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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Vine
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“Come with you?”
Absolutely not. She would rather die at the hands of a demon.
A reckless battle maniac with no sense of self-preservation.
That’s how Riche perceived Arthur.
He was inconsiderate, putting his teammates’ lives at risk with his rash decisions.
If Luke hadn’t intervened, everyone in her group would have died.
After giving her statement to the professors who had arrived late, Riche underwent a brief medical examination before leaving the academy.
She was looking for Luke.
She headed straight for the Adventurers’ Guild.
And there he was.
Luke and the beastkin woman were heading for the exit.
“Found you.”
She waited for him to approach, then called out:
“Luke.”
“?”
He turned around, made a strange face, and said:
“No, I’m Luke.”
“…?”
What was he talking about?
This wasn’t the time for jokes.
He was trying to slip away.
“You’re not getting away this time.”
She summoned a ring of fire around him.
If he tried to force his way through, he’d have to fight both of them.
She glanced at the beastkin woman, who seemed…
“…?”
…strangely calm.
A voice came from within the flames:
“Tet-kai.”
She didn’t recognize the spell, but Luke walked right through the flames.
“…How?!”
“I just walked through it.”
That wasn’t what she meant.
How could he walk through fire unharmed?
He wasn’t even scorched.
One could use magic to protect themselves, but Luke had no magic power.
“No one can stop me!”
He never backed down from a challenge, not even from the main heroine.
Riche, of course, didn’t know this.
He charged at her, shoulder first.
“W-wait! Kya!”
A shoulder tackle.
She went flying.
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“Luke… I think she just wanted to talk…”
“Luna, we call that ‘stalking.’”
It was common knowledge.
“That’s not the kind of stalking I know…”
“Do people who want to talk start by throwing magic at you?”
“You did run away from her…”
“It was a strategic retreat.”
“…Right.”
Luna never gave him credit. He’d throw her into a horde of monsters during the academy invasion event.
Then she’d be grateful.
Riche got up, seemingly unharmed. She must have used magic to protect herself.
She dusted herself off and approached him.
“Sorry for attacking you. You kept running away.”
“That was a strategic retreat.”
“…Whatever. Can we talk?”
“No.”
“I’ll buy you dinner.”
“Okay.”
“…?”
He couldn’t resist a free meal from a pretty girl.
She was probably his age, but close enough.
He followed her to the restaurant district.
He usually went to cheap restaurants, but since she was paying, he wouldn’t hold back.
When someone offered to treat you, it was your duty to milk them dry.
He led her to an expensive restaurant.
“Give me everything on the menu!”
Riche was a noble, she could handle it.
“You really have no shame…”
“I’m a true man. I’ll exploit your kindness before it becomes an obligation.”
They said kindness, if continued, was taken for granted.
It was only polite to exploit it before that happened.
“You can order more too,” he said to Luna.
“I’m fine.”
“Luna, never refuse kindness.”
“You should probably refuse sometimes…”
There was nothing more embarrassing than having your kindness rejected.
People like Luna would starve to death being too polite.
The dishes were served one by one as they were prepared.
He grabbed a piece of meat with his fork and stuffed it into his mouth.
“I’ll ask, and you answer while eating.”
“Mmmf.”
“You mentioned Hex last time. How do you know about Hex?”
“Gulp… swallow… and… talk…”
She was asking a lot.
Riche would normally be in the library at this hour, but he had accidentally spoiled her with his knowledge of the future.
He swallowed his food and answered.
“I said ‘sex,’ not ‘Hex.’”
“…Eh?”
Riche looked confused. Luna facepalmed.
Had she not received sex education?
When men got together, “I want sex” was a common topic of conversation.
He made a circle with his thumb and index finger, then inserted and withdrew his other index finger.
“You know, sex? Penis goes in, penis goes out—”
“No! I know what it is!”
Riche’s face was bright red.
She wasn’t usually so flustered or emotional.
Reality was different from fiction.
Why is she so embarrassed?
He had read the entire novel, including the 19+ chapters.
All the heroines had slept with Arthur.
It was going to happen eventually. Why be so shy?
Riche had been extremely shy during her first time.
The other heroines were also shy, but Riche was excessively so.
And for some reason, that resonated with the readers, making her the most popular heroine.
“And I’m sure I heard ‘Hex’!”
“You won’t be able to defeat it anyway~”
He wasn’t going to explain.
Riche had spent half her life searching for Hex, but she’d eventually lose and Arthur would defeat it for her.
“I won’t ask how you know about Hex… just tell me how to defeat it.”
“You can’t. No matter what you do.”
She couldn’t defeat it.
As the heroine, she was designed to lose.
If she could win on her own, then the protagonist wouldn’t have anything to do.
She should be complaining to the author, not him.
“…Then tell me how to get stronger.”
One hundred push-ups, one hundred sit-ups, one hundred squats, and a ten-kilometer run every day.
“Ask your professor, not me.”
“…?”
“Luke, your inner voice seems to have changed…”
That *was* his inner voice.
“I’ve told you enough. I’m leaving.”
“…What? You’re leaving?”
“No, I’m sleeping.”
His body needed rest!
He was going into sleep mode!
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*Thud!*
Luke, who had been talking just moments before, slammed his head onto the table.
Riche and Luna, initially thinking it was a joke, were speechless when they heard him snoring.
“…He’s really asleep.”
She hadn’t gotten any useful information.
Should she wake him up?
She reached out, but…
“Don’t wake him.”
“…Why?”
“You might die.”
“He’s not going to kill me just for waking him up…”
Would he?
That would be psychopathic.
She was about to dismiss it as a joke, but Luna’s serious expression made her reconsider.
“He’ll… kill me?”
“I won’t stop you, but do it when I’m not around. I don’t want to get caught in the crossfire.”
Riche lowered her hand.
“You don’t know anything, do you?” she asked Luna.
“No.”
“Sigh…”
The more she investigated, the more questions she had.
How did he know so much?
She had gotten no information and wasted a lot of money.
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