episode_0428

“So, during this summer vacation, I spent a whole month searching for African grass in the northwestern highlands with Mr. Harold… . Now, I am growing the African grass I obtained then in various ways to see if it is possible to cultivate it artificially… .”

“… … .”

“By the way, how cool it was to see him carry me in one hand and go down the cliff with those sturdy arms. Mr. Harold is truly a role model for all nobles… If all the men in the world were even 10% like Mr. Harold, there would be no war in this world… .”

“… … .”

“Miss Release, are you listening to me…?”

“… Yes, I am listening.”

I was just listening to Princess Mezlen talking, but I didn’t understand it.

My thoughts almost stopped for a moment as the incomprehensible information rushed into my head, but I managed to put them back on track. I also figured out what had happened between the two people who seemed like they would never get along.

‘Even though you’re Mezlen, I never thought you’d get close to Harold this quickly… .’

Considering Mezlen’s personality, which is known to be extremely devoted once he gets into something, it wasn’t strange for him to try something like this, but what surprised me was that Harold was so easily caught up in this obvious intention.

It was so unexpected that Harold, who was the type of person who would never spend time alone with a woman or do anything that could cause scandal, did as Mezlen intended.

Perhaps he readily agreed when he heard her say she would research a cure for the disease related to Thanasia’s death. In the original work, Harold’s pure love for Thanasia was not broken until the very end, and things related to her were enough to move him.

‘Of course, knowing that would be a choice that could be made because it’s Mezlen that can make good use of it.’

A personality where one’s head works quickly in areas that interest them and one does not hesitate to do things that prick one’s conscience if it is for one’s own purpose.

Thanks to her personality and judgment, Mezlen had a lot of fun dating the people she liked during this summer vacation. Of course, she was likely the only one who thought so.

I had to check on the possibility that Ethan might have a new mother who is younger than him, so I cautiously asked him what had happened between them.

“How was your relationship with Professor Harold, Princess Mezlen?”

“… That, that, uh, I’m embarrassed to say it… .”

“… … Yes?”

“I, I am not the type of person to go around talking about my lover’s private life to other people… . Do you think I have the level of common people’s culture that enjoys making vulgar conversations with dirty jokes? ”

“Lover, dirty talk… . Yes, yes?!”

Wait, what? You’re saying we’ve already made that much progress?!

No matter how much I think about it, it doesn’t make sense. How did Mezlen, who had only known me for half a year, seduce that psychopath?!

“Princess Mezlen, could you tell me just a little bit about how much progress you have made with Professor Harold… .”

“Oh, that’s all I can tell you today, Miss Lilith…! Hey, since your advice helped me become a lover with Mr. Harold, I, I thought I should tell you this much… .”

“No, wait a minute. If you end it by saying something vague like this… .”

“Ah, I hope Miss Lilith won’t be curious about Harold and I in the future…! T, Harold is already crazy about me, and we’ve promised each other a future together… !”

-Bam!

“Then see you next time, Miss Release!”

“… … .”

Princess Mezlen ran away to the faculty building, leaving me alone on the bench with those words.

It was a moment when my head was once again in turmoil due to the shocking relationship upheaval happening around me.

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Common sense would suggest that there was no way Harold could have been in a serious relationship with Mezlen.

Mezlen’s vivid account of her experiences in the northwestern highlands may be true, but that’s about it. Sharing a canteen of water or having Harold carry you down a cliff were things that anyone, even if they weren’t lovers, could do.

Any talk of promising a future together, or of something obscene happening between the two, would be nothing more than Mezlen’s delusions or leaps of thought.

Since I roughly came to that conclusion, I decided not to worry about it anymore, just like she said. To be honest, it doesn’t really matter to me what happens to those two.

Based on the original, Harold was a character who had no partner until the end, and Mezlen was one of the members of the warrior’s harem, so it didn’t really matter whether their relationship went well or not.

‘What’s more important than that is the ‘Luminor Festival’ that is coming up soon.’

As it is a game about an academy, there are festivals in 『Luminor Academy』.

The reason there was no festival in the first and second years is because Luminor Academy holds a festival once every four years.

The Luminor Academy was a training facility that trained students to become useful fighters or researchers, so it couldn’t hold an annual festival or something to discourage their enthusiasm for learning.

However, if you put too much pressure on them, it will have negative effects, so this festival, which is held once every four years, is an event to let those students loose. It is an event that you can attend only once while attending the academy, unless you take a leave of absence or drop out.

‘In reality, it’s just a setting that the developer added because they wanted to include a festival event in the Academy series.’

If we added festival events every year, the game would become too big, so it would be difficult, but it would also be a shame to give up festival events.

By the way, since this Luminor Festival is also an extension of schoolwork, it was impossible not to participate. There was a rule that all students had to participate in at least one activity to participate in the festival.

Students who get along well with each other might come together to run a store, put on a show with music or plays, or even have mock duels using flashy fighting techniques.

There was no particular restriction on collaboration between departments, so it was okay for Ethan and I to work together… but the problem was the content of the activity.

Since it is a festival that we can only participate in once every four years, I wanted to make it an unforgettable memory for both me and Ethan.

“I think the course registration is pretty much done, Release.”

“… Yes, Master Ethan.”

“How are you going to prepare for the festival? Do you have any good ideas?”

“… I’m thinking about it now. Is there anything you would like to do during this opportunity, Ethan?”

“I’m going to do whatever Lilith tells me to do, like I usually do. But you seem to make decisions quickly, but this time you seem a little worried?”

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime festival for Academy students, so I just want to make unforgettable memories with Master Ethan.”

“… Ahem, uh, yeah.”

There were quite a few events available to use when playing as the protagonist.

If you belong to the student council, you can freely manage your time under the pretext of managing student participation events, so it is possible to travel freely, and it is an event that is optimized for building goodwill by going to the classrooms run by each heroine.

If you were aiming for the pure-love route, you could use the warrior’s connections to create a stage for the performance and then do a one-on-one play. Although the favorability rating of some of the jealous heroines would drop a little, the favorability rating of the female counterpart would increase significantly enough to be enough for the pure-love route, so it was an event that was often used.

Otherwise, you could just gather the heroines and have a maid cafe or something. This would be good for increasing favorability ratings, and above all, it would be a chance to try on outfits that you would never normally see, like Seraphine’s maid outfit or Natalie’s bunny girl outfit.

‘Actually, if we could, it would be best for me and Ethan to do a play together.’

There’s no way I, a mere maid, could gather extras to help Ethan and I on our date.

The only people I can immediately call for cooperation within the Academy are probably Lizzie and Lilia. In addition, I can easily call Karaham, Lizzie’s younger brother and Lilia’s lover.

In Agnes’ case, since she was a member of the warrior party, we would have to wait and see what choice the guy would make, and although it would be possible to call Lara, there was the disadvantage of not being able to make her perform in front of people since she had the ultimate communication disorder.

If the warrior party doesn’t plan on doing something special, there’s a chance they’ll lure in Agnes, as well as Natalie, who they’ve become close with recently. If they call Natalie, Thomas will of course be included. If they do it well, they’ll be able to bring in Prince Antonio along with Agnes, just like Thomas.

‘Looking at it this way, it turns out that there aren’t that many connections I can make at my current level.’

Even if we gathered about five or six people, it would be enough to put on a play, so first of all, we needed to meet that guy named Geumbyul.

First of all, I needed to figure out whether or not the guy was going to take Agnes or Natalie to another event.