Simone, who was listening to Jace's story, asked with a puzzled look on her face.
“But why did that rumor disappear?”
If they just consider the impact of rumors, isn't the rumor that Sennus said the biggest?
A statue telling a student to teach a class and kill the principal while praying for better grades.
It was a ghost story that students would love the most, but she wondered why it wasn't passed down by word of mouth.
Jace shook his head as if he didn't know, but said what he knew.
“Director Sennus said that he stopped hearing from it at some point without any particular reason.”
“Hmm.”
“To be exact, at some point, the students who had been taking classes from the statue of Rune stopped showing up.”
Even rumors can only spread and not die down if there are at least one or two people who have experienced or witnessed it.
If a rumor that was widely spread suddenly disappears completely and only the head of Sennus, who was a student at the time, is remembered, then it is either a groundless rumor that is not worth spreading or the truth that no longer happens.
Simone headed towards the statue of Rune.
“If that is true, then there must be a reason.”
“Have you figured out something, Simone?”
“There’s nothing left to do but figure out something.”
Stories about moving statues are common knowledge among Koreans, and while the types of statues involved vary, they usually follow a cliche.
“The statue of Rune, who asked to kill the director in exchange for teaching him a lesson, suddenly stopped doing the same thing. In other words, he no longer had to say that.”
“...Those words.”
“Because the director that the statue of Rune spoke of is already dead.”
“...”
Jace looked up at the statue of Rune. Even Jace couldn't help but know the truth behind this tale.
A talented professor and founder of the academy who disappeared one day. The Precia Academy mourned his death and erected a statue to honor him forever.
Students at the Precia Academy began to offer prayers for their exam scores to his statue, a prominent scholar, to show respect and hope.
If you listen to this far, it might sound like a legend that exists in every school, but if his disappearance is true.
“So where did Rune disappear to?”
Nowhere in the story is it mentioned why Rune disappeared or the truth about his death.
“Who, where, and how on earth did Rune disappear? You don’t have to think about it too deeply; just follow the ghost story and you’ll find out.”
Jace muttered without realizing it.
"Ledger..."
Simone nodded.
“If the person named Rune was the founder and the first magic professor, then the director at that time would also have been the founder, and it would have been a relationship where it would be difficult to distinguish between the superior and subordinate as it is now.”
That means there may be complex relationships of their own that they are unaware of.
“The director at the time killed Professor Rune and hid him somewhere. Then, pretending not to know, he erected a statue to mourn his death. Then, Rune’s spirit seeped into the statue and spoke to the students. Please kill the director.”
“...This is a story from over a hundred years ago, so the director at that time must be dead by now.”
Now that he's dead, you don't have to wish for his death anymore.
So, naturally, the students who took Rune's class and were asked to kill the director did not show up.
Jace quietly chewed on Simone's words, then opened his mouth as a question suddenly occurred to him.
“Then, Simone, what happened to that Rune in the end?”
Rune was the symbol of the magicians of the Luan Empire. If someone who was a symbol of a certain field had gone missing in this great empire, the entire empire would have turned the entire country upside down to find him.
In the end, didn't they say he was never found missing?
Jace, who was deeply troubled, suddenly realized that his question was strange and shook his body and waved his hand.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry! Simone, you just found out about this story. I asked you a useless question.”
There's no way she could know what happened to Rune's words.
But Simone answered the question more simply than expected.
“Well, it would be obvious if the body of the man named Rune was never found anywhere.”
This story is just a cliché ghost story without any complicated thought.
There are many ghost stories about statues in Korea. If you think about those stories, you can guess where Rune is.
Simone attached an amulet made from torn notebook pieces to Rune's statue. Then she paused and looked back at Jace.
“If I break something here, will the Archduke pay for it...?”
Since she's not moving for the sake of the mansion's curse, she feels a bit guilty about charging the Archduke a price...
Then Jace laughed heartily and said.
“Why are you worried about that, Lady Simone? Since the dormitory building has collapsed, wouldn’t His Highness the Crown Prince take care of everything?”
“Hehehe, I guess so?”
“Of course! Who would dare to steal Simone’s precious possessions!”
“...”
Well, she don't think it's robbery. Anyway, she guess he's saying she can do whatever she want.
Simone nodded and looked up at the statue. But she pressed the amulet attached to the hem of the statue’s skirt firmly into place and put her hands together in prayer.
“Ah! Please help our Master Jay do well on his exams!”
“Yes, yes?”
Then, the statue of Rune, which had been looking up at the sky with an open book, rolled its eyes and looked down at Simone, perhaps responding to the talisman or to her prayer.
“Hey, Simone!”
The moment when Jace calls her name in surprise.
BANG!!!!
Simone kicked the statue and broke it.
“...”
Jace kept his mouth shut. He could not have imagined that the statue he was about to destroy was the Academy's most venerable, priceless treasure: the statue of Rune.
Even though Jace liked everything Simone did, he couldn't hide his bewilderment as if he hadn't expected this.
Oh, this Academy statue is made of plaster. It's falling apart into pieces. It can't be repaired.
As expected, Simone is amazing.
Jace didn't know that Simone was the one who had previously torn up the only trace of the lost island of magicians, Akal Island, in front of Louis.
Simone took out the magic stone and held it tightly, not knowing what expression Jace was making.
The strong, rotten smell tickles your nose the moment you break the statue, and Rune's spirit still looks down at Simone with a resigned expression.
Simone absorbed his soul into the magic stone without hesitation.
Rune was absorbed without much resistance, and at that moment, Simone felt a little of her body's energy returning.
“Oh my, this is also the soul of the dead, but mana is restored.”
Simone looked down at the shattered statue, rubbing her still-aching shoulder. Then she spoke to Jace.
“Please tell Director Sennus to collect these bones later.”
“Bone?”
Jace looked down and saw the discolored bones visible between the broken pieces of plaster, then opened his eyes.
It was clearly human bones. There was a human skull, including the skull, inside the plaster.
Simone said indifferently.
“It’s probably Professor Rune’s bones. The whole country is looking for him, so they probably have nowhere to hide.”
So, they made him into a living statue and put him on display in plain sight for the students.
It makes Simone wonder how people can be so evil.
But it's a topic that's often covered in the ghost stories about statues in Korea. Like statues of dead children or statues that imprison living people. So it was easy to infer.
Simone sighed deeply and patted her hunched back. As expected, walking around right after a battle is no easy task.
“Oh my, I’m dying. I’ve already finished one. What’s next?”
“Huh? ...Ahh!”
Jace, who had been blankly staring at Rune's skull, quickly flipped through his notebook.
“The following is a strange rumor from the music room on the first floor of the main building.”
“Music room?”
“Yes, sometimes you can hear the sound of a piano in the locked music room after school. I’ve never heard of this, but I guess it happens so often that other students have heard it at least once.”
“So you’re saying this isn’t a rumor but true?”
Jace nodded.
“Yes, you can indeed hear the sound of a piano, but the rumor starts after that.”
No matter how much I think about it, doesn't it seem so strange that a piano sounds in a locked music room?
All the students thought it was strange, but they never dared look inside the music room because the professors told them not to pay any attention.
Then one day, some students, unable to contain their curiosity, went to the main building to sneak a peek inside the music room. A few minutes later, they ran out screaming.
Because.
“Inside the music room, a female student was playing painfully with her long hair hanging down and her fingers bleeding profusely."
“But why did that rumor disappear?”
If they just consider the impact of rumors, isn't the rumor that Sennus said the biggest?
A statue telling a student to teach a class and kill the principal while praying for better grades.
It was a ghost story that students would love the most, but she wondered why it wasn't passed down by word of mouth.
Jace shook his head as if he didn't know, but said what he knew.
“Director Sennus said that he stopped hearing from it at some point without any particular reason.”
“Hmm.”
“To be exact, at some point, the students who had been taking classes from the statue of Rune stopped showing up.”
Even rumors can only spread and not die down if there are at least one or two people who have experienced or witnessed it.
If a rumor that was widely spread suddenly disappears completely and only the head of Sennus, who was a student at the time, is remembered, then it is either a groundless rumor that is not worth spreading or the truth that no longer happens.
Simone headed towards the statue of Rune.
“If that is true, then there must be a reason.”
“Have you figured out something, Simone?”
“There’s nothing left to do but figure out something.”
Stories about moving statues are common knowledge among Koreans, and while the types of statues involved vary, they usually follow a cliche.
“The statue of Rune, who asked to kill the director in exchange for teaching him a lesson, suddenly stopped doing the same thing. In other words, he no longer had to say that.”
“...Those words.”
“Because the director that the statue of Rune spoke of is already dead.”
“...”
Jace looked up at the statue of Rune. Even Jace couldn't help but know the truth behind this tale.
A talented professor and founder of the academy who disappeared one day. The Precia Academy mourned his death and erected a statue to honor him forever.
Students at the Precia Academy began to offer prayers for their exam scores to his statue, a prominent scholar, to show respect and hope.
If you listen to this far, it might sound like a legend that exists in every school, but if his disappearance is true.
“So where did Rune disappear to?”
Nowhere in the story is it mentioned why Rune disappeared or the truth about his death.
“Who, where, and how on earth did Rune disappear? You don’t have to think about it too deeply; just follow the ghost story and you’ll find out.”
Jace muttered without realizing it.
"Ledger..."
Simone nodded.
“If the person named Rune was the founder and the first magic professor, then the director at that time would also have been the founder, and it would have been a relationship where it would be difficult to distinguish between the superior and subordinate as it is now.”
That means there may be complex relationships of their own that they are unaware of.
“The director at the time killed Professor Rune and hid him somewhere. Then, pretending not to know, he erected a statue to mourn his death. Then, Rune’s spirit seeped into the statue and spoke to the students. Please kill the director.”
“...This is a story from over a hundred years ago, so the director at that time must be dead by now.”
Now that he's dead, you don't have to wish for his death anymore.
So, naturally, the students who took Rune's class and were asked to kill the director did not show up.
Jace quietly chewed on Simone's words, then opened his mouth as a question suddenly occurred to him.
“Then, Simone, what happened to that Rune in the end?”
Rune was the symbol of the magicians of the Luan Empire. If someone who was a symbol of a certain field had gone missing in this great empire, the entire empire would have turned the entire country upside down to find him.
In the end, didn't they say he was never found missing?
Jace, who was deeply troubled, suddenly realized that his question was strange and shook his body and waved his hand.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry! Simone, you just found out about this story. I asked you a useless question.”
There's no way she could know what happened to Rune's words.
But Simone answered the question more simply than expected.
“Well, it would be obvious if the body of the man named Rune was never found anywhere.”
This story is just a cliché ghost story without any complicated thought.
There are many ghost stories about statues in Korea. If you think about those stories, you can guess where Rune is.
Simone attached an amulet made from torn notebook pieces to Rune's statue. Then she paused and looked back at Jace.
“If I break something here, will the Archduke pay for it...?”
Since she's not moving for the sake of the mansion's curse, she feels a bit guilty about charging the Archduke a price...
Then Jace laughed heartily and said.
“Why are you worried about that, Lady Simone? Since the dormitory building has collapsed, wouldn’t His Highness the Crown Prince take care of everything?”
“Hehehe, I guess so?”
“Of course! Who would dare to steal Simone’s precious possessions!”
“...”
Well, she don't think it's robbery. Anyway, she guess he's saying she can do whatever she want.
Simone nodded and looked up at the statue. But she pressed the amulet attached to the hem of the statue’s skirt firmly into place and put her hands together in prayer.
“Ah! Please help our Master Jay do well on his exams!”
“Yes, yes?”
Then, the statue of Rune, which had been looking up at the sky with an open book, rolled its eyes and looked down at Simone, perhaps responding to the talisman or to her prayer.
“Hey, Simone!”
The moment when Jace calls her name in surprise.
BANG!!!!
Simone kicked the statue and broke it.
“...”
Jace kept his mouth shut. He could not have imagined that the statue he was about to destroy was the Academy's most venerable, priceless treasure: the statue of Rune.
Even though Jace liked everything Simone did, he couldn't hide his bewilderment as if he hadn't expected this.
Oh, this Academy statue is made of plaster. It's falling apart into pieces. It can't be repaired.
As expected, Simone is amazing.
Jace didn't know that Simone was the one who had previously torn up the only trace of the lost island of magicians, Akal Island, in front of Louis.
Simone took out the magic stone and held it tightly, not knowing what expression Jace was making.
The strong, rotten smell tickles your nose the moment you break the statue, and Rune's spirit still looks down at Simone with a resigned expression.
Simone absorbed his soul into the magic stone without hesitation.
Rune was absorbed without much resistance, and at that moment, Simone felt a little of her body's energy returning.
“Oh my, this is also the soul of the dead, but mana is restored.”
Simone looked down at the shattered statue, rubbing her still-aching shoulder. Then she spoke to Jace.
“Please tell Director Sennus to collect these bones later.”
“Bone?”
Jace looked down and saw the discolored bones visible between the broken pieces of plaster, then opened his eyes.
It was clearly human bones. There was a human skull, including the skull, inside the plaster.
Simone said indifferently.
“It’s probably Professor Rune’s bones. The whole country is looking for him, so they probably have nowhere to hide.”
So, they made him into a living statue and put him on display in plain sight for the students.
It makes Simone wonder how people can be so evil.
But it's a topic that's often covered in the ghost stories about statues in Korea. Like statues of dead children or statues that imprison living people. So it was easy to infer.
Simone sighed deeply and patted her hunched back. As expected, walking around right after a battle is no easy task.
“Oh my, I’m dying. I’ve already finished one. What’s next?”
“Huh? ...Ahh!”
Jace, who had been blankly staring at Rune's skull, quickly flipped through his notebook.
“The following is a strange rumor from the music room on the first floor of the main building.”
“Music room?”
“Yes, sometimes you can hear the sound of a piano in the locked music room after school. I’ve never heard of this, but I guess it happens so often that other students have heard it at least once.”
“So you’re saying this isn’t a rumor but true?”
Jace nodded.
“Yes, you can indeed hear the sound of a piano, but the rumor starts after that.”
No matter how much I think about it, doesn't it seem so strange that a piano sounds in a locked music room?
All the students thought it was strange, but they never dared look inside the music room because the professors told them not to pay any attention.
Then one day, some students, unable to contain their curiosity, went to the main building to sneak a peek inside the music room. A few minutes later, they ran out screaming.
Because.
“Inside the music room, a female student was playing painfully with her long hair hanging down and her fingers bleeding profusely."
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