Became a Dark Merchant in the Academy - Chapter 289



288 – Fake_10

Chelsea Ronde was a skilled player who could be said to be of high skill, as she reached the second-highest rank in the hero hierarchy, A-rank, but she did not reach the transcendental level of S-rank.

Therefore, it was difficult to operate during the day.

Of course, if you push it, it’s not like you can’t operate it during the day, but that’s only for an hour or two.

Even if I were to inject more mana into it, three or four hours would be the limit.

By the way, Chelsea Rond is the leader of the investigation team sent by the Hero Association.

Even if the captain only directs the investigation and reviews the submitted data.

If she only moved around for one or two hours at most, or three or four hours at most, and was stuck in Hakushiri or somewhere else for the rest of the time, it was clear that the eyes of the civilians, and the eyes of the governments of the world that were gathering, especially the Holy Empire and the Allied Forces, would question her strange behavior.

So, in order to avoid suspicion, she had to appear active throughout the day.

But it is impossible.

It was clear that if I continued to operate it beyond the time limit, my body would melt into ash.

That doesn’t mean there was no option to not make Chelsea Rond a member of the group.

This case will only go in the direction I want if she moves and speaks as I want.

So the number I chose was simple.

In the first place, what I need is not strictly speaking Chelsea Ronde, but the face of Chelsea Ronde and the title of Chief of the Investigative Unit that Chelsea Ronde holds.

The reason I made him my subordinate was because I thought his abilities were good.

I skinned Chelsea Rondo’s face right after I made him my slave.

“!!”

Chelsea Rond’s body flinched in sudden pain, and blood gushed out from her torn face.

But there was no scream, and the blood that would have originally stained the sofa and the clothes on the floor due to gravity rose into the air and formed into droplets.

“I’ll take good care of my face.”

I don’t enjoy seeing my tools suffer.

I can sympathize with the pain to some extent.

But there’s nothing I can do.

If I had the ability to transform into a man like Yukina Ishihara, I wouldn’t have to do this, but since I don’t, I have no choice but to take the next best option.

Anyway, the next thing to do was to decide who would turn the face skin over.

Chelsea Rond had to be a woman, not a man, and also had to be able to walk around during the day without any problems.

And your height or body size can’t change overnight.

It had to fit a Western body type, not an Eastern one.

That’s why the first person that came to my mind was Ines.

‘Well, that won’t work.’

But she was ill-suited to play Chelsea Rond’s role as she had work to do later on.

“Anzeroth. You can do it, right?”

So the one chosen was Anzeroth.

Although she acted like a servant, she was not strictly a servant, so she was able to move around during the day.

Also, their heights weren’t that different, and since they were Western figures, their body types felt similar.

“yes.”

Anzeroth, who had been brought in via teleportation, nodded quietly after hearing the explanation.

“I will believe you.”

I also peeled off Anzeroth’s facial skin.

“…!”

Anzeroth’s body trembled.

She didn’t scream, even though no one had ordered her not to.

I handed the face skin to Anzeroth.

Anzeroth, who had received the face skin, put it back on after several attempts, and I used my ability to manipulate blood and other abilities and skills to adjust the face skin so that it could be properly sewn to the face.

After that, I also did various other work such as clothing and accessories.

“hmm.”

After all the work was done, I looked at Anders Loftus, who had become Chelsea Ronde.

Looking at it up close, it did feel a bit odd.

Fortunately, they were similar in height, but they were not twins and could not have exactly the same build.

“I think I need to put on some more makeup.”

It looks better from a distance, but since I’m not a makeup expert, I felt like the quality was lacking.

When Ines turned Eve’s face over, it was easy to overlook because there were very few people in Laplace Academy who knew Eve’s face.

Chelsea Rond was already famous for being a hero, a detective, and for her supernatural abilities, so unlike Ines, there were plenty of people who recognized her.

Therefore, it was right to be careful.

“ray.”

“Did you call, sir?”

At my call, Hozumi Rei, who had been watching from the shadows, appeared, timidly.

“Do you know how the story is going?”

“yes…”

“Then I ask you to do so.”

I gently stroked Hozumi Rei’s head.

“Oh, I understand. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I will work hard.”

Then, Hozumi Rei’s body began to tremble like an aspen tree.

Starting with this movement, I worked on messing with her memory, so the fear still remained and she had a spinal reflex like Pavlov’s dog.

“There’s no need to be so nervous.”

“no.”

Hozumi: It seems like Ray wants to get away from me even for a moment.

“If that’s what you want, then so be it.”

I nodded.

“Okay, I’ll be back.”

At that signal, Hozumi Ray urgently approached Anzeroth as if the house was on fire, grabbed him, and then quickly disappeared through teleportation.

So once again, the only thing left in the room was me and Chelsea Rond, lying on the floor, shaking.

I opened my mouth, looking at what was Chelsea Rond.

“Oh, I’ll pay you for the facial use later.”

“Ah… uh…”

But the only answer I got was a mumbling sound.

When I was peeling off the skin on his face, I told him not to say anything because I thought it would be noisy, but all I could say was moan.

Still, it wasn’t that I couldn’t understand what she was saying.

How many people have you seen like her?

If it’s like this, it’s like pretending.

“Copyright fees? Oh, how much are you going to give me? Well… I guess we can negotiate that later. But there’s something I forgot. Can I take that too?”

“blanket…”

“What? It’s nothing. Just a memory? You know, things like that.”

Of course, I had a feeling that it would be difficult to just take the face.

Memories were needed to support Anzeroth.

I took the heart share out of my arms.

And then he put it straight into the heart of what was Chelsea Rondo.

“!!!”

It flapped like a fish stabbed with a knife.

Whether or not, I continued to insert heart share into my heart.

How many times did you repeat that task?

Chelsea Ronde was left slumped and showed no reaction.

**

“It took quite a while, huh?”

When I returned to my room after finishing my work, Yukina was lying on the bed waiting for me.

“This can’t be your room.”

Yukina sat up on the bed.

“Hey, senior. Where is yours and mine between you and me?”

Then he smiled as if it was no big deal and waved his hand.

“…so?”

“So that’s why?”

“Why did you come here?”

“Oh, that? Um… I think it’ll be a little long. So instead of standing there, come over here and talk, Sempai.”

Yukina knocked on the bed.

But I didn’t move and just stood there, looking at Yukina.

“You’re a coward. If this was going to happen, then why did you sign the contract?”

Yukina sighed at my appearance.

I think it will be a good thing.

“So what brings you here?”

“Oh, that’s… Actually, it’s nothing special. I just wanted to see your face, senior. I feel like I haven’t seen you in a while.”

“You must have seen it yesterday.”

“Hey, that was just something we brushed against each other while passing by in the hallway. We didn’t really have a conversation like that, did we?”

“If we needed to talk, we could have just called yesterday.”

“Hahaha, I wanted to do that too. I just had something urgent to do at the time.”

Yukina laughed heartily as if it was nothing.

‘It’s urgent…’

I had a rough idea of ​​why it would happen.

Perhaps it was only then that I realized what I was trying to do.

I went to prepare to fight back.

‘It might be too late, though.’

Still, it’s Yukinada.

But there was a high chance that the hypothesis was correct.

It seemed necessary to prepare for the possibility that the hypothesis might not be correct.

“okay?”

“yes.”

“Then why don’t you step aside today? I’m tired after being interrogated for a long time.”

“Does your senior ever get tired?”

Yukina pretended to look surprised.

“Because we are human.”

“…A person. Oh, that’s right. You were a person too, senior.”

Then he nodded as if he realized something.

“Then there’s nothing I can do. What can I do if my senior says he’s tired? It’s not like we can’t talk tomorrow.”

“then…”

“I’ll just step aside today. Your health is my top priority.”

Yukina shook her head as if she had no other choice, and muttered things like, “There won’t be any more juniors like you,” and “You’re an idiot,” as she got up from the bed.

Then he passed me and was about to enter the hallway.

Yukina turned her head and looked at me.

“senior.”

“why?”

“The more urgent it is, the better it is to go back.”

I know.

But that doesn’t just apply to me.

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

“That’s great. Then, get some rest.”

With those words, Yukina closed the door.

Darkness fell on the room.

The only bright light was a faint glow coming from a crack in the door.