Chapter 7 - Semi-Final Boss Saintess (1)
Semi-Final Boss Saintess (1)
Translator : Elizabeth
“……You! You’re not a person of this world, are you? Huh?! You’re a person from Earth, aren't you!!”
The daughter of a Viscount, whose charm point was her light green hair.
Clara von Hermain dragged Saintess Louise to a quiet place and asked bluntly.
“Hm? Eaaarth~?”
“Yeah, Earth! Don’t think about feigning ignorance, okay? That F-F-Fle…… that you were rambling about to the Crown Prince.”
“Fleming?”
“R-Right, that! Fleming’s Finger Rule or whatever! No matter who looks at it, it’s overly certain proof that you’re not a person of this world!”
“Oho~?”
Louise rolled her eyes playfully and whistled.
Anyone could see she was feigning ignorance while knowing everything, but it also meant this:
That’s your only proof?
“Eek……! Just now, you said with your own mouth to the Crown Prince something about Fleming and reading Physics I or High Top or whatever when you were a kindergartner……! No, wait, kindergartner? That’s a lie, right……?”
“Fufu~♬ Do not be surprised! By the time I graduated kindergarten, I had already mastered General Physics, of course, and pretty much all undergraduate-level physics at KAIST~”
Louise threw her shoulders and chest wide open as if proud.
Although she was shorter than Clara,
Combined with that massive part of her chest and Louise’s words just now, Clara unwittingly spat out words of admiration.
“Wow, crazy. If it’s KAIST, that guy Jinhun in my class who was first in the whole school and had a tic disorder used to rant every day about how it’s better than Seoul National University…… N-No! It-It’s true! Seeing that you’re an Earthling and talking like that, you’re definitely a Korean like me……!!”
Clara protested to Louise, making a face like the emoticon >_
“Ahaha♬ Sorry, sorry~ Your reaction was so similar to Mary’s that I did it without realizing.”
“Mary?”
“Yep. My roommate from the convent days.”
Louise had a wistful expression, as if she missed her a little.
But it was only for a very brief moment.
“I was waiting.”
Soon, correcting her posture.
“For the time when an existence like you would appear someday. So, I’ll ask.”
She spoke as if she had already predicted Clara would come.
“Are you an operator inside this simulation world? Or are you an NPC like me?”
Clara and Louise.
The two decided to take some time to introduce themselves as similar beings in this world.
First, as Clara had asked, both were reincarnators from the same Earth.
Beyond simply being from the same planet, even the fact that they were born Korean.
“……So like that, overnight, I went from an ordinary K-High School Girl to a Romance Fantasy game…… Viscount’s daughter in the world of 『Saint Royal Academy』…… Well, they say daughter, but anyway, I reincarnated as just an extra.”
It was when Clara finished introducing herself first and tried to pass the baton to Louise.
“Okay, my introduction ends here. Then now, your turn…… Hiek?!”
Suddenly, Louise stuck close to Clara, her eyes sparkling brilliantly.
Clasping Clara’s hand tightly with both hands with the will never to let go, she asked in a voice filled with excitement.
“So, so!! You mean this world is the world of a work you read in your previous life, right?!!”
“W-Wait……! You, you’re too close, you idiot!!”
“Upupu~”
Clara pushed Louise’s face away with her free hand.
Although one hand was still caught, she could at least escape the point-blank range where their lips might touch.
No matter that they were both girls, Louise’s looks were too dangerous to keep right in front of her eyes.
Moreover, her eyes were dazzled because of the Saintess’s unique Light Magic(?).
“Amazing! Amazing!! To think this world was truly another world inside an actually existing world~!!”
Louise jumped pol-jjak pol-jjak on the spot, showing how happy she was at the new news.
Every time she did, the Saintess uniform flipped up, and the thigh area visible through the gap was a bit dangerous.
“H-Hmm…… Well, I fully understand being that surprised but…… Seeing that reaction, you must not have played 『Saint-Royal』 or anything like that, right?”
“Hm? Yep!”
“Hmm, I see. Right. Then you don’t even know what kind of character the Saintess you reincarnated as is?”
“Yep!!”
At Louise’s honest answer without a speck of lie, Clara was a bit flustered.
But seeing this, she raised the corners of her mouth slightly with a sense of superiority that she could stand at an advantage in information.
How should I cook this airhead who reincarnated as the 『Saintess』 but knows absolutely nothing about 『Saint-Royal』?
Thinking such thoughts, Clara felt relieved about her own specialness—that she knew this world inside out with her game knowledge—which she still maintained.
Of course, whether Clara did so or not,
“Brain in a Vat Theory! Simulation Theory! At the point where another 『Player』 besides me exists, the possibility of that premise had already hit over 90%, but if the original source of this world exists, it’s practically no different from 100%! Aha, ahahaha~!”
Louise was simply incredibly happy to observe a result that perfectly fit the physics hypothesis she had established.
After thinking that Louise seemed to have been a bit of a weirdo in her past life,
Clara decided to address the part she wanted to know the most first.
“A-Anyway! Seeing that you were approaching the Main Male Lead…… does that mean your taste is that kind of Crown Prince-type with blond hair and blue eyes, kind but with a mentality slightly like a crumbling cookie?”
“?”
Louise looked as if she didn't understand the intention or content of Clara’s question at all.
Why is such a question coming out all of a sudden? That was her only thought.
Frustrated, Clara raised her voice as per her personality from her past life and asked again, concretely.
“I. Said! Since it’s come to this, we should divide things up well so we don’t overlap on which man to take and which to discard! Isn't that obvious!”
“Hm? Why?”
“Why, you ask! The guy you like…… I mean, it would be a big problem if the characters we’re targeting overlap! Isn't that obvious?!”
“The guy I like? Target?”
Louise tilted her head at words she hadn't thought about even a little bit.
“I don’t really have a guy I like? In the first place, I was a man.”
“W-What? A man……? In your past life?”
Clara froze for a moment with an expression that said she hadn't expected this at all.
After all, if it’s the Romance Fantasy genre, and a game at that.
Usually, one hundred out of one hundred times, it’s a genre where the player character is a woman and targets male protagonists.
Unless one has special tastes, naturally, a man wouldn't feel the fun in targeting men.
So it wasn't an exaggeration to say that a significant number, no, the majority of players were women.
But a man?
Moreover, a man possessing a Saintess, that is, a female character?
No, no.
More important than that……!
“……N-No! Then why on earth did you approach the Main Male Lead?! You, you…… Don’t tell me you’re that?! Like a Fudanshi (Rotten Boy) who is so rare they’re practically extinct……! Or maybe as you became TS (Trans-Sexual/Gender Bent), your mind eventually became feminized or something……?!”
“Main Male Lead? Fudanshi? What’s that?”
A face showing she didn't understand Clara’s words properly, the second time.
Leaving aside the word Fudanshi, she looked like she didn't know the meaning of Main Male Lead at all either.
“I. Said! The Crown Prince! He’s a man, right……! Being a man, why were you seduced by the Main Male Lead, the Crown Prince……?!”
“I was just trying to do an IQ test?”
“I mean, why on earth did you do that?!!”
“Ah, that’s because I had homework I received from the Director~ But seeing as the Crown Prince didn't understand even 1% of my physics explanation properly just now, honestly, I’m not really expecting much, but~ Still, there might be a very low probability that his IQ exceeds 180, right?”
“…….”
The conversation didn't mesh at all.
So Clara decided to ask from the most basic matter.
“……O-Okay. Let’s say I get it…… Then you, what is important about an IQ test for targeting the Crown Prince, and why did you do it……?”
“? Since we are living organisms, and for the sake of the development of science and physics, isn't it natural to continue the lineage by leaving behind only the genes of the best geniuses with at least an IQ of 180 or higher?”
“…….”
……She asked, but her head was still full of question marks just the same.
Since Clara was originally a woman in her past life too, even if she tried to pass it over thinking Is men's thinking originally like that?…….
That was straying far too much from the category of normal.
Man or woman, whatever race one might be.
There can’t be a human who thinks like that in this day and age…….
“……O-Okay. Let’s say that’s true too…… IQ 180…… So just how high is yours for you to be like that?”
“Me? I hit the max score based on SD15! For reference, the max score is 195!”
“Was there something like a max score in IQ tests……? No, anyway, since it’s a test, I guess it’s natural there’s a perfect score…….”
“Yep! Seeing that you realized the answer yourself along with the question just now, surely Clara must have an IQ higher than average people~ Roughly around 100 to 110?”
“Haa…… Forget about my IQ, I was just so-so ordinary anyway, in my past life…… Haa…….”
Clara pressed firmly on her temples, which were starting to throb, and now just answered however she could.
Clara judged that against this bizarre Reincarnated Saintess,
It was completely meaningless to organize something like a future knowledge battle or psychological warfare between reincarnators.
“……Anyway, if you’re going to target the Crown Prince with that kind of thing, you’d better give up.”
Judging that further checks were meaningless, Clara answered Louise honestly.
“The setting book doesn't say what his IQ is, but basically, the Royal Family, which is a Hero family by setting, is a family strong in martial power, not a very smart family.”
As Clara remembered, clearly,
The official setting book stated that most of the Royal Affairs of the current Dawnbringer Kingdom were handled by Queen 『Arianne』, the King’s wife.
“In the first place, if you play the game, there’s a mention in the dialogue clips that the Crown Prince resembles the King rather than the Queen, and his younger sister, the First Princess, resembles Queen Arianne.”
Clara let out a deep sigh, wondering why she was giving such advice when she met a reincarnator like herself, and added the conclusion.
“So, expecting the Crown Prince’s IQ to exceed 180, you’d better fold that thought.”
“Ugh…… I don’t want to make the child I bear in the future into a kid who wants to commit suicide out of shame because they’re racking their brains with Riemann integration not knowing Lebesgue integration when doing special function integration where the domain is rational and irrational numbers…… Okay, then the Crown Prince is processed as a failure!”
“……Just where in the world does such a kid exist! And is that something to say after stealing the first meeting cutscene instead of the Main Heroine……?!”
Clara harbored a genuine feeling of pity for the Crown Prince, who was instantly dumped with zero confession.
“……Haa, seriously…… If you’re going to be like that, why don’t you just meet some Archmage or something and ask him to marry you?”
“Archmage?”
“……You really know nothing……. There is, such a thing.”
According to the setting, the strongest mage in the current human world, Archmage Aldoras.
Of course, in the game, only his stepdaughter, the Villainess Heroine, appears…….
“……Anyway, if it’s an Archmage, he’d be smarter than most humans, wouldn't he?”
“Weell~ Magic in this world is lacking in many ways in both theory and experiment, but at least in that it’s based on basic logic and phenomenology, it can be called somewhat scientific? Surprisingly, it might not be bad?”
—Grab.
“Thanks for letting me know, Clara! I’ll definitely meet him later and try an IQ test! On that Mr. Archmage!”
“Ugh……?!”
At having her hand grabbed by Louise again and the distance closing, Clara blushed again,
But soon, as if a sudden important fact came to mind, she quickly calmed her expression.
“Anyway, then just what did you reincarnate to do……?”
First, she asked as if sounding Louise out.
“……No, no, it’s not like you reincarnated because you wanted to either…… So, you knew this world is a Romance Fantasy game world, right? You have memories of your past life, and although I don’t know well, it seems you studied incredibly well anyway…… Then what are you going to do now?”
“What do you mean what am I doing? For now, I’m going to school? Today is the entrance ceremony day!”
“I. Said! Not that kind of thing, but long-term goals or dreams, something like that!”
“Aha~ That kind of thing is simple!!”
Louise said she asked very well.
Pop-pow! Bursting a firecracker made of light above her head, she shone a large English sentence on top of it.
『Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation!』
“To interpret it, Amplification of Light by Stimulated Emission! In other words, 『LASER』!”
Starting from scattering Light Magic CG intensely around her every time she spoke once,
“Yep! From now on, I’m going to make a laser!!”
Even the content of what she said had long since left the category Clara could understand.
So it was dangerous.
Very much so.
Enough to shake this world of a 『Romance Fantasy』 game from the foundation.
‘Even though I’m an extra, I can tell because I’m from a Viscount family…….’
……That Saintess right now.
The magic level of the Reincarnated Saintess Louise,
Was already incomparable to the original story and far ahead.
Even Clara, an extra, could know that sufficiently.
Yes.
So that was the problem.
‘……The, the Main Heroine and the Main Male Lead…… They can target (capture) each other, right……? If they can’t target each other, it’s straight to Game Over and world destruction?! Although she’s still at the level of floating light CG around her……! Just how……!!’
Therefore,
“……H-Hmm. I see.”
Clara feigned composure on the outside even more,
“But you know…….”
And had no choice but to ask Louise this fact.
“……If by chance you reincarnated as a Semi-Final Boss who summons the Final Boss and dies unconditionally at the end of the story…… Then what will you do?”