Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 7, Star Emblem

Miriam, fifteen years old, is a freshman at Earls Academy of Magic.

It had been more than half a month since the start of the school, and Miriam had gradually gotten used to life at the magic academy. Overall, he had no particular complaints about the academy itself.

After all, as a special student of the church and a commoner, Miriam never imagined that she would receive any preferential treatment in an aristocratic academy.

But even so, Miriam still felt that the teaching environment of Yew Fir School was a little bit bad.

You know, except for the first day of school, he had never seen the tutor of their Zishanmu class. Moreover, it would be fine if he just didn't see the tutor, but he also had never seen the assistant tutor, who was generally called the deputy tutor.

Every day, when Miriam saw the substitute teacher with a sour face on the podium, he couldn't help wondering, "Is this grade really okay?" It was called a magic school, but in the past half month, he didn't even feel the shadow of magic. It seemed that the only thing he learned was how to turn the pages of the textbook.

No, think about it carefully. It doesn't seem like a bad thing for the instructor who put the Iron Maiden in the classroom to take a long vacation for some reason?
In addition to the unique and powerful first morning meeting, Grenville, another student from Yewwood School who had been getting along well with him during this period, also said, "The professor definitely deceived people!"

how to say?

Grenwell, who grew up in a mercenary group, has seen more battles on the battlefield, so he trusts Grenwell.

Moreover, there was the incident where the blue-haired female student who went to deliver the materials shortly after the start of school suddenly started to take "leave for some reason".

Now, the entire Yewwood class was filled with a strange atmosphere as the class was about to end. Everyone was afraid that the substitute teacher would ask another student to deliver materials to Professor Ritas.

"I'm not really here to learn magic anyway."

Miriam whispered to herself, and seeing the sky outside the window beginning to darken, she carefully closed the curtains in all the rooms in the dormitory mansion and unbuttoned her clothes.

At this moment, the doorbell of the mansion suddenly rang.

Miriam seemed to be startled. She quickly buttoned her clothes again, looked carefully from front to back in the full-length mirror in the room, and then trotted towards the door.

Walking out of the main gate of the mansion, across the courtyard, Miriam saw the person who rang the doorbell at the gate of the mansion.

"Good evening, and sorry to bother you, Cadet Miriam."

"Good evening, Lady Mary."

The middle-aged woman named Mary was one of the administrators of the second dormitory area, which governed the twelve dormitory buildings around. She had a slightly plump face that easily made people feel good about her.

"Excuse me, is there anything I can help you with?"

"That's right, how should Cadet Miriam convey this?"

Just as Ms. Mary looked troubled, a voice joined the conversation.

"Thank you for leading the way, Ms. Mary. I will convey the rest."

From the shadows on the wall, a tall figure carrying a suitcase walked out.

"For some reasons, we will need to use this dormitory house together for a long time. In order to ensure that our lives will not be affected too much, I will send you a questionnaire about the use of the dormitory, and I hope you can fill it out carefully."

The figure walked out from the shadows and stopped under the magic lamp.

"Cadet Miriam."

".Eh?"

Seeing her grade mentor, who had lost contact since the first day of school, appear in front of her, Miriam just raised her hand and pinched herself to confirm whether she was having a surreal nightmare.

To talk about why Ritas appeared in front of Miriam, we have to go back to almost a week ago.

After retaining Merci, Ritas began to talk with the goddess in the disc.

If the emergency situation and the unilateral output of the Goddess are not counted, this is the first time that Ritas has formally communicated and exchanged with the Goddess.

"female"

“You did a great job, ‘Iron Maiden’. It was worth my efforts to save you. In consideration of your contribution, I will forgive you for taking advantage of Merci!”

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Ritas's respect for the goddess and his desire to thank her only lasted about three seconds.

It's just one sentence, but there is so much that needs to be said.

For example, he had no idea how hard it was for the goddess to "save" him. For another example, if you really want to say it, he was the one who was taken advantage of.

In addition, there is the nickname "Iron Maiden", which has basically been abandoned for correction.

"In fact, even if I didn't say anything, Merci probably wouldn't really be expelled. In fact, someone would probably call her back before she even walked down the long slope at the entrance of the academy."

Feeling that it would be tiring to argue with the goddess, Ritas simply ignored most of the other party's words and only picked out the serious parts to continue the topic.

"Eh? Why?"

"Because of my old... cough, because of the dean. The dean's invisibility magic is getting better and better, so I didn't find her figure, but I am sure she is somewhere beside that road."

"Oh - I have some impression of you. You did look around suspiciously for a while."

"Since the dean specially added the Yew Fir Wood class this year and recruited special students from all over the continent, she must know everything, including the power in Merci's body. She certainly won't let go easily after she finally tricked her into the academy. Moreover, the dean is very narrow-minded and completely regards this academy as her own private property. Therefore, even if there is a fault on the part of the academy, the fact that Merci was allowed to leave without compensation makes the whole thing very suspicious."

"Hey~ Although I don't know what happened between you, but do you have a strong... uh, prejudice? Resentment towards the dean?" "I don't deny it."

Ritas closed his eyes, pinched the bridge of his nose, and temporarily drove out the many unpleasant memories of his student days.

"I see. No wonder you muttered something like 'you lose'. You were competing with your teacher."

The goddess' words surprised Ritas. He didn't expect that the goddess, who was already frivolous and casual in his mind, would remember his casual mumbling.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier? I wouldn't have put pressure on you if you had told me earlier."

The goddess obviously realized that under the circumstances at that time, whoever of Ritas and Dean Livis stepped forward to retain Merci would be put in a passive position in front of the other, or even be controlled by the other.

Originally, Ritas was attacked in the academy. Even after all his losses were compensated, the academy still owed him a debt.

But now, Ritas has exchanged this "debt" of the academy for "Mercy's continued stay in the academy." If Mercy was destined to stay in school anyway, Ritas could have saved this bargaining chip.

"It's okay. It's not a big bargaining chip. I don't expect to use this incident to ask the academy or the dean for anything. At most, I just want to use it to make the dean restrain herself a little. And, let her tell me how many unknown secrets like Merce's power are hidden in this Yew Fir class that was given to me."

Ritas said, shaking his head.
"But now that I think about it, I was still a little naive. Given the dean's style, if she was really pushed into a corner, she would probably claim that I was the one who hired the weird assassin, and that the academy was not at fault but was an innocent victim implicated. And..."

And at that moment, Ritas suddenly realized that if he let Merci go down the mountain, then what he and Dean Livis were doing would be no different. They were like two ends of a game scale, and Merci would become a tool, a weight.

He felt a strong disgust towards this.

Therefore, since he believed that Livis, as a teacher, was a very strong negative example, he had to do something completely opposite to Livis.

"Well, 'Iron Maiden', you seem to have said that your teacher is worthless. But, she may not be as bad as you say or think. Because, in 'Star Emblem', although she is mentioned more or less, the dean or the 'former' dean has never appeared."

"Not on stage?"

"Yeah, that's why I was shocked when I first saw her. 'Who is this beautiful white-haired elf?' That's it. Hmm, I think I've gone off track. Anyway, I can only think of one reason why the dean became the 'former' dean, that is, the difference between the normal line and the current special line."

"That is, you survived."

"That is to say, if you die normally, the dean will never appear in the academy again, whether she resigns, retires out of frustration, or goes to avenge you."

Listening to the goddess' words, Ritas couldn't help but frown, his lips moved slightly, and he almost said the word "impossible" reflexively.

That Livis, who had occupied this academy for a long time as a "sage" in a nearly bandit-like manner, would actually give up being the dean because of him?
The goddess would certainly not be able to imagine that there are people in this world who seem to have used all their talents in the wrong way, so they would say such absurd words.

"Hey, you don't seem to believe it. It's easy to verify it. You can just try it and you'll know."

"Still not, thank you."

Ritas responded in seconds.

"Well, let's put aside the question of what kind of guy the dean is. Since you wanted to use this incident to get something on the dean's side, and make her behave like a human being, and at the same time get some information from her, and you lost this opportunity because of me, then I will fill in the gaps in your information! I'm not exaggerating, as long as it's related to the 'Star Mark', there's nothing I don't know."

The goddess said this when the topic related to the dean had basically come to an end.

The goddess's proposal was exactly what Ritas wanted.

Now that the goddess' "prophecy" has been basically confirmed to be extremely accurate, Ritas naturally wants to consult many things that he cannot know through normal channels.

But the goddess's initiative made Ritas wary and hesitant.

Because the cooperative relationship between him and the goddess was too unhealthy. No, it could be said that it was a one-sided relationship where he was asking for things, and it was not even a cooperative relationship.

This kind of relationship may seem good in the short term, but it is certainly not sustainable, or even if it does last, problems will surely arise.

Apart from other things, even if the goddess's power to predict the future is absolutely reliable, it is completely unknown whether she can tell the correct future and guide people. Once people rely too much on the future revealed by the goddess, and act according to the goddess's intentions in everything, Naritas will sooner or later become a puppet of the goddess.

"What's wrong? You suddenly have a complicated expression. Are you trying to stump me with some difficult questions?"

From a sensory perspective, Ritas felt that the goddess did not have any malicious intent, but was just the type with an extremely strong desire to perform.

However, it is never a bad thing to maintain a certain degree of caution when facing the unknown.

So, after some consideration, Ritas decided to ask some more general questions.

"What exactly is the 'Star Mark Emblem' that the goddess keeps mentioning?"

"Eh? That's all you're asking? You should ask which characters are conquestable and how to trigger the affection story for those characters. It's really boring to be so serious."

Seeing that Ritas didn't react to the teasing, the goddess continued to speak.

"The Star Emblem is the world you are in. Let me look for it. I found this. 'The Star Emblem is a game that focuses on war chess and development, with a high degree of freedom and complex and numerous plot branches as its selling points. Players will play the role of Miriam, the destined hero in the continent of destiny. Through the four years in the game, they will meet and grow up in the Earls Higher School of Magic. In the end, as the savior, they will fight against the thousand-year-old demon king who intends to destroy the world.'"

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Ritas felt a sharp pain in his head.

He could recognize a bunch of words individually, but they sounded quite unfamiliar when combined together.

Moreover, "Brave Miriam", "Destroy the World", "Millennium Demon King". What are these things?
"Ah, you're not asking about that. You're talking about the emblem on Merce's body, right? What's the origin of the Star Emblem? It seems that many years ago, it was an alien who came to the Destiny Continent with the Demon King. Tsk, it doesn't matter what the plot background is. Just remember that the Star Emblem is basically a character that can be added to the game, and it has to be a character with relatively strong combat power."

"Only by carefully recruiting and training those characters with star marks can we defeat the Demon King in the final battle."

(End of this chapter)