Hooray! Become a Noble Young Lady! Hooray! 3

“A wise answer.”

Adding that the time spent was worthwhile, Perdain rose from his seat as if to say that the business was concluded.

“I’ve been too hectic on your first day. From now on, you are Alice. Alice Arbentaine.”

“Don’t I need documents, stamps, or hologram identification? I know the adoption process isn’t that simple.”

“Do you think the Arbentaine Family needs such scraps of paper? What comes from my mouth is affirmation and testimony, and it will take effect immediately in the Ruincrest layer.”

As if those words were not a lie, a drone assisting the administrative management of the layer was flying in the air, recording Perdain’s words one by one.

It seems that it is not a lie that he is practically a king in the layer.

“That’s convenient.”

“Today, just attend the regular Academy classes. I’ll send someone around when it’s over.”

“Then should I call you Dad now? Father? Papa? How do you feel about gaining a lovely daughter?”

“Hah, much better than a son, but disgusting. Our relationship didn’t start so warmly, did it? Remember, you and I have a transactional relationship. I will sponsor you and treat you as an adopted daughter, but in return, you must dedicate yourself to the Arbentaine Family.”

Despite saying it was disgusting, Perdain was wearing a subtle smile.

The Arbentaine Family is fundamentally meritocratic, but since Perdain became the head, that tendency has become even more pronounced.

In the meantime, news of Dehite Arbentaine’s reckless behavior tarnishing the family’s dignity had been heard countless times inside and outside the Academy, but the reason Perdain recognized Dehite as his son and the next head of the family was that Dehite’s skills and suitability for the family’s vision were relatively high.

But now, there is a young female student who directly defeated such Dehite in a Duel Trial.

‘If she has a First-Class Overseer as a patron, her skills and talent are as good as a winning lottery ticket.’

It is highly unpleasant that she dares to speak informally and impolitely to the Arbentaine Family Head, but that can be corrected through discipline and education.

‘If she has much better talent than Dehite, she is worth making the next family head and adopted daughter.’

Alice’s speech itself uses vulgar and uncouth commoner language, but her doll-like beauty is not hidden and is quite pleasing to the eye.

‘Alice Arbentaine… Talent aside, she looks quite good. Just dressing her up and putting on some makeup would make it much easier for her to enhance the Arbentaine’s reputation than Dehite.’

“Oh, right. Can I bring one of the kids who takes care of me?”

“Are you referring to your maid? One should be fine.”

Thus, from the first day of her infiltration into the Academy, Alice became the adopted daughter of Perdain Arbentaine, who could be said to be the most powerful figure in the Academy.

After Perdain left, Theresa immediately accessed the Ark intranet and transmitted all the information about Perdain and the Arbentaine Family to Alice’s main system.

‘Perdain Arbentaine. An aristocrat among aristocrats. The master of an Ark Merit Family that is over 300 years old. He’s much bigger than I thought.’

And he is the originator of subversive ideas who rejects the current system of the Ark and leads his own rebellion.

Alice unknowingly headed to the center of the rebellion.

Moreover, it was not as a guest or a passing extra, nor was she hired, but she became an ‘adopted daughter,’ so the weight was very different.

The most surprising fact is that Alice had ‘no’ plans for any of this.

“That’s not true? It’s the result of thorough planning and anticipation!”

【…Bullshit.】

“What?”

【If that’s what Human says, then that’s what it is.】

Alice walked down the empty Academy hallway, click-clacking.

Since the morning’s mandatory classes had already started, there were no students to be seen in the hallways or gardens.

“Let’s see. A-1 class, is it? Here it is?”

Ruincrest Academy is basically an Academy that trains high-level personnel such as Executors, Hunters, and Overseers.

In the case of Hunters, there was a strong tendency for lowly commoners to do it, so many here aspire to be Executors or Overseers.

Of course, being a Hunter is not without its advantages.

It is free-spirited, a B-class Hunter license is issued just by graduating from the Academy, there is considerable freedom, and if you become an A-class Hunter, it is as good as being an Overseer or Executor.

So, if they are not from noble families, quite a few people decide to pursue a career as a Hunter.

However, in the case of the A-1 class that Alice is heading to, all the students are from noble families and it is a special class aimed at becoming high-ranking Overseers.

The most outstanding in grades, the most powerful in skills.

It is a separate class for students who have already surpassed the skills of Academy students.

Below that, students with equal and fair skills, to put it nicely, or mediocre skills, to put it a little badly, are assigned to A-2, A-3 classes, and so on.

‘Oriana told me to find evidence of rebellion and subversive ideas in the ideologies and education that the top students of the Academy learn, so she assigned me here, right?’

Of course, with Alice’s abilities, she could easily twist the arms of the students in the A-1 class.

For reference, Dehite Arbentaine, whom Alice killed in a Duel Trial an hour ago, was also a student in A-1.

-Creak!

Alice opened the door to the A-1 class without hesitation, and a classroom landscape with much more sophisticated facilities than most luxury hotels unfolded.

It wasn’t like the elementary, middle, and high schools in Alice’s original hometown of Earth, but like a huge lecture hall in a university, and because it was a place where rich kids gathered, the facilities were quite good.

‘The desks and chairs look more expensive than the monthly salary of an average Ark citizen.’

Strange patterns were plastered all over the walls and ceiling. There was even a chandelier gilded with gold.

As Alice examined the classroom, she suddenly felt a gaze.

Come to think of it, it was a mandatory ideology class.

About 30 students in the A-1 class were staring at Alice intently.

Alice’s doll-like appearance was enough to attract attention, but this was after she had finished a shocking Academy debut this morning, killing Dehite Arbentaine in a Duel Trial and tearing his limbs apart and hanging them on a street lamp like a Christmas tree.

“Is that the student?”

“Isn’t that the one who killed the thug?”

“She looks like a commoner, but she’s not someone to be taken lightly.”

The students’ gazes were already quite hot.

Alice decided to enjoy the attention.

The deed had already been done, and if she couldn’t avoid it, she should enjoy it as much as possible.

She was already looking forward to how difficult her Academy life, which she had never experienced before, would be.

“It is mandatory class time now. If you do not have a proof of absence, please sit in an empty seat.”

A beautiful woman with long hair and a stern impression was staring at Alice from the center of the podium.

It seemed that rumors had already spread widely within the Academy that Alice had killed Dehite Arbentaine, and a subtle discomfort was felt on the teacher’s face as well.

Well, no matter how much the Duel Trial is a tradition and routine in Ruincrest Academy, from the first day of enrollment… Alice killed Dehite Arbentaine, who was not only an ordinary student but also famous as a thug and a piece of trash.

It is only natural that various gazes are directed at her from students and teachers alike.

“Yes. Excuse me.”

“Alice student. No, now you are Alice Arbentaine.”

“What?”

“Arbentaine…?”

“Is she a hidden child of the Arbentaine Family?”

“No wonder that trashy son was torn apart so miserably even though he wasn’t weak…”

“That person….”

The students began to whisper among themselves at the teacher’s words.

Perhaps because she is a teacher, important information is immediately fed back to her personal smartwatch.

Certainly, Dehite was a famous person, and Alice, who killed him, seems to have become a famous person already.

‘Well, I did make a mess from the first day. It wasn’t intentional, though….’

【Didn’t you say earlier that it was the result of thorough planning and anticipation? Human?】

‘Be quiet, beep boop, you don’t understand human hearts.’

【…Hmph.】

Oh? Is Theresa sulking right now?

She has a cute side to her.

“You are 48 minutes late for the morning class, but this time we will make an exception due to a meeting with an external person.”

“Yes, yes~ Teacher~ I’ll be careful in the future.”

“Call me Professor Nevia, not teacher.”

“Okay, Professor Nevia.”

With those words, Alice sat down in an empty seat with a smile.

Then, a hologram screen filled all around the seat where Alice sat.

“From this time, we will begin the injection of mandatory Ruincrest morning ideology education. All students should fully accept the knowledge being injected in a proper posture.”

The hologram is not arranged around the classroom, but the educational hologram is arranged around the student.

In other words, it meant that it was not a lecture led by a professor, but an injection-style education close to brainwashing directly into the student’s head.

【Human, unnecessary information intrusion detected.】

‘…It’s not a method of focusing by looking at the podium or the blackboard. The educational hologram is encroaching on the brain like a virtual reality world for each and every student.’

【Then do you allow information intrusion?】

‘Yeah, there’s no virus, right?’

【Even if there is, it won’t break Human.】

‘Then start. Don’t forget to reverse-calculate the injected data and examine it.’

【Yes.】

At the same time as those words, Alice felt a large amount of unspecified knowledge being injected into her head.

Alice twitched her eyes at the subtle unpleasantness.

She wasn’t actually reading a book, but just entrusting herself to the waves of the hologram, and yet she felt like she was reading dozens of books at the same time.

‘Let’s see… Basic Ark history, basic martial arts training center, basic mana theory, and Ruincrest’s culture and the mindset and model as a noble family? Well, up to here, it’s still normal knowledge.’

The hologram education method is said to be a very effective education method for injecting ideologies or knowledge, so it is used not only by Ruincrest Academy but also by other Academies.

It is a highly preferred education method in the Ark because it can inject a large amount of knowledge into the head in a short period of time or cultivate professional intellectuals in a short period of time, but the problem is that if the professor, who is the subject of injecting knowledge, injects wrong ideologies or subversive ideas, a significant number of students are likely to become traitors or potential rebels.

Also, if information is injected from 360 degrees to brainwash one student, the filter is virtually non-existent.

Morning mandatory classes and exams are taken here. From the afternoon, various liberal arts and practical training are conducted according to each person’s major or ability. This is the Ruincrest Academy’s class method.

‘Found it. There is a problem after all.’

One hour after the ‘knowledge injection’ class began, Alice began to feel a strange error in the knowledge that had taken root in her head.

While injecting Ark’s historical knowledge, it questioned the current inefficiency of the Ark, and there was also a list of how much of the world’s resources are wasted every day by saving unnecessary lives.

In knowledge injection, they don’t directly shout ‘The Ark is rotten!’

It subtly criticized the current state of the Ark under the pretext of exposing the current state of the Ark from the perspective of a critical and objective intellectual and developing students’ knowledge and critical thinking, subtly criticizing the irrationality and inefficiency of the current Ark.

‘It’s not direct. It’s ambiguous to judge this as rebellion….’

But they don’t know if the students will really feel that way.

The most frightening thing about education is that the moment a wrong ideology is injected, the majority of people recognize that wrong ideology as the ‘right ideology.’

In particular, the content taught through knowledge injection compared the history of the Ark with the history of the Ruincrest layer in depth.

The stale stories of the Merit Family were just a simple list of knowledge, so there was nothing difficult for Alice and nothing to review, but it secretly took a critical attitude only towards the Ark’s actions. It is taking a very strange stance that the Ruincrest layer and the noble ideas and resolute decisions of the ‘upper class’ of this layer will one day lead the Ark to a brighter future.

What if this doesn’t just come out for one day, but you receive this kind of knowledge injection in the morning throughout your time at the Academy?

Tada, by the time you graduate, you will have a graduate with a strong rebellious spirit against the current Ark and the administration!

【Human, I have finished hacking the internal data resources.】

‘Send it to Oriana.’

【Yes, I am sending the Ruincrest Academy mandatory knowledge injection class data to Oriana.】

Of course, even if you send this to Oriana, an order to execute the rebellion will not be issued immediately.

Oriana will review it first, then Administrator Rilstia will review it, and then several officials and more than five administrators of the administration must make a judgment that ‘Wow! This is undeniable rebellion!’

And to be honest, it will be difficult to make a judgment of rebellion based on these educational materials.

There must be more decisive evidence of rebellion than this.

‘Unless the rebels are waging war right now, it will take at least a month or two. It’s the same as having to keep infiltrating the layer anyway…’

I have nothing to do, so should I get some more knowledge injected?

Some of it is subtly fun. It felt like watching a movie or a documentary.

‘…No, it’s a bit boring just doing this.’

Honestly, what am I going to use the history and culture of Ruincrest for, even if I know it?

I might have to burn it all with my own hands… Ah.

‘Theresa.’

【What is it? Human?】

‘You hacked this knowledge injection, right?’

【Yes, hacking is essential to reverse-calculate internal data.】

‘Then you can also touch the content of the knowledge injection that is being injected into me and the kids, right?’

【That’s right.】

Heh.

I smiled without realizing it.

‘Theresa, spread the red ideology of the lower layer to these children.’

【…Are you crazy?】

‘Ahem, the preciousness of labor and the sacredness of labor do not distinguish between nobility and status!’

【…Ha.】

Theresa clicked her tongue briefly and touched the content of the knowledge injection very slightly.

It is to put the red ideology of the residents of the lower layer into the knowledge injection data very subtly so that it is not noticeable.

If the content is changed suddenly, it will be very strange, so a natural injection of ideology was needed to the extent that no strangeness was felt.

Originally, it would be difficult for even a decent philosopher or intellectual to ride that subtle boundary, but it was easy for the super AI Theresa.

‘Ahahaha! This is it. Originally, the red ideology was first derived from rich people or those born into nobility like Marx, which was historically accurate!’

【You really seem crazy. Human.】

‘Oh-ho! There’s nothing I can’t say!’

【Sigh.】

It was quite fun to spread the red ideology to the students very slightly.

It’s like messing up a pure white canvas with red paint.

-Clap!

“The morning mandatory ideology education is over as of this time. Everyone has worked hard.”

Exactly three hours after the knowledge injection class began, Professor Nevia clapped her hands once and spread a mana wave.

It was a light mana wave, so it had a quite excellent effect on awakening the minds of the students who were tired from the knowledge injection.

“Ugh!”

“Haa, I’m tired.”

“We can’t help it. Knowledge is being forcibly crammed into our brains…”

“But wasn’t today’s knowledge injection a bit strange?”

“Labor is important, that?”

“I know… it’s really strange considering what usually comes out.”

The students who had been surrounded by holograms and receiving knowledge injection stretched or stretched their stiff bodies and got up from their seats.

“Um, hello?”

“Hmm?”

At that time, a girl with blonde hair and a bun came up.

Although she was wrapping her body tightly in the Academy uniform, judging by the maternal pouch hidden inside her clothes, she seemed to be a fairly well-developed child.

A roll bun hairstyle… and large breasts… Hmm.

She reminds me of Fira.

The fact that I still can’t forget her suddenly asking me to marry her means I must have been quite shocked.

Anyway, the roll bun-haired girl with considerably large breasts, reminiscent of Fira’s childhood, asked me a bit shyly.

It’s good to have big breasts.

I like breasts too.

Of course, let’s try not to make it obvious.

“Alice. You said you’re Alice Arbentaine, right? Are you the one who killed Dehite Arbentaine in the Duel Trial? I couldn’t see it in person because I had something to do then…”

“Yeah, well. That’s right.”

“…!”

At those words, the roll bun-haired girl wore a subtle expression filled with surprise, joy, but also anger at the same time.

“I see. You killed that trash… that filth…”

Judging by the fact that even such a pretty and delicate-looking girl called him trash or filth, Dehite Arbentaine’s behavior must have been utter garbage on a regular basis.

“Ah, sorry. I’m late with my introduction. I’m Taylor Arbentaine.”

“Oh…”

Taylor Arbentaine…?

Arbentaine, you say?

“I’m the younger sister of that Dehite Arbentaine you killed.”

“…….”

Hmm, I see.

Should I say, sorry for killing your brother?