Chapter 16 – From a Small Battle to a Major Accident (01)

“What are you talking about?”

“…”

She tried to get away, but Alice didn’t respond and just looked at me hesitantly with that unique, unconfident expression on her bun hat.

‘More importantly, what is that gauge?’

Although it was almost at the bottom, I had some doubts as it was my first time seeing the gauge.

Originally, the female character near me had a heart gauge even if it was empty, but I had never seen a gauge as special as Alice.

‘Is that… A sign that appears when affection falls below 0?’

It certainly looked similar to the fact that it was floating next to her face instead of a heart, and that the gauge was fluttering as if it was filling with water.

Moreover, it was the first time that all tendencies were covered with [?].

Marianne’s [My Love for My Younger Brother] And Inori’s [My Loyal Wish] Were revealed for the first time.

However, considering that the appearance is not favorable at all and the tendency for affection to increase is not revealed, it seems that Alice is expressing hostile intentions toward me…

‘Isn’t that worth it?’

She sneaked into the girls’ dormitory and caused a ruckus in her bathroom… If she had seen it with her own eyes, it wouldn’t have been surprising if she had been hostile towards me.

Even when Marian invaded the boys’ dormitory after changing her gender, I was fortunate because I heard the emergency news from Inori and went to her class to stop her. If that had been known, my authority as a class president would have been at an all-time low.

‘But isn’t it strange?’

Just as the first heart fills up quickly, the first hate gauge should have risen quickly, but strangely, Alice’s gauge was almost at the bottom.

If you had witnessed such a pervert act, it would not have been surprising if one or two spaces of hatred were burning brightly, but the gauge, which was about half full at first, continued to decrease as we came face to face, and was now reaching the bottom.

‘Besides, why bother when you’re alone with me? Besides, it’s not like I’m talking to you. You come to me on your own?’

In most cases where a character’s behavior pattern was strangely distorted, the problem was most often the adult mode.

Moreover, while she was talking to me, the corners of Alice’s mouth she were rising little by little, even though she tried to cover them as much as possible, and I could see the gauge gradually decreasing.

“…”

As Alice’s eyes were busy scanning my body, her face started to turn red. It wasn’t like she was angry or angry, but it seemed like her eyes were moving quickly and calculating something.

Tiring-

At that moment, the hatred gauge completely decreased and its shape began to change.

As the five burning compartments changed into a heart shape to express affection, the ominous scarlet gauge also changed to a comfortable pink color and was laid on the floor.

“…”

‘Casting magic?’

Alice was licking her lips and muttering something, but the sound was not heard.

It was Silence Casting, where you cast magic using only your lips without making any sound, and in that way, you didn’t let the other person know what kind of magic you were using.

However, I could tell that she was not using magic because her magic power had not decreased at all in the status window that was visible to me. She lowered her head to avoid my gaze, but I could feel my eyes scanning her body her her her her.

‘Wait for a second. I think I can read mouth shapes’

Even though silence casting does not produce sound, it does not disguise the lips themselves, so the shape of her mouth itself can be recognized unless she has learned special techniques for lipreading.

Of course, I didn’t learn lip reading, but Alice’s lips were pouting before my eyes, repeating several words, so I could quickly understand them by repeating them to myself.

‘Ichigo… No, are you crazy? I’m crazy, it’s dangerous, I’m too close, I’m going to end up like this…?’

“…!!”

When she self-talked she was discovered, Alice panicked and tried to run away, closing her door.

Rattling!

At best, Alice’s physical ability was lower than that of mine, whose abilities were increased by the Five Elements of Unbounded Spirituality, and she was so embarrassed that she could not close the door to her classroom properly, and it came to a shaky halt. , And I was looking into her eyes.

“What are you getting at?”

At those words, Alice’s pupils shook her greatly and she began to spin around.

First of all, because he had specialized abilities as a wizard, he was capable of high-speed thinking, so he seemed to be thinking of many things even in this short period of time.

Even her casting was called Silence Casting, that is, she could chant without making a sound, and she was the strongest wizard who could mix up to four magic combinations with quadruple casting, so she could kill or subdue me by throwing magic at me if she wanted to, but she He was so embarrassed that he just blushed and tried to cover his eyes with his bread hat.

Grumble!

When I opened the classroom door, Alice panicked and tried to leave the door and run away, but she was only able to run away for about two steps when her foot slipped into the dent in the floor and she fell down the hallway.

Kwadang!

“Ah…!”

Since the adult mode was already applied and the skirt her she was short, the skirt her flipped over her, exposing her her underwear her her her, and even one of her legs her her she fell into the hole in the hallway floor. Alice was embarrassed and didn’t know what to do first. I was shaking.

“Get hit, get hit, get hit… If this goes on…”

“What are you getting at?”

She suddenly said something strange, so I asked her to confirm, and Alice covered her mouth and made eye contact with me with surprised rabbit eyes, but then she immediately started avoiding her eyes.

The eyes are moving so fast that the movement can only be seen as an afterimage, so they spin round and round in a cartoon-like shape. Wow, I’m not a cartoon character, so I didn’t know it was possible to express something like this properly.

Meanwhile, her affection level continued to rise, to the point where she could now see the pink gauge fluttering.

Tiring-

[Delusionist]

A tendency that I hadn’t thought of was revealed. As far as I know, the tendency is literally ‘sexual preference,’ but I wondered if such an ambiguous thing as a delusion could emerge.

Every time my gaze sweeps over her body, Alice’s body responds sensitively to her gaze by twitching.

Tiring-

– Alice’s likeability has reached the ‘uncomfortable’ level –

“Ugh!”

As I stepped back, listening to her change in likeability to an uncomfortable, almost alarming level, Alice immediately pulled her leg out of the hole in her hallway and ran away.

At best, she must have sprained her leg or walked waddlingly, so if she wanted to, she would be able to catch up quickly, but after hearing that her likability was at an uncomfortable level, she couldn’t move around.

“Wait a minute, Allie…” ” “

Moreover, as she watched the heart gauge, which had been filling up to pink just now, quickly decrease and then reverse to a burning hate gauge and trying to fill up again, she thought that if she got any closer, things could turn out to be the worst.

-Alice’s favorability rating is ‘uncomfortable’, so she will not join the next mission-

I received a message saying that the meeting had been systematically accepted as a scouting action to join the party, and that the recruitment had failed.

“…Keu…”

I was hated one-sidedly without even knowing what my condition was or what my tendencies were, and Thursday ended in a delicate situation.

The way into the dormitory was completely blocked, but fortunately, I was able to get inside through the hole that Cylian had made, so I was able to return to my room.

‘I think the situation went awry from the beginning…’

Alice was a classic literary girl, or a timid character.

At first, it felt like she was out of touch, but once we got into the same hobby, she was the type of person who quickly became friends. However, since she had a tendency to avoid people, I approached her little by little when she was looking at the stars from the rooftop of the building, and tried to reduce the distance and approach her slowly to start a conversation. .

‘It was all messed up from the beginning, right?’

I wanted to take her because she was an essential character, but it was difficult to keep her like this.

“And what on earth is the delusional tendency? You don’t even tell me what its function is…”

This is why you must use genuine mods.

* ​ * ​ *

Friday. It’s the final inspection day.

As originally planned, an announcement was made that the temple would be opened once this training session was over.

“Is that pillar still going?”

The pillar that had been broken by swinging the wooden sword last time was fixed in place, with only the crumbling debris around it removed.

I don’t know if there is any problem with the durability of the temple even though one of the pillars collapsed, or if my use of the 99999 wooden sword itself is treated as a bug and treated as nothing, but for now, I’ m going to continue like this.

In preparation for the practice that I had to go out on Saturday, I was taking care of my wooden sword and taking care of my companions who would be practicing with me tomorrow.

Originally

Come to think of it, Inori’s original battle attire was black clothing that covered her body, but this time’s battle attire seemed to be the same as the current kunoichi attire.

‘It doesn’t fit in’

Next is equipment inspection.

– Assassin’s straight sword –

– Durability 45/50 –

– Swordsman/Assassin weapons –

– Attack power 86 –

Perhaps because Inori joined after the middle of the game, even the basic items were quite powerful weapons.

If you use the Shadow Ninjutsu, Inori becomes stealthy, so if you attack the opponent’s rear, you get a double sneak attack bonus… Well, even if you don’t have that, you’ll kill all the guys in this battle .

‘Still, since your stamina is weak, it would be better to use stealth well.’

“First is safety, second is safety. Don’t try to be too active.”

“…”

“You take the initiative to make a contribution, but then get angry when you come back injured?”

“I will keep that in mind.”

I didn’t know it before, but Inori was secretly the type of loyal dog who wanted to be praised by his master her her her, so he could have taken unreasonable measures to the point of danger during his her first mission her her her.

“When I get your attention, individually assassinate the commanders remaining in the rear or any dangerous-looking enemies one by one to reduce my strength.”

“Okay. Just what you see…”

“I will give the instructions. With my voice.”

After hearing those words, Inori said, “As expected, my lord!” He made a facial expression.

At first, it didn’t seem like there was much change in his facial expression, but perhaps it was because his affection level had increased or because he was used to it, but now I could roughly tell what kind of facial expression he was making.

‘If Ophelia and Marian are at the same time, they can just compete head-to-head, but…’

Our practice partner was a pack of wolves, and we were asked by the people in the surrounding villages to catch the wolves that were stealing their livestock.

Rewards vary depending on how many wolves you catch, but if you kill them from the beginning and return, you can earn a huge amount of points and change your dormitory and cafeteria at the same time.

“Then go in.”

“I will come pick you up at night.”

“Rest today. Let’s prepare for battle tomorrow.”

Inori, who thought about my words for a moment, said that she understood and left my room, walked through the shadows, and returned to her own room.

‘Ruler. Then, next is Ophelia…’

Ophelia is a basic combat character, so there is no need to take special care of her, but since I had time, I used her ‘voice’ to call her to my room.

Originally, going back and forth between the men’s and women’s dormitories was prohibited, but it was allowed just for today because if a mixed party like ours was formed, time was needed to plan a strategy.

In terms of the game system, it was a function given to talk, exchange equipment, and get hints right before competing.

Knock knock.

“Aren, are you there?”

“Come in.”

“Excuse me~ This is what the men’s dormitory looks like.”

As soon as I came in, Ophelia naturally looked through my luggage.

And I was taking out the most suspicious companion trainee stipend from my luggage.

“Oh my? Isn’t this a dirty book?”

“No.”

“Really? Really?”

Actually, that’s true.

Ophelia, who didn’t believe me, opened the companion training tool and checked.

“I can’t read!”

That’s a book added as a mod, so it’s natural that there’s no interaction with Ophelia unless there’s something special.

“Hmph, I hid it well this time.”

“Huh? Are you nervous, Aren?”

“Specifically? What about Ophelia?”

“I might be a little nervous.”

“Don’t be too nervous. If it’s dangerous, we’ll come back in the middle.”

In reality, I was going to hunt them all, but for now, I lied to Ophelia to put her at ease.

“Hmm… That’s right. Safety is the best, right?”

I could see Ophelia’s favorability rating rising, and she seemed happy to hear that I was moving in a safety-oriented way.

“What are you going to do with the weapon? I got a suitable sword from Aren this time. Do you want to use it?”

– Old iron sword –

– Durability 25/40 –

– Inspection weapon –

– Attack power 7 –

They handed me an old iron sword, which was an early weapon, but it was useless since I was planning to use a wooden sword anyway.

‘The standard strategy was to sell this and buy her herbs and apply them to Ophelia.’

The main character’s attack power is not at a level that can be solved with an old iron sword.

Unless they give you a 99999-level wooden sword or something similar to the Martial Arts Chronicles.

Giving a gift but not accepting it without a reason was an act that lowered my favorability, so I accepted it for now.

“Then see you tomorrow, Aren.”

“Okay. Ophelia, get some rest too.”

I tried to send Ophelia separately and lay her body on her bed to rest, but she did not fall into a deep sleep or automatically cast the Five Elements of No-Light Mind like usual.

‘It’s a situation when I’m missing something’

However, there was no one who would participate in this request. Marian was also absent, so who…

“…It’s an intrusion.”

Sometimes, if the person’s favorability rating was low, they would come in and interfere with an unexpected event.

However, for this to happen, it seems like it would have to be at the ‘enemy’ or ‘hostile’ stage, but sometimes even at the ‘inconvenient’ stage, it would intrude to the level of a war of nerves and become annoying .

‘It’s not like I like it for nothing.’

Currently, most of the members of Class F had a neutral to acquaintance level, and there was only one person who had a negative level of likeability.

“Alice is breaking in…”

Originally, Ofelia and I were planning to attack by drawing attention from the front and assassinating the commander using Inori…

“Hmm…”

This necessitated a major revision of the plan.

‘Rather good’

First of all, since it is an event that is held in a party, I can integrate and take the experience points and points gained by the intruding character, and if I do well there, I can also gain favorability.

“Besides, Alice… Can be useful.”

An evil laugh comes out without me knowing.