Chapter 105 – Golem Maker (02)

At first, she just wanted to take her to where she worked and didn’t really want to watch.

I didn’t have much time left, and there was a lot to do, and more than anything, I knew that if I ‘did’ raise Melissa’s favorability rating now, it would be reset if I used [Flower of the Sun].

So I thought I would just do as much as I was asked…

“…Can I take a look?”

“Ugh…! Welcome…”

Melissa’s expression was as if she was anxious to show off.

We have toys at home! Seeing her innocent self wanting to brag, I couldn’t bear to say no out loud, so I followed behind her.

Somehow, Melissa seemed happy.

Is it because she doesn’t have many people who can be considered her ‘friends’ in the first place?

“Here…”

If a character from Class F of Celestial Academy dies, the likeability of characters who are more than friends with that character will drop. In the case of Melissa, who dies in the middle of the academy part, if her likeability with other friends around her is high, the game will reach a level where it is impossible to progress. Because the catastrophe occurred, most of my friends stopped at the ‘acquaintance’ stage.

Alice may be at the ‘friend’stage, but since her basic behavior pattern she is observing the stars from the roof of the building, if she does not come to class, her activity areas will rarely overlap with Melissa.

She went into a small storage room at the back of the temple, opened the door, and as soon as she went inside, she opened the mechanical device that had been covered with her cloth and showed it to her.

Golem No. 2 that we saw in the classroom before.

She looked neater than before, and her torso was being removed and various parts were being filled in.

“Ah… I wasn’t able to finish the last task… Could you wait a moment?”

It was a complex sight that couldn’t be understood just by looking at it, but Alice was holding tools and assembling the golem’s parts one by one, as if it was a waste of time.

– Incomplete Golem No. 2-

-Melissa is putting a lot of effort into producing it. The most important golem heart is missing –

‘As of now… It’s meaningless’

Although it was placed in the classroom at the beginning of the semester, it was currently a defective golem as it could only be moved when Alice occasionally added mana.

Her power requires absorbing the surrounding mana, but such high-performance artificial intelligence is expensive, so it was not possible for her as a student, Melissa, to obtain it.

Even if there was money, there was no golem factory to sell golem artificial intelligence, a strategic asset, to academy students.

‘The sight of these two together…’

It was a sight I had never seen before during the first round.

Golem No. 2 will replace Melissa when she dies from disease.

In other words, only if Melissa dies will artificial intelligence be properly implemented and active, and if Melissa survives, there will be no Golem No. 2.

It wasn’t for nothing that she was called a half-heroine who was just one by combining the two.

Watching her work so intently on putting together the golem’s parts one by one and using tools to grind them if they are not the right size, she looks like a craftsman who is absorbed in one task. Even though Melissa is already weak, I feel she is amazing.

After spending a while modifying and inserting several cogs to fit inside, and pulling her right finger to check whether a single screw inside would turn or not, Melissa put down the tool.

“Phew…”

“Well made.”

“Is that so?”

Seeing Melissa looking proud with dust on her face made me feel a little proud.

“I said I would show you around, but I don’t have much to show you…Would you like to see this?”

Melissa turned to the back of her Golem # 2, raised her arms with her own hands, and waved them to me in her greeting her.

“Hello. Hello. Hello.”

“Pfft… “

The way he deliberately broke his voice and said he was going to imitate the sound of a machine seemed like he was playing with a doll, so I couldn’t help but laugh.

However, Golem No. 2 was never operated.

Melissa will survive this route.

‘Now that I think about it… When Melissa dies, Golem No. 2 is activated, and when Melissa is alive, Golem No. 2 is not activated and a new battle golem appears?’

What is the reason? Rather, rather than Melissa surviving and taking the time to complete Golem No. 2, why is Golem No. 2 activated at the time of Melissa’s death?

If you think about it simply, it would mean choosing a heroine, but the backstory of Celestial Academy was carefully planned, so I couldn’t help but be concerned.

“What are you thinking?”

“Hmm…? No, just…”

Since I couldn’t talk about the setting, I just smiled and tried to get over the situation, and Melissa also smiled shyly and boiled water using a tool that was lying around in the studio. She handed me a cup of warm cocoa, which is good for raising body temperature, and she After drinking while sitting on Golem No. 2’s lap, I sat down on the tool box in front of him and shared a cup of tea.

‘Delicious’

Perhaps because I was in a cold place just now, the cocoa with sugar was really delicious.

After assembling a few more parts for Golem No. 2, Melissa the workroom well with cloth and left the workroom with my support.

Her body temperature had already dropped to dangerous levels, so she could no longer continue working.

“Aren.”

“Yes.”

“I don’t have much left now, right?”

“Don’t worry about that.”

‘I will be able to recover because I have [Flower of the Sun].’

There may be some side effects… But it’s better than dying.

“I’m not worried.”

Has Teacher Rebecca already given you her information about [Flower of the Sun]? While I was thinking that I didn’t have time for that, Melissa answered by squeezing my hand.

“If I disappear, that child will run with you instead of me.”

“Huh?”

“Even though this body will disappear, if the traces I leave behind walk with you and see the same scenery… Don’t you think that would be wonderful?”

Suddenly, I remembered the event where Golem No. 2 disappeared in the first round.

Since Golem No. 2’s favorability level rose to the maximum even without saying a few words, I, who had already failed due to not being able to manage his favorability rating his, moved around often with Golem No. 2 in the first round.

Then, suddenly, he asked me, the main character, Aren, to go on a mission together and took him to the beach, but after the first day, he disappeared.

It is said that she found her after carrying out her urgent mission first and was staring blankly at the sun setting along the horizon.

For some reason, even when I tried to talk to him, he remained silent, and this is what Golem No. 2 said as he sat on the coastal cliff until the sun completely set and he was no longer visible …

‘I wanted to show you…’

And soon after, in a bait operation, victory was achieved using Golem No. 2 as bait.

Since she is a golem anyway, the affinity system is not linked to her other friends, so she does not lower the favorability of other friends.

So, he was the character I first used as bait when I was at a disadvantage.

“Hey, Aren.”

“Yes.”

“Thank you for today.”

In fact, they didn’t do much.

I just supported her, watched her, her work, and drank her tea with her.

“Not much to say.”

– Melissa’s favorability has reached the ‘lover’ level –

It’s going to disappear anyway, so why is it rising so easily?

It would be hard to trust and like people too easily.

* ​ * ​ *

“It’s late and you haven’t returned home? Do you plan on taking sick leave tomorrow?”

When I entered the nurse’s office, Eric was not there and Rebecca was there.

The fact that they are keeping watch even though there are currently no patients means that they are probably waiting for me.

“Or do you have something to say to this teacher?”

“I came to check if a cure is being made using [Sun Flower].”

Teacher Rebecca had bandages wrapped around her hands and wrists, perhaps to hide her frostbite.

In terms of time, she had only been in contact with Melissa for a very short time for treatment, but the frostbite had not yet healed, and her wounds were so severe that even the priest’s holy magic would not heal.. .

“The reason why Priestess Beace can’t be seen these days…?”

“Can I tell you since you are like a master student? That’s right. Beace and I are taking turns treating Melissa. But Beace’s healing ability has significantly decreased…”

It is no longer possible to continue treating her, so she is hospitalized.

“Ha… If you have the [Mandatory Mating Mass] Ability, you should be able to recover right away. Just call me.”

“Rather, with that kind of personality, doesn’t Beace fit the role of a school nurse?”

“I think I would be disqualified as a school nurse if I were to treat myself too passionately and end up hurting myself.”

“Is that so? There’s no way the temple’s personnel line is that messed up. It needs someone like me to do things half-heartedly to achieve balance.”

Her words may be so, but just looking at the bandages on Rebecca’s hands shows that she, too, was a dedicated school nurse.

“How about Melissa? Isn’t she lovely?”

“Well, I haven’t met many people yet.”

“The evaluation is so cold.”

I see a bottle on her desk, wrapped in a black cloth and emitting a soft light.

A glass bottle similar in shape to a bottle containing strawberry jam was wrapped in black cloth, and it seemed that Teacher Rebecca was using [Sun Flower] To make a medicine to treat Melissa.

“With this medicine, Melissa will be able to recover.”

“Are you sure?”

“For sure. But you will definitely experience side effects.”

“Isn’t it important to live first?”

Teacher Rebecca smiled strangely at those words.

“Can that be called living?”

“Yes?”

“Rather than dying with pride or being left behind by someone, all memories and relationships are lost simply for the survival of the body. Looking at that, can we… Say we live?”

Those words left me speechless for a moment.

“I know it’s a bit of a strange thing for a temple priestess to say.”

“But isn’t it still important to be alive?”

“…That’s your answer.”

“Because I promised to save you.”

“Okay… This is a question where there is no wrong answer. I understand. Fortunately, we can complete the medicine in time, so we don’t have to monitor it like this.”

Mistress Rebecca held my head and rubbed it with her own bandaged hands.

“So don’t worry, go and get some rest, kid. Before I make you unable to even sit down like Eric.”

In response to the scary threat, I ran away from the nurse’s office.

It was so late that I left the temple, which was deserted, and as I headed toward the dormitory, I thought about what I saw today.

Melissa and the Golem No. 2.

The two together make one heroine.

If Melissa is left to die, Golem No. 2 will activate, and Golem No. 2 will take Melissa’s place while retaining her favorability.

If you save Melissa as [Sun Flower], Her favorability will be reset and she will join in good health from the second semester, and as a [Golem Maker], She can drag a battle golem to join the party.

“It’s a pretty annoying choice…”

In the end, this was the option presented by Celestial Academy.

Kill Melissa’s her body her her her her, save her her her her her soul her her her, and take her to Golem 2.

Or save Melissa’s body and kill her her soul and start over from the beginning.

Melissa is so naive and trusts people so easily that she thinks she’s a ‘best friend’just by holding her hand her, and shows a’lover’level of likability just by talking briefly and drinking tea with her.

She is not a very strong character and her favorability her, her her needs to be raised by constantly attacking her during the second semester, so even if you just ignore her, she will recover and return in the second semester.

Losing likeability doesn’t mean losing memory, it means losing the feelings of the time, so we don’t lose everything because we know who we are.

It just doesn’t feel real.

Therefore, your affinity will be reset, but it will not mean you will no longer be friends.

After tossing and turning in bed all night, the next morning, I went to see Rebecca, who was in the nurse’s room looking disheveled and unwrapping her bandages.

“Teacher Rebecca. Isn’t there another way?”

Another way other than letting Melissa die and using the Sun Flower to kill those feelings.

Rebecca seemed to like my question and asked me, lifting her own finger as her new flesh sprouted.

“…It’s a secret to Beace?”