I Possessed The Villain’s Childhood Friend

77 – Part 2 Episode 1 – Senior

I dream.

“Thank you.”

It was a dream in which Ike Axus said thank you.

I’m supposed to be Ike Axus, but why am I being thanked myself?

I could tell without telling you.

He must be the original Ike Axus.

“Thank you so much for saving him.”

I wanted to ask.

If you’re truly Ike Axus, why the hell did you just watch Rayna die?

Isn’t it that you had to become Rayna’s ally?

But I couldn’t tell.

The me in my dreams was me when I was on a respirator because it was difficult to even breathe.

“As you thought, originally, it was something I had to do. But i couldn’t Even if I listen to your resentment, I have nothing to say.”

Ike Axus lowered his head saying he was sorry.

Is it because it is a dream? I could see that his apology was sincere.

… Should I consider myself fortunate just to be aware of it?

“And I have something to tell you.”

What do I have to say?

“Thanks to you, the future where Reina confronts her Miss Sophia and is beheaded is gone. But, as you know, it changed the future.”

Of course I knew.

Because changing the future was what I wanted from the start.

“This means that you can use the knowledge of the future that you knew has been greatly reduced.”

It’s unfortunate, but it can’t be helped.

“Atara will start moving now.”

….

“I will try to destroy the empire more brutally and terribly than the future you knew.”

So, Ike Axus continued.

“We must appoint Miss Sophia as a saint at the Central Church of Martires as soon as possible.”

As expected.

The key to the fight against Avatar is, no matter what anyone says, Sophia.

But Sophia has already passed the room of trials in the Mage Tower, so she has to find another way.

“Don’t think too hard. The answer is much closer than you think.”

Is it nearby?

“Unfortunately, I can’t teach you more than this.”

Ike Axus’s body gradually fades.

“This is probably the first and last time I have had a conversation like this with you.”

I’ve never spoken, so it’s hard to say we’ve had a conversation.

“Take care of Reina.”

After saying that, Ike Axus disappeared, and my consciousness became hazy.

Am I just waking up from my dream?

With the feeling of losing my mind, I thought quietly.

Even if you don’t tell me, I’ll do my best.

Then, for some reason, I felt like Ike Axus was laughing.

★

“Sophomore year already.”

“In other words, half a year has already passed since that duel.”

“Sure. I never thought Ike would be like that after that day.”

“I’m really sorry. I miss you, Ike. Reina-nim, I will make sure to make you happy.”

Why?

Helen and Leon, whom I saw after about two months, were making strange jokes.

“I am alive and well, and I am getting along well with Reina.”

“Oh! I can hear the voice of Prince Ike somewhere!”

Even Atal intervened.

“I see. Are you blessing us there too, Ike.”

What kind of concept is this?

My head was dizzy.

I was about to avert my gaze thinking that it would be more comfortable to just draw attention.

“It’s been a while, everyone.”

I heard her voice.

“It’s been a while, Miss Leia!”

“It’s been a while, Ms. Raina.”

Reina, whom she sees in two weeks, was looking at me with a kind smile.

“Hello, Reina.”

“It’s been two weeks, Ike.”

Then she casually came over to me and took her seat.

After that duel.

There was a lot of fuss.

It was only natural for the scandal to spread, and many students started avoiding me and Reina.

Because in the face of the huge event of the crown prince’s duel and breakup of marriage, the honor of the second duke family could not be revealed.

However, the situation changes slightly when Leon makes a bold decision there.

Leon revealed that she had brought all the documents she had prepared for her breakup, and that she had organized this duel herself in the first place.

Of course, that alone didn’t make the scandal go away.

In the scandal, Reina became her fiancée who did not properly fulfill the role of a prospective crown princess.

I’m the crazy person the prince flirted with, Reina, her fiancée.

Leon has become an ignorant, high-spirited kid trying to upset the factional balance.

However, public opinion began to reverse little by little after seeing the facts Leon revealed and us continuing to hang out together and maintain friendship.

Of course, the influence spread not to all social circles, but only to Arcana.

But we decided that was good enough.

Anyway, the most important thing for us right now was the opinion of Arcana, which we had to attend until graduation.

In the first place, it was absurd that a scandal of this magnitude would disappear so easily.

“Everyone! Long time no see!”

“Ah, Miss Sophia. It’s been almost four months.”

“How have you all been?”

“Yes. I’m glad that Miss Sophia is looking well.”

In fact, when the scandal first started spreading, we tried to distance ourselves from Sofia, Helen and Atal.

No matter how much I thought about it, the current situation couldn’t be easily calmed down, and at that time, it was natural that just being involved with us would get people’s attention.

But let us convey that intention.

‘It’s natural for aristocrats to get involved in a scandal. I think you get used to it in advance.’

Helen playfully.

‘I’d rather believe in the times we’ve been together, rather than rumors.’

Atal has a benevolent expression.

‘Because I know there are more important things than reputation.’

Sophia said with a kind smile.

After that, it was a secret that Raina secretly shed tears behind her.

Anyway, we stayed together throughout the second semester without any particular separation, and it is said that this also greatly influenced the reversal of public opinion within Arcana.

“Ike. When Rupert meets, he asks me to pass on the book I told him the other day, saying he read it well.”

“I’m glad. I was afraid you might be bored.”

And now, Reina and I are seen by everyone around us as an actual engaged relationship, including the social circle.

I only delayed this with Leon’s advice that it would be better to do it after the social scandal has calmed down.

The mother was urging her father to set a date as soon as possible, within a year.

“I will go forward soon.”

Leon looked at his watch, then he left with a smile.

The time is already 9:00. It was time for the opening ceremony to begin.

Leon, who proudly took the top spot in the final exam for the second semester, was, of course, the representative of the second year this time as well.

“Quiet!”

Dean Ender was standing on the podium in the auditorium.

The students all lined up and looked at him with their eyes averted.

“Starting tomorrow, you will be starting a new school year.”

“….”

As Dean Ender’s speech began, Reina quietly took my hand.

His face heated up and he swallowed his breath and turned his gaze to see Reina blushing as well.

Sorry to her mother, but actually I really liked this sense of distance from Reina right now.

This sense of gradually closing the distance with the girl I fell in love with for the first time.

Because I enjoyed this moment when my heart tickled and I was nervous.

“Someone will become a senior for the first time, and it is time for someone to run for the last time. You guys are….”

“… Senior.”

I still don’t feel it.

What will the new students think when they enter the school tomorrow?

“Everyone knows that there has been a lot of confusion lately. But you are also here to learn how to overcome them. I hope you won’t forget that fact….”

I’m not sure about that.

★

“Hmm.”

After reading the letter from the dormitory supervisor, I quietly crumpled it up and threw it into the trash.

It was a letter from Anna.

And the content was about Avatar.

About 3 months have passed since I had a dream about the original Ike Access.

‘I will try to destroy the empire more brutally and terribly than the future you knew.’

Of course, it could be just a dream.

But somehow the warning stayed in my head and I couldn’t get it out easily.

So the method I chose was to ask Anna to research the information.

Of course, Anna didn’t really know about Avatar.

Because Anna knew them as a mere assassin organization.

But it was my idea that someone who knew even a little bit about Avatar should be an informant.

Thanks to that, I had to confide some information related to Avatar to Anna, even though I bought Anna’s suspicions because of that.

“… After all, it wasn’t just a dream.”

In the original work, Avatar begins to be active at the end of the second semester of the first year.

To put it simply, it was about five months ago.

However, at first, the existence of Avatar was not noticed even in the Empire because it started its activities by disguising very trivial accidents.

At most, it was an assault case where the guards subdued it.

However, from a certain point onward, they cause chaos throughout the empire, and eventually, in the final battle, even Arcana recruits students who can operate with full strength.

The starting point is the arcana student assassination case that I solved in advance.

However, many futures have already changed, including that, and according to Anna’s letter, Avatar’s name is already being mentioned in various parts of the empire.

If it was originally, it would have been about two months before Avatar’s name started to spread properly.

The confusing things Dean Ender said at the opening ceremony must have been aimed at this.

“Then tomorrow, I will have to meet him first.”

I don’t know if meeting him will be a clue to the solution, but it was a self-evident fact that she couldn’t stay still.

★

“Are you a sophomore senior?”

When she asked, looking at the silver ribbon on my uniform, I quietly nodded her head.

In front of the auditorium after the entrance ceremony.

Finding her was easy.

There was only one woman with multiple white bridges between black bobbed hair.

“Thank you very much, senior. This is Michelle Basil, who came in as a first-year special student this time.”

She, Michelle, takes her manners and bows her head.

Michel Basil.

A specially recruited student from a merchant family who won third place in this year’s entrance exam.

She

She And She belonged to Avatara and was a woman who stained the Arcana with blood.