The Main Heroines are Trying to Kill Me

Chapter 416: The Siege of Academy

As the light from Glare, which had been enveloping and concealing me, disappeared, people around me froze when they saw me.

Well, it was understandable.

It would be more surprising if people weren’t shocked by the sudden appearance of someone they thought was dead.

“You… How are you…?”

“Hm.”

Even Aishi seemed taken aback. I was not even sure if this was really Aishi, but for convenience, I would call her Aishi.

“Where did you get that? Did you clone it or something?”

“This doesn’t make sense. You should have been annihilated. If you were alive, there’s no way I wouldn’t have sensed you…”

Pointing at my corpse still lying on the ground, she asked questions, her expression slightly confused as she mumbled.

It seems the destruction of the ‘Path of False Evil’ system played a crucial role in disrupting her surveillance network.

The kid’s “light” was also extraordinarily effective.

“I used every means… Wait, could it be…?”

“Who exactly are you?”

It seemed she was quite flustered.

While this would be the perfect time for an ambush, caution was crucial now.

Besides, I needed to buy a little more time.

“…Huh?”

When I posed a question out of curiosity, Aishi furrowed her brows and tilted her head.

“Don’t pretend you don’t know. You possessed Aishi.”

“Hm…”

“As expected, you’re that eye, right?”

When I asked again, her eyes twitched slightly.

“That’s the most trivial term to describe my existence in this world.”

“…”

Judging by her words, it seems she has no intention of hiding it. I thought she might just observe everything from afar, but now it seems she’s decided to intervene directly.

“Well, I suppose that’s fitting from the perspective of an ignorant mortal.”

“Is that so? Yet you’ve been humiliated twice by these ignorant mortals, and you still have the face to say that?”

As I laughed at her arrogance, Aishi raised her hand with a cold smile.

“You were nothing but a small variable in my grand scheme.”

The next moment, a miniature, vast dark space appeared in her left hand.

“In comparison to the dimensions I’ve devoured so far, you’re nothing but a pebble in my path.”

“…”

Gazing at the countless galaxies and planets within it, Aishi clenched her hand, swallowing them back, and smirked.

“Or… did you come knowing you couldn’t do anything? If so, you’re truly foolish.”

“Hm.”

“Well, you’ve always been foolish. Even after seeing the voting results, you just kept smiling stupidly.”

“What about the voting results?”

“Honestly, tell me. Don’t you feel any resentment?”

Aishi’s eyes turned black, emitting a dark aura as she spoke.

Something felt off.

What kind of ability is she using?

“Not even a little resentment? Not even a bit of a grudge?”

“What’s with this smoke?”

“Towards those who wronged you, and towards the 49% who voted against you today. Don’t you harbor any hatred at all?”

I’m not sure why she’s prying so much about something the answer to is already decided.

“If you place your hand on your heart and answer truthfully, I will show you mercy–”

“I don’t have any.”

“…?”

The moment I answered her, the annoying black aura surrounding me dispersed.

“Not even a little resentment, not a bit of hatred?”

“Nope, none.”

“Why?”

With her brows furrowed, I started explaining calmly.

“Because there’s no need and no reason for it.”

Wasn’t it obvious?

The reason they persecuted me was because I deceived them.

So, I had no reason or right to resent or hate them. The fault lay not with them, but with the being in front of me that caused all this.

“Not even a hint of disappointment?”

“…Well, maybe a bit.”

But I was a bit disappointed that the Empire had become so corrupt.

Aside from my false evil activities, there were too many people showing their evil intentions, and it was considered normal.

But from what I saw today and the voting results, I realized something.

This Empire, this world, could still change.

And that was enough for me.

As Ruby said, people could change and move forward. Now that they had shown that themselves, I had to respond to their expectations.

“Brother…?”

As I was looking up at the sky, thinking, a timid voice came from beside me.

“…Aria.”

“Is it really you, Brother? Really…?”

The first person to react among those who were frozen, listening to my conversation with Aishi in a daze, was none other than Aria.

“Brother… Brother…”

“I’m sorry. I should have contacted you sooner.”

“Huwaaa… Huaaaa…”

I felt sorry for Aria. I should have contacted her sooner.

Unfortunately, she was locked up in the basement of the mansion for a long time, trying to awaken the Hero’s Armament in my place, so I couldn’t reach her. ℞åΝΟΒÊS

If only that eye hadn’t concentrated its surveillance on the Hero’s Armament.

Thanks to the focused surveillance on the basement, I barely managed to get a letter to my father, but after that, all communication was cut off.

Such a despicable being.

“It’s dangerous, so step back.”

“No, Brother. Don’t go. No…”

“It’ll be over soon. Just wait a little…”

“What will be over soon?”

As I gently pushed Aria into the crowd, who had started to understand the situation and was making all sorts of expressions, I heard a disdainful voice from behind.

“Are you talking about you and your arrogant girlfriend, Frey?”

Aishi spread her arms wide and began to float in the air.

And regardless of the voting results, those who voted ‘No’ will have 1/100 of their lifespan taken as my energy.

“You still don’t understand your position. You, who haven’t even awakened the Hero’s Armament, are trying to face me, who is not bound by the system?”

Then she looked around at the suddenly wobbly people and smiled eerily.

I didn’t expect such a clause to be hidden. And it looked like she was free from the influence of the Pretender System that shackled the Demon King.

The one saving grace was that she also couldn’t completely ignore the system. The fact that she couldn’t siphon more energy when the situation was in her favor was evidence of that.

Of course, even so, thanks to the massive amount of energy from 49 percent of the Empire’s citizens, she seemed to have charged up quite a bit of energy.

She would probably be able to fully exercise her powers as the Demon King.

The reason she spoke with me so leisurely must have been to wait for that energy siphoning to complete.

“As expected, what a despicable creature.”

“The time of the end is nigh.”

As Aishi whispered and snapped her fingers, something unprecedented began to happen in the sky.

“M-Mom… what is that…?”

“Oh my god…”

“Ah…”

What everyone had always assumed to be the sun started to reveal its true form before their very eyes.

The surface, which had darkened considerably, began to writhe, and then tentacles started emerging one by one in all directions.

Each of these tentacles had eyes that blinked grotesquely, scattering everywhere, and the sun, which had been the size of a coin from where we stand, began to expand and fill the sky.

“…”

The eyelid at the center of the expanding sun lifted, revealing a giant black eye staring down at everything beneath it.

Everyone—and indeed everything beneath the sky—could only look up in a daze at ‘it’.

“Do you understand now?”

Hovering above, Aishi looked down at me and Ruby, the few entities unaffected by ‘it,’ and spoke in a condescending voice.

“That the very thought of you mere mortals standing against a being you cannot even comprehend is utterly foolish.”

“…”

“If you, the Hero, and the former Demon King need everything you have to not go mad and kill yourselves, what do you think will happen to them?”

As she said, all the people around us began to clutch their throats and apply pressure.

Left as they were, it wouldn’t be long before everyone would mindlessly snap their own necks.

“I had hoped you might have prepared something, but from the looks on your faces, I see that’s not the case. How disappointing.”

“Grrrr.”

“No matter how delicious a meal is, if you eat it continuously, you’ll grow tired of it.”

Aishi looked down at everyone with cold eyes, and the dragons lowered their gaze and let out low growls.

“Now, face your end.”

“…But you know.”

Looking up at them, I muttered, then raised my sword with a smirk.

“You’re not the only one who bought time.”

- Crackle…!

At that moment.

- Swoosh…

“…?”

The ace up our sleeve began to unfold in the sky.

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Aishi looked up at the sky, her arrogant smile was nowhere to be seen.

“What… is the meaning of this?”

The moon, which had risen from the horizon, was moving rapidly towards the giant eye.

- Zzzzz…

As the moon reached the center and covered the enormous eye, complete darkness descended instantly to the world.

“…Huh?”

“Ugh, my head…”

“Wh-what was that?”

As the people on the ground started regaining their senses, clutching their heads and staggering, Aishi frowned deeply and glared at Frey.

“What have you done?”

“What’s wrong? Didn’t you want us to do something? I just met your expectations.”

“Answer me!”

When she demanded an answer and approached with her sword drawn, Frey simply smiled.

“Sorry, but the sun is no longer your domain.”

“…”

“The power of the solar eclipse is now ours.”

Hearing this, Aishi tilted her head in confusion.

“But the Moon God should have exhausted her power in the last eclipse…”

“You’re not very bright, are you?”

Frey responded, smiling at the voice in his head.

- Young Master, it’s finished.

“Now the Eclipse itself is on our side.”

- I can hold out for about a day.

“…Thanks, Kania. Don’t push yourself too hard.”

- I’ll do my best.

Realizing the situation, Aishi, visibly annoyed, muttered angrily.

“To think a mortal would steal a divinity… Ridiculous.”

- M-My Lord, there’s something you must know.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

“…Hm?”

At that moment, a frantic voice of Lemerno echoed in her ear.

- The scouts left on the coast have reported… that the support fleet from the Western Continent has landed on the empire’s shores.

“But the coast is filled with monsters…”

- And… Please do not be angry…

Another piece of bad news reached her ear.

- The allied forces of the Elven Kingdom, Western Continent Beastmen, and Eastern Continent Fox Tribe have just breached the border.

“…”

- I apologize! But… the Erosion Phenomena at the borders… We didn’t think it could be breached…

Seeing Aishi’s expression frozen, Frey taunted with a proud look on his face.

“I told you, the Eclipse is under our control now.”

“Hah.”

“And it’s all thanks to you. After all, you’re the one who delegates the authority to the Demon God.”

Frey’s body began to glow, half in silver and half in black, as he whispered.

“Thanks to you, we can pull off such stunts.”

- Young Master. People from the Eastern Continent have appeared at the Empire’s borders.

“…Hm?”

Hearing Kania’s voice, Frey tilted his head.

“There shouldn’t be any more reinforcements…”

“…Oh, I called them.”

“What?”

Ruby, standing confidently beside Frey, whispered.

“While wandering to find a way to heal your soul, I stumbled upon a mountain village. An angry woman screamed at me to leave.”

“…And?”

“In a hurry, I fought her off, but since then, the villagers started worshiping me.”

Ruby scratched her head, mumbling.

“They called me… the Heavenly Demon or something.”

“…”

“Although I was hesitant to call on frogs in a well from an isolated mountain village, this is an all-out war. I thought they might help a bit.”

With a smirk, Frey turned his gaze back to Aishi.

- Crackle… Crackle…

“Then, let’s begin.”

With his body glowed half-silver, half-black, Frey raised his sword.

“The Academy Siege.”

“Princess?”

“Irina? You…”

“Lady Serena?”

Simultaneously, the heroines who had been waiting for Frey’s signal began to emerge from the crowd.

- Zing…!

As a massive slash cleaved the sky, it signaled the beginning of a great war.

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Meanwhile, in the debug room.

- Tap, tap…

Despite her haggard expression, Roswyn kept busily typing away.

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