Became a Lazy Confucius at the Academy

Chapter 88

88 – Hercy Minerva (4)

-Synchronization is an attribute that only high-level spirits have. The body of the spirit can be used to the extent permitted by the caster’s spirit power, and the appearance changes to the spirit’s current state. There are no other side effects.

‘…… So, does that mean I can go back without having to wait three days?’

It was when I was just reading that section that I noticed Miho cleverly hiding between the bookshelves.

Angry at the thought of being tricked three times in a row, Ruid bound Miho-

I didn’t want to disturb Hercy’s studies so I just watched.

“Shall I tell you?”

In the meantime, he was struggling all by himself, so I tried to talk to him to help.

Hercy was startled when he suddenly spoke to her from the side, and then glanced over at Ruid.

[Please save me… !]

I met eyes with Miho, who was hanging by the back of my neck, and jumped up.

“What are you doing!”

Hersie hurriedly snatched the fox from Louis’ hand.

Moisture filled Miho’s eyes, and she hugged her tightly.

[Hershiii… ! I was scared!]

‘That foxy thing.’

While Ruid was trembling, Hercy approached Ruid with an angry face.

Hercy was slightly smaller than Ruid.

‘Oh.’

He felt good when he was able to look down on Hersy, who he had always looked up to.

But-

“Dare you, what is this?”

“… Huh?”

“Please explain. Why did you grab an innocent familiar by the scruff of the neck and intimidate him!”

It was the first time I’d seen Hercy get angry, so Ruid got mad.

“Did you commit such rudeness knowing whose familiar this is?”

“… ….”

Ruid couldn’t answer.

“The familiar of Prince Louis.”

Hersie calmed the fox by stroking it lovingly. The fox was shaking his body like he was scared.

Seeing that look makes me angry again.

Ruid’s lips twitched.

“That fox is a bad fox.”

“… !”

“Give me this. I need some education.”

Tak!

Hercy cut off Ruid’s hand.

Ruid’s eyes widened.

“I can’t wait to see how far the rudeness will go.”

Hercy was quite angry.

I could tolerate everything else. Hercy often ignored commoners who quarreled with her.

He only cursed inside, and did not take any action. Because Louis didn’t want that.

But now it’s different.

‘Louid trusted me and entrusted me.’

It was unforgivable to touch Ruid’s familiar.

“I have one last question. Why did you scare an innocent fox?”

Ruid understood with her head, but she couldn’t come to her senses at Hercy’s drastically changed appearance.

She couldn’t even apologize. It was because she thought there was no fault of her own. This is just a blatant misunderstanding.

Eventually, Ruid spat out these words.

“… I have a situation.”

Hercy glared at Louis with her contempt.

“You really are the worst.”

Grabbing her writing utensils, she walked out of the library with a furious stride.

Before leaving, she turned to Louis and said.

“Please don’t get out of my sight again. I don’t want to use Minerva’s power on an insignificant commoner like you.”

Hercy’s eyes were full of life. Even if it wasn’t for her eyes, Louis, who was sensitive to her mana, noticed that her mana of attention was full of ‘hostility’.

He was Hercy, who always smiled in front of him.

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Ruid was so shocked that he couldn’t move.

Louise moved her steps with her dazed face.

She wasn’t fighting Hercy. She’ll be back to her original self anyway, and then nothing happened.

But it was this thought that tormented Louis.

‘I wonder if all I had was a shell after all.’

My name is Louis Christopher. Position of Windsor. Innate magical ability. An arithmetic ability that derives and informs you of 10 if you put in 1.

All of those things were obtained for free through possession.

She achieved nothing herself – nothing. Must have, maybe a recipe for tteokbokki.

‘At this rate, it seems like I’m nothing.’

Ruid suddenly had that thought.

She herself had no basis for denying that statement.

Really, it’s because he’s nothing.

She said that the fact that she tormented herself.

Hercido, Amelia too.

Since she is possessed by the person Louis de Christopher, she just likes it even if she doesn’t do anything.

At least an extra, no-because I don’t think I would have been able to get close to her if I had been possessed by the main character, Justin.

This bond felt like it was not her own.

“Hey, all of them are lowly people with dying faces.”

Hearing the voice, she stopped.

I saw Damon sitting on the bench with an arrogant expression on his face.

He rested his arms on his back and raised the corners of his mouth.

“Do you have any concerns?”

“… ….”

“As a reward for daring to arouse interest in me, I will give you at least counseling on your worries. Well, I have no intention of forcing you if you don’t need it.”

Damon looks arrogant.

Actually, it is right to be arrogant.

However, his insight was already tested.

Louise walked over and sat down next to her.

“I don’t have time, so just tell me the main points, low class.”

How much counseling do you think will work with this attitude?

Ruid felt like grabbing at least a straw, so he gave up halfway and said.

“What should I do when I realize that I am nothing?”

“You talk like a person who was a nobleman until yesterday and became a commoner overnight.”

‘Do mind reading?’

Damon smiled at Ruid’s face.

“I’m kidding. You guys can’t do that. The nobility of the system is all in my noble mind- but there is no purple head like you.”

“… Oh yeah.”

“To answer the question, it is too trivial to say anything.”

Damon crossed his legs and looked straight ahead.

“Status, talent, wealth, all of them are innate.”

“… Yes.”

“But- people don’t know that a charming personality, the ability to shed blood, and that’s something you’re born with.”

“Effort is also innate? Personality too?”

“Yes, these were the first words I spat out right after I was born. ‘Don’t cry, b*tch.'”

Ruid’s eyes shook.

‘Isn’t that just crazy?’

But Damon seemed to be really like that.

“So what is the conclusion?”

“If you are not born with those things, you should be born again. Conversely, if you were born, you are blessed, so shut up and live.”

“… ….”

Ruid was at a loss for words.

There was a moment of silence. Louis asked in a low voice.

“What if I ride everything and feel like I’m no big deal?”

“Tell me after riding everything. Because that is impossible.”

Ruid felt stuffy.

It was the frustration that came from not being able to convey her own situation.

But Damon pokes and talks.

“In your case, it is a character.”

“… Uh?”

Damon looked at Ruid seriously.

“I was not born with personality.”

It was a cool look that seemed to see through everything.

“… Okay?”

“Effort and character are innate. Those two are the only values that can change even if they are not born. If you have the right occasion. Let’s give an example. The Empire holds a martial arts competition every year. If you win, you can join the Imperial Knights as a reward.”

It was a fact that even Ruid knew.

Damon raised the corners of his mouth in amusement.

“You know what’s funny? Most of the winners have bizarre circumstances.”

“… Strange circumstances?”

“For example, if you lost your parents, or someone you loved was treated badly by some nobleman. These are such trivial stories. Most of them have feelings of revenge. Desperation changes people. However, this is the story of the lowly people.”

Damon took out his spear, turned it around and squeezed it tightly.

“Look at this.”

“… I’m watching. Because I shook it noisily.”

He gave the report without thinking.

Come to think of it, Damon seemed to cherish this very much. He always carried around like an alter ego.

“The spear my best friend gave me. He is the youngest child of the Duke of Windsor. How can you give me something like this for nothing in return? He is, indeed, the best man in the world I have ever seen.”

‘… Did you think that?’

Damon looked at Ruid.

“How is it?”

“Uh, huh?”

“If you were that Young master, how would you feel right now?”

“…… Maybe, thank you.”

Damon asked sharply.

“Why?”

“That, well.”

“That is because this body respected me. If someone in my position is respectful, everyone feels that way. And it’s vice versa. I actually received this window and felt that I was being respected. I felt a lot of favor.”

Ruid instantly remembered what he had been doing with Miho.

-Are you ignoring me?

-If I want to do it, do it.

There was no respect in that conversation.

‘… Maybe it’s because Miho didn’t listen.’

Now that I think about it, it was embarrassing.

“The great nobility does not need to feel the opportunity itself. However, he only creates an opportunity for the opponent. That way is respect. This is the only character a great nobleman should have, and nothing else is necessary.”

Ruid asked quietly.

“… Do you have respect too?”

“Of course.”

Damon nodded his head.

Ruid suddenly opened his eyes.

‘Every day, the poor and the poor… ?’

Damon spoke as if he had read Ruid’s thoughts.

“How would I reign without them? There is not a single poor citizen who is useless. It’s just gross.”

It was a bit strange, but Ruid definitely understood.

However, I couldn’t hide something despondent.

‘I never thought I would learn personality from Damon.’

Seeing Ruid, whose expression had gotten better than before, Damon smiled and got up from his seat.

“I will go now. Man of humble birth. You’ve wasted too much time and.”

Damon only slightly turned his head this way.

“I will never see you again. I can’t be with aristocrats pretending to be lowly people, I can’t be with them at all.”

“… !”

‘Did you notice?’

Ruid looked at Damon’s back and jumped up.

“Over there.”

“… Did you forget what I just said?”

Ruid pointed at Damon’s spear.

“The window.”

“Hmm?”

“There is a function to return.”

“… Return function?”

“Choose a name and come back when called. It has such magic.”

Damon opened his eyes wide. With her wondrous heart, Louis turned around and coolly disappeared.

‘At this rate, I must have paid for the advice.’

It’s a pity that the windsor arsenal has lost one of its sacred treasures to be returned to.

Ruid drew her magic circle in a dark place. With a cane, carefully.

It was a magic circle I saw in an ancient animology book.

Ruid had a ridiculous memory that she could never forget anything she saw once.

“… It’s done.”

Moderately transformed. The explanation of this magic circle is ‘forced summoning’, ‘forced contract’. A magic that gives you a powerful medicine if you reject it.

When this is activated, Miho cannot mess with herself again and becomes an eternal slave…

– Respect. That is the only quality a great noble should have.

“… ….”

Ruid modified her magic circle.

The magic circle, which was quite complicated, had a simple shape.

The only thing left was ‘summon’.

Ruid reached out her hand and put his magic into her magic circle.

The magic circle shone intensely.

“…… Respond to the summons Great spirit, nine-tailed fox.”

After reciting a simple spell, the magic circle responded.

When I counted in about 3 seconds—

Boom!

A small fox came out of the magic circle. Ruid caught the fox.

“… ….”

[…] ….]

The two looked at each other for a while.

Miho couldn’t get restless while watching Ruid’s eyes, and Ruid calmly looked at her.

“Miho.”

Flinch.

The fox’s slender body trembled.

He said in a voice like a mosquito.

[Yes… ]

“This time, I was too talkative.”

Miho’s eyes widened.

Ruid spoke seriously.

“You are also a great spirit, but I guess I didn’t respect you too much.”

Miho’s eyes were filled with emotion.

“I’m sorry. I’m serious. It’s a little too much to say it’s an apology, but I’ll sign a formal contract this time.”

“—!”

Miho’s tail swayed gently.

[I-I’m sorry too, Master! Ah, I’m too arrogant about the pet fox subject.]

Ruid smiled.

“Then give me back. I’ll forgive you for lying about taking three days.”

‘Yes, I was too young until now.’

She decided to use what she learned from Damon from now on.

Respect for the other person.

If you do that, you can pamper someone more easily than before.

‘Let’s at least use what I have.’

Even now, if it were originally, it would have been forced with magic. But I’m not sure Ruid didn’t know much about the Great Spirit. However, if you make them obey from the bottom of their hearts in this way, they will never be able to fight back.

Ruid’s eyes went cold for an instant.

Miho crouched.

“I can’t last a day with this body. Even if it’s a joke to you, it’s a terrible nightmare to me. Please.”

[Uh… That’s true.]

“Yes.”

[…] … I just increased the length of my hair.]

“… What?”

[I only touched the voice and the head. That, that is to say, the present image is Ruid-sama’s grown-up future image. hehehehe.]

“… ….”

Ruid’s smile hardened.

He said with a serious expression.

“… From the beginning?”