episode_0093

A strong and powerful morning dawned.

Our Violets woke up and ate breakfast in their own ways.

The Violets in the dormitory headed to the dining hall with Daphne, while the Violets living in the central district neighborhood went to Kalia’s house to get breakfast or toasted bread.

Besides that, there were various options, such as eating cup ramen or just cereal.

Eating several meals simultaneously like this has a few advantages.

One is being able to eat everything they couldn’t before due to being full, and the other is being able to savor various flavors at once.

Imagine chugging chocolate milk, strawberry milk, and banana milk all at once. When there was only one body, mixing them made the taste strange, but with multiple bodies, all three flavors are felt simultaneously, creating a bizarre harmony.

Therefore, our Violets can be called geniuses of gastronomy.

Once their stomachs were full and they had leisure, their minds started whirring again. We comfortably lay or sat in our respective spots and connected to the Violet Network.

Number 1 took on the role of moderator and announced the start of the discussion.

「Let’s resume yesterday’s discussion.」

「Understood.」

The Violets began discussing what they had seen yesterday.

「First, the person we saw yesterday was indeed Seijis. Black hair and a black coat! He always dressed like that.」

「He looked rather gloomy.」

Number 13 recalled the Inspector-nim from the main story.

The Inspector-nim’s gender is either female or male. According to the settings, a male Inspector-nim is the official version of events.

In other words, there is only one Inspector-nim. I don’t know where Seijis’s twin sister is or what she’s doing. What could Sophieel be doing?

「Perhaps she’s in the Inspectorate?」

「I heard she used to work as a teacher.」

However, imagining yesterday’s battle made them a little scared.

The Inspector-nim we knew was a more cheerful, sometimes clumsy character than now. Even when fighting villains, he was more emotional and knew how to get angry.

But the person we saw yesterday was a ruthless, cold-blooded killing machine. There was a strong sense of déjà vu.

Numbers 39 and 83 continued to offer their opinions.

「Think about the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. He used to ride that in the original story too.」

「Don’t you remember the red-haired girl? The one with cat ears. That’s Milia.」

The girl who was stomping her feet and saying something to the Inspector-nim came to mind. To think Milia was there too.

Milia is the mascot character of the Crimson Academy and the Inspector-nim’s closest companion.

Number 2, who had been deep in thought, slapped her knee.

「What about the ability to pull weapons out of thin air? When we went to the Novastiya Dungeon, the inventory disappeared. It really was the Inspector-nim who took it.」

「That’s right, that happened!」

The Violets concluded that ‘it is indeed the Inspector-nim.’ The problem was why the Inspector-nim, who should be active several years in the future, was moving now.

「Regression. Or possession.」

「One vote for regression. If I had possessed the Inspector-nim, I would have immediately devoured the crystal flowers and elixirs. I would have also tried to recruit other students and colleagues.」

「That’s right, you’ve got a point.」

Seeing him talk to Adela, it seems he has some intentions, but it’s a mystery why he hasn’t sought out Irene, Daphne, or Kalia.

「Could he not know where they are?」

「He might be busy.」

Soon, the Violets’ discussion proceeded under the assumption that ‘Inspector-nim = regressor.’ Considering the unique nature of our existence as ‘Violets,’ the first thing that needed to be discussed was this:

「What do we do if we meet the Inspector-nim?」

I recalled story topics centered around time travelers and regressors. Revenge, punishment, judgment…

「Uh… wouldn’t he not leave us alone?」

「He might kill us!」

Our reactions were explosive.

Considering the havoc wreaked by ‘Violet, the Witch of Infinity’ in Part 1, meeting the Inspector-nim was a gamble more dangerous than confronting a time-traveling Jew with baby Hitler.

「I know, but couldn’t we explain it well through conversation? Like, ‘We are not the Witch of Infinity you know!’」

「We also need to explain how we know that.」

This is a problem of proving a negative. How can we prove that we won’t do wrong in the future? We also need to explain how we know that.

Given the hopeless situation, some Violets even made unreasonable claims.

「Let’s reveal that we’re possessors.」

「Rejected, he’d try to kill us for being crazy.」

After discussing it, they were troubled about how to converse with the Inspector-nim. It was a difficult problem.

Rustroom Academy City was overflowing with villains.

Cults claiming that demonic beasts and Aether are humanity’s salvation and should infiltrate other dimensions, corporations engaging in human experimentation and illegal trade. Clans that don’t do their own work properly and only make unreasonable demands of unawakened individuals, like during the last Cockroach Dungeon. Various secret societies plotting conspiracies.

However, the evil deeds they committed at least had rational reasons. They also had their own clear goals.

The Witch of Infinity was different. The final boss of Part 1 was merely a pleasure killer who enjoyed tormenting people as she pleased.

「She was a madwoman.」

「Her way of thinking is different from ours!」

For the narcissistic Witch Violet, the only pleasure was watching others suffer. That’s why the Witch of Infinity did many wicked things.

「What did the Witch do again?」

Number 205, who was in the dormitory, glanced at her roommate beside her.

「She harmed Daphne, didn’t she?」

「Long before that.」

「Did she take hostages?」

The Violets rummaged through their memories, listing the Witch’s actions in the main story one by one. School hostage-taking, civilian massacres, bomb attacks, assassinations, random killings…

「She killed children. To provoke Adela.」

「The patients at the facility where Daphne worked also died, didn’t they?」

「She must have done all sorts of things throughout the Academy City just to anger the Inspector-nim.」

The rampaging Witch of Infinity even backstabbed the Obsidian Legion, who tried to restrain her, and escaped. Probably because she didn’t want to follow orders.

Ultimately, a disaster occurred where hundreds to thousands of clones rioted throughout the entire Academy City.

If the barrier Daphne left at the end hadn’t trapped Witch Violet’s main body, she might not have been caught.

There were reports that the clones immediately ceased functioning after the main body died, but there was no mention of what happened afterward. Did they disappear, or did they gain new abilities like us?

Given that there’s no mention in the Part 2 prologue, it’s possible the main body truly died.

「Ah, then let’s use this method.」

One of the Violets, who was looking through the settings, put forward an idea.

「We’ll ask our friends to persuade him. To tell him that we’re not the monster he knows.」

「That’s right. That would be faster. Why did we even hesitate?」

The Witch is selfish, so she has no friends. In contrast, we have friends. With this, we’ll be able to convince him that we are different from her.

If we meet the Inspector-nim later and he gets angry with us, I’ll have to run to our friends. Unless the Inspector-nim is a madman, there’s no way he wouldn’t listen to our friends. Come to think of it, we also have Adela’s contact information.

「Why did we possess the body of such a strange villain?」

「If only she’d lived a bit more kindly! Then we wouldn’t have to worry about things like this.」

We grumbled.

But the wicked Witch is no more. All that remains are good Violets, righteous and loyal.

***

After the discussion ended, we ate the crystal flowers we had brought from school. We felt our mana rapidly surge.

「Wow, this is incredible!」

「My magic is surging!」

We immediately generated clones. Inanimate bodies utilizing the hibernation function slumped onto the floor. As they exceeded a certain number, new personalities appeared on the Violet Network.

「Whoa! What a wonderful world. I’m Number 300! Nice to meet you!」

「I’m Number 312!」

The Violets greeted the new Violets and proceeded with their new plan.

“From now on, let’s begin the mass production operation for Violets.”

We spend a considerable amount of money on food expenses. If there are 100 Violets, food expenses for 100 people are incurred.

The bigger problem is living space. If we generated a thousand Violets, that much accommodation space would be needed. Even if we tried to find houses, we couldn’t suddenly expand them.

However, by utilizing the newly acquired abilities, we can maximize space efficiency. We just need to create Violet bodies and pile them densely somewhere, which also saves mana.

Meanwhile, in a corner, Violet’s bodies were being placed inside oil drums.

A small amount of food, money, and items were also placed inside the drums. I plan to bury one of these Violet drums shallowly in each region. In an emergency, they can also be used as teleportation beacons. This will prevent us from being completely wiped out.

We plan to steadily increase our clones to create a force of thousands. This will be a great help for future endeavors.

「We need to become stronger than we are now!」

「Look at the Inspector-nim, he’s incredibly strong. Our strength is in numbers. Let’s increase them quickly.」

A major reason we were proceeding with the plan so quickly was the inspiration we drew from seeing the Inspector-nim.

We were still lacking.

On the other hand, the fact that we were the ones who even gave the Inspector-nim trouble gave us some confidence.

Thus, they trained, studied, and dedicated themselves to practice. As time passed, the experiential learning day approached.

「Let’s go! Experience points! Relics! Treasure chests!」

「We can do it!」

Finally, the time had come to enter the Great Forest of Clovis.