Reincarnated As A Side Villain
Events
In the afternoon Argeas escorted Evangeline around the Kotaraja Trade Area.
Although initially only looking for a place to sell Items and know the estimated price, but in the end Argeas and Evangeline instead ventured to other crafters and began to establish a relationship.
Including with some like an Iron Mark and a potion shop owner.
Afterwards they both rest in a restaurant, as well as dinner.
"The items you created are valued quite highly, considering you are still a second-year Academy student." Argeas was really amazed at his future wife.
They both deliberately chose a table in the open space courtyard right on the side of the road in order to see the busy activities of the road to night.
"of course. Are you underestimating your fiance's abilities?" Evangeline puffed up her chest a little.
"That means after this you have started earning," continued Argeas still sounded proud of his fiancee.
"We" said Evangeline quickly. "The income is not just from the results of my work. The materials, equipment, and even abilities I need all come from you, Ar." continued the girl.
"But still you're gonna keep it and manage it, right?"
"of course. You're quite dubious in the use of money."
"Well, this young couple has been talking about the household only when it's only been a few months engaged." Suddenly a voice came from the direction of the road chiming in their chatter.
"Oh, Brother Sophie?" Argeas recognizes Sophie, though now the girl is wearing her combat gear. Includes a high conical hat belonging to a witch in black with pink stripes motif.
"Hey, Ar? How are you?"
Then followed behind Sophie some people that Argeas knew.
There's Jack, Pause, and Ashley.
'Why do I always have to meet Ashley, anyway?' argeas's inner self finds Ashley walking between Jack and Pause.
"Oh, good night, brother Jack, brother Pause, brother Ashley," he said then to his brother's friends.
There seems to be no problem between Argeas and Jack, although Argeas beat Jack a year ago.
That was because a few months after the duel, Jack bravely admitted defeat and apologized through an official letter he sent to Regina for Argeas.
And after that they occasionally met before Argeas' engagement party. When the young man had to go back and forth to Kotaraja to order clothes and also an engagement ring.
"You guys are dating?" asked Sophie with a silly smile.
"Oh, meet Evangeline Lavis." Argeas introduced his fiancee to the others.
"Greetings to all the brothers. I'm Evangeline Lavis. Argeas' fiancee," Evangeline continued to introduce herself.
"The youngest daughter of the Marquis does indeed fit the rumors. Beautiful," said Pause. "Include me to Hargar's Pause" he continued by introducing himself.
"He's a fiancee, Je. You're still gonna tease her?" sophie Timpal.
"Why do you call praising and courteous you flirt, Soph?" Pause seemed not to accept the words of his friend.
"Include me Jack Garland, and this is Ashley Cross," Jack cuts by introducing himself and introducing the flower-clad girl standing next to him.
"And I'm Sophie Sabil" Sophie said afterwards. Introduce yourself cheerfully.
"Greetings." Evangeline gave a small nod to the four seniors before her.
"Where are you guys going?" ask Argeas then mince words.
"We've just finished signing up for an Adventurer." Pause answered.
'Oh, right. . After this I also have to register, ' Inner Argeas. 'Eh? But why would Jack who is the successor of the family also register as an Adventurer?'
"So Jack signed up?" ask Argeas then.
"Yes, the four of us." Pause that answers.
"But, isn't it Jack's brother..."
"I'm the Garland family's successor?" Jack immediately cut off Argeas's remark.
"That's Right. But it's not a problem. When the time comes for me to be the leader of the family, then I just need to retire to be an Adventurer. Easy, right? And more experience and insight that can be obtained by becoming an Adventurer," continued the young man gave an explanation.
'So soon, doesn't he think that he's doing anything while exploring, meaning his family is threatened with not having a successor?' inner Argeas who looks not so understand the way the noble boy thought before him.
"Are you also interested in signing up, Ar? don't mind if you're a noble or not. Academy student or not. The important thing is that you're 16 years old and up and pass the Test Entry from them." This time it was a pause that spoke.
"Maybe later after I've gotten used to life at the Academy and Kotaraja's, sis," replied Argeas honestly.
"Okay, we'll wait. But not too long." Jack chimed.
"Oh, yes. From what I hear, you're not in Elite Class, Ar?" Suddenly Pause asked him something he just remembered.
'Oh, why do people like to gossip about something as trivial as this, ' Argeas's mind complained.
"really?" Jack looked surprised. Not unlike Sophie and Ashley, although he did not comment.
"Yes. Rodio told me a few weeks ago," replied Pause.
"How could the Academy not get you into the Elite Class?" Jack asked not to understand.
"That's.." Argeas did not prepare an answer to this question.
'How do I answer this question?" he panicked a little.
"Did you not use the limiting ring when doing Aura Measurements?" Pause guessing correctly.
"Maybe.. because I am not qualified to enter the Elite Class," Argeas replied accordingly. He can't make anything up anymore right now.
"What are you talking about, Ar? How can you ever defeat me in less than 3 seconds that is not worthy of entering the Elite Class?" Jack has objected.
"Sister Jack was too complimentary. That time was just my luck." Argeas tried to retaliate.
"Oh, so do you think I've lost because I was unlucky? You're this. How about we just replay our duel?" jack said defiantly.
'It seems I misrespected.' Argeas smiled awkwardly. Unable to answer.
"Or don't you deliberately avoid Elite Class, huh?" Guess Pause once again. Which is always on target.
"Oh.. true too. Looking at your nature, it's very likely that you did deliberately avoid attention." This time Sophie was also on target guessing. "Really, right?"
"If it's like that, it makes sense. Because there's no way the Academy will put you in a regular class knowing your true abilities." Jack seemed to accept the reason concluded by his friends.
While Argeas just silent dead fleas. Can't answer or even just give up.
"But if that's your decision, yes. Although I think it's a pity that you tried to hide your great abilities," said Jack again who really seemed sad.
"And you don't have to worry, nor will we deliberately spread this to others. It's just that instead, let's explore the ruins together when you've signed up later." Jack added back.
Argeas seemed to have hesitated before then nodding small. "I'll call my sister when I sign up later."
"But not for too long" Jack said again.
Argeas only laughed lightly without replying.
"All right then. Continue your date. We'll excuse you first" said Pause later.
"Bye, Ar." Sophie waved a little while walking with her friends leaving the place.
"They're Regina's friends?" Evangeline asked after.
"really. They came to my birthday party a year ago" replied Argeas.
"They look like good people" Evangeline said.
"Yes, I think they're good people. It seems like Regina's sister is good at making friends" Argeas replied.
"Then are you going to register as an Adventurer too in the near future?" Evangeline asked with a new theme this time.
"I guess it will be after I have already started entering the Academy's Underground Ruins. So people won't suspect much either."
"What are you saying, Ar? Everyone's starting to suspect you, you know? Then what are you planning to do for the next half year?"
"For the time being I will only help you search and gather materials to speed up your Crafting Grade Ability ascension process," Argeas replied with a wide smile towards Evangeline.
"really? That means we'll often go both ways?" Argeas' smile began to rub off on Evangeline.
"true." Argeas.
"All right then. We start from next week's day" Evangeline said quickly. "We go to.." looks like the girl's looking around. "Lake behind Agni hill," he said then decided.
"alright. And it just so happened that I also wanted to learn Non-Combat abilities like fishing and skinning animals" Argeas replied.
"good. Then pick me up after breakfast."
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Argeas and Evangeline were chatting on the edge of the lake after searching for materials in the form of plants and minerals.
On the sidelines, they also hunted in the forest at the foot of the hill, before then fishing while resting on the edge of the lake.
"I think the material we got today is enough for some new Item projects going forward." Evangeline said as she stared at her Inventory Status.
"I'm sorry I can't help much in finding materials. Outside of fighting and hunting, my skills are unreliable." Argeas. He seemed discouraged because he did not have any Gathering or material gathering skills.
"Don't feel disappointed like that. You don't always have to be in all areas Ar. Finding minerals and plants is difficult. Even for the [Erudite] class itself." Evangeline tried to cheer up.
"Yes, I know that too. Because the Gathering was indeed the Fairy's skill," replied Argeas who was aware of it.
'Ah, that's right too. If Eve has a contract with the fairy, maybe she can more easily find the material, ' Argeas inner get the idea. 'And it doesn't have to be fair with a high level. The lowest level is still an expert in collecting materials, I guess.'
"Why? Are you planning something crazy again?" evangeline asked when she saw her fiance's face suddenly turning serious.
"Obviously you don't feel like there is. That's because your perception of the common thing never makes sense."
"I just..."
"Yahoo!!!!"
Not yet finished Argeas continued his words, heard a screaming voice from within the forest.
"What's that sound?" Evangeline looks worried.
"The direction of the forest. Let's see," Argeas asked later.
And they rushed to the forest.
Arriving at the place where the voice had come from, Argeas found a human-like creature with bat wings on its back. His face looked like a baboon with fangs protruding out intimidatingly, and the skin was pale like marble.
It was seen that the creature was slowly approaching two girls who were knocked down not far from an overturned horse carriage. Around him some people in the uniform of a guard were lying motionless.
"Isn't that a Harpy?" Evangeline recognized the monster even though it was still quite a distance away.
"Yes, more precisely the Holy Harpy" Argeas said. It was seen that the young man had already taken out his magic wand.
'Ah, fuck. It was the coat of arms of the Royal Family, Argeas' inner being was then able to see the emblem on the roof part of the overturned horse carriage.
'How do I save them without having to get in touch with the Royal Family afterwards?' The young man began to feel a little hesitant looking for a way to save the two girls.
But Argeas had not yet done anything, emerging from within the forest from the opposite direction, five people, two of whom were knights who had directly attacked the Holy Harpy.
Spontaneous Argeas and Evangeline stop their steps.
'Oh? Is this part of an ? But which event is this? Many events involving the palace family, ' Argeas thought trying to remember.
The young man also gave up his intention to act after seeing the situation that was happening. Although it still hasn't moved out of place. Just in case something unwanted happens.
Because based on his judgment, these people were still quite young and appeared to be less experienced.
"It looks like they can take care of it."
Evangeline pointed to the remaining three people who were seen immediately helping the two girls who were sitting near the horse carriage.
"Yes, I guess. But we'll keep an eye on it until they actually kill the monster."
Argeas was still worried because the monster was a kind that was quite difficult to kill if not in the right way.
"Are you worried they can't kill him? Isn't the Harpy a medium-level monster?"
"really. But that [Holy] variant had quite a high regeneration ability. So if it's not finished properly, he can ambush back when the opponent thinks he's dead" Argeas explained.
"Oh? They had already defeated him," Evangeline cut off as she pointed.
And it seems that Argeas' concerns are well-founded. It was seen that the two knights had started to take down their horses after successfully dropping the Holy Harpy.
"Hey, they should have attacked him with the fire attribute once again until the core was charred in flames. Why did they think this was over even though they had not received any notice that the monster was dead?" said Argeas looking a little irritated.
And sure enough, when the two knights turned around to head to his friends because they felt everything was done, the bat-winged monster immediately jumped to attack one of the knights.
But Argeas was prepared for that. "Thunder Spear" he said later.
And a flash of spear-shaped lightning came out from the tip of the magic wand Argeas, which then shot towards the monster.
Even the two knights had not had time to react when the lightning struck and burned the Holy Harpy's body while still in position in the air.
Everyone around the monster looked surprised. Meanwhile, Argeas immediately invites Evangeline to leave the place.
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"Are they okay with you staying?" Evangeline looks still worried about those guys.
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...<<120 XP Obtained>>...
Suddenly a notice appeared in Argeas' mind.
"Don't worry. The monster is dead now" Argeas replied.
"The [Burning] effect of the [Thunder Spear] magic has the ability to inhibit the regeneration of the monster and drain its HP to 0," the young man continued giving a more detailed explanation.
"Remember this information," he added again which he addressed to his fiancee.
While Evangeline only disturbs the sign of understanding.
"And it's also better that we don't interfere with those people" Argeas continued.
"That's you. Too worried to get in touch with the people from the palace." Evangeline replied.
"You know them from iatana?"
"The emblem on the horse-drawn carriage was the emblem of the royal family."
"I don't think you saw it."
"Hey, don't underestimate me. I have the [Sharp Eye] ability to increase visibility."
"Yes-yes, sorry. We better continue our conversation that was cut off just now. At lunch," Argeas asked, who tried to divert the conversation.
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Shortly after Argeas and Evangeline finished with their lunch, a horse-drawn carriage with several people walking around approached.
Argeas was already uncomfortable with this.
And once it was close enough, Argeaa and Evangeline stood up ready to salute.
"Oh, you two?" A brownish-blonde young man whose length covered half of the face spoke. Argeas and Evangeline.
The young man was known to Argeas as one of the knights who had previously fought the Holy Harpy.
"You know them?" A girl spoke from behind the window of the train, which was shattered on its glass.
"True princess. They are Academy students," the long-haired young man replied later.
"Greet the third daughter, Princess Anastasia," he continued to Argeas and Evangeline in a commanding tone.
"Greetings Princess Anastasia. My name is Argeas Danae."
"And I'm Evangeline Lavis" Evangeline said.
"Oh, the youngest daughter and future daughter-in-law of Marquis Lavis apparently. What are you doing in this place?" asked the girl called Anastasia as she lowered her head out the window. He looks very interested in Argeas and Evangeline.
"We were fishing and relaxing in nature, princess," replied Argeas.
"Oh, so you guys are dating. Have you been in this place for a long time?" The girl who was no older than Argeas' older sister asked.
"From before lunch, princess."
"And did you see anything strange?" Anastasia asked again.
"Something weird?" Argeas pretended not to understand.
"Did you see anyone pass this place before us?" This time it was the bespectacled young man who tried to explain the question from the Princess.
"No. We don't see anyone passing by except the princesses' troupe right now." Argeas answered honestly.
"All right if that's the case. Just continue with your show. We'll excuse you first" Anastasia replied as she re-entered her head into the car.
"Let's walk," he ordered.
"Good way princess." Argeas and Evangeline bowed respectfully as the horse-drawn carriage passed them.
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"Who were those people? How do they know us?" Argeas asked after the chariot procession was far enough away.
"It looks like they're students from the Elite Class. I recognized the lethargic-faced girl earlier. If his name is not wrong Illaria En'ger," replied Evangeline.
'Illaria En'ger's? Isn't he in ? Did that lead to the Beastman's bondage?' inner Argeas who had just found the answer to the question that stuck up earlier.
'But if it's true that event, it means it has something to do with Rynka, the [Champion] of the main character.' Argeas is starting to look worried.
"I think we have to get out of here before things get complicated" he said, then asked Evangeline
"Yes, I also agree," replied the girl who also had similar thoughts.
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A day later in one of the villas belonging to the Palace Family in the vicinity of the Academy complex.
"Are you sure it's the Magic Spell [Thunder Spear]?"
Seen a handsome young man with a gallant and authoritative posture asked the long-haired young man who had saved Anastasia.
"I'm sure of the prince." The long haired man replied.
The young man called the prince was Anastasia's older brother. Third prince, Ferdinan.
"Although it's a mid-level Magic Spell, but still Attribute [Lightning] can only be learned when the grade of the magic Attribute required is above Grade A." Ferdinan said in an explanation. "And usually only C-level Adventurers and above might master it."
"Then find information about the C-level Adventurers who mastered the magic." Anastasia, who was also in the room, said the rule.
"Okay, princess." One of the knights replied before then rushing out of the room.
"What's really going on lately? Before [Magus] and now someone with [Thunder Spear] magic. Is this a sign that the arrival of the Hero is near?" Ferdinan tried to guess.
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