Chapter 14 - The Greatness of Light!
Translator : Elizabeth
『Calix von Luminous』.
As can be seen from being bestowed the middle name von, he is a territorial noble.
Befitting a descendant of the Luminous family that produced a Sword Master, he entered the Academy as the top student of the Knight Department.
Also, as the eldest son who will become the successor of the Luminous Count family in the near future,
The Sub Male Lead of this Romance Fantasy game world 『Saint-Royal』, Calix.
—Whoosh! Whoosh! Whack, thud!
He was swinging a practice wooden sword at a scarecrow.
His posture was already skilled enough to spar with an instructor, and his sword path was sharp enough to violate life and death before his eyes.
Right now, his eyes seemed to contain only the enemy in front of him, even if it was a scarecrow.
Therefore, someone was watching him secretly,
It inevitably took a little time for him to realize that fact.
Calix pointed his sword toward where he felt the gaze.
“Hiek…….”
Then, the light green hair that was peeking out was startled and fluttered, soon dropping leaves from the branch.
“Hiding again after being caught is meaningless. If it’s secret watching, why don’t you stop?”
“Ah…… A-As expected, was I caught?”
“You were caught long ago. To fail to notice even that level of presence, as a Luminous family’s…….”
Calix was about to say words he habitually used but soon stopped.
‘Surely, she must be a woman who approached seeing only our family and my face. She would be just like other women who flock around annoyingly,’
Assuming that if she were such a woman anyway, she would know everything about his name and family,
Calix intended to interrogate her about herself first, not about himself.
“Anyway, this is the Knight Department training ground. It is not a place for general students to come. Yet, what were you looking at so intently?”
Although he asked like that for now, honestly, Calix wasn't curious in the slightest.
Because the reason women came to find him was obvious.
And the answers that would return when asking such questions were also painfully obvious.
‘Surely she’ll say I’m cool again, or that I’m so good at swordsmanship…… She’ll just spout words like that. While being a girl who wouldn't know a single thing if I actually asked about the sword, tsk.’
He thought so.
But the answer that returned was words he had never heard even once until now.
“That is…… I…… It was just a bit strange…….”
“……Strange? What is?”
The light-green-haired female student hesitated for a moment picking her words, then spoke quietly as if muttering.
“The, movement was…….”
It was as soon as he heard those words.
Calix’s eyes widened slightly, and soon crinkled unpleasantly not long after.
However, following his father’s numerous teachings, he suppressed the emotion of anger and asked back a little colder than before.
“Are you talking about my movement?”
First, because he might have heard wrong.
But he had heard correctly.
The light-green-haired female student nodded her head small, saying Calix’s words were correct.
“Yes, y-yes…….”
Naturally, Calix was dumbfounded.
‘Ha, in all my life, if it were Father maybe, but I never dreamed I’d have my sword pointed out by a passing female student.’
Coming this far, his anger changed into a feeling of absurdity, and now he even reached a state of let’s just hear where it’s strange.
And,
As if she had predicted Calix would react like that.
No, as if she already knew.
“The foot, and the sword tip.”
The light-green-haired female student struck first.
Unlike earlier when she was totally scared, now her eyes were unusually filled with conviction.
At the sudden change in attitude and the words of the light-green-haired female student, Calix became silent for a moment.
As if elaborating to him, the light-green-haired female student spoke again,
Completing it into a sentence this time.
“Just now, the last foot was half a beat fast. So the sword tip shook.”
At the light-green-haired female student’s words, Calix opened his eyes roundly, the widest in recent times.
“Ah……! I-I’m sorry…… What rudeness am I committing when I haven't even held a sword properly…….”
The light-green-haired female student didn't know what to do and covered her face with both hands, making a fuss.
“…….”
And Calix, who was still blinking his round surprised eyes at such a female student without a word.
Smirk, and.
He showed the light-green-haired female student a smile, perhaps the first one since coming to the Academy.
“……You, are different from other women.”
“I-I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sor…… Huh? Y-Yes……?”
“It is nothing.”
Calix turned his head as if hiding his expression from the light-green-haired female student,
And soon began swinging the wooden sword again whoosh-! whoosh-!
As if to unify his mind, he cut through the air even more fiercely than before.
While doing so, Calix said.
“Around this time, I always swing my sword alone here. I like that there are no useless people.”
“Ah…… Not knowing that, I…… I’m sorry, I won’t disturb from next ti…….”
“It is fine.”
“……?”
“If it is you, I think it wouldn't be bad for you to come and watch.”
Whoosh—!
Calix struck down with the wooden sword with all his might for the last time, then turned back to the light-green-haired female student and asked.
“Name? Judging by the chevron pattern, it seems to be a Viscount family. Surely that crest is…… Right, the territorial noble of the Southern region, Viscount Hermain.”
“Ah, yes. That’s right.”
“I apologize. Since I only focused too much on sword training, I don’t go to social gatherings often. Even if I have memorized the family crest, it is the first time seeing your name and face. Could you introduce yourself?”
“Ah, yes. I am the eldest daughter of Viscount Hermain, Clara von Hermain.”
“Right, eldest daughter…… We both received troublesome roles. Ah, I see. I am…….”
“Ah, introduction is fine. Since I already know.”
The light-green-haired female student showed a broad smile, prettier than ever before.
Just in time, whish— the wind blew,
And the green spring leaves brushing past her light green hair and fluttering,
“Calix von Luminous. Lord Calix of the Luminous Count family. Fufu, right?”
“…….”
Seemed to capture Calix’s gaze so it couldn't go anywhere for a moment.
Louise taking charge of the overall preparation for the Tea Party.
And that Tea Party, which is a crucial event in Romance Fantasy, being handled by that Louise.
This was exactly what happened tens of minutes ago.
Clara and Iris had already gone somewhere saying they would do special training(?) to seduce the Crown Prince.
Of course, Iris was practically dragged away by Clara half-forcedly.
“Mmm, Tea Party preparation, Tea Party preparation~”
Left alone, Louise pondered deeply.
Although there wasn't a physics theory regarding Tea Party preparation.
It was fine. There was a way.
As before,
—Shoooo!
The library inside her head.
Heading to that very deep place.
Like that,
The mental signboard she sees for the second time since the way to school for the entrance ceremony today.
『Note! From here on is the place where useless knowledge and memories that don’t need organizing and are of no help to life are gathered~♬』
—Rummage, rummage!
The wreckage of memories scattered carelessly, the SD character Louise rummages through them randomly.
No matter that she is Louise equipped with perfect memory ability to remember everything, it took time to recall those memories.
Moreover, if that memory was a useless memory not particularly related to physics, it took even more time.
After roughly 3.141592 seconds passed.
One useless memory found like that.
『Ak-Sim-Dang (Evil Heart Hall / Bakery Name)』.
“Yep, right, bread. Mostly bread. And almost all of it Ak-Sim-Dang bread.”
It was the most famous bakery in the city where he lived during Louise’s past life.
“Come to think of it, refreshments were essential when holding academic conferences or seminars. Wouldn't a Tea Party be similar in the end? Yep yep, sugar is essential for spinning the brain~”
Louise felt like a picture was roughly drawn.
First, prepare refreshments.
“But there’s no Ak-Sim-Dang here…… Should I just buy bread and cookies appropriately around the Academy? No, no! My friend Clara trusted and entrusted me! I must do it properly~!”
Louise began to use her brain a bit more on something other than physics for the truly first time in a long while.
Then the answer came quickly.
“Good! Let’s make bread like Ak-Sim-Dang directly! I remember Ak-Sim-Dang bread being a bit sweeter so…… lots of sugar…… No, no, it won’t do with such ordinary sugar!”
Once she started pondering, like Louise, the correct answers came out one after another, biting the tail of the previous one.
“Mmm~ Right! Sugar is the combination of glucose and fructose! Since there is no sucrase enzyme…… instead, shoot light of a wavelength corresponding to that binding energy with Light Magic to decompose it into glucose and fructose! Then pick out only glucose with chromatography technique…… If I use that instead of sugar, it absorbs immediately and goes straight to the blood vessels and pow to the brain! No problem with ATP supply for brain cells~ Ahaha♬”
Louise spun bing-geul on the spot as if dancing, saying she became a little happy.
It was Louise’s unique thinking secret method giving stimulation to the brain through rotation.
“If I make bread and cookies with the glucose extracted like that and put it in tea to drink, it’s truly the best sugar intake~! Since glucose is less sweet than sugar, one can obtain a larger amount of energy compared to the same sweetness~ Ah, right right! Tea has caffeine, right?! Then as expected, I can’t not extract it~♪”
—Vooooom!
Louise began to write letters made of light in the air.
Although it was unnecessary for her with perfect memory ability,
It is different if it is intended to show someone.
“I prepared the ‘Tea and Snacks’ (Da-Gwa) of the Tea Party, then the ‘Meeting’ (Hoe - also means Society/Conference) shouldn't be missing!”
If one ingests lots of sugar and has no occasion to use their brain, that would truly be nonsense.
In other words, Louise felt that the Tea Party needed other main content besides refreshments.
“But mmm~ Somehow, just meeting right away and having a face-to-face discussion without materials might be unreasonable. Yep, everyone is not a genius like me. It could be very hard for ordinary people…….”
Louise is the chairperson entrusted with the Tea Party by Clara.
In other words, the general manager in charge of all proceedings and operations.
The chairperson needs to organize sessions considering the level of people participating in the conference.
And this place is not the university where he was a professor in his past life, but an Academy in a completely different world.
In other words, it means everyone is an ordinary person and a layman.
“……Yep. Certainly, when teaching chick undergraduates who knew nothing, they couldn't understand even if I told them theory or results or whatever…… The most effective thing was showing them experiments visible to the actual eye, right?”
If so, the correct answer to this problem was also crystal clear.
“Good! Then I must prepare an experiment demonstration together! Yep! While I’m at it, let’s make and showcase the Optical Cavity, the most basic part of a laser, first~!”
—Vooooom!
The supplies necessary for the Tea Party that Louise thought of were written extensively, twinkling in the air.
No matter that Louise is a genius, it was unreasonable to procure all these materials and items alone.
However,
Louise’s title is the Saintess.
Although she wasn't granted substantial power.
Symbolically, she was still the existence next to the Pope in the Church.
“Mmm~ How did they say to call? Memory, memory, useless memory…… Ah, is this it?”
Louise soon recalled the method and called the name.
“Lucia? Lunia? Ah, Lucia~!”
It was then.
—Thud.
Just when did she arrive?
Behind Louise,
A black nun wrapped in a nun’s habit all over her body except for her eyes,
Was kneeling on one knee.
As if she had been there from the beginning.
Without presence, without sign.
“Inquisition Bureau affiliation, Special Duty Dispatch Nun for Holy Affairs Inspection, 『Lucia』.”
The black nun raised her head and spoke.
“I have arrived here upon receiving Saintess Louise’s call.”
I can take the Saintess’s life whenever I want.
Words and eyes that felt like such a warning from the Church.
Of course,
“Ahat, it’s Lucia! So you are Lucia? We are Lu-Lu sisters! Ahaha~ Hi, hi~?”
“…….”
Louise was far from caring about such things; she didn't even have them in mind from the beginning.
“Lucia, I need the things written here, can you prepare them by this time?”
At Louise’s words, Lucia scanned the letters of light written in the air through her black habit.
“There are a few words I cannot understand. If you explain what kind of items they are, I can procure the most similar things possible.”
“Whoa, really~?! Thanks, Lucia!”
Louise hugged Lucia tightly.
Lucia neither accepted nor rejected it.
Instead, she added one word.
“However—”
“Hm?”
“—Could you please tell me clearly what the use is, and what the purpose is?”
Lucia’s voice tone was the same as before.
But those who would know, knew.
“Please tell me, Saintess Louise.”
That there was killing intent contained in this black nun’s voice.
There is no malice.
It was just a feeling that she would judge based on the answer.
Whether she knew that or not,
“It’s simple!”
At Lucia’s question, Louise suddenly raised both arms high into the sky.
As if spreading them wide.
And in that act, the Saintess’s emotion dwells so very naturally.
“I’m going to teach the ordinary people of this Academy who know nothing—!”
Flash, and for a moment.
A halo of bright light spreading wide and high behind Louise.
Added to this,
Even Lucia, who was still kneeling on one knee in a posture looking up,
“Ah…….”
That spectacle was as if,
No, surely,
“—The Greatness of Light!!”
It must have captured the very moment of looking up at the descent of the Goddess.