will personally organize a pursuit team to silence him.'

Even as people laughed at his useless nobility, Pintel did not give up.

– 'Why don't you try human experimentation like Aiden? That would be better for the Dawn Society, and for you, too.'

Gerard, who had a bad temper, always gave Pintel contempt rather than advice.

It was quite interesting to see the stubborn wizard finally give up on the beauty he was pursuing and become ugly.

– 'I don't expect you to understand.'

For a moment, Gerard's head went blank.

I remembered.

Why am I starting to get so annoyed?

Pintel, who was expected to fall from the moment he first encountered the Dawn Society.

After meeting Yulian, the guy who I thought had lost his mind was still getting his way.

In contrast,

“As expected, it’s ugly.”

The person reflected in Pintel's expressionless eyes was a far cry from the 'Gerard Oakleyan' who had enjoyed his past glory.

'So you're saying I was the one who got broken?'

Knock knock knock.

The sound of teeth grinding leaked out clearly through the chapped lips.

“Shut up……!”

Gerard, who was able to control 'magic' thanks to the 'horn' transplant, began to pull the blood that had been scattered earlier into his hands.

The blood that had been gathering in a rough but flowing manner took the shape of an arrowhead.

Gerard, who had somehow managed to harden it, aimed at Pintel with his remaining arm.

Chook──!

A bloody arrow rushed towards Pintel.

The arrows were intercepted by the dagger magic before they could even reach the target and scattered without a trace.

“Kuaaaah!”

Rather, the 'dagger magic' released by Pintel was embedded in Gerard's body.

Gerard took a step back with a rough scream.

But an ugly anger flashed in his eyes like a flame, and he took one step at a time out of the prison.

“Phew.”

Pintel sighed at the sight and readjusted his cane.

“I don’t think it will answer your question, but I will answer it anyway.”

Mana began to flow out from the tip of the staff held by Pintel, where a bluish jewel was embedded.

Pintel, who had been following it with his eyes, scattered mana into the air once.

“I don’t know how you, who had no connection to magic, were able to use magic, but I think you must know about the existence of ‘Mana’.”

As he advanced with angry eyes, Gerard unconsciously understood Pintel's words.

Because I came to understand 'Magi' by putting 'horns' in it, and I came to understand 'Mana', an energy similar to 'Magi'.

“Mana resides in all living and non-living things, and has the ability to record everything beyond time and space.”

Gerard, who was approaching Pintel, eventually stopped in his tracks at the sight of a huge mana bubble beginning to form in the air.

The reason his magic is called 'dagger magic' is because the form formed with mana resembles a dagger.

It is a nickname that was given to it because its unique small shape does not resemble a 'sword'.

Soon, the huge mana that had formed in the air began to split into several swords.

“……That’s ridiculous!”

Handling multiple types of large mana is difficult even for a 5th-tier wizard.

A look of bewilderment appeared on Gerard's face, as Pintel was now able to do it.

“As I studied magic and refined my mana, there was one more thing I could understand, though it wasn’t certain.”

Despite Pintel's soliloquy, Gerard couldn't take his eyes off the 'sword' floating in the air.

“The fact is that the world is divided into many branches.”

“What nonsense are you talking about, Pintel!”

“The original ‘I’ dies while transporting the soul stone.”

Ugh.

As Pintel waved his staff, one of the many 'swords' floating in the air impaled Gerard on his knee.

“Kuaaaah!”

Gerard collapsed, complaining of pain, but Pintel, paying no attention, plunged the 'Mana Sword' into Gerard's body once again.

A scream that was almost a scream echoed from the prison, but Pintel's face did not change color.

“You won’t understand what I’m saying. I’m alive, and you’re saying I’m dead.”

“Ugh, ugh……!”

“I don’t know the details either. It’s just that as I train my ‘Mana’, those memories become clearer. I’m not sure. However……”

Pintel, who had interrupted, added as he looked down at Gerard.

“It is certain that Sir Yurian has given me a new ‘life’. What does it matter if Sir Yurian is the ‘Black Knight’?”

Krrrrrrrrrr──

As he became helpless against Pintel's magic, the 'magic' began to boil inside Gerard's body.

“When you suddenly started using magic, I wondered what trick you were using, and it turned out to be this.”

Gerard's body began to twist and swell to the point where he could no longer be called human.

Pavavabat──!

But Pintel isn't stupid enough to just sit by and watch.

“In times like this, only fools would give you time.”

Pintel's 'dagger magic', which had now reached the realm of 'unique magic', struck Gerard like a waterfall.

“Ugh, krrrrr…….”

Looking at his body cooling down, Pintel readjusted his cane.

“I don’t choose who I kill like Sir Yurian.”

One last room.

Phew!

When Pintel, who had levitated a large sword into the air, brought it down, Gerard, who was about to transform into something, immediately became quiet.

Even though the person who once fueled his desire for revenge was dead, Pintel's eyes showed no great emotion.

All I could think was, what if something went wrong with Sir Yurian's plan?

“Sir Yurian is the Black Knight…….”

A desperate word uttered by Gerard.

It's not like I've ever really had any rifts in my loyalty to Lord Yurian, but there's one thing I like about him.

“Obviously, the ‘black knight’ who took my breath away in the ‘memory’ remaining in Mana was not Sir Yurian.”

I didn't think that the 'Black Knight' I saw in my residual memories and the current 'Black Knight' were the same.

“Anyway, it was Sir Yurian who showed me a new path when I was supposed to die.”

The Obradin family is loyal to the one who gave them the 'will'.

There is no lie in those words.

***

“I’m sorry, Sir Yurian!”

The next day.

After the contact with Colparan, I tilted my head as I looked at Pintel, who had come to apologize out of nowhere while I was tending to the orchids in the 'closed eyes' office.

What is it?

When I asked Pintel why he was apologizing, I was able to hear the whole story.

“So you’re saying that Gerard is dead?”

“Yes, I’m sorry.”

“No, there was a way to escape, but it was my fault for not checking it properly and failing to stop it.”

Gerard overlooked the fact that he had a plan to escape from prison.

There's no way a person of that caliber wouldn't have a desperate measure.

Well, since he was a guy who knew how to use his head, he must have considered the possibility of being caught.

'Well, the Baragis won't even know that Gerard is dead, so they'll still be chasing him.'

So far so good.

After all, you might be able to buy some time until tomorrow.

“I have also finished talking with Bishop Uberon Hynix. I am certain that we will be able to proceed with the operation at the Bishop Selection Ceremony in two days.”

I nodded and walked away, looking out the window.

Finally, the day has come.

The day when the 'Patriarch' is killed and the Dawn Society is destroyed.

Those who agree with me now may not be hoping for the collapse of the 'Dawn Society', but I can say this for sure.

'These guys deserve to be broken.'

For my own safety, at least.

'huh?'

The moment I was about to sweep away the orchid I had left on the window, I felt 'Angelica' flowing from my arms to my fingertips.

Angelica blinks her eyes several times and looks out the window.

I know this isn't just a whim.

'My skin feels hot.'

I've felt this feeling… … before.

The nemesis of 'Yurien' that I felt in the Holy Land some time ago.

It is transmitted through the skin that he will enter the palace.

“Are you here already?”

As I muttered to myself, chewing on the bitter taste that ran down my tongue, Pintel looked at me.

“What are you talking about all of a sudden, Sir Yulian?”

I shook my head, saying it was nothing to him, and draped my coat over my shoulders.

The tremors that start from the fist spread throughout the whole body.

“This is the first time we’ve met in the system.”

At the thought of seeing my teacher's face after such a long time, a storm of emotions came over me.

Black Haydn Reich.

A noble and lofty hero has returned to the system.