64 – Moral Life Girl (3)
Aria is a good girl. She didn’t mean anything else, she was simply talking about personality.
Putting aside the fact that she is a bit inflexible, it is an undeniable fact that her inclination is basically Zen.
This is evident just from the fact that when the Demon Sword episode failed, he spared no effort to protect his classmates amidst the runaway Demon Sword and the resulting devastation at the academy.
It was difficult to even take care of her own safety.
Through her education as a swordsman, the foundation of good will she has had since childhood, and more than that, her innate pure altruism makes the viewer respect her.
That was the setting and personality of the character Aria.
She was actually a popular character in a different way from Beatrice, and it will be easier to understand considering Aria’s current status in Class B.
Her outstanding ability, the leadership that comes from it, and her unique personality that allows her to get along well with everyone.
To put it bluntly, Grisha was such a pitiful guy that some people came up as her opponents, but it was okay to say that Aria was the actual representative of Class B.
Anyway, what she wants to say is that she doesn’t have to question her moral beliefs.
Incidentally, she has even more obvious weaknesses.
“Temporary relief potion, 5-star weapon fragments, goods… …. There are a lot. Can I buy all of this with points? Recall former job? “What is this again?”
I continued to think with my chin resting as I scrolled down the window of the gift shop that opened after completing the main quest.
Yes, disadvantages. This is important.
In fact, it is difficult to say that Aria is mature in personality. Honestly, a bit much.
As already mentioned, her inclination is good, her friendships are normal, and she doesn’t go down the dark route like Tsumei who lost her Flügel.
But. If you say she has good humanity and doesn’t mean Arya doesn’t have any regrets like Grisha, then well.
I could definitely say that it was not that bad.
In some ways, it may be more of a pain for her than Grisha. At least Grisha doesn’t act like a troll in her story.
Shall I say it another way? Aria says she does.
Beyond thinking that she is incomparably superior among her peers, she is a self-confident princess who considers that to be an unchangeable truth.
What is truly absurd is that there is no real pride mixed in.
Well, that’s true for Aria. Because it is the truth beyond doubt.
In fact, she had never allowed even a single defeat in a sparring match with her peers in over a decade, so she naturally came to that conclusion. Her own skills are absolute.
‘It would have been better to stop there.’
I sighed inwardly. What I am thinking of is not my classmate Aria in this world, but the ‘Aria Ten’ I saw through the game.
There is no impure desire for superiority in considering others below oneself.
Do not look down on others or consider them inferior.
Innocent slight.
This is probably the sentence that most accurately summarizes Aria’s attitude toward other students.
Aria is definitely strong. Not to mention among the three special students, she can easily defeat a few of her upperclassmen with just her current force.
“…… Ha.”
I let out a slightly emotional sigh and pressed my eyebrows together.
Yes, I repeat, Aria is strong. And she’s nice.
Be kind and kind to children, do not ignore them, and take the lead in dangerous situations.
In fact, at this point, there are few characters whose personality is as flawless as Aria.
But-.
But.
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That ‘innocent disregard’ was not necessarily helpful in a positive way. Really, never.
I thought about a scene from the second main episode [Sword Princess].
So, this is the chapter set in the background of the sports competition where none other than Aria plays the main role.
-What…… ? Are you willing to face the death penalty?
The main villain of the [Princess of the Sword] Episode, a direct disciple of the excommunicated Sword Saint.
-No! I don’t know about you, but the death penalty is strong. Even seven years ago, he had already established his own sword style, and now he must have reached an even higher level. He was one of the few disciples whom his grandfather personally recognized as Daesung!
This and that cause chaos in the academy where many outsiders, including parents, have gathered, and the excommunicated student comes to his target, Aria, to seek revenge.
And in that situation, Aria was the only one nearby, so she turned to the player who could ask for help.
-So, hurry and run away.
They say things like that.
-If an ordinary student were to stand up against him, he would be cut down in an instant. I can’t let you die like that when you have nothing to do with this. This is our school’s problem!
The player’s intervention was completely blocked. To prevent them from doing anything, they rush towards my execution first without even giving me a choice in the story!
-Don’t let unrelated students get swept up in it, it’s a death sentence. After all, that’s who they’re after!
And then, the screen changes.
Aria collapses in an instant and is taken hostage.
‘Hmm.’
It’s not a joke, it’s real.
‘Tsk, it’s too strong…… While muttering something like ‘!’
He is already a strong opponent, but he is given an advantage and starts off.
In the meantime, the villain starts taking hostages, saying he wants to call the Sword Saint…….
Honestly, putting everything else aside, the development itself was very frustrating.
I know you were trying to protect them, but I also know that you attacked first because you were worried about this side.
But, even if you didn’t go that far in the first place, it would have been possible to run away or just stall for time.
If only we had at least cooperated with the players.
Once the excommunicated student took the hostage, it would not have occurred to him to expand his range of motion and go on a rampage before escaping from the academy and returning to his hideout to stage a sit-in.
And the Sword Saint would not have died.
“Hmm… ….”
I thought while tapping the desk.
Is it really right to let the Sword Saint die?
“No. “That won’t work.”
Actually, there was nothing to worry about. If possible, it is right to go in the direction of saving lives. The Sword Saint is a superhuman who has reached the level of mythology like Tsumei and the Evil Dragon in a human body.
Keeping the strongest human being alive will definitely be of great help in dealing with demons in the future.
Obviously there was no way to do this in the game, but is it really impossible for me to interfere in the affairs even now?
I immediately shook my head in denial.
I have already rescued Flügel and even relayed the story about the Seed of Evil to Tsumei and Beatrice. The first episode also turned the whole world upside down, so it’s just about saving someone who was about to die.
Honestly, I didn’t think it would work.
‘Furthermore, even if it is not a power issue, it is right to save the Sword Master.’
After the episode ends, won’t she get an answer if she thinks about Aria, who died because of her and was half mentally broken?
Personally, she did not want to see that scene even if it became a reality. No, perhaps even more so because it has become a reality.
This time, you will really see it for yourself.
The feeling will be completely different from just looking through the screen.
So, I am looking for a swordsman.
It is a simple conclusion.
Of course, after her sword master died, Aria went through several processes to become more mentally mature, but-.
The process can never be smooth, so is there any need for her to stand by?
I don’t want to see the devastation her classmates are taking in real time from the side.
In order to take care of my child’s mental health, I don’t like doing hit-and-run quests in real life like ‘Retrieve the Letter from the Swordsman Hidden at the Top of Mt. Yeongsan (0/1)’.
Incidentally, if you are looking for a solution to the death of the Sword Saint → the impoverishment of Aria, it is a fairly simple matter.
In the end, as long as Aria doesn’t get kidnapped, everything will be resolved.
‘It will proceed anyway as it is the main episode.’
Excommunication disciples come to the academy with various stories. To revisit the end of the revenge that failed seven years ago.
It’s not that important whether the Sword Master killed my parents or anything, and anyway, the event called the sports competition is basically open to outsiders.
This means that hundreds of people will pour into the campus.
So, unless the goal is to completely block the sports competition, it would be difficult to find the excommunicated student in advance with Tsumei’s help.
How can you pinpoint and find Go Soo, who has completely hidden himself and is hiding in the crowd?
It would be better to wait by the side of Aria, his target.
And in order to do that, he had to have a somewhat intimate relationship with Aria.
It may be necessary to first correct Aria’s foolish arrogance.
That is a simple story.
Although I didn’t intend to, I impressed upon the students that I had a pretty good chance of dealing with Grisha in the previous day’s anti-class match.
Aria would also have been interested. There is a high probability that he will request to spar with her due to a bet with her swordsman.
The application for sparring was an opportunity that came to me.
To put it simply, you just have to press it overwhelmingly.
You can tease and get on my nerves, whatever.
In any case, she is so arrogant that she plans to completely destroy the confidence of Aria, who thinks she is the strongest among first-year academy students.
What happens if you do that?
Once you have established a friendship, you will have a reason to stick around Aria during the sports festival, and you will be able to prevent any unexpected behavior on her part.
In short, it was a time of mandatory mental education.
If Aria wants to lecture me for breaking into her professor’s office, I will whip her to prevent the bad future she faces in the future.
I made a firm resolution, feeling an unfounded sense of responsibility that had begun to bloom before I knew it.
I will solve Aria’s pride that her swordsman was so worried about!
“Whoa, I’m wise as expected.”
“…… Why is this nonsense all of a sudden? I have a headache?”
“No, man.”
I thought as I cleared my throat and cleared my throat of Beatrice’s blank glare.
It’s about time.
Rattle-
“Oh.”
I let out a brief exclamation at the well-timed sound of the door opening.
They say even a tiger will come if you tell it to, and it was none other than Aria who opened the door to our A class and peeked her head in.
It was lunch time, so there weren’t that many students, but since they were the other students, most eyes focused on the front of the classroom.
One of her female students, who happened to be nearby, spoke to her with a surprised look on her face.
“Aria? “What’s going on, everyone coming to Class A?”
I guess they were acquaintances.
Are you friends?
“Ah, Catherine. “It’s nothing else, I have some people to meet~”
After Aria waved her hand at the girl named Catherine as if asking for her understanding, she looked around her in a quite relaxed manner.
I couldn’t help but sigh as I listened to the conversation going on so naturally.
“…… As expected, Aria. “Her feet are wide.”
Why do I also know a student from Class B and a student from Class A? And that’s because less than two weeks have passed since admission.
You’re being compared to me for no reason.
The good news is that I am not alone in thinking that way.
“I feel a renewed sense of self-destruction, a little.”
At the sound of Beatrice’s voice mumbling helplessly, I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye.
And then he blurts out one more word.
“But I don’t have any friends.”
“…… ?”
Beatrice paused briefly and looked back at me.
Did you vaguely realize that the afterword ‘unlike you’ was omitted?
Soon she smiled sweetly and placed her fist on my side.
“If you wanted to get hit again, you should have told me a long time ago.”
“Yes, sorry.”
At my quick apology, Beatrice snorted and turned her head.
On my part, I thought it was a haughty look, but to me, the reaction was so soft that it was downright soft. I make fun of him for this taste.
As I was whispering to myself, I felt Aria, who was checking left and right around the large classroom, stop looking at her.
Well, of course, it was the window seat where Beatrice and I were located.
Red eyes were fixed on me, and Aria then spit out three syllables. ‘I found it’, she said.
“Uh… …. “Are you looking for a saint?”
She asked Catherine next to her as if she was slightly curious, but Aria just grinned and shook her head.
“No, not that one.”
“Then…” … ?”
“On that side, why? Hey.”
Those were the last of her words to Catherine, and Aria looked in this direction and started walking.
With her back and her quick steps.
I tilted my head slightly. Are you holding something?
“Hello.”
“Okay, bye.”
As I received her brief greeting, Aria immediately held out to me something she had been hiding behind her back.
The heavy thing that I unconsciously accepted was a rectangular brick with a quite bright light.
“… ….”
After blinking her eyes for a moment, I looked at Aria with sincere doubt. And then I look down again at the brick I was given as a gift.
I repeat, it is a brick.
…… So why?
“Hey, Miss Aria. What the hell is this… ….”
I asked Aria a question in a very bitter tone. What is this?
I was asking because I seriously didn’t understand, but for some reason, Aria seemed to be embarrassed and had her eyes wide open.
It was as if she was saying that she wasn’t sure why she was asking such an obvious question.
“What do you mean, it’s a whetstone?”
“… ….”
I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut.
Don’t scratch your cheek as if you’re embarrassed. Why are you suddenly passing the whetstone to someone else and then accusing me of being strange?
I turned my head to see if there was a culture unique to this world that I didn’t know about, but other students nearby, including Beatrice and Catherine, also had the same expression as me.
So, that mysterious look on his face as if he didn’t understand what the situation was.
I breathed a sigh of relief. I guess it wasn’t my problem after all.
“And please accept this too.”
“Huh?”
But as if she still had something left to give, Aria was pulling out one more thing from her uniform pocket.
I had to feel a bit of tension. What else are you trying to pass up?
“Now.”
“…… This… ….”
Should I say it was fortunate, but I don’t think it was fortunate, but the second gift was not something that came out of nowhere like a whetstone.
Rather, it can be said to be ordinary.
It was a single letter.
Nicely packaged.
“…… !”
And just in time, reactions filled with astonishment began to emerge from all directions.
Starting with Beatrice, who looked back at Aria in shock, her classmate Catherine, who covered the corner of her mouth and blushed, and several male students, including Nick, who just happened to come in with a piece of bread and froze.
Of course, it wasn’t much different that I, too, was overcome with extreme embarrassment.
Looking up at Aria with her eyes shaking against her will, she parted her lips again with a thin smile of her own.
“After reading, if it’s okay with you, would you please come out to the place written at the bottom tomorrow afternoon?”
“… ….”
Yes?
“Oh, then I’ll just go. Lunch time will end soon. “Please use your gifts wisely!”
Before I could reply, Aria checked the clock on her wall and quickly turned around.
While she was unable to utter her voice, only the sound of Aria leisurely leaving the classroom and closing her door again rang vividly.
Boom!
“… ….”
“… ….”
In a silent classroom, dozens of pairs of eyes turned to me and the letter I was holding. Beatrice’s gaze was especially intense.
Unspoken pressures that you can’t refuse even if you don’t want to.
I carefully took out the letter, cursing the overflowing curiosity of my Class A friends.
My hands, which had been tense for a moment due to embarrassment, were now relaxed.
‘…… Well, I can guess the content.’
Everyone, including me, was surprised because the atmosphere at the moment when Aria handed this over was somehow meaningful. In fact, if we thought about it, we could easily predict the content written in it.
Didn’t I have a similar thought in mind just a little while ago?
Sarak-
Only the sound of paper scraping echoed quietly in the classroom.
And a moment like an eon passes by while everyone’s attention is focused.
“Hmm.”
I nodded briefly and explained the identity of the letter.
“It’s a duel arena.”
And right after that, the atmosphere in the classroom, which had been tense with tension, suddenly became lighter.
“Ha, what is it? Was it a duel arena?”
“hahahaha, what else can I say?”
Nick and the other male students, no, not just them, but the entire class started talking among themselves with a relaxed look on their faces. He was probably relieved because it wasn’t the ‘thing’ he expected.
I understand.
“… ….”
But. No matter how much I understood it, honestly, it was a little, no, quite absurd.
I frowned and glanced at the kids in the classroom with distraught eyes.
Do you have no intention of worrying about your classmate who received a duel certificate from the Sword Master’s granddaughter?