Chapter 23 - I enrolled in magic school (2/2)
I’ll never get in the way of your love! I’ll be your ally! So, even if I do something wrong, please don’t eliminate your nee-san!
In order to take in my deep words, Keith was looking at the sky…… For some reason, Keith had a look on his face as if he had lost something very important…… I’m also concerned that he seems to be looking worse off than earlier as well.
“……Keith?”
While I was looking at Keith blankly, I heard Anne speak up from behind me.
“Ojou-sama, if you go any further than this…… I’m afraid Keith has already reached his limit.”
Limit…… That’s it! After hearing Anne’s words, I finally came to the realization that I had been unconsciously shaking Keith rather violently.
Since I shook him so hard right after he ate breakfast, it’s probably making him feel a little sick. I did something really terrible to him while being unconscious of it.
“I’m really sorry, Keith. I shook you so hard right after you ate breakfast, if you’re feeling a bit sick now, how about you take a break from classes and go rest in the infirmary?”
I apologized, and came up with the idea to have him rest, but…… Without looking like he got any better, Keith just replied “I’m fine.”
“……But, if you’re not feeling well……”
“……No, it’s not that I’m feeling sick…… My body is fine, but…… The problem is with my spirit……”
For some reason, Keith kept grumbling about some stuff I didn’t really understand and saying that his body was fine, and refused to go to the infirmary. And so, we joined up with Mary and Sophia, and even on the way to classes his complexion didn’t improve at all. I really forgot myself in the moment there, and shook him too hard. Keith, I’m really sorry about what I did to you.
And so, I kept worrying about Keith throughout classes, but during the next break in between classes, he seems to have returned to his usual self -
“I think I originally underestimated how absurdly dense the enemy was…… From now on, I’m going to attack even more directly.”
While holding my hand, he declared something completely irrelevant to the situation for some reason.
But, really, since it’s me, I’m fine, but…… For real, he’s so popular…… He’s holding a girl’s hand like that and looking straight into my face without any reason at all, what a dangerous child he is. At this rate, all the pure girls will be going crazy about him……
Since he’s finally returned back to his normal self, I’ll allow it this time, but I’m going to have to warn him as his older sister next time that he does something like this to me.
But anyways, the heroine Maria’s charm is really quite something…… In just a few days, she’s already attracted Jared’s interest, and Keith’s completely fallen in love with her. It’s really as expected.
Once again, it looks like I’m going to have to come up with a good strategy.
And so, that night, I conducted a strategy meeting once again alone in my dorm room.
Well then, this session of the Katarina Claes destruction end avoidance strategy shall now commence. I think I’ll even subtitle it with “the heroine’s charm is really amazing~.”
Chairman Katarina Claes.
Representative Katarina Claes.
Secretary Katarina Claes.
“Alright everyone, let’s come up with some good ideas!”
“Hai~.”
“Okay. Well then, please go ahead, Katarina Claes-san.”
“It’s already in the subtitles, but…… The heroine Maria-san’s charm is more than I expected! She’s already got Jared’s attention, and Keith’s fallen for her!”
“So it would seem. As expected of the heroine-san.”
“But, I don’t think Jared should be in love with her yet?”
“Uhh, what do you think you’re talking about? Jared’s already interested in her. Falling in love with her is only a question of time now.”
“Really? Well, for sure, Jared was like that in the game, Jared actually seems fine to me now, he’s interested in various thing, he always gives me advice on my field, and he’ll always bring lots of different types of sweets!”
“……Well, it’s just as you say. But, this isn’t the first time that he’s been interested in a special person! I mean, Jared’s always going on about Katarina, he never talks about anything else but the name of the girl he’s currently interested in!”
“That’s right, if we go along those lines, now that he’s interested in the heroine-san for the first time, it’s only a matter of time before he falls in love.”
“Honestly, the heroine-san is so amazing.”
“At this rate, Alan and Nico will be falling in love with Maria-san soon as well for sure.”
“……So it would seem……”
“……Is that really the case?”
“Eh!? What do you mean?”
“Indeed, the heroine Maria-san is just like in the game, she’s great at academics and powerful at magic, and as a bonus she’s also an amazing beauty…… But in that case, Mary and Sophia won’t lose to her either!”
“!?”
“The two of them, as Alan and Nico’s rival characters, are really smart as well, and also have powerful magic, and won’t lose to Maria-san in beauty either! There’s no way that Maria-san can beat them so easily!”
“That’s right! They’re both really charming as well, so they definitely won’t lose so easily!”
“I agree, there’s no way they’ll lose that easily! The only one that will lose, is Katarina who’s bad at both academics and magic!”
“I agree, it’s only Katarina that loses. If that’s the case, I’m really relieved.”
“I agree, I’m really glad.”
“…………………Oi, wait just a little bit, we shouldn’t be so glad!! If Katarina loses, won’t all be for naught!! We’ll head straight for our destruction end!!”
“Oh, that’s right! If Katarina loses, everything will come to an end!”
“……Certainly, it’ll all come to nothing if we lose, but…… Everyone, think. Let’s consider this calmly. Against a girl who’s smart and powerful at magic, do you think a girl with a villainess face that’s bad at academics and magic can possibly win?”
“…………”
“…………”
“…………L, let’s make a field! We just read ‘More on Agriculture’ and ‘The Importance of Experience in Agriculture’ recently. Even if we’re here at school, we can’t afford to slack off from working on a field!”
“That’s right! We also need to practice throwing the toy snake more, so that we can throw it as naturally as possible when the time for it comes!”
“After that, we just need to get the okay from the teachers, and we need to continue practicing the sword as well!”
“That’s right!”
“Well then, tomorrow let’s ask the school to allow us to make a field, practice throwing the toy snake even more, and keep practicing swordsmanship, does this sound good to everyone?”
“Hai~~~.”
And so, the Katarina Claes destruction end avoidance strategy meeting was concluded. I didn’t really come up with anything new……
“In the morning, I’m going to ask the teachers to allow me to create a field here.”
And so, I went to sleep in my bed that was slightly smaller than the one I had at home.
A few days later, after my classes ended, I was digging in a corner of the school grounds where almost nobody would ever come.
“Ojou-sama, is this a flower garden?”
Anne was asking me with a dubious look on her face.
“Yeah, it’s a flower garden. Since you and Keith keep telling me that I’m absolutely forbidden from making a field, I figured I might as well plant a flower garden instead.”
That’s how it is. Even though I was all pumped up to create a field here at school, Keith and Anne kept insisting that “even if you do it in your own home, you can’t do it at school” and strongly opposed me, so I compromised with them by saying I’d do a flower garden instead, and I’ve talked with the school already about it as well.
Gardening seems to be surprisingly common as a hobby among nobles, so it was quite easy to get permission.
That’s why, I’m making a flower garden right now.
However, Anne kept looking at me more and more dubiously.
“But ojou-sama, the seeds you have there don’t look like flower seeds to me……”
“Anne really, what are you saying now. These are proper flowers too. These are cucumber flowers, and these eggplant flowers will bloom as well.”
“……Ojou-sama…… So what you’re saying is that I didn’t see things wrong, and these are vegetable seeds……”
“Well yes, they’re vegetable seeds in the end, but…… Before being vegetables, they’re also flowers that will bloom as well!”
As I puffed out my chest in pride, Anne just sighed deeply as she looked at me.
“I thought I had convinced you already……”
“And so, I’ve already ordered the other seeds as well, it’s fine, right?”
As I said so, Anne just kept staring at me, and sighed deeply once again.
“……I understand. However, please try not to let the other students or the school find out about it.”
“Thank you!”
Yay~! Anne was persuaded! If I can persuade Keith as well later, nobody else should be complaining at me about it.
“……But anyways, ojou-sama, I feel like that hoe you’re using and those work clothes you’re in right now look really familiar for some reason……”
“Ahh, these? Of course they’d look familiar. After all, they’re the same ones I’ve always been using at home.”
After I said so, Anne’s face became terribly haggard.
“……Just as I thought…… But, ojou-sama, if memory serves me right, we definitely left those work clothes and the hoe behind at the Claes mansion……”
“That’s so! Even though I took the trouble to pack them away so neatly in my luggage, you took everything out again! Since I had no other way, I asked Tom-san to deliver them himself all the way from our house to me!”
“……Tom-san, that traitor, it couldn’t be……”
After grumbling so to herself, Anne became quiet and just kept watching me work, and I made good progress working with the hoe. It’s a lot smaller in size compared to the one at home, and since I have classes as well now, I don’t have that much time anymore to work on a field, so I’ll have to work my hardest.
After that, although I got a bit of a scolding, I was somehow successful in persuading Keith as well.
By the way, my friends all found out about the field immediately.
While watching me plow the field, Alan held his belly again and exploded in laughter saying “unbelievable, to come to school to do something like this,” and Jared seemed to have his head down and shoulders trembling again while standing next to Alan.
Mary, Nico, and Sophia were all really shocked at first, but all said that they would help me if I needed it.
There’s still two years left until the otome game ends, and in order to overcome all the destruction flags, I’ll be staking my life on plowing my field.