“Monica, could you lodge a formal protest with the Count Gibson family regarding Warren’s disrespect?”
“Leave it to me. I will make sure he regrets acting so rudely towards Prince Harold.”
Monica placed her hand on her chest and bowed, but I couldn’t help but feel uneasy.
I only asked for a protest, but she might do something completely unexpected. Like setting their mansion on fire.
Currently, we are gathered in my room after finishing dinner.
However, Lize, Christia, and Carla have returned to their own rooms, leaving only Sandra, Monica, Caz, and me here.
Technically, female students aren’t allowed in my room, but, well, this is an important discussion, and talking about it in the Common Room would be risky in case someone overheard.
Still, it’s the first time I’ve brought her to my room, so I’m incredibly nervous. Even with Monica and Caz here.
“So… where’s Ulysses?”
“I believe he has already retired for the night. He was quite upset because of Trash No. 2.”
“I see…”
Monica says that, but it was me who upset him.
Knowing full well this would happen.
“Lord Hal, let’s put him aside for now. More importantly, we should focus on figuring out who that man we saw really was.”
“Y-Yeah, you’re right.”
Sandra always understands my feelings and says things like that to reassure me.
I truly believe I’m the luckiest of the four brothers just by having her as my fiancée. I can say that with confidence.
“But Warren definitely recognized both of them as Ulysses. Even though their faces are completely different.”
“Indeed…”
Sandra lowered her gaze, looking at the table.
She probably doesn’t understand how something like that could happen either.
Then.
“…There might be a way.”
“Caz?”
“Some of us Demon Beasts have the ability to manipulate people. If that suspicious man Hal and the others encountered had a similar ability, it’s possible he could make them think he was Ulysses.”
“Ah…”
I see… I was too focused on the male student’s appearance.
Especially since the two look nothing alike.
But, as Caz says, if the male student made Warren and his cronies recognize him as Ulysses…
And there is a skill in “Engage Hazard” that makes that possible.
It’s the Dark Attribute skill 【Evil Eye of Temptation】 used by the raid boss, the “Bewitching Witch Circe,” who appears in the limited-time event “Odysseus’s Ordeal Part 5.”
The success rate isn’t very high at five percent, but when the protagonist and heroines are affected by this 【Evil Eye of Temptation】, they enter a state of illusion and attack their allies.
In other words, it means they are being manipulated by Circe.
However, the 【Evil Eye of Temptation】 skill is unique to Circe, and neither the heroines nor the Non-Attribute protagonist can learn it.
But even though this is the world of “EnHaza,” we don’t know what skills anyone other than the main characters possess.
So, it wouldn’t be strange if someone had the 【Evil Eye of Temptation】 skill.
As a result, Warren and his cronies were tricked into believing that male student was Ulysses because they were affected by the 【Evil Eye of Temptation】.
“I don’t know what that male student’s intentions are, but in any case, there’s only one thing we need to do.”
“Yes… capture that man as soon as we find him.”
“Indeed.”
Although it’s doubtful he’ll appear before us again, the fact that he did something like that to Warren means he must have some kind of connection with that guy.
From now on, we’ll have to monitor Warren and catch them all at once when they make contact again.
“Please wait. There’s no guarantee he’s targeting Trash No. 2. It’s possible that man deliberately revealed himself to us.”
“Ah…”
Sandra is right.
By deliberately showing himself to us, he could have been trying to make us recognize that male student as a suspicious person.
Then, for what purpose?
Assuming we recognize that man as someone other than Ulysses, what could his goal be… Ah.
“Could it be…”
“Have you realized something?”
“Ah, no, it might just be my imagination, but…”
I tell everyone what I’ve realized.
That… we learned that the man was Ulysses Stone and confirmed his existence.
As a result, I ended up bringing Ulysses to this Royal Academy.
“…In other words, that man’s target was Ulysses-kun, wasn’t it?”
“It’s certainly possible, Lord Hal. But what would be the reason for wanting to bring him here?”
“The most likely possibility is that it’s the work of people who don’t think highly of the Norsemen. In short, they intend to harm him as a public example.”
“I see…”
Today, when we were giving him a tour of the academy, the students cast looks of aversion and contempt as soon as they learned that Ulysses was a Norseman.
To that extent, the discriminatory attitude towards the Norse is deeply rooted in the people of Dehaubalz.
“In any case, we have a promise with the Stone Margrave. Let’s make sure to protect him until he graduates from the academy so that no harm comes to him.”
“Yes.”
We confirmed that and nodded in agreement.
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