Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 73 Daily Life in the Tree House

"After that, Engri was picked up by the people from the Latras Chamber of Commerce and thrown into that breeding center. Although the environment in that breeding center is not very good and is quite cruel, it is indeed a breeding center. I will tell you the reason later."

"Engri's fortunes turned around in the academy in the past two years. Latras conducted a large-scale test on magic-related talents. Anyway, Engri was finally selected and entered the academy. The game does not clearly indicate the reason for entering the academy, but combined with the information I have obtained from you, it should be related to the 'People of the Stars'."

"Anyway, after officially becoming a member of the Yewsugi school, I can almost connect with the current timeline."

"The reason why Engel suddenly started to lose control was because on the night his hometown was destroyed and his sister was kidnapped, he saw a badge hanging on one of the people. After coming to the academy and joining the Magic Ball seminar, he suddenly saw the badge on Noah's body without any psychological preparation. However, Noah took out the badge for only a moment, and she seemed to be planning to throw it away. From the results, it can be seen that Noah changed her mind and did not throw it away. In order to confirm whether the badge was the one that still appeared in his nightmares, Engel did not care about anything else and ran directly to the women's locker room to look through Noah's things."

When the Bathing Goddess said this, the fog surrounding Engri had basically been cleared away.

Ritas lowered his head slightly, not knowing how to comment.

Presumably, no matter in this world or in the "Star Pattern" world of the game, anyone involved in the Magic Ball Seminar incident would have thought that the freshman sneaking around in the women's locker room had such a bitter and vengeful reason.
"If I remember correctly, in the 'game' world, when Engel joined the Magic Ball Seminar, Malik Azan had already escaped. However, it is hard to imagine that Engel would completely give up the clues related to his sister and enemy. Therefore, the reason why Engel disappeared from the academy later might be because he found traces of Malik Azan."

After thinking for a while, Ritas said.

"That makes sense. Unlike you, no one in the game has eradicated the forces of the Trickery Society in the academy. Plus, Malik has been working here for many years, so there must be some information left. Oh, and there is one more thing. Do you remember? If you don't choose Engel in the forced choice, Engel will first transfer to the Green Ivy class at the end of the first semester as the top student in the class."

"Remember."

Not only did Ritas remember, he immediately understood what the Bathing Goddess wanted to say.

Since Engri was actually sent by the "Star Citizens" in the Latras Chamber of Commerce to observe and protect the "Star Chosen", that is, the Star Mark holders, does that mean that there are also hidden Star Mark holders in the Green Vine class who are not active in the "Star Mark" game?
After all, before Engel officially decided to defect and hunt down Malik, he still needed to obey the organization's arrangements.

In addition, Ritas also thought of the student who inexplicably joined the "Bath Seminar", who was from the Green Ivy class, and judging from her name, she should be a female.

No way?
It can’t be such a coincidence, right?
There are nearly twenty people in the Green Ivy class!

When Ritas's expression was somewhat uncertain, the goddess of bathing spoke again,
"In addition to this, I found something strange when I opened a new file this time. That is, you are forced to choose one of the two. Those who are not chosen will become cadres of the Demon King's Army. I thought there was only one villain in each line before, but I didn't expect that they actually existed together. So I didn't realize that since the final Demon King's Army is essentially one of the four winning organizations, both Engel and Cecilia have the possibility of joining the four organizations. Isn't this super weird!"

"!"

Ritas was shocked.

There’s something really wrong with today’s Bathing Goddess. She actually discovered something in the new file!

"As for Engri, it's understandable that he joined the 'Forgotten Temple'. After all, Latras and the 'Star People' will probably be entangled with the Forgotten Temple in the end. I can even understand that he joined the 'Tricky Dark Rite Society', which should be the most hostile. It's very likely that there will be a bloody plot like his sister has become a high-ranking official in the Dark Rite Society. What about the remaining 'Beast Empire' and 'Darkborn'? How did he join them?"

"And Cecilia's case is even more outrageous. After she returned to her hometown to get married, she made herself a cadre of the Demon King's Army. It can't be that the bandit family behind her is connected to four villain organizations at the same time, right? That would be too much for this bandit."

"So, if we can solve this mystery and find out when they acquired these 'possibilities', can we be one step closer to the four organizations?"

Listening to the goddess of the bath talking, Ritas, who felt very unfamiliar, was silent for a while before speaking in an exceptionally gentle voice.
"If you are feeling unwell or have a fever, you can rest early, Bathing Goddess."

"Oh? What do you mean, Professor Kosato? It seems that you have a big misunderstanding about me. I am not brainless, I just don't want to use it! As for the reason, of course, it is because my brain is too precious. To use your favorite antique as an analogy, my brain is a priceless bowl! And if you don't preserve such a bowl well, are you really going to use it to drink soup?!"

Of course, you can't really use it to hold soup, because the bowl is probably leaking.

"I will keep this in mind."

Ritas nodded seriously.

Taking the simultaneous existence and activities of the four organizations as a premise, and comparing the seemingly irrational but actually logical settings in the game "Star Pattern" world, has already brought Ritas a lot of information. And he has a hunch that the omitted irrationality "picked up" by the Bathing Goddess will also bring him some gains.

After talking for a while, the topic returned to Engel.

Then they encountered the common and very real problems.

How to use this information from the Bathing Goddess now.

Even if we don't exaggerate and say that the entire continent is just the area around Earls College, it is not the size of a lake. Therefore, it should be difficult to catch Engri by using a fishing rod with Malik's badge as bait.

"'Ankh Town'! Yes, it's the ruins of Ankh Town. You can go there and look for it. At the end of the Engel's line, there is a plot where you and the hero return to the ruins of your hometown to lay flowers. Since you wiped out the family of the big yellow-haired man, Engel can't seek revenge or return to the organization, so he should unconsciously return to the ruins of his hometown. And this plot doesn't take long, which means that the ruins of Ankh Town are near Earls!"

The Bathing Goddess gave decisive instructions.

“Will it be that simple?”

Ritas was a little skeptical, but thinking that there would be no harm in just giving it a try, he agreed.

Coincidentally, John, the captain of the Genlusi, was sent by the Zhiguan Council to search for the missing students.

Therefore, Ritas planned to write a letter to John after finding out the exact location of the ruins of Anka Town, asking him to replace himself, who was not suitable to leave the academy for a long time, to find out whether Engel was there.

"By the way, regarding the breeding ground of Latras, did the Bathing Goddess forget to tell you something?"

Recalling the previous conversation, Ritas asked.

"Ah, this. Well, I accidentally touched someone's privacy again. But, this is probably unavoidable."

The Bathing Goddess sighed softly with a troubled tone.
"Although it looks suspicious, the facility of the Latras Chamber of Commerce should indeed be a breeding center. In other words, it must have the purpose of 'breeding'. Because... in the CG about the breeding center in Engel's flashback, I saw Sylvie."

"Sylvie?"

As a member of the Latras family, it didn't seem strange for Sylvie to appear in the Latras breeding facility. But since the goddess of bathing deliberately mentioned it.
"You probably guessed it. Although Sylvie was still very young at the time, and in the background, she was not in the same area as Engel, and her appearance was also very blurry. But I would not mistake it, it was definitely Sylvie. And Sylvie did not appear there as a manager or a visiting lady. At that time, she was wearing the same style as Engel, a simple single-color outfit like the hospital gown that only breeders wear."

After listening to the words of the Bathing Goddess, Ritas couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise.

This week, on the last morning of the school day, in the tree house.

Following a knock on the door, Mercy's voice echoed in the corridor.

"Senior Noah, are you awake? If you don't get up, it might be too late."

"Five more minutes."

Noah in the room turned over in bed and then there was no movement.

After waiting outside the door for a few minutes and calling out a few times tentatively, Merci went directly into Noah's room.

With the sound of the curtains being drawn open and the classic reaction of "Ah, it's so dazzling", Mercy pulled Noah out from where he was curled up in the bed.

"woo"

Under Merci's "brutal abuse", Noah let out a cry like a small animal and muttered "I can't hold it anymore". So Merci hurriedly helped Noah and put her in the bathroom.

Time passes minute by minute.

Mercy stood outside the door for several minutes, feeling that something was wrong, so she had no choice but to "break in" again. Then, as expected, she saw Noah sleeping soundly on the toilet.

"Senior."

Merci sighed softly, but did not show any impatience or annoyance, instead she began to take care of Noah.

Wash your face, clean your teeth, tie your hair, change into your uniform, put on your shoes and socks
After everything was prepared, she moved Noah to the dining room.

After sitting at the dining table and shaking his head for a long time, Noah, who had been stubbornly unwilling to open his eyes, finally came back from his dream with a dazed look as the hot milk exuded its mellow smell.

Almost every morning, Noah would have a period of amnesia. He would look around at the scene around him, swallow his saliva, and then curl the ends of his hair with his fingers in embarrassment.

"I'm sorry, Merci. I'm bothering you again."

As the relaxed look on his face gradually disappeared, Noah returned to his normal atmosphere as a senior student.

She was very "weak" in the morning. This was a problem she had not been able to overcome in the more than two years since she came to Earls College, nor in the seventeen years since she was born. It was even more impossible to overcome it in just ten days after moving to the tree house.

Rather, since it takes longer to get from the tree house to the teaching building, Noah needs to wake up earlier and is also "weaker".

"It's okay, Senior Noah! As long as I can help you, or rather, as long as you are willing to let me help you, I will be very happy."

Mercy said this while she was busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen.

Noah, who was sitting at the dining table with his chin on his hand, stared at Mercy's back in an apron. He seemed to be full even though he hadn't eaten anything.

“Eh? Eh—!”

Unfortunately, before Noah could appreciate it for long, a cloud of light black smoke came out of the kitchen.

"Ahh this. This."

When Mercy encountered an emergency, her first reaction was to cover her head with both hands, and a series of accidents occurred in the kitchen.
Not long after, all that appeared on the tree house duo's dining table was a plate of burnt bread slices.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Senior. I screwed up again. I, I still don't know how to use that new magic furnace."

In Merci's words, the word "again" is very important.

Facing the frustrated Mercy on the other side of the table, Noah just calmly stood up and leaned forward to wipe the other person's face that was stained by black smoke with a napkin.

"So it was a mess? I thought you knew I liked crispy food, so you made it specially for me."

Noah said this, and when he returned to his seat, he picked up the burnt bread from the plate and tasted it elegantly from the corner.

"Just right."

Noah commented like this.

After breakfast time, when there was a constant sound like eggshells being crushed, it was almost time for the two girls to go out.

"Wait a minute, Mercy. You forgot to take off your apron."

"Oh! Really."

"Um Mercy, is your skirt on backwards?"

"what!"

"Really——"

Noah's tone seemed to be somewhat complaining, but his movements were very smooth and quick, as if he was afraid that Mercie would correct herself. While helping Mercie adjust her skirt, Noah would occasionally show her his crooked bow tie and the wrong two rows of buttons on his shirt.

It's a pity that Merci didn't realize this until the end.

So, in the end, Noah could only embarrassedly put the bow tie and buttons back to their original places.

(End of this chapter)