“Lord Veret on the Student Council!? The rumor was true! As Shultaud Satia, I must immediately share information with everyone in the Fan Club!”
”…… The outside is awfully noisy.”
“The news that Lord Ouga and Miss Liche have joined the Council must be reaching the general student body about now.”
“Heh. The poor souls bound by common sense are a sad lot.”
The fact that Mashiro and I joined must rankle them. But they’ll soon shut their noisy mouths.
The moment they realize the team Reina got — the one they themselves fled from — has now welcomed us.
They’ll recall the slander they just uttered and writhe in shame.
Imagining their pathetic faces at that moment…… heh heh heh. Pleasure, pleasure.
“That said, this tournament should further shift the perception of you, Lord Ouga. The wind will surely turn in your favor.”
“Yeah, in the end I think it’s a good thing I was chosen for the representative team.”
I’d enrolled in Royal Lichberg Magic Academy in search of talent.
But once inside, I realized — the level of the students is lower than I’d thought. Not in raw ability, but in thinking.
Their discriminatory thinking is too strong.
People like that only sow discord. They have no place in my harem.
And now an opportunity tailor-made for me has arrived — the Inter-Academy Magic Tournament.
If I can compete as a representative, I can form connections with athletes from other schools — that’s the big draw.
The other magic academies have weaker discriminatory thinking than Lichberg. There are commoner-born students with high ability, like Mashiro.
For those kinds of students, a ducal scion like me is more than enough as an employment prospect.
My targets are, naturally, big-breasted, gentle girls!
Boobs are great, after all.
Mother of bo— I mean, Father — I’ll write a letter to him conveying that I may bring back many personnel by the time I graduate.
The day after the pajama party with Reina.
After finishing another boring day of classes, I was at my desk writing my father a status report.
That I was leading an enjoyable academy life with Mashiro and Karen and the others.
That I’d joined the Student Council.
That I’d been selected as a representative for the Inter-Academy Magic Tournament.
That I’d love for him to come see it if he has time.
Father is a man who loves his family and is overflowing with family-service spirit.
“What else to write……”
What came to mind was the pink-haired girl whose impression had changed dramatically lately and with whom I’d suddenly grown close.
…… But Reina’s behavior the other day had been strange.
I’d lived my past life reading people’s faces. So as not to ruin moods, so as not to pick the wrong words. A cramped life like that.
That’s exactly why I noticed Reina’s change right away.
Especially after she tried to show me her chest — she’d had less life-force than usual, a wearing-down kind of look, as if she were suppressing herself.
As if she were holding something in her chest and unable to say what she wanted to say.
I had a familiarity with that feeling…… ah, could it be……!?
I’d hit on a terrifying possibility.
No, but…… I have to test this.
Because it could ripple out beyond Reina to my future relationships with all the other girls.
”…… Alice. One question. ……Do I smell?”
“No, not in the slightest.”
“Don’t hold back. Could you sniff?”
“Understood. Excuse me.”
She brought her pretty face close and sniffed me.
…… Somehow this is taking on a noble’s perverted-hobby flavor…… having a beautiful girl like Alice smell me is — kind of exciting.
After bringing her face near my hair, the nape of my neck, and my back, she said in her usual expression:
“Your body is the picture of cleanliness, Lord Ouga. The pleasant scent of sun.”
“I see. Then it’s fine.”
Thank god……! I’d thought my scent on the clothes I’d lent Reina might have been bad.
If the clothes she’d been handed reeked, of course Reina would have made a face.
But this isn’t that either…… aha, I see.
Reina was feeling the same thing as a corporate slave on a Sunday evening.
She’d said she had no friends and that this was her first time playing.
The fun holiday ended, and thinking the work days start again tomorrow sank her mood — that’s what produced that expression.
The pajama party strategy may be even more effective for Reina than I’d imagined.
All right! I’ll keep pushing the White-Corporation Strategy and pull her over to my side!
“Heh heh heh…… one more thing to write to Father, then.”
I added one extra introduction at the end, noting it as a confirmed item.
“Ougaaa! Let’s go to the Council room~!”
“Finally, your first day on the job! I’ll teach you lots about the work. I’m a Council senior, after all.”
Mashiro and Karen, here right on cue.
That’s right. Today is the day we begin our duties as Council officers.
Reina said we didn’t have to do Council work, but there’s no reason for me to obey that.
I’ll grab her work right out of her hands, drag her into the sun for lunch break, and from one over-time after another, I will free her!