CH 74

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“Oh right, Sakurai. The dungeon will be off limits during the academy festival next week, so keep that in mind, okay?” (Higaki)

“Huh?” (Sakurai)

In the living room of Iris’s place, Higaki, who is collecting the admission documents for Iris on the table, says so to me as I’m doing muscle training.

In response, I stop doing push-up and ask with a straight face as though I couldn’t understand it,

“Eh, hold on a sec. What do you mean?” (Sakurai)

“You know about the academy festival, right? During the period it’s held, outsiders will come, too. So the dungeon will be completely sealed off to prevent accidents or the likes.” (Higaki)

“Ahh, I see. It’s time for the academy festival, huh.” (Sakurai)

The academy festival is an event that will be held for five days in May after the tutorial phase in April.

In this event, which boasts the largest number of participants among the many events in the game, many of the main characters of the game will meet together, including the ones making their first appearance.

(In the game, you couldn’t go to the dungeon because you are forced to participate, but… well, since outsiders are invited, it’s natural to seal it off so that they can’t enter without permission.)

The school festival, contrary to its meaning in the real world, is a joint athletic meet of the adventurer academy and the military academy, which is an academy that nurture knights.

Academy students and knight apprentices will participate in various competitions, and which is superior will be determined by the points that can be obtained in the competitions they participate in.

At the closing ceremony, three awards called individual award, party award, and academy award are given depending on the points obtained, and if you can win them, you can receive rare items and money as a supplementary prize.

By the way, most of the competitions are party-based, so if the level of your comrades have reached around 30 by the end of April, you can definitely win the party award and the academy award.

Well, if you keep hunting in the academy dungeon for about 9 hours everyday in April, it will be easily reachable.

What? Individual award? If the protagonist’s level is in the latter half of 30, and you continues to participate in party competitions with him alone, you can get all three awards.

The recommended level to participate in this event is around 15, to begin with, so if you have double that level, you can naturally win most competitions. Please keep that in mind, everyone.

“Speaking of the academy festival, have the supplementary prizes been decided?” (Sakurai)

“The academy award is 10,000 gold for all students of the winning academy, the party award is ‘Great Priest’s Magic Staff’, and the individual award is ‘Fool’s Necklace’, it seems.” (Higaki)

“What!?” (Sakurai)

“Uwah!?” (Higaki)

Hearing the item’s name, Fool’s Necklace, I spring up and, in one bound, strongly grab Higaki’s shoulder over the table.

“For real!? You can get Fool’s Necklace!? Where did you get that information!? Did you see it with your own eyes!? Where is it now!? Who are guarding it!? Their number!? Their arrangement!?” (Sakurai)

“W-wait! Calm down! Your eyes are bloodshot, Sakurai!!” (Higaki)

“Answer me!” (Sakurai)

“No way I will, idiot!!” (Higaki)

I receive a counter attack throw from Higaki, whose shoulders I shook back and forth, and is thrown to the sofa; thanks to that, my head cools down a bit.

Individual award at the academy festival. The item given as the supplementary prize is randomly selected from several candidates.

However each item has a different chance to be selected. And the one with the lowest chance is ‘Fool’s Necklace’ that Higaki mentioned earlier.

There is a famous saying that ‘a fool learns from experience and a wise man learns from history’.

This Fool’s Necklace was said to have been made with that saying as the origin, and it has the effect of ‘increasing the acquired experience points by +5%’.

It can increase the acquired experience points by +5%.

It can increase experience points.

This is an extremely rare item that I must obtain at any cost.

These days, my required experience points are close to 100 million points, so there’s no way I’m gonna miss it if it can increase the efficiency in obtaining experience points, even if it’s only by 5%!

“Alright!” (Sakurai)

“Wait.” (Higaki)

“What is it, Higaki. I haven’t done anything yet.” (Sakurai)

“I see, not yet, huh. So what are you going to do now?” (Higaki)

Well, I think I’ll go borrow the record of goods that entered the management room at the delivery entrance of the academy to check if there’s any evidence that something like Fool’s Necklace was brought in, and scour around the principal’s room, vault, the warehouse, hidden rooms and the likes.

After all, there is not much time until the academy festival, it’s uncertain how long that sort of experience point increasing item will be stored. I must get it as soon as possible.

“I see. Then I’m taking you in.” (Higaki)

“Why!” (Sakurai)

“Why, you ask? Cause there’s no way I’ll overlook it!” (Higaki)

Higaki says and reaches out to my back, intending to capture me; of course I resist, but Higaki has a higher win rate in a bare-handed fight. She seems to have been honing her arrest technique with Iris lately, making it even harder to escape from her grasp.

“Dammit! Don’t pin down a person on their hips, Higaki! And why do you even polish up your technique just to subdue me!” (Sakurai)

“Because if I don’t, you will bother other people.” (Higaki)

“Alright, I get it! Let’s make a deal! I’ll tell you information from my original game knowledge that will be useful for you! So let me go!” (Sakurai)

“I refuse. I don’t see great value in your knowledge; you don’t have any information about Teacher, after all.”

Higaki replies bluntly to the deal I offered.

This little, even though I’ve told her the source of my knowledge as I promised after the opera house incident. To think her reaction would be just this.

Even though I explained everything from the beginning, including the fact I’m a reincarnated person because she didn’t get my summary about ‘game, strategy wiki, various PR brochures, and other related books’ at all!

Even though I recited Higaki’s height, weight, three sizes, and all her profiles on the spot because she didn’t quite believe it!

“In the first place, why was, “You don’t have any information about Teacher? So useless,” all the reaction you had hearing what I told you! Normally people would be surprised, or angry, or you know… the likes, wouldn’t they!” (Sakurai)

“I’m a person from a creative work’s world— such a story is more or less in line with your words and actions. However, you also said that Higaki Ao that you know and me that’s currently here are like different people. If that is the case, it proves that I am alive as my own person. There’s no need for me to take it so seriously, right?” (Higaki)

“Iris knows about the reincarnation system as a person from the Netherworld, so, for argument’s sake, it’s still acceptable when she only reacted like, “So there is such a thing˜,” but even though the story is not that big of a deal, show some reaction to please the speaker! That’s what’s not good about you!” (Sakurai)

“You yourself, don’t get angry for such a stupid reason. Besides, if someone tells you, “You’re a person from a creative work’s world,” You won’t feel anything, even a tiniest bit, will you?” (Higaki)

“I’d pretend to be angry for a while, stage a one-on-one fight so that we can make up, and thoroughly get information that seems to be related to leveling from them, though.” (Sakurai)

“That’s what’s not good about you.” (Higaki)

Iris shows a strange understanding to Higaki, who is excessively diligent to the end, saying “It’s Sakurai-san, after all.”

While catching a glimpse of the indomitableness of the girls, who are prone to jump into major events that would likely to be very complicated and troublesome, I continue to uselessly resist Higaki until I’m dragged to have dinner prepared by Iris.