Scum-lesse Oblige, I Have Been Reincarnated as a Scum Villain in an 18+ Game World, and I Absolutely Want to Grasp the Mob Life with the Power of My Knowledge of the Original Story - Chapter 5

Carla-sensei and the Cursed Necklace (1)

I cast the spell and look into the mirror.

“…amazing.”

I can’t help but say so out loud.

My blonde hair has slightly changed to a darker shade.

“[Disguise] A spell that alters the target’s appearance according to the amount of magic consumed.”

A sound of clapping can be heard.

“Not a lot of people know about Auxiliary magic, but you knew about it.”

Carla-sensei said so while clapping her hands.

“Yeah, well…I read about it in a book and found it interesting.”

“Hmm…usually, you won’t find Auxiliary magic in common magic books.”

Carla-sensei’s tone seems to suggest she is somewhat suspicious.

Apologies, but I certainly didn’t learn it from a book…

[Disguise] is essentially a character customization spell. In ‘Last Aca’ you can slightly alter your character’s appearance. This [Disguise] spell is necessary for that.

However, this magic is not really popular.

In the game, you can’t make significant changes to the protagonist’s appearance.

At most, you can change his eye colour, hair colour or hairstyle.

Also, no one would be foolish enough to teach the protagonist a minor spell that only changes appearance while they can teach him useful attack magic for strategy and battles.

That’s why the [Disguise] spell was often overlooked and ignored by the majority of players with comments like,

‘Huh? Who would even use that spell? Lol.’

‘Using [Disguise]? Lol, what a weirdo.’

As a result, [Disguise] became an overlooked Auxiliary magic.

A joke of a spell that you’d only use in your second or third playthrough.

In short, it’s a useless spell.

Even though I played the game quite seriously and knew of its existence, I never actually used it.

However, when Carla-sensei told me to focus on Auxiliary magic instead of combat magic, this spell suddenly came to mind.

Of course, from a common-sense perspective, being able to slightly change your hair colour doesn’t seem very useful.

Learning combat magic would be far more sensible.

But if the future development follows the same path as ‘Last Aca’s storyline…

I wonder if this spell can be extremely useful?

For example, in ‘Last Aca’, there is an event where the academy is attacked by an enemy organization.

Basically, it’s a chuunibyou’s dream event,

“The bad guys have come to our school!?”

In the game, I enjoyed watching the protagonist, Seig, fight off the enemy organization that attacked the academy.

The protagonist taking down the enemies looked incredibly cool.

However, I mustn’t forget.

It was revealed later on that during the academy attack incident, there were casualties among the students as well.

—that’s right.

No matter how you look at it, it’s really dangerous.

This world is a dangerous world where there are quite a few crazy people wander around freely.

Even if I stop my evil deeds as ‘Scumtos’ and blend in as a mob character, it’s still dangerous.

But what if I can use this magic in such a situation???

I can change my hair colour to black in an instant, changing my appearance.

The rest is simple.

Using this magic, I can run around the academy as a black-haired, black-eyed mob character while the attackers and the protagonist are fighting, and once Seig defeats the attackers, I can applaud and praise him.

From Carla-sensei’s reaction, it seems that this [Disguise] magic is also an unpopular magic in this world.

There’s almost no chance of being found out.

A perfect crime.

Amazing, this is flawless.

“Alright!”

Getting excited about the unexpected future, I clench my fist.

“I was worried about how things would turn out, but it seems to be fine.”

“…yeah, it really turned out well.”

“Eh?”

“Eh?”

Did I hear wrong?

Just now, did Carla-sensei’s cold expression soften, and did she look incredibly relieved?

“…n-no, that’s not it! A-Ahem. My apprentice, you must know that there are ways to use magic other than for combat!”

“Y-Yes.”

No, no, it seems I was mistaken after all.

It’s unthinkable that the cold Carla-sensei would suddenly become friendly with someone who’s not even the protagonist.

And so, I decided to ask Carla-sensei, who is subtly pumping her fist in excitement, for her thoughts on the magic that I just used.

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“Yeah, it’s perfect. But it will revert back after some time though—”

Carla-sensei nods as she says so.

Looking into the mirror, my hair colour has returned to normal.

“The spell is working as it should.”

“Do you see any issues in my spell? Or maybe are there any improvements I can do?”

“The rest is probably about precision. Right now, it can only change your hair colour, but with higher precision, maybe you can even change your hairstyle too…?”

“I see. Thank you for today.”

I say so with a bow.

After receiving comments on my magic, I realize it’s about time to leave Carla-sensei’s hut.

However, at that moment, with a solemn expression on her face, Carla-sensei speaks up hesitantly.

“By the way, my apprentice—Ulthos. Umm…”

Carla-sensei fidgets and looked embarrassed.

“I have something I need to tell you.”

“Hmm? Is it something about my magic?”

“Oh, no, your magic was impressive. It’s not about that…It’s something about me…”