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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Bairn, the city where the competition between Aios Academy and Pales Academy was held.
Although Bairn was famous as a tourist city, it wasn’t so crowded with tourists that people were stepping on each other’s feet every day.
The city’s biggest source of income, where it was even ambiguous to distinguish between peak and off-peak seasons, was the rental business.
It had excessively high walls that their ancestors had built to protect against magical beast invasions.
The Bairn Stadium, built using those walls as a foundation, was a premium venue used by many groups – not just academies, but also for royal events, famous theater troupes’ performances, and circuses showcasing bizarre talents.
“Wow, it’s really big.”
I was honestly a bit overwhelmed by its size, which couldn’t be taken in at a single glance even from afar.
How many times would a country boy who had only lived in forests have seen such a thing?
The royal palace was exactly as I had imagined, so I wasn’t particularly surprised, but in the case of the massive Bairn Stadium, my surprise was doubled because I hadn’t expected it at all.
“Hmm, we’re not done talking yet.”
Elise cleared her throat, drawing back my attention which had been dispersed as if entranced by the stadium’s magnificence.
“Ah, right. Why did you say we lost?”
I had been listening to Elise explain why Aios Academy had lost for a whopping 13 years.
I was bored in the carriage anyway, and while Rin, Ares, and I had joined this year, the others had been here all along.
I honestly couldn’t understand how they had lost with Elise, Hayun, and Sen there.
Those three should be among the top of their age group across the continent.
There was even Arni Duratan from the prestigious swordsmanship family, the Duratans.
But Elise smiled slightly and said,
“Do I really need to get involved in such childish games?”
“……”
Come to think of it, she hadn’t come when May was kidnapped and we were arresting the pirate executive Zavalanco either.
“Sen was pretending to be active at the time, so she didn’t show her real skills. Although Hayun and Arni scored a lot of points, it was just the two of them.”
“So you’ve lost for two years straight since enrolling?”
“It’s not like I’m losing.”
Elise answered with a shrug.
Her complete lack of school spirit was very much like her.
The dean must have lost an excellent talent.
“I tried pretty hard but we always lost.”
Tana, sitting on the opposite side, looked out the window at Bairn Stadium with a gloomy expression.
It didn’t seem like she had particularly good memories.
The carriage stopped, and we got off at the dormitory area.
Bertia took my luggage instead of Elise’s and headed to the lodgings.
“Wow, what’s this?”
I was surprised by the size of the lodgings, which was much larger than I had expected.
I thought we would be staying in some sort of shack, all crammed together, but it seemed they had rented out an entire hotel.
“The parents are very interested too, so they spare no expense for the students’ condition.”
“Adults add their wealth to children’s fights?”
I clicked my tongue at Tana’s words as I went inside.
We had arrived at dawn, so I thought the counter staff might be dozing off, but they greeted us with bright eyes.
I heard that rooms were shared by two people.
Elise used her princess privilege to get a room for herself, and Tana said she had promised to share a room with Eve before leaving.
In the end, I was left alone and got excited at the thought of having a room to myself, but…
“There are no rooms left, so you’ll have to share with a male student who’s alone. It’s room 202.”
“Ah, okay.”
An extremely disappointing answer came.
I received my luggage from Bertia and dragged it down the hallway with one hand.
I knocked on the door of room 202, which was right in front of the second-floor stairs, and heard footsteps coming from inside.
I thought they wouldn’t be awake at this early hour, but my roommate seemed more diligent than expected.
“Yes, who is it?”
The door opened smoothly.
A blonde boy in a white hotel robe, his upper body clearly visible, popped out.
“Ares?”
“D-Daniel?”
He seemed much more surprised than I expected.
I sighed at the sight of him, startled like a criminal caught in the act.
“Hah, you’re my roommate?”
“I don’t like it either.”
“Whatever, move. I’m tired from the carriage ride and need to sleep.”
As I tried to push Ares aside with my right hand supported by a splint and enter, he urgently blocked my way, applying force.
“W-Wait a moment.”
“I said I’m tired. Move.”
“No, how about using a different room? It’s uncomfortable for you to share with me too, right?”
“It’s not uncomfortable, it’s shitty, but there are no other rooms. If you don’t like it, switch with someone else.”
“J-Just wait a moment.”
“Ah! I said I’m tired!”
I pushed aside the guy trying to resist with force, hitting his side hard with my stiff splint.
“Be careful, I can kill you with two fingers.”
After threatening Ares, who I had cornered against the wall, by wiggling my bandaged index and middle fingers, I went inside.
The room was a complete mess.
Discarded clothes were strewn everywhere, and the bedding was in disarray.
It was a twin room with two beds, but this bastard seemed to have used both beds together.
“You’re gonna die.”
The room looked like a physical manifestation of his petty inner self, despite his neat outward appearance.
I first yanked my messy blanket with my left hand to shake it out.
“Wait a minute!”
Ares urgently approached me, but it was already too late.
The red-haired woman lying naked on the pristine white bed sheets was both a masterpiece painting and a single pornographic image.
“Oh my fucking god!”
“I-I’m sorryyyy!”
Arni Duratan hurriedly gathered her clothes to cover herself and left the room.
For a while, I stared blankly at the bed, unable to believe the scene I had just witnessed, but a few strands of red hair remaining forcibly made me face reality.
“Um… that…”
As Ares hesitated, trying to make some excuse, my foot moved without me realizing.
I immediately kicked him down to the floor and then stepped on him.
“You crazy bastard! I sent you to train! And you’re using the room! As a love hotel!”
“Agh! Aaagh! D-Daniel! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
“Die! Just die! You piece of trash!”
Unconsciously, I put more force into my stomping foot.
Only when Ares’s expression became half like he was about to cry did I stop the beating.
“Phew, did you think I was bluffing about being able to kill you with two fingers?”
There was only one reason I stopped.
To start again.
As I cracked my knuckles, blessing Ares’s future that was about to unfold, he clung to my leg and shouted.
“I-I’m sorry! I thought you weren’t coming!”
“Let go of this, it hurts more.”
Realizing there was absolutely no room for negotiation, Ares conversely cried out that he was wronged.
“Y-You do it a lot in the dormitory too! I just slept with my girlfriend for a bit at a travel destination!”
“What?”
“Our relationship was really wholesome, but we came on this trip, and the mood was right, so we did it! It was our first time!”
“……”
I was speechless.
I do it too?
You dare say such things to me, who has been fighting for humanity for 28 years and even after regressing?
The urge to immediately dismember him and hang his limbs in the four cardinal directions of Bairn surged, but for some reason, it felt like beating him here would make me look like I had an inferiority complex.
“……Phewww.”
Taking a deep breath, I shook my foot to detach Ares and cleared away Arni Duratan’s hair left on the bed before flopping down.
“I’m going to sleep. If you make even the slightest noise, you’re dead.”
“…Okay.”
Intending to escape reality, I covered myself with the blanket and closed my eyes, but…
“Hey, you bastard! It smells!”
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I had planned to sleep until lunchtime after arriving at dawn, but ended up sleeping until evening.
I had scrubbed and sprayed the deodorizer provided by the hotel to remove the smell, but conversely, the deodorizer smell was so strong that it made my nose sting.
Considering that I woke up in the middle of my sleep when the dean knocked on the door to ask if my right hand was okay, it wasn’t a particularly comfortable rest.
“I’m going to eat.”
“…Okay.”
“If you dare call Arni Duratan after I leave, I’ll really become a gangster then.”
“…I got it.”
“Do it outside, outside.”
After giving Ares, who had become gloomy, both a warning and a suggestion, I went out.
I was wearing the hotel-provided robe after washing up, and it was surprisingly comfortable, making my steps light.
I had heard that there was a restaurant on the first floor where we could eat anytime during the provided hours, so I aimed for the tail end when there would be fewer people, but…
There were a few familiar faces.
“Daniel!”
“Hey! You came!”
Rin and May, were also wearing hotel robes like me.
The two seemed to have come to eat together, perhaps sharing a room.
“It’s been a while.”
“Daniel! I heard you were injured.”
“So you can get hurt too.”
Rin examined my right hand with worried eyes while May smiled welcomingly.
Just as I was feeling that conversing with these two was somehow nostalgic…
“Daniel, you smell like another woman.”
“…Huh?”
If you’re going to stab at me like this after meeting for the first time in a while, how am I supposed to react?
I slowly turned my head to look at Rin.
Her palm wrapping around my right hand tightened, and I worried the splint might break if she wasn’t careful.
“It’s coming from your whole body, too.”
It was probably because I had slept on the bed where Arni and Ares had been sweating and fooling around.
‘I sprayed so much deodorizer…’
Those bastards were the problem to begin with.
If they were going to do it, they should have stuck to one bed.
What were they doing, here and there?
They weren’t monkeys.
“You smell something? Sniff sniff, I only smell soap though?”
May approached me and sniffed, then looked at Rin with a puzzled expression, but Rin looked back at her with a pitying expression.
“You can’t tell? You must be lacking in love.”
“Is this bitch a detection dog?”
May pointed at Rin with her finger, saying it was ridiculous.
I sighed and prepared to immediately sell out Ares.
[T/N: what in the fuck, i actually had to take 2 mins to process what i was translating. Bro wuuuuut just happened yo.]
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Daniel is missing in you becoming a man