The Victim of the Academy 01 by ---

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Chapter 49

Karma (1)

Olga Hermod had never particularly wanted to become an archmage.

It was simply something she couldn’t avoid.

As a mage of common birth, it would have been no surprise if she had died on the battlefield long ago.

But she survived. In order to survive, she became an archmage. And in the end, she was even granted a noble title.

She received the rank of count thanks to the many victories she had led in war.

In terms of status as a mage alone, she could stand shoulder to shoulder with the famed Tronius Ether.

However, the cost was steep. She had spent more than half her life on the battlefield, and returning to everyday life required considerable effort.

So at times, she would wonder.

“It’s been a while.”

“Puhihi…”

What kind of life would she have lived if she had never gone to war?

Though she was already a woman of considerable age, she still dreamed of growing up and playing like an ordinary student.

The things she had given up. The life she sometimes imagined she might have led.

But she knew.

Even if she hadn’t gone to war, living such a normal life would have been impossible.

“I never imagined I’d see you again.”

Olga Hermod had once crossed paths with Yuna.

She had been the one who turned a blind eye to Yuna’s first kill.

And the moment she faced Yuna again, Olga Hermod understood.

The faint possibility she used to dream about could never have come true.

Even if war had never broken out, it would have been the same.

The girl standing before her proved it.

Seeing the child who had assassinated a famous mage to avenge her parents, there was no way she could remain ignorant.

“This isn’t exactly how I wanted us to meet again.”

According to Yuna, they were probably similar. No—not just the two of them.

Countless people had walked the same path as her and Yuna. They had risen up against injustice and stained their hands with blood.

Olga Hermod had merely survived because she was lucky and talented.

And the girl standing before her was much the same. She had survived this long because she had luck and talent.

“Didn’t I tell you back then?”

On the day Yuna’s revenge succeeded,

Olga Hermod lost a comrade.

However, she didn’t grieve. That comrade had committed many acts that warranted death.

Unable to adapt to life after the war, he was often plagued by paranoia.

When his delusions worsened, he would even mistake someone making eye contact on the street for an assassin.

That was how Yuna’s parents had died.

And in the same way, unable to adjust to the world after the war, Olga Hermod’s comrade had ultimately been killed by the very assassin he so feared.

Whose fault was it, really?

Olga Hermod’s comrade had certainly been someone who deserved death, but he hadn’t always been that way.

It was simply the world that had made him so.

“I told you never to appear before me again.”

The war had been unavoidable.

Some whispered that the emperor had gone mad, but Olga Hermod, who had lived a long life, knew better.

Even if Abraham hadn’t started it, the war would have come regardless.

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