Chapter 117: Finally, it is moving

It is definitely not a good experience to live this in first person. I tried to shake off that sore loser who was attacking me with abandon.

She was clinging to my hair and started scratching me, especially in the eyes.

“Gya! Damn, that’s playing dirty!”

“In a duel to the death, anything goes.”

This wretch is right, but your scratching and biting definitely won’t kill me.

’I should discipline her like the first time….. Hmm, I don’t think she hates me anymore. Yes, I should… She’s been earning it again lately.’

Because I was temporarily blind, I kept trying to grab her blindly. She moved nimbly across my body, taking every opportunity and didn’t hesitate to bite, pinch and scratch.

’Wait, why does it hurt so much, resonance? Selene, why did you do this?’

I didn’t worry too much and thought I’d let her vent, since it didn’t hurt so much in the end and reminded me of my kitty, which I had as a kid in my previous life.

But that damn thing seemed to be resonating with my little angel, causing me pain now…very real pain.

I dropped to the ground and began to squirm as if I had insects biting me, but she wouldn’t get off of me, she just kept going as if nothing was wrong. It was as if she was possessed by an evil, persistent spirit.

’Wait, I know… Purification!’

“grrr… eh?, What did you cast on me, why do I feel better, purification magic?”

The moment the spell fell on her, Eira stopped and asked, doubting why I cast a purification spell.

“Uh… well, I just tried. You should have disappeared or at least wallowed in pain, though.” I really thought it would work.

“You idiot! Do you think I’m an evil spirit or something?”

“Yes…that’s why I did it,”

I replied. Now that I thought about it, it was an obvious answer I should have given a long time ago.

Although it wasn’t as much as I thought, she has calmed down, which proves I was right: the poor thing had been possessed by an evil entity.

“You bastard, die!”

Apparently, that wasn’t the right answer…. Clearly he was wrong, he swore that was it.

“Don’t bite my neck! Aaah, it hurts! Selene, call it off, call it off!”

The pain in my neck intensified as Eira bit me. I honestly felt like my life was in danger and I called out for help to Selene, who, for some reason, ’resonated’ with Eira.

I wondered what she was thinking, so I activated the ’resonance’ with her, and she seemed…. Happy? Why?

I felt betrayed and abandoned… until I realized something.

I asked Selene through the resonance to activate it with me and buff me. At that moment, I instantly felt stronger.

Finally, I managed to catch the elusive Eira with my statistical superiority. Truly, you should never underestimate even the skills that seem the silliest, such as flexibility.

The truth is, I didn’t know if I had it like Selene, but nothing explains how good she is at being so elusive, to the point of writhing all over my body like an evil spirit trying to possess me. Not for nothing did I cast purification magic!

Finally, I got rid of her. I held her and conjured several metal handcuffs around her wrists, a muzzle and a straitjacket made of iron.

In the end, she looked like a trapped beast. I felt Eira trying to send signals to Selene to cancel the resonance with me, but what I felt from Selene was happiness.

’I don’t understand why she looked happy if we were fighting to the death.,’

I had already neutralized Eira and healed my eyes.

well, it was metaphorical because Despite everything, I realized that Eira’s attacks weren’t exactly lethal, but they were painful. They were more like attempts to vent her frustration.

So I forgave her and didn’t think too much of it. I’ll simply think that a stray cat attacked me for approaching carelessly. Clearly, I am a mature person in conflict.

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When I approached Selene and asked her why she had done that, she told me it was because her sister had instructed her to do it when I asked her to.

I had apparently convinced her that this was a way for us to get along, and we were just playing. I got a little angry at the thought of how I could trick my little angel, but in the end, I’ll take it as a challenge.

You grow up in different situations, and next time I’ll beat her, even if I don’t use resonance.

So, the lesson went on for a while and I helped the girls in the group a lot, and I took the time to make them understand.

Meanwhile, men learn by force, and with their body they understand the lesson… yes there was definitely no favoritism here at absolute… I also patiently taught Auran, which counts as a man, so there was definitely no favoritism.

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Another week had passed and it was now the fourth week since the start of school, I would say that nothing out of the ordinary had happened, but I had noticed that Cordelia was finally moving.

The week before, I had clearly noticed how she was starting to pay more attention to my doppelgänger.

Indeed, he was up to something. I didn’t know what it was, but today she asked me to meet her after class.

Out of curiosity, I even postponed my usual meeting with Astrid, which I always looked forward to during classes, and went to see her in a secluded and suspicious place in the academy.

There she was, along with two other lackeys, who, if I remember correctly, were her assistants to bully me. Despite her personality, she had managed to gather a group of followers. I was now 100% sure that she wanted to start her aggression towards Seraphina.

This had been postponed for some reason I don’t understand, but now that my doppelgänger is occupied by me all the time, I’m not afraid of anything she does.

I mean I’m my own informant, I wasn’t going to let the same thing happen to my alternate self.

At first, things were small, like stealing my books, notes and other objects. They also interrupted and ruined my work as an assistant when I had to carry things from one place to another, or spilled my food in the dining room, pretending it was an accident.

Childish things, which I honestly didn’t take seriously, and ignored. But over time, this became worse.

She would follow me around, and even coordinate many classes with mine, just to fight me and beat me up. she would also attack me during exams or monthly quizzes, as she was much stronger than my alternative self.

Despite having an affinity for light, I started training very late. Usually, you start at the age of ten, or even earlier, but I started just three years ago.

The early years are always the slowest for everyone, unless you have a monstrous talent, which Seraphina’s body did not have.

Although I now had a decent telento, it was still a slow process for my alternate self, but this time I was able to catch up faster, far surpassing my alternate self at this time.

I remember that even with a lot of effort, I barely managed to become a representative, and that was thanks to the blessing of the goddess of purity.

When I the academy ended, Cordelia started doing a lot of other things to me. This escalated over a long period of time getting worse.

Honestly, if I only looked at the academy time, I would think it was some kind of crush, something my alternate self didn’t notice.

But that thought vanished when his bullying became too intense and dangerous, that wasn’t someone with interest would do.

So putting aside my misunderstanding when she asked me to be hers I stayed close to her because I wanted to find the cause and stop this, without having to kill her as my alternate self had established.

Although I don’t know why, the memories don’t show the ending between Cordelia and my alternate self, but if he wants me to kill her.

Must be because he did it himself, since his list of eliminations, are mostly people he killed himself or should kill before they became more problematic and the memories justify it.

Still, to me Cordelia, didn’t seem to deserve it at this point, but I can’t judge without knowing the whole story, and that fucker for some reason omitted it, leaving me in doubt about what actions to take on Cordelia.

’well he must have some reason why he didn’t do it’

if. it’s no use complaining, I have to figure this out on my own.

“I gathered you here because I have a mission for you. As I told you, if you follow me, you will have riches and glory… right?”

she began to speak like a completely different person and fluently, I would even say passionately as she gave her speech.

“The mission I have for you is easy. I want you to gather information on Miss Silvercrest and report to me everything she does from the time she leaves school until she gets here. I want to know all of her contacts, as well as the people she frequents and their schedules. I want to know everything.”

If this is what I mean: when it comes to Seraphina, she becomes a totally different person, as if her ability, which I assumed was the cause of her personality, stopped working.

Apparently, the first step is to stalk me and watch me. I looked around and watched the guys. Honestly, I don’t know what gives them the audacity to provoke a Silvercrest who has the most powerful being in the kingdom.

But now that I looked, the guy in front of me was the guy who tried to poison me during the entrance exam, he was one of Cordelia’s two lackeys who helped her in her harassment.

That’s why he seemed familiar to me back then, well the guy didn’t live long so he didn’t have much presence in my memories, the other one not to mention, I barely have an impression of him.

The poisonous guy’s name was Esteban and now he’s lackey number two because I was the first in this life…. That doesn’t make me feel proud; I feel like a second-rate villain, one of those who die as collateral damage….

Well back to the topic.

“Miss Cordelia, may I ask the reason for this order?”, I asked.

“No.”

Well, what did you expect? If life were that easy, there would be no problem. Just in case, I checked her status and indeed she doesn’t have an EX skill , so it’s not a mission or something given by the gods, which is common when people act illogically.

’ So what should I do, to further gain his trust? Hmm…, yes I should sacrifice myself a bit.’

“Miss Cordelia, I actually have some information about Miss Seraphina Silvercrest, ” I said.

“Oh, that’s good. You will be rewarded handsomely. Go ahead, tell me what you know,” she replied, and I really don’t think there’s anything to satisfy me, with everything I got in the domain.

Anyway, I started telling him things about me: my favorite color, that I’m good at light and lightning magic. I went on to tell him about my tastes for romance novels and other trivial things.

I even made up a weakness which was the fear of cold and icy stares, and if it was with a digust face all the better. The reason why I said that, well, that doesn’t matter…..

Cordelia, silent, didn’t hesitate to jot everything down as if the information, was worth gold, she seemed very keen to know my weaknesses.

’I definitely have to find the reason for her hatred of me.’

With that the meeting ended and everyone went their separate ways.

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It was near the end of the first month and the first monthly examination was finally approaching. For being the first, it was not complicated at all.

In addition to the knowledge test, they also did an examination like the entrance test, but this time it was individual and with all the students, including those who are not strictly specialized in combat, such as the Blacksmiths and alchemists, who had to figure it out, with their own methods.

Still, it was no problem for me and nothing interesting happened. So that week ended with me being fourth in the monthly exam, defeated by Alice, Silvia, and Cordelia herself who were better academically than me.

In addition, Aurora and Lys, as I thought, were easily promoted to the A class, since they easily entered the top 20. and so time went by…

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