John, striding in front of the literature teacher, suddenly put down his notebook on top of the text the literature teacher was reading.
“You can look at this.”
“… uh?”
“I’m sure you’re reviewing the work to be put on for this show. You can look at mine first. Looking at anything else would be a waste of time.”
This is the meaning of literature lessons in this game. At the academy, which values consolation performances for soldiers, it is expensive to hire a traveling troupe to perform circus performances every time. Therefore, the academy has a lot of interest in student-led readings and theater performances.
“… That’s John I heard you are in the hospital?”
“I took a day off and felt better.”
“okay? … But is this homework?”
“yes.”
The literature teacher flipped through the notebook and said with a slight tilt of his head.
“It looks like a notebook I used to write. Where does homework come from?”
“It’s not a notebook I used to write. All of that is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ I wrote.”
Huh, said the literature teacher who sighed.
“This, this amount, everything in between?”
To be exact, it was written in one night. Of course, Yohan had no reason to reveal that he had completed his homework using [Auto Skip].
“While in the hospital, I was bored.”
“… okay. i get it. Please go to your seat at once.”
The literature teacher seemed clearly interested. In the previous class, it was Yohan who made the literature teacher cry just by announcing the contents verbally.
Ida was the first to approach John as he bowed and walked into the empty desk.
“Brother John! He said he went to the hospital it’s okay? I was so worried after hearing that today.”
“it’s okay. Everything is fine.”
Then I whispered in Ida’s ear.
“We want to keep our dating a secret from others for a while.”
Ida was already drunk from the words ‘we are dating’. After a while she* suddenly came to her senses and said:
“Why are you keeping it a secret?”
“Why? If the kids know, I’m afraid it’ll be tiring to meet separately.”
“That, yes… ”
Recalling the kiss from the past, Ida’s face turned red. Then, to Ida who was about to walk to the front of the classroom, Yohan spoke softly.
“to be. there.”
“… What?”
“Your seat is over there.”
“Oh right.”
Johann smiled at Ida as she returned to her seat and walked to her seat.
Evangeles was still looking out the window.
Since our eyes had already met before he came to class, there was no way he didn’t recognize himself. John sat down next to Evangeles, who was empty, and patted him on the shoulder.
“Evangeles. Look.”
He said without even looking at John.
“Why are you like that? trend?”
“… copper… incense?”
For Yohan, it was a moment to reconfirm the character settings he had made. Evangeles has a slightly childish side.
“It’s okay, so look at me. I have something to say.”
“I have nothing to say.”
“… ”
“And if you don’t mind, can you sit in another empty seat? I want to sit wide.”
John sighed and said.
“great. then… I’ll come to your room later.”
Evangeles muttered softly, ‘Yes or no.’ Even if I’m tickling now, I have to go back to the dormitory during roll call anyway. So there was no need to rush right away.
Yohan, who got up from his seat, could feel the eyes of the extra characters glancing at him. Perhaps the jackal’s expression last night was not wrong. What he said about John as ‘the person in the center of the fire’.
A strange atmosphere was being created for John, who was mixed with notoriety and favorable reviews. Should I say it’s an aura that makes it difficult to get close to it, even though I’m interested in it?
Well, there were a couple of rumors floating around about him. From the word that he fed shit to Bastia, the notorious swordsmanship teacher at the academy, to the word that he was dating him. It was said that he had killed the mercenary soldier on his first march, and that he had turned the jackal into half-dead. In addition, there were ridiculous rumors that he was controlling the major policies of the academy by taking care of Ida, the head of the school year.
The walking gossip went to a spare seat in the corner and sat down.
The literature teacher was reading his homework in his notebook with such a force as if his eyes could pierce it, and neither Sabaki, nor the jackal, nor Adrinne were particularly looking at him.
John’s gaze rested on the blond-haired girl among them. In a slightly different sense from Yohan, she is a woman who is glaring at male students. As he had already gotten a hint from Escomin, that woman was also one of the targets that John had to target.
The bad ending that occurs in the love route with her mainly comes from her guardian knight. Hoan, a bodyguard with perverted affection.
However, before Yohan worried about the bad ending of the route, she had to catch the change that had happened to her.
Just in time, his gaze met hers. Her beautiful and graceful appearance was one of the most elaborate design elements during development.
However.
I’ve never set up such a change.
Adrin even smiled slightly as if to say hello to John. I no longer feel intimidated like when I said ‘God dwells in me’.
There were clear signs of this change. And Yohan remembered the impact of that moment.
‘I resign from the former school principal election.’
These were the words she said as she rejected the request she had made in the [Grade Principal Election] and boldly resigned.
It was definitely strange.
As for the values of this world, which believe in the existence of God.
And this strangeness is embodied through the words the jackal said.
‘She said beauty is like a knife.’
‘Anyone who has a knife that can easily cut someone should be careful when using it.’
This, too, was against the setting I had made for Adrin.
The princess, Adrinne, who escaped from the imperial family’s bloody political struggle and survived.
She used her beauty as a weapon to seduce Hoan, the guardian knight of the empire, and tried to seduce Yohan, who was riding in the carriage for the first time to the academy.
And John, now decided to figure out the variable.
There are no students who approach him anyway. My best friend from the same hometown is ignoring me, and the literature teacher is also preoccupied with the homework I submitted.
The homework I wrote all night through [Auto Skip], ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ would have taken more than 20 minutes no matter how fast I read it.
John put into practice what he had been thinking about since yesterday.
“Secret code, redemption of points. [Switch camera].”
A skill that failed to use after targeting the Inheritor beforehand.
In the case of Miri, there was a reason for disqualification, such as ‘existence of rank’, but in the case of main characters such as Adrinne and Jackal, there was no such disqualification reason.
“To be used, Jackal Frodo and Adrine Violet.”
It was the first time he had used [Switch Camera] properly, so Yohan was a bit concerned. The words ‘look at a specific point of view or a specific place’ written in the skill description, I wondered if I had to specify the exact time.
But no matter how much I worried about it, it was something I couldn’t know until I tried it. John continued to mutter in a low voice.
“Point of use. Before [the election for the head of the school year], when he and the jackal had a conversation.”
Before long, in front of John’s eyes, a system log with contents that put his worries to shame appeared.
[The time and place to use ‘Camera Switch’ have been specified.]
[‘Camera switch’ is activated.]
The children’s voices began to fade with the log. It was not that the children who were talking were silent, but rather that the voices of the children were not heard. It is as if only you are inside a glass tube where sound is blocked.
Then, the clock was distorted, and the outlines of people and objects were blurred.
And after a while, John’s consciousness moved beyond time and space.
***
The academy has two ponds.
One is the Wing Pond located between the Administrative Unit and the Grand Parade, and the other is the Firefly Pond near the dormitory in Building A.
In the firefly pond at 10:00 p.m., the scenery as its name spreads out. Fireflies sparsely flying, leaving reflected light on the surface of the calm water. John became a consciousness forced into the system, looking at the pool of fireflies in late spring.
And there, there were two characters standing looking at that pond. These two men and women, who are also the main characters, were silent for a while, as if they were observing a light show presented by small creatures. Then, the first to speak was a girl with blonde hair.
“Are you proposing a political relationship to me right now?”
The Jackal found pleasure in Adrine’s words. It was because of the speed I felt in the conversation. Considering that it was the first word that came out after greeting, it was refreshing.
The jackal said frankly, adjusting his arm that was holding a cast to a slightly more comfortable position.
“I used to think so.”
“Looks like not now.”
“I already gave the same offer to someone else. Unfortunately, I haven’t heard back from her yet.”
“is that so.”
Little did Adrine know that Ida was the ‘she’ to whom the jackal proposed. Strictly speaking, I was not interested. Adrin was looking at the jackal-like sight and thinking about another man.
A man who declared himself to be an incarnation, but did not intimidate anyone with the power of that god.
Johann Esperts.
A man who reveals himself first in the face of a crisis, confronts him in the face of the strong, and demonstrates his tolerance in the face of the weak.
There are many cases in which many myths talk about the grace of a materialized god, but he did not prove his divinity through matter.
just feel it
The jackal glanced at Adrine’s profile before continuing.
“Even if it’s not a political relationship, there might be other forms of contact, right? Unless you really intend to run for president.”
“May I ask why you want to enslave me?”
There was no reason not to explain. The jackal said without much tension.
“Because you are beautiful.”
Adrine had heard countless compliments on her beauty since she was young. But she felt unfamiliar with the jackal’s words. And it was easy to find out why.
She grew up as a princess of the Empire, and the Jackal also comes from the Frodo family, which is so powerful that it is sad to say that it is the second noble family. These two know how to use diplomatic expressions. Adrinne seemed to know why the jackal had to come down to this place, the Firefly Pond, with an uncomfortable body.
There are many men who have confessed to themselves for one reason or another. They came to me by wrapping presents, and they also came by wrapping the words of the confession. The young master of this high-ranking family probably could have fully guessed such an experience of his own.
That is why he originally intended to have a conversation while looking at this scenery. To make it clear that his approach did not stem from love between a man and a woman.
Adrine liked the jackal’s honesty. So, lately, she has started to quietly verbalize what she has been thinking.
“I think beauty is like a knife.”