How to Survive at the Academy chapter 19

Golden Daughter (2)

Lortel is a girl who understands human greed better than anyone.

It’s only from the second act, after Yenika’s departure, that he’s been playing properly, but from the first act before that, his face is reflected.

However, the roles before and after Act 1 are clearly different, and Lortel’s notoriety in Act 1 was quite famous.

‘Bad Ending Maker’, ‘Newbie Crusher’, ‘Developer’s Malice’… Well, in addition to that, those who had been burned by Lortel met in Act 1 used to vomit such bitter words together.

It’s a distant past that I can’t even remember when I was a newbie, but even now, thinking about how much I burned Lortel in Act 1, I just shivered.

If you get involved with this child at the time of the first act, it’s a bad ending without any fuss.

You can rescue Lortel from a kobold raid in Taylor’s class assignment test event, and in the process, she witnesses Lortel’s ‘secret’. Then Lortel sends someone to kidnap Taylor out of school, and goes missing. Bad ending 2

In the demon subjugation practice episode, there is an opportunity to become in the same group as Lortel, and at that time, when he filters out his childhood friend Aila and becomes the same group as Lortel, Aila falls off a cliff and dies.

because? This is because there is going to be an event in which Taylor, the same join, snatches Ayla from a cliff when she stumbles. If you are in the same group as Lortel, that can’t happen, so Ayla falls and dies. Bad ending #7.

In the joint combat practice event, there is an option to protect yourself from the high spirit of fire, Takan, summoned by Yenica, but if you do that, you will be burned and seriously injured. Bad ending number 13.

In the Glaskan subjugation war, during the recapture of the student center, you can use the ramp suggested by Lortel to break into the Nail Hall, but you will be attacked by all sorts of waiting spirit beasts and you will lose your life. Bad ending #22.

At first, you will spit out swear words about all these characters, but eventually, if you play ‘Sylvania’s Failed Swordsman’ to the end, the intention of the developer is read and you are deeply amazed. The intention is not that complicated, though.

The position given to this Lortel Keheln in ‘Sylvania’s Failing Sword Castle’ is ‘Hidden Heroine’.

A character who stands at the opposite point of the just and benevolent Princess Fenia. Lortel, who is only treated as an object of subjugation, is a character who reveals the true nature of the scenario as the story moves toward the second half.

The reversal of evaluation and the unexpected gap make players feel a strong attraction to the character. He is constantly discussing understanding and calculation, and gradually convinces Lortel’s gaze, who has no choice but to look at the world in calculations.

A life of picking up and eating bread thrown away in a slum, a belief built up in the midst of fraud and deceit, a streak of loneliness that swallows up a part of your heart and never disappears no matter how much money you get.

We raise Lortel’s evaluation, which has gone down to the bottom, little by little, and ask at the very decisive moment when the player understands the loneliness engraved in Lortel’s life.

Will you be on the side of the ‘student council’ led by Fenia, the princess of charity, or on the side of the ‘top’ led by the golden daughter Lortel?

Will you support the upright belief and idealism shown by the noble Fenian Princess, or will you support Lortel’s realism, who has struggled with loneliness in a wild reality?

Players who try ‘Sylvania’s Failed Sword Castle’ for the first time will be deeply troubled at this point. In the worst case, you will be unable to breathe with your options in front of you for 20 minutes.

“Hey there, sir? Ed-senpai?”

In short, the system that constantly drives the player into a bad ending in Act 1 was well-intentioned.

If you experience repeated bad endings, you will consciously avoid approaching Lortel, creating a psychological gap.

The larger the gap, the more dramatic the reversal of the evaluation that will occur later.

A true blend of system and story. That’s exactly what I’m talking about.

Hey, it’s really cool. Gaggem.

“Seniors. Seniors. Can’t you hear me?”

It’s great to look back on.

As I walked down the street, I nodded with satisfaction.

…but, that’s it.

“…how long will you follow me?”

“I didn’t know that you would be so clenched and ignored.”

No, then you should bite your tongue and ignore it.

Isn’t that normal?

*

Whatever you do, it’s good to set the mood first, that’s it.

As if in front of me after taking an elemental science class in the faculty building, sitting on a bench and throwing meaningful lines… It’s not bad.

Would you like to purchase your 2 hours, Ed?

That’s definitely a good start.

The opponent is the golden daughter Lortel. When someone like that comes to me out of the blue and makes a suggestion, I can’t help but spring out of curiosity.

In general, I’ll start by asking questions.

What do you mean you want to buy 2 hours? What are you going to do for me? If you want to buy it, will you give me money? How much money will you give me? Will you give me right now? What do you mean?

When asked a question like that, Lortel continued to speak slowly with a meaningful smile on her face. This is probably what Lortel drew.

Naturally, it becomes the form I ask, and I take the initiative in the situation while appropriately controlling and avoiding my curious question.

If you add Lortel’s special talents, such as the tongue-in-cheek and the ability to speak and negotiate, you will be able to find yourself falling for her proposal before you even come to your senses.

But that’s it, when I don’t know her intentions.

“Hey, can you hear the story?”

I shattered all expected developments and strode forward, just ignoring Lortel, and only then did Lortel follow me. The difference in stride length is large, so he follows him as if he is running with a total gait, but that doesn’t slow him down.

“I heard that you are having a hard life after being excommunicated. Do you want to be of some help?”

“Don’t say anything you don’t mean.”

“Oh my, it’s more important than you think to exchange polite words. It means that you respect each other.”

It’s her nature that she doesn’t care at all about my somewhat rude attitude.

Lortel, who ran like that and came in front of me, clasped her back cutely and showed a charming smile. Why don’t you listen to the story just once? Not a bad suggestion, right? With a lot of meaning like that, he stalks me around.

“I… saw Ed sunbaenim… I was moved…!”

And then he spit out the story really cleverly.

“Of course, it’s not that I haven’t heard of a little bit arrogant and a little egotistical from what I’ve heard, but that’s good and it’s not that important, haha.”

We all know how badly Ed Roth-Taylor is being criticized, and that part goes by quickly like a rapid-fire gun.

“It’s human psychology to want to give a helping hand when you see people continuing to learn even in such a difficult environment. There were times when I was poor and hungry.”

“therefore?”

“Three plan gold coins as a start-up fee.”

It was the money that the maid of Dexgwan, the dormitory where ordinary students live, worked for a full month.

With those 20 shiny gold coins, you don’t have to worry about the next semester’s registration fee anymore.

“I want to be friends with Yenica-senpai.”

I smile ahaha and don’t explain the details, but I already know. The difference in values between Penia and Lortel is a key conflict that runs through the scenario of this Sylvania Academy.

In the end, it will matter whose side Taylor takes. It’s unclear at this point, so it’s hard to rush into someone’s line.

“Can you introduce me? All we need to do is go together and just talk for the three of us. In fact, it will take less than two hours, right?”

“When you’re a golden daughter, do you buy relationships with money?”

“Well, I’m not going to call you.”

Lortel took out three gold coins from Otseom and shoved them into my pocket.

“Once you have it. I know it well, because the more on my side, the better.”

It seemed that Lortel was already intuitively aware of it. It must have been a life of watching and walking the tightrope all my life.

The point is that you will have a political battle with Princess Fenia within the school, and you have to make as many allies as possible from now on. The gap between Princess Penia and Lortel cannot be narrowed by concessions or consideration.

As I stared still, Lortel smiled broadly and skillfully again.

“You look at me as if you were looking at a very pathetic person. Most of the time, I’m busy hiding my face, “What kind of rice cake is this?”

I smiled and talked.

“Okay, let’s shake hands.”

*

No one knows more about the nature of greed than Lortel. At least Lortel herself thought so.

Crazy greed is like a disease that has entered its incubation period. When the situation is relaxed, it is easy to control it, but when you are in a corner and when you are in a hurry, you try to eat people’s hearts as if the time has come.

The more people who have no food tomorrow and no place to put their eyes today, the more money they spend, the more likely their eyes will be bloodshot. Lortel, from the slum, knew the feeling well enough.

Not only that, the bigger the fall, the stronger the power of greed that eats people’s hearts gets out of control.

Those who have lived their entire lives in a wealthy environment are devastated by even a single moment of deprivation. I have seen too many debtors taking their own lives because they could not accept the temperature difference.

Breaking down those who are in such a predicament is not enough gold coins to bury a mansion. Only one small penny.

The amount of money doesn’t matter. Even if you always offer the same amount, your opponent sells more.

Sell your pride for a penny,

Sell your family for a penny,

They even sell themselves for a penny of gold.

The price of a single penny of gold is fixed and unchanged, but those who cannot afford it due to a predicament always bring more and give it away.

Because there is no other way.

Because that’s the only way out right now.

So, the really important thing is ‘the first time’.

The one penny gold coin he held in his hand thinking that it wouldn’t matter for the first time, or this one time, is the beginning of a disaster that will drive the cornered person to the brink. It will become the starting point and title of all subsequent schemes and tactics.

It is so easy and simple to prey on the desperate. sadly.

“…”

Come to think of it, Ed Roth-Taylor, who had shaken hands, had already left. Was it because I was a little confused?

“…fun.”

Watching Ed Roth Taylor’s back as he left, Lortel smiled.

In the small hand he had shaken hands with, the three gold coins he had shoved back into his pocket were still there.

An attitude that doesn’t even give a single point of contact.

It was as if he understood all Lortel’s intentions from the beginning.