I Choose The Heroine's Route

41 The Dark Mage

The teacher stepped back in shock, almost tripping as the other students reacted way more 'violent' than they did when seeing Anastasia's Light Magic.

"Oh my god! Lady Euridice really is a Dark Mage..."

"Look at that black fire!"

"Is this allowed?"

As I stood there with my right palm rise, showing a dark, black fire, and feeling everyone's gaze, I felt slightly afraid – which is extremely rare.

Their gaze... just seems to be judging me, and whatever it is that goes inside their minds scares me.

Facing them like this, it's like the anxiety and every other emotion I've been holding on at the bay suddenly destroyed the fence that's been holding them back.

Different and various thoughts started pouring without an end, and although only a few seconds seems to have passed, in that mere 'few seconds', my mind had already processed several things; Now, it really is officially known that I have Dark Magic. More people would probably and obviously start hating me now, right? More rumors will also spread. I already know this will happen though, why am I still feeling like this? Do Anastasia and the others also have a negative reaction to this? Will this affect my plan of befriending her? Is this really okay?

For a moment there, even though I should already know the answer to some of those questions I asked myself, I still found myself asking them. I felt lost and suffocated – almost like I'm drowning in a sea of thoughts.

But I didn't allow it to continue like that as I immediately started rebuilding the fences, battling and controlling my emotions once again, and acting like nothing happened on the surface – although I most definitely almost had a breakdown, my expression still remained the same on the surface.

"You can stop now!" After a while, the teacher seems to wake up from his daze, shouting for me to stop. So I did stop. I stopped the flow of Mana until the fire weakened and disappear from my palm. Once it did, I finally lowered my hand.

The chattering of the students continues, looking at me with different kinds of looks. When I looked in the direction of my group, Anakin seems to be looking at me with complexity, Deor's expression remained cold, Franco have an almost unnoticeable frown, and Percival looked quite shocked. On the other hand, Anastasia is looking down, seemingly thinking about something and not allowing me to get any clue of what her reaction and expression are.

"So the rumors about lady Euridice is true..."

"Now I remember, the current Duke of Euridice's father should also be a Dark Mage."

"Isn't having Dark Magic a curse? Although I heard it is also very powerful."

Among all the whispers I've heard, Gaos voice seemed to be the loudest when he suddenly spoke, exclaiming, "These imbeciles! They are truly not aware of the greatness of Dark Magic!" his deep voice echoed throughout my ears, almost making me wince.

I didn't respond. However... seeing how these students seem to have forgotten their manners as nobles and have no plan of stopping any time soon, I spoke.

"May I return to my seat now?" My voice, cold but clear and firm appears to successfully have an effect as the students become silent.

I gave the teacher a cold look, waiting for his permission. Recalling that this person also didn't make any move on making the students behave earlier for obvious reasons, my patience began to run thin.

This is the moment in the otome game where Aksia becomes officially known as a Dark Mage. I was already prepared for it since I already know what would happen, but sometimes, there are really those moments where you still couldn't control your emotions even when you already know what to expect.