After Stealing Hero's Mother, I Reincarnated in the Fantasy World!
Chapter 141 - 141: Something happy is bound to happen to you today...

The Academy, missing people, drugs, 'Mistress'...

'This is all becoming a nasty problem.'

Leaving the narrow dark alleys, Rain couldn't help but shake his head.

Normally he would have just walked past this. Rain didn't see fit to get involved in other people's squabbles.

And honestly, he had planned to do so this time too... but the situation was different now. It involved his personal interests as well.

The Academy was too important a place in his plans. During his last conversation with Principal Ophelia, he realized it once more.

If used properly, the Academy could become his hands and feet in this world. And Ophelia herself in her big witch hat, loose suit and black stockings was also a tantalizing target that was hard to turn down...

So just putting it aside and forgetting it, going on with his life, wasn't an option.

Rain thought about what he could do. Chances were, even after he found Rat, he also wouldn't be able to find out anything about this situation or the 'Mistress'.

His only clue was that this person had something to do with the Academy.

Of course, the search circle was still too large. The Eldorin Imperial Academy received geniuses from all over the Continent and hundreds of new kids got in every year. Not to mention the many distinguished professors and instructors whose names rumbled throughout the Empire, even investigating ordinary students was a problem.

It wasn't about the number, which was approaching a thousand. It was the fact that befitting their status as students of one of the best Academies, almost all of them had wealthy families or powerful patrons.

Even Cale, who Rain knew from viewing his opportunities through [Ticket of Opportunity] was a orphan without parents, had protection in the form of his sister Amelia, the Senior Alchemy Teacher. And it was even more difficult with the other students.

Even with all the power of the Winderline, going against the entire noble world of the Empire was still insane.

'Alright, no one says I have to involve my family in this. I still had the system and the position of Responsible Officer for the 2nd year, which Principal Ophelia had kindly given me.'

...And even a pass to the Faculty Dining Hall, where he'd been once with Olivia, a place where even unattainable professors could be found, defenseless and relaxed.

In short, all the cards were in his hands. All that remained was to play them well and take the spoils.

Turning back to Evelyn, who was still holding the white cat in her arms, Rain nodded to her that everything had gone well.

She said again that helping animals brought good luck, insisting that he hold the cat in his arms.

Grinning at her seriousness, Rain did so.

'Haha, if such a simple thing can bring me luck and affect my fate, that would be wonderful.'

"Although I still have a hard time believing it."

Could such a trifling thing really make a difference?

If this cat were the personification of the Will of the World, then perhaps, but otherwise...

"But I don't doubt it, Rain. Now that you've done it, something happy is bound to happen to you today."

Evelyn, however, was confident in her words.

'Something good... okay, I'll be waiting.'

"Oh look, the cat seems to have a collar... so she hasn't been a stray all this time?"

As it turned out, there was a white inconspicuous collar hanging around the cat's neck with her name 'Sisi' on it, which they only noticed now.

"Looks like she has an owner after all."

"What a shame."

It was around that time that Rain realized that everything that had happened was no accident. Sisi had come to that alleyway for a reason, leading them to the thugs, and she hadn't just come back to them after the massacre was over.

As it turned out, she liked the smell of blood a hell of a lot, gravitating to wherever there were traces of it.

Though she hadn't even come near Rain before, she was now happily rubbing herself against his hands, which had recently been bathed in blood, showing a blissful expression on her face.

It was a little creepy.

'I don't even want to know who raised this little devil.'

Most likely her owner was a fucking psychopath. No one could know for sure, though.

After Rain and Evelyn fed Sisi, they let her go, continuing on their way.

It was still a long time before sunrise and the city was still plunged into darkness.

The magical lanterns along their path had become sparser and dimmer, and the voices of people could barely be heard from afar.

The once bright night city had lost its colors, replaced by a black and gray place.

It seems that along with the whole situation, they had entered a remote area of Haerin, leaving its main streets.

"By the way, don't you think I treated him too lightly, Evelyn?"

He once again thought of the bulldog that was now completely out of this world.

Honestly, he cared little for their words towards him. Whether it was looks from above, insults, or taunts, as long as you won at the end, none of those things mattered.

He was long past the stage where he blindly lashed out at anyone who dared to leer at him, trying to wash away the humiliation and defend his honor. In fact, it had happened back in his original world, before his first death, when he had lost everything.

'By the way, isn't that why the Goddess chose me? I think she said something about independent consciousness or something like that.'

He really didn't care if it was about him, but saying something about his women? That really annoyed him to the core.

Therefore, a sudden thought occurred to him.

...Perhaps this was too easy a death for that thug?

Either way, Rain didn't expect his life to be cut short so quickly, so there was nothing he could do about it. At the same time, Evelyn calmly shook her head.

"No, it's alright. He's dead now, and the dead don't talk, do they? That's good enough."

"There's logic in that."

Rain nodded and Evelyn, looking at him, asked some more.

"But did you really want to brutally torture him if this accident hadn't happened?"

"..."

Did he enjoy torturing those trash thugs? Not really, no.

It was kicking bags of garbage or digging through rotten waste with your hands. No matter how much pleasure it gave you, it would only end up getting your hands dirty.

They weren't worth it. After all, sometimes even that attitude had to be earned.

"Probably not, I'd just finish him off like this. Though maybe I'd chop off a couple more of his limbs and let him bleed out slowly."

"...I see."

Rain chuckled to himself. Looking at it all now, he couldn't believe that it had all started out as a simple night out brought on by Evelyn's desire for food.

First the persistent pursuit of Gray, who was nowhere to be seen right now, then meeting these troublesome people and meddling in a case linking the Academy to White Powder and even something bigger...

"Pfhahahaha..."

No matter how one looked at it, it was insane. Therefore, uncontrollable laughter escaped his lips, curving them into a wry smile.

"I'm sorry, but it looks like our date is completely ruined, Evelyn."

Despite his provocative words, Evelyn only smiled quietly.

"Fufu, you still say such embarrassing things, Rain..."

She lightly stepped ahead of him, her facial expression remaining a mystery to Rain.

"Which time is it this evening? Everywhere we go, you keep saying such sweet, sly words."

The magical lanterns illuminating the street had completely faded, utterly plunging the surroundings into darkness.

"So vulgar, obscene and dirty..."

The distant voices of people also disappeared, ceasing to reach them, plunging them into complete silence.

"It's like you really want something more."

Finally, her footsteps stopped.

"But what will you do if I really believe it?"

Under the light of the moon, Evelyn turned slowly toward him, her golden eyes shining in the darkness of the street like a second sun.

It seemed to Rain that at that moment, goosebumps ran all over his body at the mere sight of her, triggering a strange desire in him.

...No, he wasn't imagining it. It was definitely like that.

From the toes of his feet to the fingertips of his hands, a faint charge ran through his body.

The familiar feeling of loss of control and quiet euphoria slowly crept into every cell of his body, clouding his mind and preventing him from thinking.

"Are you ready to take responsibility for this?"

Amidst his slowed, sluggishly flowing thoughts, her voice came through.

Her words definitely carried no threat and were as gentle as ever, but something was completely off.

Alarms never stopped being sent through his head, creating complete chaos. But even in this state, he still knew what he had to do.

'Status...'

It was unknown how long it took to utter that one short word in his head, but finally the long awaited panel appeared in front of him.

And along with it, goosebumps ran down his body as if the temperature around him had dropped by dozens of degrees.

Unable to even swear, all his attention desperately rushed towards his storage ring, wanting to activate it as soon as possible, but no matter what he did, his body refused to obey him.

'...I must resist...'

All his thoughts came down to one thing.

'I must...'

"Answer me."

Reaching out her hand, Evelyn gently touched his face, caressing it.

"Answer me, Rain."

There wasn't a shred of commanding tone in her words, on the contrary, her voice became even warmer, carrying all the motherly concern, but it only made a chill run down his spine.

"Yes..."

He unconsciously replied, as if his very body wanted it.

'I have to... resist...'

Rain bit his lip to the blood. Endlessly repeating the same words in his head, he couldn't let those thoughts leave him.

Otherwise, it would be the real end for him.

But when Evelyn smiled radiantly back at him, even those thoughts vanished from his mind, leaving nothing but pleasure.

"Sweet dreams, Rain."

Once all the light from his eyes was gone, only those words remained in the silence of the night.