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 21

Chapter 21: Got Stalked by the Main Heroine

Even if you say you’re just “observing” someone, that can look like a ton of different things.

For example, some types keep staring at you during class or watching your every move. Others, like Fran, always try to stick right by your side no matter what.

And in Lucina’s case, she was definitely the second type.

“Hey, isn’t it kinda weird to follow me all the way until break time?”

“Whether it’s weird or not, you won’t know unless you let me watch, right? Maybe there’s some secret hidden in what you do during break.”

She kept coming up with all sorts of excuses just to stay glued to my side.

――I want to understand the sensation of controlling magic power.

That reason was actually pretty solid, but honestly, her approach felt like it was spinning its wheels.
Because even when she watched what I did during break, there weren’t any hints lying around anyway.

But once she decides on something, this girl doesn’t back down. If anything, she seemed even more determined than usual. She followed me literally everywhere.

Like during lunch, for instance.

“Can I join you for lunch?”

“No.”

I was eating with Fran when Lucina showed up.

“I’m the type who gains weight super easily, so I’ve been dieting lately. How come you’re so skinny?”

“I already said no, didn’t I? Lunchtime is the one time I get to be alone with Ol-sama. If you’re gonna get in the way, you’ll have to beat me first. Also, I’m the type who gains weight easily too.”

“Even though you’re that skinny?”

“I run every single day. So I can always keep a body that I’m ready to show Ol-sama anytime.”

“Ohhh. Me, whenever I use a lot of magic power, I end up overeating like crazy afterward. Running, huh. You run too?”

“…Yeah.”

――After school too.

“What do you usually do after classes?”

“I wander around the academy.”

“That’s it?”

“…Yeah.”

“You’re bored, aren’t you?”

“…Pretty much.”

To avoid triggering any doom flags, the absolute best thing is to do nothing at all.
In the extreme, acting like a total go-home club member after school is the safest move.

In reality, I check out what’s going on around the academy and take appropriate action when needed, or I get summoned by the headmaster, or Fran clings to me, or Fran clings to me again. Probably more than half the time it’s Fran clinging.

So lately I’ve actually been pretty free.

And her observation continued even on the way home from school.

“I’m gonna be blunt—stop following me.”

“I-I’m not trying to steal you or anything! I just… I want to know why this guy is so strong. I wanna use even a little bit of it to help myself grow. That’s all.”

“Even so. Ol-sama is super busy, so getting bothered by someone like you is a real pain for him.”

“But you just said you were free a minute ago?”

“Ol-sama?”

“…*cough cough* I’m busy.”

“That’s totally different from what you said earlier.”

“I’m about to get busy starting now.”

Mostly from the job of soothing my fiancée’s mood.

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“Ol-sama. You look like you’re having a really good time, huh.”

After I got home, Fran immediately overwrote me. The second I stepped into my room, she shoved me down onto the bed.

Then she climbed on top of me, straddling my waist, and stared down with eyes that had completely lost their highlights.

She was 100% jealous.
No way around it—this was seriously bad.

“She has talent. Her power is gonna be necessary to defeat the witch.”

“Yeah. I’m not doubting what Ol-sama says. I’m sure it’s something this world really needs.”

“Right? As expected of Fran. The only one who truly gets me is—”

“No matter how much you praise me, I’m still overwriting you, okay?”

“——”

Crap. I thought maybe showering her with compliments would let me slip by, but apparently Fran wasn’t soft enough to fall for that.

She placed her hand on my chest and slowly slid her fingers along it.
Little by little they moved up to my neck, then my cheek, until they finally brushed my lips.

“You don’t have to overwrite that part.”

“No. It’s not overwriting… I want to steal it.”

Her eyes were dead serious. She was seriously about to take my lips.

But going any further would be dangerous. I’d lose control of myself completely.
So I did a sit-up kind of motion to get up.
For a second it turned into me holding her in my arms, but I barely managed to hold it together and stood up.

“Ol-sama?”

“Gonna go wash my face.”

If I stayed like this my brain was gonna boil.

Ever since romance got unlocked, Fran’s skinship had gotten way more intense, and honestly it was getting really hard to hold back.

Lately she’s been growing even more—her face and her figure are both getting way more mature. Her charm was just increasing too much.

“…Haa…”

While splashing cold water on my face, I kept thinking.

If Lucina keeps sticking to me like this, I could totally see Fran getting more and more extreme.

So I really needed her to grasp the trick to magic as soon as possible.

Pretty sure in the original story, the trigger for Lucina’s awakening was love.
She fell for the protagonist and awakened the moment she tried to protect him.

But the protagonist isn’t here right now.

Which means there’s no one for her to fall in love with. The academy is all girls, so if things stay like this, she’s never gonna fall in love.

“…………”

In that case, there’s only one other option.

“Maybe I should take her to the Adventurer’s Guild.”

Take Lucina to the Adventurer’s Guild and let her meet the protagonist. That’d probably be the fastest way.