I Became a Mafia in the Academy
chapter-209

Chapter 209

~The next morning~

As usual, I’m sitting at a table eating breakfast.

“Huh.”

My dad chuckled as he ate his breakfast with the morning news on.

-Last night at midnight. A prestigious magical family that emigrated from England. Breaking news that the Podish family manor has been completely destroyed by a wizard.

I turned my head to see what the news was about.

-[CCTV screen] Last night at noon. Suddenly, with a tremendous bang, smoke begins to rise from the Podish house.

-[Mosaic voice] Get him! He’s getting away!

-[Mosaic voice] Magical getaway.

-[Mosaic voice] An unidentified man and the Podish family’s security contractor in pursuit. I wonder what really happened.

-[Podish family official] It was just an unfortunate accident while we were developing a new spell.

-The patriarch of the Podish family says it was an accident while developing magic.

However, police investigate and find unexplained grenades and smoke bombs near the Podish home.

The Podish family eventually recanted their story and testified that the explosives belonged to a thief.

“Tsk tsk tsk…….”

My father, watching the TV, clicks his tongue and shakes his head.

“They’re from a prestigious family and are doing this because they can’t catch a thief. It really is a fun world.”

Apparently, what happened yesterday made the news.

Not only had I slipped out of the mansion without anyone noticing, but I’d done it by a route I’d figured out with all the inside information I could muster, and no one inside Corleone knew about it.

Honestly, a magical girl is magical.

It’s a character I created for the most part for fun, and as excited as I am to move forward with the concept after so long, it’s……kind of ugly, you know? I can’t help but feel embarrassed to reveal it to others.

That said, it does allow me to keep the concept of the eccentric and pseudo-enemy shrouded in mystery.

-At the time of the crime, the orphanage was receiving large donations in the name of the “Magical Rogue,” and experts say they’re trying to track down the person who sent the money, but it’s going to be difficult because the money is based overseas, making it very difficult to trace.

It seems that the government can’t do a good job of tracing the money because Haru did it herself.

At this rate, I wonder if I will be able to continue to do the ‘Magical Rogue activity smoothly.

It’s a concept that I can’t give up, because as much as I’m embarrassed, I can bring even more shame to my opponent.

-……It seems that the thief is called a Magical Rogue──

My father changes the TV channel.

“Donating to an orphanage… … Still, there is romance.”

“Yeah.”

Well, Eugene, you seem a little happy. Did something good happen to you?”

“Haha, no, nothing.”

After all, my father is a man who knows romance.

* * *

“Boss, boss, boss, boss, boss, did you hear that?!”

Jin-woo’s shouting had become a routine.

I sigh and look at him.

“What?”

“Oh, you know, the one where the secretary’s house got robbed.”

He did something else today, too.

“Did you know the student council secretary didn’t come to school today? I heard from someone who knows him that he got caught up in it yesterday and his face was all smashed up. Giggle giggle giggle!”

For some reason, my fist went in softly then, like a falcon punch.

“You mean the one that was on the news this morning, the ‘Magical Rogue’? No, how can a thief be named Magical Rogue?”

Se-ah had seen the news today and knew about this case.

And what they both know is what most people already know that his house was burglarized last night.

“Robbed by a guy with a ridiculous name like Magical Rogue. I guess his family’s not doing too good.”

I blurted out and Se-ah nodded in agreement.

“That’s right. When they first came to Korea, they were all over the airwaves saying that they were a prestigious British family, but now they’ve been properly exposed.”

One man’s shame is another man’s celebration.

I wonder how the student council will react to this?

I thought about it for a moment.

“Giggle, giggle, giggle! Hey, have you guys been watching TV?! Look at this! Aaah!”

Ji-hyun, who had entered the class with her belly button tucked in, started playing YouTube on the teacher’s table, and then started broadcasting a video on the beam projector in the classroom.

A video of what happened last night and the secretary being taken away in an ambulance.

And the Podish family patriarch, looking devastated.

“The student council,” she said, “they’re a bunch of bastards, aren’t they, for sticking their heads up their asses like that?”

I couldn’t help but chuckle as I watched her.

I wondered if the faculty could be like that, but then I realized that the student council didn’t have a good relationship with the faculty either, so I understood her reaction.

On top of that, Ji-hyun was also our club advisor, so she might be enjoying the humiliation of the student council targeting us even more.

…… Maybe it’s just human nature.

“Haha……I’ve been dying to laugh lately, but I haven’t laughed in a long time. Ahhhh…… Mmmm. Mmm.”

Realizing how much she’s been laughing, she turns off the video and suddenly clears her throat, returning to her normal self.

“We’ll start with an Academy announcement. Due to the recent terrorist attacks and other events at the academy, the school trip that was scheduled to take place in the first semester has been pushed back to the second semester. It hasn’t been canceled, so everyone should know that……have a good day. I’m going to go watch some more videos.”

She then uses her powers to disappear in a flash.

It was against school rules to use your powers for personal reasons on campus, but……still, Ji-hyun was able to break those rules with aplomb.

She’s a great person and I’m sure she’ll figure it out.

Just like that, I was enjoying life at the academy as usual…….

[Julie: 1:20 today. Cafe VIP]

Julie asked to meet with me.

I think she recently told me that she was under suspicion from the president, so I wonder if it’s okay to see her so often.

Well, I’m sure she has her own thoughts.

“Huh? Where’s the president? Isn’t he going to the office?”

Today’s club activities are a wrap-up of what we’ve earned so far in club battles and all-out warfare.

“I’ll be at the office by the end of lunch.”

It wasn’t going to be right away anyway, so I decided to let them go first and headed to the café, Cielo Notturno.

It’s an Academy favorite that still has people lining up to eat.

It’s so popular that the guinea pigs, who are supposed to be inside cleaning and helping out, are handing out numbered tickets to people standing outside.

Of course, as the owner of the cafe and a VIP, I went straight inside, where I found Latte diligently serving.

-Can I have a tissue?

” I’ll be right there!”

……She looks busy, so I don’t bother talking to her.

I push past her and head to the VIP room.

“Hey junior, you here?”

She’s already seated and sipping what appears to be a grapefruit tea, but when she sees me, she stands up.

“Senior, didn’t you tell me you were going to betray me to the president?”

“Yeah, I did, didn’t I?”

“Then why are we seeing each other so often?”

She tilts her head as if she doesn’t know what I’m talking about.

“I’m coming to my favorite cafe for a drink, and you’re the president of the company, so you can come, and if we’re both there at the same time, it’s a coincidence. It could be that we’re both eating and drinking at the same time.”

In other words, the president wouldn’t be able to say anything unless he had hard evidence, whether she was caught or not.

“……That’s a shameless way to do it.”

“Hehe.”

“So, why did you call me today?”

“Oh, not much.”

With that, she pulled out her phone, and what she showed me was news.

“……Magical Rogue. Is that it?”

“Oh, did you see the news too, junior?”

“Well, since this morning, Ms. Ji-hyun has been giving public lectures with a beam projector, so I’m sure everyone in my class knows about it.”

And probably every student in the academy knows the story by now.

“So you’re aware of the current student council situation?”

“I was wondering, because it was the student council secretary who was attacked, not anyone else.”

By a thief with a ridiculous name, too.

No, it was a robbery because he caused injury, right?

“Well, the student council is in an uproar, because the secretary is suddenly out of town, and……received a threatening letter.”

“The…..student council president?”

“Yep. Would you like to see this?”

With that, she took a photo out of her bosom and placed it on the table.

It contained the contents of a letter that someone had apparently written.

[Justice Execution]

[I’ll put it to good use~★ Wah wah wah, it’s too sweet~ Now, do you want me to tell you the next target?!

Magical Rogue’s next target is the Pendragon family, responsible for the “Bloody Monday” incident in England! Magical Rogue will hunt down the perpetrators of that ugly, sordid event one by one! For justice’s sake, hide under your beds in fear and misguided trembling! – Magical Rogue]

“What is this?”

“It’s a preview of Magical Rogue that didn’t make the news. It was found in the safe at the secretary’s house?”

Then she looks at me.

“Just in case. Just out of curiosity, is this…… not yours, junior?”

“……?”

“The day after destroying the student council, the secretary’s house was robbed, and there was some resentment.”

“I’m not the only one with a grudge?”

“No, but……I mean, who the hell would rob the secretary’s house by themselves and get away with it? Not just any house, but the Podish family mansion.”

Is this what it means to be a woman?

It was a sharper approach than I expected.

But

“In your eyes, do I look like the kind of person who would write a letter like this?”

“Huh?”

“Senior, you know where I come from.”

“I know……right?”

“Well, do you really think I’d write a letter like that, and rob a house that’s much poorer than mine, because I have nothing better to do. If someone harasses me, I can just call the gang members and push them out.”

“Uh……that’s…….”

“Among other things. What the hell is that Bloody Monday thing? I don’t even know what that is.”

You don’t have any evidence.

Or if you do, it’s a very poor one.

A magical girl’s identity is supposed to be a secret to no one but her helpers.

Even if we were allies, she doesn’t need to know……!

“Right? I’m kidding, I’m kidding~ You can’t be the one to do something like this. Apparently, you’re a magical girl, and you managed to break through the guards while chanting some embarrassing spells……………………………………………….It doesn’t fit your image.”

After all, with such a large gap, it wouldn’t be too easy to make me a suspect, right?

Plus

“More than anything, ‘Bloody Monday.’ I have no doubt that my junior doesn’t know this properly because it was an incident that few people knew about in the first place.”

As it turns out, my trap was working.

The disgrace of the ‘Pendragon’ family that very few people know about, not only among ordinary players but also in this world.

She couldn’t possibly think that I would know about such a thing.

“It’s just. I just wanted to talk to you about the student council.”

“So, what’s the president doing right now?”

“Huh, Ray? He’s the president, and he seemed pretty nervous when he found out he was the next target of…….”

“Really?”

“Yeah. Apparently, that’s why he’s asked the family for backup and the government for extra troops, because it means the guy who broke into the secretary’s house is coming back for more.”

“Hmph…….”

It looks like they’re preparing properly.

“So, you’d better watch out for this guy, Magical Rogue. Apparently, he’s quite an Awakened, and you have a lot of important things in your house, don’t you?”

“Yes. I’ll be careful.”

Now then, shall we try to increase the game a little more?