Chapter 208

Chapter 208

I Became the Academy Mafia Chapter 208I already knew very well through an insider who had been the ringleader and who had planned what happened this time.

That made a total of two targets. The President who masterminded it, and the Treasurer who designed it.

In other words, there were two bastards I had to rob.

Before robbing the Pendragon estate, which could be called the main event, I decided to warm up by robbing the Treasurer bastard’s estate first, and looked inside the mansion while feeling the texture of the wand in my pocket.

“For a supposedly well-off family, they’ve got quite a bit of security. Three guard dogs. They even contracted a security company.”

This was why messing with families that had a decent amount of money or power was more fun.

The more shady things they had eaten up and accumulated, the more the difficulty rose.

“Been a while since Magical Girl Middle-Aged Man mode.”

I stretched and prepared to enter.

Judging roughly, the second-floor window by the back door was the weakest point.

I put strength into the tips of my feet and lightly jumped.

There was nothing below me but empty air.

Like a bird spreading its wings, or a cross plunging downward, I simply fell with gravity.

The pleasant wind brushing against my skin seemed to reaffirm that humans were free beings.

And when I had descended to about the right point.

“Black Mist.”

I kicked off the empty air and landed directly on the second-floor railing.

“Phew...”

I slowly straightened my knees and swept my gaze around.

“Looks like they really didn’t notice.”

Though it would have been stranger if someone from a mere security company had noticed me.

Considering the buffs from the equipment I was wearing, infiltration was practically child’s play.

DisPater’s Abyssal Mysterious Prison Wool

alone had the ability to conceal my body in darkness, and Black Mist

had the function of completely eliminating footsteps and greatly reducing my presence.

All right, let’s see.

“...

The door is locked after all?”

But there was no need to worry. I wasn’t an ordinary person, but an Awakened.

After concentrating aura at the tip of my finger, I slowly began making a hole large enough for my hand beside the locking mechanism.

Screeeeeech.

The window was cut extremely cleanly, almost as though with a glass cutter.

After putting my hand through the hole and unlocking it, I stepped inside, and the interior of the large mansion revealed itself.[「Skill: Aura Sonar」 activates.]

I immediately identified the internal layout and personnel.1, 2, 3... 25 people.

Some of them weren’t moving and were giving off slow, faint waves.

Considering the location, it seemed the Treasurer bastard and the Treasurer’s family had all gone to bed.

Since I was at it, I also checked for any hidden spaces.

“As expected, there is one.”

Right, there was no way a house like this wouldn’t have a secret storage room.

I detected an empty space underground, so I slowly headed that way.

“Hm-hmm~”

Apparently the security was focused mainly on the outside, because there were barely any people inside and I could move around comfortably.

This is why complacency about safety is scary.

Humming like that, I quickly arrived in front of the storage room.

All right, from here on, it was time for Magical Girl Middle-Aged Man to shine.

“I guess it makes sense if they trusted this special security vault...”

A vault that existed in a world with Awakened, one that could be called the crystallization of all kinds of spell formulas and magic.

That was probably why they could be so carefree.

Well, it was only natural.

There was no way someone like me, who wasn’t even a mage, could break through this vault, far sturdier than a real-world one, using spell formulas.

But while raising the Magical Girl Middle-Aged Man character, there had been a method I used whenever a similar situation came up.

And that was...

“The straightforward way.”

I interlocked both hands and slowly loosened up my body.

Then I activated Tool Adornment on one hand and looked straight at the vault.

“Phew...”

I focused my mind and concentrated aura intensely.

I pushed the firepower to the absolute limit.

My right hand glowed bright red.

And on top of that, I activated the Ring of Abyssal Flame Godfather had given me.

What I was aiming for was the ring’s ‘Light Devourer’ ability.[Light Devourer: The more light Black Flame absorbs, the more fiercely it burns. The flames can be extinguished by the user’s will.]

My hand, which had been glowing bright red, was dyed black in an instant, and I covered the entrance to the vault with that hand.

“Player enters!”

Hisssssssss

— Crackle!

Weeeee-oo! Weeeee-oo! Weeeee-oo! Weeeee-oo! Weeeee-oo!

I’d just destroy the entrance.

At the same time as the ear-splitting shrill noise, the surroundings flashed red.

The spell formulas engraved on the vault had activated and begun sounding the alarm.

However.

“Broke through!”

I was faster.

I immediately opened the entrance that had melted and broken apart, then scraped everything inside clean.

Let’s see.

“Gems used for magic and... oh, leaves from the Divine Tree? They’re keeping something this valuable here. I’ll take this too... Ah! Whatever. I’ll just take everything.”

I swept it all up and stored it in the Cube.

All right, now all that remained was the finishing touch.

I took out the cross I had carefully kept in my pocket, drove it into the now completely empty vault, then gently placed a letter and my trademark pink magical wand on top of it.[Execution of Justice][I’ll put it to good use~★ Nom nom! So sweet~......

-Magical Rogue]

A letter filled entirely with things meant to piss the other side off.

Mm. Good. I love it.

Treasurer bastard, I’ll forgive you with just this much.

-It’s here! This door is open!

The guards’ shouts were already coming from outside the door.‘Faster than I expected?’Then I should prepare to receive guests too.

And I pulled out ‘that’ from the holder and jumped outside the door.

And.

“An intruder! There’s an intru──.”

One shot each to the chest and head.

I adjusted the power according to the amount of aura the opponent had, so they’d probably wake up tomorrow morning.

“It’s a mage! A mage broke in!”

“Ghh, now this is the stuff.”

I twirled the pink magical wand once and settled into a stance.

A cutesy magical wand with a heart on it.

It was the Tokarev disguised with 【Clown Makeup】, a skill I had prepared specifically for today.

Just for today, if I chanted the magic spell.

“Abracadabra!”

Like this, a spell of justice that knocked out villains was fired.

The guard took aura between the brows and collapsed.

“Capture him no matter what! We have to find out who ordered him here!”

People continued pouring in.

But rushing just because you were in a hurry was third-rate behavior, so I walked slowly through them.

The guards surrounding me extended their suppression batons or raised mana and shouted.

“The opponent is a mage! We just need to rush him!”

Seriously, these people.

They’re underestimating Magical Girl-style magic way too much.

“Get him!”

“Magic. Stun gun.”

An original Magical Girl spell where aura is loaded into the right hand and slammed into the opponent’s face.

The opponent struck by the magic is knocked unconscious.

“Kraaaagh!”

“You said this bastard was a mage!!”

“Magic. Flying knee kick.”

Flying knee kick, one of the forbidden spells. An opponent struck by this spell definitely dies── no, gets knocked unconscious.

Magical Girls are nonlethal.

That’s common sense.

“That’s not magic!”

Perhaps they felt threatened by my continuing magic(physical)

, because the bastards gradually began widening the distance and keeping me in check.

Tsk... then.

A large, sparkly magical wand pulled from the Cube.

“Magic. Silent bullet.”─ / ─ / ─ / ─ / ─ / ─ / ─ / ─ / ─ / ─ / ─ / ─Of course I have ranged magic too. I’m a Magical Girl.

People collapsed one after another to the prolonged sound of the typewriter(silenced.

Ver).

In the end, the encirclement was pierced by my magical carpet bombing.

I poured aura into Black Mist and broke through the encirclement.

“Th-the bastard’s running away!”

“Catch him!”

Leaving the panicking bastards behind, I sprinted down the hallway with all my strength.

Well, by now they had probably realized that capturing me with their own abilities was impossible.

Judging by how they were only shouting loudly and not actually following me, it seemed they had decided not to bother chasing.

“Th-thief!”

At that moment, perhaps awakened by the commotion in the mansion, I ran into the Treasurer bastard wearing pajamas.

Judging by the wand in his hand, he seemed to have come out intending to catch me.

I’d wanted to see him at least once before leaving the mansion, so I was delighted that he had come out personally like this.

First, should I give him a present?

“Magic, Falcon punch.”

A finishing spell where magical power(Tool Adornment)

is loaded into the hand and a punch is driven into the opponent’s face with all one’s strength.

The person hit absolutely dies── or rather, hurts so badly they feel like they will.

Booooom──!!

“Guhhhk!”

The bastard took the Falcon Punch directly and was blown backward.

Watching his ugly figure lose consciousness after crashing into the wall, I clicked my tongue briefly.

“Not much feedback.”

And it was too violent.

I smacked my lips in disappointment.

In truth, the Magical Girl Middle-Aged Man character was a character created by mixing Paladin and Rogue.

During that process, I had merely used the ‘Skill Customization System’ to make the effects pink, so in practice it could basically be considered a Paladin character.

That was why it possessed near-perfect techniques that healed the opponent at the same time as striking them, leaving not even a single wound behind.

Even if I hit them at full power, the villain’s wound would collapse and then recover instantly, so that sudden full sensation in the hand... damn.

On top of that, the pink effects bursting out were truly overflowing with catharsis just from watching them.

Mm, those were the days of romance.‘A named mob getting knocked out by a Pink Punch? You seriously can’t resist that.’Well, for now I’d have to be satisfied with a Tool Adornment punch.

“Time to make my escape.”

If I searched every corner, I could probably make a pretty tidy profit, but having already skimmed off all the valuable stuff, there was no need to go that far.

In the first place, the real reason I came here wasn’t theft.

Humiliation.

Humiliation so severe they’d want to die of embarrassment.

“The sound came from over there!”

“The Head of the Family is with us!”

All right, now that I’d seen everything I came to see, should I put on the finale?

I thrust a straight punch toward the wall leading outside and shouted.

“Pass wall.”

The corridor shattered instantly, creating a hole large enough for a person to pass through.

I threw myself through it, pulled a smoke grenade and hand grenade from the Cube, and pulled both pins at once.

The final ritual to let the whole neighborhood know that I, Magical Girl Middle-Aged Man, had come.

“Magical bomb.”

And I began hurling grenades and smoke bombs all around without restraint.

Every one of these items had their serial numbers removed from Calione’s warehouse, making them impossible to trace.

And.

Boom──! Boomboomboom──!! Boom!!

At the same time, tremendous explosions wrapped around the mansion, and pitch-black smoke began rising.

“Yahoooooooooo!”

“Bombs!!”

“Protect the Head of the Family!!”

The guards’ voices came from inside.

After confirming that the black smoke had risen high and merged with the clouds, I immediately turned and threw myself into the bushes.

At the same time, I used Black Mist and escaped.

By now, my face had already changed completely from before using 【Clown Makeup】.

“Clean.”

I quietly climbed onto the motorcycle I had hidden and started it.

Eeeeeeeeng───A truly successful robbery.

Stopping here would only make me an ordinary great thief, but Magical Girl Middle-Aged Man went one step further.

I opened my contacts through the Smart Lens and immediately called the number I had saved in favorites.

-Young Master? What brings you to call at this hour?

The signal hadn’t even rung twice before Haru answered immediately.

“Sorry for calling late. Were you sleeping?”

-No. I was organizing accounting records.

“That’s good. From my slush fund account, hmm... could you take about five hundred million credits and donate it anonymously?”

-A donation... you say? Anonymously?

“Yeah. For the name... please use Magical Rogue.”-...

Magical Rogue?

Haru asked in a puzzled tone, as though she couldn’t understand the conversation at all.

“I’ll explain the details tomorrow. Please do it for me. Make absolutely sure it can’t be traced.”

-U-understood.

“Thanks.”

With this, I had successfully completed even the final mission.

The iron rule of Magical Girl Middle-Aged Man.

Donate half the value of the stolen goods to those in need.

Originally, in the game, it had been a loophole for maintaining the Paladin class, a way of managing karma... but looking at it another way, perhaps this was what truly righteous thievery was.

Looting wealth from the wicked and distributing it to those who needed it.

“Got another one done today.”

With this, an enormous storm would sweep through the Academy and society tomorrow.

I was already starting to look forward to tomorrow morning’s news.

The brilliant, brightly shining moon illuminated me from overhead, and the motorcycle glided smoothly and leisurely along the road.

As long as I existed, justice would always remain alive and breathing in this barren world.