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After parting ways with Kanna Temerlane Theodore, I headed straight to the restaurant.

For your information, the restaurant is not in the main building, which is in a diner-style building, but in a building separate from it.

The Royal Academy has many buildings other than the main building and the dormitories.

I guess I’ll have to visit the other buildings someday.

The inside of the restaurant is like a buffet where you can choose what you want and eat as much as you want, which is nice.

Or else there will be a lot of food left over.

By the way, Victoria had already eaten lunch and left the restaurant.

So I’m eating alone today.

As I sit down to eat in a reasonably empty seat, I feel people’s gazes on me. And it’s not just one or two, it’s many.

I guess it’s because I’m someone who advertised a lot in the media.

I also watched the broadcast and newspapers through the harvest season. By the way, there is not only TV but also radio.

There I broadcasted that I was a special superpowered person who could heal people. It also said that once someone was healed, they could not be healed again, and that people whose lives were in danger would have their skin dyed blue.

The blue skin was even described as a flaw. When I was watching the broadcast through the harvester or when I was treating Aurora, I wondered if it was okay to call it a flaw, but now I know why.

They did that deliberately to remove any religious overtones.

A group called the Purple Twilight Society grew explosively in number, starting from the outskirts of Bern City.

Not only did most of the harvesters made in Bern City that day belong there, but so did those who saved their lives there.

It’s closer to a charity now, but it would be a headache if something like that turned into a religion and turned into a cult.

All the more so since phenomena that can be called miracles exist in a visible form.

I understand that he tried to balance it out by putting me down, since that could be something he would ask his own daughter.

If I had to give one complaint, it would be that the Purple Twilight Society is not being run properly.

Yes, it is returning to being a proper charity.

There are so many people who literally do charity work around the harvest season and live a new life.

Aren’t people a bit more greedy?

Or are you still intoxicated by the act of doing good deeds?

When reality sets in and you sober up, do you plan on doing whatever bad things you want?

I hope it comes as soon as possible.

I gained great power to hit others.

I got a brilliant brain that can fool others.

And some of them even gained special superpowers.

Your ego will become inflated, you will have to deal with those who get in your way with violence, and you will become arrogant.

Maybe because it hasn’t even been a few months yet?

When the heat cools and the cold reality sets in, we expect them to become selfish.

There’s plenty of time.

I left my dishes behind. I tried to clean them up yesterday, but here, if you leave an empty dish, they will clean it up for you.

Since it’s a gas lamp fantasy, I expected a more extravagant place, but it’s more modest than I thought. In fact, in my faded memories of history, the Belle Époque was more extravagant.

Well, that wasn’t a world where monsters the size of large buildings roamed around using magic.

With that thought in mind, I leave the restaurant and return to the classroom.

***

afternoon.

The class ended with the words that there was a magic practice class tomorrow.

I’d like to tell you to write a technique that anyone can use, but here, everyone can use magic.

Anyone can use a flame as small as a cigarette with just a little practice. In fact, it is so natural that it is a concept close to a human body function like muscle strength.

From a social perspective, magicians are similar to people in a special position that is a combination of a scholar and an athlete.

In other words, it means that it is a subject similar to physical training.

Of course, there is separate physical training.

Why do you know this?

Among the people I made into harvesters, there was one who graduated from the Royal Academy.

Bern city center was home to many elites, some of whom were of noble birth.

And the Royal Academy isn’t just for the aristocracy.

Celebrities themselves and their children also come in. Victoria and I are examples of this. So there are quite a few non-noble people.

I remember this from someone who has already graduated, but at the time, there were children of famous musicians and big businessmen.

It’s a way to absorb capable people into the upper echelons. And it’s also a way to keep those people.

You’re smart. There are a lot of places that fail because they don’t reward people according to their original performance, right?

Compensation is another word for the future. If the compensation is low, it means there is no future. Then, wouldn’t it be natural to leave?

Instead of compensating, it is much easier and cheaper to create a mental prison and lock them in there, so many people do that.

anyway.

“Go and make some friends.”

“Bell sounds like Mom!”

On the way back from class, I thought of Victoria, who had been eating alone without approaching anyone while I was meeting Theodore, and said something.

On my way back to the dorm, I pointed to the school building with my finger.

“It’s a place to make connections. If you’re here, you should make connections.”

It’s good to stick together, and it’s also good to join a huge faction and take your place.

That must be the purpose of this school. The groups formed when you were young are surprisingly strong.

“I know that, but… … .”

“I didn’t have many friends at Clockwork Knight School either.”

Suddenly, a gaze that had been looking ahead flew towards me and landed on me.

“Hey, how do you know that?”

Victoria’s voice lowered. She really doesn’t know.

“Beatrice was worried. She said that since he was not sociable like Maurice, he would not be able to find a husband.”

Victoria covered her face with both hands.

“No.”

I tried to say something, but I couldn’t continue.

“No. Secondly, your mother knows that, but why do you know that?”

“While we were chatting while preparing a meal, that kind of story came up. The only topic that Beatrice and I have in common is Victoria, right?”

“I’m going to turn.”

Victoria put her hand down and made a face as if she was going to die from being stabbed in the sore spot without mercy.

“Did you cook at our house?”

“I made it the day before Morris came. It was a chance to learn about the ingredients of this world.”

I knew how to cook it, but I didn’t know the ingredients very well.

I’m not a chef, so I can’t make food with ingredients I’ve only tried once or twice. But if I know the ingredients and the recipe, I can make it because I know how to make it.

That’s why the food I gave to Soo at first failed. Yes.

Among the memories I gained from the first world, there was a chef, so I cooked confidently, thinking I could make delicious food, but I ruined it all.

So I felt firsthand that just because I had memories doesn’t mean I could do well.

Fortunately, Soo ate well.

“What were you doing at my house?”

“Raising Victoria?”

“Was I the one who was raised?”

He has a dazed expression on his face, as if he has lost his mind after realizing the shocking truth.

However, I don’t think there’s much to worry about when it comes to social skills. Victoria herself thinks she’s shy and not very social.

A person who is not at all afraid to talk to someone when necessary is not called timid.

If you were a timid person from the beginning, you wouldn’t have been able to escape that prison and would have turned into a sahagin. You just lack interest in things that don’t interest you.

Crash

Upon reaching the room, Victoria took the key out of her pocket, opened the door, and went inside.

“That’s the most shocking story I’ve ever heard. So?”

“What is it?”

“It seemed like someone higher up took you away earlier, but did something happen to you?”

He looks at me with a worried expression.

“Victoria seems to have forgotten what I am.”

“Just tell me whether you’re a monster or a classmate who’s acting like a mom.”

Victoria looks flustered.

“I have never been a mother. If you feel that way, why don’t you examine your own attitude toward life?”

“That’s what makes you like your mother. What are you beating around the bush?”

I had no intention of changing the subject, so I shook my head.

“Kanna Temelaine Theodore. He didn’t call me to be his enemy. He said he would lend me his name if anything happened.”

“Isn’t that some kind of ulterior motive?”

I have legitimate questions. It’s clear what the actual intention is.

I shrugged.

“If you want to sign a contract, just do it.”

“Uh, when you went to the palace, were there any restrictions or anything like that?”

Victoria asks in a low voice. It seems like such a delicate question, but the royal family itself is a place that must be treated with caution. It seems right to do so.

“Yes. No.”

It seems like he came to me only to save Aurora. From the beginning to the end, he moved for her.

The problem is that I don’t know why they kept me around after that.

They expressed their gratitude and said they would film the video a few days later, and there was no further interference after that.

Even when I went to the Royal Academy, I was just transported straight away like luggage.

At first, I thought he was keeping me locked up in the castle for future use, but he lets me out too freely. The royal family visits Aurora often, so I don’t think they’re too busy to see me.

I’m sure it’ll work out somehow.

“I don’t even know when it’ll come out?”

“I don’t know.”

“Still, it’s the royal family, so there’s nothing strange about it… … .”

I didn’t say it was quite gloomy. The cruelty of the monarch is a virtue. If you make it a harvester, how much warmth will come in?

If they leave me alone, then let them leave me alone.

When you need it, when you need it, I’ll be there.

I don’t know if this neglect is real neglect or surveillance disguised as neglect, so I plan to just watch and see for the time being.

A vending machine that lacks subjectivity.

Once you use a good tool, it’s hard to go back to living without it.

“Don’t worry. I’m worried about Victoria. Wake up early.”

“I thought about this while running today, I don’t really need to wash, I can just wash with this. In other words, I can sleep a little longer, right?”

Victoria turned her head away from me at my words, then suddenly looked at me again and put a drop of water in her hand.

Superpowers are good if used well.

“Wake up early.”

“Hing… … .”

I did something I never did before, so I put my hand on his head and patted him. I told him to be a little embarrassed.