The World After the Bad Ending - Chapter 49



48 – Cursing the Magic Department

Dorara Korajin.

Second in command of the Magic Department.

Unique trait: Inferiority complex.

Specialty magic: Wind.

As befits the second in command, he can handle various types of wind magic and, given time, can also handle extensive wind magic.

His blade-like wind magic is sharp enough to easily cut through wood.

However.

“You, what the hell are you?”

There is such a thing as compatibility in this world.

After getting hit hard in the side by me.

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Dorara, full of rage, repeatedly cast wind magic at me.

The blade-like fierce wind struck me several times, and Dorara laughed confidently, assured of his victory.

But in reality, he couldn’t leave a single scratch on my body.

My mystery.

Steel skin.

This was almost the perfect counter to Dorara’s wind magic.

My skin is immune to cutting.

“You didn’t even watch the team match properly, did you?”

Well, this guy wouldn’t see anything but Sharin anyway.

He’s the kind of guy who would spread rumors without hesitation just to defeat Sharin.

There was no way others would catch my eye.

Therefore, it was all the more necessary to teach him a lesson.

A guy who can’t admit his own shortcomings and only puts others down is of no help at all.

As I rushed at him, Dorara panicked and stirred up the wind.

Then, he quickly lifted himself into the air and flew out of the rooftop of the Sky Garden.

No matter how skilled I am, there’s no way to catch someone who can fly.

Realizing this, Dorara finally sighed in relief.

At the same time, he recalled the humiliation he had suffered and his eyes flared with anger.

“You b*stard. I should have known from the moment you started hanging out with that b*tch Sharin.”

Feeling safe, Dorara’s mouth began to loosen again.

The wind started to blow around Dorara’s body.

The staff in his grip shone as it caught the light.

Even though he looked pathetic, he was the second best in magical studies.

There was a vast difference between the first and second place, but still.

He was someone who had surpassed many other wizards to stand at the top.

The amount of magic he possessed was enough to easily overwhelm other wizards.

Watching this, I had already taken my starting position.

I placed my hands on the ground and lifted my back foot slightly off the ground.

Seeing my actions, Dorara looked at me with disbelief.

Smack!

As I shattered Dorara’s disbelief, I kicked off the ground and started running.

Soon, the moment my foot touched the iron bars.

Boom!

My body soared over the fence of the Sky Garden and into the sky.

The Sky Garden was far above the ground.

Even for me, falling from here would be tantamount to suicide.

“Are you crazy!?”

Dorara shouted in shock.

And his bewilderment created a huge opening.

My arm swung back.

At the same time, a magical engraving activated on my steel skin.

The activated magical engraving was an explosion.

“If you thought you’d be safe in the air.”

I had to let him know that was a mistake.

BOOM!

With the explosion of the magical engraving in my grip, my body leaped once more in the sky.

The distance between Dorara and me closed in an instant.

Caught off guard by the unexpected situation, Dorara hurriedly tried to activate his magic again, but it was too late.

When a mage allows a close-range warrior to get close.

There are no more moves left.

CRACK!

My fist unhesitatingly struck Dorara’s jaw.

“Ugh!”

Dorara’s teeth shattered and flew as he took the blow to his jaw.

As Dorara’s mind momentarily blanked from my strike, the magic that had kept him afloat was dispelled.

Still, being the second in command of magical studies, his resilience was commendable.

Even as his mind was half gone, Dorara struggled to avoid falling.

“Pl-please, spare me!”

He shouted with a face as pale as a sheet.

Because he couldn’t concentrate, his magic didn’t activate at all.

He thought he was going to die.

Just as Dorara thought that.

Thump!

My hand grabbed the scruff of his neck.

Then, with an explosion from my other hand, I returned to the sky park.

BAM!

When I slammed Dorara to the ground, he rolled and tumbled before coming to a stop.

Perhaps because he had almost died from the fall a moment ago.

Dorara’s eyes were completely unfocused.

Step-

“Gasp!”

As I made a sound with my footsteps, Dorara flinched and sprang up.

He looked at me with a face covered in cold sweat.

Just a moment ago, if I hadn’t saved him, Dorara would have died.

Knowing that he could have died depending on my choice.

A deep-seated fear of me was instilled in him.

“You were quite reckless earlier.”

Thud-

Every time I loosened my wrist, Dorara flinched.

Still, he seemed to have some fighting spirit left as he hurriedly groped the ground.

Then, belatedly, he realized that something was missing.

“Looking for this?”

When I showed him the staff in my hand, his face hardened even more.

The most important thing when dealing with a wizard is to take away their staff.

It was the most basic of basics.

From the moment the staff was taken away, Dorara’s magic accuracy dropped drastically.

This meant that now he was no more than a slightly trained ordinary person.

Tap-

So I threw the staff back to him.

Seeing the staff thrown in front of him, he slowly raised his head.

He had a face that couldn’t understand the situation for a moment.

Well, there was no reason to return a weapon to a subdued opponent.

“Let’s continue.”

I decided to become an even more incomprehensible existence to Dorara.

“It would be a shame to end it like this with the second best in magic studies.”

Dorara finally realized the madness in my eyes.

Whether Dorara lost his will to fight or not, it didn’t matter to me.

I picked a fight with him to learn how to fight a wizard.

If it ended with just this, it wouldn’t satisfy me.

“Crazy b*stard.”

Dorara mumbled as if she had encountered an incomprehensible being.

However, I was already prepared to leap.

“We still have a lot of time before lunch.”

And then, Dorara’s scream echoed through the sky garden.

* * *

Murmur, murmur-

Voices filled with the children’s surprise and shock could be heard from all around.

However, I did not change my expression in the slightest despite their murmuring.

What I was holding in my hand was none other than the messed-up Dorara Korajin.

The second seat in the Magic Studies.

This place was the Magic Studies building.

As my height was below the average for boys.

I was dragging Dorara along the floor.

Thanks to that, eyes were drawn to us, and the children had puzzled expressions.

“What is that?”

“Dorara is being dragged around in a mess.”

“That’s the one, right? The kid who came first in the team competition.”

“Wasn’t it Hanon?”

The murmuring of the Magic Studies children grew louder.

I pierced through their gazes and entered Dorara’s class.

Then, I roughly lifted him and threw him to the floor.

Dorara rolled across the floor.

His eyes were turned up, unable to regain his senses.

I took a long breath, feeling the gazes of the gathered Magic Studies children.

At the beginning of the second semester of the second year, Act 4 begins.

Due to Dorara’s efforts, rumors about Sharin start to spread in earnest, and she becomes ostracized in the Magic Studies.

This is not a particularly important element in the scenario.

It merely serves as a factor in bringing the capricious Sharin into the team.

Act 4 can be passed very smoothly with Sharin’s help.

That means.

It doesn’t matter whether the issue of Sharin’s bullying is resolved sooner or later.

“I never knew the level of the magic students had dropped this low.”

As soon as I spoke, the eyes of the magic students changed all at once.

The kids here are all proud of their magic.

Even if they are at the bottom of Jerion Academy, they are recognized for their excellence outside the academy.

This is a place where only talent gathers.

So their pride is higher than anyone else’s.

There is no area of pure talent like magic.

“Your second-in-command in magic said that I could win first place in the team competition thanks to Sharin.”

Of course, the second-in-command was too busy criticizing Sharin to say such a thing.

But the kids, who felt my arrogance, naturally thought that Dora had said that.

“Ridiculous.”

I spat out a curse and looked at the magic students with a pathetic face.

“Even if any of you had taken that place, I would have won first place in the team competition.”

“What?”

“What did he say?”

The kids’ eyes sharpened.

Many of the kids here are jealous of Sharin.

Sharin showed them that there is a peak they can’t reach, even though they have been evaluated as talented all their lives.

Naturally, they couldn’t stand the inferiority complex growing in their hearts.

But apart from this inferiority complex.

They acknowledged Sharin’s talent in one corner of their hearts.

Sharin defeated all the magic students and took first place.

Denying her meant denying themselves, who were far below her.

“Don’t be ridiculous.”

“Do you think the top student in magic is a joke? If it weren’t for Sharin’s magic, you wouldn’t have had that time in the first place!”

“What do you know to be talking nonsense?”

As expected, a mood of defending Sharin formed among them.

They had to defend Sharin to defend themselves.

So they began to support Sharin.

Looking at those kids, I lifted the corners of my mouth.

It was a clear sneer.

“That was all calculated. If someone else had come in, they would have formed the team and prepared in a different way.

It’s not important because it’s Sharin. You ignorant fools.”

Magical studies tend to look down on martial arts students, considering them stupid.

So, when I, a martial arts student, said they were ignorant, it made them all turn their heads.

“Just because you have a mouth, you think you can say anything.”

“What do you know about magic?”

“You’re so damn rude.”

The students’ words started to get rough.

Looking at them, my face was very relaxed.

At the same time, I pointed to Dorara, who was stuck in the corner.

“After all, you’re all below that second place stuck over there.”

The kids’ eyes flared up.

And they all looked at Dorara, annoyed.

They couldn’t understand why they went and got beaten up, hurting their pride.

So, many of them began to look at Dorara with great displeasure.

They thought, if it were them, they wouldn’t have been beaten like that.

Those thoughts were clearly visible in their eyes.

“I’m not even the top student in martial arts. If the second place got beaten by me, doesn’t that mean you’re all nothing special?”

A hostile atmosphere continued among the kids, as if they were about to jump at me any moment.

Even in such an atmosphere, I shrugged my shoulders nonchalantly.

“Well, what conversation can I have with ignorant people who can’t even read the flow of a team match?”

Some of the kids pulled out their wands.

It was a sign that they wouldn’t tolerate any more slander.

“…Hanon?”

Just then.

The protagonist appeared.

The top student in magical studies.

Sharin Sazarith.

She looked at me with a face that didn’t understand the current situation among the children.

“Sharin!”

“Who is that? Why did you team up with someone like that?”

“Ha, do you think the top student in magic studies is a joke?”

“If it were Sharin instead of Dorara, you’d be dead by now!”

As soon as Sharin appeared, the children’s voices grew much louder.

Sharin showed bewilderment at their reaction.

I made eye contact with Sharin amidst the intense reactions from the children.

“There’s only a one-rank difference between the top and second place. What’s the big deal?”

My mouth didn’t stop.

The fire in their eyes grew even more intense.

Ding-dong-dang-dong-

At that moment, the sound signaling the end of lunch break echoed.

Hearing this, I moved towards the direction of the children surrounding me.

The atmosphere among the children was still hostile, but they couldn’t stop me as I glared coldly at them.

After all, it was true that I had made Dorara end up like that.

“Hanun.”

“Sharin, don’t hang out with someone like that.”

“How did you get first place with that trash? If it weren’t for Sharin, you wouldn’t be anything.”

“Don’t associate with them.”

Sharin called out to me, but I saw the girls from the magic studies clinging to Sharin and chatting eagerly.

From now on, the subject of their insults would not be Sharin, but me.

Sharin would be praised among the magic studies children.

They needed to idolize Sharin to protect their pride.

To do that, they deliberately stirred up the subtle competitive spirit between the magic studies and martial arts studies.

No matter how much they disliked their representative, they couldn’t tolerate their representative being disrespected by someone from the enemy camp.

That mentality dominated the magic studies children.

So from now on, I would be the one constantly insulted among them instead of Sharin.

Dorara, who was defeated by me, would also be insulted along with me.

Thanks to Isabel, I was used to being insulted.

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There were just a few more people cursing at me from now on.

‘I have repaid the debt for helping with the magic engraving.’

The debt for helping with the magic engraving and the group battle.

Having repaid that debt, I left the magic academy building as it was.

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