006. Those who made the wrong choice (2)
Eve von Lohengrin.
The first Emperor of Lohengrin was a great and saintly king who was said to be unrivaled in wisdom, magic, and martial arts.
Even leaving aside the historians’ plausible packaging, the prince and princess were generally competent.
And the youngest princess of this generation, Eve von Lohengrin, was renowned for her talents that would leave their mark on the times.
At the age of 4, he felt mana, and at 5, he learned 9th-tier magic. Then at 8, 8th-tier. At 10, 7th-tier. Now, at the age of 16, he has learned 5th-tier magic, making him an exceptional-level magician.
She was a bundle of talent. A talent that it was impossible to dare be jealous of.
The most brilliant wizard in the world shined exceptionally even in the royal family that valued seniority, and his light shone even brighter when combined with the darkness of his older brother, Wolfram von Lohengrin.
Despite being only 16 years old, she surpasses undergraduate students and her students do not look down on her magical skills, talent, and knowledge.
She already has a lab pass, and is currently making her mark in the field of light magic research.
Pride in the royal family. Confidence in oneself. Charisma that dominates those around her. The youngest student council president, Zephrin. Beautiful appearance. Eve, who has it all, made a leisurely appearance at the graduate school lab today.
“Hello, senior.”
“Hello, Your Majesty.”
A senior I know came to say hello. He is a senior who is good at keeping in touch and is politically active, rather than a pure researcher.
Eve doesn’t like him, but sometimes you need an opportunist. I keep him around so I can train my eyes to see when he’s taking advantage and doing something vulgar.
“Your Highness. You are truly wonderful. Haha.”
“···What are you talking about?”
“No. I was truly impressed by your Majesty. … Oh, right. Would you like one too, Your Majesty?”
As she said this, she handed me something round and wrapped in paper.
A sweet scent. A fruity scent. Sugar? And… artificial. But not so much that it bothered my nose, and was very slight.
“···candy?”
“Yes. Haha. I bought one too.”
“······?”
For Eve, candy was a very luxurious snack.
Leaving aside the fact that she is a princess, each piece of high-quality candy surprisingly easily costs over five hundred thousand rin.
Good fruits grow in places with strong magic power, and naturally, magic beasts gather in places with strong magic power.
Fruits that are supplied to the imperial family are grown with a corresponding amount of risk.
Candies made from such fruits were something I never had the chance to eat, even when I was in the royal palace.
“···Uh, uhm. Candy.”
So Eve hesitated. She hesitated for a moment between the anxiety of losing her appetite because of the expensive candy and the desire to still put sugar in her brain. Then she accepted the candy.
“I will accept it, senior.”
“yes yes!”
The inexperienced senior nodded, and Eve smiled and put the candy in her mouth. And then.
“······Huh? Ehehe.”
“I see you like it.”
Eve couldn’t hide the smile that was spreading across her face.
A refreshingly sweet candy with a warm, healing feel.
You might wonder why there’s such a fuss over just one candy, but this level of candy is a luxury item that even the royal family wouldn’t easily eat.
“Hey, where did you get this?”
“···Oh, you didn’t know? ·········Huh?”
“Senior?”
“Oh, I thought you knew…”
The senior was extremely embarrassed, and Eve tilted her head. Who on earth sold it to make her so embarrassed?
“Who are you? I really don’t know···.”
“···It wasn’t the princess’s orders to pull a cart and sell things in front of the Ministry of Magic from dawn?”
“······?”
“That, that wasn’t corporal punishment? Oh, no, then.”
“Atonement? There’s no one around me who has done anything that bad···?”
She tilted her head sincerely. The senior stared at Eve for a moment, then closed his eyes tightly and answered, “I don’t know.”
“W, Wolfram… This is Prince Wolfram von Lohengrin.”
“yes?”
“Bird, I was selling fish soup and candy for us at dawn, so I picked them up without thinking, but I, I thought it was something the princess had instructed me to do, so… So. I bought them.”
Bam.
A strawberry-flavored candy fell from Eve’s mouth.
I guarantee you, in the history of her life.
It was the first time I had dropped food from my mouth since I was one year old and threw away the nipple because I thought it was shameful.
***
Even if you’re Wolfram, even if you’re just an extra in a game who’s turned into a convenience store owner, you still have to take classes.
If you use the student council president privilege, you can get a diploma by attending classes only once a week, but that is not the case for Wolfram, a commoner now. First, you have to complete your major, take liberal arts classes, and meet the required credits.
It was quite an enjoyable experience for the real-world Lee Young-jin, who had never tasted college food before. Except for two factors.
“Ugh… Ugh.”
After driving a cart and doing business from dawn and then attending class, of course, he would experience severe muscle pain. His trash stat of 2 stamina did not allow Wolfram to do two things in a day.
Next is… the gossip of the people around.
[What the… Isn’t that Wolfram?]
[Didn’t you drop out of school?]
[I heard Eve is the student body president?]
[You do something like that and still go to school]
[···Shh! Don’t make eye contact!]
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I got cursed at even though I did nothing, and I got glares at even though I did nothing.
I did nothing, but I’m being treated like a monkey at the zoo. But strangely, I feel a sense of malice and murder.
I know. I know, but… actually, I was expecting it a little.
The real Lee Young-jin is a high school graduate, and Jeffrin is attending an academy that also holds university degrees.
So, I had a small hope that maybe I could have a campus life too.
But what about it?
And when I looked around, surprisingly, no one made eye contact with me.
“Okay. The eight colors of magical power. If we substitute each concept, we can make the following inference. So.”
That professor can be considered a colleague in the original work, and although he is a bit of an explanatory jerk, he is quite pleasant. But now, he is desperately looking at the blackboard and explaining. Why? Because when he turns around, our eyes meet.
There, the students avert their gaze the moment I glance at them.
Mumble, mumble. The teacher is speaking.
Sweep sweep sweep. Students take notes.
An eerie silence filled the classroom, and I continued to take notes in this suffocating atmosphere.
Anyway, this is a shitty situation where Wolfram shi*s but Lee Young-jin has to do the power.
The campus life I had dreamed of was a sure thing from the start.
***
When I returned to the convenience store after class, I let out a deep sigh.
Traces of the candy were left all over the store, and the vibrations from the convenience store alone were driving me crazy.
“I don’t like it too sweet… Should I change my order?”
They say that dried pollack soup and candy make some money, but isn’t that putting the cart before the horse?
But soon he shook his head.
“···Rather than investing in something new, let’s get what we already have on track.”
Of course, there are things that ‘must’ follow the flow. The Sharp destruction incident in Act 2 is a representative example.
A great magic that temporarily contaminated the pens of all the students in the Ministry of Magic’s 4th year student, Millefeuille, who had always been in second place, with the reason that she wished that tests would disappear if it was going to be like this.
Because of that, the concept of a ‘pen’ within the magic cave was completely shattered, and outside, you had to bring in objects that could be used as pens but were not pens.
That was a really awesome episode.
Anyway, unless it’s an item that’s definitely coming up, you need to be careful when ordering.
First, you need to attract customers who will come to this convenience store. To do that, this convenience store needs to have an attractive point that makes people say, “This is its advantage.”
If I had more stamina, I could pull a cart and sell things every day, but if I go to class after that, I’ll be exhausted to death.
There was a lot to do. At that time, I was thinking about my future schedule.
Ding. Ding. Ding.
A clear tone rings out. It is a sign that a guest has arrived.
No, I wonder if there are any customers in this store. I looked up at the customer as if he was very excited.
“It’s been a while, Wolfram. I never thought I’d find myself in a place like this.”
The current student council president and younger sister were glaring at me.
***
“I was wondering what you were doing, a convenience store in a place like this? What are you planning?”
Wow, look at that straight fastball, I shrugged.
“What a harsh word to use. I took over the convenience store according to the contract and am running the business normally.”
“Can you say for sure that there were no negative elements in it at all?”
“Yes. Should I give you my resume? I paid my taxes in advance for this quarter. Later, deduct them properly and give me a refund.”
“······What, what did you say?”
“Okay. Anyway, I’m doing business in good conscience.”
“So you’re saying you didn’t do anything bad?”
“Of course. Let me check the documents.”
At those words, Eve took the documents in front of me, took a moment to look at them, and then clenched her fists.
“That can’t be true.”
“That could be.”
My face turns red because I’m so angry.
Well, Eve can be said to be a charismatic leader who rules with an iron fist and is full of prejudice.
To put it simply, he firmly establishes his own ‘answer’ in the following ways: ‘Wolfram is a bad guy. Ayla can’t be trusted.’ ‘Celtus can be trusted.’ ‘School is rotten.’
And from there, you collect ‘basis for judgment’ and ‘implement’ it according to your own thoughts.
A tyrant who is full of self-righteousness even if he makes just one mistake.
That’s why Eve is so careful when giving answers, and once she gives an answer, she never changes it.
How do you know? I’ve seen it a lot when I play games. It’s even written like that in the settings book.
That is, Eve is convinced that Wolfram is a villain and is up to dirty work, so she came looking for him to see if he has some kind of hidden agenda.
“···So, the first thing you did was go to the Magic Cave and sell food and candy? You didn’t do anything to the candy or food, did you?”
“This is a comparison table of the ingredients of the magic bowl. It was used as is when the former president ordered it.”
He handed me a piece of paper that said, “I have no abnormal ingredients.”
Eve clenched her fists as if indignant.
“Uh… but, the probability that you put something weird in it while cooking is….”
“Don’t find fault with Amon and try to insult your seniors?”
“What did you say?”
“Even if they rot, they are still graduate students of the Ministry of Magic. They are skilled in all kinds of contamination and deterioration. Aren’t the verification, contrast, verification, and blocking of all variables the most common aptitude? If they ate food that was made without knowing it was problematic, wouldn’t it be better for the graduate students of the Ministry of Magic to drop out of school right away?”
“······eww.”
Eve’s face turned red and tears were now welling up in her eyes.
The fact that Wolfram, whom she thought was a villain, was flawless. That must be Eve’s greatest humiliation.
“According to the school rules, it is against the rules for someone like you, a member of the Ministry of Magic who is not even a maestro, to do something like this!”
“It’s okay.”
“swimming?”
“Article 3, Paragraph 1. All students at Zephrin have the duty to freely discover and develop their own abilities. Article 17, Paragraph 6. Even if it is not your major, if you judge that you have talent, you can postpone changing your major and prioritize the discovery of your talent. However, in this case, you must prove your achievements.”
“······swimming?”
“I took over a failing convenience store and made a profit from day one. Is there a problem?”
“···Ugh, ugh!!”
Eve stamped her feet on the floor and then rolled around.
That habit is still the same.
“If you have no complaints, leave.
“Then what is that candy?”
“That candy?”
“The candy that my seniors bought! I ate it too! Where did you get such high-quality candy? I’ll track down the illegal money!”
“ah···.”
Advanced?
That candy I grew?
“Uh, um. Was it delicious?”
“Of course! It was overwhelmingly more delicious than the candy supplied to the imperial family! There was a drug in it, right? A drug that forcibly brainwashes the seniors!”
“Oh, I see. Was it delicious?”
“What is it? As expected, you used dirty black magic. Did your fiancée Ayla make you do this? Ha!”
“It’s made from fruit I grew.”
“············?”
Eve tilted her head.
“It’s made with fruit grown using my secret recipe.”
“yes?”
“Yes. No. Um… Here it is.”
As I said that, I picked a fully grown fruit from the sapling next to me, cleaned it, and handed it to Eve.
Eve took it and took a bite.
“······lol.”
He laughed like a child lacking something.
That face remains in my memory.
···Eve’s gap, who laughs like an idiot when Celts gives her something sweet. It was a cute character.
however.
Is it because she’s my younger sister? Is my body rejecting me?
It gave me goosebumps, a little bit.
“Anyway, thank you for saying it was delicious.”
“······Ugh. That, that can’t be. The fruit you made···”
As she said this, Eve held the fruit and trembled.
“Are you going to throw it away?”
“I’ll take it and examine it!”
“······Do whatever you want. When you’re done eating, just throw away the trash properly.”
“···This, profit!!”
His ears turned bright red and he slammed his foot on the floor of the convenience store.
Hey, hey. If that tile breaks, it’s all my money, man.
“Oh, I’ll be watching you from now on. I’ll be watching you closely to see how dirty your tricks are. If I catch even one thing wrong, I’ll shut down your business right there.”
“Okay.”
“Hey, hey!!”
Eve turned her back as if she was upset by my answer, and I spoke to her.
“Eve von Lohengrin.”
She ignored me and tried to walk out of the convenience store, but stopped dead in her tracks when I continued speaking.
“If you like it that much, why don’t you buy a bag of candies? I’ll give you a huge bleeding service for only ten thousand won per piece.”
“······Eeeeeeek!!”
I shrugged my shoulders as I watched Eve leave the convenience store holding a bag of candy eyes as if she was upset.
“I sold it to graduate students for 50,000 won per cup, but he bought a hundred pills for one Q.”
This is it. Long live the royal family.
If you treat me this well, I should have given you a few more as a service.
“No. If I do that, how many more times will I have to see that creepy smile···.”
I guess he’s really a younger sibling.
I didn’t want to see that creepy smile often.
