I Realized It Was An Academy Game After 10 Years – Chapter 55

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“How is Lady Karina’s condition? It’s not critical, right?”

“It’s not in a very good state, but… with Lady Sabrina’s blessing, once the curse is lifted, it will gradually be resolved. Did you happen to bring the cursed medium?”

At Professor Lennon’s question, Renny took out a thoroughly sealed box from her bag.

Professor Lennon received the box with a very careful touch, as if handling a fragile object, placed it on what appeared to be a workbench, and took out leather gloves with some kind of magic circle drawn on them.

They looked like gloves for a special purpose at first glance.

“A curse that can be felt even with this level of sealing… It’s truly vicious.”

Professor Lennon carefully unsealed the box and opened the lid.

As soon as it was opened, a brutal energy was felt, causing Professor Lennon’s brows to furrow.

“Hah. It’s vicious. This is not a medium made through ordinary methods. At least… it’s an object that would require hundreds of people to be sacrificed.”

“Vicious indeed…”

I had only heard about it, but it was my first time seeing the actual object.

Since I had no knowledge of curses and no ability to lift them, it was best not to touch it.

Millia and I sat side by side and watched the professor handle the cursed medium.

Although it may sound strange to say this, it was quite a rare sight to behold.

There were very few people who could handle curses, and among them, Professor Lennon was regarded as the continent’s best when it came to lifting curses.

Just watching could be of some help to a certain extent.

Ah, the source of this information was Renny.

The professor very carefully picked up the arrowhead and turned it this way and that, checking its condition.

It seemed meaningless to check it in such a way, but since it was an expert doing it, there must be a reason.

I vaguely understood and gently pulled Millia’s body, who was precariously leaning forward and dozing off next to me, towards me.

“…Johann?”

“I’ll wake you up when it’s time to go, so doze off as much as you want.”

“Hehe… Then…”

Millia completely closed her half-closed eyes and leaned her body against me.

I wanted to let her lie down somewhere with a bed since she had gone through so much on the way here, but we came straight here without even booking an inn.

Since we were outsiders and couldn’t use the academy dormitory, the plan was to immediately go out and look for an inn.

“It seems it will take quite some time to analyze. So why don’t you all go and rest now? You don’t seem to be in a good state at first glance…”

“…No. I can’t leave Lady Karina’s side.”

“If you keep staring like that, I can’t concentrate. So could you please leave? Take the opportunity to get some rest as well. Rather than staying by her side in that condition, it would be much better to sleep for a bit and come back to watch over her.”

At the professor’s firm order to leave, Renny hesitated for a moment, glanced at us, and then nodded.

I also wanted to watch a bit more, but now that we were inside the academy, there would be many opportunities.

“Millia. Let’s go.”

“Sleepy…”

Millia rubbed her eyes, stretched, and then nodded her head precariously again.

At this rate, her head would fall off.

I had no choice but to sit in front of Millia and said,

“Get on my back.”

“Hehe…”

Arms wrapped around my neck.

Feeling the plump sensation on my back, I realized Millia was on my back and slowly stood up.

Despite eating so much over the past few months, she was still quite light.

Since she was small, she would be that much lighter.

“Renny. Do you know a place to rest?”

“For now, there’s a building called Yeomyeong-gwan that has been given to saints for generations, so let’s use that. We should have the right to use it.”

Is that so?

Well, my current status is being treated as Lady Karina’s life savior and right-hand man.

Still, I want to obtain a more stable status…

Let’s look for a way once more.

“Then we will go and rest for a bit.”

“See you next time when you’re in better shape.”

We left the professor’s laboratory.

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Kalon Academy was the institution with the best facilities, the most splendid, and the highest quality of education in this world’s setting, in name and reality.

It was only natural.

From royalty to saints, all the powerful people graduated from Kalon Academy.

It would be correct to say it was a pressure cooker-like academy that gathered all the high and mighty, and talented ones.

Naturally, it was set up this way to gather the heroines in one place.

“…Meeting the original heroines is a bit exciting.”

Apart from romantic feelings, it was exciting to be able to see the characters in person.

After all, it was a game I had played for over 1000 hours, and except for the True Ending DLC I had downloaded right before entering the game, I had seen all the routes and all the endings, and played a few more times even after that.

My body still ached a bit.

Due to our forced march, muscle pain was coming from various parts of my body, making me reluctant to move.

My calf area was especially painful.

It had been so long since I felt muscle pain like this.

I didn’t even have muscle pain when I caught the Hydra…

I tried to get up but laid down again, blankly staring at the ceiling.

It would be difficult to go back to sleep since the sunlight was coming through the window and warming my body, but I could still sink into my thoughts while looking at the ceiling.

“The atmosphere seemed a bit chaotic.”

That’s how it looked when I briefly saw it while entering this building called Yeomyeong-gwan.

There were still broken walls that hadn’t been repaired here and there, and the atmosphere of the students passing by us wasn’t very good either.

It was an atmosphere that hadn’t yet escaped the aftermath of the Hellhound Appearance Incident.

It was only natural since Karina hadn’t gone around spamming wide-area heals like in the original work, but…

“…It’s a bit dangerous if the original work gets completely twisted.”

If my remaining knowledge of the original work, even if it’s just a little bit, becomes completely unusable, the difficulty would rise too much.

Survival Academy was already famous for being a high-difficulty game.

And it’s not like I can load a save file like in the game if something goes wrong.

…Phew, let’s put that aside for now.

There’s too little information until I go out and check anyway.

Even if it’s slightly twisted, it could still flow according to the original work.

For now…

“Status window.”

“Am I being treated as unemployed?”

It feels kind of bad?

I glared at the status window in vain, but the occupation column in the status window wouldn’t change.

Come to think of it, I don’t really have an occupation, so there’s no room for argument even if it says unemployed.

I just had a bit of a question.

Is the occupation the status window referring to in the dictionary sense?

Or does it mean to choose one of the occupations the protagonist of Survival Academy can select?

If it’s the former, it’s very easy, but if it’s the latter, it’s difficult.

The former can be resolved right away if there’s an occupation like a servant of Yeomyeong-gwan, but the latter requires going through quite a long quest to change jobs.

Even though changing jobs is just entering a department and acquiring a kind of certificate.

The problem is whether an outsider who is not even related can take the certificate exam, and even if I can receive it, I need to verify my knowledge and ability related to that department, so I would have to study hard.

Just thinking about holding a book as thick as an encyclopedia and studying made my head hurt.

“…Let’s put it off for now. I should try touching the characteristic points first.”

I quickly scanned through the characteristics and skills.

Since Survival is S rank, I don’t know what the lowest rank is, but assuming it starts from F, what should I raise?

Assuming that the higher the rank, the higher the characteristic point requirement, like in gaming experience.

Let’s prioritize raising the skills in the C~B range, leaving the skills above A for now.

“Should I raise either Insight or Dexterity?”

Among the relatively low-ranked skills, these seem to have the best versatility.

I don’t know exactly which aspects they raise, but at least investing in both wouldn’t be a loss, right?

Why did they give me this kind of status window?

If they had given me a stats window with 100 as the maximum like in the original work, I wouldn’t have suffered this much.

“…No. Instead of thinking like this, I should think about using the points.”

“Points? What’s that?”

What?

I didn’t hear the sound of someone entering the room?

I turned my head and looked at Millia, who had just her head on the bed.

When I looked at her, Millia smiled mischievously and opened her mouth.

“You’re always talking about strange things alone. Let me know what it is too! I’m curious!”

“It’s just me talking to myself, don’t mind it. But when did you come in?”

“Hehe. I came in secretly~”

“I see. Then go out again.”

“Play with me!”

“This is not a place to play.”

“We worked hard, so it’s okay to play for a day~ Let’s go tour the academy together~”

Millia climbed on top of my stomach and shook her body as if protesting.

The bed shook with my body, making me dizzy.

The situation itself was quite an erotic one, but with nothing above the neck, it just felt bizarre rather than anything else.

At least put your head on your neck when talking.

We’re too loose with just the two of us here.

“Get off first. Whether I play with you or not, I can’t do anything with you on top of me.”

“This is quite fun, though?”

“I’m getting dizzy, so get off. If you don’t get off, there’s no tour or anything.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. It’s real, so get off.”

“Hehe, then I’ll go change clothes and come back!”

Millia came like a gentle breeze and disappeared like a storm.

I sighed and got up.

“For now, it would be good to decide what to invest in while taking a walk around the academy…”

It wouldn’t be bad to think while getting some fresh air outside.

There’s no need to choose hastily either.

I took a towel and a change of clothes and headed to the bathroom.

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