"Lan, I'm not deliberately seeking your forgiveness, but..." I stood outside Lan's room for a long time, unsure of what to do.

I didn't do the homework left by the school today. Teacher Juxi rarely assigned heavy written assignments like other classes, about how to control one's spiritual energy.

I returned to my room and silently applied some medicinal wine to the wounds on my body. Suddenly, I noticed the coagulated blood in the wound on my chest, feeling a strong black color mixed in it!

"What is this?!" Surprised, I touched my wound. "It doesn't hurt anymore. Can wounds heal this quickly?"

My body improved quite a bit in a short time. I randomly picked up the latest college news, after all, there wasn't much else to do.

Bored, there had been constant battles between orcs and humans lately, and we small characters never had a choice, but we were indeed one of the key figures here.

I still paid attention to the latest news about Saint Veronica. To be honest, I never thought such a big change would happen to me one day.

The story goes back to the day things suddenly changed. My sister and I almost desperately fled towards home, protected by our butler grandpa. Along the way, I accidentally fell down the hillside and got separated from my sister.

Later on, when I returned home, I discovered a series of catastrophes. I couldn't stop the tragedy from happening!

The courtyard was gradually engulfed in flames, and in the instant I stepped into the house...

"Ahhhhhhh!!!" My sister's screams pierced my eardrums. I was stunned by the scene in front of me. My deceased parents and sister... massacred my family right before my eyes.

Why... Why would they do this to me?

"Huh?!" I suddenly woke up from the nightmare, still in the dormitory room. Everything was exactly the same.

And when I woke up, there was a dark figure leaning against the windowsill behind me, the heavy shadow startled me under the moonlight!

"I hate nightmares!" This voice... turns out it's Teacher Juxi?

The white coat fluttered in the evening breeze, giving people a creepy feeling.

"In fact, Saint Veronica was originally even more desolate than the original continent. Compared to us, who had a good family since childhood, Saint Veronica has always been in the midst of a battle between humans and beastmen."

"Us?!" I said, not understanding. Teacher Juxi's words felt strange. Did he also come from the original world before? Then why did he appear here now?

"You may find it strange," Juxi smiled helplessly, "but I used to be just like you. We were both humans, without any powerful force attached to us!"

"Is that so?" I couldn't comprehend it. From my parents... and my sister... I had almost lost everything, including the people closest to me.

I never expected that in the end, all I would have is a hideous face that satisfies my own desires. By the way...

"Hey," I impatiently said to Juxi, "Why don't you, who is so strong, exterminate all those orcs? That way, I would also..."

"Why rush to exterminate them?" Juxi asked me in return, pretending to be ignorant.

It's really frustrating, as if he didn't do it himself, even though it's his profession! He pretends to be a nice person in front of me, which is completely contradictory to his profession.

"Yeah!" he shamelessly admitted, "I just can't understand their behavior. It's just that I think the way those animals take revenge is too extreme!"

"So are we justified in self-defense?"

"... Haha, why do you think that?"

Juxi's gaze softened, like a mother's, and I couldn't see any trace of sinking or negative emotions in his eyes. Anyway, he is such a guy who never says anything decisive.

"I really don't understand how you became the leader!" I smiled bitterly and shook my head.

"I don't understand either, how you ended up thinking of me as the leader!"

"..."

"Tit for tat." Juxi laughed, as if he was playing with me like a monkey.

Just as I turned my head again, suddenly, a hand reached out from behind me, and it was incredibly cold—a bottle of chilled orange juice!

"Hey! Uh?" I took the orange juice he handed over, but before I could thank him, I found that he had already disappeared without a trace.