Chapter 3 – The Traitor Is Nearby (03)
‘What is this?’
Just in case, I ran to my room and looked closely at my face to check the status window shown to Marian.
However, it wasn’t open to the public, perhaps because it was her or because it wasn’t a female character.
‘It’s strange…? There should be a favorability system for Ophelia, but it’s not open…?’
Although it has no systematic meaning, Ophelia’s likability started at ‘friend’ and no matter how low she chose and treated her poorly, it did not go below that level.
Normally, you reach the best friend level as the story progresses, but there are no restrictions, so you can level up as a lover if you kill other characters and show off to Ophelia, but unless you take the treason route, it will be meaningless in the story anyway.
‘It was the first time I did that epic shoveling.’
No, I thought my childhood friend had good performance and would make it to the end.
Did you think they would rebel and be hostile?
Anyway, when I looked at the likeability system earlier, Marian was at the friend level and the others were at the acquaintance level, so it seemed like it was a system that existed separately from likeability.
Once I confirmed that the system was not working for me, I went out again and this time approached the maid who managed the level 3 dormitory, and she also had ? Written in red on her heart shape and disposition.
However, the empty hearts were not visible to other student NPCs passing by. Occasionally, I would see one or two people, but if I went closer just in case, they were female teachers or employees working at the academy.
Of course, the clothes were changed to ones that emphasized the body more than the clothes I remember, or that made the color of the areolas stand out to the point where it could be said to be a must if the breasts were open, so I was able to guess where the adult mode creator placed importance.
After thinking carefully through several examples, I was able to guess the conditions under which this heart would be released.
‘Does it only appear in adult women?’
This function seems to reveal sexual preference, but like Marian, as the heart fills, it is hard to know because ? Is not revealed, but it seems that as the heart fills, sexual preference is added one by one.
‘Don’t include complicated systems in the adult mode topic!’
Even the name is not printed properly, so why is the heart filling function working properly when the topic comes out as a blah blah?!
“Anyway, the desire to be confined… Isn’t that crazy?”
I don’t know why my love for my younger brother bothered me, but I felt a sense of crisis that if it continued to increase, I would be trapped somewhere, so I escaped.
If I continued like this, my heart would continue to fill up and I felt like a strange accident would occur.
“I liked Marian because she was a strong character in the beginning and it was easy to increase her likability, but what is this!”
Wow, it was unfortunate that as she became an adult, it became difficult to approach Marian.
Of course, there are many useful characters other than Marian, and there are characters like Marian that are not at the level of recommended characters but are considered essential characters.
I didn’t get it in the first round, so I had a hard time getting through it.
“Yeah… I’m bad for asking you to install a strange mode.”
I tried to punch the lower part of my brain that made me put this on, but that would only hurt me, so I just endured it and went to bed.
Anyway, I think we’ll have to wait and see what happens to bring Marian back, so let’s leave it alone.
– When sleeping, all abilities increase by 1 due to the effect of the Five Elements of Absence of Mind –
-Aren met the requirements for becoming a companion trainee. Would you use it? –
Jump up.
As she was trying to fall asleep, a system notification tickled her ears, so she jumped up and took out the emergency book she had stuffed in her suitcase.
“A companion trainee?”
I was trying to think, what is companion training…, But she had drawn a silhouette of a man and a woman from the cover of the book, and they were sharing their strength by touching each other’s bodies.
So, this is outright… That’s it?
“Wow, anyway… If martial arts is going to come out, it has to be like this, damn it!”
I really wondered why martial arts like this didn’t show up.
The cover was simplified, but the pictures inside were much sexier than I expected, so I skimmed through a few pages as if I was secretly reading an erotic book.
“…It’s better than I thought…?”
– Aren has learned the companion training technique! –
“No, don’t disappear for a moment!”
However, the problem was that before I could properly appreciate it, the martial arts level disappeared and was absorbed into my body.
But fortunately, unlike the Five Elements and No-Heart Method, the companion practitioner did not disappear, and only the contents of the previous chapter were erased, and the rest of the book remained.
“Oh…?”
– The protagonist cannot acquire the skill because the conditions are not yet sufficient –
Okay, so shut up. Because this is the important part now.
*
The morning of the third day dawned.
I looked in the mirror and saw that my stats had increased to 8.
If all abilities increase by 1 every day due to the effect of the Five Elements of Indifference, then after two years when the game ends…
‘Ah, but it’s still not as good as a well-developed character.’
As expected, the main character of this game is a mess.
Still, it wasn’t a bad thing that he could grow without much support or effort, and since the Five Elements of Invincible Mind Technique could increase his abilities even more later, there was nothing bad about increasing them.
If you don’t think it’s dangerous, you can take out a wooden sword and do a sword dance. The final boss’s blood is about 50,000, so how are you going to block the 99,999-strength wooden sword?
Knock knock.
“Aren~ You’re still sleeping, aren’t you?”
“I’m up. I’ll be out soon.”
Today, I had to go to Class F’s homeroom teacher with Ofelia because I had to go through the school transfer process.
In the game, it is said that I waited all morning to go through the formalities for a line or two, but when I actually went through it, I was so tired of signing autographs and answering questions in between.
‘Ah… I want to skip…’
Most other convenience modes are applied, but why is there no skip?
I think there might be something called time acceleration or something like that.
“Thank you both. Being a transfer student at Celestial Academy was unprecedented, so there were a lot of things we had to deal with.”
The person with dark purple hair pulled back into a ponytail was Class F’s homeroom teacher, Teacher Karen.
Of course, since she was an adult, the adult mode was applied, and she was originally dressed as a sexy woman that showed off her body quite a bit, but now she was wearing an outfit that was close to a swimsuit, like a female executive from some evil organization, so I was embarrassed from the moment I first saw her.
However, people around me are passing by as if there is no problem with this outfit, so I am trying to show off as much as possible…
As a man, it would be difficult for him to concentrate on other things if there was something light and reddish-brown flickering just in a position where the human eye could reach it.
“Welcome to Celestial Academy.”
– Karen’s favorability has reached the ‘Acquaintance’ level –
Just in case, I am watching closely the heart that appears next to Teacher Karen’s her face her her her.
Although the bottom of the first heart is slightly filled, unlike a bug-like situation like Marian, it is not filling up again, so you can concentrate on your daily life with peace of mind.
“Please take care of me in the future, Ms. Karen.”
“Yes, yes. Let’s do our best in the future, too? Aren and Ophelia.”
– Karen’s likeability has reached the ‘Friend’ level –
I was closely watching the rise in favorability, but hearts only rose slightly and were still fluttering at the bottom.
‘Okay. This is normal. Marian got a bug’
Originally, the teacher characters at this academy were characters that could not be conquered except for one, but I thought that the fact that the hearts were floating meant that they could be conquered in other ways.
After being held like that all morning, I finished registering and came out, and Ophelia briefly distanced herself from me.
“You can go back alone, right?”
“Where should I go?”
“Ugh… At the temple. I guess I sprained my wrist while packing up my luggage yesterday.”
While saying that, she sticks out her tongue slightly and makes an expression that she made a mistake. This is the first time I’ve seen someone actually do that.
But why does this suit me? Is it because she has a beautiful face?
“Okay. Come back.”
I already knew where Ophelia was going anyway.
I’m going to contact the person sent by the Renellian duchy and hear the story.
So, during the first performance, I couldn’t find Ophelia even though I went to all the places I could go, so it was correct to assume that she left the stage for a moment.
‘In the first place, since the abilities are different now, you will have to secretly follow them to get caught.’
“See you in the evening then~”
After seeing Ophelia, who turned around with a bright smile, quickly disappear from my sight, I had to find a new weapon to replace the 99999 wooden sword in preparation for the upcoming first battle.
“Ah.”
Unless, quite by chance, you come face to face with Marian, who has two hearts full.
In order to make it easier to distinguish from the quarter view perspective, the hair colors of the main characters were made colorful to avoid overlapping, so they were easy to distinguish by color. Above all, compared to other students, their civilian clothes were very barely visible, so they were different the moment they were seen.
I would say it feels foreign, as if a naked woman appears in a gun fighting game.
‘Why here…’
No, if you think about it, this is the building where teachers work, so it wouldn’t be strange if Marian, who was in the class president position, was called by Karen, her homeroom teacher.
Originally, the position of class president was like a bat between students and teachers, so isn’t it like Schrödinger’s class president, with half the chance of appearing in the classroom and half the chance of appearing in the teacher’s office?
“Hello. You were Aren, right?”
“Marian.”
“Yes. “You remembered it?”
As we greeted each other at a slight distance, we were able to greet each other easily without feeling heartbroken.
The level of a normal conversation you have when you first meet each other and the second time?
In the first place, he is a very likeable character and it is easy to like him by just saying a few words to him, so he doesn’t have any special lines.
‘Phew… Is it okay to be safe…?’
“You don’t know much about the inside of the academy, right? Would you like me to show you around?”
“No.”
I didn’t want my heart to fill up just in case, so I just cut it out and rejected it.
But the moment the distance between us got closer to within five steps, her heart began to fill like crazy again.
Tiring!
It was my first time hearing a system notification sound so ominous.
– Marian’s favorability has reached the ‘Acquaintance’ level –
‘Oh… Did I answer wrong?’
I was the first to try to distance myself, not to treat her coldly, but I made a mistake in my choice and ended up dropping Marianne’s likeability her from a friend to an acquaintance.
Originally, this refusal would have caused her likeability to drop to an extremely small level, but Marianne’s likeability her, which had risen to her friend level her, seems to have barely surpassed her friend level her.
It seems like even a little bit of distance would immediately result in being demoted to an acquaintance.
‘But I rather like it. If your favorability has dropped, your heart will…’
Looking at Teacher Karen’s case earlier, I knew that liking and hearts are separate things, but I made Marian uncomfortable by outright rejecting her, right?
Then, I thought my heart would naturally fall… But…
‘Why is that heart already filling up to the third time!!’
Tiring!
– Step 3 of the experience: You will see your opponent more often –
…I guess the system got too excited. I suddenly saw you using English.
‘And why is the title ‘you’? Did you use You as a translator?’
Moreover, even if it was told in text, I was wondering if it would be interpreted by a translator, but it was quickly transferred to the system language, so I couldn’t hear it properly!
While I was confused after hearing the system message, Marian was approaching me with great strides, hearts clearly showing in her eyes.
And her younger brother’s love letter was being changed as it was covered with different letters, and seeing the changes made her realize that she had to run away immediately.
[Obsessed with younger brother]
-Obsession with younger brother: Obsessed with someone he thinks is his younger brother. Shows the same tendency toward someone he judges to be his younger brother his-
Oh, is that me? Why me?!
