Chapter 146 – ‘Voice’ Blind Date (02)
Come outside with teacher Rebecca.
The meal was almost over, and Rebecca and I didn’t eat properly because she was thinking about her lines, but I had no appetite because I couldn’t sleep, and Rebecca had a short mouth, so she was only drinking.
Teacher Kay and Heidi…She just ate the food as soon as it came out, so she ate it frugally.
“Wait a moment.”
She pulled on her school nurse’s gown from her bag, sighed, and took a sip of her hangover drink.
“Whew. That’s hard.”
“Thank you for your hard work. But what about…?”
“If you smell alcohol when you enter the temple, you will be beaten by Beace.”
Even after that, he is still a person.
“Would you like to have a drink too?”
“No, I don’t drink.”
“Really? I made it myself.”
After hearing those words, she could tell that the hangover cure was very similar to milk.
“It’s not mine, though.”
“Oh, you were a dairy farmer?”
At those words, Teacher Rebecca gave a sinister smile as if telling her to think about it on her own, but considering the nature of the shrine… She got the feeling that she might be someone’s breast milk.
Just like that, Rebecca and I returned to the academy, and while I saw Teacher Heidi and Kay sneaking a glance at us and then leaving in the middle of the day, I thought that those two would progress surprisingly quickly.
“Should we do it on our way out?”
“I’m tired.”
No really, I can’t sleep and I’ve used up a lot of energy so I need to get some sleep. Otherwise, I might die.
“Well, if I squeeze Aren, Beace might squeeze my heart and reduce me to the level of Chris.”
No, I don’t think that’s possible… Physically.
*
I just slept the rest of the weekend.
In fact, no one came to wake me up, and even when they came to wake me up, I just woke up for a moment and then fell back asleep. Even if I kept skipping meals, I wasn’t hungry.
“Queunnng… “
In the end, it wasn’t until dinner time that I finally came to my senses. Although I was still sleepy and not hungry, I felt like I would eat a lot of late-night snacks at dawn if I skipped dinner, so I deliberately woke up and went outside.
‘Autumn leaves…’
Maple leaves mixed with brown and yellow can be seen here and there, and the workers were using various tools to remove all the fallen leaves in advance.
“Well, it’s tasteless…”
Well, from their perspective, fallen leaves = trash, so they just clean them up as ordered, and if they think they’re going to fall, they shake them off in advance.
“Level 3 areas will remain because they are not managed, right?”
When students from lower-level areas move to higher-level areas, they are very cautious and tend to block them unless they have special needs, but on the other hand, if they go down to lower-level areas, they can just go.
Of course, it doesn’t happen much because there is no need to go to a lower-level area.
‘Is the weather slowly getting colder?’
The seasons at Celestial Academy are quite mild, so for me, who is used to spicy Korean weather, the summer was hot but bearable, and the fall was slowly passing by, but it felt like it was moderately cool and then starting to get chilly rather than cold.
This is because the temperature has been corrected to some extent by magic, so when you leave the village or return to your family, you feel the cold and heat.
When I entered the level 3 area, the students from class E looked at me and pretended to know me, and the students from class D glared at me with extremely angry expressions, but they didn’t fight anyway.
Now, I am known as someone who is almost guaranteed to be selected for entry into the swordsmanship class even in class F and the class that won against class C this time, so I guess I can’t argue with them at their level.〈 Br〉
I arrived at the park beyond the training ground, which was not maintained properly, so the benches were broken and vines had grown over the statues, but as it was a level 3 area, the number of people was minimal, so I walked on fallen The leaves that were so lightly trampled that I was submerged up to my ankles.
As I was moving on the soft fallen leaves that did not even make a crunching sound, I was able to discover the familiar golden color characteristic of the red fallen leaves in one corner of the park.
Hwiiiii-
Her red leaves are blowing in the blowing autumn wind, and she is sitting still beneath them, her own long red hair fluttering.
It was Ophelia who had the trait of [Versatility].
‘There’s not much left’
The sight of Ophelia spending time inside the academy every weekend was a sign that she would soon begin her great mission.
As before, there were no wounds or bandages on her body, and as I looked at Ophelia sitting neatly looking up at the fallen leaves, I …
“Aren?”
“…Ah…Ophelia.”
“If you come, sit next to me.”
Without even looking behind her, Ophelia called me, and I sat down opposite her on her tilted bench her her her … Furthest from her her.
“What were you doing?”
“I was looking at the fallen leaves. What about Aren?”
“I also wanted to see fallen leaves, so I came here.”
Recently, I have been consciously avoiding Ophelia.
Considering what would happen to her in the future, and at that time, I… It was not confirmed yet, but I was prepared to abandon her once again if her situation was not favorable.
I wasn’t immersed in this degree when I was watching the conversation on the screen, but the experience of spending nearly a year together, face to face, and fighting together was like a shackle that made it difficult for me to easily control my emotions even though I knew what happened to Ophelia. It was the same.
‘If possible, I’d like to find a third route…’
For other things, it’s okay if some bugs occur to some extent, but the moment you move from the first academy part to the second war part… Bugs often occurred even in the original state.
I didn’t know what would happen because the allies and hostile forces were divided and the options and battlefield changed depending on favorability and hidden triggers.
Even if I try to open a third route, the system may decide that I have chosen the route and overwrite it.
Continue.
“Wook!”
I was started by her her fingers her suddenly pulling my cheek of her, and when I flailed her arm her of her her, Ophelia was stretching her lips with her usual bright smile.
“What?”
“Aren is always worried.”
“Just leave it alone.”
“I usually do that. But now…”
Ophelia stretches out her hands to the sky, and her fallen leaves her land gently on her.
“How about just enjoying the fallen leaves?”
“…”
Okay. You were originally this type of personality.
Since I couldn’t do anything about the third route anyway, I scratched my head a few times and fell down on the chair.
“Aren, if you don’t sit down properly…”
“Aaaaah!”
“It went over to the side… But it already went over.”
Wow! The condition of facilities in level 3 areas is really serious!
*
– Illusion of ultimate enslavement –
– You can make the opponent defeat your slave. The opponent cannot refuse the order of the person who fed it (no level limit) –
– Can only be used on characters who have unlocked the Sneak Experience feature –
– To make it, an advanced companion trainee course is required –
– Required ingredients: Parasitic Flower Fruit 17/10, Sun Flower Extract 1/1, Blue Salt 1/1, ? 0/1 –
“I bought suspicious items once in a while…”
In the system, items marked with ? Are marked when appraised or purchased, so I bought and sold various materials to obtain the last materials needed for the ultimate enslavement illusion.
As a result, this material was not among the materials I could obtain.
“What is the last ingredient…”
I was deeply troubled as I watched the illusion of ultimate enslavement, the final preparation for the third route.
I thought that a hint would be given once I learned the Companion Trainee to the advanced level, but the final ingredient for the ultimate enslavement illusion was still marked with ?, So I had no idea what it was.
I tore up the Companion Trainee’s book and asked the Taoist, but when I told him that using the enslavement illusion was classified as an evil act and that he would not answer, he started to show hostility toward me, so I couldn’t ask him properly.
‘Could it be that this can only be used in the second part, the war part?’
There is no answer if the material cannot be obtained from the first academy part. Since not even a hint was given, it was truly mind-blowing.
“Heh… The most essential item for opening the third route is really sluggish…”
Store the ingredients needed to make the ultimate enslavement pill in the [Shadow Pouch] And go outside your personal training room where the drug manufacturing station is installed.
When I returned to the room, there was a commotion going on outside. Instead of people talking stupidly and talking to each other like usual, voices were raised and they were talking seriously about something, so I quietly closed my eyes and listened.
“So you’re saying this is dangerous now?”
“What’s so dangerous about it? You went to your own house.”
“That house is a royal palace!”
The moment I heard those words, I kicked open the door and intervened between Hollio and Dates who were talking.
“Tell me more. What happened?”
“Aren, so…”
Hollio and Dates were looking at each other, and then Hollio, who was close to me, told me.
“The Cylians were called in.”
“You’re being called out? Why?”
“That… Teacher Karen…”
Judging by Holio’s troubled tone, it seems like what Cylian was worried about has happened.
As a member of the royal family, Cylian could not freely date or marry, and she had to be betrothed to someone chosen by the royal family.
Basically, all royal families are like that, but since the current crown prince and the second prince were thoroughly suspicious of Cylian, she may have invited him because she thought he might create influence in the academy through Teacher Karen.
“A royal envoy arrived with Academy guards just now. There is a violation against the Sailians, so they are urgently requested to come to the palace…”
‘But, can that happen?’
I didn’t understand.
Sailian was originally preparing for the final competition of the second semester, but returned to the royal palace with knights sent by the royal family who received intelligence about the duke’s treason?
And while Sailian was returning, the royal family was already attacked by the Duke’s family, causing all members of the royal family to die, and when the knights who had been guarding Sailian saw the royal palace with only corpses left, they made Sailian, the The only surviving heir to the throne, the king. Gather the forces of the royal family.
When the forces are divided into the Cylian royal family and the Renellian duchy to which Ophelia belongs, the friends’ forces are divided according to their favorability, and that’s where I join with my closest friends…
‘Then the Cylians shouldn’t be called systematically, right? Has something… A variable occurred?’
And since joining the royal family is a matter of degree, Sailian’s route is the regular route, that is, it is called the academy route because it has many academy friends, and Ophelia’s route is called the treason route, so it receives a penalty, so unless you raise your favorability significantly, even if you pass, you will not join.
By the way, Sylyan has now gone to the palace?
‘The date is now…’
There are 7 days left until the final competition.
The day of the rebellion was the day before the final battle.
In other words, if the Sailians were to leave now, the time when the Duke family attempted to exterminate the royal family due to news of their treason would overlap with the time when the Sailians arrived in the capital.
If he was late at all, he would feel bad and run away, but if it was 6 days, it would take 4 days to get to the capital, and if he waited a few days in his winter palace and was interrogated by his brothers …
‘The Cylians are dangerous…’
But I couldn’t leave.
This was because I saw Ophelia coming in front of me with a somewhat worried expression, looking into my eyes through the window.
However, there are henchmen hovering around Ophelia, a man disguised as an academy escort, and a woman disguised as an employee. There must be another person somewhere I don’t know.
The duke’s four henchmen were waiting near Ophelia.
‘If I send a letter or do something suspicious here…’
At that time, they, and they, will send a signal and carry out the rebellion right away.