The Sub-Heroine’s Butler Is a Vicious Bastard - Chapter 121



121. Being S (2)

“…What should I do with this?”

She had confidently declared to the Demon King and had just returned, but in reality she was at a loss.

The information about existence S was never mentioned in the original work, and pretending to know about it to the Demon King was ultimately just a guess made up of information in the game.

If the Demon King’s condition was getting worse, it was time to really think about the person called S.

‘Is the most likely quest really?’

Even though it was a quest, I only received the 0th and 1st quests, and the rewards weren’t very helpful.

Rather than a mission given to me by an elaborate system…

“For a game system, it felt like something was missing.”

It reminded me of the quest window that has now disappeared.

Before I even entered the academy, he gave me a quest almost as soon as he was possessed.

〈Quest #0: Enter the Academy! 〉

〈Content: Enter the Academy with Eral de Arlot〉

〈Reward: Clue to return to the original world〉

〈In case of failure: death〉

〈Reward: The way to return to the original world is to ‘defeat the final boss with Eral de Arlot’.〉

Even thinking about it now, it was a bit absurd.

I talked about it like a tutorial, but I received that quest when I was around 8 years old and entered the academy when I was 20.

I can’t believe they gave advance notice with something that was over 10 years away.

Considering that I was worried that I might not be able to go to the academy because of the condition that I would die if I failed…

I was really curious about who made it.

Moreover, the compensation given was extremely significant.

Next, I thought about the quest I got after entering school.

〈Quest #1: The wounded samurai takes up the sword again.〉

〈Content: Please hold the sword to Torino Koyono〉

〈Condition: Achieve 100 affinity with Torino Koyono〉

〈Reward: A clue to help Arlot’s leg heal 〉

〈Reward: Travel to the East with your vacation party members this summer and receive ‘acupuncture’. Maybe something good will happen? 〉

It was fortunate that absurd conditions such as death in case of failure disappeared.

However, I suddenly had to go through a lot of trouble thanks to the absurd quest to raise Koyono’s favorability rating to 100.

Even now, when she thinks about how she had to deal with her and how she had to deal with her, she still gets angry.

… Well, as a reward, I was able to go to an acupuncturist in the East and get Arlott’s leg cured.

Anyway, I didn’t think that the crappy quest window that seemed to have been created by a novice game developer was S, the entity that was harassing the Demon King.

“If it’s not a quest window, what on earth is existence S?”

There are many hypotheses, but there is no physical evidence and they are just speculations.

Even if I sat still and thought about it, I couldn’t come up with an answer at all.

Out of frustration, I left the room for a moment and wandered outside the mansion.

An unexpected person was sweating in the mansion’s training hall.

“Ah, Mr. Evan.”

“…”

Evan, who was swinging his sword at the scarecrow, stopped his movements.

Evan came over to me after wiping off his sweat and waved his hand happily.

Looking at that series of processes, I thought of existence S.

‘Is Evan’s change from the original also related to existence S?’

If you had to choose the only character in the original whose personality was completely changed, you could probably choose Evan, excluding me.

Even if we keep in mind that Evan is the only playable character in the 〈 Party to Savior 〉 game world.

He was a character who talked a lot and had a lot of troubles, like a typical Isekai harem insensitive protagonist.

However, in this world where he was possessed, Evan became a person who could not speak at all and expressed little emotion.

Now he can still communicate like a human to some extent, and this aspect of him feels like a personality.

However, when I first saw him in class, his eyes were as lifeless as a machine …

The image of Evan acting like a puppet whose strings had been cut is still deeply embedded in my brain.

At that moment, a familiar hologram window appeared before his eyes.

〈Quest #2: The secret of existence S, finally solved!?〉

〈Content: Reach the ‘end of the world’ and face the truth of this world! 〉

〈Reward: Secret to Being S〉

“The end of the world?”

“…?”

“Oh, it’s nothing. Good luck.”

I left the training ground, leaving Evan tilting his head.

I never dreamed that they would give me a quest so directly.

The good news was that it became clear what I should do.

‘Celestina, who was the president of the Academy, we need her.’

‘The End of the World’, an area like an Easter egg in the game that cannot be reached through normal means.

Because bugs cannot be accepted in this world that has become reality.

To go there, you needed someone at the level of an archmage who was well versed in space magic.

When it comes to a suitable person for that, the only one that came to mind was Celestina.

* * *

“…So you came to see me?”

“Yes.”

“It’s a ridiculous story. When he suddenly came to the house of an old man living alone like this… “

A cabin with an idyllic atmosphere.

After searching through the jungle-like southern forest, we found the chairman’s house.

After taking the academy students to the north and getting caught up in a big incident, the chairman took full responsibility and resigned from his position.

“Existence S or the devil… Certainly, Student Schmitz had a history of being kidnapped and returned to the Demon King’s Castle.”

“It’s literally like that.”

It’s been a while since I saw him, but he didn’t seem to have changed much from his middle school appearance.

She lifted up her round glasses and listened to my story seriously.

In the background, my history of visiting the Demon King’s Castle was helpful.

“It may sound absurd, but the truth is sometimes so strange and so difficult to believe.”

“…Stories that student Schmitz told me about the devil, existence S, etc. At least, it’s a story that even I, who has lived for a long time, have never heard of. Umm… “

Of course, it may not be easy to believe me 100%.

It will look like a student you haven’t seen much has suddenly barged into your house and is talking about strange conspiracy theories.

The chairman, who had closed his eyes in thought for a moment, opened his eyes brightly.

“Great. Let’s work together to reach the end of the world.”

“…Yes?”

“Well, I’m human too. I was tired of living alone in the middle of the forest with no one around. Above all, I am curious about the unknown.”

I was taken aback when she said that she would cooperate more readily than I expected.

“As expected, Schmitz students have fun. Should I say that she is not a regular student, and if she had known this would be the case, she would have made a fuss and maintained her position as chairman of the board a little longer…”

“I quit the academy now.”

“Aha, that’s it then. Umm… “More than anything, there is one thing I want to ask.”

When the chairman gestured, a book popped out of the air.

A worn-out book that looks like something you would see in a museum.

She opened the book, showed me a page, and asked me with a serious expression.

“As student Schmitz knows, the end of the world is an unknown land that humans have never reached. “When the ship approaches, it gets destroyed in half, it’s too far for people to swim, and there are monsters lurking in the water.”

“I know.”

To put it simply, the end of the world is close to the South or North Pole of this world.

The end of the world, a very long way from the southern part of the empire, which is connected to one huge continent.

When a user with nothing to do in the community discovered that there was a place called ‘The End of the World,’ I knew because I had also been in trouble.

“Even if only Schmitz students were sent, a huge magic circle would be needed to move that long distance at once. A large-scale magic circle that even I have never tried will be formed. If my magic goes a little wrong, or if there is an artifact related to magic resistance at the ‘End of the World’… “

“I am prepared.”

“…”

Celestina’s eyes wavered at the firm answer.

I had reached it through bugs or cheats in the game, but I knew what was at the end of the world.

There was no magic resistance or anything like that, and it turned out to be just an Easter egg made as a joke.

And when it comes to spatial magic, the only person I can entrust it to, other than Celestina, is the Demon Lord, but since she is lying in her hospital bed, she has no one to ask for.

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“Ha… There’s nothing we can do. It will take quite some time to implement. “Let’s do it as quickly as possible.”

“Thank you for your cooperation. The reward is… “

“It’s okay.”

Celestina said with a grin.

A gentle hand stroked my head, as if scolding a student.

… Because she was short, I had to bow her head.

“Even if he was expelled from the position of chairman of the board, and even if Schmitz dropped out of the academy midway through… Because you are my student, that doesn’t change.”

“Dean… “

“Because I’m not the dean anymore. Can I call you Celestina? Ah ha.”

I bowed my head to her again, thanked her, and left her place.

While she was preparing her magic circle, she had to finish preparing to reach the end of the world.

First of all, I have to tell the truth to the people around me.

With heavy steps, I quickly moved from the south to the north again.