01 The Good-for-nothing

Royal Academy of the Lizarck Kingdom.

The most wished to attend Academy on the Continent.

In this learning place, there was a particular man who had create some reputation himself just after 1 year after entering the Academy.

The Good-for-nothing Bastard.

That title were refering to a man named Loryarc Lapizburn.

He was used to be a very handsome young man with naive personality. Had some strange justice sense that tend to led him toward other's matter and likes commoners, which strange for a nobleman like him.

But his physical, magical, even academic talents was in worst level.

So he was called as a good, but for nothing.

As for the Bastard term...

"Good morning, everyone~!"

... It is because he engaged with one of the most beautiful woman at the academy. Solely, because of his appearance. So lucky that to the extent of irritating to even seeing his handsome face. Argh, seeing his face, which so beautiful even if he were a man was even more irritating! Why don't you just become a woman!?

But it was the past.

Loryarc Lapizburn now was just a handsome but disable man who couldn't even walk of his fiancee, the beauty with golden hair and eyes, didn't pushing his wheel chair to enter the class.

He could just staring emptyly at the floor with opened mouth like an idiot.

It was right after the engagement between the two had been published to the public, approximately a week afterward, an incident occurred.

Loryarc Lapizburn is poisoned by unknown person.

When his maid found him, he already foaming and unconcious.

His fiancee, Glamoria Hallmeavan used her wealth to search for a way to cure him, but to no use.

The damage was already too much. His brain seemed to be damaged as well, so he can't even think like a normal person.

"Alright, Lory, why don't you say hello to everyone. H-e-l-l-o~."

Like a kind-hearted wife, Glamoria crouched beside him, smiled beautifully and facing him directly to guide him to greet his peers.

The idiotly dazed Loryarc raise his head slowly, looking at the the students at the same class as him with his mouth agape.

"H... Heeee...hoo... hoo..."

And letting out some voice that sounds like a zombie's voice.

"Well done, Lory~. You are a smart man, after all!"

"Haa..."

Glamoria clapping her hands for him, seemed to be so glad seeing her fiancee succeeded in his greeting.

It was common knowledge to not letting a strong family ladies like Glamoria to lose her face, so the students began to clapping their hands as well, albeit awkwardly.

Only a chestnut-haired maid stood behind Glamoria and Loryarc didn't clapping her hands.

She frowned.

What unfold was a clapping people, a group of people who complimenting her Master, but what she's seeing was just the mockery behind their forced to smile faces.

Her Master already disable, so why should they... Her mocking him even more?

The Maid, Marie almost shed tears if she didn't holding herself.

After that, the class was begins.

The Professor was come to the class, teaching the students about the principles behind wind elemented magic.

Marie watch, watch, and watch.

Silently watching her Master in miserable state, neither life nor died.

She was always there, right at his behind.

When he struggling to swallow a piece of meat Glamoria cut too big for him with the same kind smile on her face.

When he was pushed himself to read a long sentences.

When he was... Doing something that is clear he can't in his condition.

Marie could only helped him when he was being beaten up by some envious Noble kids and when she changed his clothes, bathing him, helping him ate his meal and brought him to his bed at night.

She was there, always.

For a year.

It was at that night.

Something unexpected happened.

"Marie... Thank you. For everything."

"M-master...!"

Her Master suddenly could talking normally.

Was he cured somehow!? Marie's hope raised.

But the exact opposite as what she's hoped, her Master was pale, looking at her with his gentle and kind, yet weak blue eyes.

"Can you... Tell my thanks to my Mother and Father, too?"

He was definitely is sick.

"M-Master, p-please don't talk! I-I'll call for a Physician—"

But he grap her hand, stopped her when she was about to walked toward the door of the room.

Her Master shook his head.

And smiled.

"Thank you... Really... Thank you so much, Marie."

And then, his eyes gradually become dulled, before closed.

His hand went limp, fell to the bed.

"M-Master... N-No..."

She could felt it, that her eyes become wet of tears.

She would like to wipe it of she had something more important to use her hands right at the moment.

Marie immediately reached out toward her Master hand and checking his artery.

"He's alive!"

She could feel the pulses of his artery.

But the pulse were began to fade as time passed.

"Master... Please...!"

Tears welled from her eyes as Marie couldn't hold herself anymore.

Marie raised her hands toward him, emanating green gentle light from her palm to his heart.

She was currently using healing magic she barely mastered with her low magic talent.

Only after Marie used all her Mana that her Master's condition stabilized.

Marie lose her strength on the knees, fell to the floor and catch for breath, tears still flowing from her eyes.

She wiped her eyes, looking up to her Master's face in expectation.

And her expectation was answered well by the God.

Her Master's eyes slowly began to opened.

He even began to looking at his surrounding.

"Master!"

Marie couldn't hold herself after experiencing the fear of losing her Master and immediately jumped to his hug.

"Thanks God... Thanks God!"

"Am I... Not died yet?"

Her Master muttered that.

And Marie nodded her head.

"Yes! Yes, of course, Master!"

Her tears fell to her Master's handsome but seemed in daze face.

But Marie doesn't know.

That the one she hugged was no longer her 'Master'.

[The System: Kiss for more had been successfully awakened.]