Chapter 201: A Perfect Plan (1)
ixPn5mMThere were three weeks to go until the start of the Autumn Harvest Festival. Two weeks before that, which was in one week’s time from now, was the yearly exam.jJftYM
5uFANormally, students would have around two weeks to prepare for the Harvest Festival but…UIfkRk
Bjh7r8“I’ll give up on the yearly.”L6v
SPnTR5“…Are you serious?”e283UAh
huS“Bro, I don’t think that’s a… good idea.”y1q
49zRen and Ron, who I called over to the sunroom of the dormitory for a strategy meeting, were dumbfounded by my strategy.Sy7zek
cHqjN“There’s no way around it. I don’t want to disappoint them.”UAZ4
Bk3“…You do know that you are reaping what you sow, right?” Ron said.lYTMaA
p4j9“Uhk…”faSn9ya
8zZDCjI couldn’t deny that anymore so instead, I yelled at him.TRK
XtHk3“Buddy! Don’t think you can fool me about what’s happening with you too!”6MW6
yjxMo“Sorry? What have I done?”jQymi
MTAqzU“You know! You are quite popular among the freshmen girls, aren’t you?!”GVmnx
5oSjW0LEven from an objective standpoint, Ron was a handsome boy. He looked like a middle schooler on the outside, and each of his gestures must have been quite appealing to the girls. There were even some freshmen girls who wanted to talk to me because they were interested in Ron.uam
LGYw9p“I don’t stick my octopus legs out everywhere like you do though, Bro.*”2T00n5
cmpHVBh“Where did you learn to say such things? Who taught you these mean words?!”Aino
mzkof“More importantly, Boss. There must be a reason you called us here, isn’t there?”llw
lb1FPWXRen asked while looking up at me with calmness in her eyes. She still looked like a 9-year-old on the outside, but she was far more mature and rational than Ron in many areas.G7hwkb4
YVXqDSo why was it that she wasn’t growing physically to match her mental growth? For someone like me who was aware of her future appearance, it was a big unanswered question.87HLSG3
NMvrJ“Simply put, I have to win five contests to acquire the same number of golden ribbons.”a1E
0oYX“Don’t you still get a ribbon by coming 3rd?”vmcn
er6“That’s a bronze ribbon though. Same for the 2nd place – they get a silver ribbon. They’ll be disappointed if they get a different color…”5vaFBF
G6yMr4D“So that’s the mindset of someone with octopus legs, huh?”oHPS
x1Q59BX“Uhk…”ThQ
MTvlBasically, all of the ribbons I earned had to be golden. I had to win 5 contests and give the same ribbon to all of them.r1MC10
TfHT“Is there anyone else you have to give a ribbon to, Boss?”8ar90j
hIYb14f“…For now, no.”Pi345
TRb3Just in case, I asked Lunia if she had any thoughts of participating in the Harvest Festival.WyNrcxh
6Wy『There are errands to run during the Harvest Festival, and I would rather not add any more burden on my fiancé.』lgWEQPQ
viq『M, Ms. Lunia! No! Let me call you, Lunia-noonim…!』fwOyO
8T4aag『Plus, I am looking forward to beating my sister right as she is in the midst of her joy.』soBtdU
jSts『…Lunia-noonim?』uS0
P6lW1I saw a glimpse of impure intentions, but what was important was that Lunia wouldn’t be attending the Festival as a contestant.WhFh4
ZObC1D“What about the Serpent Princess?”Opsr
3JCak7P“Miruam has to run a festival at the royal capital so she’s out! The princesses each have their duties, after all!”6UyZm98
EqOLbNaTherefore, all I had to take care of were Marie, Alicia, Hua Ran, Estelle, and Master. Saying, “All I had to take care of,” for five of them was a bit funny though.HBr4P
hLJbpJQI opened up the Festival pamphlet that had the dates of various events and all the contests.ZLJaQaa
AGCGqvw“This is the list of contests that will be taking place during the Festival. They will start accepting participants from the day after the yearly exam, and for some of them, you can even join on the day of.”gnXXrH
9i14lR“Looks like there are some contests with prizes and no ribbons.”7du8tf4
RFnmfVo“The Tournament is one of the main examples. There are a lot of interesting events apart from that. Ah, maybe you guys should join the Design Contest. There is a senior called Elza in the grade above me who likes making clothes, and she wanted to have you guys as her model.”ENW4e
fomIj“How about you stop meeting more girls?”2Q4X
CED“…She’s just a friend.”bTNv9z0
vqlkRnHIt seemed that the misunderstandings about me were running deep. She and I were just friends who sometimes went to the cafe, had meals, and went shopping together.56RE
ohQk5q8“Kuhum…! Anyway, I picked the five contests that I would be joining.”vduL
YWaI pointed at the events that had been circled with a colored pencil, which Ren and Ron looked at with intrigue.f5wA0
lMkjcc“Hunting Contest, Food Sales Contest and… the Auction Contest?”5djAgJw
cDS“The Auction Contest is basically a popularity contest, and it’s one of the things with a high chance of me winning so I have to do it.”CfalsN
Ylgsl“Anyway, apart from that is the Mock Trial Contest… which I can understand because you are a JP, but… Magic Exhibition? I don’t really understand the last one.”nAAB
S1K“Yeah, bro. You are not a mage.”DZ8kg
YWQjIX“There is a way around it. Anyway, the reason I called you guys is to ask for help during the Hunting Contest.”VBR9RH6
cTy9xV“The Hunting Contest?”fBBh6Fu
SHpizBThey tilted their heads not knowing how overpowered they would be in this Hunting Contest.wEMy
8TUvP“The contest is literally about hunting. There will be unique demonic beasts scattered intentionally across the Hunting Grounds and you have to compete against others by the number of points.”CXwPZ
XQ3vV“You can’t join this contest as a group though?”nkpd5L
eFLgGRight. The Hunting Contest indeed only allowed 1 person entries. ‘1 person’, that is.o0X
H2YU“In the Hunting Contest, you can use professional hunting dogs.”JcHu
UqAV“…”zHGw2L
9xd“…”sEWg3
xnHyThe two of them turned stiff over time as they looked at each other and back at me. I drove in the final nail.Ic5Z
1wD8L“Me, hunter. You, hunting dogs.”9mdbLww
ditFb6N“Oh wow.”oDLzBp
tb47W“Boss. Is that how you thought of us…”4w3WQW
UhJa3“I do know that this is a little questionable! And I do feel very sorry! But no matter how I think about it, this is the best solution left for me!”9S71s6
07aRen and Ron were golden wolves – in other words, they were the best innate hunting dogs. If they were to beastify into their golden wolf forms, then no other hunting dogs would dare reach their level!ZbQ5YSw
f2gZ4Zu“Of course, I’m not asking for your favors for free. I will do anything you want! So please, just this once! Help me out just this once!”VNGh
I1X“…How about you ask Doggo for help?”HsA
rwn5o“He told me to f off.”2A7f
yvqZZQRDoggo was the first one I went to.jg4
6TwScThat little guy…! All he does these days is wear loads of branded clothes and hit on the female dogs around the town! He doesn’t know anything about being filial to his parents!wvHT
wuXCIi“…What do you think, Ren?”22ekn
dhkAfter some thought, Ron asked Ren, showing that he was willing to follow her opinion, and Ren came to a conclusion in a bit.sel0
UvXdNAC“Alright. I’ll help you.”nJFT
Oh2ck“Ohh, Ren…! My little cutey!”em0
YgJroB“You’ve done a lot for us, after all.”IIKGFdI
MmvitYes! With this, the Hunting Contest will be mine!q08MUe
Ix3“Do you have plans for the other contests too?”QVTKcW
nM5jvb“Fufu, of course. I have a perfect plan for all of them.”BZf
E4seEz“…Most of your plans fall short in strange areas though.”wW6lh
de0“I guess that’s true if you put it that way but…”ed8afJW
ZrZIThe only downside Ren had was that she was too negative! She ought to be more positive like me.gzSQyO
JwW“By the way, Senior Hua Ran has two personalities, right? Shouldn’t you give her two ribbons?”w36y5NK
V5SHMOB“…”bSoK
cy9ie1“…”DZIxeo
wuVThat’s a horrifying conjecture. No way right…83y8
DTnB“No. It can’t be. She’ll… understand.”3ecu19Q
nwRgShe… will, right?AUDj0
sMVf2Think positively! Think positively!naY
D5Nl7M***ntTt
tPxWxWEver since the Mound incident last time, a change had struck the slave mages. Some mages were now stationed at the Korin Guardians office.UxP
5jXntIt was a system that allowed the elite prisoners of each cult to take a breather.lj7
6XtOnly 5 from each cult, for a total of 35, were allowed to come outside, and it was a benefit that was only granted to less than a tenth of all the slave mages combined.Dtv0X
3tLUjIt was nothing compared to their glorious days at the Tower of Mages, but everything was subjective. The mages who were finally allowed to breathe in fresh air without having to do the horrendous salt mine work did not want to give up this part of their life.ARln
ujYeI“You guys have to make the exhibition work for this Magic Exhibition Contest.”IPAAxaS
CboAs a result, they had no choice but to obey Korin’s commands.ptiGF
x77“For the… Exhibition Contest of this festival, is it?”02wObI6
vpxdSProfessor Zollin of the Red Cult tilted his head at Korin, who suddenly blurted that out after gathering all the mages into one place.DAk
vS2Ij5“Umm… we don’t have enough time. There’s only three weeks until the Harvest Festival…”28T
W1Pmao9“You can’t do it? Oh right. That’s understandable.”tSrh
KFHKvxSeeing him back down like that made Zollin anxious because he had already experienced many times that this lunatic had a different thought process from others.Na9b
bHqK8q“I’m sure there are some that will be willing to do it. Let’s see… I wonder who I should choose from the list of office mage applicants—”DnyK
nFLq“W, we can do it!”2uw0t62
UlOC“Please let us do it. Three weeks! No, even two weeks will be enough!”koZKdX
5W0f“I haven’t even told you about the topic yet. Well, it still makes me glad to see how enthusiastic my guild members are!”kI04wo
nnXjCccKorin said while casually tapping on the shoulder of the middle-aged mage who looked twice, at the very least, his age. Zollin was deeply humiliated by it but was smart enough to hide it.l9xM
JnlUNo one would know how hard he had to work to gain the right to be stationed here. He definitely did not want to go back to the days of baking salt day in and day out until sunset!ySGeE0
uky“Our goal is the grand prize of the Magic Exhibition Contest! I don’t care about the means, but we need to acquire the golden ribbon.”TIJ
aZHiAt“Mhmm… It won’t be easy to achieve that with anything normal.”Dc3y9y
Gm8YauE“I have everything planned out already.”k90BZq
O7AXln1Korin opened up the plan he had drafted.Dzmsd
qBr“Hohh… this is!”z5R
6EG“How revolutionary. What an idea!”dUO2
OfpThe mages responded positively. Korin gave them an idea from Earth, which they could re-enact through the power of magic. The resulting item was one that would certainly gain the spotlight in the Exhibition Contest.yyO
2vcjEUBesides, it wasn’t hard for the mages to understand the principle and structure of the design.iqkf9
sFpIAlthough they were nothing more than slaves now, they had been and still were the top intellectuals of this world. The group was full of elites, and therefore analyzing a rather elementary design of a person from modern Earth was not too difficult.IIkDg
uBs8zvB“But this structure. Although it is mindblowing, it is hard to imagine how we can make this possible.”cLb
ukh“I am not sure if our metallurgy technique can catch up to this idea. Theoretically, we would need thousands of pumps to be done in a single minute.”XQx
ufZ3X0qThey agreed that it was a great idea, and in fact, there was something similar in existence already, and this was just a smaller and more compact version of it.tpW
ZVyE0iThe problem, however, was this – how were they supposed to create this revolutionary item?eAw
IBRFV8“So how do we make this?” one of the mages asked.0AjlZ
Z4d10“Why are you asking me?” Korin replied.z3upOf
vp1QS85“Hnn?”DGicD
wkez“Huh?”9EA0a
skJAll the mages, who had been in admiration for his revolutionary idea, turned to him at once but Korin simply shrugged his shoulders in response.sCR3Tb
LxPWDcw“That’s something for you to work out from now on.”rhQu
DIqNXUgThis fucker…kucL
3l3HbMuThe mages barely held their tongues in place.UTsH3bp
BGa2hSi***sdrJHWz
YPmx8DThere were a total of five contests that I had to compete in during the Autumn Harvest Festival.SmdFSE
KfSThe first of them was the Hunting Contest.u2m
3ouQSo long as I had the best partners, Ren and Ron, the Hunting Contest was going to be a no-brainer. Besides, I also had the magic spear Gae Derg, which excelled in hunting beasts.VoePSEh
OOS32The second of them was the Magic Exhibition Contest.VgU
aRqcRAlthough it was going to be submitted under the name Korin Lork, the mages of the Tower were the ones who would be making it.pik
wuS1I just gave them a rough idea and told them to make it, but victory was guaranteed as long as they could make something basic. I knew that because Park Sihu had won this contest last year with the same idea.a12cX
VxOEIn the first place, the Magic Exhibition Contest was designed for the player to be able to win with relative ease. None of the other contestants made anything grandiose.JbtDt
DlZEhJgI guess Professor Deina would be the only other person with a notable project? She might get the second-place prize or something.FOtP1KY
4LIFtENormally, because the Tower of Mages was still around during this time of the scenario, they were the ones who normally grabbed all the prizes related to magic. If the player didn’t join the contest, they would have been the ones winning it.AMa4
QhX8InThe thing about the Magic Exhibition Contest was that it was a place to show off your potential and future possibilities, instead of creating something perfect. There was no need to create the finished product to win it.w1l
VFcqjGApart from the Hunting Contest and the Magic Exhibition Contest, there were three others. The Auction Contest, the Food Sales Contest, and the Mock Trial Contest.Pa5NSTW
sYrThe Auction Contest was like a popularity auction, where knights and mages put themselves up as the prize and had a meal with the highest bidder.cPsV6CS
AxNsHThe money used in the auction would be used for the poor, and the prices never went over the top, so it was easy to win even with a little bit of money.9Td
3Z0YD9I was going to put myself up for auction and I was going to buy myself; of course through another person.pEx
HeQBFive gold coins should be enough. There’s no way people would be stupid enough to spend more than that for a single meal, right?tM9Arx
yc7I guess I will stop Marie from going to the auction though, just in case.QYlr0u
y80ELEverything related to money would become a mess with her in the fray, and I wasn’t going to leave any rooms open for surprise anymore!xrK6mmZ
cVxskWith that out of the way, the remaining two contests to worry about were the Food Sales Contest and the Mock Trial. The Food Sales Contest was quite literally a contest where students put up food stalls and competed for profit. This should be an easy win for me, just like the last iteration.D6w
SzJJAnd last but not least was the Mock Trial Contest.rQON
YnS69M6This was something I decided to attend after studying as a Justice of the Peace.LhtK7I3
UoFHrDmIt was quite an interesting event where Professor Edgar Linton would toss out difficult conundrums for a mock trial between lawyers and prosecutors.l3C89n
6NtrThe other reason why I chose this contest as the final one, was because I wasn’t confident in winning the other contests as much as the Mock Trial Contest.sqxxR8M
OziDvFI couldn’t attend the [Crossdressing Contest] and stuff, right?IQ7E
CXSAh, actually, we did do it in the last iteration, but it was Park Sihu and not me.JrGB3Ky
MC1IKaHe won because as the player, he looked quite feminine yet handsome.KiZ
HFHh1Besides, even the cross-dressing contest was just a popularity poll. Speaking from my experience as the one who dressed Park Sihu, I could say that winning the contest wasn’t that difficult.aypD
BYoFeThere aren’t many proper contestants and the prizes are decent but… I ain’t doing it! Never in my life!v2Tz
rYCokI wasn’t crazy. There was no way I would join the crossdressing contest and embarrass myself like that!xscEMke
apV1lvB『Sihu. Trust me, you can do it, okay? To be honest with you, you look really pretty. So just take that in as a fact and be confident. We can do it!』U5T
9GOu4…Hmm, I suddenly feel like a piece of trash for saying that in the last iteration.BmKX
Oh36cCTBut seriously, crossdressing did suit Park Sihu quite well. Even though he swore every second sentence and had zero manners, he looked like an angel when dressed like a girl!1QbI
IEBIt was an easy win so why wouldn’t he do it? Right? It was only natural that I ended up thinking that way.flKdVuS
gtLWHrAs opposed to that, it was impossible that I would look good dressed like a girl. Look at me – these awesome biceps and triceps; the fruition of working out!modW
4ZWCrossdressing would only work for feminine-looking guys like Park Sihu and Ron, and it would be horrible for a person like me.vkSly
Ep9ySv1“Maybe I should ask Ron to do it.”07PW
D5lIt would be a sure win if Ron were to do it. He didn’t even need to wear makeup. He looked the same as Ren except for the flat chest, so as long as we put him in a dress…DkC8hB
uWk……2V39
k28y…gjpAm
ePmk8F“Uwek. No. Were you… looking at me like that, bro?”MhG7
5505Q“What are you thinking, Boss? How can you ask him for something like that!”tHy
q793n“…Wait, you’re making me look like a piece of trash now! I’m telling you; the prize is pretty good, so let’s halve it between us!”c3OFM
vO2ivh“Why would we halve it!? Even if we were doing it, we would have to take the whole thing!”AVZkPO
e3MV3gxTch. As expected of Ren, she was clever despite her childish appearance.TJsg
TqkpIt seemed that I had no choice but to give up on this round’s Crossdressing Contest.kkE
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