Chapter 406

There is nothing that brings me back to my senses like a mana potion.

If my impulsive and barbaric medieval self bursts out here, it would be troublesome.

She views the humans she despises as something akin to self-moving protein blocks.

The problem is, they looked exactly like that through my eyes.

As I inhaled the bitter potion deep into my lungs, the cute aspects of the middle school girls gradually became visible.

‘From now on, these girls are the ones who have harmed humans.’

Surprisingly, it was effective.

Cuteness helps to soften the eager heart.

Is this perhaps the secret to cats surviving on Earth?

“How did you get in here?”

“Hey, look, she’s No Name…!”

Judging by the name tag on her school uniform vest and her facial structure, they were indeed the perpetrators who had driven Jung So-hye to hell.

I counted the heads from the left.

“One, two, three, four… Why is one missing? Where did you sell your friend?”

“Did you just talk down to us? Wow, do you think being famous makes you untouchable? It’s absurd! Wait, is that a cigarette in your hand?”

“Se-bin, let’s not provoke her and just go in. She looks dangerous.”

“Hey, get off me! Why should we be scared? She’s clearly alone!”

The middle school girls began to approach me slowly.

None of them were willing to drop the cigarette until the very end.

The girl with the heaviest makeup and the tallest frame stepped forward as the representative.

Kim Se-bin bent down to match my eye level and shot a dangerous glare at me.

I exhaled the potion’s vapor into her face.

“Cough cough! What kind of smell is this!”

“Can’t I smoke?”

“Uh? Isn’t that not allowed at nine years old…?”

“What’s not allowed? Is it written in the constitution? Is it even written?”

The girls’ expressions were filled with visible confusion.

When they normally defied adults, they must have felt like nothing in the world could scare them.

In contrast, me, a six-year-old, throwing back sharp retorts left them dumbfounded.

“Little kid, did your mother raise you that way?”

Kim Se-bin grabbed my collar and shook my body.

I put the cigarette back in my mouth and chewed it.

“Anyway, kids these days have lost their nerve.”

Without the slightest hesitation, I kicked Kim Se-bin’s knee vigorously.

I infused it with aura, clearly intending to break the joint.

Crunch—

Kim Se-bin’s calf twisted at an odd angle as her slender leg crumpled underneath her.

“Gaaah! Gggh… Haaaah…!”

“Gyaaah!”

“Se-bin, your leg! Gyaaah!”

The other bullying perpetrators shrieked in panic.

They all froze in place, looking as stiff as statues.

I was prepared to set up boundaries in case of escape, but I must have overestimated them.

Look at them panicking, unable to handle their own bodies.

These pathetic things thought they could ruin the life of an innocent child.

Meanwhile, the girls’ gazes fell upon my wand.

Were they planning to snatch it and do something?

[Cast: Thermal Conductivity Adjustment]

I snatched the wrist of the girl who reached into my skirt pocket.

Szzz—

“Ahhh! It hurts! It’s hot!”

“Yeah, everyone gets burned when they touch something hot. And it hurts. You didn’t know this when you treated So-hye unnie like that? It’s okay, ignorance isn’t a crime. I’ll teach you step by step from now on.”

This is why learning is important.

Since everyone has different living environments, it’s hard to realize things without experiencing them firsthand.

Before experiencing it, one might not know that a stab from a knife is painful, that touching fire is hot, or that hitting with a wooden stick breaks bones.

Screech—

The sharp aura at my fingertips sliced through the long hair of the girl.

The cool autumn breeze swayed her yellow hair.

“You should be careful. If this had pierced your sister’s neck, she would have gone straight to the afterlife.”

“Damn, this isn’t right… You shouldn’t be doing this to us!”

“What’s right and wrong is up to me.”

[Cast: Glacis Terebra]

I conjured a sharp ice spear from thin air.

The ice spear plunged directly into the girl’s thigh.

“…! Gaaah!”

A clear stream of blood shot upwards as the transparent ice glistened with a sunset hue.

The girl trembled in place, collapsed and quivering.

She seemed unable to utter a sound, her vocal cords utterly gone.

She lay on the cold floor, gasping for air like a fish freshly caught.

“Ah.”

I was surprised at myself.

I didn’t expect it, but truly, I didn’t feel the slightest bit of guilt.

It felt like crushing a filthy piece of yokan under my foot.

Instead, my heart raced and my limbs were numb, possibly due to the hormones.

But my rationality remained calm throughout.

Even now, I could clearly see how to efficiently take the lives of the bullies.

I took a deep breath and locked eyes with the last standing student.

“Guh… Huh… Hah…!”

It seemed she had poured out all the tears she would shed for a lifetime today.

“Name.”

“Guh, guh… Hah…”

“What’s your name?”

“Jo, Jo, Jo… Jo Eun-seo. I’m Jo Eun-seo. Please, just let me live, I’ll beg like this.”

Jo Eun-seo knelt on the asphalt ground.

Her desperate hands clasped together reminded me of a fly begging.

Even amidst this, the moans of the middle school girls did not cease.

I slammed the ground with my transmutation tool.

[Cast: Cancellation Interference]

The noise quieted down, creating an atmosphere conducive to conversation.

Jo Eun-seo’s condition wasn’t looking great either, as blood flowed from her palms and nose and her cheeks were swollen.

I waved my finger at her.

“…?”

“Gather those kids over there.”

“Hah, hah… Gonna do it…!”

She obediently followed my orders with an attitude that was incomparable to before.

[Cast: Tissue Regeneration]

I carelessly planted my wand into the ground and cast the spell.

Using tissue regeneration magic so recklessly would leave scars and wouldn’t heal properly.

Instead, it would stop the bleeding so that others could look at her without being too upset.

I sat down on the ground, holding my skirt down against the wind.

I addressed Jo Eun-seo and the other female students.

“So where’s the last one? Wasn’t her name Ye Sol-bi?”

“…”

“Are you trying to make me repeat myself?”

“She’s in 3rd grade, class 8…”

“Why hasn’t she come yet?”

“She probably got caught by a teacher and is attending class…”

Having to go look for them myself felt like something a third-rate thug would do.

I sighed deeply and lightly tapped Jo Eun-seo’s shoulder.

“Hey, don’t think about pulling tricks. If you messed up, just accept your punishment quietly. It’s not like you can slip away like an eel. This modern society is so kind that just serving jail time will erase all your sins. Don’t you think?”

“Uh! It feels like that!”

“Especially you! Yeah, Kim Se-bin. What is this about injunctions and so on? I heard it all from below a while ago. If you try to use the law, I’ll have to use the law too. If you think frivolously, I’ll chase you to the ends of the earth and kill you. Do you think I can’t kill you in eight months?”

“Ugh…!”

I poked Kim Se-bin’s cheek sharply as a warning.

It’s not over yet.

If you don’t handle things firmly until the last one, you’ll surely face problems later.

“Hey, you guys! What are you doing over there? Come up right now!”

A teacher from Arabesque Middle School shouted at us from the fourth floor, leaning out of a stairwell window.

Even though it was a distant location from the classroom, it seemed there was a connecting part with the building.

“I’ll be up in a minute!”

I shouted back the same way.

“Hey, who was that just now? You wait right there!”

The teacher closed the window and disappeared.

“Did you hear that? We need to go up. Now, guide me to class 3-8.”

[Cast: Knot of Arabesque]

I tied the girls in a line with thin ropes.

They were all bound, unable to move a muscle.

I held the knot and hoisted it onto my shoulder.

Jo Eun-seo, who was at the front of the train game, spoke up from behind.

“Isn’t this how we’re supposed to walk? You should at least free our feet…!”

“When did I tell you girls to walk?”

“Huh?”

In the former kingdom of Alpenheim, there was an execution method called ‘The Wheel of Fate.’

They believed that once a person died, they would leave this world for heaven or hell, as befitting of medieval folk. For traitors, however, they would damage the body to the extent that no one could recognize it, denying them even a chance to be judged in the afterlife.

One of these methods was to tie someone alive to a cart and drag them across the ground for several days.

Since these girls still had bright futures, I wouldn’t treat them so cruelly.

Yes, this is a warning to the many bystanders at Arabesque Middle School.

This is indeed the words of the bullies.

* * *

Clash, thud—

Thud—

The combined weight of the four girls came to a staggering 200 kilograms.

[Appetite: Erisiton]

As I climbed the stairs one by one, the bodies of the middle school girls were jostled this way and that.

The middle school was structured in a ‘ㅁ’ shape, like a prison, with stairs right in the middle, allowing visibility from every floor.

Middle school students stuck to the railing were chattering as they watched me ascend.

Thump—

One girl’s leg collided with the stair railing.

Her slipper tumbled downwards.

“Phew.”

I deliberately dropped the girls in front of a friend filming a video.

Thud—

Even Jo Eun-seo, who had managed to stay conscious, fainted from the impact on the stairs.

“Ugh!”

“Whoa, what the hell? So scary.”

“Ugh, Uwuweee…”

A student unable to hold back their nausea ran off to the bathroom.

Teachers rushed out of the staff room, busy turning all the students back.

In the meantime, I leaned against the railing to settle my throbbing head.

I felt dizzy after expending so much energy in such a short time.

“What did you do to our school students! Mr. Kim, hurry and call an ambulance!”

The head of the student council, who had been conversing with Kim Se-bin in the upper class, came rushing in, yelling.

“Isn’t Jung So-hye a student of Arabesque Middle School? Why are the bullies here today? With what face?”

“…”

“Anyway, bring me that Ye Sol-bi from class 3-8.”

“The issue of school bullying is not something for outsiders to interfere with. You need to leave our school immediately.”

“No Name…”

Through the crowd of students, a middle school girl stumbled forward.

“Sol-bi! You’re in danger! Get back right now!”

“I came here for you. Right? Huh huh, I’m sorry, I messed up…”

The last bully, Ye Sol-bi, knelt down and bowed her head low.

“I don’t know why I did that. I regret every single thing I did. Huh, I didn’t want to be bullied by Kim Se-bin’s gang either.”

“Ye Sol-bi, your sister was So-hye unnie’s best friend, right?”

“Uh, hoooh! I’ll pay for my sins! I know I messed up. So please… sniff…”

“Hah… So-hye unnie has been waiting for your call. Call her later.”

“Sniff, yes. I will definitely apologize…”

According to Jung So-hye, Ye Sol-bi was also bullied in her first year of middle school.

But before long, she had become one of those who cruelly tormented Jung So-hye.

With a heavy heart, I brushed off the dirt on my hands and stood up.

“I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Don’t worry about the lawsuit; please hold the school violence committee as planned. They don’t have the courage to escape anyway. Please bill me for the damage to the school, and I’ll deposit it immediately. Now, I’ll take my leave.”

“No Name, was this really the best option? You made a mess of the sacred school and are just leaving like that?”

The head of the student council spoke in a stern tone.

I shrugged my shoulders and nodded my head once.

“What do you mean sacred school? That’s a bit much.”