Otori Magic Academy is an academy based on a credit system. As long as you had the required credits, you can advance to the next grade or even graduate. In other words, you could graduate even if only you take classes as you like to some extent. This most likely is the characteristic inherited from the original game.
In the game, the player can even purposely create a character specializing in each attribute by taking 『Attribute Magic Course (From beginner to advanced)』 up to 6 limits, or even taking 『Magic Device Basic Application』 class in between to create a character with good firepower, which is easy-to-use. But as expected, in this world, such a ‘do as I please’ way is not allowed.
The teacher in charge of each subject will not hold classes from Monday to Friday, or from the 1st period to the 6th period1. Even more so if it was the teacher from Otori Magic Academy because they can be summoned by the government, which made the student have to self-study during that period. Therefore, the lesson that would be held each hour are fixed, and students can choose which lessons to take from there.
Since I already had enough practice with Astemil, I decided to skip practical classes. If anything, I mostly took classroom lectures and interesting classes that were held only on weekends such as 『Introduction to Dungeon Exploration』 and 『Dimension Fieldwork』. Otori Magic Academy is also fully equipped with various facilities, so sometimes the classes are also held in the magic/console research building (separate building).
At any rate, today I took the same class as Rei, and right now, we are sitting in the classroom in the research building with a black curtain installed in it. The teacher of 『Introduction to Console』 is the homeroom teacher of D-class 『Jody Camnival Footback』-sensei. She is wearing a paper bag with holes in it, and I can see her bright red eyeballs peeking through the holes. She also carried a bloody butcher knife (Her magic device) and wore an apron with a lovely bear applique.
“Everyone, do you bring your textbooks?”
The woman, who was called 『World’s cutest murderer (mama)2』 by esco fans, begins to speak with an insanely cute voice.
“Today, we’re going to continue the topic from the previous lesson… Ara, you?”
With a butcher knife in her hand, the teacher quickly approached me. She then tilted her neck neatly 90 degrees and whispered.
“You weren’t there in the previous lesson, right…?”
Rei, who was sitting on my right, immediately hold her magic device, making the student in the back seat scream “Hii!!”.
“You don’t have to worry about it. If there’s something you don’t understand, sensei will teach you thoroughly anytime. Like tearing muscle fibers one by one~. I will also carefully and thoroughly teach you the lesson that you are missing.”
In front of the red eyeballs that were staring at me while breathing heavily, I smiled and nodded.
“Thank you very much. Then, I’ll ask you if there is something I don’t understand.”
“Ara ara, what a good boy. Make me want to cook and eat you~”
“Ahaha, that’s sexual harassment, sensei.”
“Oh dear~”
Sensei then returned to the teacher’s desk, and Rei sighed in relief.
“A-are you okay, Onii-sama? You sure managed to keep your sanity in front of her.”
“Well, although she looks like that, that woman is actually a saint…”
Jody-sensei participates in volunteer activities every weekend without missing a single day. She also takes in abandoned dogs from shelters and raises them, donating some money, only wanted to live a simple life, and she also takes care of students who can’t keep up with her classes outside working hours.
As you advanced in her route, you can even see the inside of the paper bag at the very end, and… that single picture is touted as the masterpiece of the illustrator in charge of her character by many people. Even for the students, she is by far the kindest among the teachers at Otori Magic Academy. Well, because she does look like a murderer, the fans also gave 『Murderer (Mama)』 as her nickname.
“Well then, here we have a console~”
While exhaling, Jody-sensei picks up a small console.
“All consoles are classified into four basic types. Is there anyone who knows it?”
After glancing at me, as if appealing 『Please look at me』 to me, Rei raises her hand and stands up.
“The four types are attribute, generate, control, and transformation.”
The students in the front row screamed as she hit the teacher’s desk with her butcher knife.
“Oh dear, I’m too excited.”
While returning the scattered wood chips with magic, sensei laughed.
“Magic is basically activated in the flow Generate (attribute) -> control -> transform. Although the flow will not change, high-ranking magicians can activate magic by manipulating and transforming the things and phenomena in their surroundings, omitting the procedure of generating. Of course, from generate to transform, neither is superior nor inferior. For example, although consoles dropped from dungeons are ranked by the Adventurer’s Association by their rarity, it is no exaggeration to say that every console has its uses regardless of their rarity.”
Sensei draw something on the blackboard with her butcher knife (generating chalk). After that, she thoroughly taught us the basics of consoles. At the end of the lesson, she gave us simple report homework, and just like that, the class ended smoothly.
Rei and I then left the classroom and walked side by side.
“I couldn’t really understand the lesson because of fear… As expected of Onii-sama, you don’t show any fear of any situation. To think Onii-sama can seriously listen to the lesson under that circumstance, I’m in awe.”
With her hands folded, Rei turned her sparkling eyes toward me.
Even if I shit in my pants right now, she probably will just say 『As expected of Onii-sama』… I’d like to try, but if that really happens, it’s over, so I won’t do it, but…
I wanted Rei to get along with the other girls, but she was determined to sit next to me, polluting the soil where the Yuri could grow. And even though I thought I had to do something, I couldn’t come up with a good idea… at any rate, as we went out of the building, I parted from Rei. I’m heading toward Flavum, and Rei is heading to Rufus.
Right, although they seem to have various thoughts, in the end, Rei entered Rufus and Lapis entered Caeruleum. Rei finds it difficult to stay at the main residence due to the Sanjou Family’s problem, and Lapis is fed up with messengers from Alfheim (requesting her to come home), so it would be more convenient for them to move into the dormitory of Otori Magic Academy.
Although they both said they would enter Flavum, thanks to the enthusiastic persuasion from Fury and the other managers, I managed to avoid the worst situation to happen.
Anyway, what should I do when I get home today? Fufu, since it’s pretty calm recently, maybe I’ll play FLOWERS3 again while Snow goes shopping.
As I entered the Flavum while thinking about something like that, Lily-san turned around and–
“Sanjou-sama…”
With her face paled, she whispered.
“Please help us…”
Tenebrae– In that instant, I activated my magic and ran up the stairs.