The Chosen One Was Me, Not You

98 – {The cost of foolish desire and egotism} 2

{The price of foolish desire and egotism}

William wanted to scream at Theodore’s words.

‘Where do you see this?’

William wanted to shout that, but he couldn’t say it in the agony of his limbs being amputated.

I tried to stop bleeding from the cut surface, but that’s why it hurt even more.

“Ughhh!”

He did not lose consciousness even though his whole body was drenched in sweat from so much pain.

* * *

“It may be possible to attach a prosthetic arm or leg, but amputated limbs will not recover.”

Theodore had placed an irreparable force on his limbs, as if he had crippled his sexual function.

But William would have been better off losing his limbs like this.

Since he had the ability called telekinesis anyway, even if he couldn’t move directly with his hands and feet, telekinesis would do it to some extent.

And he would have a prosthetic arm and leg, if not as much as a real hand and foot.

However, he wouldn’t be able to display his full strength, and with his arms, he could easily be subdued even if he tried to mess with it.

It would have been impossible for her to show off the skills she received second place in the swordsmanship department of Minst Academy.

“I’ll release the ability soon. If you do that, you’ll be taken to the hospital room.”

“Turn it off…”

William couldn’t even answer.

Dan screamed in excruciating pain and his throat was hoarse, so there was no way he could answer.

“I don’t even expect you to come to your senses. Just remember, one more time, you’ll pay the price if you don’t know the subject.”

After saying that, Theodore cured William’s condition.

He didn’t heal his amputated limbs or his sexual dysfunction, but he did at least heal the signs of the duel, such as a swollen face and a broken nose.

“Great!”

Of course, his neck was also healed, and when the pain subsided, William gritted his teeth.

“Theodore! As soon as you unlock it, everyone will know your ability to manipulate time!”

William shouted in a fit of rage.

As soon as his powers return, he should say something out of pride, but if he mentioned Yuria’s case, he chose this because he feared that he might be retaliated against again.

“I guess so.”

Theodore answered so calmly that William was rather taken aback.

“What?”

Looking at William’s bewildered expression, I guessed what he was mistaken about.

However, Theodore did not need to thoroughly conceal this power in the first place.

He had no intention of publicizing it, but it wasn’t a skill he desperately needed to hide.

At least that’s how it is now.

This power was not the true ability to be hidden from the Helmintos, who had repeatedly evolved as a superior species with intelligence.

“Contrary to what you misunderstood, I didn’t really care if this ability was known in the first place.”

“What, what?”

Watching Yuria return to her seat, Theodore released her own ability.

Then time began to pass at its normal speed again.

“Uh, huh?”

“What?”

“Something in an instant?”

“What happened?’

When time went back to normal, everyone started to panic.

Theodore and William’s movements seemed to be super-fast enough that the eyes couldn’t follow them, and then he saw William lying dismembered.

“What the hell is going on? Can you explain?”

Professor Benjamin asked with a bewildered face at the traces on the podium.

He seemed unable to keep his composure when I first asked him to explain how he was perplexed by the situation.

That’s right.

Suddenly, something went super fast, but the duel ended with William Artin lying on the podium with his limbs severed.

“I ended the duel by slowing William and I’s time to 1/1000. That’s all.”

Theodore, who explained so simply, was speaking as if it were nothing more than a light happening. But Professor Benjamin’s expression looked startled at his words, and it was evident that he was astonished at the power that slowed time down.

“…It’s a duel, but why did you cut off your limbs like that?”

Professor Benjamin asked about dueling rather than about Theodore’s abilities.

It was a duel, but he asked why William’s limbs were amputated.

“Originally, I was going to just cut off the bones in my hands and break my legs. However, after William healed his impotent body, he couldn’t abandon the delusion that he would rape my fiancée and continued to curse. Ugly filth. Has received its retribution, and that’s all.”

Professor Benjamin nodded.

Unlike any other student, no one sympathized with William Artin because he was in this situation.

The atrocities he committed were not once or twice, and he himself saw and heard that he showed such a low attitude toward Yuria that he couldn’t even mention it.

“I see. But at Minst Academy, we can’t allow people to die. The result of a duel. Anyway, there are students who are injured like that, so we should send them to the hospital.”

William Artine’s ending was at best like this.

As a reward for not giving up his desire and stubbornness, the ending ends with his limbs being amputated and taken to the hospital room.

“Wow, didn’t you reflect on your limbs even after they were broken?”

“If it’s really great, it’s great.”

“Princess Yuria’s looks… Uhm.”

Some of the students thought that they would understand why William couldn’t give up on her, seeing Yuria’s beautiful figure, but they didn’t say it.

He was afraid that Theodore would even challenge him to a duel because of an insult to Yuria.

William Artin, who was dismembered, was also a good example.

If there is a person who is rude to Yuria Arsane, Theodore Skylord will directly step forward and punish him by showing off his overwhelming power as the chosen one.

After learning this, the students naturally became more careful with Yuria.

“Anyway, a eunuch.”

“That’s right. I never thought William Artin would be a eunuch.”

“That was the reason why he forcibly cut off promiscuous relationships with women.”

“Well, with his personality, he said it was strange to suddenly cut off relations with a woman.”

The fact that William Artin was a high school student would be unknown to everyone at the academy once classes were over.

“Thank you for letting me write the podium.”

Theodore thanked Professor Benjamin for providing the venue for the duel.

“Well, yes. Go back to your seat.”

Professor Benjamin seemed to be concerned about the current situation, more precisely, the slow-moving power of time that Theodore casually threw. But Theodore went back to his seat instead of giving a detailed explanation.

“Hmm! The confrontation that student Yuria had with student William was helpful, but unfortunately, the duel between student Theodore and student William wasn’t very helpful! However, remember to always take risks when learning a sword. Be sure to keep in mind that those who act recklessly without knowing the subject like William can end up like that in a duel!”

Professor Benjamin gave a warning to all of his students, citing the example William had just shown himself.

Knowing that there are many students who admire the life of William Artin, he hoped that this opportunity would correct the messed up students’ discipline.

I could feel the determination to make sure that Minst Academy’s rules were not taken lightly, and that they faithfully abide by them.

‘A faithful professor.’

When Theodore sat down and evaluated that, Yuria started talking.

“Theo, will William Artin not be able to walk anymore?”

“Yes. Do you think my behavior is gross?”

“No. Not at all. On the contrary, I know that foolish mercy only increases the number of innocent victims.”

Yuria’s reaction to Theodore’s words was absurd.

Theodore nodded her head when she said that she knew that showing mercy to the wicked, who had no room to rehabilitate, would rather bring great damage to the innocent.

“Yes, I guess.”

Theodore had heard about this from the Skylord duchy, but he had seen it with his own eyes in his youth.

It was not long after he had run away from the Duke of Artin.

As the child was wandering around alone, he subdued and did not kill the human trafficker, who had taken it lightly, but within a day, after confirming that he was trying to abduct other children, all his limbs were amputated.

After that, the memory of freeing the children he kidnapped and seeing him beaten to death by the children is still vivid.

“I, too, have long since given up hope that William Artine will be rehabilitated.”

* * *

“Ugh.”

Lying in his hospital room, William heard noises coming towards him.

“A limb was cut off.”

“They even say he’s a eunuch?”

“For some reason, he kept away from women. Giggling!”

“Hey, I’ll listen.”

“If you want to hear it, listen to it. Being impotent is not a lie, so what is it?”

“Kick! That’s right.”

William gnashed his teeth at the sound of mockery coming from the hospital room.

However, with his telekinetic powers, at most he could lift the skirts of female students.

Without the strength to forcibly tear off his clothes, he now has no choice but to face a hopeless reality.

“Uhhhhh!”

The cost of greed and stubbornness was so painful.

‘Oops! Kill it! Theodore Sky Road!’

However, even when he reached this state, William never reflected.

The only thing he regrets is not having killed Theodore Skylord before he ran away when he was Theodore Artin.

‘I should have killed you then!’

As Theodore thought, William already had no room for rehabilitation.

“Is the eunuch grinding his teeth?”

“Are you trying to shout ‘I’m a eunuch!’? Giggling!”

However, the reality was only the voices of people who were no longer afraid of him and ridiculed him.

To see him in the hospital room, a large group of Minst Academy students came to mock him, and this reality was a terrible nightmare for William.

“Keuuu, I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill everyone. I’m going to kill everyone who looks down on me!”

“Oops~ I’m scared.”

“Is it the eunuch’s anger?”

“Are you just an idiot? You’re an idiot with no limbs.”

“Oops~ The bird X who was teasing X stopped working, so his limbs also stopped working?”

“Puhahahaha!”

“Ha ha ha ha ha!”

The voices of the students holding their stomachs and laughing at William kept hitting William’s ears.