I Got Reincarnated as a Villainous Noble, and When I Tried to Create an All-Male Academy to Avoid a Bad Ending, for Some Reason the Gender Ratio Reversed? - Chapter 15

Chapter 15: The Villain Noble Relentlessly Chased by Girls

“Ol-san, Ol-san! I need to talk to you!”

It happened after school.

After getting surrounded and overwhelmed by the girls in my class, I hurried toward the school entrance at full speed, desperate to get home. But on the way, a familiar voice stopped me in my tracks.

When I turned around, there stood Saintess Alenaria, dressed in her pure white nun’s habit.

“Ugh…”

“What’s with that ‘ugh’?! You’re acting like meeting me is such a hassle!”

“Because it actually is a hassle.”

The classmates had been annoying enough, but dealing with her was on a completely different level. The safest approach was to treat her like a walking landmine.

So I chose to ignore her and keep heading home.

But Alenaria, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, followed right behind me and said,

“I’ve been thinking a lot!”

She uttered a very ominous-sounding word.

“Thinking? You?”

“Not ‘you’—Alenaria. Don’t just casually shorten my name like that. And what exactly is the problem with me thinking?”

She stepped ahead to block my path, put her hands on her hips, and gave me a hard, accusing stare.

There was no way anything she came up with could be normal. But saying that out loud would only make her angry, so…

“It’s already a pain. Just tell me the conclusion first.”

“Hmph! Stop ignoring me!”

“So, what’s the conclusion?”

“I want to continue the conversation about having your child!”

“Hard pass.”

There was no need to even hear the rest.

Having decided that, I spun on my heel and sprinted away at full speed.

“Ah—wait! This is for the sake of the world!”

“Don’t drag the whole world into this!”

She truly made no sense at all.

While hearing Alenaria’s footsteps chasing after me from behind, I ran with everything I had.

“Wait, please!”

She was incredibly persistent, but she didn’t seem to have much stamina, and gradually the distance between us grew.

After turning several more corners, I checked behind me and finally let out a breath of relief when I saw no one following.

“Phew…”

Just as I placed a hand on my chest in relief,

“Found you!”

This time another girl called out to me.

The moment she spotted me, her eyes lit up and she hurried over—it was Lucina.

“I’ve been looking for you.”

“Why?”

“Because thanks to you, I can finally use magic now.”

“…Huh?”

She could use magic already? Wasn’t that way too fast?

“Watch this. I’ve gotten a lot better than before.”

Lucina began gathering magical power as she spoke.

With a calm expression, she formed a water sphere and steadily made it grow larger.

In no time at all it reached the size of a bowling ball. She smiled happily.

“What do you think?”

“That’s impressive.”

Not long ago it had only been the size of a ping-pong ball, and now it was several times bigger. No matter how you looked at it, her growth rate was absurdly fast.

As expected from the original story’s heroine. The sheer scale of her talent was on another level.

“The shape still isn’t completely stable, but I can definitely control it much better than before. Thank you so much.”

“It’s because you kept working hard.”

No matter how much talent someone has, they can’t reach this level without constant effort.

“No, it’s thanks to your advice.”

After making the water sphere disappear, Lucina gave an awkward, shy smile.

“I’m sorry. I just don’t know how to properly express how grateful I am.”

“Those words are more than enough.”

“No, that’s not enough to settle things for me.”

She placed a hand over her heart, took a long, deep breath, and then looked straight at me with eyes burning with determination.

“If you ever face any kind of trouble in the future, please tell me.”

“I was saved by you. So I will definitely repay you—no matter what it takes. Even if it means offering up this body of mine.”

Her words felt far too heavy to simply call them gratitude. “Offering up this body” was not something a girl should say so casually.

She really needed to choose her words more carefully.

“—”

Still, I could feel that this was her putting her absolute best effort into showing sincerity.

“Then I’ll count on you when the time comes.”

I accepted her feelings honestly.

“I’ll make sure to work you hard.”

“Leave it to me. Aside from being clumsy, I’m perfect.”

“If you get clumsy, that’s actually a problem…”

We traded light jokes and laughed together.

In the original story we had been enemies, so being able to talk like this with her felt incredibly strange.

Even so, it didn’t feel bad at all. If anything, I could call it good fortune.

But life has both good luck and bad luck.

“Ah! I finally found you! Don’t let my appearance fool you—I’m actually really good at tag!”

A loud, high-pitched voice cut through the air from behind us, shattering the moment.

“Ugh…”

“What’s that?”

“That’s her, isn’t it.”

“I don’t really get it, but she’s charging over here with insane energy?”

I didn’t even need to turn around to know. It was that type of saintess.

I thought I had escaped, but somehow she had found me again.

What a pain.

“Hey, Lucina, can you help me out?”

“Huh?”

“I’m literally facing trouble right now…”

“Don’t underestimate me. I’m not talking about that kind of help. Deal with that yourself!”

I had thought this was her moment to shine, but unfortunately she refused.

Yeah, no one would want to get involved with someone that unhinged.

“Then I’ll be going.”

“Eh? You’re running?”

The moment I took off running, Lucina glanced awkwardly back and forth between me and Alenaria, then—for some reason—started running after me.

“Why are you following me?”

“No choice. I don’t want to get dragged into it either.”

“You should be fine, Lucina.”

“What makes you so sure? And if I do get dragged in, are you taking responsibility?”

“…Sorry.”

“That’s why we have no choice but to run. Come on, hurry up!”

She urged me sharply from behind.

I picked up my pace, but we were still inside the school building. There was a limit to how fast I could go, and the other students were giving us weird looks, which made the whole thing incredibly awkward.

I hurriedly turned a corner and headed toward the courtyard.

But my bad luck wasn’t finished yet.

“…Ol-sama?”

“Uwaaaah?!”

When I entered the courtyard, Fran was standing right in front of me.

She wore an impossibly beautiful smile, which somehow made it even more unsettling.

“You seem to be in quite a hurry. While I’m busy working on reforms, having women trailing after you—how very like you.”

“N-no, this is a misunderstanding. A complete misunderstanding.”

“Misunderstanding? Which part of this is a misunderstanding?”

When I looked back, Lucina and Alenaria were approaching me from behind.

—This was seriously bad.

Getting overwritten was pretty much guaranteed, but I had a feeling it wouldn’t end there.

If all three of them ended up in the same place, I couldn’t even imagine what kind of carnage would break out.

It might even turn into a literal bloodbath. With that fear in mind, I said,

“Ol-sama?”

“Sorry. I’ll explain everything later.”

With only those words, I started running again.

But of course that kind of excuse wasn’t going to work.

“Ol-sama, could you please stop for a moment?”

“…Sorry.”

“I see. —It seems an overwrite will be necessary.”

“Hii—”

Even Fran had started chasing after me.

In short, it was hell.

Running from Fran, running from Lucina, running from Alenaria. Before I knew it, I had been driven into a truly hellish situation.

Even so, I absolutely could not let myself get caught. So I sprinted full speed down the academy corridors.

“Wait, Ol-san! It’s for the world! For the world—your genes!”

“Wait, what is going on?! There are people in front and behind me!”

“Ol-sama, I won’t let you escape.”

Every voice coming from behind was terrifying in its own completely different way.

“Damn it!”

While desperately running, I racked my brain.

Where was the safest place in this academy?

There was only one spot that came to mind.

—The headmaster’s office.

That place should be relatively safe.

Even if they knew I was there, they couldn’t enter without the headmaster’s permission.

—That’s my only option!

With my mind made up, I ran down the hallway, raced up the stairs, and headed straight for the headmaster’s office.

That was the only path left that could save me.