episode_0014

Hoyo seemed to be daydreaming about something, with his face flushed red. I figured that was why he didn’t answer when I asked him why.

Bandi blushed but gave a simple ‘thank you’. Among them, Bandi seemed to be in the more normal position.

“But seniors, is there a reason why you think you are not pretty?”

In response to my question, the three of them shared a look among themselves.

“I guess Ain doesn’t know the standards of female beauty?”

“Um…yeah, that’s right.”

If you think about it carefully, everyone has different tastes, and Academy Story 2 is a game that was divisive from the beginning because it only features animal humans and furries. I played it because the game was fun, and my tastes and furries were secondary.

“First of all, we can say that the ‘thick’ body type is generally not popular among males.”

“Um… Thick body type?”

At the end of the night, I looked around at the three people sitting at the table for a moment. Then I quickly realized something.

“…I see.”

“I wonder if I should be thankful that I realized it right away, or if I should be sad…”

“My mom and sisters don’t have big breasts, but I do.”

“Our family tends to emphasize financial attractiveness rather than physical attractiveness.”

Although Bam, Hoyo, and Bandi each had their own differences, they all had one thing in common: a glamorous body type.

If you look at them in order, the bust and hips are in the order of Bandi, Bam, and Hoyo. It’s relative, so Hoyo alone is at an incredible level.

On the other hand, the slimmest people with such busts and hips are Hoyo, Bam, and Bandi in that order. For reference, Hoyo is about 170cm tall, Bandi is about 160cm tall, and Bam is the smallest. I think she’s about 150cm tall.

To summarize, Hoyo is the tallest but has good balance, Bam is the smallest but has a voluptuous body, and Bandi has the largest and plump bust and hips.

…What on earth am I organizing?

“Isn’t it good? I like big breasts or something rather than skinny. I don’t like being too fat, but my seniors don’t have people like that.”

At first I thought the steak was too big, but as I started eating it, it was so delicious that I ate almost all of it. I don’t know who made it, but they were really good at it.

“Uh… Ain?”

Since the three of them didn’t say anything to what I said, I was just eating my food diligently when Bandi spoke to me cautiously.

“Yes, senior?”

“Do you often say such kind and complimentary words to females?”

For a moment I didn’t understand what Bandi was saying.

“I don’t think there’s any need to say anything bad about it, right?”

I answered like that, but the three of them stopped eating and glanced at each other. I wondered if I had said something wrong.

“I never thought I’d think about things like this in my life.”

Night is now eating enough, so he puts down his plate and wipes his mouth with a napkin. Hoyo and Bandi are the same, and I am eating at the same pace as the three of them, so my stomach is full.

“Bella!”

When Bam, who had just finished cleaning up, called out to someone, the door to the clubroom opened and three women dressed in maid outfits came in with polite postures. They were all pretty.

“Ah, this is Bella. She’s my club activities maid. This is Mila, Bandi’s maid… and the last is Ella, Hoyo’s maid. I’ve already told the three of you about Ain. Even when we’re not around, you’ll be there in the clubroom whenever you need help. ”

All three of Raja Dolim’s maids are the same female retriever. They have fluffy fur and feel great when hugged and stroked, and the one thing they all have in common is that they all have long bangs so that their eyes cannot be seen.

“Are the three of you sisters? But for that reason, your fur colors are different…”

Hoyo laughs awkwardly at my words.

“Hehehe, actually, just like Ain said, they are sisters. But since we couldn’t recognize each other, they dyed their hair themselves and came…”

Bandi nodded in agreement with her words and added his comment.

“Full body dyeing is quite expensive, so it’s hard to afford with a maid’s salary. That’s why our family takes care of the dyeing for us.”

Even though I explained it like that, the three of them remained silent and polite. It seemed like they had received some pretty strict training. It also seemed like they were sticking to it thoroughly.

After the brief introduction, I wondered how they would handle the table, but two of the three maids simply lifted the table with surprising strength and left the clubroom, while the remaining one brought a large table from some unknown place, carefully placed it in front of us, and disappeared again with quick steps, bringing out simple refreshments.

“…That’s amazing.”

“Okay, anyway. Let’s set some prerequisites.”

Night speaks curiously and takes out a notebook from under the chairman’s table. It is a different notebook from the minutes he showed me last time.

“Oh, research notes? Are you studying Ain, not the miscellaneous books?”

Hoyo, who seems interested, moves to a seat close to Bam. Bandido moves with Hoyo and sits right next to Hoyo. I, too, became curious, so I sat right next to Bam, and although she flinched, she was considerate enough to see the notes.

“Okay, here’s the prerequisite. ‘Ain doesn’t know much about how to treat females.’”

It’s not a wrong statement, so stay still. As Hoyo said earlier, Night’s handwriting has a strong feeling of being quite sophisticated and organized.

“Then what would be the reason? What do you think, Ain? ‘Because he was from the north, he had little contact with other nobles, and he went to battle on the big monster battlefield at a young age’… Is that right?”

Night looks at my side profile and asks. I nod again, thinking that her prediction is quite reasonable.

The northern part of the empire is quite prone to invasions by monsters and liberators who appear across the great mountain range. Therefore, the nobles of the north, regardless of their command level, had large territories, and larger territories meant fewer nobles.

If there are many nobles in a certain space, the size of the territory decreases and administrative complexity increases. As administrative complexity increases, the organic connection between nobles slows down, but in return, tax revenue increases.

This configuration is the case in the southern part of the empire, where military tensions are low due to its proximity to the sea. Since the only military forces to confront are noble families with conflicting interests, there is no need to guard against external threats.

On the other hand, the northern part of the empire has a common enemy called the Liberator. (There are also monsters, but most scholars believe that the Liberator tames the monsters and invades together.) In such a place, the nobles are crowded together and are slow to cooperate among themselves? The north will be pushed back by the Liberator in an instant.

Therefore, nobles in the northern part of the empire have much larger estates and somewhat higher authority than nobles in other regions even if they have the same title.

To put it simply (though I haven’t seen it with my own eyes), the territory of Baron Frostgarm that I belong to is at least three times and at most ten times larger than the territory of a baron in another region, and the size of the private army is even larger.

To sum up, since the northern part of the empire has a small number of nobles, there weren’t many nobles I interacted with, and as the night said, my background story is that I developed a talent for recovery magic and medicine from a young age, so I traveled along the northern border of the empire and helped in battles against the liberators.

The background of the player, Nara, is that she lived a busy life without time for socializing or socializing, but she entered the academy, so Bam caught on to that and asked her about it.

“Okay, and the second prerequisite is, ‘Ain is not a crowd.’”

This group system is quite ambiguous. It appears in the settings, but in reality, players are not bound by the concept of a group, and as long as they have high intimacy, they can be together with either a male or female when the time is right and when necessary. This is especially true since Academy Story 2 is not a dating simulation.

“Yes, I didn’t feel the need…”

“Oh, so it’s not because you’re ‘not interested in females’?”

Hoyo’s eyes widened in surprise at my answer.

“Are there any males who aren’t interested in females?”

“That…that…”

“Then do we have to take a biological approach?”

“Okay, is there anyone here who can tell me biologically why males don’t show much interest in females?”

No one answered the words of the night. The silence was heavy.

“Okay, Ain will learn that in the basic lectures anyway, so let’s focus on the research.”

After organizing the situation like that, I spend the night scribbling away at my research notes.

“Now that the prerequisites have been set, let’s go over them one by one.”

The quill is spinning around and around beautifully on the hand of the night. The person spinning the quill is really amazing. How can he spin it like that?

“First of all, it is good to gently compliment a female, but conversely, I don’t think it is good for a male to compliment him too easily.”

“Why?”

“Okay, the second prerequisite also applies here. A male who is not a group compliments a female by saying she is pretty without any defense? Okay, hoyo. What do you think?”

“Hey, me?”

As the finger of the night points towards him, Hoyo is startled and hesitates for a moment.

“Are you interested in me? Hey, I can be a group female too?”

“Then what are Ain’s thoughts here? Ain said Hoyo is pretty too, right? Do you really plan on accepting her into the group?”

“Oh my gosh, Chairman, I feel like my heart is going to break. Do I really have to ask you?”

Hoyo has a blushing expression on his face, his large ears pressed down, but Bam doesn’t care and asks me.

“…? Yes. I’m fine.”

“Yeah, that’s not it. No, what? What did you just say?”

At my answer, Bam and Bandi were astonished as if they had heard that ‘the Earth is not flat, but round’, and Hoyo’s face turned bright red with a complicated expression on his face, as if he was not sure whether he should like it or not.

“Isn’t there any reason to dislike it? I don’t mind both Senior Night and Senior Bandi.”

“…Princess Crown Princess Hana Lulu, where is Ion?”

“Uh… Not those three. If I did something to the princess, the empress would probably take care of it without anyone knowing… I feel a bit burdened by senior Lulu and senior Ion.”

The three people were dumbfounded by my remark. They all blushed and said nothing, so I felt the need to sort things out somehow.

“…Well, since none of you three directly told me that you wanted to be a burden to me, let’s move on…”

“Oh, is that so?”

“Oh, maybe that day will come someday.”

“Graduation from the Academy, or maybe before I die of old age, right?”

“Okay, okay, okay, anyway, anyway! Conclusion! Conclusion! ”

As the club room becomes noisy, Bam bangs on the table with his small hands to quiet Hoyo and Bandi.

“Ain, it’s better to refrain from praising or treating a female in a gentle manner unless you want to accept her into the group and start a relationship or marriage with her. This is common sense for a normal male. Do you understand?”

“Um, yes. Okay. ”

“So what do we do?”

When the night asked again to confirm my answer, I also answered back.

“You’re pretty. Um… You’re kind, and you have a nice body. You were kind to me, and now we’re in the same club.”

“So, uh… … …sigh.”

At my nonchalant reply, Bam sighed and covered his forehead with both hands, but Hoyo and Bandi were smiling brightly as if they were in a good mood.

“Hehehe, really? Are we that far?”

“They say even a mouse hole gets sunlight.”

Night, with a red face, wrote in his research notes, ‘Ain understands how males generally treat females, but he seems to have an inexplicable affection for Bam, Hoyo, and Bandi, who are members of the miscellaneous study group.’

“Anyway, the meal was really delicious.”