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 54

Chapter 54: The Saintess’s Next Job

“Gaaan.”

“Gaaan.”

“Gaaaan desu.”

—After school.

I was watching the original protagonist crew.

Looks like Lucina got completely crushed by Vista.

Maybe that’s why she half-forced her way into their training session out of pure frustration.

Still the same old super serious, hates-to-lose personality.

Over at the training grounds, they were swinging swords and blasting magic back and forth.

While I kept half an eye on all that, I pretended not to notice the saintess right in front of me.

“Gaaan.”

“Gaaan desu.”

“Gaaaan desu na.”

Alenaria struck this dramatic “shocked” pose dead center in my vision.

Hands flat on the ground, knees dropped, whole body screaming “I’m so down.”

No clue what it was supposed to mean, but she probably just wanted rusks.

Drool was literally dripping, and she kept sneaking glances my way.

“What?”

“You finally listened! Today, something super gaaan happened.”

“Huh.”

Maybe she didn’t get any bread crusts at the bakery?

That’s what popped into my head, but the next words out of her mouth blew way past anything I expected.

“Actually… I got fired as saintess.”

“What!?”

That was fast? Like, yesterday’s today fast?

“They told me this morning. Said I gotta take responsibility for this mess and I’m out.”

“Firing her that suddenly—church gonna be okay?”

“It’s fine. Saintess is hereditary.”

“They got a replacement?”

“Yeah. Looks like my little sister’s gonna take over as the next saintess.”

Oh, so Alenaria was the disposable, replaceable kind of saintess.

Like a refill shampoo bottle or something?

“She’s only five, so she’s super young and I’ve barely met her, but I think she’ll probably do fine once she tries. So no worries.”

“I see… Didn’t even know you had a sister.”

“Yeah. Honestly I only found out recently too, so I was shocked.”

She said it with this big sunny smile, but something was clearly off.

“Why didn’t you know you had a sister?”

“Apparently Mom was worried about me, so she decided to have another kid. But then she figured letting me near my little sister would be dangerous—”

“Yeah, fair.”

“Hmph… What’s that supposed to mean? Why would it be dangerous?”

Alenaria froze mid-motion.

“‘Cause you’d probably try to feed a baby rusks.”

“There are things you can say and things you shouldn’t! I would never give my precious rusks away to someone else!”

She puffed up all mad for a second, then her eyes suddenly locked onto my uniform.

“Ah… Wait, is that… rusks?”

She pointed straight at the bag I’d tucked in my inner pocket, her face lighting up with this junkie-level grin.

Guess she spotted the emergency rusk stash I’d brought for bait.

“Hey! If you had rusks you should’ve said so sooner!”

She snatched the bag right out of my hands and crammed the whole thing—bag and all—into her mouth like she was scarfing potato chips.

“Mmm… Rusks really are the best, huh~”

—Yeah, this girl is definitely not cut out to be a saintess.

‘Cause the way her cheeks went all soft and happy while she chewed? Total dog vibes.

Anyway, looks like she really did get canned as expected.

Everything was so far off from the original story I didn’t even know where to start complaining anymore, but I figured I’d check one thing just in case.

“So Alenaria, you’re straight-up unemployed right now?”

“Except for still being a student, yeah.”

“Income?”

“Zero.”

Her face was dead serious.

“I was already living pretty poor anyway, and now they kicked me out of the church dorm too, so I’ve got nowhere to go. Unemployed, broke, homeless. That’s me!”

Even though her situation was straight-up hopeless, she kept that smile plastered on.

Gotta give her props for that unbreakable weed energy, but I really didn’t want her ending up homeless for real.

Having someone who’s supposed to play a key role in beating the witch out there munching random grass? Not funny.

Okay, it’d actually be hilarious. If I saw Alenaria literally pulling weeds and eating them I’d lose it laughing.

But still, I couldn’t just leave her like this.

“Oh right. That’s actually what I came to talk about today.”

She hugged the empty rusk bag to her chest like it was treasure, then turned those big shiny eyes on me.

“Ol-san! I got nowhere to stay, so let me crash at your place!”

“Hard no!”

“Why not!”

I shot it down instantly, and she came at me for real this time. Guess she was dead set on moving in.

I knew full well I was the reason she got fired, so turning her down felt kinda cold, but…

“I’m done letting people stay over at the mansion.”

Marilyn’s face flashed through my mind for a second.

Even now her old room was still packed with flowers.

The servants kept tending it every single day, just in case she ever came back.

No way I could let Alenaria anywhere near a place that important.

She’d get sugar crumbs everywhere from the rusks. She’d wreck the perfect soil the flowers needed.

So that was a hard line. Plus, honestly, Fran would scare the crap out of me. No way she’d give permission anyway.

“House is absolutely off-limits. But when it comes to a job, I’ll hook you up real good.”

“Really?”

Alenaria, who’d been all slumped a second ago, perked right up and her eyes sparkled.

“I’m actually pretty good at housework, y’know? I could totally be a maid. Like, your house maid!”

“Please don’t.”

“Why not!”

Alenaria as a maid… just imagining it gave me a headache. Rose might look cute but she’s actually an amazing maid.

Compared to her? It’d be painful to watch.

“Ahem.”

I cleared my throat once and threw out a different idea.

“I’ve got a recommendation. Probably good pay, respected by everyone, super friendly and homey vibe workplace.”

“There’s a godly job like that?!”

“Yeah.”

“That’s amazing! Yes! Please please tell me!”

“No need to rush—it’s right in front of you.”

“Huh?”

“Look—the new team’s members are… those guys.”

I pointed over at the protagonist party who was sweating on the training grounds.

Then I dropped it like an order.

“Alenaria. Starting today, go work with that party.”

“Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhh?!”