episode_0076

“Congratulations to Cadet Ain Frostgarm for winning Try Conflict.”

“No, Dean. Elfin won.”

The night after Tri-Conflict ended, I received a call from Dean Ivory and was having a private meeting with her in the Dean’s office.

“Well.”

To my humility, Dean Ivory opens the newspaper spread out on her desk with a refreshing expression.

-Princess Erpaion, winner of this year’s Tri-Conflict… But there is a ‘real winner’ behind her

The newspaper shows an endless loop of me floating in the air and moving my vision powers in the aftermath of a level 5 spell.

“The power of artifacts, but it’s impressive.”

“Um… Thank you?”

“Actually, I was hoping for an answer like, ‘No, Dean. I did it on my own.’”

“That… can’t be right? Haha…”

He smiled awkwardly, not knowing that he would be questioned by Dean Ivory.

Dean Ivory looked at me with very suspicious eyes, but since I denied it, he couldn’t ask me anything else.

“The reason it is called this way is because of one guess.”

At her words, I thought about it for a moment and then said what came to mind.

“Are you saying that the Liberator is after me?”

Dean Ivory seemed a little surprised by my answer. Perhaps he thought I didn’t know.

But I can’t just say the truth, ‘The Creator said that the Liberator Captain is after me,’ so I’ll come up with a reasonable excuse.

“The sudden situation in the test of strength… and the fact that the Goliath created through illusions attacked terrain features directly instead of causing indirect damage. There were some suspicious parts. ”

“You’re quite bright, Ain Cadet. Did you notice it since the mock labyrinth?”

“The females in the group told me that the eyeballs I saw during the mock labyrinth also appeared during the test of strength. The test of wisdom passed without much trouble, but…”

Both I and Dean Ivory were silent for a moment. We were probably thinking the same thing. That Goliath had directly struck the student with his club…

“…You really ‘manipulated objects’, didn’t you do it by yourself?”

“…I said no.”

…I guess we didn’t think the same thing. I was mistaken.

“Anyway, what I want to say to Ain Youngshik is that if possible, stay in the academy during the vacation, or at least in the mansion of the females. The north is too dangerous. It’s too close to their hands. ”

I nod at Dean Ivory’s words. Even if the player is from a noble family, it’s not like they have any particular connection to that family, so the vacation is an opportunity for farming, free spec-up, and events, not going to the family to rest or anything like that.

“Okay. I would like to ask you to… say something to the family.”

In fact, even I had no way to contact Baron Frostgarm, who was attached to the back of my name, so I asked him like a snake crossing a wall, but Dean Ivory nodded.

“I’m sure you’ve already been contacted.”

“You knew I wouldn’t refuse.”

Dean Ivory nodded at my words.

“Ain Cadet was wise and seemed to understand the situation well. And…”

“And?”

“Ain Cadet just started to form a group. It’s a good idea to spend a lot of time with the females in the early stages of the group. I think you’ve already learned this from your family…”

Although Dean Ivory says so, the concept of a crowd is only mentioned in passing in the game, and it doesn’t appear much in the setting book, so I came here to properly understand it.

“Haha, yeah, that’s right. You’ll be busy during the holidays…”

The Academy’s vacation is long, and since this is my first year in this world, I have no idea what will happen during the vacation. I just hope that nothing dangerous or embarrassing happens.

…that’s what I thought last night when I met with Dean Ivory.

“Absolutely, I can’t give in to that.”

“…”

The first half of the Academy’s semester has come to an end with the end of Tri-Conflict, but that doesn’t mean the Academy will be empty any time soon, so we’re still gathered in the club room of the Miscellaneous Study Group today.

“3 months of vacation, 90 days, divided by 6, it’s about 2 weeks. It’s a time that’s hard to compromise.”

“Calm down, everyone. It’s just a matter of whether you’re in front or behind.”

“But the last place or the ones in the back of the line have to wait 2 months!”

“That’s right, Ain. This is a fight between females. Leave out the emails.”

“…Okay…”

I don’t care what the order is, but it seems like an important holy war to the females who turn me around.

“Raffle?”

“…Sparring?”

“Hey, do you have a conscience? Anyway, you guys are reporters.”

While the females bicker amongst themselves, I am enjoying my books and snacks under Hela’s care.

In fact, it’s not a fight for rank or a serious argument, so it’s quite fun to watch it as if you were watching a TV show.

“What do you think the order will be, Hela?”

“…Doesn’t only God know?”

“Is there a god who controls the male order?”

“There might not be such a thing…”

While I was competing in Tri Conflict, Hella changed quite a bit due to systematic training and exercise.

The muscles that were haphazardly placed are now properly placed where and as needed, and the body curves more smoothly than before due to training to increase flexibility.

If the previous Hela was a rough and rugged female, the current Hela has a stronger feeling of a strong and sturdy female.

“Where do you think you should start?”

“That’s a question that’s disadvantageous to me, so I’ll keep quiet.”

As much as I had Hela with me, Hela also understood me, so she skillfully avoided my mischievous jokes.

“Then let Ain decide!”

“That would be the fairest, after all.”

“I’m not dissatisfied with that.”

When the results of the cat fight finally came to me, I hesitated for a moment.

“…A game of wit.”

“Oneee!!!!!”

As soon as I muttered softly, Hoyo got up at incredible speed, followed by Ion, Bandi, and Elfin.

“Five! Ugh!”

At the very end, Lulu and Bam overlap, and in the end, the order of the game of wits is Hoyo, Ion, Bandi, Elfin, and Lulu, who won in the last game of rock-paper-scissors. Bam is the last turn.

“Haa, I can’t help it.”

“Damn, I didn’t think it was a game of wits.”

It may seem comical in some ways, but what can we do, this is the way our group lives.

Finally, with the winner’s smile, Hoyo prepares to return home and tells the maid to prepare to move along with her, and also prepares the other females to return.

“Nyahaha, life is all about timing.”

“Honestly, I was surprised too. How did it happen so quickly?”

“It’s easy if you look carefully and move~”

Hoyo, who made a remark reminiscent of the ghosts of a certain game, soon tilted his head from side to side.

“Why?”

“Oh, actually, I used to live with Bandi at the chairman’s mansion during vacations… Before I entered school, I went there during the chairman’s vacations, and after I entered school, we went together.”

“Really? Hmm…”

Now that I think about it, when I think about the reaction of the head maid, Hodo, when I went to the Night Mansion before, it seems like she really lived there.

“Then how about this? Since Hoyo is first in line, the three of them just stay at the Bamine mansion, and Elfin, Ion, and Lulu also stay there. I think it would be okay if we do it for a month and a half. Honestly, it’s a hassle to move every two weeks.”

When I proposed a compromise, the females in the group accepted it without much resistance.

“Then how about staying at our mansion? It’s not too far from the Knight Sustained mansion, and it’s also close to the academy.”

“Okay.”

“There’s no way it won’t work.”

Elfin and Ion also agree to Lulu’s proposal.

“I’m looking forward to it. It’s my first time leaving the castle for this long.”

Elfin blushed as if she was looking forward to it, and Lulu seemed to be worried about where to let Elfin stay. Ion (although not as much as Hoyo) is the type who doesn’t think deeply.

“Does the Empress have anything to say?”

“After becoming a group, I tend to be more free-spirited than I thought. It must be thanks to Ain.”

Elphin says that he has to tell Empress Alexandra about his vacation plans and gets up first. Ion also says that he will join me when I go to Lulu’s mansion in a month and a half, and Lulu gets up after Ion, saying that she has something to prepare.

“Then, let’s meet in a month and a half. Stay healthy.”

“Ain, you too. Well, I guess there’s nothing to worry about since those three are here. But you still have to be careful.”

Elfin grabbed my shoulder and said that while laughing, and Lulu nagged at him for a while. Ion chuckled at the sight of Lulu like that.

“Night Lady, the vision carriage is ready.”

“Okay, everyone worked hard in the first half of the semester.”

The night said its final goodbyes, as it cleared its place. We split up into groups of three and five.

“Hey~ I’m finally escaping from these annoying and boring lectures!!”

“Then when the semester starts, I’ll be arrested again?

“That’s what it is.”

Hoyo quickly climbs onto the vision carriage, stretches, and mutters something in relief, and I add a word to that.

“Because I’m someone who goes in and out of prison regularly…”

“But isn’t the academy a prison?”

“The required lectures for the second year aren’t much different from prison, right?”

“Have you ever been to prison?”

“That’s what I’m saying, nyahahah.”

The Vision Wagon picks up speed, and we head towards the Knight Sustained Estate at a rapid pace. I wonder what will happen during the vacation… I can’t predict, but I hope nothing too troublesome happens.

“…Hey, isn’t this the direction to the chairman’s house?”

“Wait a minute, that’s right. Coachman! Where are you going now?”

The coachman answers the night’s question as if he is embarrassed.

“Ah, I was told to bring you all to the Imperial Palace. Are you attending some kind of ball…”

“…Ball?”

We looked at each other’s faces as the coachman spoke, question marks floating above our heads.

As soon as I wished for peace and well-being, I felt like I got caught up in something annoying…