____In fact, Bishop Vanessa secretly planned to push Phantom to grow up to be a priest and become the Bishop of St. Maria's Church in the future . Since Phantom was intelligent, well-behaved, and had never stolen anything, Bishop Vanessa did not hesitate to give Phantom an opportunity to study when the opportunity arose.
____Bishop Vanessa doesn't know that the culprit of the chaos that night, as well as the real thief who stole the library key, is none other than Phantom .
____The library key was actually on Phantom's body all the time, but Phantom mostly hid it under his feet in his straw slippers. But even if someone searched Phantom's slippers, they would not find anything. Phantom had many spy skills, one of which was magic skills. Phantom's hands were agile, fast and mysterious, too much for anyone to catch up with him.
____"Hey ! You little brat!" A rude voice rang out as Phantom walked back to his bed at the end of the orphanage's dormitory.
____The rude voice was loud enough to make all the children turn to look at the source of the voice. Only Phantom did not turn back and continued walking as if he had not heard anything at all.
____Hey ! You idiot !! Do you dare to turn a deaf ear or something ?! " The voice became even louder, showing that the other party was getting even more irritated than before. Furthermore, the other party threw something at the back of Phantom 's head.
____But before the thing could touch Phantom , he reached out and caught it accurately. It turned out to be a piece of bread that had been thrown at him. Phantom snorted back, biting the bread, and replied back with the bread still in his mouth, arrogantly.
____"You're the one who's stupid. Your brain must be so atrophied that you can think like a pig. But thanks for returning the bread you stole from me," Phantom said, chewing the bread back.
____Since he heard the other party's first sentence, he didn't need to guess who the owner of that voice was. Dahad was someone who had always tried to compete for prominence with Phantom . Originally, before Phantom came to the church, Dahad had always been the number one favorite son. However, ever since Phantom entered St. Maria Church, Dahad had never received as much attention from Bishop Vanessa as Phantom did. Let alone receiving love, in Dahad 's 14 years of life , he had never seen an orphan receive as much love and care as Phantom did. Especially when it came to attending St. Maria School and taking magic classes, which were unprecedented for orphans. This was no different from pushing Phantom to become a noble in the future without having to do anything.
____Becoming a noble and a high-class person has always been Dahad 's dream . He wanted to be a rich nobleman. After that, he would trample on others like he had been through before, and take the young women who used to look down on him as his concubines. This was his fantasy, but it was about to become reality. For Phantom , this was something he could never accept. Originally, Dahad had always hated Phantom , but now he had the thought of killing Phantom so intensely that he could hardly suppress this feeling any longer.
____"Fuckkkkk !! You want to die now, don't you !! " Dahad stared at Phantom with red eyes. He wanted to grab Phantom and rip him alive. He wanted to hear the screams of the other party who was mocking him like no orphan had ever dared to do that to him before.
____"You don't know who will die. I'm warning you for the last time. If you don't want to die in pain, don't bother me again. Otherwise, you will regret your actions." Phantom narrowed his eyes and said without any hesitation.
____" Heh heh ! Before, a coward like you never dared to be so foul-mouthed. Do you think that just by going to St. Maria School, you can change anything? You're still just an orphan. Everyone will see you as a thief. In the end, I'll beat you up until you see the light, and let you know that trash like you is nothing more than a waste . " Dahad provoked with harsh words.
____Dahad wanted to make Phantom angry to the point of losing his mind and then bring himself to him. Dahad would have an excuse to hurt Phantom properly. However, if he was too rough and made Phantom go crazy or die, it couldn't be helped. He could claim that Phantom was too weak but came to cause trouble for him. This would be the most perfect excuse for Dahad.
____"I don't know if you're talking about yourself. In this room, you're the only one who's ambitious but doesn't try to do anything. I'll say it as my last word… If you don't want to die, don't bother me again !! " Phantom said as he turned around and climbed up to his second-floor bed, not caring about arguing with someone like Dahad anymore.
____Phantom knew that arguing with such a brainless person was useless. In the end, the other party would find a chance to attack him when he was not paying attention. This was definitely not the time. There were too many people in this room. If the two of them had a fight in the middle of the night, someone would definitely rush to report it to Bishop Vanessa . Then, the two of them would be severely punished. Phantom would not allow the reward for his hard work to go to waste.
____But that didn't mean that Phantom would lower his guard towards Dahad . Originally, a situation where Phantom would argue with Dahad like this had never happened before. In the past, if Dahad wanted to hurt or steal Phantom's food, he would obediently yield to the other party. It wasn't that he was afraid of Dahad , but compared to Dahad's small body, it was like hitting an egg against a rock if he had to fight the other party. But now, he could use some magic. No matter how weak his magic was right now, Phantom believed that he could definitely put it to good use. Using his now-impaired magic to kill a 14 years old child who didn't know his limits wasn't difficult at all.
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