Ch.132132 – Patrol with Good Intentions

<132 – Patrol with Good Intentions>

Gift Academy, the world’s premier educational institution.

Its graduates rise to the highest positions in countries around the world, and those who establish their own organizations spread their fame or infamy from small regions to entire continents.

They not only become the strongest in their field and the best in the world, but also open new horizons in history.

The shortest path to becoming a hero.

A bachelor’s degree course leading to success.

Students who entered the academy in pursuit of glory.

981st batch: 2,130 undergraduate students.

Among them, the first dropout will emerge this week.

‘It’s the week when a high-stakes practical exam is measured, where students will receive such severe deductions that no future scores can reverse them.’

Some failing students couldn’t accept reality.

If they just endured, they could enjoy glory.

To think they couldn’t even accomplish that much and became dropouts.

Family support.

National support.

Organizational support.

Though their affiliations differed, what they carried on their backs was the same.

Someone’s expectations, wishes, and hopes.

Those who betrayed it all faced enormous disappointment, cruel condemnation, and massive debt.

‘Both Arcadia and Giselle are paying a lot of attention to the lower classes, so I’m getting concerned too.’

After finishing lectures, in my spare time.

Today I decided to make time to walk around the lower classes and look for potential bomb candidates.

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A Tier 2 supporting character in Oknodie’s view.

NTR heroine Yuie.

Using the cunning eloquence that had once roasted Rockpell, she passed the retest held in the lower class.

She succeeded in securing her place at the academy.

However, the humiliation of the past didn’t simply disappear.

“Dorothy. Rockpell. Everything you’re enjoying should have been mine…!”

Yuie sliced hard black bread with a dagger, soaked it in water, and chewed it down.

Even lower class students passing by recoiled in horror at her ferocious eating.

“Isn’t that the bankruptcy relief food sold in bundles of five for 1 point?”

“I’ve never seen anyone eat that before… What did Yuie do to go bankrupt and suffer like that?”

“Yuie has plenty of points too.”

A student sitting at another table in the cafeteria revealed the shocking truth to the whispering pair.

“What?! Then why is she eating that tasteless black bread?”

“She’s trying to save points.”

“Good grief!”

“She’s not human!”

“That’s something a third-year would do!”

A third-year student eating black bread in a corner of the cafeteria under an Invisible spell glared at the first-years, not wanting to be seen in such an embarrassing situation.

Of course, the first-years couldn’t see her since she was invisible, so they fearlessly gossiped about third-years.

“Ugh. I suddenly feel weak.”

“Is it getting chilly?”

“Maybe it’s because it’s still spring. March is late spring though.”

Laugh all you want. What would these kids know, receiving their 5-point standard rations from the cafeteria without restraint?

Yuie silently cursed her classmates who pitied her.

There’s a saying that many drops make an ocean.

She had no intention whatsoever of finishing her school days in the mediocre lower class.

Somehow, she would save up points and return to the upper class where she rightfully belonged.

For that, she could resist the sweet and sour pork, stir-fried japchae, and crispy shrimp that came with the Chinese special set in the cafeteria.

Crunch

Munch

After finishing her painful meal as if tearing into raw flesh, Yuie’s next destination was the training ground to prepare for the high-stakes practical exam this Friday.

“Hello, Yuie!”

“For an heir to a trading company, you sure show up every day.”

“Hmph. There’s nothing more frustrating than being disqualified due to lack of stamina.”

Of course, she wasn’t using the indoor training facilities in the training building with professional equipment.

Those cost points.

She was using the outdoor training ground.

A free space anyone could use.

It was a poor public facility used only by those who disliked confined spaces, those who couldn’t find a spot elsewhere, or bankrupt students who had run out of points.

“Yuie, are you on the dolphin pants team too?”

At first, Yuie, who was sweating and running hard around the training ground, didn’t even think the question was directed at her and just kept running silently.

“Excuse me? Hello~? Helloooo?”

“Shut up! Don’t disturb someone who’s training. What is it anyway? A girl talking about dolphin pants and whatnot, why are you concerned about…”

Yuie’s eyes, which had been blazing with anger, gradually widened until they became twice their normal size.

“Y-y-you!”

“It’s been a while. Do you remember me?”

“The mischievous brat with an innocent face but not-so-innocent hands who fed me during the entrance exam!”

“…That brat has a name, Oknodie.”

“Why should I care! Do you have any idea what hardships I’ve been going through at the academy because of you?”

“What hardships?”

“Tightening my belt for meals, using only free training facilities, and dedicating time to growth and part-time jobs while others enjoy their youth laughing together—do you know how that feels?!”

Second gateway <Hunter’s Forest>.

Third sub-task <Tag>.

Yuie, who betrayed Dorothy and aimed to pass with just Rockpell, lost massive points due to Oknodie’s intervention and even lost Rockpell.

The capable man she thought she had stolen returned to Dorothy’s side, and Dorothy gladly took him back.

Yuie was left alone.

A few male students orbited around her like satellites as she trained, but those who usually pestered her were nowhere to be seen today.

They all knew.

How strong Oknodie was.

What terrifying rumors were circulating recently.

‘Could it be that you came to torment me?!’

What a vicious person.

The meticulousness of finding and crushing an enemy again, no matter how weak, without letting your guard down.

Imagining Oknodie’s harassment, Yuie trembled.

She put her hand in her pocket.

After considering how many to give, she realized that the brat wouldn’t be satisfied with just a few.

In a hurry, she untied the string around her waist and placed the entire pocket in Oknodie’s hand.

“Take this and disappear!”

“Wow. Caramels!”

A pseudo-currency used among lower class students.

Items used instead of points for gambling or small transactions.

She had worried about being ridiculed for having such poor-people things, but fortunately, Oknodie seemed pleased with the bribe and gladly accepted the caramel pouch.

“Thank you!”

“Why aren’t you leaving! You terrible caramel extortionist. Top predator of gambling dens. I can’t train with you lurking around, so get lost!”

Oknodie’s innocent face changed to that of a wounded puppy asking, “How could you say such harsh things?”

“Haha. Oh Yuie. Why don’t you try being a little more honest?”

“Yeah, exactly.”

Some classmates passing by spoke on Yuie’s behalf.

“Ah, it’s the dolphin pants unnies!”

“Long time no see~. We often saw you during jogging, right? This Yuie here, her words may be harsh, but her actions are kind. Look, she collected a hundred of those caramels to exchange for some prize, but she gave them all to you because you’re cute, Oknodie.”

“Right. Yuie is totally like that, you know? A pushover. Like an innocent girl who gets tricked into marrying a promiscuous man.”

“A self-sacrificing life for others is good, but you should value your own life a little more.”

“Exactly. If you live like that, good men will be taken by others, and you’ll end up as a pitiful beta female getting beaten by bad men demanding all the caramels you earned yesterday.”

This was maddening.

Who was treating whom like a pushover?

These gullible pushovers.

Though Yuie’s temper had risen to the top of her head, she couldn’t unleash her anger in front of Oknodie.

Her classmates in dolphin pants just giggled at her reddening face, mistaking it for shyness and embarrassment, and went on their way to exercise.

“What is this all about… Is this what you wanted? To make me a laughingstock among my peers?”

“I’m sorry! That wasn’t my intention. I just came because I wanted to ask you something.”

“Sigh. The arrogance of believing I’ll answer whatever you ask makes me want to grab your cheeks and shake them up and down. Just hurry up and tell me what you wanted to ask.”

She felt her blood boil as classmates from afar made eye contact and mouthed ‘pushover’ with smiles.

She was trying hard to suppress the cruel nature of an NTR woman who coveted another’s man, but soon found she didn’t need to force herself to hold back her temper.

“Do you sell drugs too?”

“So you came to me for goods because I’m a merchant? Ha. I have nothing to sell to you, but I’ll answer just to get rid of you quickly. Yes, I sell them.”

“Then do you also sell unauthorized drugs that have the side effect of accumulating madness stacks with a single dose?”

When people hear something too frightening, they often go blank from shock.

Her anger dissolved like cotton candy in water, disappearing somewhere in the ocean of emotions.

If she had to name the emotion that filled her inner ocean, it would be fear.

‘How did you know? That I know the formula for madness potions. I haven’t even told anyone or sold it yet.’

Information the other person shouldn’t know, shouldn’t be aware of.

Realizing the implications, a shiver struck her spine.

-I know what you can make.

-Because I’ve investigated everything about you.

That’s what Oknodie’s words meant.

This was a warning.

“Have you made any?”

The smiling question no longer sounded innocent.

This was a warning.

“…Do you want me to make some for you?”

“Not really? If you haven’t made any, that’s good.”

Don’t even dream of trying to rise to the upper class.

Don’t think about catching my eye.

Stay quiet in the lower class.

Otherwise, you’ll have to explain to many people why the heir to a trading company knows the formula for a potion that’s forbidden even to know.

Not only her academy enrollment but even the survival of the Yuie Trading Company named after her would be in jeopardy.

“Oh, and don’t make madness potions.”

That was Oknodie’s warning.

“If you get caught, you’ll end up in prison!”