After the meal with Leas, several peaceful days continued.
At least on the surface.
Back when I was playing the game in my previous life, I had focused on securing combatants in order to subjugate the Sacred.
Yes, these peaceful days were built on thin ice.
The original protagonist — Alter — would begin moving to conquer the Sacred the moment he secured enough pieces.
"...That time is coming soon, too."
During lunch break, I was alone in the newspaper club room, staring up at the ceiling.
Ever since everyone started updating articles on their phones or computers, almost no one came here. People would hang around during the new student recruitment period around entrance ceremonies or during the cultural festival, but otherwise it was basically an empty classroom.
Glancing at the developing room that no one used anymore, I quietly closed my eyes.
——If things went according to my previous-life memories.
The protagonist Alter would choose the school I attended as the site of the first battle.
From the way Sacred Saber had taken the Poison Monster Villain’s attack while protecting the onlookers, he had seen through her personality of never abandoning others.
If Sacred Saber appeared, he could take students as hostages. Even if she didn’t, he could obtain a large number of materials for Monster Villains or sex toys.
At this point, Alter still shouldn’t know that Sacred Saber was a student at this school — or so I thought.
He had intended to take hostages before the battle began, but Sacred Saber and Knuckle appeared faster than expected, causing him to click his tongue. While beginning the fight, he would notice from the speed of the Sacred’s response that they were students of this school, and after this event he would disguise himself as a human and infiltrate the school — that was the flow, I think. He was supposed to have replaced a dead student and worked in the shadows within the school.
The reason so many details were uncertain was, of course, because the previous-life me hadn’t properly read the scenario.
I had mostly skimmed everything except the erotic scenes with the heroines, and used the "unread skip" function for serious scenes involving the setting or plot. The only reason I could somehow remember the attack now was because there was a scene of Sacred Saber’s virginity loss — I had only canceled the skip because I thought an erotic scene was coming up.
The flow of the battle was... let’s see. A large group of combatants would flood in, Saber and Knuckle alone wouldn’t be able to hold them off, and a justice-minded kendo club member who stepped forward to protect the other students would be killed by a combatant... I think that was it.
It was just a mob with no standing portrait or voice being killed, but something about it seemed to trigger Saber’s trauma, and she abandoned the fight. While she kept crying "I’m sorry," a friend of the killed student would violate her.
She had failed to protect those she was supposed to protect, so being condemned by the people she should protect was only natural, and being violated while being insulted was only to be expected. Therefore she couldn’t resist, and while being looked down upon by the laughing Alter, Saber would be defiled. Only Knuckle would somehow manage to escape.
From around that point, the two Sacred would begin to break.
Their hearts, their bodies, and their trust.
A transformation heroine who kept losing had no value, and the words of those who watched over them would become harsh.
Useless, loser, weakling, have some shame — with such words, ordinary citizens would lose their hesitation about insulting and violating the Sacred.
As a result, the heroines of justice who had been loved by all would tumble down the slope into ruin. Their bodies, their pride, their love, their courage, their trust — all of it would be trampled.
——Yes, if I didn’t intervene, that was surely what would happen.
I had no intention of talking about something like the corrective force of history — but the battle with the Poison Monster Villain had largely developed according to the game.
Of course, if one looked carefully, there were actions that hadn’t occurred in the game. But no matter how small the branch, the ending wouldn’t change. Namely, defeat and violation.
To overturn that, an irregular that originally didn’t exist — me — would have to protect them.
——But was there any merit for me in helping?
Previously, Leas had said that in the end it was still a Monster Villain, evil that must be defeated.
Why should I go out of my way to help a woman who said something like that even after being saved?
In that case, wouldn’t it be far easier to side with the original protagonist and violate the girls?
Deep inside my body, desire began spreading with a creak sound. Yes, that was good. That was what I should do. That was what a Monster Villain was.
This sensation of base desire welling up from the depths of my body — it felt so pleasant I couldn’t stand it. I wanted to surrender to that impulse right now and thoroughly violate Leas — Sacred Saber.
"I——"
The feeling that I didn’t want that.
The feeling that I did want that.
Both existed in my heart, and my position wouldn’t settle.
What exactly did I want to do——?
"Huhhh? Isn’t that Senpai Shusawa~?"
The sound of the door sliding open with a rattle.
Feeling irritated at having my thoughts interrupted, I turned my gaze.
There was Reiko, holding bread in both hands and opening the door with her foot.
"...Hey, you’re a girl, right?"
She must have hooked her toes on the handle to open the door. Her legs had spread wide, making the inside of her skirt completely visible. She was wearing spats, but as a girl, was that really okay?
Although her underwear wasn’t visible, the silhouette of her lower body was fully exposed. My unruly tentacles started trying to crawl out with an attitude of "What? Prey? Prey?", so I seriously wanted them to stop.
"Oh, what is it, what is it? Falling for my sex appeal? Wow, I’m so sorry for being too much of a beautiful girl~!"
"..."
"Hey, you have to retort there or I’ll become a painfully delusional girl."
"I know. That’s why I stayed quiet."
"Kuh... I see, quite the strategist..."
I won’t lose next time, she said as she dumped the bread from the school store onto an empty desk. Sitting in a chair and ravenously eating the bread while fiddling with her phone with her left hand was extremely bad manners.
Faced with her complete lack of sex appeal while eating, my unruly tentacles began withdrawing into my body with a "Not prey? How rude..." I felt relieved, but also started worrying about how pathetic my junior was.
"More importantly, what’s really going on, Senpai Shusawa? This was pretty much my private spot, you know."
"Then what are you doing coming to a place like this?"
"Organizing the photos I took with my phone. You see, I once did it in the classroom and almost had my phone broken by the subject~."
"What the hell did you do...?"
"I was secretly photographing the soccer club changing. I was seriously covering the soccer club while thinking about making numbers with the handsome guys’ naked bodies."
...She was probably considering the line of what the other party would forgive before doing such things. Yeah, probably.
But thinking about it from the perspective of a transformation heroine, of course I would wonder what the hell she was doing.
"So, what about you, Senpai? Is there some reason you can’t stay in the classroom? Is it bullying? Should I expose the culprit’s private life and make it public?"
"No. I just wanted to think alone... Actually, perfect timing. Hey, Reiko. Can I ask you for a little advice?"
"Mu? ...Okay, okay, understood."
She tossed her phone toward me.
She was probably trying to say I won’t record, so talk without worry.
She must have sensed that I was seriously troubled, so she wasn’t joking around and was listening seriously. Maybe this part of her was why she had been chosen as a heroine of justice. I smiled slightly.
"Let’s say there’s someone who’s working really hard. But you can see that if things continue like this, they’re going to make a huge failure."
Reiko didn’t interrupt and simply nodded slightly while waiting for me to continue.