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Violet's ‌‌‌First Words - Episode 2 I opened my eyes ‌‌‌‌slowly from where I sat. Having finished my training to accumulate mana within my ‌‌‌body, ‌‌‌I attempted a trial run of circle-stacking exercises. 'This is fascinating....' Something that had eluded me no matter how desperately I struggled before now came to fruition—the joy was almost intoxicating. Already on my third day, I had been devoting myself entirely to this practice alone within the empty house. "Ah, today's the supplementary exam day. I should head to the Academy." The Academy was currently on ‌break. Under normal circumstances, this would be my final semester—my graduating year. But I had been failing repeatedly. The reason I was going to the Academy today was to take the supplementary exam. 'I'm late as expected.' I arrived at the Training Ground, the exam venue. Certainly, at the entrance of the Training Ground there was 【Knight Studies Applicant: Violet Everdin】 a schedule posted like this. But I had already anticipated that Colbera, the supervising professor, would not arrive on time. Colbera had deliberately shown up three or four hours ‌‌‌‌late before, making me wait. That wasn't all. He would have me run meaninglessly around the Academy ‌‌grounds to be mocked by others, or at worst, he would nitpick over trivial matters and assign me menial tasks like cleaning the Training Ground. 'The treatment as an invisible person was the hardest part.' How many difficult situations had I faced because of the supervising ‌‍professor who acted as though I didn't exist during training sessions. ‌‌When I heard people whispering that they'd never seen a professor ostracize a student like this before, my face burned with shame. 'At ‌‌‌first, I couldn't understand why he tormented me so.' ‌‌The reason was simple. The supervising professor Colbera had, when I was ‌‌‌‌‌‌fourteen years old, proposed to me—someone twenty years his junior.... ‌‌‌‌'He made a marriage proposal....' Of course, I refused as politely as possible. Later, when my fiancé Bludin heard about it, he laughed mockingly and said: [Colbera's intentions are obvious. If he married a bastard from a wealthy family like you, your father would be grateful enough to give him a fortune. Since you rudely rejected him, you've earned the supervising professor's resentment!] Only then did I understand the entire situation. But I had a question. 'How could I have declined the proposal any ‌‌‌more respectfully?' I had clearly said I was sorry but could not accept. Yet I lacked courtesy? Then should I have knelt down and wept while refusing for it to be considered a ‌‌'respectful rejection of a proposal'? 'Would I have been hated less?' Probably not, I thought. Those who sought to seize power were destined to be cursed regardless ‌‌of their actions. And Colbera arrived exactly three hours later. "What's with that posture? Look at you standing crooked. That I should waste my precious time on trash like you. I'm exhausted already!" Colbera was a small-framed man for a knight, with sharp, irritable features. I ‌‌regarded ‌‌‌him with an expressionless gaze. 'Was ‌‌‌‌it worth coming?' Still, this was a pre-arranged supplementary test, so I intended to maintain courtesy until today's end. But my affection for the ‌‌Academy evaporated in an instant. During my ‌‌time as a student, no one had ever recognized my true talent. ‌‌‌So I could quit whenever I wished. "No training as a knight, an empty head, and you've caught a wealthy fiancé—is that enough? Tsk...." Colbera muttered loud enough for me to hear and sighed. Then he strode toward the command platform of the Training Ground. The high command platform, built ‌‌like a stage with stairs, allowed instructors to look down upon students from above. That was the moment. 'What?' Ting, clang. A crystalline sound rang out near my ears once more. 'Am I seeing the future again?' I stood confidently. And beneath my boot heel lay Colbera's head. 【Kch, ugh.】 His expression was so twisted it was unrecognizable. But Colbera looked at least ten ‌‌‌years older now. 【My ‌‌‌subordinates asked me why I ‌chose to attack and destroy this worthless Academy. ‌‌The answer is you, Colbera.】 Colbera couldn't respond, ‌‌his mouth ‌‌‌sealed. Ugh, ugh. Those were the only sounds he could make. 【Disgusting swine. You harbored resentment at being rejected by me, and eventually, just before graduation, you spread vile ‌‌‌rumors about me. Because of you, I was expelled.】 Magical circles surrounded my body. ‌I placed my hand on one of them. Then I slowly shaped it with my hand, molding it gently. It became dozens of sharp, crystalline shards. 【Remember this. This is the true power of the student you made trash, the one whose life you destroyed.】 As I gestured, a hundred fragments of aura flew toward Colbera. The vision ‌‌‌‌of the future had ended. Standing in the Training Ground, Violet swallowed hard. 'The future me kills Colbera?' And on top of that, didn't the vision say I'd killed over seven hundred people by the end? 'I'd deserve to be hanged....' While Violet stood dazed for a moment, Colbera barked at her. "I told you to demonstrate the basic forms first. Vertical slash, horizontal slash! Move faster!" Violet's blood pressure spiked momentarily. 'I have no intention of committing murder, but I'm beginning to understand why the future me...' Violet clenched her teeth. Colbera sat in a chair placed in the center of the command platform above the Training Ground. And he began openly reading a magazine while tapping his feet. His intention was transparent. Once Violet began swinging her sword, he would treat her like she didn't exist and force her to repeat the same forms endlessly. She had already experienced this several times before. Violet considered just walking out right then, but she changed her mind and ‌‌unsheathed the practice sword from her waist, gripping it firmly. 'That technique of carving and shaping aura...can I ‌do it like the future me?' Violet activated the mana circle surrounding her body. 'Really, I can actually grasp it?' Violet was startled to find that the aura was tangible in her hands. She had never learned anything like this anywhere. Violet ran her hand across the aura once. The sharp aura soon transformed into a sharp crystalline shape. 'Am I really a genius...?' Violet was utterly dumbfounded. And with all her ‌‌‌might, she managed to create exactly three crystals. Cold sweat poured down her entire body and she felt drained. But Colbera merely yawned and flipped through his book, completely oblivious to what Violet was doing. 'Right, the assignment.' Violet slowly set down ‌‌‌the ‌‌‌aura crystals and demonstrated the forms. "Professor, I've demonstrated the forms as you instructed." Of course, Colbera didn't even glance at her. 'As ‌‌‌‌expected.' A cold ‌‌smile played at the corners of Violet's ‌lips. "Professor, didn't you hear me?" Colbera smirked and continued flipping through his magazine. "Fool, call all you want." At his deliberately provocative tone, ‌‌‌‌Violet's patience snapped. Violet slowly began walking toward the exit of the Training Ground. Since he was treating her like she ‌‌didn't exist, she would leave like the invisible person he saw her as. At that moment, Colbera suddenly flared up in anger and lifted his head. "You stupid bastard girl—can't you understand a simple command? Stay right there and keep swinging ‌‌that sword like I told you!" Colbera hurled a wooden practice sword that had been leaning against his ‌‌‌‌chair. "Ah!" A direct hit could have caused serious injury. Sensing the threat, Violet unleashed an aura crystal that had been hovering near her body. ‌‌‌‌The wooden sword and aura ‌‌‌crystal collided. But the crystal didn't stop—it shattered the sword to pieces and continued its trajectory. "Ugh!" This time, the scream came from Colbera's direction. The aura crystal ‌‌was aimed directly ‌‌‌at his head. 'No! I can't kill someone here!' I refused to walk the path ‌‌‌of history's ‌‌greatest villainess. ‌‌Violet barely managed to alter the aura crystal's trajectory. The crystal that ‌had been heading for Colbera's forehead narrowly grazed ‌‌the top of his head and embedded itself in the Training Ground's wall. "Ow!" Colbera tumbled ungracefully from his chair, rolling across the floor and crying out in pain. And then.... Crack! Boom! The wall where the aura crystal had embedded itself split open in a massive ‌‌‌‌spider-web pattern. Deep gouges scarred the surface. 'Wow....' Violet stared blankly at the fractured wall. If it had struck Colbera's forehead directly, his head would have shattered like a watermelon. Colbera had already lost consciousness, ‌his mouth agape and eyes rolled back. 'He fainted just from ‌‌‌a graze? This... actually works?' Violet had ‌‌inadvertently perfected a lethal technique.

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