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Chapter 3
“Wow, this is seriously ridiculous. So, all this time, we were calling some guy who’d been demoted to a commoner ‘sir’? Ugh.”
“It’s fine. We didn’t know. These things happen.”
I could see Krollin and Mork having that conversation while gagging in disgust.
“…Yeah, right. As if. If something changes, you’re supposed to tell us immediately. Don’t you think?”
Sol Krensh also muttered that with an utterly dumbfounded expression.
“……”
Faced with such an abrupt situation, I was momentarily at a loss for words. But soon, I began rapidly putting the pieces together.
Okay, let’s organize this for a moment.
Originally, in the novel, Camon Vade was an extreme elitist who hated—no, despised—commoners.
And these three monster brothers were his followers.
‘At the very least, they must have followed him because they shared and agreed with the same ideology, right?’
So was that why they had immediately changed their attitude the moment they heard that I’d been kicked out of the Vade family and become a commoner?
“Wow, this is seriously amazing.”
I let out an involuntary hollow laugh and muttered to myself.
“You’re laughing? You think this is funny?”
“Did your brain melt along with your social status?”
Whatever happened to their previous respectful attitude? Seeing them provoking me like third-rate gangsters, I could only shake my head.
Then.
“Hey.”
Thud!
Sol Krensh lightly shoved my shoulder and continued speaking.
“Does it piss you off?”
“…What?”
“To be honest, you were scary when you were Camon of House Vade, but now you’re just a filthy commoner. Right?”
“Heh, exactly. So what are you going to do about it? Are you going to attack us or something? You do know that if a mere commoner attacks a noble for no reason, they’re immediately sentenced to death, right?”
What, the death penalty?
There was a rule like that too?
Man, what a great world this is…
“What good is being a magic genius when you’re just a commoner now? Hehehe.”
Watching Krollin and Mork continue to snicker and mock me, I let out a small sigh.
“Haah. It really is fascinating. I’ve never even experienced racial discrimination in my entire life…”
And now I was experiencing discrimination based on social status?
It was a strange and unfamiliar feeling, but I certainly couldn’t say I liked it.
Which was why—
“You guys. Can you handle this?”
“What?”
“What did that bastard just say? Handle? He said handle, right? That idiot…”
Thud, thud!
“No, forget whether we can handle it or not. What exactly can you do right now? You filthy commoner. What, are you going to hit one of us or something?”
Sol Krensh asked that while shoving my shoulder once again.
I let out a quiet chuckle.
Sol, Krollin, Mork.
All three had been expelled from the academy, and their families had been completely ruined.
One was treasonous collusion, one was smuggling, and the last one was human trafficking, if I remembered correctly.
“You’re laughing again? You’ve really gone cra—”
Thud!
“Ahh!”
I suddenly kicked him in the shin.
At the same time—
“S-Sol! Hey, are you crazy?!”
“You just hit a noble, didn’t you? You definitely hit him, right?!”
Krollin and Mork pointed at me and shouted in extremely flustered voices.
But I ignored them and immediately grabbed Sol by the collar, pulling him toward me.
Whoosh!
In an instant, our faces were practically touching.
“W-What are you doing?!”
I put my mouth next to his ear and whispered.
“Your dad did something pretty interesting, didn’t he?”
“What?”
“Your family might even make the front page of tomorrow’s newspaper. ‘House Krensh in Collusion with the Xenon Kingdom.’”
“……!”
The moment his pupils widened, I knew the memories and knowledge I possessed had hit their mark.
“You…!”
“Think carefully, Sol. What exactly should you be doing right now?”
At my words, he stared blankly for a moment before slowly taking a step backward.
“S-Sol. What are you doing? Let’s report that bastard to the guards right now.”
“Yeah, we need to report him quickly…”
But—
“…Shut up!”
Sol silenced the two of them before staring at me for a moment.
Then he spoke again.
“Let’s just go.”
“What?”
“Sol, what do you mean—”
“Ah, fuck! I said let’s just go!”
After cursing in irritation, he turned around without hesitation and began walking away.
The other two monsters stared at him in bewilderment for a moment before hurriedly following after him.
“S-Sol. Wait for me!”
“Me too!”
I watched the three of them disappear into the distance and let out another hollow laugh.
“Ha. Seriously, what am I even supposed to call this?”
Yeah.
This wasn’t easy.
It really wasn’t.
Of all people, why did this have to happen with these bastards, and at this particular moment…?
No, more importantly, why the hell did I even transmigrate into a novel?
“Phew. Whatever.”
Complaining about it here and now wouldn’t accomplish anything.
So—
“Let’s check the dormitory. My belongings should be there too.”
I didn’t even have a change of clothes right now, so retrieving my belongings had to come first.
I was just about to start walking when—
“Wait, but…”
I stopped dead in my tracks and stood there blankly.
‘This feels strangely familiar…’
I didn’t know where the dormitory this bastard used to stay in was.
“Haah. Am I really going to be able to survive here?”
For a brief moment, it felt as though countless problems I would have to face from now on were being laid out before my eyes.
The Flaines Imperial Academy, which served as the setting for the original novel, was practically an independent city in its own right.
Its first headmaster, Elizabeth Tranteil, was personally a close friend of the Imperial Emperor, while officially, she was a member of the Hero Party who had accomplished the world-renowned feat of sealing the Demon King in the past.
The Flaines Empire spared no expense in providing enormous amounts of full-scale support for her.
As a result, on an immense tract of land that surpassed the territories of ordinary nobles in size, the highest technologies of the empire were brought together over a long period of time to construct the place known as the Flaines Imperial Academy.
The novel described the academy’s scenery like this.
[……Countless arched bridges, towering spires and pillars, along with magnificent and extravagant buildings—everything was a perfect and beautiful work of art in itself.]
“The description in the original novel wasn’t wrong, after all.”
Looking around as I muttered to myself, I soon found myself tilting my head at the environment surrounding the academy.
“But could they really build skyscrapers that tall with medieval construction technology?”
Well, they built things like the pyramids in ancient times, so I suppose it was possible.
‘But those were tombs built by pharaohs who possessed the power of the state. This is just a school.’
…The first headmaster must have been ridiculously amazing, then.
Whatever.
Let’s just move on.
I shook my head and convinced myself of that before continuing on my way.
After asking this person and that person along the way, including students, I finally managed to reach the building.
And, just as I expected, it was beyond anything I could have imagined.
“…This is where Camon Vade lives?”
[Elijah Hall]
Seeing the name engraved in emeralds on a golden signboard, I shifted my gaze.
The enormous gate guarded by soldiers.
The magnificent garden stretching out beyond it.
And the several lavish buildings, each spaced far apart from one another…
“This isn’t a dormitory. This is practically a palace.”
Since only the children of selected high-ranking noble families were permitted to stay here, security was extremely strict as well.
Clang!
Just like at the main gate earlier, the guards blocked my path with their spears, their eyes seemingly asking who I was without saying a word.
I cautiously opened my mouth.
“…I’m a student who lives here.”
The guards slightly lowered their heads and withdrew their spears.
At that very moment—
Creak!
The iron gate suddenly opened, and a maid stepped out from inside.
“We have been waiting for you, Camon-nim.”
“For me?”
“Yes, Camon-nim. This way, please.”
I followed the maid, who spoke in an extremely businesslike tone, into the dormitory.
And soon, at the central building of Elijah Hall, I found a nameplate bearing my name.
[Camon Vade]
‘Wait, does he have an entire building to himself?’
That’s right.
Not a room.
Not even an entire floor.
An entire building.
The scale and extravagant appearance were so far beyond my expectations that my mouth naturally fell open.
“This is insane…”
Then—
“You may enter.”
Creak.
As the door opened—
“Amazing…”
I could only utter that single word at the sight before me.
There wasn’t a single thing that didn’t gleam, while the floor made entirely of pure white marble practically radiated luxury.
Even the walls were painted in colors designed to protect one’s eyesight…
Thump, thump!
“This place really is soundproof. Ahh!”
I knocked on the wall once and even shouted as loudly as I could, yet there wasn’t even the slightest sense of sound echoing throughout the room.
And besides that—
Clink!
“What’s this? Wait, is that a refrigera—”
There was even a masterpiece of high technology that absolutely should not have existed in a medieval setting.
Of course, it wasn’t a scientific electronic appliance that used refrigerants.
Rather—
“Is that a mana stone?”
Cold air continuously poured out from the blue spheres attached to the top and bottom.
‘This must be some kind of magical engineering, or something.’
Flop!
“Wow, this is ridiculously soft.”
There was also a huge, comfortable bed, along with elegant furniture and other luxurious furnishings.
Creak.
“No way, this is the bathroom?”
The bathroom alone was considerably larger than the studio apartment I had originally lived in, leaving me completely speechless.
Whoosh!
And, of course, the water flushed perfectly.
Holy crap, there’s even a shower?
“Is this heaven?”
I involuntarily muttered that before throwing myself onto the bed.
Flump!
The enormous bed looked large enough for at least fifteen people to sleep on, and it warmly and comfortably embraced my exhausted body after everything I had gone through in this new world.
“Man, this is niceee.”
What? Beds are science?
Bullshit.
Beds are magical engineering.
‘I’d bet my entire fortune that sleeping here would guarantee the best night’s sleep of my life and make all my fatigue disappear.’
A space that had everything: comfort, convenience, and luxury.
Up to this point, everything was perfect.
No.
It was beyond perfect.
It was a place so wonderful that I wanted to stay here until the day I died.
But—
“…Am I actually allowed to live here?”
I had been kicked out of the family.
I was no longer a noble.
Would someone like me really be allowed to continue staying in a place this magnificent?
‘Still, dormitory contracts are usually made on a yearly basis, so maybe I can stay here until the end of this year?’
There was still a possibility.
Even if it was only one in a billion.
Or one in a hundred billion.
There had to be a chance, right?
Tap! Tap!
Hmm?
What’s that sound?
…What else could it be?
The sound of my desperate wishful thinking working so hard that it was about to burn itself out completely.
Just then—
Knock, knock!
“Camon-nim.”
Hearing the maid calling me, I quickly turned my head and answered.
“Ah, yes. What is it?”
“Do you have any personal belongings that you need to take with you?”
“Huh? Belongings? What belongings?”
The maid answered my question in a quiet voice.
“As of today, Camon-nim, you will need to vacate this place, Elijah Hall.”
As expected, reality had not deviated from my expectations.
If you want, I can also make the English translation more novel-like and publication-ready while keeping the character names and story details unchanged.
