Episode 106 – Being dragged while throwing stones
#One
Club room after school.
Everyone except Anais was gathered.
With a click, the door opened and the meeting ended with Nia and Manus entering after class.
The club room without red hair somehow felt empty.
“Are you all gathered? It’s been quite a while since we’ve been together like this, hasn’t it?”
“What did you call for?”
Emerson asked, looking at Manus, the instigator of the convocation.
Manus opened the subspace bag and poured out all the artifacts inside.
Kudangtangtang-!
Wow-!
Magic tools worth a few gold each were mercilessly poured onto the huge table.
“This, this… … .”
“When did you put all this together? This is from the tower, right?”
“That’s right.”
The time for equipment distribution has come.
Emerson’s face began to pale.
“You want me to do all of this?”
“okay. Is it impossible?”
Manus smiled and looked at Emerson.
It was as if he was provoking, ‘Can’t you do this?’
I was using Emerson’s personality very well.
In fact, she put on a tearful expression and picked up an artifact.
Emerson’s appraisal ability is to appraise one piece at a time.
In fact, requesting an appraisal itself was a system that was severely criticized.
＜Huh? what’s going on?＞
-Demands emotions.-
＜Emotions? yes, i’ll do it Which artifact should I appraise?＞
-Select an item-
＜Leave it to me!＞
-Description of options after appraisal-
Since the appraisal itself was made into an event, I had to read the same line dozens of times to appraise dozens of artifacts at once.
They said they would do a convenience patch later… … .
‘I didn’t know it would turn out like this.’
Manus swallowed a laugh inwardly.
In fact, Emerson was in the process of appraising each one slowly.
Manus was able to check the text of the options in real time, but he hadn’t come up with an option he liked yet.
After more than ten, Emerson’s concentration began to fade.
However, she gritted her teeth and appraised all the items.
thirty two.
She was sweating and breathing heavily.
“Huh… … No, it’s over!”
“It’s quite the way. In the future, we can increase the number a little more.”
“Really, isn’t that too bad? I’m dying!”
Emerson groaned.
Manus smiled and said.
“It’s a joke.”
“Ugh… … . You seem to be getting more sly.”
Emerson muttered that if it wasn’t for the pocket money, he would have beaten him right away.
The atmosphere relaxed a bit.
In addition to emotions, she even finished classifying artifacts by effect.
Items from the 70th to 77th floors are mainly accessories.
Rings, bracelets, necklaces, chokers, etc-.
Artifacts that are sophisticated but not very noticeable were the main ones.
Among them, Manus took two of each of the accessories with 『Magic Power Amplification』 and 『Mana Consumption Reduction』 options attached.
“Emerson, please distribute.”
“yes. first-.”
He gave the versatile Kayle a bracelet with an option to reduce mana consumption.
There are many overlapping options, so I chose the one with the best effect.
Pearson gave a ring with the 『Amplification of Buff Magic Effect』, and Melanie and Guillermo gave a necklace with the 『Increase in physical and magic defense』 effect.
“I only need to use certain magic well, but is there any right?”
Nia said with a languid expression.
She glanced at Manus, then returned to the artifact.
Everyone else seems to know, but it seems only Guillermo and himself didn’t know this.
To be honest, I felt it was very unfair.
If only I knew a little bit sooner…
‘I should have been able to eat all by myself-.’
She licked her lips and accepted an artifact.
Emerson’s explanation continued.
“It’s like an artifact that can amplify magic by storing it once.”
“Huh, that’s right.”
It was an artifact that stores magic in an artifact and then uses the same magic again to amplify its power.
These magic tools cost a few gold, no, tens of gold.
Recently, the technology for processing artifacts has been developed and has become relatively popular, but… … .
“I also like the top. Get something like this, right? A little ~ feeling that only we are privileged?”
she said while wearing the artifact.
Manus looked at Nia for a moment and then turned around.
Anything left after wearing should be handed over to the chairman.
Alano also chose an artifact he liked and looked at Manus.
Are you going to practice again?
I’ve been busy these days, and there was no point of contact.
“Manus.”
“hmm?”
“Would you like to climb the tower together today?”
Manus nodded lightly.
I didn’t really climb the tower these days.
It was a pretty good choice, both for equipment farming and for raising Alano’s level.
At her words, Nia raised her hand.
“me too! I want to go too!”
Manus nodded lightly this time and left the club room.
“Collect them on your own.”
After he disappeared, Nia sighed heavily.
After taking a look at the atmosphere around her, she grumbled.
“It’s a sophomore year, and it’s completely arbitrary. It’s like you’re the leader- Huh? What’s wrong with everyone?”
Nia looked around with a cold gaze.
The momentum of the first graders, plus Alano.
Everyone’s eyes were blazing.
Melanie, who had to follow Manus to practice, opened her mouth as she stood up from her seat.
“Stop, senior. You might think this is rude, but… … Everyone here got help from senior Manus.”
“… … .”
“that’s right. We all know that Manus-senpai’s personality is not soft. But thanks to you, have you grown this much?”
Pearson also joined Melanie’s words.
Nia realized she had made a serious mistake.
Ah, they are already tightly bound.
The man named Manus was more sophisticated and political than I thought.
She scratched her head and opened her mouth.
“Ahahahaha, sorry-. Didn’t I come through a bet though? I didn’t know.”
“I care a lot without knowing it. Manus.”
With Alano helping out and pressuring Nia, the situation became really embarrassing.
Eventually, I decided to take a step back.
Instead, she wanted to throw a small stone and get out.
The gentle waves on the lake will be blown by the wind and turned into raging waves.
Nia vowed that she would not live a life dragged by someone.
That promise had turned into doubt about Manus and a spirit of independence.
“Yeah, but I don’t know yet. As you said, I… … You are an outsider.”
“Senior, that’s not-“
Nia threw small rocks at the unsuspecting people and came out.
Isn’t this pretty fun too?
They were tied more tightly than expected, so it was worth investigating properly.
Caesar.
There’s no way the great family didn’t know this.
Or is the academy hiding a cruel and frightening fact?
Even the chairman is completely one of them, so it won’t be an easy investigation.
‘But, if I use it well-.’
There are two ways to climb yourself.
One is to overtake others by trying to die.
the other is-.
#2
Many days passed.
That’s what she said, but Nia showed that she got along with Manus quite well.
Anais and Cale also spent their own time preparing for the student council president selection.
Cale prepared for the interview, a relatively weak subject.
I received a lot of advice from Alano, and she kindly told me how to attack.
＜Find out the character of professors.＞
＜Appeal exactly what you want.＞
＜Suggest a specific method, but show an attitude to accept advice as much as you like.＞
Cale prepared for the interview keeping in mind the words of his senior.
Anais continued his training, focusing on force.
Because in order to defeat Cale, overwhelming force was needed more than anything else.
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Just as the two of them had a hectic time, the others had a fulfilling time.
In particular, Manus turned round and round to match the equipment of his colleagues.
Not to mention Alano, but even Nia and Guillermo stuck out their tongues.
Who is the most dissatisfied?
of course-.
“Senior-! I am not an emotion vending machine!”
“… … I’m sorry. But I can’t help it.”
“aaa-!”
It was Emerson.
She was rolling like in a game.
If it’s climbing the tower together, it’s nonsense.
everyday!
After school, he was living a life of being exploited by Manus in the club room.
Manus said he was sorry, but he didn’t look sorry at all.
The problem is that the money that comes to Emerson is getting better and the more you do it, the more your emotional skills increase.
Because of that, Emerson grumbled, but he did it without losing his emotions.
“If you keep going, your skills will improve.”
“all right. Leave it to me.”
“From now on, I will bring your share of magic stones.”
“really?”
Manus nodded lightly.
Mana was needed to appraise, and manastone absorption was essential to digest a large amount of work at once.
That level of investment, I was able to do enough.
You’ll have to do a little more nogada.
Time passed fairly, and the long-awaited date for the meeting was just around the corner.
Everyone didn’t go up to the tower today and had a peaceful night.
Anais looked up at the night sky and fell into contemplation.
‘By the way, when will the other side of the tower end?’
I forgot about it.
Originally, there was no tower in her daily life.
The academy was a place to build culture and knowledge, and it was just a place to study hard to go out into society.
I never dreamed that I would be caught up in something so important in a place I passed through.
My father and mother also met at the academy.
Are they aware of the tower’s existence?
“I don’t know-.”
It is said that time dulls emotions.
Anais, too, was in a situation where a lot of the things that made her cry at first disappeared.
She wanted to surpass Cale.
I also wanted to know exactly what my limits were.
Still, does Cale consider himself a friend?
I was so worried, my head was pounding.
“Cer-.”
“… … He sleeps very comfortably.”
When I saw my roommate sleeping with her stomach open and kicking the blanket, I felt that I was living in a real non-daily life.
She thought.
If he surpasses Cale and becomes the student council president-.
What kind of first grader would you like to create?
How do you want to live for the next 4 years?
She looked up at the starlit night sky and thought for a while.
It was a night full of deep thoughts.