CH 23

I return to the girls’ dormitory with Melissa-sama.

We say our farewells at the top of the stairs.

“I had a good time today, now I will definitely persuade the officials to let me become friends with you, Makoto-sama. Well then, good day to you, Makoto-sama,” Melissa said.

“Good luck with that, good day,” I said.

I would bet her room is a double on the 4th floor.

However, I don’t think Melissa-sama will be able to persuade her faction heads.

I hope she doesn’t get bullied for this.

When I entered room 205, Margot-san’s bed was covered with a curtain.

This person is always sleeping.

Is she out at night doing espionage?

There was a note on my desk,

“I received a reply from Yurisha-sama. Come to my room. By Caroline.”

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Is what it said.

I seem to have already received a reply, you act fast, Yuri-Yuri-senpai.

I put some of the bread I bought in the chest and left Room 205.

I go up the stairs.

As I expected, going up to the 5th floor on your own is tiring.

On the 5th floor, when I walked toward the west end, the window shutter next to Carol’s room was open, and Anne-san was sitting on the other side of a counter.

“Hello Anne-san, are you acting as the shopkeeper?” I asked.

“Yes, Makoto-sama, I’m selling potions from today,” Anne said.

Huh, they sell potions, antidotes, magic activators, and more.

They’re cheaper than the market price.

“Can’t the boys buy from you?” I asked.

“The men’s dormitory also has a sales facility like this, so we wholesale from here,” Anne replied.

“Work hard, then,” I said.

“Right,” Anne said.

And while I was talking with Anne-san, a female knight-like person came and bought a potion.

Is she an upperclassman who goes out for dungeon practice?

When I opened the door, I saw Carol stirring the contents of her alchemy pot.

“Welcome, Makoto, just wait a minute,” Carol said.

As the smoke billowed up, the contents of the cauldron changed to a transparent green color.

“Huh, that’s how potions are made, are they?” I said.

“Yes, do you want to try next time, Makoto?” Carol asked.

“Wait, can I do it with Light magic?”

“Since it’s just adding Earth Heal of Earth Magic to medicinal herb soup, you can make a potion by adding Light Heal,” Carol said.

“It’s surprisingly easy, isn’t it?” I said.

“The principle is to make it high quality, so take the time to purify the water, cut the ingredients properly, and so on,” Carol said.

“Hmm, sounds interesting, let’s do it next time,” I said.

“Yes, by all means, I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of effect the potion can have with you working on it,” Carol said.

I sit on the soft sofa of the reception furniture set.

Anne-san gave me herbal tea, today it tastes like peppermint.

“Ah, this is a souvenir, please eat it,” I said, handing over the box.

“Huh? What is it?” Carol asked.

“I just made a bread sample set,” I said.

“Wow, it’s beautiful, and each piece is so little, you can probably try various types of bread at once,” Carol said.

“You should eat it later with Anne-san,” I said.

“We’ll have it at dinner, thank you, Makoto,” Anne said.

We eat Carol’s stick cookies with the tea, and I find it familiar, it’s a Bourbon Rubella Biscuit.

It seems to be a luxury item, and the taste is different from the Rubellas of my previous life.

Delicious, delicious.

“I got a reply from Yurisha-senpai right away,” Carol said.

“She acts fast, Yuri-Yuri-senpai,” I said.

“She’ll be waiting for you at 8:00 this evening in the Deputy House Master’s room, so you know,” Carol said.

“…I feel like my chastity is in danger,” I said.

“I-I don’t think that’s the case,” Carol said. “Me and Anne-san will go together with you.”

“Well then, I wonder if it’ll be fine then, let’s take a bath and put on new drawers before that,” I said.

“Why would we do that?” Carol asked.

“Yeah, I’ll be in trouble if something happens,” I said.

“I don’t think this is going the way you’re thinking,” Carol said.

“Just humor me this time,” I said.

“Well, if you want to, Makoto,” Carol said.

The bell at the sales office rang incessantly, and Anne-san was summoned to sell potions and the like.

“The store is doing well for itself,” I said.

“Because they’re cheaper than the market price, 2nd-year students are coming in, what with their dungeon training starting tomorrow,” Carol said.

“Oh, it looks fun, I want to be a 2nd year already”, I said.

“You’re a strange one, Makoto,” Carol said.

“I don’t know about that, the dungeons are so exciting, you’ll get rich quick, so collect all the treasure can!” I said.

“We’re not going into dungeons that are that lucrative,” Carol said.

“Is that so? Tch,” I grunted.

“Shall we form a party and go together when we become 2nd years?” Carol said.

“We should, let’s invite Curtis and Elmer too! A knight, magician, saint candidate, and alchemist, it’s a pretty good balance.”

“Curtis-sama will be in trouble with just him at the front,” Carol said.

“The saint and Chain-kun will be there with him,” I said.

“A saint shouldn’t be in front,” Carol said.

“I want a thief or a scout,” I said, “finding enemies is important.”

“Shall we look for someone by the time we become sophomores?” Carol asked.

“Yeah yeah, I’m looking forward to it from now on,” I said.

Dungeon Attack with your friends is setting my excitement alight.

By the 2nd year, let’s find a thief.

By the way, in the game, you go into the dungeons with the capture target most fond of you.

I think it’s a Dungeon Date, but the capture targets are always high stats characters, and normal dungeon monsters don’t come out much, so it’s not that hard.

If you don’t want to increase your likability with the capture target, or if you don’t have enough likability to invite them to the dungeon, Carol will automatically say, “Let’s go together.” and come with Chain-kun.

Carol and Chain-kun are surprisingly strong.

I was always indebted to them, trying to fill out the gallery of CGs.

Because there are CGs that only activate when the favorability is low.

“That’s right, Makoto, would you like to go to the Adventurer’s Guild tomorrow afternoon?” Carol asked.

“Adventure, adventure, you say, let’s go, I want to fight,” I said.

“No, I’m going to the Adventurer’s Guild to request medicinal herbs. I’m running out of materials,” Carol said.

“Well, how about making an adventurer card while you’re at it, Carol?” I said.

“I already have,” Carol said, taking a copper-colored card from her uniform’s breast pocket and showing it to me.

“How do you already have a copper card?” I asked.

“Because I registered for a card in my territory and I took down a lot of things with my golem,” Carol said. “Somehow, I ranked up.

Adventurers have ranks based on their achievements.

Initially, it’s Iron, then Copper as you gain experience, Silver when you graduate to a full-fledged adventurer, Gold when you become a first-class veteran, Platinum when you reach the level of the guild masters, and finally Mithril when you become a legend.

By the way, there aren’t even 5 mithril adventurers on the continent.

By the time we graduate from school, I feel like we should at least be at silver cards.

For the Curtis Route, it’s essential you’re a Gold card, but he’s a nii-chan who likes strong girls.

Now then, it’s time to leave Carol’s room and take a bath.

Yuri-Yuri-senpai might hug me.

“Well, see you later,” I said.

“Come at half past 7,” Carol said.

“Roger, will do,” I said.

Well now, bath time, bath time.

At this level of civilization development, it’s normally impossible to keep sustaining a bath for 24 hours in terms of energy efficiency.

But here it’s okay, it’s okay because magic stones are ridiculous.

Anything can be solved with magic.

I go back to my room and go down the stairs with a brand-new set of drawers and a bag of dirty laundry.

I go to the laundry next to the public bath on the basement floor and pay them a copper coin to do my laundry.

I was told to wash my underwear myself, but I’m sorry, it’s impossible because it takes skill to wash your underwear properly.

A lower-class noble student without a maid would ask the laundry staff like this.

The laundry room is filled with the smell of steam and irons.

I feel like it smells like a working woman.

Washerwomen and maids are running around.

I enter the public bath, take off my clothes and go to the locker.

I tied the key to my wrist and went to the bathroom.

Since it is still early in the evening, the bath is empty.

I roughly wash my body and soak in the bathtub.

“Kuhaa, paradise, paradise,” I sighed.

A naked young lady in the distance is whispering.

“Kimball-sama is kind of old-fashioned…”

“That’s one of Kimball-sama’s moe points. You don’t get it, do you?”

How annoying.

I come out at once, wash my body properly, and shampoo and rinse.

Of course, since it’s an otome game, there’s plenty of shampoo and conditioner.

The realistic medieval feeling that burdens a lady is off-limits.

It’s hard not to be able to use the shampoo and conditioner that’s a staple of otherworld money-making, big sales and big profits.

Back to the bathtub, yes, I love baths.

After enjoying plenty of hot water, I get up and wipe off my body and hair with a towel in the dressing room.

Of course, there are towels in this world (short ones).

For the time being, you can think of it as the Middle Ages of shoujo manga.

Any reality or realism that makes girls feel miserable is omitted as much as possible.

I wonder why only the societal structure is realistic, even though the events are stress-free.

There are all kinds of malice in real life, and there are many vices.

I wonder if the workings of the human heart are what decides.

Just like Japan in my previous life, there are good people and there are bad people.

But there are no hair dryers in this world.

Fuck, damn it.

It’s difficult to dry hair.