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Translator: Nemui
Editor: Nemui
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◈ Reincarnated as the Villain's Heir
Chapter 34: Lilisha Is Acting Strange
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"The request is to investigate an abnormality in the exercise field."
The exercise field Clyde mentioned was a vast natural field located on the academy grounds.
Monsters were released there, and it was used for outdoor exercises.
It was divided for first-years, second-years, and third-years, and the strength of the monsters differed by level.
The target of this investigation was the field used by first-years.
Located on the northwest side of the academy, it housed lower-rank monsters, but apparently their numbers had been decreasing recently.
Depending on the monster, some bred too much and needed to be culled from time to time, but the recent decline was apparently abnormal.
"In my view, something is hiding in the first-year exercise field. A monster that first-years cannot handle."
"It is strange to leave something first-years cannot handle to me, a first-year."
"Your strength is already beyond the level of a first-year. That is why I can ask you."
"Can you not ask the teachers?"
"The teachers are busy with their own work."
When I pressed him nastily, Clyde answered easily without showing displeasure.
The words "I am not free either" nearly slipped out of my mouth.
"Fine. I will do it. But I am taking Lilisha with me. That is my condition."
"Lilisha? I do not mind, but you are strangely fixated on her."
"A little."
Lilisha, suddenly named, widened her eyes.
"W-wait! Why me?!"
"It is student council work, right? It would be strange to leave everything to me alone, and if it is an exercise field used by first-years, first-years should clean it up."
"Clean it up...?"
"Are you not confident?"
"Fine. It is a cheap provocation, but I will take it."
Previously, she would have raised her voice and refused.
Thinking that, I secretly smiled at the fact that our duel the other day had not been pointless.
"I don't like this."
Gareo, the wild child from earlier, slammed the table again.
"House Balfont or not, he is still only a first-year. I cannot imagine leaving this to him."
"Complain to the president. I am not the one who decided."
"President, what are you thinking, spoiling this cheeky first-year?"
Irritated, Gareo questioned the president.
The president stood, looking as if to say, Good grief.
"Gareo, then you can participate too."
"Hah! Is that all right? You went to the trouble of leaving it to that first-year, but it will be wasted."
"That will still accomplish the objective."
"Much appreciated! So that is how it is, first-year."
Gareo grinned triumphantly, as if everything had gone exactly his way.
Even if he joined us alone, strength-wise, he would not be a problem.
He was stronger than Deniro, and in an emergency, he might at least serve as bait.
* * *
"All right! Time to teach this first-year brat reality!"
In front of the first-year exercise field, Gareo was far too fired up.
I ignored him and quickly walked ahead.
The first-year exercise field was divided into forest, lake, wasteland, plain, and cave.
In the second-year exercise field, harsh areas like snowy fields and deserts increased.
Naturally, the monsters living there were different, but there was nothing in the first-year exercise field that should trouble me or Lilisha at this point.
Maybe he knew that, because Gareo proudly ran ahead and passed me.
"Gahaha! Too slow, first-year!"
With reinforcement magic cast on him, Gareo pulled away from us at once and vanished.
What a happy fool.
"Alphys, is it fine to let him go ahead?"
"He probably does not even know where the cause of the abnormality is. Let him waste mana."
Even Lilisha seemed exasperated.
Of course I understood that, so I did not want to waste strength.
The plain area we were walking through had only trash like goblins and the Killer Wolf.
Those Killer Wolves surrounded us and growled.
"Here they come already!"
"No, wait."
I restrained Lilisha with one hand.
Then I released the faintest pulse from the surface of my body.
The pulse traveled through the air and reached the Killer Wolves.
"Grr..."
"Awoo!"
"Kyan!"
The Killer Wolves all fled at once.
Lilisha looked like she had no idea what had happened.
"Wh-why?"
"I scattered killing intent through my pulse. Against monsters of that level, there is no need to fight."
"Pulse?"
"I will explain it later."
People often talk about sending killing intent, but that happens because the opponent unconsciously senses pulse.
Compared to humans, animals and monsters that live in nature are more sensitive to pulse and can sense it more easily.
In the wild, it is important to judge an enemy's strength and when to retreat.
What people call wild instinct is nothing more than sensing pulse.
The only difference is whether one recognizes it as pulse.
"I do not really understand, but you are gentle in your own way."
"The monsters in this exercise field are not infinite, and it is not like I want to kill needlessly."
"I am a little surprised you think that far."
"I am technically a student of this academy too. The monsters here are teaching materials for the students, so of course I will value them."
When I started walking briskly, Lilisha had stopped.
"Hey, what is wrong?"
"Huh? Ah, yes..."
"Your face is a little red. Do you have a fever?"
"N-no, nothing like that. Come on, let's go."
Lilisha walked ahead of me as if showing off.
It was good that she seemed energetic, but she was not going to head in a strange direction like Leticia, was she?
I believed that, of all people, Lilisha would not.
"What? We are going together, right?!"
"Yes, sorry."
I scratched the back of my head.
Of all people, Lilisha. I told myself that over and over.
Surely not, right?
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