episode_0307

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“Monethen has arrived, so we will deliver it again?

You all know that the swordsmanship department is not included in the specialization period, right?

Instead, you will form a team of like-minded people to solve the quest.

It’s good to think of it as a kind of field trip.”

As the students nodded as they listened to Padwick’s voice, Anne was also recalling a story she had heard.

Since research is the main subject of study for other faculties, the specialization period was designed to enable them to focus on research activities with support from the academy.

Over the past month or so, with full support from Carlana Lucas of the Department of Alchemy, Carla created [Spider Army-mk1] and Lucas created [Armor Smelting Efficiency Amplification Theory Using Liquid Metal].

Many students were able to use the specialization period to conduct many experiments and engage in intellectual activities, but since the Department of Swordsmanship was a physical education department with some distance from intellectual activities, they did not receive such benefits.

“It doesn’t matter whether it’s done with classmates or with seniors or juniors.

Still, you know that it’s not acceptable to simply put things on top of each other, right?”

It was the ‘request experience’ that allowed them to gain a special experience.

‘request… … ‘

“As for the request content, there are good ones posted on the academic bulletin board, so you can just pick one…

If you think it’s too vague, it’s okay to ask for the request directly.

Instead, if you are asked to do something, report it to the office and receive a clear guarantee of mission completion.”

In the end, when Padwick declared a ‘group task’, the students’ reactions were varied.

In other words, group work can be a very special experience if it is done with like-minded people, but on the other hand, if the like-minded people do not agree or there is no one in the group, it is a cycle of death that all team members suffer.

“Ha… … After all, it’s a group project… … ?”

“Like this? Divide it like this?

aha!! Or like this? Ahahaha!!

If you two stick together, you’ll fight!!”

“Sewer exploration?

Is this really a sick idea?

Let’s do it right now!!”

In the end, the students were divided into those who were sighing as they did not like the group task itself, and those who were chatting and talking about who they should pair up with in their group, saying it would be fun.

‘me too… … Same… … ‘

Naturally, Anne was on the side of sighing.

I didn’t have any particularly close friends, and looking at the Assa sighers who were just as worried about the future as I was, it didn’t seem easy to form a group with them.

There was a bit of impatience in Anne’s eyes as she rolled her eyes and looked around.

For her, who usually has a bad attitude in class due to work, it was important to have an assignment where she could show her ‘performance’ for direct evaluation.

Although she is sometimes a little late while working, what is the reason for her to attend class regularly?

Wasn’t it to obtain the minimum qualification certification that he had graduated from the academy and had learned and trained swordsmanship?

Although her physical abilities have been improving little by little lately, her usual attitude in class is not particularly good, so she cannot help but be sensitive to her own evaluation in such large-scale assignments.

‘If it were a personal task… …

no… No matter what you think, it’s no use…

Now I have to fit in somewhere… … ‘

At that moment, Anne, who was in a situation where she had to grasp at straws, was feeling a sense of crisis as she looked around her as the group members were gradually being decided.

“Why are you looking around so much?”

“Hi!! ah… Ms. Roxanne… … !!”

“It looks like fun, right?

Why don’t we try it together?”

“Ah… that… I’m fine… …

then… Will you join me… ?”

When Roxanne suddenly appeared from behind and asked a question while smiling brightly, Anne thought for a moment and immediately held her hand.

Isn’t now the time to separate hot food from cold food?

On the contrary, it was natural that if Roxanne, who showed off her amazing spear skills, came along, the burden would be reduced that much.

“Then… Now we need to gather more people… … ”

There was a restriction that normal requests required at least four people to move together.

It might be good to have more numbers, but it was most important to meet the minimum number.

Still, if Roxanne joins us, the number of additional people that need to be filled will be reduced, so that alone is fortunate enough.

“Umm… … Or even though it may be a bit burdensome…

You can also look for requests with a small number of recruits… … ”

The moment Anne looked in the direction of the bulletin board, intending to accept a request that would only recruit a small number of people.

“All four people have already been filled?

Wouldn’t it be okay not to worry about that?”

“Uh… … ?

Four people… ?

There are two of us… … ”

“Hey~!! This way!!”

When Roxanne suddenly looks back and waves her hand, Anne is dumbfounded and looks in the direction she is waving.

And similarly, it was noticeable that the other people were shocked when they saw Anne.

“Would you like to say hello?

First of all, I am also a freshman.

Isn’t love for one’s peers not love for one’s country?”

Maybe that person was the one who persuaded me to be with Roxanne first.

So, when he was trying to fill the remaining position, he didn’t know why he would react that way when he saw Roxanne bringing Anne in.

“Uh… to… Eh… … ”

“My classmates are Bibi and Renee.

Haven’t I seen this before?

Let’s not even say hello to each other?”

Even as the distance gets closer, they look at each other with incomprehensible expressions.

Anne, who happened to be the most senior among them, was the first to open her mouth and introduce herself.

“Ah… hi… do… … ?

Ah… Anne… It’s Monethen… …

We competed once last time… ?”

“Then… You know, but…

I’m Bibi, and this is Renee.

This group task… Please take care of me?”

As it happened, the expressions on Vivian and Ranie’s faces as they faced Anne on the single-tree bridge were colored by subtle emotions.

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“It’s that time of year.”

“That time… … ?”

“It’s a specialization period for the swordsmanship department, right?

Sooner or later, the swordsmanship students will receive requests.

You were with me before too, right?”

“Ah… !! That walk back then… ?”

Ranie’s expression was brightening as she remembered a previous request where she had been tasked with protecting a noble family.

In the days of Vivian de Grenot, having the glory of the Grenot family behind them was enough for families to accept such requests.

So, it was said to be escort work for a noble house, but in reality, the mission that Vivienne and Ranie did with a few girls from their gang at the time was nothing more than just passing the time by walking around the courtyard of the noble house and drinking tea together.

“It was a walk at that time.

Because I didn’t want to be bothered either.

But if I do it this time…

This time, I plan to receive a more proper request.”

“Umm… … ”

However, as she was no longer the daughter of the Marquis Grenot, but was reborn as a woman who was simply Vivian, she had no intention of wasting this opportunity for advancement.

In the days of Vivian de Grenot, having the glory of the Grenot family behind them was enough for families to accept such requests.

What you have accumulated remains entirely your own skills.

While operating the Flora’s window, he reached the point of submerging Lalatina.

She has been feeling this realization clearly recently, and this time she was thinking of challenging herself with a proper request in order to increase her experience as a mercenary swordsman receiving a commissioned mission.

Recently, Floraz has been well replenished, so unless something special happens, I can go back without Vivian for a week without any problems.

Of course, Aurora, the former Mademoiselle who managed the third branch of Flora’s, would scream in embarrassment as she took over the job, but wasn’t that the fate of someone who calls herself a slave?

“The two of us will be enough… ?

It may be arrogant to say this, but…

Still, if it’s an ordinary request, for us… ”

In a way, it is natural, but even if we don’t know their current ‘skills’, if we only look at their ‘ability’, they are not much different from most older students.

Ranie, who should have been in the second year by now, and Vivian, who should have been in the third year.

Even though it was unavoidable that the school year was pushed back by about a year, their combat abilities developed as their physical abilities greatly improved.

It had the same effect as taking their natural talent to the next level.

“Because we have only been with Henias so far.

But I also think cooperation is a kind of virtue.

Except this time we’re together…

I plan to involve other group members from beginning to end.

for example… … That woman or something.”

In “… Eh… ? That girl… … ?”

In fact, no matter what request you make, if you do it with people who are at the same level as your classmates, it is simply like Vivian and the others taking a bus.

In that case, Vivian’s eyes, which wanted to cultivate new experiences, were focused on a woman with a smiling expression.

“Because it is important to experience various things… Isn’t that right?”

Dark blue hair, a different shade from your own.

A Holy Knight of Sistine, with short, neat hair and holding his halberd in one hand.

Vivian’s eyes were slightly narrowing as she looked at Roxanne Stronova.

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“Once the four of us have gathered, what kind of request will we receive?

It’s my first time doing something like this, so I’m not sure?”

Roxanne, who normally never received requests as a mercenary, must have really liked her first experience in a new country and new environment.

First of all, they were a team of female prosecutors who walked together following Roxanne’s suggestion of having dinner as a means of strengthening ‘friendship’ as they were in the same group.

I walked into a pretty nice restaurant, ordered a course, and had an appetizer and a cup of tea.

Chaini was still waiting for the food to come out, and when Roxanne began to talk, Lanier was asking her a question in return with an expression full of curiosity.

“Hey… ? Nothing like this happens at the Sistine… ?

Accepting money and requests… ?”

“Nothing in particular, right?

We move according to the voice of God.”

“Heavenly God… voice… … ?”

The Celestial God, the origin of Celestialism, the religion of the Sistine.

The other girls, who had briefly understood the context of the word ‘his voice’, were able to realize that the ‘voice of a heavenly god’ roughly meant a religious doctrine after listening to Roxanne’s next words.

“First of all, Heavenly God says we are all equal.

And he said that we must love each other.

So, everyone does what they need to do for each other…

We share the results and share with each other as much as we need.

Something like this… … ”

“Altruistic?”

“That’s right… !! Altruistic sword!!

Anyway, if it’s necessary…

To the extent of asking someone who can do the request…

Wouldn’t it be possible to say that?”

“What can I say… … It looks like you have little greed?”

“In a way… It might be an ideal society.

But then someone will always suffer a loss, right?”

However, in Groden, a class-based society from the beginning, where commoners, nobles, and royals were divided and treated differently, there were bound to be parts that were difficult for them to understand as they lived as nobles.

Above all, when it comes to your family and your family eating well and living well, it is natural to be especially sensitive to profit and loss.

In a sense, girls began to feel a strange interest in stories about a form of society that was close to totalitarianism and communism.

Roxanne smiled “hihi” at those girls, and then continued talking with a serious expression.

“Loss… … You could see it that way… ?

If there’s one thing that surprises me when I come here, it’s that someone lives in a gorgeous mansion and eats delicious food.

And wouldn’t someone else be living without a place to live, just eating scraps?

In the Sistine, it was probably something you couldn’t even dream of.

We live together by sharing our daily bread.

Even if we are poor, we will all be poor together.”

“Too idealistic.

Rather, I can’t imagine it… … ”

“Isn’t there a limit to the wealth that humans can embrace anyway?

So, you can say that there is no need to be greedy.

By not being greedy…

Someone can be happy with me.”

As Roxanne, smiling brightly, gave an answer as if reciting a prayer, the atmosphere around her was slowly becoming solemn.

“Oooh… … ”

“Good words.”

In a way, wasn’t that what they felt while living with Enic?

They are just all equal ‘females’ under Enic’s tentacles.

Underneath the pleasure he gives, there is no way in the first place there is such a concept as you are a dirty beast, a female hole, and I am a sacred human woman and pregnant vagina.

Of course, if you had his tentacles to yourself, you might feel a little better, but even if you didn’t, kissing Henia and rubbing your breasts together, which was being violated, was enough to make the night enjoyable.

Then, the tentacles would dig in between the good-natured females who always got along well, and rape their clitoris at the same time, showing them heaven together.

In that way, there was no need for the females, members of the den, to be greedy.

They were already receiving everything they needed from him.

‘The one and all we have…

But something so big… …

I think I know what it feels like.’

They just want to live happily each day, without any worries, as he grows by drinking their shameful bodily fluids and one day grows into a world-class being that no one can stop.

For that day, Vivien and Ranie, as well as Henia, are doing their best to join forces and help each other for their ‘master’.

Perhaps, because of such a consensus, we can understand the words of Roxanne, a paladin of the Celestial Church centered on the Celestial God.

“It’s okay to say it’s a substitute, but there are also things like this.

Isn’t there a blessing that comes down to devout believers?”

As Roxanne snapped her fingers on the table, Vivian and Ranie’s eyes widened as they saw a light flicker gently from the fingertips and then cut off.

‘That…’ Divine power… ?’

A blessing from God and a miracle that answers the prayers of his believers.

Roxanne showed me that part, but she didn’t seem to want to use miracles for something that was nothing.

“If you believe, trust, and follow, one day you will be called.

Then, as someone who has been called, you will serve with even more pride.

What I just showed you… I would say it is part of evangelism activities.”

Soon, it was Roxanne who was holding the handle of the teacup and teasing the cup.

Accordingly, Vivian unconsciously grabbed her cup, felt the sweet flavor gently emanating from the tea cup, and looked down at her cup in shock.

“This is… … ?”

“Number… alcohol… … ? Uh… ?

Until just now… car… It was… ”

Ranie’s surprised voice as she sipped the contents of the teacup, which had turned into sweet fruit wine.

Likewise, Vivian was sipping the contents of the teacup and feeling the faint sweetness spreading on the tip of her tongue, a laugh was coming out of Vivian’s mouth.

“Ha… haha… …

really… It’s hard to believe… … ”

“It’s roughly like this!!

Now, would you like to tell us your story?

You’re a commoner, but you’re entering the academy.

There must have been a lot of hardships!!”

“Ahaha… that… Yes… … ?”

“Don’t be shy and speak up!!

Don’t just drink a glass and read the story!!”

Was it from that moment?

The sight of Roxanne emptying the teacup she had been holding nobly just moments ago in one gulp.

Vivian and Lanier were then able to realize that something was wrong.

Roxanne’s actions of constantly snapping her fingers every time the cup gets empty, and the tea cup keeps getting full every time.

It was natural that their cups were no different.

“Drink it and die!! Yoohoo~!!

Talk about work later!!

First of all, don’t run!! Run, run!!”

Even though they only drank alcohol, they were already feeling dizzy, and Vivian and Ranie’s dazed expressions were turning into one of astonishment.

‘Something like this… … priest… … ?’