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Episode 69: Must Become Stronger Than Anyone Else

Without hiding my killing intent, I approached the maggot. Close enough that our faces nearly touched, I spoke gently to him. Perhaps understanding what I meant, the maggot collapsed to the floor, leaving a yellow puddle, completely powerless.

Hmm. If only he had been this obedient from the start, I wouldn’t have had to expose my shame in front of so many people. Truly a foolish man.

“Excuse me?”

At that moment, Aida Ujieri, the daughter of the knight commander and also the student council president of this academy, approached me. In such a situation, she smelled nothing but trouble, and I pondered how to refuse her without complications.

◆ Aida’s Perspective

My brother was my hero.

Even when I mimicked him, he never mocked me for being a girl.

I thought of him as stronger than anyone else, destined to succeed our father as the next Imperial Knight Commander and one of the Empire’s Seven Knights. I was incredibly proud that he used his strength for the weak, and I aspired to be just like him.

Then, one day during a thunderstorm, my brother was killed right before my eyes.

I glimpsed the face of his killer for a moment in the lightning’s flash—a mad gaze, a blond man about 180 centimeters tall, and an attack skill I had never seen or heard of before.

In this country, there are too many blond men around 180 centimeters tall to pinpoint him with such sparse information, but I vividly remember those eyes. If I ever see them again, I’m confident I can identify him.

Since then, I’ve abandoned being a woman and desperately lived in place of my brother.

I knew my parents wanted happiness for me as a woman, and even without a legitimate heir, they could have received offspring from elsewhere to continue the family line.

Of course, I understood that behind those emotions lay the fear that if I died like my brother, the family would collapse.

However, as parents and nobles, it was natural for them to think that way, so I had no intention of criticizing them for being nagging.

Rather, I could only be grateful that they let me continue to imitate my brother despite being a woman.

Yes, I understand that it’s me who’s still consumed by vengeance.

That’s why I must become stronger than anyone else.

My brother was beginning to be considered on par with the Empire’s Seven Knights. I vowed to avenge him, so half-hearted efforts would never suffice.