Ustos falls onto the ground, clutching his stomach in pain.

They start kicking him while he is down, shouting generic classist quotes, each brain-numbing sentence making my estimation of these worlds denizens potential to be something else than a dimwit go lower and lower.

After a while, the dimwits finally decide to leave Ustos be. They just leave him there, shivering on the ground, and just head off, chatting with each other about subjects about as complicated as their personalities.

I see this as a great chance to make a good impression on him.

After 5 minutes of letting him lie there and stew in his hatred I run up to him. I bend down and hesitantly shake his shoulder saying “Hay man are you alright? What happened to you?”

He flinches back and looks at me. He says faintly “w–who are… who are you?”.

“Jellin Sukanrie, but never mind that man, what happened to you? Should I take you to the infirmary?” I say counting on him being stubborn and stupid enough that he wouldn’t answer yes.

“No, I’m alright.” he answers like the true idiot I predicted him to be.

“Ya sure, you don’t look so good?”.

“No no, it’s fine I can walk it off, I am a man after all.”.

“Ok man, but like, who did this to you?”.

“Oh, it was no one! I just um, I just fell down.” then he just started stuttering after realizing how stupid of a sentence he said. Am I supposed to act like this man after I steal his identity?

“I know that’s a lie, I’m not stupid, who actually did this to you.”.

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“No one did this to me!”.

“*sigh Whatever man, can I at least help you back to your dorm, I can’t just leave you like this.”.

“O-Ok um lets go.”.

“Can you walk?”.

“Yeah.” he says as he starts limping. I fake a sigh and start helping him walk.

As we start walking to the dorms he asks me something I wanted him to just ignore. “So umm… What’s with the mask?”.

“Oh yeah, I forget that I’m wearing it sometimes.” I say as I take it off.

Ustos actually looks befuddled, the nincompoop. “What's wrong, never seen a burnt person before?” I add with a nervous chuckle. “How did this happen to you?” he asks.

I fake reluctance ”It’s not a good story.”.

“Oh don’t act like that. ”

“Alright. One day the instructor told us to practice our spellcasting of fireball. As I was minding my own business one of the students “misfired” their fireball, and it exploded right beside me. I was immediately knocked out. I was told that I was taken to the healers immediately, but they couldn’t save my face. Fully reconstructing my face with healing magic would have cost a fortune so my father just left me like this, a charred mess.” I say with a frustrated tone of voice.

Ustos actually looks sympathetic, the dimwit. “But who shot the fireball didn’t they get blamed.”

“No… he went unpunished just because he was a count's first son. I don’t even think that the fireball was an accident, he always picked on me for being the fourth son to a baron!” I pull out the bullying card, to make me more relatable to him.

I feint cooling myself back down and put my mask back on. “Oh I didn’t know it was such a sad story, sorry for bringing it up.”." No it’s all right, so what about you how’d your face get burned?”.

He retails his story about how his father charred his face to symbolize him being a bastard, and how he studied hard to impress his father. I listen to the story acting as if I care about how much he went through.

I ask him why he looked beaten up again, and he admits that he was beaten up by someone. I act mad and ask him who deard do this to him. He tells me the bullies' names. And I vow to take revenge with him, on the bullies.

In the chit-chat, we finally make it to the dorms. He leads me to his dorm and opens the door. He goes inside and I follow after him. “So I don’t have any tea s–” and that’s all he manages to say before I wrap my hand around his neck and start choking him. He struggles for a while but he finally goes limp.

I smile, finally, I get to stop listening to this idiot. All right first I need to tie him down like my previous captive.

I take off his wizard robes and neckless and tie him down onto a chair. I also gag him so he doesn’t alert anyone if the dorms aren’t soundproof.

I put on his green robes and necklaces and go outside.

As I’m walking I subtly bump into a random student and put my first captives necklace into one of his robe pockets.

I walk all the way back to the secluded spot where the boolies bite up Ustos and hide the white robe in a random unsuspecting bush.

I returned to the dorm and sit down on my chair. I smile because my brilliant plan went off without a hitch.