Club Recruitment Week (2)
“You can use this room. Here’s the key.”
“Oh, thank you.”
“Well then, I’ll take my leave.”
“Yes. Thank you.”
The secretary of the student council, who guided Beersus to the newly assigned club room, greeted him and left.
“This room, is it?”
Artoria and Sophia had left first to attend class.
They had wanted to stay with him until the end, but they were convinced by Ves to let him take care of the club room alone, claiming it was a waste of time for all of them.
They had agreed to meet afterwards once he had taken possession of the club room.
“Of course, the real reason is so I can move alone.”
The first move of the ‘organization’ was expected to happen within a few days.
They needed to gain one advantage within the academy to counteract that event.
Just like when they conquered the previous dungeon, Sophia and Artoria could move together, but…
“I don’t like that.”
Unlike the previous Ves, who had the mindset of a secretary and a hero, Ves, who had embraced the mindset of a celestial being, did not want to put them in danger.
No matter how much they possessed transcendent-level power, it was a dangerous battlefield where a single mistake could cost them their lives.
They were heroines who had only thought of survival as a means until they dreamed, but in Ves’s feelings, influenced by her previous life, they stood out as unique beings.
That’s why Ves did not inform them about the information regarding the ‘organization’ or the imminent attack by the ‘organization’.
She intended to borrow their power.
After all, saving the world with her power alone was impossible.
However…
“But the matter of the ‘organization’ is different. I will handle it alone.”
Ves did not want to take her lovers into a dangerous situation.
“Alright. Then let’s move quickly so that Sophia and Artoria won’t suspect anything.”
If time drags on, they might start to suspect something strange.
Clang.
Secretarys, who had briefly looked around the club room, locked the door and came out.
“Oh? Secretarys!”
Jenice, who was passing by the hallway at that time, spotted Secretarys and called out to him.
“Jenice?”
“I’m glad. I was wondering if I wouldn’t be able to see you today!”
Jenice had been dragged by Secretarys to register for the club, and because of that, she couldn’t talk to Secretarys about what she had seen the night before until they parted.
“Is class over, Jenice?”
“Class? Ah. Yeah, something like that.”
Actually, Jenice went to attend the class, swept away by the atmosphere, but it was complicated to explain that she secretly left because she had something to say to Secretarys.
“This is the club room.”
“Yeah. This is the club room assigned to us from now on. It’s a room that hasn’t been used, so there’s a bit of dust, but we can clean it later.”
“Hmm….”
“Thank you, Jenice. Thanks to you, we were able to create this club.”
“No… I just put your name up.”
Even though it’s just a name, it’s a new club, so it could have received the influence of existing clubs, but you chose it for me. Thank you.”
“…….”
‘Club.’
Jenice recalled, even for a brief moment, her club life that she had seen in her hallucination.
I have been active in the leadership group with Vissus.
I have spent time in the research club with Vissus.
I have also lived without a club with Vissus.
“Come to think of it, no matter what happened, I spent time with Vissus.”
He really is a friend.
“No! That’s not it!”
Genesis shook his head.
“…Huh?”
“Vissus, I have something to say.”
Genesis hardened his face with a serious tone.
“Something to say?”
“I see. It’s a hallucination.”
“It’s hard to believe, but….”
“No, believe me.”
Genesis isn’t a figment of my imagination.
I have thought that someday, there might be cases like this, besides Sophia, Artoria, and Cladia, but I never expected Genesis to be one of them.
“Me, really?”
“Yes. You also appeared in my dream today.”
“……Huh?”
Boom
Jenice felt a heat bursting from her face as if smoke was coming out.
“My, my dream?”
“Yeah. It was a dream of you and me working together as club members.”
“Why… why would I dream about myself? Could it be that Secretarys… that guy is dreaming about me…?”
Dreams are manifestations of the subconscious. If someone of the opposite s*x appears in a dream, it is generally believed to be someone they are concerned about or fond of.
Without realizing that Jenice misunderstood her own statement due to her lack of knowledge about inheriting knowledge from different dimensions through dreams, Secretarys continued speaking.
“Could it be that you also had a dream like that? Maybe our dreams are connected or interfering with each other.”
“C-Connected…!”
“Secretarys and I are connected!”
Jenice wrapped her heated face in her hands, but Secretarys, lost in thought, didn’t notice.
“Secretarys probably doesn’t know that I’m a woman, right? …Could it be that he’s into that kind of thing? That would be awkward…”
“I should talk to Sofia and Arthuria about Jenice’s situation. For now, I have to go to class, so let’s talk about it tomorrow.”
“Okay, I understand, Jenice.”
“Huh? You understand?”
Understand what? Your feelings? Or maybe my gender? Or even your preferences?
“Let’s meet again tomorrow in the club room to talk about this. Sofia and Arthuria will also come.”
“Uh, okay…”
“Yeah. Well, pay attention in class. See you tomorrow.”
Jenice, who was broken, just nodded her head in accordance with Secretarys’ words.
“Yeah…”
Jenice stiffly extended her hand to the secretary.
“Let’s meet tomorrow… Huh?”
To talk with Sophia and Arthuria together?
…Why?
Jenice thought about the two women.
The two women who followed the secretary because they liked her.
W- Wait a minute!
“I like this man. So, let’s stop seeing each other.”
In Jenice’s mind, an image of the secretary declaring that while embracing her appeared.
“I don’t like it, Your Highness!”
“Heh, I can’t believe the secretary liked a man!”
Arthoria screaming and Sophia’s angry face.
Jenice’s face turned bright red as she indulged in her imagination.
“W- Well, that’s a bit awkward.”
Should I reveal that I am a woman?
…But I don’t want to let my close friend know that I’ve been pretending to be the opposite gender.
Ugh. What should I do about this!
* * *
Kwang
Tuduk
The chimeras were split apart and fell to the ground by the strike of Biesus.
“Hoo. Is this all?”
Biesus was inside the dungeon that had been mentioned in “Eclipse”.
The entrance to this dungeon was hidden in a corner of the library, a dungeon with a long history.
This place was also a dungeon created by a deranged graduate student.
“Is it because the mental world goes crazy when you’re a graduate student? Why are the dungeon monsters like this?”
The dungeon was filled with grotesque chimeras to the point where Biesus thought the dungeon full of golem-filled monsters he had previously entered would be better.
“But more importantly, the current me. This is no joke.”
Swordsmanship skills honed by rolling and tumbling on the battlefield.
Divine power as the first angel of God.
Experience and expertise as a veteran mercenary.
And even the Holy Sword, which may not unleash its full power, but is as durable and sharp as ever.
Biesus, who used to only worry about surviving, had become so strong that he could effortlessly cut down numerous chimeras in an instant.
It felt like a tremendous leap compared to when he barely managed to defeat a single golem and was happy about it.
Of course, he didn’t exhibit the same amazing martial prowess as Sofia, whom he saw in the golem dungeon, since he couldn’t use the Divine Power, but he could boast of fighting more effectively than her, as his many powers came together.
-Kieeek!
“They keep coming endlessly.”
If Sophia and Artoria were here, they could have easily pushed forward and cleared the dungeon.
However, this battle was also a test to assess his current abilities before defending against the future “organization” attack.
Thud
Viserus stretched one leg back, just as he had done in his dream, and swung his holy sword with all his might.
“Haaah!”
Kwaaang!
A massive sword energy, infused with Viserus’s divine power, swept away the chimeras in front of him.
“…It doesn’t work like it did in the dream.”
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He had secretly hoped that if he behaved like he did in his dream, the holy sword would unleash its original power. But the holy sword did not exert any power at all.
Putting his disappointment aside, Viserus walked towards the end of the dungeon.
Kukugugung
The stone door slowly opened.
Inside the room, there was a special-looking box, just like before.
“So this is it.”
Viserus walked in and picked up the box.
“A device suitable for defending against the ‘Organization’s’ attack.”