I Became a Murderer in the Academy.

Chapter 36

I had a dream.

Maybe it was already a past reality.

In the dream, I showed hallucinations originating from memories of a human wandering near the back alley.

That day’s prey was a girl with green hair.

She had come before too, but I had missed her.

She was a girl with considerable talent, so I particularly remembered her.

I crafted hallucinations to draw her a little deeper.

According to her memory, it was the voice of someone she could never ignore.

As expected, she couldn’t come to her senses with the visual and auditory hallucinations I showed her.

I grabbed her as she approached me.

This time, I grabbed her firmly so she couldn’t run away.

It’s not that I had any ill feelings towards her, but if I couldn’t eat a human that day, I would be in danger.

Around the time I did, one more human entered my sight.

Though not as much as the human I held now, it was also a human with outstanding talent.@@@@

I lowered my gaze a little and looked at the human who had knelt down in fear.

A girl with calmly hanging golden hair.

Should I kill her?

I stood there for a moment and pondered.

However,

“Don’t go...”

“...”

Crunch.

The green-haired girl grabbed my sleeve.

I thought I had put her to sleep.

To have this level of resistance at a young age.

I turned my gaze and looked at Celine again.

She still had her eyes closed.

Perhaps it was an action derived from the subconscious.

Is she trying to stop me?

In the end, I decided to stop killing the golden-haired girl.

She didn’t seem to have seen my face anyway.

I hid with Celine deep in the back alley.

“Good night, Celine. No, should I call you Arhene?”

“......”

“Don’t worry, Arhene, I would never leave you.”

Arhene from the abandoned village.

Left alone in a remote house, she thought her parents had abandoned her and discarded her previous name.

Because she was angry at the parents who had given her that name.

In fact, her parents had been killed by a monster and couldn’t reach her.

Poor Arhene.

I decided to make her happy, at least in her dreams.

***

Waking up early in the morning, I decided to prepare to enter the underground of the Empire.

First, I went to the market to purchase the necessary items.

Funds were fine.

There was still a lot of money left that I had stolen from the mercenary group.

Since I would likely fight to get to my goal, I bought a few high-grade magic stones and spare weapons.

I wanted to avoid battles as much as possible, but this was just in case.

I hoped I wouldn’t have to use the magic stones.

But there was a problem.

The fact that I, with silver hair and red eyes, stood out in appearance.

The probability of being born with silver hair among humans is extremely low.

And the probability of being born with red eyes is even lower.

Although there may be extremely rare cases of humans being born with silver hair or red eyes, I’m really the only one who has both at the same time.

You probably won’t find anyone even if you search the entire continent.

Therefore, silver hair and red eyes are immediately identified as academy student Iria.

It’s no different from walking around with an ID.

It also consumed a lot of physical strength if I used my abilities too much.

But my eyes were so uncomfortable that I took them out right away.

It’s not like I was going in right now anyway.

Anyway, having purchased all the necessary items, I was now at Leonard’s workshop.

It was to hear information.

“I’m going to enter the underground of the Empire tonight. Where are the monsters trapped?”

“Are you really going there? Didn’t you just half-listen to what I told you before?”

“You said the main forces of the Empire are gathered there.”

“That’s true, but the place you’re trying to go to is under Albert’s jurisdiction. If a monster goes in, it will definitely die.”

He then started murmuring to himself.

“No, you’re a mutant, so you might not die and be used as an experimental subject instead. Both are the worst-case scenarios.”

“......”

“You’ve at least heard the name Albert, right?”

Was he that famous?

I heard that among the professors at the academy, many work other jobs concurrently.

Albert must be the same.

The rough mana pool I saw during the first class was around 37,000.

Lucia, who had the highest value in the first year, was around 4,400, so it was clearly an insane value.

He was a magician who could single-handedly exterminate a Seed of the Demon King.

But that was the same for me, so I wasn’t particularly worried.

“If you’re a monster on the level of the rumored back alley monster, it might be different, but if not, it’s better to give up.”

“I am the back alley monster.”

“...?”

“What?”

“Are you sure you can tell me that?”

“You won’t remember today anyway.”

There are two ways to erase information.

The first is to kill the target, and the second is to erase the target’s memory.

Fortunately, I could erase memories, so I took the latter path.

Leonard looked like he had a lot of questions for me, but I didn’t particularly like the name “back alley monster,” so I didn’t bother answering.

A barrage of questions followed a few times, but when I refused again, Leonard stopped asking.

He thought it was pointless since he would forget even if I answered.

“I’m surprised because it was different from the image I had in mind.”

“What kind of image did you imagine?”

“A little more fierce and scary-looking?”

“...”

When I revealed that I was the back alley monster, Leonard started being wary of me, but conversation became possible only after I repeatedly showed my intention not to attack.

In the Empire, they seem to classify me as the worst demon that threatens human lives, but I’m not very hostile to humans as long as I’m not hungry.

That was the difference between other monsters and me.

If I hadn’t had the unique constitution of only being able to eat humans, we might have coexisted well.

I was a monster, but I had no intention of attacking Leonard, who was human.

At least not now.

“...Go to 13th Street, Imperial Headquarters. Security is tight, so be careful.”

“Are you sure about this?”

“It’s probably correct.”

I read his memory to determine the truthfulness of his words.

It doesn’t seem to be a lie.

I rummaged through my pocket and took out a gold coin.

It was a kind of information fee.

I owed him more than I thought.

“Thanks for the information.”

“I’m the one who received a large sum of money. What are you saying?”

When I flicked a gold coin into the air, Leonard skillfully caught it.

If he was someone who sold stories for money, he would know how to receive it like that.

Lastly, I made eye contact with him and erased all memories related to me.

I didn’t think we would meet again anyway.

For now, I decided to go home and dye my hair.