I Became the Maid of the Lout Prince

Chapter 113

“Second place, Lizzy Lynn August.”

The familiar name suddenly heard in my ears jolted my relaxed mind awake.

Lizzy Lynn August.

Although I couldn’t remember her since our first meeting, she was now a woman that I had a memorable relationship with and was someone that I could clearly recall.

She was the eldest daughter of the August family and the older sister of Caraham, the miniboss of Part 3.

‘...No, wait, how did she get in?!’

As far as I knew, Lizzy was definitely a woman with an ambiguous talent for magic.

It explains why she applied for the Magic Department last year, but I believe she failed without achieving proper grades.

That’s why I thought there was virtually no chance of meeting her again at the academy, and even if I did meet her, I never thought it would be at the academy.

I couldn’t help but feel momentarily flustered seeing her properly enrolled in the academy, whatever her intentions might be, even more so seeing her enrolled in the Pharmacy Department rather than the Magic Department.

‘Should I consider this good news...?’

This meant she was a woman of at least some ability to rank second in the Pharmacy Department, so I guess it’s fair to say the academy’s overall strength had increased.

Of course, since the Pharmacy Department was a non-combat department, I didn’t think it would make much of a difference unless she had skills like Lara, who was the top student.

It was such an unbelievable reality that I couldn’t help but think it might be an incredibly unlikely case of someone with the same name, but soon, a voice I heard completely denied that last possibility.

“Sister! As expected of you, sister! You’ve raised the honor of the August family in my stead...!”

“Stop making such an embarrassing fuss and wait quietly...!”@@@@

Hearing the clear voices of the August siblings even from a distance, I had to finally acknowledge it for certain.

In the end, my actions during the attack on the Imperial Palace caused a change in the Luminor Academy student pool.

For now, in Ethan’s case, things had definitely changed for the better, so it might be better to think of Lizzy’s case similarly.

Thinking that, I was blankly staring at the stage when a young lady with sky-blue hair started to ascend.

As I was absently following Lizzy’s path with my eyes, for a moment, I had a strange feeling that our eyes met.

Wink.

“......?”

...Did she just wink at me?

No way. She must have just been greeting someone else she knew nearby.

In the first place, I was dressed differently from that day, and on the day I met Lizzy, I was even wearing a mask covering my eyes.

No matter how much we were acquainted and even talked, it would be nearly impossible for Lizzy to recognize me at a glance.

Trusting Serista instead of excommunicating her, meeting Selena in the World Tree Forest and making her enroll in the academy, dealing with enemies that are easy to defeat in the prologue, and not interfering with rival characters’ enrollment just to enter the route of some of the heroines – he had done it all.

Although he bore the strange name Gyeongmwajogyegigwat, his goal was only one: ‘Safe Clear.’

To return to his original world, he had to clear the game and see the true ending – that was the condition set by whoever made him possess the protagonist in this world.

...The problem was that this world he was possessed in was flowing a bit differently from the original story of Luminor Academy.

‘No matter how I compare, many things are definitely different.’

The fact that the spearwoman at Silverwood, which he briefly visited for monster subjugation, had changed from a pink-haired woman to a woman with dull, brown hair resembling Ariana...

The fact that the name of a woman presumed to be Saint Lilith was somehow on the list of successful applicants for the Magic Department while finding Agnes’s name...

And even the fact that Lizzy, who should have died in the monster invasion of the Imperial Palace, had unexpectedly enrolled as second place in the Pharmacy Department...

Each of them was enough to make the hero, Gyeongmwajo..., flustered, but among them, what surprised him the most was the unbelievable transformation of Ethan, the Lout Prince. {GalaxyTL/Axiomatic}

‘Who would call him a lout prince after seeing that appearance...’

At first, he thought someone else had come up on stage instead of Ethan.

The appearance and atmosphere emanating from him were at a level that made no sense to recognize him as Ethan, and he could barely find any commonalities with the Ethan he knew from the previous world.

Even now, looking at Ethan standing next to himself as second place in the sword department, Gyeongmwajogyegigwat couldn’t help but stare intently at him as if he still couldn’t believe it.

‘No matter how I look at it, it seems to be Ethan himself; he really isn’t someone else.’

With the twin swords at both sides of his waist and the black double-headed eagle crest of the Blackwood family engraved on various parts of his sword and cape, even someone who had never met Ethan before would inevitably think of the Blackwood family upon seeing him.

Moreover, the black hair and eyes unique to the Blackwood family were decisive evidence that he was Ethan Richard Blackwood.

Faced with this unbelievable reality, the Hero couldn’t help but experience confused emotions for a moment.

After thinking to himself for a while, he came to the most plausible conclusion in his mind.

‘For now, this Ethan guy definitely seems to be someone special.’

Whether he came from the same world as himself or not, at least the Ethan before his eyes was a different person from the ‘Lout Prince Ethan’ he knew...

...and the fact that all the changes so far were related to Ethan increased its credibility.

Sending Ariana, who stole his mother’s heirloom, to exile in Silverwood, recognizing Lilith’s talent for magic, and using means to make her enroll in the academy – these were all probably his doing.

Moreover, there were even rumors about his considerable achievements during the monster invasion of the Imperial Palace, so he likely intervened to prevent Lizzy’s death as well.

‘I’m not exactly sure what this guy wants... but our general goals seem to be the same.’

Seeing him act as if he knows the future, he might be possessed like himself from another world, or he might be living a new life after returning from a different future of this world.

Of course, since he was basically a villain, he couldn’t rashly reveal the fact that he possessed the Hero, but at least he needed to confirm Ethan’s identity once.

Even as he listened to Seraphine’s speech, Gyeongmwajogyegigwat was just waiting for the entrance ceremony to end as soon as possible.

He waited for a chance to talk with Ethan Richard Blackwood, who stood beside him, alone.