I Possessed The Villain’s Childhood Friend

82 – True Mind

“Avatar is an organization working to destroy the empire?”

“Yes, I am.”

“Was Selene’s death the basis for the chaos?”

As I nodded, Dean Ender sighed.

“For some ridiculous reason, that child had to die?”

“Because the reason they are active is insane.”

Avatar is absolute evil.

At least for me, it was a fact that would never change.

If you look at the cause, they were the cause of Reina’s death in the original work.

“… Mr. Ike. As you know, there is no physical evidence for what I have said so far.”

But, Dean Ender continued.

“I don’t think there’s any reason to say such a thing, even though I know it will raise suspicion. Unless you’re trying to confuse me because you’re affiliated with Avatar.”

Even though he said that, Dean Ender’s eyes did not waver at all.

As if you have already made up your mind.

“This old man, can you tell me what to do?”

“Thank you, dean.”

Being able to enlist the cooperation of Dean Ender here and now is a great harvest.

The most important point in my plan was to the extent that it could be divided with or without the help of Dean Ender.

“First of all, in order to stand against them, there must be a saint.”

“… That she must have a saint?”

“Yes. If we face Avatar in the future, we will need someone to hold the center.”

To be precise, it wasn’t just for this reason.

But no matter how much Dean Ender believes me, he won’t believe this much.

I also couldn’t understand this when I first read it in the original work.

So let’s hide this story for now.

“The mere fact that the person who received the divine revelation belonged to the same place would raise morale. I understand what you are saying.”

“That’s right.”

“But don’t you know? Saints are chosen by the god Eos himself, and they appear just because we want them….”

“You don’t have to worry about that part.”

“Why?”

“I heard a prophecy from Lady Olivia that in the near future a new saintess will protect the peace of the empire.”

To be precise, it was a little different, but I don’t think I need to explain it in detail.

The important thing is that Avatar threatens the peace of the empire, and to protect it, we need the power of Saint Sophia.

“Yes, go.”

Ender heard me, then lowered his head and sighed.

“Selene. You are probably for that future….”

Then he spat out an incomprehensible word, then raised his head again and looked at me.

“Ike. Then, can I search for someone who will become a saint?”

“That’s fine.”

It would be Sophia who would be chosen as the saint anyway, but she didn’t have to waste her power.

“There are two things I want to ask you right now. First of all, please take care of this ring.”

I pushed the saintess’s ring that was on the table with her finger.

“The dean would be more suited to the role of holding this lost ring and passing it on to the next saintess than me. There is also the cause of being a gift from a former saintess.”

“Okay. And what about the second?”

“I hope you give me permission to go out on the weekends freely.”

“Weekend out?”

Dean Ender frowned at my request.

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Perhaps it reminds me of what happened at the beginning of the semester last year.

But he soon loosened his eyebrows and tapped his fingers on his desk and opened his mouth.

“Well, both of these requests are not difficult. Then, lastly, Ike-kun, is it okay if I ask you just one question?”

“I will tell you everything I can answer.”

“As long as I’ve decided to believe you, I won’t bother throwing up. Asking for permission to go out on a free weekend is a bit questionable, but I can get over it.”

“Yes, thank you.”

“But why, until now, have you been hiding everything?”

“… What is that?”

When I questioned Dean Ender, he narrowed his eyes and went on.

“If you look at information from all over the empire right now, Avatar wasn’t formed in a short period of time. It is an organization that has been prepared for a long time.”

“That’s right.”

“But why didn’t you tell anyone about this information until now? That’s what I’m curious about.”

“Mmm.”

This is also the question I was expecting.

And if I simply weighed my feelings, the answer was simple.

To me, this world was a simple story.

It was a world of web novels where the main character, Sofia, and Leon’s party would solve all the remaining important stories once I saved the girl I liked.

But now I can’t think of this place as the world in the story.

It is a reality that I will have to continue to live in the future, and there are many precious people as well.

Raina, of course.

All the ties I have met in this world are precious, including my parents, older brother, Anna, Alex, Sofia, Helen, Leon, Atal, and Dean Ender, whom I am talking to now.

Because each and every one of them brought a lot to me when I had nothing.

Of course I’m hiding the fact that I’m not the real Ike, but I’ve already decided not to dwell on that.

That’s why I decided to move myself.

I don’t want to see someone close to me die if the content of the original story is affected because I changed the future.

But I couldn’t say that to Dean Ender.

This is a story no one will understand.

“Can’t you answer me?”

“It’s not like that, but I was organizing my thoughts a bit.”

I didn’t want to leave any seeds of doubt here.

If it’s a problem that needs to be solved, it should be done with certainty.

You may have to have a similar conversation with another person later, so it would be convenient to have a clear answer here.

“… To put it simply, I lacked confidence.”

“Confidence?”

“If I had been recognized as a prophet, or if I had received a revelation when I went to the Church of Martires, I would have been able to act based on that. But all I saw was a mere dream.”

“Hmm.”

“But my intuition is that this dream will become a reality. However, if this was a really simple dream, it would have ended with trouble for everyone. So, for now, I tried to find out whether it was true by myself.”

“Certainly nonsensical information only encourages confusion.”

“Yes. That was the reason I applied for a weekend outing last year. One of Avatar’s hideouts was in Reinen, and their plan, I learned, was to assassinate Arcana’s students.”

“… What is that?”

At my words, Dean Ender’s eyes shook greatly.

As if you heard something incomprehensible.

“I also wanted to believe that this was definitely a dream. But if this is true, I thought it had to be stopped at all costs.”

“To say that here and now….”

“Yes. After a weekend outing, there were many assassins where I went.”

“What did you do with them, Mr. Ike?”

“All done.”

“….”

Dean Ender gnashed his teeth, lowered his head, and sighed.

I could feel the unspoken anger in him.

“Anyway, since then I have been collecting information so that no one gets caught. And now that their names are starting to become known, this is how we are asking the dean for help.”

Dean Ender kept his head down as he listened to me.

What is he thinking about?

It wasn’t that I didn’t have such doubts, but it was more important how Dean Ender took my story just now than that.

Of course he said he would do my favor, so I’m not going to change my mind, but it wouldn’t be a good situation if I felt awkward and left doubts.

The battle ahead, to be precise, the most important thing in my plan was mutual trust.

“Whoa.”

Finally, Dean Ender let out another sigh, then slowly opened his mouth.

“Okay, Ike. For now, let’s end today’s story here. Regarding the weekend outing you requested, I will tell you later, so please wait for me first.”

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Thump!

The sound of hitting the desk echoed throughout the room.

The culprit was Ender Arcana, the owner of the room you don’t need to look for.

“Damn it.”

Abusive words that he would never utter normally came out of his mouth.

The reason was obvious.

A few things Ike told me in this room so far.

They were enough to upset Ender, who was reputed to be gentle.

As I told Ike earlier, he knew that Avatar was not a recent formation.

A commotion erupts throughout the empire.

Traces that break even if you try to trace them.

Ender thought that there might be a huge faction of nobles behind them.

But according to Ike’s words, what they want is the fall of the empire.

“That’s not even funny.”

I couldn’t help but feel this sentiment coming out of Ender’s mouth.

What kind of country is the Astraea Empire?

Isn’t he literally the loser of the continent, who has conquered the ‘Aether’ continent, which was full of wars, and has maintained that status for nearly 1,000 years?

No matter how long I’ve been preparing for such an empire, a single organization is trying to destroy it.

I couldn’t understand it, and looking at it objectively, it was a really stupid story.

However, according to Ike’s testimony, they were already a group capable of assassinating Saint Selene.

In addition, the disturbances currently taking place in various parts of the empire were by no means light.

I’m keeping it a secret to prevent confusion, but recently there was an incident in which the son of a fairly famous marquis was assassinated.

“Is that really possible?”

Even Ike said they would eventually declare war on the Empire head-on.

Hearing that, Ender tried to nod his head, but couldn’t.

When I thought about it with common sense, it was impossible.

If you start from the front line and include the central knights, the empire has close to 1,000 knights.

Of course, it would be impossible to gather all of them to fight Avatar, but in the end, fighting the Astraian Empire was the same as fighting those knights.

Originally, it was a story that would have been dismissed as not even funny.

But Ike’s blue eyes didn’t waver at all when he said that.

He was saying that everything was the undisputed truth.

“Whoa.”

Ender caught his breath and looked up at the ceiling.

“Still, I promised to believe you, so I will try my best.”

As Selene said, to become someone’s miracle.

To create a brilliant future.

He couldn’t stop.

‘Everything has been processed.’

However, just as he was about to go back to work, Ender’s hand stopped as he suddenly remembered what Ike had said.

“….”

As a teacher, not a dean, I definitely had something to say to Ike.

But Ender was hesitant to say it, and he didn’t.

“Damn it.”

At the sense of self-loathing boiling from within, Ender gritted his teeth and made a resolution.

If you completely destroy the organization called Avatar, you must tell him no matter what.

Just like that, time passed again.

“Dean Ender! This is an emergency!”

The war has begun.