An Angel Lives in the Academy
Chapter 191: The Angel Who Receives Observation Class (14)

Every race in this world has limitations.

Humans have their easily swayed hearts, elves their strong bond with the World Tree, beast folk their uncontrollable wild instincts, and so on…

Like this, every race has limitations.

So naturally, angels also have limitations.

‘No, it's not just a limitation.’

The demon king thought.

‘Angels are superior to any other race, and because of that, the level of their restrictions is incomparable to those of other races.’

Watching Leffrey as he breaks free from the restrictions placed upon him, one by one, the demon king couldn’t help but smile.

‘But young Leffrey.’

Starting with small ones like not being able to use vulgar language, having to always show a good side to others, and needing angelic power, in other words, having to do good deeds to survive…

To greater ones like not being able to reveal killing intent and not being able to use their power against the karma of light.

‘Young Leffrey is breaking free from his shackles…!’

But Leffrey, while breaking free from all those restrictions, was gradually gaining a power closer to Luciel’s.

Not the power of an angel.

But the power of a fallen angel.

‘He’s finally becoming Leffrey, the Fallen Angel!’

And the demon king was amazed by this fact.

As the only fallen angel in this world, someone who had lived in solitude for far too long,

The demon king felt great joy at the prospect of another being like himself coming into existence.

“You're so beautiful, Leffrey.”

The demon king murmured as he shed a tear. Transparent liquid streamed down his cheeks, faintly disappearing as it touched the darkness.

“Trash, trash, trash! You, how dare you do this to Soya and Wol…”

Leffrey muttered while dripping tears of blood. The red liquid rolling down his cheeks dyed beautifully as it touched the darkness.

“Uuuugh! Unforgivable! You, you bastard!”

Leffrey raised his hand.

And began pouring the infinite darkness grasped in his hand onto the demon king.

Just like what the Demon King had done to those girls earlier.

To smear his existence from this world.

The demon king, though pushed back step by step, didn’t stop speaking.

“As expected, you couldn't forget those parasites.”

However, the demon king was walking forward, casually taking that bottomless abyss-like darkness as if it were a spring breeze.

“Don’t call those girls parasites!”

“Why not? They’re heroes. Worthless parasites who’d be crippled by karma deficiency and turn into madmen without our angelic blessings.”

Ripple, the demon king, wearing a golden crown, tilted his head for a moment then smiled faintly.

“Ah, perhaps ‘weapons’ would be the right term. And troublesome weapons at that, ones that keep going berserk unless frequently maintained.”

The demon king had somehow closed the distance.

Leffrey swallowed his saliva.

“It must really hurt. For blood to be coming from your eyes.”

“Y-You…!”

The demon king whispered in Leffrey’s ear.

“Those who gaze into darkness are tainted by darkness, those who are tainted by darkness become darkness, and those who have become darkness gaze upon those who gaze into darkness.”

At that moment, Leffrey had to admit, even though he really didn't want to, that the demon king’s voice was alluring.

“Following that truth, you have now become darkness.”

“It doesn't matter. Even if I become darkness, I’ll still kill you.”

“I see, then you'll need to try a bit harder.”

The demon king, swallowing the words, ‘Try a little harder, use more of the power of darkness, and fall completely,’ began to showcase a new technique.

“Then shall I teach you a few techniques capable of killing me, for my little Leffrey’s sake?”

Hehehe-

Seeing the demon king smiling as if this situation was unbearably joyful, Leffrey gritted his teeth and took a stance.

“Shut up.”

“This is the first technique you can use with dark karma. I call it the True Demon Sword.”

*Nothing the demon king said mattered.*

Leffrey thought this as he leaped up once again.

‘I can't use Time of Bonds. Right now, the bond between me and those girls has been severed.’

Time of Bonds.

A technique where he used Sanctus to modify the titles he had and gain explosive power for a short time.

Leffrey had once used that power to defeat Yu Si-hyun, the student council president.

Surge—

At the fact that his bonds with those girls had been severed, Leffrey's hatred began to burn once again.

“Unforgivable.”

All the techniques he had learned so far.

True Cheongu Swordsmanship, Fairy Martial Arts, and Klein-style Magic.

And lastly, all of his angelic abilities.

“Kuheuuk…! Martial Arts of the…”

The angelic abilities that use the karma of light began to burn his blood vessels and muscles as he started to fall, but this pain was nothing to Leffrey.

“Archangel who Tramples Dragons!”

If it meant he could bring back those girls he had lost, then this pain was nothing.

The archangel's dagger Flabellum began to shine brightly, fueled by Angelic Power pushed to its limits. His strength, magic, divine power, and his skills, all merged into one at his fingertips.

If in a defenseless state, it was a powerful singular strike that even professors would find difficult to block.

However, the demon king blocked that attack with ease without even moving his body. To be more precise, a black sword that suddenly appeared before the demon king blocked Leffrey's attack.

“This is the True Demon Sword. All those elemental magic swords that other magic swordsmen use are just clumsy imitations of this.”

The demon king continued to speak without moving.

At that moment, the two swords clashed, making a brutal *Crackle* sound as sparks flew. And the first to crack was the archangel's dagger Flabellum.

“The only antithesis to the holy sword. Only a holy sword can face the True Demon Sword.”

Crack—Crack—Flabellum began cracking as lightning-like patterns were engraved on it. But Leffrey couldn't stop.

“An archangel’s dagger? It's far inferior in rank compared to holy swords. It won't be able to endure.”

“If a sword doesn't work!”

At that moment, Leffrey threw away Flabellum and approached the demon king, preparing to use Fairy Martial Arts.

“Then I’ll kill you with other methods!”

“That won't work either.”

Leffrey closed the distance in an instant using the Fairy Martial Arts footwork. Skipping all the intermediate movements, he begins executing the secret techniques of Fairy Martial Arts directly.

However, the more he attacked, the more damaged his fists became.

“This is the second technique. Absolute Solitude.”

Leffrey, at that moment, could see it. No, he could feel it.

“The dimension, it’s isolated?”

It was because the dimension itself was enveloping the demon king's body like a thin membrane.

‘So what. Klein-style magic has techniques that can pierce through even dimensions.’

Leffrey cast magic on his fists and legs.

To penetrate through even dimensions and reach that vile enemy.

However, he couldn’t reach that solitude.

He couldn’t break through that dimension.

“Why…?”

To the boy's despairing question, the Demon King smiled and answered.

“Humans always feel loneliness. And loneliness is one of the strongest forms of dark karma.”

The Demon King parted his lips.

“If you gather and accumulate the loneliness of such sentient beings, you can create a dimension like this, a lonely dimension where no one can reach.”

“Impossible.”

“Impossible?

An absolute domain that everyone can see, but,

No one can touch.

Human loneliness.

“Little Leffrey, you also know about loneliness, don’t you.”

The boy also knew about loneliness. He knew the loneliness of that moment when he was left alone under that sofa.

“You already know how powerful of a truth that is.”

It was the truth.

Even Leffrey, even this boy who tried so hard to resist this darkness.

He had to acknowledge at least that fact.

“Now, you must use these abilities.”

Those pink lips parted again.

“Only by using these karma skills will you be able to defeat me.”

“Ha.”

“Why. Can't you do it?”

At the demon king's smile that seemed to be mocking him, Leffrey took a stance again.

“If you want revenge for your precious children, you have no choice but to use these techniques.”

When Leffrey still didn't use the techniques, the demon king added more words as if frustrated.

“Have you already forgotten about those girls?”

“Forgotten about those girls…?”

Angelic Power is burning his blood vessels and muscles trying to purify his body that has begun to fall, while Demonic Power was trying to corrupt his pure body by consuming his internal organs and bones.

‘It hurts. But my heart hurts more than my body.’

My heart hurts so much.

Did this pain belong to the darkness, or to the light.

‘Forgotten about those girls? No, never. Even if this world were to be rewritten, I’ll never forget. Even if I'm the only one who remembers, I will remember forever.’

Thinking about killing that girl demon king standing before his eyes must belong to darkness, but does remembering the girls who have disappeared from this world also belong to darkness?

So Leffrey tried to recall the faces of the two girls.

‘Ugh, uwek. Bro-broccoli is such a black magic-hating vegetable. Ah, no. Why? It's not that I'm being picky about side dishes! No sausages and vegetable stir-fry tomorrow? Whyyy?!’

‘B-Boy. This isn't cat kneading, it's just a massage. I absolutely don’t do animal things like that. Got it? Eh, eh? Why do the hands keep kneading? Hmm? Eh?’

…

One thing was certain, these memories definitely didn't belong to darkness. Remembering someone precious to you could never be darkness.

“What.”

And Leffrey was surprised.

Because the moment he recalled those girls, he could no longer feel the killing intent that had been freezing his heart.

And his heart, far from being cold,

Felt warm and comforting, to the point of bringing tears to his eyes.

“I, I’m crying.”

Of course, he still wanted to kill someone.

Nevertheless, what was more important than that was his desire to protect someone.

“That's right, I’m…”

Leffrey wasn’t the Angel of Judgment.

Nor was he a Murderous Angel meant to killed others.

“I’m a guardian angel.”

Leffrey was a guardian angel meant to protected his friends.

“You said you had three techniques.”

Leffrey spoke in a quiet but clear voice, as if talking to himself.

“Smearing, which is painting over something with karma. Then the True Demon Sword that forges karma into the shape of a sword. And lastly, Absolute Solitude, karma shaped by emotions.”

“That’s right! Leffrey, only by using those techniques can you reach me.”

The demon king made a provocative expression, as if trying to enrage Leffrey.

“You want to kill me, don’t you?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Leffrey said.

“I’m not a saint, so I hate some people enough that I want to kill them. And there are also some people I'll never ever forgive.”

And Leffrey smiled.

“But there’s something much more important than those feelings.”

“Wait, what?”

The demon king's three techniques.

Smearing, True Demon Sword, and Absolute Solitude.

Then, wouldn't the Archangel, who is the opposite of the Demon King, also have similar techniques?

Angelic Power, pushed to its limits, began to illuminate someone that had been smeared into a corner of this room.

“Affirmation.”

“No, please, don't do something so foolish. I don't want to lose another one of my kind!”

Affirming that moment when the two girls were born.

‘Angel-nim, I, I’ve given birth.’

Lumari’s delighted face faintly came to mind.

“Affirmation.”

“Leffrey, you, if you do this! If you use the karma of light with a body that has begun to fall, you will surely!”

Affirming that moment when the three girls were loved in their mother's embrace.

‘Look at this. Isn’t she…’

‘Isn’t she lovely?’

Lumari's question is heard again, and Leffrey had no choice but to truly affirm those words.

“Affirmation...”

“Your body won’t be able to handle it! Please stop, I beg you!”

“Stop, please. Uu. Uu!”

A body that had already fallen, and on top of that, drawing together almost non-existent angelic power to use it, Leffrey's body reached its limit.

Ignoring his breaking body like that,

Leffrey moved his tongue.

“A-Affirmation…!”

Like that, Leffrey affirmed that moment when he met the three girls.