episode_0069
by fnovelpia“Lilith, what are you talking about? A beastkin student is coming to the academy?”
“? Yeah, that’s right. What, Ropel, weren’t you listening with me?”
“No, I definitely heard the word beastkin, but I was thinking about something else, so I didn’t really…”
The knowledge I’ve recalled now, in other words, the original work’s information, can only be applied when the game progresses ‘normally’.
If the world flows in a different way from the original due to a variable for any reason, I have no way of knowing.
That’s why I must obtain information about this world, which is flowing differently from the game development I knew, whenever I can.
Especially in the original work, at this point, the flow should proceed towards oppressing the beastkin for their extinction, but the story is flowing in the exact opposite direction.
This might lead to a butterfly effect that I don’t know about, so it might be necessary to pay attention and investigate.
Ah… If I had known this, I would have paid more attention to the speech..!
Why didn’t you make your speeches a bit more interesting normally, Principal!
I was bored for no reason and looked away, ending up missing all the important information.
“Hmm… well, the Principal’s speech was quite boring, wasn’t it.
I also listened while almost falling asleep, and there probably aren’t many kids who remember today’s content.
But even so, to not have heard the most important part, what on earth were you thinking about?
Surely you weren’t thinking about another girl with me right next to you?”
“No, what do you take me for? It’s not like that!”
“It’s a joke. So you weren’t listening to anything about the speech?”
“Yeah… I guess I have no choice but to answer that way.
I don’t remember anything besides the word beastkin.”
“It’s okay, that can happen. Then I’ll have to explain it to you again, won’t I?
The Principal talked about this part the longest today, so I’ll explain it a bit simply.
But I also dozed off quite a bit, so I won’t be able to explain everything.”
“Really? That’s okay. Thanks, Lilith!”
“So… starting from the beginning, among the professors, do you know Professor Bljoa?”
“Professor Bljoa…? Uh… Ah! Could it be, in the Combat Manual for Great Beasts, that…?”
“Right, I’m talking about the person who taught one of our required courses at the beginning of the first year.”
Listening to Lilith’s words, I definitely remember a little.
First-year students who have just entered the academy take required basic courses in addition to major-specific classes like the Knight Faculty, Magic Faculty, or Alchemy Faculty, and among them was a lecture teaching basic knowledge about beasts.
And that lecture was taught by an elderly lady with a peculiar sky-blue hair color, in other words, Professor Bljoa.
Because she had such a thoughtful personality and gave generous grades, she was popular among students, and she is someone I still remember.
She is a famous person who has been at the academy for quite a long time and is respected by the faculty and staff.
However, contrary to such fame, there was not much mention of her in the original work.
She appears as a teacher in the first year, which is the same, but she doesn’t appear at all from a certain point in the second year.
“I do remember, but the last time I greeted that professor was a few times in the first semester of the second year.
After that, she was absent from the academy the whole time, so I never met her again.”
“Right, but actually, the reason that professor hadn’t been seen during that time was because of a business trip.
And the content of that business trip was direct contact with beastkin.
It was a project conducted in strict secrecy at the academy, so no one knew about it.”
So that’s how it was…
It was information not in my past life’s memories, but this part wasn’t very surprising.
In the original work ‘Thump X 2 Harem Transfer Student of the Storm’, background or supporting characters’ settings are often expressed indirectly.
Rather than an NPC or narrator directly explaining how the situation is, you can consider it as inferring the story through descriptions written on items obtained or various metaphorical expressions.
The content explaining the beastkin’s destruction that I remember also only seemed like the beastkin suddenly went berserk and attacked humans when viewed from the protagonist’s perspective,
but in the flavor text of an item dropped by one of the hidden bosses later, there is a hint that someone instigated the beastkin’s rampage.
And through this, one infers that a dark organization intervened to check or exploit the beastkin.
To explain it more simply, it’s convenient to think of it as similar to the Dark Souls series by FroX Software.
Anyway, even I, who played the original work, don’t know the minor background settings very well, so it’s not strange that I didn’t know about the fact that such a top-secret project was being conducted.
In other words, there probably wasn’t a direct mention, but this project was likely something that happened in the original game as well.
However, the part related to the flow of the main story, in other words, the part explaining the continued existence of the beastkin race, is different.
It’s not a difference of whether I knew or didn’t know, but a part about an inevitable development that must be the same as the original work.
First of all, if my memory is correct, although the relationship between the protagonist Mark Vissers and the heroines here, or the heroines’ own ways of acting, might be slightly different from the original, the way the entire world itself operates wasn’t significantly different.
This means that large events connected to the story, such as the terrorist incident at the first-year entrance ceremony or the dungeon rampage that occurred during the assignment test, the main large and massive story branch that leads this world, progresses exactly the same as in the original work.
And because of that part, I could not help but not feel anxious even if small events I didn’t know about occurred until now.
The main branch doesn’t change, no matter what happens, because the world will ultimately end with the happy ending that the protagonist Mark Vissers will achieve.
But if the extinction of the beastkin, which is one of the original work’s thick branches, changes, then the story becomes different.
This is because the possibility arises that this world might flow in a different way from the original work.
If so, there’s only one thing I can suspect.
That there was an event that became a variable, resulting in a different outcome from the original in some part.
What kind of variable could it be… I must quickly confirm it with my own eyes.
“They interacted and lived with the group of beastkin they contacted at that time for a year and a half, and surprisingly, positive data seems to have been collected.
They announced this fact, saying that they might even be able to obtain a solution to the beastkin race’s chronic illness of going berserk.
“Is that so…? I see..”
“Yeah, especially since they said there was a beastkin who was unusually intelligent and also friendly towards humans, they decided to enroll that student in the academy starting this semester.”
Although Lilith was kind enough to explain, I actually wasn’t listening to her words from a certain point onwards.
That’s because suddenly too many kinds of speculations and doubts filled my mind.
If so… could it be that a different development from the original story occurred at this point?
First, a character who disappeared during the game’s progression and did not appear in the original work has ended up appearing here.
I’m not very confident yet, but if I were to speculate carefully, perhaps it’s related to that professor, in other words, Professor Bljoa?
Should I meet that professor directly later and ask her about the details of her business trip?
I might need to know exactly what happened there.
No, come to think of it, they might not tell me the details, saying it’s confidential…
If so, conversely, I might need to approach the beastkin student who is scheduled to enroll.
But how should I…
“? Ropel! What are you thinking about so intently?”
“Ah? Huh? Ah, ah! Sorry, sorry, my head got complicated for a moment.”
“What’s this? You ask me to explain and then you zone out yourself?”
“Haha, I said I’m sorry. Anyway, so… that beastkin student is attending the academy from this year?”
“Right, they haven’t arrived at the academy yet, but they’re scheduled to just enter this year as a first-year freshman.
However…”
“However?”
“…From what I heard in the explanation, it seems like she’s a female student.
So listen, Ropel, by any chance. This is really, really just a chance question…
Do you have… any interest in that beastkin?”
“? If you ask if I’m interested, I guess I am?”
“No, thinking about it, I was wondering why you were suddenly so fixated on the word beastkin.
It’s certainly surprising that a persecuted race is enrolling, but it’s not something to be that curious about, is it?
…Could it be, Ropel… are you into that kind of thing?”
“W-What!? No, no!”
“Hmm… listen, Ropel.”
Lilith came closer to me, pulled my collar, and met my eyes.
“I can put on ears and a tail too, you know..♥”
*Exhale*~♥
I felt her hot breath by my ear.
At the same time, one of her hands crept between the buttons of my shirt and stroked my chest, and the other hand stroked my groin.
Her gaze had also become languid by then.
W-Why is Lilith acting like this now…?
Looking around, I saw that she and I had entered an alleyway where people didn’t usually go.
But even so, for her attitude to suddenly change like this…?
Well, it’s not like I dislike it, but…
I didn’t resist Lilith’s touch and gently stroked her head.
I pulled her towards me as she was, gently pressed my lips against hers, and mingled our tongues.
Lilith also seemed very aroused by then, moving her tongue passionately and making vulgar sounds.
I don’t really like doing this outside, but it’s not bad at all…
‘CRASH!’
Suddenly, a sharp noise was heard.
My gaze reflexively went to that place, where there were broken pottery fragments and shattered contents.
For a moment, there seemed to be the figure of a person holding the pottery, but they soon disappeared into an alleyway with the sound of running away, so I couldn’t tell who it was.
Looking at the pottery fragments again, I realized that their pattern was very familiar.
It was a pattern mixed with black and yellow, the same design as the pottery I had made with Elisio Gremlina a year ago.
Although it was broken or crushed by the impact of the fall, it seemed the contents were various kinds of snacks and desserts.
Uh… but why is this here?
Looking back at Lilith with surprised eyes, she had a strangely sly expression and was smiling with satisfaction.
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