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Polaris turned her gaze away from me and towards Victoria.

“Tori, what was that magic just now? I didn’t feel any magic at all, but it was like the floor was wet earlier?”

He spoke to Victoria in an incredibly excited voice, unlike how he had spoken to me before. He immediately called her by her nickname. She was a very fast-paced person.

Victoria looks at me as if she’s really in trouble. Even so, there’s nothing I can do.

“Is this really a superpower like I saw on TV? What else can you do?”

Polaris is getting closer.

Victoria began to explain hesitantly.

“Yeah. Superpowers. The only thing I can handle is water.”

Victoria lifted a thin stream of water from the air. Polaris looked at it intently.

“There’s no magic power. Then that means it’s not magic. Yeah. It’s a superpower that can be easily used even in a city that lacks magic power. It’s scary.”

Victoria tilts her head at Polaris’ words.

“Are you scared? It’s nothing compared to magic, right?”

Polaris chuckled. Then he poked Victoria’s chest, where her heart was, with his index finger.

“It’s not the powers that are scary. It’s you, Tori. You came here to bury me, right? It’s killing me.”

At those words, Victoria slowly turned her head to the side to avoid Polaris’ gaze. Then Polaris straightened her shoulders.

“See. A kid like you is rare. And this kind of power. Aren’t you interested in being a knight? You’ll become a noble, and I can take good care of you. Don’t you think about it?”

From commoner to knight. It was a great opportunity in a society where the class system still existed. But Victoria shook her head from side to side.

“Even if a knight is a knight, my dream is to be a clockwork knight. If you want a different knight, find someone else.”

“Can you give me one factory?”

Victoria made a puzzled expression at Polaris’s flirtatious remark. Then, when she shook her head violently from side to side in refusal, Polaris chuckled.

“That’s too bad. If you ever feel like that, come to the Bearington Marquis. If you were someone I liked back then, I won’t hold back on my support.”

And Polaris said a short greeting and went towards the building.

“He’s a stormy person. But I don’t think he’s a bad person. Considering how his voice lowered when his friend said he dropped out earlier, I think he was trying to help Belle.”

“Is that so?”

“It’s kind of funny that people are criticizing me for meeting the prince.”

“Me too.”

It seems like there was a blood feud in the same grade as the prince.

If you look at it, it seems like he’s using a benefactor as bait when he needs one, so he’s a good harvester. Other than that, it’s good.

“Are you going to Theodore now?”

Victoria asks me a question carefully, watching my reaction. Instead of answering the question, she changes the subject slightly.

“I didn’t know Theodore had that kind of body.”

“You said we met last time? You didn’t know then?”

“I was sitting there all the time. I didn’t pay much attention to it because I thought it was just for people of higher rank.”

In any world, I’ve always been somewhat of an outsider, so this is the first time I’ve felt this kind of interest.

As long as there is a body in this world, it is not something that is observed through the harvest season, but something that exists within this world.

It would have been enough to go with the flow and pick up the warmth that overflowed there, but can I create the flow?

I feel like I’m playing a simulation game and I realized that I can actually go inside and become a player.

I’d like to pretend I don’t have an ego until I get my bearings, but I don’t think I’ll get many opportunities like this.

hmm.

When did I ever do this and that? I just aimed for one goal and did what I could in between.

This time too, let’s respond accordingly.

When the topic changed, instead of asking about Theodore again, Victoria started grumbling.

“Why did I suddenly enter the Royal Academy and end up like this?”

“In terms of accepting and not rejecting prominent figures in society, it should be seen as open.”

You need to know history and the current international situation to know for sure, but I don’t know that. My memories of harvesting have almost no information about foreign countries.

At best, there are only small pieces of information, like rumors of a big incident somewhere or that the food there was delicious.

I think we could get some good information if we made Theodore’s guy a harvester.

But there is no contact.

It’s not a difficult situation at all. If you use facts as a weapon, you become dependent on those facts. As powerful as facts are, they also have great limitations.

And if the goal is to treat the disability, they will approach first, so let’s take the initiative here.

“Oh, is Bell smart?”

“No. I’m not smart. I know a lot, so I’m confident in my interpretation, but I can’t create or predict something new with the information I have. That’s it. I lack creativity.”

Interpreting what’s in front of you based on the information you’ve received and guessing what’s going to happen are two entirely different functions.

But I guess Victoria didn’t see it that way.

“Apologize to the aspiring wind-up knights who can’t even do a simple interpretation and scream.”

“You’ll be fine if you memorize it a lot.”

“No matter how much I look at it, I can’t remember it!”

That was my story, Victoria grumbles.

Was it that difficult to memorize?

Search through faded memories.

I remember having a hard time memorizing it. In other words, being good at memorizing things is also a good thing. Even if you know something, it’s frustrating because you can’t create something new with it.

“Let’s say that the person who can make something with that is amazing.”

“I guess I end up envying those who don’t even have monsters… … .”

Victoria looks as if she has come to some realization and is staring blankly into space.

Isn’t it the case that we tend to see the shortcomings more clearly? That’s why jealousy, once it’s stuck, doesn’t go away easily.

So, I would rather recommend it because it creates an environment where I can easily get warmth.

anyway.

“Let’s go home now.”

“The dormitory, right? I have somewhere to go, so I can’t go with you.”

Victoria is busy preparing for her future as a clockwork knight.

“Oh, right. Where does Belle live now?”

Victoria asked a valid question, so I pointed to the main entrance to the Royal Academy.

“I live in the building immediately to the left of the main gate when you go out.”

“Left from the main gate? Oh, that’s it.”

It seems to be recalled from memory. The Clockwork Knight School is in the capital, just like the Royal Academy. Plus, Victoria has been around here before, so she can recall it if she wants to.

“What does Bell do when he goes back to his room? Does he watch a video? He doesn’t cook or clean there, right?”

Victoria asked me what I did at her house, so I shook my head from side to side.

“That’s what the people working inside do. I just go into the room and sit still.”

“Aren’t you doing anything else?”

“Yes. I don’t need to do it, so I won’t do it.”

Victoria looks at me with concern at my words.

“Then aren’t you bored?”

“It passes in an instant.”

There are over ten thousand harvesters. In other words, there are that many channels. You can’t just watch one, you’re watching all of them at the same time. And that’s still the case.

So, you won’t be bored.

It’s probably easier to describe it as the feeling of lying in bed watching a very short edited video in a faded memory.

Human life is basically a comedy when seen from afar, so I’m watching it with enjoyment.

As of yet, the only warmth that has come in is from the harvesters who died while working and were crushed between building materials.

Someday, a lot of warmth will come in.

Of course, not only people, but even killing living things does provide warmth.

But that’s not enough. There’s almost no warmth in slaughtering farmed animals. Roadside bugs have more warmth than those animals.

Perhaps, it means that such livestock was closed off from the beginning.

Of course, there are many creatures. The jungle I saw from the sea when I went from the small port to Bern City.

There were a lot of creatures inside that had a lot of warmth. If we could just sweep it away and develop it, we could get a lot of warmth at that moment.

However, in the end, human warmth is the most efficient. Even if each monster has more warmth, humans have more warmth in proportion to density.

When it comes to efficiency, humans are good backup harvesters.

“In an instant, does that mean time flies? You sound like a grandma. Oh, come to think of it, how old are you?”

“As you get older, it feels like time goes by faster.”

Once she accepted that it was true, Victoria made a horrified expression.

“Wow, then I don’t want to grow old. I still have so much to do, but does the day go by so quickly?”

“Don’t worry. You won’t age well anymore.”

I said that while pointing at Victoria.

When harvest time comes, old people become younger, and young people do not age well. Hair that was not there before grows back, and the traces of time that come with age disappear.

“Really?”

“Yes. You can think of it as roughly doubling your lifespan.”

Of course it will be reset from the next generation, but if you put me in there, it will increase.

“The bell is awesome.”

I laugh at that.

That’s why people are obsessed with me. Everyone gets old, and old bodies break down. If they could go back to the way they were, there are many people who would pay any price.

King Hypion will definitely come to me.

Hehehe.

But before that, there’s one thing I have to face.

The witch who put a curse on Aurora.

That witch might see me as an enemy and attack me. I welcome the attack itself, but there’s something I’m worried about.

The witch was quick-witted. As did Hunkeshni.

After falling to the ground where I was, I was about to become a monster, but I was broken and disappeared instead of becoming a monster. Not all humans who fall to the ground become the same species as me.

The witch kept doubting me in the first world.

And we’re almost there.

The back of the harvester. The real danger that I haven’t told anyone about. The reason why I can’t help but be an evil monster.

What if the witch finds out?

That’s when you might have to use offensive power.

Or maybe it would be better to break this third world and get some warmth rather than get kicked out without getting anything.

A few. Let me list out the options I have and wait.

“You’ll regret it if you expect that much, Victoria.”

And then I walked towards the main gate, and Victoria followed me, then waved and said goodbye as she went to the principal’s office.

The days go by quickly.