Healing at the Academy Convenience Store - Chapter 1033
Only Krnovel
1033. Episode of EVE 27
?The world of imagination has opened?
?By looking straight into your own mind, you can observe your inner self at any time?
?You can manage your favorability by placing various items in your mind?
As I was momentarily lost in the pure white world, the system voice rang out.
“Ah, this system.”
This is not an in-game system, but a menu system.
It could be said to be a kind of gallery system that collects and manages gifts and memories within the game.
For example, if you place the heroine’s gift here, and then click the Gallery on the main screen and the Fantasy World button, this map will open like a sort of exhibition hall and you can check the description.
This can also be used as an in-game favorability rating.
“Hmm. It’s really empty. There’s nothing there.”
I looked around the hospital room again and again… no, the world inside my mind. It was pure white and there was nothing there.
Well, it would have been nice to know that there wasn’t one.
I’m not anxious or worried.
If it doesn’t exist, just fill it in.
On the other hand, I also wonder who will come into this.
I closed the door to my heart again and went out.
***
The battlefield was coming to an end. According to Nephterian, I was at a distance with Saracenia… To be exact, the graduate students stopped moving one by one, and soon they fell down.
And maybe… no, definitely, the whole situation ended with me killing the Dream Eater.
Nephthy, who had been standing guard over me, quickly cleared the place, roughly tied up the unconscious primitives, and piled them onto the cart.
“Are you okay, senior? Your face looks pale.”
“It’s hard to say that it’s okay, I’m stuck between the piles of graduate students over there, and I’ll have to take a cart back.”
“Phew… Okay. Okay. I understand. I’ll ask them to save a seat for you.”
Nephterian laughed lightly, as if my words sounded like a joke. It wasn’t a joke.
“Then I’ll go up and rest. I’d appreciate it if you could walk me to the student council.”
“Yes. I understand. Oh, senior… I have misunderstood you until now. I am sorry.”
“misunderstanding?”
“Yes. I thought you were a bad person. I’m sorry.”
“I thought it was some kind of misunderstanding… It wasn’t a misunderstanding. This was also for my own selfish desires.”
“yes…?”
I make Yves von Lohengrin the perfect emperor, and I live a carefree life behind him. What a personal desire.
“That’s why I said it wasn’t a misunderstanding. Anyway, I’m really sleeping.”
“Yes, ah… yes!”
Nephterian stared blankly, but had no reason to explain further.
Because I didn’t have the mental space to explain this and that to someone who wasn’t even in my party and with whom I would never be involved.
***
Inside the rattling wagon. The groans of the passed out graduate students next to me. The occasional sounds of encounters with monsters. It was a truly terrible environment for sleeping, but I tried my best to lose consciousness.
There is no way around this situation where I can just beat the neat demon tribe to death and put them to sleep because it has driven me into a corner.
Before I knew it, the ground had leveled out, and the groans of the graduate students had begun to die down. I thought I could finally get some sleep, but then the carriage stopped.
“Former Student Council President Wolfram, you must wake up.”
“Um… . Have… we arrived?”
“Yes. You need to get up quickly.”
Nephterian woke me up. His voice was so quiet that I thought he was changing shifts on night watch.
When I opened my eyes and raised my upper body, a huge gaze was focused on me.
It’s not just the knights who set out together. Hundreds of pairs of eyes are watching this way.
There are professors, student council officers, and even regular students.
I looked around blankly, wondering what on earth was going on, and soon my eyes met with the guy’s.
Eve was glaring at me as if she was going to kill me.
The guy sighed softly, cleared his expression, and opened his mouth.
“Wolfram von Lohengrin. Report.”
“report?”
Look… Look.
The student council officers standing in an orderly manner, Yves von Lohengrin standing two steps ahead, and the expectant eyes of the other onlookers. I get it.
“Wolfram von Lohengrin. Carrying out the orders of the current student council president, Eve von Lohengrin. I have returned after capturing all the criminals who sympathized with her, including Saracenia, who has caused great harm to Zephrin’s justice.”
“… … .”
Eve opened her eyes wide, then smiled faintly… so faintly that only I, who was right in front of her, would notice.
“Excellent. It must have been a difficult mission, and a long journey. Capturing the entire gang of villains hiding deep in the southern jungle. Furthermore, proving that justice lives in Zephrin, I applaud you from the bottom of my heart. Wolfram von Lohengrin.”
“I did it only for the peace of Zephrin. Rather than praising me, I hope you will evaluate the warriors who worked with me.”
“Yes, their achievements will also be properly evaluated.”
He cast a quick glance at Eve. ‘Is this good enough?’ At those words, Eve closed her eyes slightly. That must mean it was good.
Our series of plays ended, and the applause began with a clap. clap. clap. Eve. Not only the student council officers, but also the onlookers. Even the snobby professors applauded.
The name of Saracenia was so great.
And now, I’m something of a hero of justice, beating up that easy-to-understand villain under Eve’s command.
I don’t know why this kind of play is necessary, but if it is necessary, then well… we have to do it.
“Then, Chairman, I will now take my leave.”
“Yes. Thank you for your hard work.”
Leaving Eve behind, I entered the student council building and walked to my room. My consciousness quietly disappeared.
***
Fainting itself can be done by saying, “Oh, I’m going to faint now,” but there are also cases where you faint and then wake up again after saying, “Huh?”
This time my fainting was clearly the latter, and when I opened my eyes I was in my room on my bed.
Did you somehow pass out in my room? Thank goodness. I didn’t see you rolling around on the street.
I thought so, but… .
“Are you awake? Seriously. How did you collapse on the way to your room… Do you know how much of a commotion there was?”
From what I’ve heard from the guy chattering next to me, I think he probably didn’t make it to his room.
“My head is ringing. Stop nagging me.”
“So, haa… I heard. The conquest of Saracenia. I heard that the demons and the curse appeared.”
“Did Nephterian report that? That’s strange. I don’t think he’s ever met a demon… .”
“It really came out. I was wondering if that was the case.”
Oh. Was it fishing?
“Yeah. It came out. It was a demon called the Dream Eater. It was a piece of trash that eats away at people’s hearts and moves between them. Well. I somehow managed to get rid of it by making it consume me…”
“Are you crazy?!”
“Why are you suddenly yelling?”
“No, you trapped the demon in your body? Are you okay? Isn’t there any curse left? Why would you do something so ignorant…?”
“It’s okay. There’s not even a trace left. Don’t worry.”
“Is it true?”
“It’s true.”
At my affirmative answer, Eve took a step back and put her hand on her head.
“Even if I go to catch the big guy called Saracenia… . With the demon in my body… . Oh really…”
“Don’t worry. I hope you came back safely.”
“Your summary executions aren’t perfect! I should have gone instead. You should have told me where you were…”
“If you do that and get hurt, things will get worse.”
“You’re not getting hurt anymore, are you?”
What about me? It doesn’t matter since I’ve already thrown away my body. If I say that, he’ll get incredibly angry. Let’s just remain silent here.
“Wolfram, listen carefully. I will become Emperor, and I will lead this country in the right direction, and to do that, I need support and achievements. In particular, solving the problems piling up in this Zephrin is the greatest achievement I can do right now, and your help in doing that will be of immense help.”
“Then be quiet… .”
“Listen quietly. That doesn’t mean I’m going to put others in a difficult position and take all the credit for myself.”
“… … .”
“I’m not going to tell you to play wherever you want. Instead, I’m willing to take risks. Got it?”
Instead of going it alone, let’s take responsibility for it together.
That’s why I can’t hate Eve.
“Okay, this is my fault.”
“I hope you understand. Then… .”
Eve slid off the ribbon around her neck. The brooch that had been pinning it down fell off and she held it tightly in her hand.
“What are you doing?”
“Quiet. I need you to concentrate, so just watch.”
“hmm….”
Wooooow.
Beads of sweat form on the boy’s forehead, and thick magical power is charged into his ribbon and brooch.
No, it’s not just magic. Eve’s original power is also going into it.
The essence of magical power, close to the royal bloodline.
“Phew… ha.”
I gasp for breath over my shoulder several times. I tried to grab the guy who was shaking violently once, but instead of accepting my hand, he reached out something.
“Extend your wrist.”
“what?”
“Tsk.”
The guy who grabbed my wrist roughly wrapped his ribbon around my arm and secured it with a brooch.
Immediately afterwards, I felt magical power slowly rising up from my arm.
Although it was an overwhelming amount of magical power, it never overwhelmed my magical power, and the power slowly increased at my pace.
“This is….”
“You and I both have the same magical power. The frequency will match as well… If you keep wearing it, you’ll get better soon. It contains the magical power of recovery and recharge.”
“Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this to me?”
“If I had joined this time, I would have used this much magic power.”
“what?”
“You and I are equal. There is no such thing as who is above or who is below. If you help me achieve my ambition, I will naturally pay you accordingly. So this is the compensation. I need someone who walks in step with me. I don’t need someone who steps forward and leads me, nor do I need someone who hides in my shadow and expects me to lead.”
“… … .”
It was my misunderstanding.
I said I would make Eve the emperor, but somewhere in my heart I might have thought, ‘If I don’t make her, she can’t do it on her own.’
no.
The character I liked, Eve, wasn’t such a weakling.
Even now that he’s become human and is still grumbling in front of me.
He is a guy who can shine brightly on his own.
“You don’t have to come to the student council room for the next three days. Rest, sleep, whatever you want.”
“Okay, I’ll do that. Then I guess I’ll go to sleep for now.”
“It’s good that you listened to me obediently. Then I have some work left to do, so I’ll take my leave now.”
I lay down on the bed, briefly intoxicated by the warmth I felt from his arms.
Knock knock. Just before the guy left, the words, “Thank you for your hard work,” seeped into my ears.
Just before falling asleep. When I look inside myself and check my mental world.
In the middle of the blank white wall, I noticed a gold brooch and ribbon tied to it.
Me too.
I never thought you would come at me like this.
I thought about it over and over again, but it didn’t feel that bad, so I was able to sleep well.