Chapter 52
The Flowering Festival commorated the full blooming of flowers between spring and sumr, but it was also a festival to celebrate the full blooming of wisdom for the students who had just entered the Academy.
In other words, the protagonists of the festival were bound to be the newly enrolled freshn.
“Theo! Won't you join our club? Physical strength is national power! Let’s train our bodies!!”
Although so students had already joined clubs, most had not.
The feeling of being stopped and solicited every five steps was a bit strange.
“I’m sorry, I don’t plan on joining a club.”
I politely refused and pushed away the senior who was holding onto .
Even though I was a troublemaker who caused a lot of trouble one way or another, since I was a professor's son and had good grades, many seniors were after . So many that it was a problem.
At this rate, instead of enjoying the festival, it feels like I’ll spend the whole day being solicited by seniors!
“Should I write ‘No clubs, please’ on my back?”
“Wouldn’t that be a bit funny?”
I fell silent for a mont at Fel's laughter-filled question.
But it was so annoying. I had planned to buy so food from the stalls set up by the clubs with Fel, but damn it!
“Theo!”
Just then, I heard a familiar voice from a distance. It was Laurel-sunbae’s voice.
“Sunb─”
I was about to wave my hand in welco when my body suddenly froze.
Wait, why is Laurel in ‘that’ state? Isn’t that a ‘combat uniform’ she usually only wears for important battles?
“I was waiting for you!”
Laurel, who had sprung out like so kind of monster, snatched Fel and with perfect control of her strength in an instant and brought to a tent.
In the tent, decorated in what is commonly called a princess style with a pinkish look, girls in similar outfits to Laurel were gathered in a huddle.
In their midst, Fel and I were outsiders and a spectacle.
“Is this that Theo?”
“Laurel-sunbae, wasn’t the Magical Girl Club only for girls?”
“Don’t call it the Magical Girl Club! It has a proper na, the Vivian Rose Society!!”
The words ‘It’s the sa thing’ almost ca out of my mouth before I swallowed them back down.
It was absolutely not because Laurel’s tightly clenched fist felt threatening, but to respect my senior.
“Why! Are you ashad of us? Laurel-sunbae!?”
At another black-haired magical girl's outburst, Laurel shouted loudly.
“Do I look like I’m not ashad!!!”
The reason Laurel was called a Magical Girl (Physical) was right here.
The true nature of this club, the Vivian Rose Society, which seed like a place to sip tea in a garden full of roses, stemd from a certain magic left behind by the first president, ‘Vivian.’
Its na was ‘Magic for All the Magical Girls in the World.’
“Why is the combat uniform’s na Magical Girl!!!”
Laurel, wearing a frilly magical girl’s shalalala dress, roared like a lioness, scattering tears.
Geez, why would the club president say sothing like that?
* * *
Magic for All the Magical Girls in the World.
This magic, which made one want to ask ‘What is that,’ was a secret art that increased attack power by a whopping 100% by wearing a special outfit—read as a magical girl outfit—through a magical girl transformation.
However, there was a weakness: attack power was reduced by 50% when not wearing the magical girl outfit.
But even considering that weakness, the potential of magic that could make one twice as strong in an instant was outstanding.
Therefore, the Vivian Rose Society, also known as the Magical Girl Club, was a club with a long and storied tradition that had maintained its status as a regular club for a whopping 300 years.
“Sunbae, are you ashad of us?”
“I’m nineteen, how could I not be ashad?”
“It’s the club you chose, sunbae! Endure it with grit and guts!”
Despite her junior’s urging, Laurel, in her frilly magical girl outfit, covered her face with her palms.
“You’re very confident, sunbaenim.”
Another senior in a magical girl outfit gave a thumbs-up.
“You couldn’t do this if you were embarrassed.”
Ah, has she already reached a state of enlightennt? No wonder she had sowhat sad eyes. How did that senior end up becoming a magical girl?
I was curious, but I decided not to ask. It would be better for both the senior and to keep such a sad story buried in our hearts.
“And, it’s not just girls who can join the Vivian Rose Society. Our Vivian Rose Society has opened the path of the magical girl to everyone, regardless of gender!”
What is that. That’s hella scary.
This was no longer enlightennt, but the realm of madness. However, the senior was only proud, as if she had no sha at all.
“Actually, here there are a few─”
“Ahem, for the sake of protecting the magical girl’s fantasy, please be quiet from now on.”
Laurel-sunbae, with pitch-black dead eyes, covered the mouth of the senior who was about to continue speaking.
Let’s just pretend I didn’t hear anything. That was more for the other seniors who belonged here than for the magical girl’s fantasy.
“So you’re trying to recruit ?”
“Of course! If you beco a magical girl, you can solve your weak durability in an instant.”
“Sunbae, I don't want to give up my dignity for durability.”
She was a real ghost trying to drag down with her. How could she even think of such a cruel idea as ‘I beca a magical girl, so you should beco one too’?
Perhaps magical girls aren’t actually born from sugar, spice, and everything nice, but from the obsession of ‘I can’t be the only magical girl,’ the revenge of ‘you beco a magical girl too,’ and the tears of being scamd.
“And, it's the club you chose! Are you ashad of your own club, sunbae?!”
“I was scamd! I was told I could get strong in an instant! That’s why I joined! Why do I have to wear such an embarrassing outfit!!”
We’ve decided to call that a self-inflicted disaster.
Tsk tsk, I clicked my tongue and shook my head. You should have looked into it more properly.
“I can’t even leave the club until I graduate! I should have known when sunbae was aggressively recruiting!!”
“So, you’re recruiting now based on the spirit of ‘I can’t be the only one suffering,’ right?”
“Of course! Just bring one of your gang!”
The madness filling her pink eyes made shudder. How did the once-reliable Laurel-sunbae co to have such a crazed look in her eyes?
“Sunbae, you’re not forcing them, are you? I’m sorry, our sunbae gets a little like this around this ti. Geez, if you explain everything and then try to scam soone, who would fall for─”
“So it’s a scam.”
“…Never trust soone who says ‘Make a contract with and beco a magical girl’.”
Even that senior, who seed so sly, was a victim of the magical girl scam.
Was this really so grand multi-level marketing sche, or a cycle of misfortune where victims beco perpetrators, gathered by the sentint of ‘I can’t suffer alone’?
“You there, the one with Theo, how about it? Won't you make a contract and beco a magical girl?”
“It hasn’t even been a minute since you said it was a scam.”
“But the part about getting stronger isn’t a scam.”
The two seniors gave a thumbs-up.
Even so, being a magical girl is a bit….
“I’m fine.”
“I don’t need it either! Don’t try to sell weird things! Not to Cian or Zephyros either!”
“You even got a hideout from !”
Leaving behind Laurel who was wailing in injustice, Fel and I scrambled out of the pink tent.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m fine, it was fun.”
Unlike his slyly smiling face, his complexion seed to have turned a little pale.
Anyway, how can this ss, a complete sham, be fun?
I knew about the Vivian Rose Society, but seeing the ss firsthand sent a chill down my spine.
It felt like an unknowing student would lose a lot if they joined.
“Theo! Catch!”
Laurel-sunbae, who had co out of the tent, threw sothing.
When I checked the shape of the thing that fit perfectly in my palm, it was a badge in the shape of a magic wand.
“A magitool that lets you experience the Magic for All the Magical Girls in the World just once!”
I don’t want it!
The badge I was about to throw back to Laurel naturally slips into my clothes pocket.
“Sorry, but it’s bound to you.”
Where in the world is sothing like that?!
“Any other juniors want one? The trial is free!”
Laurel asked with a bright smile.
“I’ll pass!”
There’s no way anyone would say okay after hearing that.
“Suit yourself!”
“Why are you only pushing it on !!”
“Because I think it would suit you well.”
The other seniors who ca out with Laurel also gave a thumbs-up.
I’m not doing it! I’ll never do it!!
* * *
Festivals are also about food. Many clubs had set up stalls to earn club funds.
I tore into a grilled corn I bought from a stall. The buttered grilled corn had an amazing flavor.
“Delicious.”
“You don’t have any plans to join a club? There are a lot of fun ones. Especially the Vivian Rose─”
“Are you trying to scam with a smile too?”
As I stared at him with a straight face, Ferdiel smiled lightly. His constantly smiling and relaxed attitude was starting to get on my nerves.
“Isn’t gaining diverse experiences one of the purposes of entering the Academy? I thought it would be a rather unique experience.”
My purpose was to prevent the end of the world.
For so reason, my eyes started to get misty. Why is the genre a survival story and not an overpowered isekai protagonist? Are they discriminating against because I’m an adult and not a high school student?
“I don't plan on joining a club.”
I don't have that much peace of mind. And thanks to the hideout Laurel told about, I don't particularly need a space.
“It looked fun, what a sha!”
Aren’t you just disappointed you didn’t get to see my downfall? The question almost ca out of my mouth before I barely swallowed it back.
My blood is really running dry. It's not a big deal, but having soone next to openly teasing with a smile is not a pleasant feeling.
“The Flowering Festival preliminaries start tomorrow, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Then I’ll finally get to see the Hero of Prophecy I’ve only heard about in rumors!”
Interest flared in his grey eyes that were close to white.
I could let them et, but I decided not to. Lucian doesn’t have skills like I do, and it seems like he’d get caught every ti he lied.
They’ll et soday, but I felt like I wanted to postpone it as much as possible.
“You two are roommates, right? I use a room alone, so I’m jealous.”
Really? Do you have any idea how much I scread when I first found out I was in the sa room as Lucian?
I sincerely felt like I was abandoned by the world. Or maybe the heavens had carefully wrapped up a ‘fuck you’ and thrown it at .
From my perspective, it was a malicious arrangent.
“Is the Hero of the rumors a special person? What do you think?”
“Well, he’s just a human like us.”
“Hmm, I see.”
Ferdiel quietly adds, “That’s a relief.”
…In what sense is it a relief? Mr. Ferdiel, let’s have a talk?!
I felt like I had done sothing wrong to Lucian.
But I’ll definitely solve it for you soday. Just trust !
For so reason, I felt like I could hear the screams of my future self in my ears
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