Reincarnated Dragon Goes to the Academy!

Chapter 154 : Finding Stun. (1)

Although several days had passed since the start of the vacation, Skir had not yet come to Sitata.

It was strange. No matter how much the empire was in an uproar over the emperor's death, there was no reason for Skir not to be able to come.

Duke Cirus was still in good health, and although he was half-mad, Skir's older brother, Stun, was still in the position of the eldest son.

'Should I go and see?'

Lucas, who was walking in the garden, thought.

'He's not even answering the crystal ball.'

The Duke Cirus he knew was not a person who would entrust state affairs to his son, who was still ignorant of the ways of the world.

Besides, no matter how mad he was, the Duke doted on his eldest son.

But for him to entrust work to his second son, Skir, didn't make sense.

'It's strange, no matter how I look at it.'

Lucas, who was pacing around the garden, finally cast a teleportation spell.

**

As he entered the entrance of the ducal residence, the servants who recognized Lucas first approached him.

"Lord Lucas."

He had already come and gone several times and was acquainted with them.

"Where is Skir?"

At that, a quick-witted servant quickly bowed his head and went to find Skir.

"I will guide you to the drawing room."

Lucas, who had nodded his head once, moved his steps.

Not long after he entered the drawing room, Skir came in.

"Lucas."

"Skir."

They greeted each other briefly by calling each other's names and sat down.

"You didn't answer the crystal ball and didn't come at all, so I came to see."

"Ah. That's..."

In fact, he had tried to contact him, but he had avoided it because he felt that if he saw Lucas's face, words that shouldn't be said would come out.

"Is something wrong?"

"That's..."

Even at Lucas's question, Skir just chewed on his lip and didn't answer at all.

"It must be something serious. Judging by your expression, it doesn't seem like you don't want to talk."

"Hah..."

Skir let out a deep sigh.

"Tell me."

Skir, who had hesitated for a long time even at Lucas's urging, opened his mouth.

"Actually... my brother has disappeared."

It was more serious than he had thought.

"When?"

But since there was no need to inform the ignorant Skir of the seriousness of the matter, he quickly hid his expression and asked.

"It was a few days before the vacation started. I don't know for sure, but about a week."

He doesn't know for sure? That meant that before Duke Cirus informed Skir, he had first tried to find the disappeared Stun.

'Then it could have been more than a week ago.'

Stun already had a criminal record. He didn't know it at the time, but it was a criminal record related to the demons, and his disappearance now would also be related to that.

"But it's okay. My brother was gradually getting better, so there won't be any particular problem."

"Right. Don't worry too much."

He didn't know how much he had worried, but Skir had aged rapidly in a few days.

"What do you mean, worry... I'm fine. My brother will be fine too."

"Right. Where is the Duke now?"

"My father is in his office now."

"I'd like to pay my respects to the Duke."

Lucas got up from his seat.

"My father is now..."

Skir hesitated.

Normally, Duke Cirus would have heard the news of his visit and come to find him first, but just by seeing that he hadn't, he could tell that his condition was not good enough to exchange pleasantries.

"Still, I should pay my respects."

As Lucas was unusually stubborn, Skir also had no choice but to get up and follow him.

'If I leave Skir here, he'll die of old age from worry soon.'

He planned to talk to Duke Cirus and take Skir to Sitata.

Following Skir who was leading the way, they arrived at the Duke's office, and a servant announced Lucas's visit.

"Oh, Lucas!"

Then the door opened, and Cirus greeted Lucas with a bright smile.

"Hello, Your Grace."

"Yes. It's been a while. You've become even more handsome in the meantime!"

"Thank you. Have you been well?"

"Of course. I've been very well."

There was no way he had been well. Cirus's complexion was just as bad as Skir's.

Sitting down, they continued their trivial conversation, asking about each other's well-being for a while.

"Your Grace. I would like to return with my brother Skir when I go back today..."

Lucas looked at the Duke, trying to make his eyes as clear and pure as possible.

"..."

Skir, who saw that, opened his mouth slightly and tilted his head towards Lucas. As if to say, what on earth are you doing now?

"With Skir, you say?"

"Yes. As you know, I've been with my brother every vacation, but it feels so empty without him."

Lucas's eyes shone again.

"W-well, then."

A sense of bewilderment crossed the Duke's eyes.

"Thank you, Your Grace."

Lucas smiled faintly.

'Damn it.'

But he was full of irritation inside.

'What can I do? I have to take this kid with me.'

Then he held out his hand towards Skir and shouted.

"Let's go!"

Very brightly.

***

"Lucas. What on earth was that expression earlier?"

"You don't need to know."

"And you called me brother...? I thought you had forgotten that I was the older one."

"Shut up."

Thinking about the situation earlier, Lucas's face also turned red.

But it couldn't be helped. With Stun gone, he couldn't just take Skir and leave.

Besides, since the Duke wouldn't have wanted to announce that Stun had disappeared, this was the only way to get Skir out as naturally and quickly as possible.

Since Lucas, his son's friend, had said so, he wouldn't have been able to say no without any reason.

"If you're done, let's go."

"But I don't know if it's okay to leave my father like this."

"It's okay."

"Right."

Skir was relieved at Lucas's words that it was okay.

'If Lucas says it's okay, then it will really be okay.'

For some reason, all his words were trustworthy. So since Lucas had said it was okay, everything would really be okay.

"Let's go."

A smile returned to Skir's face as he placed his hand on Lucas's arm.

***

After dropping Skir off in Sitata, Lucas now began to search for Stun in earnest.

"You X-like bastard. Would it kill you to be quiet for a bit?"

Irritation surged.

He remembered the time Stun had caused trouble before.

He had fallen for Alberto's pathetic trick, driven a nail into his parents' hearts, and had even threatened Skir.

"If it weren't for me, you would have been crushed to death by Aman's hand, and now that you're a little better, you go out and cause trouble again?"

Now there was no more Alberto, and the leader of the Resurrection Cult, where he had been resurrected, was also gone.

'Then who on earth took this pathetic bastard?'

What on earth was the reason for Stun to disappear?

It was true that he was a promising mage, but he was not an incredible talent that could not be found anywhere else.

Why on earth would they take him again?

'His mind must still be wandering.'

Due to Aman's mental training, Stun had not been in his right mind for several years.

He would suddenly get up in his sleep and shoot magic into the air, and he would curse at the servants and then suddenly prostrate himself on the floor and beg.

The ducal family had tried to keep the servants' mouths shut as much as possible to prevent such rumors from spreading, but could a person's mouth be shut just by being told to?

The rumors spread as fast as the wind of Zephyrus, and for several years, the ducal family had to suffer from headaches.

The only good thing was that Stun's condition had noticeably improved recently...

"Hah. Where do I find this?"

But someone had taken such a Stun.

"He might have left on his own."

He also thought it might be a simple runaway, but the tracking magic he had secretly placed on him had been released.

'I should search Stun's room.'

Then there might be a clue left in the place where he had stayed.

-Flash!

Lucas teleported back to the ducal residence.

Stun's room was neatly organized.

'Is there anything that could be a clue...'

He searched everywhere, including the drawers, but there was nothing that could be a clue.

'There's nothing special here either.'

The box where he had collected letters also contained contents with trivial social talk, and there was nothing unusual.

"Found it."

Just then, a small bottle caught his eye. At first glance, it looked like a perfume bottle or another ordinary bottle, but it was something Lucas definitely knew.

'A bottle of holy water from the Resurrection Cult.'

As far as Lucas knew, the ducal family had ostracized the Resurrection Cult from the time it first appeared.

They had even said that the pathetic cult was muddying the waters, so the ducal family would not have brought this bottle of holy water in themselves.

Then it was easy to guess where Stun had gone.

"You're causing trouble until the very end."

Lucas, who had clicked his tongue, teleported again.

***

After Ally had wiped out the Resurrection Cult, the dragons had been keeping an eye on them.

Moreover, since it had been clearly revealed who was moving them, they could not neglect their surveillance even more.

"So you're saying that's the center?"

Therefore, Lucas was currently asking Aman about their whereabouts through the crystal ball.

-Yes. According to our investigation, that is the case.

"Alright."

-Lord. But why are you contacting me through the crystal ball? Why don't you come and visit?

Aman asked, as if suspicious.

"Just because."

There was no particular reason. It would be faster to visit Aman directly, but he thought it wouldn't be bad to communicate through the crystal ball like this sometimes.

-I'm disappointed. Where are you?

"You don't need to know."

Aman's cheeks puffed out at Lucas's words.

-Hmph.

Aman crossed his arms tightly and turned his head away with a huff.

"Hmph?"

He asked back, finding it absurd, but Aman shouted 'Hmph' even louder and then abruptly cut off the connection.

"Huh?"

Lucas, who was staring blankly at the darkened crystal ball, furrowed his brow.

"You crazy lizard bastard."

He had thought he had become a little more sane lately, but it seemed not.

Sitting by Lake Mare and looking around, his mind settled down comfortably again.

"It's always nice to see."

He really liked this feeling of his mind becoming calm as he looked at the calm water of the vast lake.

His brow furrowed for a moment as he took several deep breaths of the clear air.

"The air has become turbid."

A foreign energy felt from the surroundings. This was definitely the demons'.

'Did they come for me?'

Just by the energy he felt, the number was considerable. And their skills also seemed to be formidable.

'I can't even tell how many there are...'

To have erased the surrounding energy so cleanly meant that there were at least three or more high-class mages.

Besides, since most demons were proficient in magic, the skills of the others would not be something to be ignored either.

'At this rate, it's certain they came for me.'

Seeing the surrounding air begin to boil with killing intent at Lucas's single word, it became certain that they had come with the intention of killing him.

'The first move wins.'

Mana began to boil from Lucas's body.

-K-kwakakakang!

As a vast amount of mana that had burst out at once burned the entire forest, black shadows began to shoot up from all over the place.

-Pa-pat! Pat! Pat!

Quickly cast teleportation.

"Kill him!"

As someone shouted, a huge magic circle was activated and bound Lucas.

"Keuk!"

The flustered Lucas groaned as he looked at the magic circle that bound his body.

He didn't know when they had prepared it, but the magic circle's completeness was considerable.

'Are they planning to catch a dragon?'

The demons, who had confirmed that Lucas's body was bound, began to reveal themselves.

"Now!!!"

A torrent of attack magic.

-Kwa-kwang! Kwang! Kwa-kwang!

The ground where Lucas stood was gouged out, and hazy smoke rose.

-Kwa-jik! Kwa-jijijik!

And yet, the attacks continued to pour down.

"He must be dead by now, right?"

"Of course. We've been preparing the magic circle in this place for weeks!"

"Right... at this rate, even a dragon would be dead."

The demons approaching the gouged-out ground.

"Cough! Ugh. Look at the smoke. That's why I told you not to use lightning and ice together."

As one demon stepped forward and created a wind to blow away all the smoke, a deeply gouged hole was revealed.

"There's nothing here."

"Hey. He must have turned to ash."

"Ah."

"You're an idiot. It's fine. Let's go now."

It was when they were about to turn around.

"What a truly foolish race."

Lucas, who appeared in a perfectly fine state.

"I was expecting a little more this time."

One corner of Lucas's mouth curled up into a smirk.

[End of Chapter]