episode_0034

“You can use this room. Here’s the key to the room.”

“Oh, thank you.”

“Well then, I’ll take my leave.”

“Yes, thank you.”

The student council secretary who guided Vysis to the new club room greeted her and left.

“Is this the room?”

Artoria and Sophia had already left to attend class.

They wanted to stay with him until the end, but Vysis insisted it was a waste of time, so she decided to receive the club room alone.

They agreed to meet after she received the club room.

“Of course, the real reason is to move alone.”

The first move of the “organization” expected to happen within a few days.

It was to obtain one clue within the academy to counteract that incident.

Just like when they conquered the previous dungeon, it was okay for Sophia and Artoria to move together with her.

“That doesn’t sit well with me.”

Unlike the previous Vysis, who acted as a secretary, the mindset of an angel and a hero had seeped into her. She didn’t want to put them in danger.

No matter how much power they possessed at the transcendent level, it was a dangerous battlefield where one mistake could cost them their lives.

The heroines, who had only thought of themselves as a means to survive before dreaming, seemed like extraordinary beings from Vysis’s perspective after experiencing her past life for a moment.

Therefore, Vysis did not inform them about the information regarding the “organization” or the imminent attack by the “organization.”

She intended to borrow their strength.

After all, it would be impossible to save the world with her power alone.

However.

“The ‘organization’ is different. This is something I will handle alone.”

Vysis didn’t want to bring her lovers into dangerous situations.

“Well then, shall we move quickly so that Sophia and Artoria don’t get suspicious?”

Because if time drags on, they might start to think strangely.

Click

Vice President, who was looking around the club room for a moment, locked the door and came out.

“Oh? Vice President!”

At that moment, Genesis, who was passing through the hallway, spotted Vice President and called out to him.

“Genesis?”

“I’m relieved. I thought we wouldn’t be able to meet today!”

Genesis had been dragged by Vice President to register for the club unexpectedly.

As a result, until they parted ways, Genesis couldn’t tell Vice President about what he had seen the night before.

“Are classes over, Genesis?”

“Classes? Ah, well, sort of.”

In fact, swept up in the atmosphere, Genesis went to class but found it too complicated to explain to Vice President why he had left quietly to say what he needed to say.

“So this is the club room.”

“Yeah. This is the club room assigned to us from now on. It’s a room that hasn’t been used, so there’s a bit of dust, but we can clean it up later.”

“Hmm…”

“Thank you, Genesis. Thanks to you, we were able to create this club.”

“No… I just put my name up there.”

Even if it’s just a name, since it’s a newly established club, it could receive support from existing clubs. You chose to help. Thank you.

“….”

“Club.”

Genesis recalled briefly the club life he had glimpsed in his hallucination.

He had been active in the leadership group with Vice President.

He had spent time in the research club with Vice President.

He had even lived without a club with Vice President.

“Come to think of it, no matter what happened, I spent it with Vice President.”

Indeed, are they friends?

“No! That’s not it!”

Genesis shook his head.

“…Huh?”

“Vice President, I have something to say.”

“Something to say?”

“I see. It’s a hallucination.”

“It’s hard to believe, but…”

“No, believe me.”

Is it not a form of a dream?

At some point, besides Sophia, Artoria, and Claudia, there might be cases like this, but Genesis never expected it to happen to him.

“Um, really?”

“Yes. You appeared in my dream today, too.”

“….Huh?”

Jenice felt a heat bursting from her face.

“My, my dream?”

“Yeah. It was a dream of being active as a club member with you.”

‘Why… why is my dream coming out? Could Versus be… about me?’

Dreams are the manifestation of the unconscious. If a rational person appears in a dream, it is generally considered to be someone the dreamer cares about or likes.

Without knowing that Jenice misinterpreted her own statement due to inheriting knowledge from dreams, Versus spoke.

“Do you also dream like that? Could it be that our dreams are connected or causing interference?”

“Connected…!”

‘Ve… Versus and I are connected!’

Jenice clutched her heated face, but Versus, lost in thought, didn’t notice.

‘Ve… Versus wouldn’t know that I’m a girl, would he? …Could his preference be for that side? Then it’s awkward…’

‘I should talk to Sophia and Artoria about Jenice’s situation. For now, I have to go to class, so let’s talk about it tomorrow.’

“Okay, I understand, Jenice.”

“Huh? You understand?”

Understood what? Your feelings? Or my gender? Or even your preferences?

“Let’s meet again tomorrow at the club room to talk about this matter. With Sophia and Artoria present.”

“Uh, okay…”

“Yeah. Well then, pay attention in class. See you tomorrow.”

Jenice, broken down, simply nodded in response to Versus’ words.

“Yeah…”

Jenice stiffly shook hands with Versus.

“See you tomorrow… huh?”

Meet with Sophia and Artoria to talk together?

…Why?

Jenice remembered the two girls.

The two girls who followed Versus because they liked him.

No way!

“I like this man. So, I should stop following him now.”

In Jenice’s mind, a picture was drawn of Versus declaring that and embracing Jenice.

“No, I don’t like you, Prince!”

“Kreuk. Surely, Vestis couldn’t have liked a man!”

The sight of Artoria screaming and Sophia raging.

Jenice’s delusional face turned bright red.

“T-That’s a bit awkward.”

Should I reveal the fact that I’m a woman?

…But I don’t want to let my close friend know that I’ve been deceiving them about my gender.

Ugh. What should I do!

*Kwahng*

Thud

The chimeras scattered to the ground under Vestis’s wielded attack.

“Hoo. Is this all?”

Vestis had entered the dungeon mentioned in [Eclipse] alone.

A dungeon with its entrance hidden in a corner of the library.

This place was also a dungeon created by a mad graduate student.

“Does one go crazy when in graduate school? Why are dungeons always so messed up?”

The dungeon was filled with grotesque chimeras to the extent that it seemed worse than the golem-filled dungeon he had previously entered.

“More importantly, the current me. This is no joke, right?”

The swordsmanship of a warrior rolling on the battlefield.

The holiness as the first angel of God.

Experience and skill as a veteran mercenary.

And even the Holy Sword, which, although he couldn’t use its power, had durability and cutting ability second to none.

Vestis, who used to worry only about surviving, had become strong enough to cut through numerous chimeras single-handedly, a far cry from when he struggled to defeat just one golem in the past.

Of course, unable to use Sword Energy, he didn’t display as astonishing a martial prowess as Sophia, whom he saw in the golem dungeon, but he could boast that his many strengths combined to fight more effectively than her.

-Kieeek!

“They keep coming endlessly.”

If Sophia and Artoria were here, they could have quickly cleared the dungeon.

However, this practical test was also a platform to confirm his specs before preventing the future attack of the ‘organization.’

Thud

Viceus extended one leg backward as if in a dream and swung the Holy Sword with all his might.

“Aaaah!”

Kwaaaang!

A massive sword energy imbued with Viceus’s divine power swept away the chimeras ahead.

“…It doesn’t work like it did in the dream.”

Though he hoped that acting like the Viceus in his dream would unleash the true power of the Holy Sword, it yielded no strength.

Disappointed, Viceus walked toward the end of the dungeon.

Kugugugung

The stone door opened slowly.

As before, there was a special-looking room inside.

“So this is it.”

Viceus walked in and picked up the artifact.

“A device suitable for repelling the ‘organization’s’ assault.”