I Possessed The Villain’s Childhood Friend

83 – Back to the Front Line

“497. 498. 499. 500.”

“You worked hard, Ike.”

“Thank you.”

I got up and took the water and towel that Raina gave me.

Her back was sweaty and her throat was burning with thirst.

“It seems that the training time has increased recently. Is there a reason?”

“Just. I thought it would be better to try a little harder.”

“… As far as I know, isn’t senior Ike still at the top of his major practice?”

Michelle, who was watching the training with Reina next to her, tilted her head.

“That’s not a reason it’s okay to waste your effort.”

“That’s right.”

“But don’t overdo it. If you get hurt for no reason, it’s much worse.”

“Okay.”

Even if you say this, if you increase the training, you will increase it, but there was no intention of reducing it right away.

Because it’s something I can’t leave out of my plan.

As someone who lacks talent compared to other people, I had to do this at least.

“By the way, don’t you feel tired of training like this every day, even on weekends?”

“I don’t care if it’s fun to train my body or not, so it’s okay.”

By the way, why is Michelle here with us?

To put it simply, she was being bullied by her classmates.

The cause was me.

To explain the relationship between me and Reina again, it was an actual engagement relationship.

But the only thing I don’t pay much attention to is the inside of Arcana.

There are still a lot of negative opinions about us in the social world.

To put it bluntly, even within the faction of the 2nd Duke, talking about us is forbidden.

Then, how will the new students who just entered Arcana this year treat us?

Of course, it was the mainstream to follow the opinions of socialites.

For them, the opinions inside Arcana were not important.

Of course, that didn’t mean it could harm us separately.

Anyway, the problem arose on the day of the entrance ceremony.

I went to talk to Michelle to prepare for her situation, and the news quickly spread to all Arcana students.

She ended up talking to someone she had to keep her distance from, so Michelle became so isolated.

Raina told me the news, and while she was thinking about what to do, Michelle came to me and said.

‘Because she talked to her senior, she became alone, so please take responsibility.’

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I didn’t have the ability to come up with a solution that went beyond that, so I ended up hanging out with Michelle during the break after the lecture.

I could probably find something suspicious about Michelle while I was there, so it wasn’t a bad business for me anyway.

Of course, doubts arose that the story flowed too well.

But right now I can’t punish Michelle for not doing anything wrong.

In other words, it was inevitable.

“Reina-senpai! How about going to a cafe together after a while?”

“Uhm, I guess.”

“Of course senior Ike is with me too!”

Michelle’s personality was, to put it simply, like that of a lively puppy.

She’s a dog who wants to chatter, run around, and do something simple.

It was to the point that I thought that with her ears and tail as a puppy, she would look really good.

In the original work, she was a supporting character who only appeared in the assassination case, so she had no idea that she had such a personality.

“By the way, the other seniors aren’t here today?”

Of course, Michelle was talking about Sophia, Leon, Helen, and Atal.

In particular, she felt sorry for the fact that Sofia was gone.

“I told you yesterday, right? He said he went on a two-day, one-night trip to practice his sophomore major next week.”

“… Ah. I think I heard it too!”

As Raina just said, the four of them went on a field trip for practice.

The offer came to Reina and I, who are doing exceptionally well in practice, but we each turned it down for our own reasons.

There was no big problem because it was recommended, not forced.

“Then I won’t be able to see Sophia-senpai until tomorrow.”

Of all of us, Michel liked Sophia the most.

It’s not that I’m awkward with other people, but it’s probably because of the sense of kinship I feel from being a special student from the same commoner.

In addition to Sophia’s bright and positive aura, considering that we are of the same gender, it would be even more comfortable.

We knew that, so we didn’t pay much attention to that.

But whenever she sees Reina like that, she is the only one.

“… Is it not enough for us?”

In this way, I was discouraged every time.

It doesn’t feel like that from the expression and atmosphere, but it was jealousy mixed with various emotions.

“Ah. That, I didn’t mean that, Reina-senpai!”

A disheartened Raina and Michelle trying to comfort her.

It was an open secret between us that this pattern had become a daily routine.

“For now, let’s go to the cafe as we just said, Reina.”

“Yes.”

The moment you try to somehow manage the situation and move your feet to go to your favorite cafe.

Someone’s voice rang in my head.

“… Just now.”

“Did the seniors hear it too?”

“Yeah, I heard that too.”

Raina and Michelle tilt their heads in question.

Once again. All students who can hear this voice now, please gather in the auditorium immediately.＞

A voice rang out over and over again, as if trying to teach us that it wasn’t all three of us who heard it wrong.

“Telepathy that delivers content directly to your head through your student ID card. If I remember correctly, this is a feature that would never be used except in an emergency.”

“Really? Ho, by any chance, there was a terrorist incident last year… ?”

“No way. It won’t be like that. Anyway, I hope it’s not a big deal.”

Michelle’s body trembled at the word that she might be in an emergency, and Rayna calmed her down, holding her hand and putting her foot forward.

And I quietly followed them.

“Ike?”

“Oh, yes.”

“Are you okay? You don’t look good.”

“… Nothing. It’s a little hot.”

“… Okay.”

I immediately wrapped it around Reina, but in fact, cold sweat was running down my back right now.

The reason was simple.

Telepathy through this student ID is a function that has never been used in the original work.

In other words, it was the tension of the unknown.

Above all, if the information I know is accurate, there is only one situation where this function is used.

That was the recruitment of troops that could be operated with full force immediately.

★

Over 20 students gathered in the auditorium.

But something was out of balance.

Six red ribbons representing first grade.

Ten gold ribbons representing third grade.

But there were only two of us, Raina and I, with the silver ribbon representing the second year.

“Attention!”

While everyone was confused by the sudden gathering, Dean Ender appeared shouting and stood on the podium to begin talking.

“Everything I am talking about is a real situation. I hope everyone will listen calmly.”

In Dean Ender’s expression, the usual gentle atmosphere did not remain at all.

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Perhaps because of that, tension gradually began to spread among the students gathered in the auditorium.

“Currently, a message has arrived that a large number of Demonic Beasts have been appearing on the southern frontline. Troop support was immediately requested from other regions, but it took three days for additional troops to arrive. For that reason, among the students enrolled in Arcana, we need to recruit manpower to assist on the front line until the troops arrive.”

“….”

I couldn’t understand.

A large number of monsters.

In the original work, the witch beast setting was used only once.

But aside from the fact that the time wasn’t now, the witch beast wouldn’t have appeared in person even once.

“Now gathered here are the number of people who can be immediately appointed from each grade level, and in the case of the second year students, those who have gone on field trips have immediately moved to the southern frontline. And….”

“Hey, hey, can I refuse?”

It was a first-year female student I had never seen before who suddenly cut off Dean Ender.

Anyone could see that she had a pale blue face, and her body was trembling.

To be precise, most of the students in the auditorium were already blushing.

“… I think at least three, if not all, will be drafted per grade.”

In other words, does that mean that one-third of the students here must go to the front lines?

“Poetry, I hate it….”

Hearing Dean Ender’s answer, she shook her head, wrapping her hair.

Of course I have no choice but to hate it.

“Still, you won’t be fighting the demons yourself. Basically, what we need is auxiliary personnel for knights and wizards.”

Even if you try to calm your anxiety with words like that, it doesn’t change the fact that the frontline is where you don’t know what might happen.

In the first place, they were taken because of the lack of personnel, but there is no way that such words could be persuasive.

“First of all, I will select applicants first. Applicant, please raise her hand.”

And the one who raised his hand to those words.

“… A total of four people?”

One third-year senior whose name is unknown.

Me and Raina.

Lastly, it was Michelle.

Other students were trembling silently, watching their surroundings.

I didn’t really want to criticize them.

The reason why I raised my hand in the first place was because my unexplained anxiety soared.

An incident that did not exist in the original work.

And the warning that the real Ike gave me in my dream.

In addition, the story that Sophia, Leon, Helen, and Atal, who went on a field trip, immediately moved to the front line.

I couldn’t think of waiting in Arcana for these things to come together.

If Avatar is involved in this situation, it must be my karma.

“… Great. First of all, if you include the sophomores who went to the front line, it will be okay because there are 8 people for now. We will no longer recruit. Everyone go back except for the four who raised their hands.”

At those words, the other students, including the first-year girl who had been wrapping her hair earlier, let out a sigh of relief.

Then, as if running away, I left the auditorium in an instant.

At the auditorium, where the number of people had decreased in an instant, Dean Ender opened his mouth as he quietly glanced over.

“I’m sure everyone who is left here understands exactly what I mean.”

His tone was not one of the honorifics used with students in formal situations.

The meaning was clear.

Originally, I shouldn’t have said it, but I meant to tell the truth.

“To be honest, the situation on the southern frontline is serious right now. Earlier, she said she was recruiting support personnel, but she can’t say for sure what will happen in reality. It means that you may end up fighting the Witchbeasts yourself.”

“Can you tell me exactly what level the situation is?”

The question was asked by a senior in the third grade.

“… Recently, there has been a report that the number of Demonic Beasts has decreased in the front lines of the East and West. And as a result of checking, they said that all the monsters that were only found there appeared in the south.”

“That, what?”

“It is said that reinforcements from the east and west immediately departed for the front lines in the south, but as I said before, they will take at least three days to arrive. So, inevitably, a request for troop support came to Arcana, which is close to the southern front line.”

I could feel the sadness in Dean Ender’s voice.

In the original novel, when Sofia and Leon fought against Avatar, he was the one who expressed his disapproval more severely than anyone else, so is it natural?

And to put it another way, it meant that the situation on the front line was that serious.

“No matter what the situation is, this is a problem for adults to solve. I’m really excited to send you guys to the battlefield….”

“It’s okay, Dean Ender.”

It was the third year senior who stopped Dean Ender from bowing his head and trying to apologize.

And he went on, scratching his head with a weak smile.

“I will be a knight from next year anyway, so just think of it as experiencing it in advance.”

“I-I’m fine too! Because my mother said my talent was given to help many people! Now is the time, it must be then….”

Michelle also stuttered her words, and she didn’t look away even though her voice had gotten quieter at the end.

“We are fine too. Friends are heading there, but we can’t be alone. Right, Ike?”

“… Well, yes.”

And let me and Reina say that too.

“Thank you very much.”

In the end, Dean Ender bowed his head.