Pedro rapidly leaned his physique to the ground as the sunshine projectiles exploded.

After the smoke cleared, Pedro was astonished to see holes throughout his finely tailor-made swimsuit.

“What is occurring right here?”

At that second, a girl sitting within the heart of the tower abruptly stood up. She had a singular look with a wide-brimmed hat that coated her brow and eyes, leaving solely her lips seen.

“I made a mistake,” she confidently declared, holding the lid of the sunshine projectile in her hand.

“A mistake? You threw a light-weight projectile at somebody! It might have been tried homicide!” Pedro exclaimed in disbelief.

The magician who had been impressed by Pedro’s phrases now protested, “A mistake? That’s it?”

“I don’t know. Arrest her instantly. What is that this nonsense?”

“Properly, um… look forward to a second,” Helic interjected, wiping the sweat from his brow.

“Helic, what’s going on?”

Helic nervously defined whereas dabbing his dry arms with a handkerchief, “Properly, there’s a custom within the tower, isn’t there?”

The lady chuckled softly. “That’s proper, it’s a practice created by Alfred Saboia, the present tower lord.”

—

I used to be nicely conscious of Claude Saboia’s character. He couldn’t stand boredom and had a keenness for the peculiar.

So, I took benefit of the tower’s custom.

It occurred when Alfred, the Lord of the Tower, was giving a presentation associated to magical concept. He was in excessive spirits, presenting his personal concept, when a passing beggar shot a light-weight projectile, briefly blinding him.

Naturally, Alfred grew to become livid.

However the beggar confidently corrected Alfred’s concept and disappeared.

Initially, Alfred was angered that somebody like a beggar would dare to problem his opinion.

However…

“I used to be fallacious, and the beggar’s concept was right! The place is that beggar?”

“He disappeared a very long time in the past.”

“I’ve to reward him, however what a nuisance!”

Since then, Alfred allowed the taking pictures of sunshine projectiles for instances of false data or suspicion of plagiarism.

It was a uncommon prevalence, so steadily, folks forgot about it.

“However earlier than I returned to the previous, there was a magician who shot a light-weight projectile at Claude’s coronary heart.”

I remembered studying about it within the newspaper and located it fascinating, so I made a decision to utilize it.

“I imagine mild projectiles are shot when there may be suspicion of plagiarism or false data in a thesis.”

Helic shook his head anxiously. “It’s indirectly at an individual however within the air… Properly, overlook it. For now, you’re unhurt.”

Pedro stumbled out, fuming with anger. “What do you imply, ‘for now’? I might have been significantly injured!”

I barely identified the flaw in Pedro’s logic. “However you’re a person, how might you’ve got been ‘significantly injured’ like that?”

“Anyway!”

“It’s a pity, however that thesis itself is impractical and stuffed with flaws.”

Ishael was certainly clever prior to now, however that thesis had clear shortcomings.

Claude Saboia’s chilling gaze fell upon me.

It felt as if he might tear me aside for crushing his hopes.

Fueled by that resilience, Pedro exploded in anger.

“My concept shouldn’t be fallacious! Are you able to show in any other case?”

I shrugged my shoulders and spoke once more. “Then, please strive whispering in regards to the vital background data you have to perceive to write down that thesis, Pedro.”

The previous Ishael, who had foolishly devoted herself to Pedro, was not there.

“What precisely is the magic formulation to be engraved on the monitoring potion?”

“Properly, um…”

“Did you come to the thesis presentation with out even understanding what a magic formulation is?”

“No!”

“Then what precisely is the magic formulation? You declare to have carried out experiments?”

As I prodded him with questions, Pedro’s face turned pale.

“Why ought to I reply such questions? The truth that this thesis is mine gained’t change!”

“That’s true.”

“How are you going to imagine the claims of an fool who out of the blue shot a light-weight projectile?”

“Whereas it’s suspicious that you just talked a couple of magic formulation with out even understanding what it’s… because you declare to know, let’s hear it from you.”

Now, let’s reduce it appropriately right here.

“Then, let’s study the thesis.”

“You don’t even have the thesis!”

I raised my eyebrow at Pedro and stood up.

Everybody had already acquired a duplicate of Pedro’s thesis.

I checked out them intently and spoke.

“Everybody, please learn the magic formulation on web page 38 of the thesis.”

“What…?”

“It’s garbage.”

“It’s actually ineffective.”

“Nonetheless, there isn’t any concrete proof but…”

“However we should always no less than confirm and study it…”

“Though it’s a pity to utterly discard this concept, possibly we will develop it additional?”

“However how does that individual know the thesis so nicely?”

Now it was time to drive the wedge in and seal the deal.

“How do I do know a lot about this thesis?”

After I instructed Pedro that we should always break up, I had the recording system activated.

It was all for at the moment.

I pressed the button on the recording system.

“…What? You’re only a 1st Circle magician, and even in case you’re third Circle, I’m about to obtain a noble title.”

“Oh, actually? Then who wrote the thesis you submitted to obtain your noble title?”

Pedro’s complexion turned pale as he noticed the recording system nonetheless in movement.

He will need to have recognized what would come subsequent.

“That’s… it’s you.”

After all, the voices within the dialog matched completely with the present Pedro and my very own voice.

“You! Ishael…!”

I turned off the recording system and opened my mouth.

“If vital, you’ll be able to confirm the authenticity of the voice recorded within the system.”

In my phrases, Pedro grew to become as speechless as a mute.

“What? It was ghostwriting?”

“Ghostwriting a thesis! A magician must be embarrassed!”

“But when it was ghostwritten, isn’t the one who wrote it additionally at fault?”

Sure, I knew that line would come up.

Each of them have been the issue, a impartial assertion indicating that.

I raised my voice in the direction of the chaotic crowd.

“I had my thesis stolen. They threatened that if I didn’t hand it over, they might kill me.”

At that second, Pedro confidently interjected.

“I by no means mentioned I’d kill you! I mentioned I wouldn’t marry you!”

“However you continue to insisted that you just couldn’t give it to me, so that you sneaked into my home and stole the contents of the thesis.”

“I didn’t steal all the pieces! You additionally helped me at first-“

I shrugged my shoulders and playfully interrupted him.

“In the long run, you stole my thesis, didn’t you?”

Pedro’s complexion turned pale as he realized he had misplaced utterly.

Claude reached out his hand in the direction of the air, silencing everybody.

From a couple of years in the past, when he misplaced his expression and suffered from aphasia, to just lately regaining some vitality and dealing with exterior issues within the tower.

Folks have been pissed off that they couldn’t perceive his phrases.

That’s why he created a magical system that interprets his physique language.

Folks considered him as a taciturn and noble magician.

However the secret he stored hidden…

Claude raised his hand solemnly.

By the magical system, his voice resonated authoritatively.

“Get misplaced, you scammer.”

His elegant lips hardened, agency and resolute.

I bit my tongue inwardly as I watched him.

“Properly, you see.”

Pedro wiped the sweat off his brow, making an attempt to provide you with excuses.

However Claude’s phrases, or quite, his ideas, have been as blunt as a mop.

“It’s you. Pedro, you scammer. I assumed I had found a helpful monitoring magic, however you turned out to be a ineffective fraud. You’ve upset my expectations. Scum like you need to die. Die!”

Verbal abuse continued from the thesis summary presentation.

Pedro was in shock, barely in a position to preserve his eyes open.

He trembled as if he have been a crow that failed in its mating dance and was about to be devoured by a feminine.

“What… What are you saying! That is an excessive amount of!”

“I don’t need to say any extra. Simply eliminate that scammer.”

It was basically a dying sentence.

Pedro slumped to the bottom, his legs trembling.

He hated the Viscount Saboia, and in consequence, not solely would he lose his noble title, however he wouldn’t even be capable to discover employment within the tower.

His life had been utterly ruined.

I laughed gleefully.

I had severed all social ties with my ex-boyfriend.

After all, it will be troublesome if I assumed at the moment was the tip.

“In Korea, we’ve got a saying, ‘Three strikes.’”

The primary strike was the humiliation on the ball.

The second strike was the embarrassment on the convention.

And the third strike was…

At that second, Claude Saboia’s gaze briefly acknowledged me as if he lingered in my route.

I secretly cheered inside.

If he have been to name me now, my path can be stable.

What was Claude Saboia like?

Regardless that he knew that Pedro’s concept had flaws, he nonetheless manipulated him recklessly.

It was as a result of he found the opportunity of monitoring magic in Pedro’s thesis.

So this time can be the identical.

He would undoubtedly invite me to the tower.

We might construct a friendship whereas going collectively.

I’d additionally study magic formulation!

I’d even subtly introduce an merchandise for a future enterprise enterprise.

That’s how I’d safe a seat of wealth, proper?

However then, it occurred.