The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 157: Doubts And More Doubts

Now I have serious doubts. There was definitely a change in the group, but it was so drastic that I was probably just imagining it.

’Yes, it must be the stress of meeting the goddess. If no one says anything, it must be my imagination.’

I decided it was best to ignore the obvious change, which must definitely be my imagination, and called the group to discuss the gains inside the classroom.

”Okay, guys, let’s go inside and talk about what happened,”

I said, encouraging them to move into the classroom where I usually teach my runes and theoretical magic classes. As I walked to the front, I heard them conversing normally, which reinforced the idea that what I saw was just my imagination.

”ಠಿ_ಠ”

Mike was especially excited.

”You’re not going to believe me, guess, guess what happened,” he said excitedly, as if no one could guess the obvious in this situation. To answer him, Ban blurted out his typical stinging observation.

”Hey, what are you, an idiot? We all just left the temple, how could we not know how excited you are? You were obviously blessed, you idiot.”

”Hey, shut up! You had to ruin my good mood. I bet you weren’t even blessed, who would want someone like you as their chosen one or agent?”

”Hehehehe,” Ban only replied with a confident laugh. He had obviously been blessed too, even though he was complaining about Mike. It was as obvious as he was.

”Damn, I don’t believe it. He’s just bluffing. You think so too, don’t you? There’s no way that... ಠಿ_ಠ”

Mike seemed ready to reach out for support, but paused as if noticing something strange about said person, something he only now noticed.

”The impressive thing here is that the gods chose a fool like you, don’t you think? You too...”

Like Mike, Ban’s words were stuck as he saw something incomprehensible, when he was also going to ask for that person’s opinion.

Although I wasn’t looking at them, I could imagine that they both noticed the same thing I did. I felt more relaxed now, since I wasn’t the only one who had seen it.

So I’m not hallucinating, or anything like that, but I must admit it took them a long time to notice.

’Whew... I almost thought I was going crazy from the stress.’

Click

when we arrived, I opened the door with the key the instructors gave me; this place basically became exclusive to us, and with the performance this group has, they didn’t hesitate to upgrade and give us the best of the best. Also, the clubs started forming from the second month, so my classes ended up becoming a club.

Although I wanted to call it ”Club Team Dynamite Team 2.0” I could not, and it had nothing to do with the fact that I saw Elena with dubious and questionable intentions discreetly take out George.

It was because I was mature and allowed the votes and by general vote the Club was baptized with the name ”Runes Research Club” a boring name that did not represent the essence of my current group.

Truth be told, the current group, with the exception of Lys, Alexander, Silvia, Alice and the twins, is not the same as the one William had during his class period on the alternate line.

In fact, there were a few more guys, but they didn’t live long, since after the academy ended, William was involved in many accidents that ended with them, giving him, so to speak his cliché character development..

It must be said that fate was very selective, as all the men died not long after a year. It was as if there was some gender requirement around William to survive.

Only Alexander and Ivan made it somewhat far thanks to becoming agents of the gods; they were exceptions.

On the other hand, I feel like I somehow freed those guys from that tragedy, as well as the rest of the dynamite 1.0 team, who interacted less with us lately. It’s a shame, as they were fun guys to drink with, but such was life.

They probably won’t stand out now that they’re not next to people with such strong destinies as William, who had a lot of advantages being their partner.

That’s why previously unknown figures like Mike and Ban, who clung to stick with us, will go farther than their talent would indicate.

For, in addition to talent, being with the right person is critical to progress. And because of that, even though I was initially prejudiced towards William due to my inherited memories, I gritted my teeth and joined him.

Well, Ban and Mike would probably die young; such was life and the rules of this world, which was inflexible at times (may they rest in peace (T_T)), or that would be the case if I wasn’t here.

Among my inherited memories there was an explanation for this phenomenon, but these are things of fate and karma, which honestly make me dizzy every time I try to analyze and understand them.

Therefore, I leave these issues in a corner of my mind, for when I have enough capacity to understand them.

From the little I have managed to understand, I can summarize it like this: if your destiny and talent are not on par, or at least in an acceptable range, with respect to an existence with great destiny that you go along with, it is possible that all the good karma and benefits you have accumulated will reach a breaking point that leads to early death, unless you are protected by a god being his agent.

It is a law of cause and effect that exists in this world that not even the gods can completely evade, only balance and buffer it. Even the 14 Legacies can only avoid it to a certain extent, but they do not totally escape it.

Now that I am around, it is likely that this bad karma, a product of being close to someone like William, will never reach them, since just being by my side, who has the protection of lust, affects those I come in contact with.

They are partially covered, greatly alleviating that, even more than being agents of a god.

So they will live long; at least, they will not die from bad karma. If anything happens to them, it will be from natural causes.

’well, it’s not as if anyone realised the reason why he died in the end’.

..

everyone came in slowly. I saw the doubt on Ban’s and Mike’s faces, as if they were still analysing what they saw earlier. The same even in Alexander, who, come to think of it, must have been the one with the silent hesitation at first and the second to notice.

Finally, everyone came in slowly, except Silvia, who, for some reason, stopped next to me; maybe she wanted to ask me if what she had seen was true or if she was seeing badly because of some defect in her glasses.

”This, Chris?”

”Yes, I understand your doubt, but it’s not my place to say anything.”

”Huh? What do you mean?”

”Wasn’t that...? Then what is it?”

”I just wanted to ask you if you could give me a little time after this.”

”Oh... Sure, but what for?”

”I’ll tell you then. You don’t mind, do you?”

”Well, I don’t have anything to do, anyway.”

I was reassured that it wasn’t about that person that Silvia wanted to ask. I didn’t know how to explain it if I were asked.

As for Silvia, maybe she just wanted to have a secret meeting; we used to have them to draw up plans for the ’Silvi-Chris explosive team’ and achieve our goal of capture.

However, this time it was her who took the initiative to organize it, for the first time.

I was surprised, considering that we hadn’t talked about it again since the day we argued and she told me she wouldn’t help me anymore. In spite of that, we continued talking normally, leaving that issue aside.

Just as Silvia was about to enter the room, the person who was creating so much doubt walked up to the front and greeted us.

”Hi, Chris. Hi, Silvia.”

”Hi.”

”H-hello... ಠಿ_ಠ”

I responded without changing my expression and Silvia greeted that person as well. It took her a moment to react, but the confusion was also reflected on her face as she processed what she had just seen, as she walked in behind that person, looking confused and doubtful, as if she wanted to go back and ask me if she was seeing right or if her glasses were malfunctioning.

”... ಠಿ_ಠ” There were now only two people left outside, Eira and me. She, like everyone else, was looking in the direction of the person with some uncertainty.

”Hey, what’s wrong, why are you just standing there? Come in quickly, I’m going to leave you outside.”

”ಠಿ_ಠ.... Hey, that... What the hell?”

”Are you going in or not?” I said to Eira, who also seemed to doubt if she was seeing correctly. I guess, for them, the situation was difficult to approach, so they watched with doubts and questions caught in their throats.

Luckily, I already knew and had no problem accepting that I wasn’t imagining it.

”Hey, didn’t you see...was it...?”

”Yes, yes it was. What, now you’re going to judge person by their preferences?”

”Shut up!!, I was just surprised.... That aside, I just heard you have a secret outing after practice. Are you planning on doing something behind Selene’s back?”

”I’m going to leave you out.”

”Wait... well, after you talk whatever you talk to those ’cow breasts’, could you come talk to me? I have something to tell you.”

’Don’t call him ’cow breasts’ just because you’re envious. If she gets mad, she might throw lava at you.’

Well, it wasn’t the first time Eira had said that to Silvia, even to her face. It all started some time ago, when Silvia inadvertently tripped and hit Eira with her colossal masses.

The nervous Silvia apologised to Eira and the rest of the people present were bewildered by the sudden events, except for me, who burst out laughing, which left me breathless and in abdominal pain when I saw the bewilderment on Eira’s face.

In the end, full of embarrassment, she took it out on me who was helplessly on the floor, struggling not to die of laughter, which led her to win in a one-sided fight, but it was so funny that I don’t regret it.... well, that amusing anecdote aside.

”눈_눈” ’This was suspicious, very suspicious.’

”Hey, don’t make that face! Anyway, I’ll be waiting for you behind the magic classrooms. You have to come.”

Without giving me a chance to refuse, Eira walked into the classroom. She was definitely planning something, and she looked nervous.

’Could it be that she finally found the guts to kill me for real? I couldn’t help but think the worst, so I vowed to take Selene with me to stop her and expose her. Maybe then Selene will understand that Eira can’t belong in my harem.