After using the teleportation stone, I felt different parts of my body rising from their place, as if losing their weight or something like that. Along with the smell of mint invading my sense of smell.
That light, which had blinded me for a limited time, dimmed, and I found Nevin, the purple devil, staring at me with her rosebuds bent upward.
"Welcome back, Klo Yuthnir, it's been a long time."
"Hello, Nevin. How are you and Lynette?"
She lifted part of her head upward, making her hair take on a movement similar to fabric fluttering in the wind. "We will definitely be fine!" She punched her chest proudly and at the same moment pointed her index finger at me. "I bet you got bullied by the other students."
I bent part of my body while scratching my head. "You're right, everyone who hears my name calls me either the villain or wants to kill me, and even spreads rumors about me having a harem of girls. What do they think I would do that for?"
Nevin took out her fan from behind her hat, which looked large for her size, making her appear like a five-year-old girl wearing her mother's clothes. She began covering her mouth with the fan as soft murmurs escaped it.
"Hahaha, as I knew you, Klo Yuthnir. You still have that clumsy side of yours. Even with those rumors, I can't believe you haven't lost your patience yet."
"Yeah, yeah, the important thing is—have you finished the device I told you about?"
Nevin tilted her head slightly and placed her finger under her mustache, as if unaware of what I was talking about. "What device are you talking about?"
I drew the surrounding air around me and turned it into a heavy sigh. I widened my eyes and aimed them at Nevin, who was fueling my patience with coal until the fire overwhelmed and prevailed. "You know, a small device that captures sound and image to store inside it."
"Oh, you mean the mana extractor that transmits pictures and sounds inside it, surpassing the limits of our understanding and—"
I stopped the noise coming out of Nevin's mouth with my hand because I didn't use the stone and plan to overthrow Big for a conversation with no way out.
"You can call him with the phone."
"What will you use this phone for?"
"For... something."
Nevin waved her hand in the air, using bright magic to summon the object we had discussed.
After she did that, the phone appeared... or I don't really think it's a phone, as its shape is far from being a mobile phone.
"This is the phone."
I held it gently in my hand and flipped it slowly and carefully, fearing it might break. "Amazing. How long did it take you, Nevin?"
"You mean how long did it take us? About two days."
Since the day I told her about our new project.
Ahem~ ahem.
Nevin interrupted my thought; I tilted my head a little and found her taking a posture feeding her pride. "How much do you want this product to cost, dear Klo Yuthnir?"
Hmm, maybe 1800 Ban as an initial acceptable price, especially since this thing is new in this world. "What do you think, Nevin, about 1800 Ban?"
She shook her head hard away from me. "Tsk... And I thought you deserved my company."
Arrogant.
"That's okay, as long as this is your idea and price that satisfies you."
"Here, Klo Yuthnir, use it or throw it away, I don't care what you do with it."
She threw the phone at me; it rolled in my hands and almost fell. But luckily, I caught it before that happened.
I searched for the power button but couldn't find it. "Where's the power button?"
"A button? Just push mana."
I did as she told me, and that thing turned on. The problem was the interface was really primitive, like a phone from the Stone Age.
I started to feel what our ancestors experienced during the ages of evolution.
I tapped the word "recording" to transmit the reality we are in inside it. Finally, humanity took its first step in this world. I pressed the record button and started speaking, and after finishing, I played the video.
And the funny thing is, the device works. I looked at Nevin, who seemed uninterested despite her burning from within.
"Hey Nevin, I'll leave now, so take care of yourself and Lynette."
I took out the remaining teleportation stone from the system bag and hid the phone.
"Goodbye, Nevin."
I crushed the stone, and the same previous scenario repeated.
...
I returned to the academy; nothing had changed. All I had to do was take down Big before he devoured me.
I looked around the academy yard and found a boy holding a notebook with his eyes glued to it, as if he forgot that there is a world living beyond that book. He reminded me of myself; how funny.
I approached the boy to use him as bait for Big. "Hello, my friend."
I waited for his response, but he didn't reply. I covered his book with my hand, provoking his wild anger suddenly. "Why did you do that, you bastard? Don't you know you'll stain my book?"
I waved my hand in the air just to silence this rogue. "Sorry, but the teacher called you to meet him behind the academy."
"Huh, and who are you to believe?"
Sigh ... "If you don't believe me, I won't take responsibility for his scolding you. If I were you, I would go even if it means it's a lie. It's just a few steps."
The student looked at me for a while, then averted his eyes and stood up.
"If it turns out to be a lie, I'll beat you hard, bastard."
"Do whatever you want, my friend."
You finally fell into my trap.
After the boy left, I followed him until we reached the desired place, where Big met that clever boy.
They exchanged looks for a while until Big spoke. "Are you the one who called me?"
"No, I didn't. Someone else did."
Big furrowed his brows and hardened his tone. "Are you kidding me? No one else is here but you. That means you're the one who called me. If you have something to say, say it. If not, I'll beat you mercilessly."
Big drew his sword to point it at the small boy. How funny; everything is going as planned.
Before the sword touched the boy, I used gravity magic to drop Big's sword to the ground and pulled the boy away from him.
I ran to the student council where Marcelia works. This step would separate me from Big.
But the situation got worse; Big saw me. I sensed his presence with the aura; his core was huge and packed.
He swung his sword to cut my foot, but I jumped and continued running to the student council while Big kept running behind me.
Not much was left; we entered the heart of the academy, just a few steps away from the student council door.
When I arrived there and before I knocked on the door hard, Big threw his sword. Luckily, I wasn't late; I got a gift from him—a severe wound despite its shallowness.
Big flayed my skin using the motion of his sword throw. I felt terrible pain, worse than the times I died, but I won't let all my effort go to waste.
I kicked the door forcefully, and at the moment I was doing that, he approached me until he opened the door. Marcelia pushed Big away with her sword.
I felt like she was my long-awaited salvation, with her scary and arrogant expression.
She looked at us angrily as usual.
"What are you two doing, you pile of trash?"
"My sister, h- he wants to kill me."
"And what will prove that? I wish you'd die in my simplest dreams."
That's harsh.
I curled my mustache into a silly smile topped with arrogance.
"You want proof? Have it."
I shrugged my shoulders, trying to mix stupidity with confidence.