Shadow Farms
“Those Who Just Play Do Not Know Anything About the World Behind the Scenes”
I have finally turned 15 years old, and have been accepted into the Midgar Magic Swordsman Academy. It is famous as one of the leading sword magic academy in the continent, which gathers talent from home and abroad.
In the two months I was here, I purposely kept my grades at a slightly below average, optimal position as a figure character.
And in the meantime, I'm also keeping an eye on the protagonist-like characters.
Among them are some that I have seen.
Princess Alexia Midgar. The most promising is him.
Even a chimpanzee can find out that she is an important person just by hearing the title ‘Princess Midgar.’
Incidentally, on it was someone bigger and more famous named Princess Iris Midgar, but unfortunately she had already graduated from the academy.
And here's Princess Alexia I'm going to take part in the all-important character figure show. To be more specific, it was a penalty game.
Yeah, you can guess. It was one where the loser had to express his feelings to a girl.
So, I was now on the rooftop of the school, standing some distance away from Princess Alexia and facing her.
She has silvery white shoulder-length hair, and her dazzling red eyes .. arg she also has beautiful eyes, and .. her eyebrows, um. In short, she was truly beautiful in this kind of charming beauty. Unfortunately, thanks to Alpha and the others, I'm used to seeing pretty faces. I thought it would be better if you let the tension show on your faces, you know? Showing a little more emotion will make you look more human.
Well, let's set it aside for now. Of course, I'm not the first person to try this very difficult challenge. After entering the school for 2 months, already over a hundred challengers had approached him and were rejected with the same emotionless sentence.
“Not interested.”
Not that I don't understand. She probably had a political marriage scheduled after graduation, and she wasn't interested in this kind of child's play. But the large majority of the nobles who had also tried to express feelings for him should also be on the same condition. After graduation, they would go straight to matchmaking for most of them. That was why they hoped to have one or two romantic relationships while still in the academy.
Well, whatever their motivation, in the end it's all just playing around with people who don't know anything about the ‘world behind the scenes’.
However, as a figurehead character, I was also destined to take part in this game. Forced through ‘penalty game’ to confess to the school idol and rejected in the harshest and most heart-breaking way – it really is a thing that figurant characters do, isn't it? By completing this event in the most figurant-like method possible, I will be one step closer to the most ideal condition for the character of the figurine in my mind. And that, in the end, will take me much further towards achieving ‘strength behind the scenes’.
For the sake of this moment today, I stayed up all night to think. What can I do ... How can I pronounce it, making it the most similar love confession to the character of the figure?
Word choice is of course important, but there are also articulations, tone changes, and vibrato, to consider. After a whole night of research, I had achieved the most suitable way of confessing love as a figure, and now I stood on the decisive battleground.
Battles.
Exactly. For a character figure, this is a big battle.
‘Strength behind the scenes’ has the power in battle ‘behind the screen’ to fight, while figurant characters have fighting figures to fight.
And thus I, at this moment, as a figure character, must give my best.
With determination in my chest, I advanced forward to face him.
Therefore, pay close attention.
This is the most virtual confession in the world!
“P, P, P .. Princess Alexia ..”
I used the ‘Gagap’ attack card, then displayed my nervousness through the articulation of ‘princess,’ followed by a change in tone when mentioning her name.
“... I, I like you ..!”
My eyes turned away from Princess Alexia to look at the ground, while my entire body trembled at a barely noticeable rate.
“T, please be my girlfriend ..?”
My word choice made sure it got to the basics, with no additions, while my pronunciation, pitch, and articulation flew to only god knows where. Then I ended it all with an increase in inflection to show my lack of confidence.
That's perfect…!
Right now, this is the perfect figure character I'm aiming for!
Satisfaction. I feel pure satisfaction.
“Good. With pleasure. “
“Nn?”
Feeling satisfied, I prepared to return when I heard the auditory hallucinations.
“You, what did you just say?”
“By pleasure.”
“Ah, alright.”
Something seems to be wrong here.
“S-, for starters, how about we go home together after school.”
Still not fully understanding what happened about this incident, I met Princess Alexia after school, we walked back to the dorm together, and parted with the promise to meet again tomorrow. Then I went back to my own room, jumped on the bed, buried my face in the pillow, then shouted.
“SIAALAAANNN, HOW CAN I ENTER THE MC ROUTE OF LOVE COMEDI?!?!?!”
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