A Third-Rate Villain’s Sweet Life Exploiting Academy Bugs – Chapter 15

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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For a moment, my thoughts stopped and then started moving again.

What’s happening now?

To confirm once more, I pointed at myself with my finger.

Instead of answering, Aria nodded slightly and handed me the application form.

“Uh… That’s…”

As I blinked in confusion,

“Have you already found someone?”

“It’s not that.”

“Then let’s do it together.”

“……”

Aria doesn’t force anything on others without reason.

So why is she trying to form a party with Lev Denec, a third-rate villain?

There’s no way he would get involved with the main characters already.

It didn’t seem like the novel’s setting had changed, as no feedback status window appeared.

So, in the end, it meant that the cause was in my actions.

For now, let’s hear the reason.

“The reason is?”

“…I have something I’m curious about; you, no, about your archery.”

Still a blunt expression, but it’s a lie.

She’s not good at lying, so this interest feels wrong.

I quickly used Demon’s Eye.

‘Surveillance is activated in the unique trait.’

Aria had a past where she lost her family to demons.

At that time, she, who could only hide and watch, inherited the ability of surveillance as a dual characteristic.

The problem was that in the original work, it would have been dormant at Level 0 and bloomed later.

It was Level 1 from the beginning, probably due to the author’s power inflation.

The fact that it was active probably meant I was the target, right?

‘Why me?’

Because I’m a villain?

Or was there some kind of dog-like setting where Aria Bluebell had liked Lev Denec and been paying attention to him…

There was no way there could be such a setting.

According to the settings collection, what she liked was just taking walks.

And what she disliked was people who didn’t keep their promises…

Nothing mainly came to mind.

Well, unless it was some absurd coincidence like her sensing my demonization while taking a walk at night…

Huh?

No way?

I didn’t know about it in the novel, but Aria’s walk was a rare event with a very low probability in the game.

That’s why it was tough to raise her favorability, I remember, but was that the day she went for a walk?

‘No, it can’t be.’

It’s not something to calculate with probability.

This is reality, not a game.

It’s not impossible.

While I was organizing my thoughts, a familiar voice broke the silence.

“Wh-wh-what? Ria, what’s wrong with you?!”

Melissa grabbed Aria’s shoulders and started shaking her.

“Ria, are you sick somewhere? Did he find out your weakness or something?”

It made sense, suddenly suggesting that a party be formed with the person who committed the confessing crime, no matter how you viewed it…

Melissa’s face turned red as she began to stutter.

“If, if it’s not that, then, such, disrespectful… relationship…”

“It’s not what you’re thinking.”

Aria sighed lightly and sorted out the situation.

“If Melissa doesn’t like it, I’m fine going alone…”

“Ah, no! Then I’ll join too. I don’t know what this guy might do.”

I quietly added a word.

“I haven’t accepted it yet.”

“What…?”

At my words, Melissa made a dumbfounded expression as if she couldn’t believe it,
and Aria, as if she couldn’t accept this as well, asked me.

“Are you refusing?”

“No, but I have one condition.”

“Condition…?”

I tried to point with my hand,

Ah, I can’t remember the face exactly.

“If you bring Hazel into our party too.”

“Hazel?”

At Aria’s request, Hazel wouldn’t refuse and would join the party.

Of course, it doesn’t matter even if I refuse Aria’s party participation proposal, but this situation where I can get involved in a party with the main characters is clearly an opportunity.

I can aim for the reward of Hazel’s supporting role quest.

If the situation of being under surveillance magic by Aria continues, it will restrict my future gameplay.

I need to prove that I’m not a villain.

“Okay.”

“Ria! Are you seriously listening to this guy right now?!”

Despite Melissa’s dissuasion, Aria briefly accepted and leisurely went to invite Hazel to the party.

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A little later, as the instructors gathered at the assembly point, they announced the start of the test.

“We will now begin the main test.”

To summarize Instructor Sylvester’s explanation of the test, first, this test is based on a party consisting of 5 people, and two parties enter a unique barrier and hunt demons summoned by the professors that are close to reality.

They give certificates as spoils, and the party that collects more within the time limit is given extra points.

“However, if you compete like this with quantity, there will be parties who try to scatter and gather quickly, right?”

“Therefore, we have placed ‘it’ in the forest. This will restrict your individual actions.”

Even Sylvester’s request matched the contents of the novel.

“Alright.”

I got up from my seat to ask Sylvester an additional question.

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-What happened to the guy shooting the crossbow?

-I think he ended up with the party over there.

-Lady Melissa? What’s going on?

No party wants Lev Denec.

However, Melissa, who suddenly became his teammate, grumbled a little.

“What the hell? He suddenly says he’s going to be an archer even though he aimed for magic… He drags Hazel in…”

Hazel and Lev had no connection at all.

If anything, it would be because Hazel had too little presence…

Anyway, now he’s going to the instructor to ask something.

‘He’s not trying to give up, is he?’

I never wanted to get involved with him again, but I had no choice but to be on the same team.

He wouldn’t be of help to our strength, but Aria was the one who proposed it first.

The fortunate thing was that even if that bastard dropped out, Melissa had enough confidence in her magic skills to take responsibility for this situation.

‘By the way, why did Edwin agree to it?’

Edwin also had no particular objection to accepting Lev into the party.

‘What are they all thinking??’

Unfortunately, Melissa couldn’t reach the point that there was something between the three of them.

“Really…”

To Melissa, they were just two people who were too kind and naive.

It’s not like they’re easy to trust or use people…

Growing up, she saw numerous hypocrisies in the city, and she felt like she would have to teach them that the world wasn’t so easy someday.

-…

Lev Denec heard his desired answer and started walking towards us.

‘He’s not… giving up?’

If he’s not giving up, does that mean he’s desperate enough about being expelled to ask the instructor something?

His face was still hard to read.

‘You should have done well from the beginning then!’

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After hearing the answer he wanted and returning to his seat,

Edwin briefly introduced himself as if he wasn’t concerned about the memory of that day,

“Nice… to meet you…”

After exchanging greetings with Hazel’s low-tension voice, we awkwardly waited for our turn.

“Now, let’s have Party 1 enter from the left barrier.”

And in line with Vice Instructor Bella’s instructions, Parties 1-1 and 1-2 began to disappear into the forest.

‘My opponent is…’

The 2-2 party we were up against had

Selena and Lily were there.

‘We only have one in the vanguard…’

Even though Edwin had awakened as an executor, unlike the original story, I had joined, so the Vanguard had gone from two to one.

It might feel less stable, but since we have all the positions of Vanguard, Middle Guard, and Rearguard, wouldn’t it be okay?

“Next, Groups 2-1 and 2-2, enter.”

And so, our turn came.

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-Whoosh…

The forest at dusk, the entrance to the spiral-shaped barrier, welcomes us.

To avoid being held back, pass Hazel.

It’s quite a headache-inducing condition.

-Thump.

Like that, with Edwin at the lead, Melissa and Hazel entered the forest one after another.

“……”

Finally, Aria stopped momentarily at the entrance, slightly turned her head, and looked at me.

“Why?”

-……

With a lowered gaze, she looked a little sad for some reason.

She soon murmured briefly.

“…Let’s go.”

Clear cerulean eyes from any angle.

You probably want to discover my true identity with those eyes, right?

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Meanwhile, Vice Instructor Bella casually asked Instructor Sylvester, who was watching the students’ entry.

“Senior, about that kid with the crossbow earlier.”

“Yes?”

“He said something to you, what did he talk about? Did he already give up or… how to leave…”

“No. He asked something interesting.”

“Something interesting?”

“Yes. He asked what would happen if he caught ‘it’… and if that would be included in the evaluation.”

“What?!”

There was a reason for Bella’s surprise.

‘Why is he curious about that?’

The ‘it’ was the demon Rag.

Even if it was F-grade, it was a named demon with the name ‘Rag,’ and additional enchantments would be placed so that it wouldn’t be caught easily.

Its level would definitely be at least C-grade.

It was absolutely impossible to defeat with the skills of the top freshman.

No, it wasn’t even a monster set up to be caught in the first place, and there were reasons why it was constructed with illusion magic instead of summoning.

‘If it were real, there would be endless casualties every year…’

Bella soon stopped her terrible thoughts that wouldn’t even happen.

He was the guy who made a fuss about a mage becoming an archer.

It was nonsense to try to understand such a crazy guy.

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[hmmm im pondering on this immortal question, ass or tits? lmk down below]