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If you live in Academy City, there is a race you most often see next to the fearsome high school girls.

The strange creatures that pass by in the shopping district, moving their mechanical legs, are of that species.

Dwarves, a machine race.

After drawing simple facial features on the iron circle.

Four-headed mechanical humans who look like they were stuck in a short cylinder.

No matter how you looked at them, they looked like robots, but they were actually humans in this world.

Because they are immune to ether poisoning, they are dwarves who live without problems in even if they are not high school girls with etheric abilities. They all made a living by running shops around the school and street.

‘No matter how you look at it, it’s really a robot…’

Although I often encountered them as NPCs in the game.

In reality, it was difficult to tell who was who, or even whether it was a woman or a man, until I heard the voice.

However, after some time, I was able to tell the difference in their behavior and clothing.

If I had to pick one of the reasons why I became so used to it.

This may be because I have been running all kinds of errands while wandering around the shopping district near my school over the past year.

-Thank you, it’s hard to go far at this age.

-Thank you Clara! Grandpa too… Why are things placed so high?

-Thank you, Miss Clara. It was difficult to move bags of flour by myself.

For those with short limbs, just helping with difficult tasks, such as simple delivery and cleanup, was enough to receive gratitude and favor. The food and daily necessities they gave with gratitude were a great help given the poor nature of our school.

‘Albit hated living for free, saying it was crappy.’

Being able to ask someone for help in unexpected situations.

It was a great strength to be able to receive tangible and intangible help from those around me.

Humans cannot always live like swords with only fixed transactions and compensation.

It will be up to me to keep this up until she wakes up.

‘Except for the food, I’m putting everything in the supplies warehouse. It will be of great help someday.’

When helping people in the shopping district, I always gave them the name of .

‘Even the people in the shopping district know that I’m the only one who went to school.’

No matter how much you cover your eyes and say nothing.

[Clara’s favor] and [Favor given by a student at Central Prism Academy].

There is a big difference between these two.

If you erase ‘my name’ from the subject of good will, you can hand over the link of the relationship to someone of the same affiliation.

I want to pass it on to my juniors.

Someday, the juniors who will come to will inherit the goodwill of the people in the shopping district.

‘Before teaching you how to catch fish, you must first create a fishing spot.’

Hilde will also be continuing such work as the president of the “United Student Council,” the representative of Academy City.

Of course he does a lot more than me.

With that kind of heart in mind.

Early morning one spring day.

It is the third day since Albit entered school.

I was still stopping by the shopping district and running errands for the dwarf.

“Hehehe… ”

This dwarf with an impressive white beard made of fiber optic material is the grandfather of a repair shop. He even repairs my stuffed toys and school uniforms for free in exchange for running errands.

Among the people in the shopping district, he was the person I was closest to.

An old man from a repair shop who has the appearance of a flower painting teacher.

My current concern is the delivery of laundry requested by a regular customer who lives in a vaguely distant place.

It is said that before a regular customer moved to a distant place, he came and dropped off his laundry and then forgot about it.

I received the item wearing the red training uniform designated by .

“Oh, really? Thank you, Clara.”

“Huhuhu―☆ This is easier than eating cake!”

“No matter how much it is a request from a regular customer. At this age, tens of kilometers are a bit… And because of such a small delivery, it is burdensome to use the ether train… I’m sorry.”

“Don’t feel pressured! Then, I’ll go before the macarons get cold―☆”

“Macaroons usually cool down long before you eat them… ?”

“Hehe☆ That’s just it—!”

I can feel the old man at the repair shop shaking his head.

Charring

Charring

I put the laundry in a bag hanging next to the bike. Then, while banging loudly on the bicycle bell, he pedaled vigorously and moved forward.

Crying-

Dark horizon at early dawn.

At dawn, the faint presence of the sun is slowly felt.

The sky was a combination of navy blue and purple, and the stars that watched over the end of the night were welcoming the morning.

Charring

Charring

As the diligent people in the shopping district open the doors of their stores one by one, a red body speeds past.

The name of the red bicycle is Red Toma.

It was a founding contribution of a similar level to the plush penguin group.

A faithful Rottweiler who has been responsible for my transportation since I was in first grade.

I urged, raising the Red Toma’s gear to the maximum.

‘Let’s go, Red Tomato!! ‘It’s time to go!!’

Charring

Charring

The Red Toma’s gear also howled fiercely.

Today’s road felt like it would become a battlefield.

Like Gwanunjang, who cut off the enemy general’s head before the alcohol cooled down, I had to go to the next village before dawn.

‘I guess Albit woke up?’

After finishing the errands, I have to eat breakfast with Albit and find out the information about the next student to enroll.

‘Twin-tailed little Lotta.’

This is because she does not come to you on her own like Arbit, but you meet her through an accident. So, you have to pay attention to the news around you for a while.

I can’t wait to meet her who has a dream that shines brighter than anyone else.

I pedaled as hard as I could and raced down the road on the outskirts of the main street toward the outskirts of the shopping district.

A quiet road at dawn.

The scenery of the shopping street that quickly disappears.

The scenery outside the road stretches as if paint were spread.

The wind hitting my face and the hair that was tied up shaking.

I was now running like a ray of pink wind.

You can feel the bicycle body getting hot due to the heat generated as the chain rotates. And because of the anticipation of meeting the next junior, I felt my heart heating up.

‘Hilde, are you also experiencing this kind of reward from the United Student Council?’

A faint silver star in the morning sky.

It seemed to shine as brightly as her eyes.

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When I came back, Albert had already woken up.

Albit woke up early in the morning and wore red training clothes like me. Then, he cleaned up the main auditorium, which was five minutes before the opening, and was practicing ether sword techniques alone.

He is a diligent guy who moves on his own without anyone telling him to.

Moreover, perhaps due to my unique neat personality, the sand on the floor of the main auditorium, which I used without worrying about bird droppings, was neatly cleaned up. And the practice weapons buried deep in the school’s weapons warehouse were polished and polished.

Albert was wiping his sweat with his face in a sweat towel.

She sheathed her practice sword and welcomed me as she walked slowly to the front door.

“Uh, senior? Where have you been?”

“Huhu―☆ Girl’s secret.iya♡ ”

“Well, the people in the shopping district probably came here while running errands.”

“… ”

Albit noticed quickly. So, even when I try to play pranks, there are many cases where they see through it.

‘Has adaptation been completed in three days?’

In fact, Arbit was a sensible character from the beginning.

The hurried appearance I showed at first was because I was nervous.

Or maybe it was because I turned her mentality into konjac jelly.

‘But isn’t it too quick to adapt?’

Did I hit my sense of responsibility too hard by doing something bad on the first day?

Albert saw my sullen face after seeing through the girl’s secret and laughed.

“No, you wrote a letter in front of my room saying you were going to the shopping district.”

“Yeah, right―☆ But that’s not all… ”

“And every time you went begging, the bakery owner thanked you for helping him with the errands.”

At that time, I thought he was complaining and acting the other way.

You were all listening.

“… ”

“Did you really think I wouldn’t know? Also, if you wanted to know the girl’s secret, you planned to tease her for a while and talk about tea time.”

“… ”

shit.

I was planning on teasing her all morning while talking about the girl’s secret.

I was so lost that I quietly rode my bike.

“… ”

“Ah, I got upset.”

Albit giggled, tied a sweat towel around his neck, and glided quietly towards me.

Presence and breathing.

Distribution of steps and forces.

‘I’m good at using [Basic Ether], but I’m not yet at the level of [Vibration Ether].’

I unconsciously grasped Arbit’s level and estimated the ‘gap’, which is the possible attack and defense range.

In fact, because their skills were so different that measuring them was meaningless, I didn’t feel threatened at all even when she was right next to me.

There is still a long way to go.

But her possibilities are endless.

You don’t know how I feel.

Albit smiled and pointed at the red tomato.

“Now that I think about it, you ride a bicycle. It wasn’t that kind of image.”

“My wonderful horse that was with me throughout my school life―☆”

“It’s a distance that you can walk, but you have the image of calling a train to take you.”

“I see☆ That means I look like such a noble and cute princess―☆”

“Senior, you always write notes well but always speak in that way.”

‘Are you dissatisfied with my pretty filter?’

Albert seems dumbfounded.

I took out the crumpled letter from my sweatpants pocket.

For reference, that stationery was also brought back from another school event.

[I went to the shopping district. Don’t be surprised if it’s not there in the morning. – Clara]

Albit said while shaking the paper.

“If I spoke clearly like this on a regular basis, I would seem like a senior I can rely on more… ”

“Then, am I the one you want to protect? Kyaaa―☆”

“Ah, yes. It comes out right away.”

Albit sighs and puts the paper back in his pocket.

Considering her normally neat personality, she would never do something like throw away trash on the street.

Albit said as if something occurred to him as he watched me lock the bike.

“Oh, that’s right. senior. When I received a letter early in the morning, I checked and realized that the had sent a notice?”

“Huh? In the Union?”

“I haven’t opened it yet so I can watch it together, but since you’re here, let’s watch it together.”

“Yes! Yes☆”

So we entered the student council room wearing training clothes.

On the table in the student council room, there was a notice with the emblem of the in an envelope.

I tore it open and spread it out so that Albit could see it too.

The content is a warning against bikers using illegal ether vehicles.

It was a warning that delinquent students had expanded their activities out of the slums and into the city center. It is said that their main pattern is to kidnap good students from each school, then contact their schools and extort cash under the pretense of bail money.

Albit frowned and muttered at the behavior of such delinquent students.

“They are cowardly people. Kidnapping students… ”

“… ”

I agree with the murmur, but don’t open my mouth.

‘Something will happen soon.’

The junior I want to meet.

Because of the commotion these guys caused, ‘Rota’ ended up enrolling in .