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There were no classes on the first day.
Caesar gave a detailed explanation of the academy and presented them with their supplies, and then they were done before nightfall.
It seemed that the real classes would start tomorrow.
So, Julis had one thing to do now.
The princess, Emilia, said to him————”May I have your time? I have something to talk about with you.”
Then Anastasia said, “You should definitely go! It’ll be very rude if you don’t!”, therefore, Julis reluctantly headed over.
So now Julis was on his way to the back of the campus building where the trees were lush under the call————
“Hey! Are you listening, Julis Anderberg!”
Well, it’s not Emilia’s call, but someone else.
“I am~!”
Julis responded languidly with a shrug of his shoulders.
Came before him, with bloodshot eyes were Byrne and his entourages, making no effort to hide their annoyance.
“Bastard! How dare you talk to me that manner despite being a viscount!?”
“Nay, I just answer that I was listening.”
“Don’t talk back!”
Julis’ words did not get through Byrne and the others, who had a high aristocratic mindset despite being in the academy.
(Mmm…… what a pain in the ass. Shall I use Avaritia to silence them?)
Pissed off, Julis suddenly thought of something dangerous.
Despite this, Byrne continued to yell at him, not even trying to hide his irritation.
“Because of you, I’ve been publicly disgraced! If you’d just obediently handed me Anastasia and the saintess down, I wouldn’t have experienced this!”
“Right, that’s right! You inept bastard!”
“A viscount should know their place and be obedient!”
In fact, Emilia had heard all Byrne’s harsh words, and no matter what Julis had done, he would have been reprimanded by Emilia in the end.
Still, the current Byrne and his friends didn’t want to accept, their angry didn’t subside even the slightest.
If they tried to turn their anger to Mirabelle, what about the peace that had been established with the elves ————so Byrne and the others turned to Julis, and this’s how they’re so angry.
“Say…… why should I be obedient to you? Your hubris is pathetic at this point, do you know it?”
“YOU BASTARD……!”
A blue streak appeared on their foreheads.
Julis was quite right, but they were not Byrne and his entourages if they did understand.
“……It looks like, you need to be educated on what an aristocracy is.”
Byrne stepped back, followed by his entourages.
Then they all begin to take up their stances to chant in unison.
“Now if you’ll just crawl down and apologize, I’ll forgive you!”
Irreverently, Byrne demanded an apology from Julis.
It seemed that if he didn’t apologize, the three of them will use force.
(Has this guy forgotten that he lost to me……?)
If so, how imbecile truly he is? Julis couldn’t hide his pity.
“……Why the hell I should be the one to bow down to you? Instead, aren’t you three who should bow down to me and apologize?”
“YOU INEPT BASTARD……!”
“DON’T GET CARRIED AWAY!”
Julis’ arrogance made them furious.
From the sidelines, it was clear that his lines would absolutely provoke their fury.
“You will never be forgiven! I will make you regret defying me of the duke house!”
Then Byrne and the others began to chant in unison.
“I am, the blazing of fire itself, the blaze that incinerates everything————Wind Fire!”
“The wind is the blade itself, manifest and cut through all things————Wind Cutter!”
“The pristine water that shapeshifts into anything, become the arrow that penetrates all matters————Water Arrow!”
The full force of Byrne and his entourages, the relentless elementary and intermediate magic, attacked Julis.
If it was an ordinary person, he or she would not be able to get away with anything if he or she took a serious hit from a weapon called magic. It could even lead to death.
But Byrne and the others didn’t care and unleashed it.
“DIE, YOU INEPT BASTARD!”
It’s not the kind of words that should be spoken to the fellow students, but they still shouted it to the inept who couldn’t use magic with a look of triumph.
However————
“Acedia.”
With a violent crash, a cloud of dust rose up around Julis.
Julis didn’t even try to avoid it, he just took their magic head-on.
Seeing this, Byrne and his entourages break out into a grin.
But————
“Only like this? What a hella lousy magic of a guy who boasted he was going to kill me.”
“WHA?”
When the dust cleared, Julis was standing there, who had been hit head-on by their magic.
There’s no way he could take those fatal hits and unscathed————That was why Byrne and his entourages couldn’t hide their astonishment.
“My Acedia, is a sorcery I invented because I don’t want to make any dodging efforts————an absolute defense that keeps all things from getting through to me. So, even if it’s lousy-tier magic or superior-tier magic, it’s impossible to harm me.”
Julis’ Acedia, as the name suggests, is a sorcery named after the sin of Sloth.
In order to avoid the action of “dodging” in battle, it was invented for the purpose of surviving the attack without doing any dodging actions.
No matter if it was a sword, spear, or magic, nothing could penetrate Julis’ body.
The only absolute defense sorcery of the deadly sins sorceries————that’s the Acedia is.
“Even though you had lost to me once, your attitude of still calling me inept and believing you can win————Arrogant…… Conceited! Hence————”
Julis scoffed at Byrne and his entourages, who were still in their astonishment.
“My Superbia————you may taste it yourself.”
The moment Julis disappeared from their sight, their consciousnesses were cut off with a violent sound of blows.
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“Haaa…… if you can’t do anything, don’t damn come at me.”
Julis sat on top of the pile of unconscious Byrne and his entourages, letting out a sigh of disgust.
There was no dirt on Julis’ clothes at all.
This time, Julis answered the call of Byrne and the others because he wanted to get revenge for what they had done.
It was to resolve the anger he felt for his friends being made fun of and his loved one was about to be forcibly taken of————he had to try not to harbor the wrath as much as possible.
“I have gotten myself being affected by a difficult deadly sin…….”
Well, that should be enough to keep Byrne and his entourages from coming after, he guessed.
They won’t come at him because he’d shown them the difference in their abilities once again and slammed them down to earth beautifully.
And————
“No…… I don’t think that would be so.”
As Julis spilled his complaints, he suddenly heard a girl’s voice.
As he moved his gaze, a silver-haired girl appeared out of the shadows.
“It’s not an appropriate manner for a princess to snoop around, am I right?”
“My? Isn’t it because Julis-sama gave priority to them before mine?”
The princess proceeded to speak, undaunted by the slightly sharp look in Julis’ eyes.
“…… So, what’s the talk, The Third Princess, Emilia-sama?”
Sitting on a pile of people, Julis looked down at and called out to Emilia as he was still affected by the sin of Pride.
“I’ll be straight to the point————”
And after a beat, Emilia opened her mouth while looking up at Julis.
“Julis Anderberg————would you be willing to be my escort?”