I'm A Great Villain So The Author Hates Me

Chapter 18 - An Interesting Proposal (1)

I calmly sat in Professor Lee's office and looked around curiously.

It was a large room with all the walls except for one covered in bookshelves. Instead of books, the shelves had different weapons, gadgets, and knickknacks displayed, many of which I had never seen before.

The professor sat at the large desk in the center of the room, her back to a large window that took up the whole wall. She stared at me in silence for a couple of moments before speaking.

"Asani Martin."

"Professor?"

"What am I supposed to do with you."

"Pardon?"

"Two fights in the two days you've been here and one of them was with the third-rank student from the Isolde clan. I've never seen somebody as low-ranked as you cause so much trouble in the short time you've been here. Do you have a death wish? Are you suicidal or are you just stupid? Is this some method to get you expelled?" She asked me as her eyes flashed yellow.

"Not particularly?" I shrugged, "It doesn't matter who they are, I don't appreciate anyone attacking me out of the blue and I don't have the type of personality to willingly take a beating to keep the peace. Even if I lose, I'll definitely do my best to fight back and when I'm stronger, I'll soundly beat them up so they won't mess with me again. Besides Evelyn Isolde attacked me first. Anyone who was at the scene can verify it."

Professor Lee tiredly rubbed her eyes. "They won't. No student is going to testify against a top-ranked student from the 9 clans. The white-ranked ones won't want to offend her and the black-ranked ones are too afraid of being retaliated against. Nobody is going to risk their neck for a black-ranked nobody like you. You've made a powerful enemy on your first day and I highly doubt that Evelynn Isolde will let it go. People who want to make a good impression on her and her clan will continually attack you."

"Is that right?" I stared at her in an unsurprised manner. The influence of rank and the 9 clans was something I knew about, I just didn't think it would be so prevalent at the academy which was supposed to be neutral ground. I didn't expect that a single incident would be blown out of proportion so much and for Evelynn to be so petty.

"It is. And it's quite unfortunate because I like you. You seem to have a certain chaotic charm about you which is why I want you to be successful even though you seem to be sabotaging yourself at every opportunity. I would hate to see you get destroyed like this. So I have a proposition for you."

"Oh? Let's hear it."

Professor Lee thoughtfully examined the student calmly staring at her as he relaxed in the chair before her. Despite being dragged to her office and boldly confronting Evelynn Isolde, rather than being afraid, he looked bored and expectant.

"What rank are you? F?"

"...Why?"

"And from what I've seen, your gift allows you to summon weapons? They seem to have different effects. I saw an attack phase through you earlier and realistically no low-rank student should have been able to slice through Evelyn's leg if she wasn't paying attention. It looked to be made by a small knife which means it had an extra attribute or your mana is inherently sharp. Which is it? What's the limit? The strength of the weapons you create? How often can you use it? Can you select the effects? What other gifts do you have?"

As the professor grilled me with remarkable insight after only seeing my gift twice, I could only hold a poker face and respond neutrally. "...what does that have to do with anything?"

"I've told you before. I'm the head of the discipline committee in charge of keeping the campus peaceful. I'm putting together a task force of strong students to help with the discipline and incidents that happen on campus. Putting a bunch of hormonal teenagers with newly gained powers and a sense of importance is a recipe for disaster and trouble. Adding in the arrogance that many of these students have due to their family or perceived greatness and you have a volatile bomb waiting to explode. Despite the rules of the academy, students continue causing trouble throughout the academy, from the top-ranked ones to the bottom-ranked ones. The professors are stretched thin enough trying to deal with the sheer number of students and I'm stretched thin trying to run everywhere. Across the entire 5 years, we're dealing with hundreds of incidents a day. We simply do not have enough hands to stop the troublemakers who go around fighting each other and destroying property and the academy refuses to hire extra outside help due to security concerns which puts me in between a rock and a hard place."