Chapter 92: Makotoâs worries and unexpected rumors
The company is going well.
I think it is stupid that I didnât think about it, but after opening there have been conspicuous resales and things like buying all the goods. It isnât perfect, but I made some counter-measures.
Specifically speaking, things like limits on how many goods one can buy and ârequestsâ for the people that want to resale.
It isnât something that I can completely stop anyways, so giving up somewhat, I made a plan to the extent I can. Because doing the same thing repeatedly and going stale is just unproductive.
The lectures too⌠One might say, they are going well.
Since then, the students that were introduced by Brait-sensei some of them remained, and those that remained introduced the class to other students, so we succeeded in securing a fair amount of students.
⌠That only 5 people remained, well, itâs probably good like that. Having too many just makes it troublesome, yeah.
The 5 people are all scholarship students and have the nature of craving for power. Seeing it from a normal student perspective, my lectures didnât fit their taste, but the highest percentage felt danger from it. It was probably not a very desirable lecture.
For the time being I am still accepting students, but I am not really expecting much. As for the students that remained I will do some light âexperimentsâ without permission on a level where their health is not affected, and while at that, have them take the lectures.
Because I use a weakening [Sakai] in the practical skill area the whole lecture, it looks flashy but since it is not on a dangerous level, the academy side decided it was okay. Just as planned. What I was worried about was that the effect should weaken depending on the scope of the effect, but lately, maybe because I am getting used to it, the effect seems to have increased.
Currently, there havenât been any interference from the teacher faction and it has been peaceful.
In short, the livelihood in Academy Town is going favorably.
In the library I have been going to as a habit after my lectures, I find a book I am looking for and sit on a desk thatâs slightly to the front of it, and just like that I fall prostrated.
A long sigh leaks from my mouth.
Right now, I am being cornered in a sense.
âTo think that in this world the hyumans practiced polygamyâ (Makoto)
A sacred system that was established by God, or so it seems. Yeah, God.
A monologue comes out from my mouth. Maybe because no one understands me, I feel like my monologues after coming to the Academy have increased. I donât want them to look at me with strange eyes so I am trying to not do it that much though.
But, to think they practice polygamy. That bug, she really gets me every time. That total idiot.
It looks like a system convenient for men, but it is actually not the case. In my lack of imagination, I thought of the polygamy system as something like a harem. I was really naĂŻve.
After looking at the hyuman society I have finally noticed.
This is not something like having as many wives you want and going âuhauhaâ, rather, it is more like the qualitative difference between modern Japan gets even worse.
People that have the most beauty and riches, in other words, the women gather onto the superior men and it isnât like everyone can have a harem.
On the contrary, it increases the chances of males that canât marry. Goddess, just how many terrible things do you have to do in order to be satisfied? Thereâs no need to screen them out that much.
Polygamy system is actually a really dream-like system for the majority of males.
Even so, it makes the chances of me marrying even lower, or not.
It has been several months since I come to this Academy but, maybe it was 2 weeks ago?
For someone like Shiki, from the first day there were numerous girls that wanted to go out with him, but I just laughed as if someone elseâs business and didnât envy, nor soothe, or hear his complains.
At the time when my company had rode on the tracks and the Academy had somewhat approved of my abilities; well it is something recent though.
It began with a call that said a student had something to consult. It was a girl I have never seen in my lectures. In short, a student I have never met before.
âIs sensei already married?â
That was the beginning of my nightmare.
[Iâm single. What about it?]
Of course, thatâs how I responded.
I donât know how it turned this way, but after that, the girl said this:
âThen after the third one, could you please marry me?â
The inside of my brain⌠became a complete mess. In my previous world, when I was confessed to by my kohai and my club friend, I didnât feel anything like tension or excitement.
I was just dumbfounded. Because, even if a person I first met suddenly asks me to marry her, my feelings are zero. Also she said something about numbers. At that time, I didnât understand the meaning.
To the female student that said something absurd with an unexpected serious face, I breathe out a sigh, knowing that it was rude.
[I am sorry, but I donât have any intentions to]
I was somehow able to write that and left the place.
The next confession was that day at evening. No, instead of confession it was like the first one, a proposal.
And so, in the store, outside, inside the Academy; without caring about the place, they called me and if it gets bad they make a marriage proposal right there.
Moreover, thereâs always the âplease make me your wife number Xâ. However, in the X number, it is always a number thatâs not number 1. They were mostly 3 to 5.
Polygamy. Really the worst.
I have a business and have a decent amount of money as well as having fair amount of ability. Then they ignore my face and just suggest to be the number 2 wife and on to gold dig. Thatâs probably how it goes. Just their objective of having me support them is cruel and yet, it feels like they might even bring out something like rebuilding their home and have all of my money taken. There were girls who had some transparent ulterior motive like that.
Leaving the love and raising the child to the number 1 or 2, they aim to do nothing at all.
In truth, thatâs just how it is.
There was once when a girl who had an appearance that was truly to my taste came wearing a white robe and, I couldnât tell if she was demanding research expenses or proposing marriage, but when she did, I said jokingly:
[If you become my number 1, I will marry and give you as much money as you want]
And when I said that, not only did she show me an expression of incredible disgust, she also said:
As if her life was at stake, and ran away as fast as she could.
I have been confessed as if looking down on me several times, but that one really got me.
⌠Really, I give up. It isnât popularity, I am just being locked on as prey. It was a lot easier when they just didnât treat me like a human being. The way they are now makes it hard for my spirit.
In the library there havenât been those kind of developments, but it is just a matter of time.
Now that I think about it, why is it that the library is a safe zone?
Do they have some sort of rule? Or is someone keeping them in check? No matter which, I am grateful.
I raise my head and hold the book in my hands. Now then, letâs study today as well.
Today I donât need to go to the store. At first I was doing business with no breaks, but most of the stores normally have a 1 or 2 days break. We even work till late, so thinking that it would be okay to have regular holidays, I made it so in a day when I have lectures it will be a free day.
The small one of the Forest Onis said âGloria~~!!â and raised her hands in the sky. That girl is someone I still donât understand well.
âAra, today is a book about religion? Raidou-sensei really reads books of many different types. Magic, combat, history, geography, customs, also demi-humans⌠The ones I havenât seen you reading are probably tales, math and biographyâ
[Eva-san huh. If you suddenly talk to me like that, it will scare me. Also, do you remember every book someone like me reads?]
âYeah. I am interested in Raidou-sensei after allâ (Eva)
The librarian Eva-san smiles teasingly.
[Please give me a break. You wonât be coming to ask me for marriage as well right?]
â⌠Ah, so the reason of your fatigue was that. Superficial love. It seems like there are many girls that want to marry. I sympathize with you senseiâ (Eva)
[Right now this is the only place in the Academy that can bring me peace. Concerned about my appearance and after my popularity increased they now want to suck on the sweet nectar. Geez, just what do they take marriage for?]
âWell, here the number of students that are nobles or have a big mercantile house is not small, so there are a lot of students that donât think of marriage as mutual loveâ (Eva)
Changing her smile to a wry one, Eva-san answers to my resent. Maybe she has experience herself, Evan-san doesnât answer in an intellectual way, but in a way that feels like she has some basis. I like when it is easy to understand.
[Political marriage huh. To have such a way of thinking at their teens. Is that normal for nobles and rich people?]
â⌠Itâs just that some will reach that way of thinking faster than others. Is one way of taking itâ (Eva)
[I think that a marriage where feelings of love exist is not bad though]
It is not that it isnât bad. I really think thatâs how a marriage should be. Something that connects the people that marry.
âRaidou-sensei is i-, no, pure huh. Since small, no matter who, they would put marriage as like and dislike but⌠as expected, when one grows up they take into account the feelings as well as advantages and disadvantages. Of course, it is not like it can be put into words nor can be defined with a set definitionâ (Eva)
Hearing the talk of Eva-san, I remember the voice I heard in my head the first time I met her. Now that I think about it, it resembled the voice of her. That time I didnât link the contents with anything dangerous, so I wasnât sure nor did I take it in mind butâŚ
Maybe she also has some sort of ulterior motive for being considerate with me. If thatâs the case, then it is a bit sad.
[Then what is Eva-sanâs meaning of the word adult love and the feelings that it contains?]
â⌠Letâs see. In times it is a material for bargaining. If I say something like that, will sensei be disappointed in me?â (Eva)
[Who knows. However, I am not in the mood of reading anymore. For today I will be going]
A material for bargaining huh. Unexpected. Words that didnât connect to the word love at all. To have heard such a thing from a person who doesnât match that image is just⌠shocking.
I give her the book I was planning to read and leave the library.
[And so Gin, what did you want to talk about?]
After leaving the Academy, I was caught by one student.
The owner of the voice that stopped me is a male.
Itâs the male swordsman that has been attending since the first lecture without missing one. He uses magic and seems to have been especially impressed by the style of Shiki, and while learning foundation techniques, there are times when he requests spars with Shiki.
From the five, I just remember the swordsman Gin that has been attending since the first day and the bow-wielding girl Amelia.
Gin uses the sword as main and magic as support in battle, but Amelia uses magic as main and bow as support. I still canât say much, but well, the two of them show promise. Amelia does have desires for power, but more than that, she is in love with Shiki. Maybe she is changing the power of a woman in love into learning power, she is fast at memorizing and improvement.
Well, since I was called by a student I know of, I decided to just take lunch with him.
By the way, Amelia seems to have aesthetics in the afternoon.
When I heard this word for the first time in the Academy, my eyes went wide.
After asking in detail and researching in the library, it seems that aesthetics is a concept that was brought about by the Goddess. An institution for the sake of pursuing beauty and spreading it.
Before spreading such stupid things, there should be techniques that need to be taught to hyumans or something like that. I was truly amazed. Because of that reason, there are names of cosmetics I have heard about before and there were times when I was asked if my company also handles cosmetic products.
Currently I donât manage those and I have no plans to do so in the future though. Things like lipstick and powder are stuff that Tomoe might suggest and I donât want that. In the current state, she is already making Asora pass through so much hardship after all.
Well, for now letâs leave aside the topic of Amelia, aesthetics and cosmetics. Honestly, I donât even have the energy to retort.
I wavered, but in the end I decided on Gotetsu.
I havenât visited as frequently as Shiki. Even so, the taste is to my liking and since I am used to coming here, it is relaxing. Gin seems to have come here for the first time and was looking at the store interior with curiosity and smelling the scent of the food.
Asking for a private room at the inner part of Gotetsu, we both enter and take our sits.
âAh thatâs right. Sensei comes from Tsige right?â (Gin)
âActually there are two students that were attending this Academy and are currently absentâ (Gin)
âThey are not scholarship students, but they have quite the skills and are promisingâ (Gin)
[If they are promising, why are they absent?]
âIt seems that they are illâ (Gin)
N, ill? Since Tsige, these are the first ill people. Students⌠and their age.
[Could it be, are you talking about Rembrandtâs daughters?]
â⌠So you already knew huh. I heard that Rembrandt Company has quite the influence in Tsige, so I thought you might knowâ (Gin)
âI donât know if they were truly ill, but it seems like they will be returning to the Academy soon. And so, I was thinking about warning Senseiâ (Gin)
[Warning? Also Gin, even though school friends are returning to school, you donât seem happy]
âYou see⌠Sensei probably doesnât know but, those sisters areâŚâ (Gin)
[If you are warning me, make yourself clear]
Why is it getting hard for him to say it? What is he trying to tell me?
â⌠Their personalities are the worst. They are the archetype rich girls and are particular about beauty. And they have good grades too, so that makes their personality even worseâ (Gin)
Those girls had that kind of personality? No well, didnât they give more of a fleeting feeling?
Now that he mentions it, there have been no moments where I have exchanged words with those girls properly. *âRun awayâ is the only thing I was told*.
Even if you talk about beauty or whatever, taking into account the wife, the three of them were monsters.
Since Rembrandt-san is a good person, I thought that her wife and daughters were good people as well.
Rich ladies and have a bad personality? Are you serious?
âIt seems you didnât know. No well, lately Sensei has been targeted right? From the girls aroundâ (Gin)
Maybe he took my silence as affirmation, Gin felt sympathy for me.
[Donât say it. It makes my head hurt]
âWhen they return to school, it is better to not get their attention. The two of them are incredibly particular about physical appearance so it might be okay, but just in case. Itâs just, if they have their eyes on Shiki-san, it might impede the lectures. Really, be careful okay? Ah, this thing called Nabe is delicious. I didnât know about it~â (Gin)
I feel like he indirectly told me something rude. Also, I feel like he is actually worried about Shiki.
[Understood. I will tell Shiki as well]
âThank you very much! Is this place your favorite Sensei? How tasteful~. Can I come here as well?â (Gin)
[Do what you want. Ah right. Shiki also comes here quite often. Since we are already here, how about I order you his favorite?]
âIs that okay?! Iâll eat! Eh? And Sensei?â (Gin)
[I remembered I had something to do. Just take it easy]
After ordering the cream Nabe on my way back and finishing my revenge for his rudeness, I winced as the seeds of troubles increased while I leave the store.
But, the Rembrandt daughters are ill-natured?
Are they really? Seeing Rembrandt-shiâs stupid manners, I could tell that they were truly loved daughters so I didnât doubt it. Is he the type of person that no matter how the daughter acts he will still think of them as cute?
Well, if they are really going to be returning to the Academy soon, it will be clear at that time.
After being proposed twice on my way back, I arrived at my store.