A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

129 – Scholarships for Excellent Clubs (2)

Create a club.

To put it simply, I made it to be convenient in many ways.

“A travel club. Are you just the two of you moving around?”

“Not together.”

After returning from work, Astasia puffed out her cheeks as she looked at the list I had placed on her table.

“What are these people? These are all names I’ve never seen before.”

“My own special agents that even the Empire couldn’t figure out?”

“Yes?”

“It is true that the Empire is paying a lot of attention to Gibraltar, but not all of them are looking at the orphanage.”

Astasia looked through the list of people who had joined the canyon exploration club.

“I can’t guess their names at all… Are they by any chance friends from the orphanage?”

“That’s right.”

“Wow. How was this transaction stolen?”

“Officially, they are friends who are working hard inside the orphanage. The ones who came to the academy are children with a completely different status.”

Club members like Astasia were selected by me directly from among the children at the orphanage.

“The so-called shadow of the canyon.”

“Could it be that these friends do something like assassination… “

“What about assassination? I was called to do something like this. When there is a need to fill the number of people.”

I lightly slammed my fist into Astasia’s head as she spoke scary words.

“Hing.”

“And they are not strong enough to assassinate. Rather, they are ordinary friends who cannot even become low-level knights.”

“But is it a shadow?”

“They are children who are easy to blend into everyday life, but at the same time, they are children who want to enjoy life at Royal Academy.”

Just as the shadow students from the empire will all die if their true intentions are revealed.

“Identity laundering is enough. Their hometown is their original hometown, and their adoptive parents are their sponsors.”

“Do those sponsors even know? That Gibraltar sent it to the Academy with this intention?”

“Princess. Everything was done with good intentions. We worked hard to help the children study in a better environment, but if they were told that they were orphans, they might be hated or criticized, so we just created an appropriate noble status for them. “

“That’s how we absorb public opinion among academy students…No.”

Astasia snapped her fingers and grinned at me.

“Maybe we could create a rumor by using the shadows of the canyon and children from orphanages?”

“As expected, princess. You noticed right away.”

I placed the brewed somnus flower tea in front of Astasia.

“Unlike the children from the Empire’s Shadows, all of the Canyon’s Shadows are from the Kingdom. What’s more, even among the nobles, some of their relatives were adopted by them with the intention of enrolling them in the academy.”

“Even if you were from an orphanage, you would have learned about the etiquette of the kingdom’s nobles there…”

“I will soon become friends with the nobles of other kingdoms, and I will be able to create the public opinion I want to my heart’s content.”

Whether it’s a rumor or public opinion, it spreads if you let it.

However, in order to spread what you want more quickly and accurately, you need someone who can manipulate and control it.

“If water accumulates, it will flow on its own, but if you dig a waterway, it will overflow along the waterway.”

“So what is the public opinion that has been created?”

“Gray Gibraltar likes Astasia von Tersian. So much so that he legally takes Astasia to the Gibraltar Gorge, giving the reason that he will form a club and manage it himself.”

“…”

The public opinion created will spread throughout the Academy, and is still spreading.

“Yes. This is why I took the position of chairman of the foundation.”

“…There’s nothing bad about me.”

Astasia continued fiddling with the teacup with a look on her face that showed some concern.

“For now, let’s say I’m in a position that belongs to you. That’s why no one but the Shadow Children can easily approach me.”

“Actually, that’s true.”

“Then, are you just going to watch?”

When Astasia looked at me, her eyes were full of ‘sorry’.

“I am enjoying tremendous privileges by receiving Gray Gibraltar’s attention and love.”

Towards me?

Or towards yourself?

“Other people are having a hard time not even getting into clubs right now, let alone getting preferential treatment.”

“…”

Not at all.

“Naria. Are you going to keep leaving it that way?”

If Astacia is the nucleus of a storm in the gossip circles of her her academy her her hers, then I, Ria Geonostrum, am the one shunned from everyone’s eyes.

“According to what you said, you also told me, ‘It’s okay,’ but… “

“I am not involved in any way with her public opinion about her.”

Currently in my second week at the academy.

“The reason no one approaches her and rather avoids her is the public opinion created by Naria herself.”

Naria Geo Nostrum has been eating alone for a week and several days.

“No one wants to be involved with it.”

* * *

Afternoon.

Central square in front of the Academy Auditorium and Hall of the Sun.

“Wouldn’t you like to join a horse riding club with us?! If anyone has their own horse, feel free to join!”

“Can I become a club member if I have my own horse?”

“Hee, hee hee… ?! So, princess?”

At a place where students were recruiting club members, Naria Geo Nostrum held a sign and approached a student who was looking for club members and asked.

“I have horses. Five horses.”

“Well, aren’t those the words of the royal family…” ” ?”

“That’s right. If I join the club, I can give you a ride.”

“Words of the royal family…”

A course horse that cannot be compared to those managed by nobles.

“Oh, no!”

Surprisingly, the president of the riding club, a member of the kingdom’s nobility, rejected the princess’s application to join the club to her face.

“Why?”

“If we hurt them, we will be headed by His Majesty the King!”

“…”

“Well, we just want to enjoy horseback riding safely, and we don’t want to ride with fear of the horse getting hurt…! I’m sorry, princess!”

The riding club rejected Naria Geo Nostrum.

Not only her her her her riding club her her her, but all of her her physically active clubs rejected her.

Why?

Mostly, the reason is ‘you can’t hurt the body’.

“I’m fine.”

“Well, we’re not okay…! Princess, please…!”

“Before I was a princess, I was a student at the academy.”

“If you are a student, please understand our position…!”

Giving orders as a princess doesn’t work because it’s an academy.

You don’t have the authority to give orders in the first place, but if you have the authority of the princess, you can give orders.

“Everyone~ After class, go to the tea time club…Huh?!”

“It’s been a long time, Lady Cecilie. Has it been four years? How is Jabeth?”

“Oh my gosh…! Oh, it’s been a while? It’s my first time seeing you…Keuhumhum! More than that, what is the princess doing here…?”

“Tea time after class. I’m also very interested.”

However, the moment the princess’s authority is revealed, the story changes again because she is a member of the royal family.

“Sorry, but we’re full!”

“There is a minimum number of people in the club, but I understand there is no limit to the maximum number of people.”

“Well, we are a small group of only 5 people! The club has already been formed, so we are on our way to submit it!”

“Isn’t the piece of paper you’re holding behind it an application form for a club?”

“This… I wrote it wrong! Haha, I made a mistake. The club members are waiting for me. I’m done!”

In most social circles, there are those who are called presidents and want to wield their meager power for their own influence.

The moment Nostrum’s Gold Dragon Hatchling, Princess Naria, enters the hill where the Count’s Lady is proud, the hill becomes a land of dragons.

Now, Jugaekjeondo.

“Is this place…”

“Well, we’re just an art club…!”

“This is…”

“We are just ordinary people! It is unacceptable for someone as precious as a princess to enter such a shabby place!!”

A phenomenon where Naria Geo Nostrum is not welcomed anywhere.

It’s not strange.

“Why does everyone hate it so much?”

No one can answer, but even if they can’t say it in front of Naria, the whispers behind her are deeply embedded in Naria’s head

From noble mtl dot come

-Well, that’s because if you mess with the princess for no reason, you’ll be cut off by the idiot.

The students are afraid of an incompetent king behind Naria.

-It is true that the princess seems kind, but she is also a descendant of Saint Geo Nostrum. Even her mother is the iron-blooded Carmen.

In addition to the incompetent king, he is also afraid of his maternal ancestor Morgania’s bloodline.

-And who would want to get close to you when you are so stiff in the first place?

And what I fear most of all is the basic nature of Naria Geo Nostrum.

Even though I, Ria Geonostrum, don’t use magic, the atmosphere around her is so cold that it feels like a cold wind is blowing around her.

“I can’t help it. Since it’s like this, I guess I have no choice but to join a swordsmanship club.”

“…!!”

At Naria’s words as if she were talking to herself, a new student who looks like she has a good physique becomes thoughtful and immediately runs somewhere.

-Whoa, Master Noir!

-What. Why. Can’t you see I’m eating ice cream with Wednesday?

-Princess Ria Zion Nostrum wants to join her swordsmanship club!

-…What? Wait, is that what you said?

The sound was coming from a place not too far away from her, so it caught her ears, and Naria let out a short sigh.

“I can’t help it.”

Students must unconditionally join one club.

A minimum number of people are needed to open a club, but I can’t see any people right now.

“…It reminds me of daycare.”

Naria smiled briefly.

“Five people, including me. Then.”

Like a griffin looking for prey, Naria did not give in to many rejections and began to look around.

“I have no choice but to somehow find and recruit the four.”

Naria is smiling.

* * *

Orosol Academy is a place that even the kingdom’s aristocratic social circles watch with keen eyes.

How is education carried out?

How convenient it is to have an imperial-style facility built inside.

Among the students, who became friends with whom and who fought over each other.

Entry to outsiders is restricted, but the academy is open for tours to places other than the lecture building if it does not interfere with classes.

This means that guests from outside may come to tour and meet a specific person.

“Are you excited, son?”

“…”

“Son. If you have a mouth, why don’t you try talking instead of just drinking tea like that?”

In the foundation chairman’s office, the black-haired, green-eyed girl in the academy uniform sitting across from me crossed her legs and said sarcastically.

“Mother.”

“Okay.”

“The Orosol Academy uniform suits you very well.”

“Thank you for the compliment, it’s natural.”

Queen Carmen.

She now wore the academy uniform and visited the director’s office.

“Don’t worry. I covered it up with the coat hanging on the hanger over there. I’m only showing it to my son?”

“Why don’t you show it to your father, why me?”

“I have to show it to you first so that later, when I meet the Count, I will honestly say, ‘I thought you were a student.'”

As Queen Carmen said, it would not be strange to say that she is the age of an academy graduate.

Secret?

The power of blood.

The power of man.

Caroline’s power.

Queen Carmen maintains her beauty her because her father her her her, a master, infuses his daughter her with his mana her her her to maintain her body her ‘s youth her her her, and she maintains her her own beauty her her her.

Although I can’t say I’m a freshman.

“Son, I think I just thought something very rude.”

“Your mother is officially welcome.”

Queen Carmen’s visit to the Academy.

If there was an Imperial Newspaper, this would be a major issue.

“It’s because it was surprising that I came to the chairman’s office first, not the president’s office.”

“I heard that Naria is having a hard time because you started a club or something!”

“…”

Correct.

Queen Carmen is not my mother-

“Parents of Naria students. Please calm down first.”

“Do you really look like this?”

“It’s hard for me to say anything since I’m not a faculty member, but… “

“It’s a club, you set it all up!”

“…”

“It’s not like the academy randomly assigns students, so students form their own clubs and come? There shouldn’t be any coercion, and if they do, there will be immediate expulsion. The club president takes the first step in joining the club, and the majority of club members votes 2nd round…?”

The reason why it is difficult for Naria to find a club.

“If my son hadn’t made these strange rules, I don’t think Naria would have been rejected by various nobles for starting a club by now. “What do you think?”

A justification for students not to allow beings with the status of ‘princess’ into their clubs, or, to put it the other way, ‘that’s okay’.

“Yeah, it’s because of the rumors.”

“Rumors?”

“Naria Geonostrum’s club is actually a place where she gathers the 12 ministers. Rather than purely engaging in club activities, Naria sets out to find her own subjects.”

It’s because of a rumor spread maliciously by someone.

“Son. If you think about it, Naria is like your younger sister. Right?”

“In terms of political engineering, yes.”

“But, is it okay to just leave it like this?”

“It’s not neglect.”

“Yes, it’s not neglect. You must have spread the rumor.”

Me.

Using children from orphanages.

Astasia.

Using international students from the empire.

“Why are you doing that?”

“That’s right, to deceive.”

“What?”

“The world.”

Naria needs to find talent.

Without any hints, any background knowledge, or any probability.

“Do you know? She created her club with anyone Naria said she did not like. Maybe that club will become a gathering of heroes who will support Nostrum in the future.”

Orosol Academy.

Places outsiders can freely tour with permission, excluding lecture buildings and dormitories.

“Isn’t it possible for history to repeat itself? Just like the past kings of Nostrum, Naria found a talented master that no one knew about… “

One eye of the crown prince is fixed on Naria Geo Nostrum.

“In the name of a club, we can recruit future heroes as club members.”