Huff.
After finally returning to the Teacher Dormitory, the moment Keti stepped through the door, she immediately curled up like a caterpillar and dove back under her blanket, lying flat on the spot without giving a second thought to the fact that her nemesis had also entered her room.
Hmm.
Well, considering how terribly she’d been bullied by that nemesis today, even if that person now wanted to push things further… she wouldn’t feel any more humiliated than she already did.
Y-Yeah, that’s just how she felt! Ahem… But surely it would only be for today! Tomorrow and beyond, things definitely wouldn’t be like this!
Keti pondered the situation, but what she was really curious about was how her nemesis would respond.
After all, if the silver-haired beauty really had let her nemesis into her home, that wasn’t just because she was lonely and looking for fun.
She’d wait until after the nemesis left before dealing with this…
Ahem, ahem… No, that’s not it! She would wait and deal with the nemesis later. Keti insisted she wasn’t addicted or anything. Really, she wasn’t!
What a joke! She was a boy, after all!
After all that, the girl’s ultimate goal was still just one thing: to make her nemesis quickly come up with a plan for her Thursday practical test!
She’d asked him about it earlier in the carriage, but he refused to say and insisted on telling her only after they got home.
Hmm… honestly, the silver-haired girl was starting to suspect that he might bring up some kind of demand again.
So, after a while, Keti pulled the blanket over her face, and a cautious, slightly resentful look appeared on her beautiful face as she softly said:
“So… what exactly is the plan? You can tell me now, right? You must have a plan, don’t just feed me empty promises like before, ugh~”
“Pfft… Look at what this little kitty’s saying. You think I’d dare lie to you~?”
Closing the door behind him, Lynn chuckled lightly, then pulled over a stool and sat beside the girl, grinning mischievously as he ruffled her hair.
Hmm.
Keti seemed to have grown somewhat used to the head-patting by now.
Well, mainly because she was still wearing that energetic JK Uniform from the mall, and since her nemesis wasn’t leaving, she had no chance to change.
But wearing that outfit and getting her head patted like that, Keti didn’t really have the spirit to resist.
“So… stop being so cryptic, okay? Just tell me what the plan is…”
“It’s actually… pretty simple, isn’t it?”
Lynn smiled and tilted his head slightly before saying:
“That practical test is about whether you can keep the students from getting hurt, protecting them all, right? But you always think you need to kill all the monsters yourself…”
“Obviously! If I don’t kill all the monsters, how else can those little brats avoid getting hurt? They’re all weak, can’t even take a single punch, let alone fight dungeon monsters.”
“Heh… But is it really that easy to get hurt?”
Lynn blinked, then chuckled softly before continuing:
“Keti, you’ve cleared quite a few dungeons yourself. Who do you think gets hurt the most in your team?”
“Uh… well…”
Caught off guard by the question, Keti suddenly seemed to understand what her nemesis was getting at. But to avoid being teased as a little fool for guessing wrong, she cautiously answered after a moment:
“Probably… Ailisi? After all, she’s a warrior and tends to charge ahead a lot…”
“Exactly. Traditionally, the warrior class takes the brunt of the monsters’ attacks because they fight up close.”
“So naturally, they get hurt more. Meanwhile, the ranged damage dealers and healers in the back rows basically don’t become targets when facing dungeon mobs, right?”
“Then, if that’s the case, little kitty, don’t you just need to have the whole class stay in the back row, with one person standing at the front to attract all the monsters?”
“The priest heals, the mages and hunters deal damage, and the warrior just throws ranged weapons from behind~”
After analyzing it for the girl, Lynn raised his hands helplessly and continued softly:
“Yeah, that sounds a bit too simple, doesn’t it? Makes me feel kind of guilty, like I was deliberately messing with you before, but honestly, it’s really not that hard.”
“No, no! If you say it’s not hard, then it’s not hard!”
Hearing her nemesis’s suggestion, Keti was genuinely a little angry. Not because the idea was too simple and effective, making her feel like a fool, but because:
“You, you think I haven’t thought of something like that? I was even thinking of using summons to gather all the dungeon monsters and have the summons fight them, so I could just solo the monsters myself!”
“But the problem is… which summon can withstand all the dungeon mobs attacking at once? Plus, these students don’t even know how to fight properly.”
“Their healing and damage output might not be enough, and they might not even know what they’re supposed to do! They’d just be a total burden.”
“With that setup, there’s no way to keep the monsters under control. If the front line falls, so many monsters in the dungeon will randomly pick their targets, and then people will definitely die!”
“Hmm… you’ve thought this through pretty well, little kitty~ But why don’t you try this?”
As he spoke, Lynn suddenly pulled something out of his pocket… an egg-shaped item? Ahem, basically a shell-shaped thing. The man grinned wickedly, waving this egg in front of the silver-haired girl.
Keti’s face instantly flushed red, and her cowlick stood on end in alert.
After a moment, she buried herself further under the blanket, then glared wordlessly at her nemesis and shouted:
“You say you don’t do self-comforting things! Who would believe that! I, I don’t need this kind of disposable thing, it’s boring! And I can’t even use it right now!”
“… Uh… hmm?”
Seeing the embarrassed girl, Lynn was silent for a moment. Then he turned his head and took another careful look at the item in his hand. This thing…
The little kitty actually doesn’t want it?!
Hmm?!
Seeing Lynn’s confused gaze, Keti snapped back to reality. She frowned slightly, thinking that maybe she had misunderstood.
This new item seemed different from what she thought it was, no, not quite the same?
Click… How could this be? This really isn’t one of those 0721 surprise eggs? You know, the disposable kind, like single-use cups?
It’s really not?!
And judging by her nemesis’s expression, he seemed to have no clue what she was talking about either. Ah well.
I guess it makes sense. Lynn’s so rich, there’s no way he’d be caught using such cheap products.
But if that’s the case, how am I supposed to steer this conversation back?
Click, click, click.
This feels like a huge communication gap between me and my nemesis!
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