Chapter 19

The Innate Dedicator, Eileen Ismophil.

With a perpetually elegant and slightly distant smile on her face, she carries herself with noble grace, treating everyone with equal respect. She faithfully embodies the image of a perfect princess knight, so perfect that she almost seems unreal, like a character straight out of a dream.

Within the confines of her abilities, she can almost do anything and is selfless to a surprising extent. Even the greediest and most shameless person would find it hard to find fault in someone who seems to never think of herself.

Although at first glance, she emits an aura that keeps others at a distance, those who get to know her better will discover...

She is someone who can fulfill even the most unreasonable requests from normal people.

After just a few months since she entered the School of Balancing, her title as the "Innate Devotee" had spread throughout the entire academy.

The incident that further solidified this title was when Eileen wrote a contract similar to a love letter to help an unknown elf find a certain club's president, and coincidentally, the president's assistant lacked a rare magical material. Eileen then went to help buy the material, but found that she didn't have enough money. So she went to a dangerous place on behalf of the material shop owner to obtain the material. At the location, she killed a wanted monster and left the reward for a local orphanage. She used the remaining reward to cover the price difference and gave the acquired material to the material shop owner. Later on, the president discovered that Eileen was the one who wrote the contract resembling a love letter.

Someone who meticulously connects every detail and is willing to help others, even with the delivery of a love letter, may not necessarily be liked by everyone, but at least they won't be disliked.

All in all, Eileen Ismophil is a good student of the academy, a reliable support, an ideal object for perfectionists, and the daughter who makes her mother proud.

But what does she think of herself?

As the admired and idolized, what does she think of herself?

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"Molly Ann," after Eileen-senpai declared her war, she didn't start bombarding me with magic spells. Instead, she sat back on the ground and pushed her bangs behind her ear. "How's it here?"

I started to look around in confusion--

At first, I thought this was a vast space, but upon closer inspection, I realized it was actually quite narrow. The walls, floor, and furniture were all the same shade of grayish white, leading to possible misunderstandings. Everything was grayish white-- the walls, the floor, the table, and even the utensils.

The bed and bookshelves had expensive-looking decorations, along with this headache-inducing color scheme. It felt like the room belonged to some secretive and wealthy aristocrat.

And what I was sitting on was a soft blanket, with a comfortable touch.

But...

"Even if you ask me how it is here..."

Though there was no physical pain or any hardships related to survival like oxygen levels, gravity index, or air quality, it was...

—Oppressive enough to make it hard to breathe.

Is this the only way to describe it?

"It's a room that makes you want to escape after a minute, right?"

Eileen-senpai stroked the walls, as if she knew exactly what impression this room left on normal people.

"I first came here when I was very young. It seems I accidentally stumbled upon something and fell into this place."

"Back then, it was even narrower than it is now. It was just a grayish white, irregular space. I didn't know how to get out, so I practiced the dance steps I learned that day in here silently, like a caged hamster."

"To be suddenly dropped into such a place and not panic, but instead have the composure to study, only a person like that would be amazing... By the way, hamsters don't dance, Eileen-senpai."

Eileen-senpai stood up, stretched, and then sat on a chair that appeared out of thin air, smiling at me."But hamsters just crawl around instinctively, and for me at that time, practice was probably just a instinctive reaction from my brain, no different from a hamster."

"..."

"And I vaguely knew that this was my innate ability, and I realized that my father was the same way, surviving from that war."

Certain unique abilities can be inherited through bloodline. Perhaps it was because Sir Isomophel's illness resulted in Eileen awakening this ability.

"I stayed here for a full eighteen hours, until I passed out from exhaustion, before leaving this place."

When Eileen senior sister recalled this incident, she didn't have any lingering fear, just calmly recounting the facts.

"This is my world, and the things that exist here are the materializations of my consciousness. If your knowledge is extensive enough, you should be familiar with the concept of a mental world, right? My ability is the materialization of the mental world. Our coordinates are still in the physical world, but our entities are in my mental world."

"Well, that's really quite an extraordinary ability..."

Ah, unintentionally, I remembered my own ability. How desperate, how I wished to die. Comparing oneself to others only leads to frustration. (

"Although I had tried bringing living things in before, you are the first living person," Eileen senior sister sat in a chair, playing with the cutlery on the table, "So, what do you think of this place? What kind of person do you think I am, with this mental world?"

What should I do? If I were to honestly speak my thoughts that this place is boring, gloomy, and owner is definitely a dark and evil social recluse, would Eileen senior sister throw the knife in her hand directly at me...

"I would."

"Well, I absolutely wouldn't say 'this place is boring, gloomy, and owner is definitely a dark and evil social recluse'!"

Eileen senior sister raised an eyebrow while looking at me.

I added on, "Although I am surprised that you can read minds!"

"...I can't read minds, I can only vaguely sense some of your thoughts," Eileen senior sister sighed, "And I can also tell that you aren't panicking at all. Are you thinking that I won't do anything to you? Or are you assuming that someone will come to rescue you?"

"...I guess maybe a little of both?"

"Well then, I really need to make you understand the situation quickly."

Eileen senior sister snapped her fingers, and the room we were in suddenly disappeared, turning into a gray-white arena, with even gray-white figures as spectators in the stands.

"The pre-match introduction is over. Now, come on, Molly Ann, let me see why exactly you are able to accompany Emile—"

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凸(艹皿艹)

I knew it would come to this!