Chapter 4: Sleeping with the Enemy

“Young Master, wake up.”

“Umm, what is it..”

“Young Master, if you sleep here, you’ll ruin not only your reputation but also the face of the family. So please get up quickly.”

“Heummm...”

I almost died the day after I returned because of Irina’s curse.

Shocked by this realization, I was quietly lying down dazed in the empty banquet room, but I quickly pretended to be drunk when Kania entered.

“Kania...carry me...”

“Young Master, you’re well aware that I...”

“That’s right! Our Kania is a warlock, isn’t she?”

“Y-Young Master!”

“Besides, she’s always in a weak state because of the curse she bears as a warlock...well, I guess she can’t help after all...”

“I-I’ll carry you on my back. Please, just stop.”

“Hehe...thank you! Kania!”

Kania took a deep breath as she slung me onto her back, and then she started wobbling.

“Woah... phew...”

“May I put you down for a moment?”

“I don’t think I will need to get off if you hold me in an upright position.”

“........”

Kania trembled slightly after hearing this, then soon responded in a guttural, irritated voice.

“I’ll fix it.”

“Giddy up! Run, run!”

“...Ha, really?”

So Kania slowly started heading towards my dormitory, listening to my fake drunk rambling with her dead eyes fixed on me.

“Cough! Cough! Cough!”

“What’s wrong with you this time?”

“Don’t worry about it...keep following the way you were going, you Black Magician...Oh, did I just say you’re a Black Magician, not a Warlock...?”

“.......”

And so I began imbuing life force into her while she carried me on her back.

Kania will not last long and die soon if I don’t infuse life force into her periodically like this. That’s why I have to infuse life force into her whenever I get an opportunity like this.

For reference, the larger the area of contact, the more life force I can transfer to her.

So, I tried to imbue months’ worth of life force at this opportunity, but soon I gave up when I remembered that Kania was also looking for a chance to kill me.

So I started infusing a little more life force than usual to relieve her fatigue as I snuggled close to her back and pretended to sleep.

“I don’t know if it’s God’s trick or what...”

At the same time as I was sharing my life force, Kania, who was carrying me on her back, suddenly muttered in a spiteful voice.

“...even for my sister’s sake, this time, I must kill you.”

‘That’s too much.’

I felt nauseated, as I couldn’t even spit the blood that came up to my mouth since I was already overdoing it by sharing my life force with Kania. In the meantime, she’s declaring that she’s going to kill me. Thanks to this, I felt my heartache.

However, this is inevitable as long as I act like a villain.

Now, to Kania, I’m a piece of trash that’s aiming for her younger sister, who has shown time and time again to have an outstanding talent in healing magic.

“...gulp.”

Thanks to the side effects of transferring life force, I quietly swallowed the blood in my mouth and started dozing off on her back.

Of course, I couldn’t fall asleep completely, as I was afraid of being killed while sleeping.

Sure enough, it’s hard pretending to be the villain.

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“Young Master, we have arrived.”

“Ahhh...where...?”

“This is the dormitory where the Young Master will be staying from today. The Academy has especially made sure that the room is of the finest quality, so there will be no inconvenience...”

“Get out.”

“...Yes?”

“You should just leave so that I can get some sleep.”

I interrupted her explanation as I beckoned her to leave, pretending to be annoyed.

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Kania then greeted me at 90 degrees as she smiled brightly for some reason. I stared at her for a moment, and just as she was about to open the door to leave, I muttered.

“Wait, don’t go.”

“...Yes?”

“Don’t leave yet.”

“...I understand.”

When I overturned my earlier order after she had just almost left, she tilted her head for a moment as if confused, but soon showed an expression of understanding.

Perhaps, she’s thinking, ‘What’s wrong with the Young Master?’ ‘Ah! The Young Master is going to bullshit again!’ Isn’t it possible for her to come up with the answer on her own?

“...Kania?”

I was about to rack up more false evil points, as I was furious at the guy who dared to knock on my door in the middle of the night, but oddly enough, Kania was the one standing in front of my room.

“What’s all that?”

“...My luggage.”

I don’t know why, but her luggage is piled up in the hallway in front of my room.

“Then, excuse me.”

“.....?”

As I was tilting my head at such a strange sight, Kania suddenly pushed me inside the room and started unpacking her bags, one by one.

“...What are you doing?”

“I’m unpacking?”

“No, why are you unpacking your luggage here?”

“From today on, I have to stay here too.”

“...What?”

Startled by her words, I soon calmed my pounding heart and started speaking slowly.

“...What kind of bullshit is this? You belong to the dormitory where all the lowly beings gather; this is the dormitory for nobles.”

“Didn’t you know?”

Upon hearing my words, Kania smiled quietly and some unexpected words came out of her mouth.

“I entered the academy as Young Master’s servant.”

“What? What do you mean?”

Kania entered the Academy as a regular student in the previous timeline, if I recall correctly. So why is it like this now...

“Yesterday, I asked Young Master’s father via telegram. And fortunately, I got permission.”

“...Why the hell?”

“Isn’t he just worried about the Young Master, his son, who he lived with for a long time?There’s no other reason.”

Kania coldly replied to my question with a puzzled look and then added a few more words with a smirk.

“Oh, and the Duke also said this, ‘Monitor the Young Master so he won’t cause trouble.’ If you kick me out, he’ll have you expelled from the Academy.”

“Damn it.”

The moment Kania said ‘expelled,’ the system displayed a red warning window.

Warning! Game Over Crisis!

The Path of False Evil System considers the following three scenarios as ‘Game Over.’

1. Expulsion, or no longer attending the academy for some other reason.

2. The death of Main Heroines, even if it’s only one.

3. The System Owner dies in a situation other than the ‘Final Battle’.

Yes, the system is constraining me in this way. Among them, the one that has now become a problem is the first case, expulsion from the academy.

According to my ancestor’s words in the prophetic book, it’s a constraint because the background of ‘Dark Tale Fantasy 2’ is the Academy... Thanks to this, I’m now in a tough situation.

So why can’t I just explain the situation to my father, who knows I’m a False Evil, and then expel Kania or make her a regular student?

Because this damned world isn’t that easy.

Because of the magic spell cast on the prophetic book, at the moment of my regression, anyone besides me who knew the contents of the prophetic book will have their memories recalibrated.

Such a magic spell was cast because the system will penalize me by shortening my lifespan if someone finds out I’m a false evil.

Therefore, if the ‘Game Scenario’ mentioned in the prophetic book is correct, perhaps by now, my father has transformed into a person who treats me harshly because of my foolish behavior, and at the same time, he can’t abandon me because of his fatherly love.

It’s a very awkward and strange setting, but what can I do about the ‘Constraint’ of the ‘Scenario’? After all, there was a reason my ancestor was so fond of the term ‘Dog shit game.’

Anyway, in conclusion, in my previous life, I couldn’t tell anyone the truth in order to make the hero’s armament rampage, which uses ‘good’ as its source of energy. Despite that, my father cheered me on and consoled me, and now my father is no longer by my side.

In other words, there’s no one who can help me.

While I was in such a depressed mood, Kania, who had unpacked all her luggage in my room, laid down on the extra bed, then bid me goodnight with a stiff smile.

“Then... Good night, Young Master.”

“........”

After conveying her words, Kania quietly closed her eyes and fell asleep.

“...This is driving me crazy.”

After a moment of outrage, I thought about going outside to sleep but soon realized that Kania might find that suspicious if I did that all the time for no apparent reason. And more importantly, there is nowhere I can sleep outside.

It won’t be easy to get a good night’s sleep from now on.

‘No, can I even sleep in the first place?’

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“Tonight, I pray to the Holy Sun God...”

While Frey was staying up the entire night with his eyes wide open,

“...I apologize that I’m an apostate who dared to doubt the existence of the Sun God, and I’m extremely grateful that you’ve given me another chance.”

In the women’s dormitory not too far from the dormitory he was staying in, a girl of small stature reverently held her hands together in prayer.

“Even though I’m ashamed of myself, I dare to beseech the Sun God...”

She is known to the world as the ‘Pure-White Saintess’ thanks to her elegant and lustrous white hair, kind and pure heart, and the golden aura blooming from her body.

“...please help me this time, so I can tear Frey Raon Starlight to death.”

She soon finished her prayer with a cold expression on her face.

“...If necessary, I will offer you the life of this Ferloche Astellade.”