Becoming a Shadow in the New World

Most of the above is true, and some is false. As far as Sid is concerned, if he were to be asked by a high-ranking nobleman to marry into his family, Claire would probably be the first to disagree.

Although I don't want to say it, in Claire's eyes, how could a bunch of ugly ducklings be worthy of her excellent younger brother? So where does Claire's mysterious confidence come from?

Even if Claire really agrees, if he doesn't like it, he can just ask Gamma for help.

Of course, he didn't want Gamma to marry him; he was quite self-aware. He just wanted Gamma to send a subordinate to appease him. With the Mitsukoshi Trading Company as their backing, which noble would dare to disrespect them?

"The world of the nobility is so complicated."

Himeragi Yukina, walking beside Sid, sighed.

How naive she is! She actually believed it.

Sid's reason for coming here was certainly not to get rid of his family; he just felt that there should be many high-quality protagonists here, which was very suitable for the appearance of shadow-level powerhouses.

As for why he lied, it was just a random dream. After all, his future head of the family is his sister, and with his apparent talent, this dream is impossible to achieve. Doesn't it feel like he's just a background character to have a dream only to be crushed by reality?

"It's alright. After all, most of what I have now was given to me by my family. Let's not talk about me anymore. I've already told you so much. Let's talk about you, otherwise I'll feel like I'm losing out. Why did you come here?"

"Um... well, I came here because my family asked me to."

Her eyes involuntarily darted to the right, and she began to stammer as she spoke, the unspoken meaning on Himeragi Yukina's face almost overflowing.

"Won't your family tell you?"

Sid could tell what was going on at a glance. He had initially thought it was just another person sent by their family to join the social circle, but now it seemed there was more to it than met the eye. However, he decided to pretend he hadn't noticed anything.

"Eh! Mmm-hmm."

"Alright, then tell me whether you want to be a servant or a king. I'll give you some advice. Not to brag, but I do have some connections at school."

This is not just Sid bragging; he has Asagi Aiba as his information channel, so there are very few things in the entire school that can be kept from him.

Since he was wrong this time, he will help Himeragi Yukina whether she wants to become a familiar or the king.

"Retinue? King? What are those?"

Just as Sid was feeling confident, Himeragi Yukina's words seemed to hit him hard, causing him to stumble and almost fall.

"You do not know?"

"Should I... know?"

After regaining his balance, Sid turned to look at Himeragi Yukina and saw her eyes filled with confusion. Only then did Sid realize that Himeragi Yukina truly didn't know why her family had sent her to Ayakai, this semi-aristocratic school.

"You can think of the 'family reunion' and the 'king' as the marriage alliance I just mentioned. The king is the one with a better family background, and the 'family reunion' is just a different kind of marriage alliance, except that the family background is replaced by personal strength. After all, this world still values ​​strength. Without strength, no matter how great your reputation is, you are not worthy of your position."

So your family didn't even tell you this before sending you here?

"This, this."

Himeragi Yukina's cheeks turned completely red, and her eyes darted left and right.

Wow, what kind of weirdos are your parents? Do they really think Rainbow Sea School is just an ordinary magic swordsman school? What exactly did they send you here for? The students are either the offspring of various powerful forces or true commoner geniuses. Do you really think this is a place for learning?

"Alright, do you still have the evaluation from the entrance exam? Let me take a look at it for you first."

"Okay, thank you, senior."

As she said this, Himeragi Yukina took out a piece of paper with something written on it from her backpack.

Sid took it and glanced at it, then looked at Himeragi Yukina with a very strange expression.

"Senior, what's wrong? Is there something wrong with my evaluation?"

"No, no problem. In fact, not only is there no problem, it also says on it that you are very strong."

Sid withdrew his gaze from Himeragi Yukina.

"Huh, that's good."

No, it's not good at all, it's too strange. Why is it that even though you have A- level strength, your faction hasn't given you a single piece of the game? You're only a freshman in high school this year.

It's not that being A- guarantees you a piece, but anyone who reaches A- at this age as a human is basically a treasure and a favorite of major powers. In that case, why would they come here to compete with some commoners for pieces? Seriously?

The more Sid thought about it, the stranger it seemed, and he couldn't help but go through the information he had received in his mind again.

Sent to a semi-noble school without any prior information, possessing extraordinary talent, yet not given a single piece by the organization she belongs to; naive and easily deceived...

Looking up at Yukina Himeragi, Sid couldn't help but think of a possibility.

Could it be that Yukina Himeragi has already been reserved for someone else's familiar, and thus was sent out by her own faction?

No, no, no, that's just too far-fetched. What kind of powerful organization would be so wealthy as to give away a disciple with such talent to someone else as a dependent?

Sid shook his head, trying to shake the thought out of his mind, but suddenly stopped in his tracks.

When Yukina Himeragi, who was standing next to her, saw that her senior had stopped, she was about to ask a question when a loud explosion came from afar, interrupting her actions.

"boom!!!"

Upon noticing the voice, Yukina Himeragi's previously naive expression changed, revealing a warrior's demeanor, radiating both heroism and beauty.

"That's... the aura of magic!" (whispering)

"Senior, I have something to take care of right now. Please give me your student ID tomorrow."

After saying that, without waiting for Sid's reply, he slung his guitar case over his shoulder and ran towards the sound of the explosion.

"Eh…"

Sid feigned surprise by extending his hand, but in reality, he was mentally reviewing the information that Himeragi Yukina had inadvertently revealed earlier.

That magic... it felt like the surveillance magic I sensed at Kojo's house a few days ago. Was it from Kojo?

Chapter Twenty-Seven: A World Covered in Spider Webs

Himeragi Yukina felt very unlucky, extremely unlucky.

As a child, he was sold by his parents to a cult for a blood sacrifice ritual. Later, he was rescued and taken to the Lion King Organization to train as a sword sorcerer. After finally achieving some success, he was summoned by the Lion King Organization's top "Three Saints" to carry out a mission that seemed ominous: to monitor the Fourth Progenitor—Koujo Akatsuki. If he had any intention of harming the world, he was to be killed...

Regardless of what she was thinking when she received this mission, the first thing she did after arriving at Itogami Island was go to the place the Lion King Organization had arranged for her to live, the house two doors down from Kojou Akatsuki's house...

At home, she found the activity funds given to her by the Lion King organization and a notice of admission to high school.

Hmm...that makes sense, that's what she thought at first.

The next day, I followed behind Akatsuki Kojou, intending to monitor him and, at the same time, use him to familiarize myself with the route to school. After all, the monitor and the monitored should be thinking about the same school...

Until she discovered that the route Akago took was different from the one she saw on the map...

She panicked and hurriedly followed the map, even using her spiritual power to reach Caihai School before class. There, she met her teacher in the office... a little girl?

Led by the teacher, she went to the classroom and introduced herself on the podium. Luckily, she made a few new friends. One of them, named Akinagisa, was a chatterbox, but she was very friendly to her and took the initiative to introduce her to the others.

Since they weren't in the same school, there was no way I could go and monitor Xiaogucheng at noon. I could only deal with the classmates who inexplicably became enthusiastic after the practical class while making the most of my time to eat.

After school, she didn't even have time to say hello to Akatsuki Nagisa before using her spiritual power to rush to Akatsuki Kojo's school.

Thankfully, it seemed that something had happened, and when she arrived at Akatsuki Kojou's school, Akatsuki Kojou hadn't left immediately. She could finally begin her surveillance mission. Tears welled up in her eyes...

But while she was doing the tracking, a problem suddenly popped into her mind: she wasn't good at tracking.

In the Lion King Organization, she is a sword sorceress, not a dancer. The dancer is the one who is good at tracking, so will she be able to successfully track Akatsuki Kojou?

Oh, no need to think about that, because she's already lost track of her, haha.

Just then, two demon thugs came up and harassed her. She could tolerate verbal abuse, but they wanted to hit her. Could she stand for that?

Before they could even touch her, she slapped them to the ground. The matter should have ended there, but they actually dared to summon their familiars to try and kill her. How dare they? Didn't they know she was from the Lion King Organization?

The outcome was naturally that she gave those two demon thugs a sound beating. As for whether it would affect her, she wasn't worried. First of all, the other side attacked first, and besides, the Lion King Organization was an official organization, so she couldn't possibly get into trouble.

Beating up those two thugs wasn't exactly a good thing, but it did help her vent her frustrations after arriving on Itogami Island, until she touched her pockets and found them empty...

She seems to have lost her wallet, which contains all her living expenses, including her food money...

She calculated that there were still six days until the next time the Lion King organization distributed funds for operations.

Well, it's decided. I won't report this to the Lion King Organization. It's too embarrassing. Anyway, with her physical strength and spiritual power, she can hold on for six days without any problem.

Theoretically, six days or even more than ten days shouldn't be a problem. There's no need to follow her personally anymore. With two schools in between, even if she's fast, she can't keep a close watch on us. Let's use a shikigami instead. If she gets discovered, we'll think of other ways.

So she spent the weekend at home using her shikigami to monitor Akatsuki Kojou. After two days of observation, well...

Is there a problem with the intelligence of the Lion King organization?

Are you sure this is the Fourth Ancestor?

She didn't even notice the shikigami released by a sword sorceress who is completely bad at surveillance. Are you sure this is an ambitious person who wants to secretly establish the Dawn Empire?

On Monday, when she went to school, she discovered something she had overlooked: it seemed that the school she attended was a magic school similar to the one in the Lion King organization that trained sword sorcerers, which meant that there would be practical training courses.

That evening, no matter how much she conserved her energy, the spiritual power she used to maintain her physical activity was completely exhausted. The spiritual power that could last for two weeks was depleted after a day of combat, and what remained was not even enough to maintain circulation.

Just when she was about to faint from hunger on the street, her luck finally turned a little better, and she ran into a kind senior who invited her to dinner.

After finishing her meal, she was about to introduce herself to Senior Sid when Senior Sid called her by name. At that moment, she really wondered if she had been discovered and was being watched.

Fortunately, it was a misunderstanding. It turned out that Senior Sid was the one who found her wallet. He had been greedy and wanted to steal it, but when he saw that she was almost starving, he felt guilty and invited her to dinner, apologized, and returned the wallet to her.

Well, although Sid-senpai kept saying he was a bad person, she felt that Sid-senpai was actually a good person.

After all, how could someone who, out of a guilty conscience, takes out the money they've already swallowed and says they're willing to accept any compensation, possibly be a bad person?

She naturally became good friends with Senior Sid, which was probably one of the few pieces of news about her since arriving at Itogami Island.