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Aah, why did he come here! I already said to keep things casual, but this turned out to be a disgrace!
I felt like it would be better for me just to bite my tongue and die. Unlike me, who wanted to die, Clybe was in a frenzy.
“Kyaa, Lord Clyde!”
“As expected, we’re lucky to be with Lady Theresa, right? We got to see Lord Clyde in the morning!”
“His face is shining again too… As expected from the most handsome man in the empire…!”
Ding!
[The Constellation ‘Face Inspector’ has sponsored 10,000 coins.]
[Aah… A clear harmony of T-zone with a drop of wildness on his face that could have only been pretty… As expected, my favorite is Clyde…]
Clyde looked contemptuously at the noisy young ladies. “When on earth will these things come to their senses?”
“Even the way you insult us is sexy! Please do more! Please curse at me!”
“Can’t you go away?”
“Kyaa, you’re so cute when you’re angry!”
…At this point, I was more afraid of Clybe.
Clyde nervously swept up his bangs and snapped his fingers at me as if he was fed up with dealing with young ladies who couldn’t even converse in common sense.
“Come here.”
“Why?”
I like our distance right now.
“If the student council president is calling you, of course it means that we should talk about the student council matters, right?”
“Uh…  I suppose so… I didn’t know…”
I never expect to experience the horrors of your boss here, something I’ve never experienced on Earth.
I approached Clyde with a melancholy face and glanced at Lumio. I think her expression has gotten better than before. Judging by the reddish blush on her cheeks, it seemed she wouldn’t summon a demon today.
“Follow me.”
I wanted to ask him where we were going, but Lumio still watched us with her eyes flashing. Rather than trying to stay here for nothing, it seemed better to follow Clyde obediently.
I walked close to Clyde just like what Theresa always did. Then, afraid that Clyde asking why I was so close, I quickly adjusted our distance. Just in case, I glanced behind me to see if Lumio was still observing my every move with a terrifying expression.
As expected, I think it’s safer to be close for a moment. It was either facing the demon contractor or 3 black hearts. That was the problem.
Clyde stopped as I kept getting closer and then adjusted our distance. He glared at me with a frown on his face. “If you’re going to walk next to me, come by the side. Otherwise, walk away from me in the first place. Don’t get on my nerves.”
I thought he would tell me to go away, but he unexpectedly gave me a choice. Then of course, I would choose the one that’s in my favor. “Then… can I walk by your side? I won’t do anything but walk with you.”
Instead of answering, Clyde ordered it brutally. “Come quickly.”
I sprinted to Clyde’s side before he changed his mind. Then, a low murmuring voice could be heard.
“I can’t figure it out.”
What did he say? Did he curse at me? I slowly raised my head and glanced at him, and our eyes met.
“What are you looking at?”
If I got the game over before I found paradise, it must be because of this guy.
Clyde and I arrived at the student council room. Thud. However, there was someone in the student council room that I thought would be empty. It was Ilya.
“Uh, Professor?”
Ilya closed the book he was reading, raised his eyes gracefully, and looked at me intently. “You don’t look good.”
What had happened the day before flashed through my mind. Thinking about it again made me feel nauseous. However, I couldn’t carelessly reveal what had happened with Euges, so I smiled awkwardly.
“I guess I’m still sick from yesterday.”
He reached out his hand out of the blue.
“…?”
I didn’t have any book to give him back today, so what is it?
As I titled my head, Ilya took my hand and smiled. “Today, I was asking for your hand.”
[Some Constellations strongly support the ‘Ilya’ route.]
Ilya put his other hand in the subspace, took out something, and put it on my palm. It was a potion. “Drink this, and you’ll be fine.”
The potion was a very expensive medical product. You have to pay a few gold coins for this little bottle.
Since he has two red hearts, he’s giving away things like this. I didn’t refuse it.
“Thank you, Professor.”
Then Clyde said sarcastically, “You seem close to Theresa.”
Then Ilya said, “Ah,” and took out another potion as if he realized something. “Here, you take it too.” It was as if he was dealing with a child who was sulky because he didn’t receive a potion.
Clyde seemed to have felt the same way and took the potion hesitantly. “…Thank you.”
“Pfft.”
Ah, I tried to hold it in, but I couldn’t help but laugh. Clyde, who heard my laughter, sent a flashing look. Um. I think he asked me if I wanted to die.
“Everyone, sit down.”
I sat as close to Ilya as I could to ensure safety. Having understood my intention, Clyde openly sneered at me as if mocking me. Ilya then continued.
“Duke Bernstein has personally called you for a secret request to the student council.”
A request from the Bernstein family. This was undoubtedly a ‘monster attack’ event that took place during Duke Bernstein’s birthday party. But this is an event that happens on the same day, right? It seemed that the incident had been advanced due to variables.
Anyway, I had business to do with the Bernstein family. The doors to the rest of the dimension leading to paradise exist one by one in the male protagonist’s house.
The fastest place to check is the school, but the chance to go to the Bernstein Duchy isn’t common. In order to visit during the month when the dimension door opened, the conditions were difficult unless there was an event called a birthday party. Because you required 3 red hearts to be invited personally.
“Recently, a monster has been constantly invading the magical plant garden managed by Duke Bernstein.”
However, Ilya’s words that followed were suspicious. He wasn’t at the level of having trouble just because of a single monster. He would have found and killed it long ago if he wanted to solve it, but requesting the student council meant he couldn’t solve it alone.
Clyde asked with a look of wonder. “Is it ‘Ghost’?”
“That’s right.”
Ghost. It meant the spiritual body of a magical creature that flowed from the heavens. Among the magical creatures, it’s a being with strong and pure magic which lets go of its physical body and is reborn with a spiritual body. Ghost with a translucent body and strong power could also sign a contract, but only for the heavenly race.
“I don’t have the ability to purify magic. The only answer is to kill the monster, but Ghost is already dead and cannot be killed.”
It was almost impossible for humans to purify Ghost, even if they had purification magic. Ghosts are beings that must be confined to heaven more thoroughly than magical creatures. As the boundaries of one dimension collapsed, Ghosts began to come over to the human world one by one. It was fine until then. The problem was Ghost could also be eroded by Magi.
Ghost who became a monster. This was treated as a serious problem, just like the appearance of a demon. In addition, Ghosts reacted very clearly to magical plants. And they only reacted to rare and difficult-to-grow magical plants.
The magical plants grown in the Bernstein family are medicines used for the duchess’s illness.
Clyde asked what kind of Ghost to gauge the difficulty of the mission. “Which creature was that Ghost?”
In this part, Ilya, who had kept his expressionless face, frowned. “It was a whale.”
Ghost is a spirit form defies the law. It was able to live regardless of the environment and could fly even without wings. So the idea of having a translucent whale flying through the air… was insisted on by a team member who was purely whale geek. Moreover, it wasn’t just an ordinary whale but a huge humpback whale. So what’s about it?
“Humpback whale is the guardian angel of the sea.”
The guardian angel came to destroy the human world.
Ilya said, “Even if the news that an eroded Ghost has appeared spreads, it will only create unnecessary anxiety. My father hoped that a few trusted wizards would handle it quietly.”
Ding!
[Quest: Request from Duke Bernstein.]
▸Reward: +1,000,000 coins
▸Failure: Decreased likeability of Clyde
※If you reject the request, it will be automatically failed.
Ah. This reward was quite a lot of coins. But isn’t the penalty for failure too high compared to the reward?
Besides, you can’t proceed with this quest unless you have white magic. That’s why it was impossible to proceed with the scenario unless it was Libby.
I can’t help but accept the request. If Clyde’s likeability drops here, his black heart will increase to 4.
I experienced a male protagonist with 4 black hearts just yesterday. I don’t want to go through that condition again. Compared to that condition, how gentleman Clyde was with his three black hearts.
Clyde warned me. “No matter how thoughtless you’re, if you reveal the mission, you’d better prepare for expulsion from the student council and this school. I will definitely make it that way.”
…Anyway.