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 55: Cooling Off

I introduced Alenaria to Vista and the others.

At first, I think it went pretty well.

Sure, she got fired, but she’s still a former saintess.

She can use all kinds of support magic, plus she’s got solid healing skills too.

Even if her brain’s kinda… y’know, when you look just at ability, she’s actually really strong.

“Yo, nice to meet ya! I’m really counting on that saintess power!”

“I would very much like to see your magic with my own eyes.”

“Ughhh, the healer role is completely overlapping with mine nowww. My position is being threateneddd. But having less work to do actually makes me happyyy.”

“Good grief, doesn’t this party have way too many support roles now? Well, whatever, it’s totally fine. If it means Vista-han gets more lives, that’s actually convenient. And the saintess is pretty too.”

Everyone except Lucina was basically welcoming.

Guess that “saintess” title really carries a lot of weight when you’re job-hunting.

Even though she got canned from a major church organization, her resume still looks shiny as hell apparently.

“Why are we hiring her? Are you stupid? You’re definitely gonna regret this, y’know?”

Only Lucina was clutching her head with teary eyes, but it seems the protagonists aren’t the type who can spot how bad Alenaria’s head is right from the first meeting.

“Anyway, looking forward to working with you.”

“Yes! I’ll do chores, anything, whatever you need!”

“That’s reassuring.”

And just like that, Alenaria got accepted into the party with the ridiculously dumb name Orufu Rangers.

…Or at least, she was supposed to.

More precisely, she was accepted for like a single moment.

Even more precisely, there might’ve been an instant where she was accepted.

“Gah—”

To cut to the chase, she didn’t even last a week.

“Gah—”

“Gaaaah—”

—After school.

Alenaria was pacing back and forth in front of me with teary eyes.

Back and forth.

She kept glancing over, sighing like she really wanted attention.

It was super loud in the most annoying way.

After about thirty minutes of this, I finally realized ignoring her forever wasn’t gonna work, so I sighed and opened my mouth.

“What is it this time?”

“Actually, I…”

She sniffled hard, eyes still watery, and said,

“I got kicked out of the party!”

“Huh?”

“Kicked out, kicked out. ‘There’s no place for you in this party. Please just leave,’ they said.”

“…I see.”

What the hell, that’s literally the template line from every expulsion scene ever.

“I guess I really am an unwanted kid…”

Alenaria’s shoulders visibly slumped.

Yeah, can’t really complain when you actually get expelled.

Doesn’t look like we’re heading toward the classic “it’s too late now!” kind of development either.

“…………”

“Why aren’t you denying it?”

“Cause I don’t have any words to deny it with.”

“That’s so mean! I’m still a former saintess, y’know?!”

“Talking about your old job is pointless. Look at the now. The now.”

“Muuuuhhhhhh…”

So noisy.

Since she’s being so damn loud, I just handed her a rusk for the time being.

“Ooh!”

The second she took it, her eyes lit up.

“Thank you so much! As expected of Ol-san! So cool! You’re a god!”

She munched away, saying stuff she probably shouldn’t be saying.

A saintess calling me a god is kinda problematic, right?

“Rusk really never betrays you, huh.”

That’s what I thought, but nah—she’s just a simple saintess. The type whose brain gets completely taken over by rusk.

“Haa…”

Still, if even the protagonist’s place didn’t work out, is there anywhere else she can work?

I really don’t wanna send her to the marquis house, and besides that I’ve got zero connections.

…Wait, actually, there is one.

“For the next job, I’ll just ask the academy headmaster for now.”

“Really?!”

So I quickly talked to the headmaster and got her to look for something.

Alenaria’s condition was “something related to rusk would be great.”

As a result, she got introduced to a part-time job at a nearby bakery.

“A bakery! At a bakery I can eat all the bread crusts as staff food, right?!”

“Probably.”

“Isn’t that the best?!”

Of course Alenaria started working there super excited.

When I went to check how things were going,

“Bread! It’s bread~! Would you like some bread?”

She was energetically selling right in front of the shop.

It’s kinda unusual for a bakery to do street selling like that, but since she’s beautiful and has that bright cheerful voice, the kids loved her, and even the adults seemed into it.

Thanks to that, customers kept coming nonstop.

Looks like Alenaria’s true calling wasn’t saintess—it was bakery worker.

※

“Gah—”

But three days later.

“Gah—”

Alenaria started pacing in front of me again.

It was getting too annoying to ignore, so I asked.

“This time?”

“I got kicked out of the bakery.”

Apparently she got cooling-off’ed at record speed.

The reason was simple.