Academy Ankle Reaper

07. Who are you?

I don’t think things always go astray, but these days it’s too much.

Is it that the leap of growth that I found so far wasn’t true, or that Hayden Parker, of course, thought that he would be doing well as in the original story, but it wasn’t there from the beginning.

If this is the case, wouldn’t even the shallow future I was using as a light be useless…

“I… Do you have any… Problems?”

“Oh never mind, it’s nothing!”

Amy started to get anxious when I noticed that my expression didn’t look good.

Even if you’re dying, the demons won’t target the academy.

I’ve already fought a lot with the Devil Worshipers, an organization targeting the academy, since I was in the Imperial Knights.

Just in case you don’t know, I’ll ask the guild to do some research, and for now, I’ll assume that ‘Hayden Parker’ doesn’t exist, and then come up with a plan.

‘Or… Maybe?’

A moment flashed in my head and a hypothesis came to mind.

The only tardy student with Parker’s last name, red hair, Amy Parker.. It’s not Hayden, but it’s not a man, but it’s the character with the most similar situation.

They could be completely separate characters… But what if Amy was Hayden?

What if I was born as a woman instead of a man due to some external factor?

‘I can’t believe that happened…’

Thinking about it, I thought that there would be nothing strange about what happened at the point I was possessed in this world.

I think we need to investigate.

“Do you have some time? It’s going to be a bit long. Do you want to go to the cafe next door and continue?”

“Uh… Are you okay…?”

“There’s nothing to do after this.”

“Yes… Yes!”

Students who entered the exam have no schedule other than the entrance ceremony.

The full-fledged start of the semester, such as classes, starts tomorrow, and today is completely free time for each student to build friendships with each other.

Already, some students can be seen moving in groups of themselves.

Academy’s cafe has a similar aspect to modern cafes.

There is no such thing as a kiosk, but the menus are written in luxurious fonts in white on a blackboard-like menu board.

In a cafe decorated with antique furniture, the strong smell of roasting coffee beans wafted through, and the image of a middle-aged barista pouring coffee beans was undoubtedly a modern, antique-style cafe.

I don’t know why it developed like this, but since it’s a world created based on a novel someone wrote, I tend to accept it calmly even if it’s a little strange.

The real world doesn’t always make sense, so you just have to accept it.

“I… I only lived in Yeongji, so this is my first time going to a cafe.”

Amy, who said it was her first time at the cafe, looked around the cafe with her eyes shining.

Parker’s estate is a small country, so there must have been no cafe with proper facilities.

As Amy looked at the menus written on the menu board with a puzzled look and she was contemplating what to choose, a thought flashed in her mind.

‘Could it be that Hayden likes… Will he like it too?’

It was a sudden curiosity.

Hayden’s taste in drinks was a bit far from the general taste of imperial aristocrats, so if the two taste the same… Wouldn’t that strengthen the hypothesis that the two might be the same person?

“I… I…”

Amy rolls her eyes at the numbers on her menu board. She ends up pointing her finger at the cheapest menu item, and I strike first.

“Here’s a glass of Pine Sparkling,”

The corner of the barista’s mouth lifted slightly after hearing the order.

This strange drink is purely an original drink that baristas like, so it was on the menu.

Pine Sparkling… This drink, in which ingredients extracted from the sprouts of conifers that live in the northern region are added to carbonated water, miraculously tastes like ‘Sol’s Eye’.

Certainly, the propaganda phrase is the freshness of the north that cools down to the head! Maybe, most of them feel repulsed by the cool menthol scent, so they rarely order it.

If you like it, you can eat it by yourself. Why on earth do you sell something like this in a cafe?

But, funny enough, the main character, Hayden Parker, was madly in love with the drink.

“…And a glass of milk and over there chocolate chip cookies.”

I can feel a strange look at him saying that he ordered milk.

I felt a bit offended.

I didn’t ask for a big meaning.

It’s just a habit of being cut after possessing this body.

I took a plate of cookies, fine sparkling wine, and moderately warmed milk and sat down.

“That… The money…”

“I live.”

Amy took her purse out of her bosom and lifted it up, so I grabbed it and put it back.

I asked to come, so it’s right for me to live.

Drinks aren’t that cheap.

I don’t know anything else, but I have a lot of money to spend normally, so I don’t save on things like this.

“I… I’ll pay you back later…”

“I bought it while I was just living. Don’t worry, I’m the only one who would be uncomfortable if I kept it.”

Saying not to pay attention to Amy, who seemed to be feeling the pressure, he sipped warm milk from her mug and looked at Amy from the side of his eye.

He lowered his head at her voice telling him not to worry, then lifted the pine sparkling that was placed in front of him and put it to her mouth.

“…!”

Her eyes widen as she drinks her fine sparkling water.

This is positive, at least not frowning.

‘Am I okay?’

Looking at his expression, he looks fine.

“How about that’s the secret menu of this cafe?”

“It’s a very strange taste.

An accurate taste evaluation.

However, saying that the taste is amazing is not a positive expression.

Amy said that and took another sip of sparkling water.

“Is it delicious?”

“Yes, it’s delicious.”

She

She was relieved to hear her say it was delicious.

Amy, like Hayden, likes fine sparkling.

She should have known that.

She nods her head in satisfaction as the barista also wipes her glass with a dry towel at the counter and hears the rave reviews of her fine sparkling.

No, why is that person eavesdropping here?

“I didn’t see you earlier, did you come in as a test too?”

“Yes.. I have that manor, but I’m poor.. I didn’t get a letter of recommendation.”

“Hey, it’s amazing that you came here prepared.. I just came in with a letter of recommendation.”

“Is that so..? I know that even those who entered with a letter of recommendation take the test… “

“You must get an A or higher to enter the test, but if you enter after receiving a letter of recommendation, the test is just for categorizing your skills,

Even if you don’t pass the exam, you won’t be able to attend the academy. And… you’re a scholarship student, right?”

“..Yes”

“If you’re a scholarship student, you’ve got an A or higher. That’s even more amazing than a letter of recommendation. You can be more confident.”

“Thank you…”

After giving a lot of compliments, Amy lowered her head, her face flushed.

She talked a lot after that.

Let’s make her rhyme by changing her personal family history a little to make it easier to hear, Amy also talked about her family life according to her mood.

“I…”

Poor Yeongji, entrance exam, similar, but still a little different.

Hayden Parker in the original work is from an aristocratic background, but when he was young, a demon appeared in his estate and all his family members died.

I enter the academy after hearing the information that the enemy, the devil, has been hiding.

Amy’s situation was completely different.

“Demons invaded the manor when I was young..”

It is true that Yeongji was attacked by a demon, and it suffered great damage, but it did not kill the whole family because someone defeated the demon.

But the damage the demon inflicted was too great.

Most of the children of Amy’s age were eaten by demons, and Amy almost died, but it is said that someone defeated the demon right before and survived.

“It’s a small territory, but people don’t come because the devil cursed the land. It’s just leaving.”

Thanks to that, they say they farm to survive together, putting aside their aristocratic life.

What young Amy came up with as a way to save Yeongji, whose situation was getting worse and worse, was the story of her academy told by a bard when she was young.

“If you graduate from the academy… People in the territory will be able to breathe…”

“I see… That’s great.”

Graduating from the academy meant being a person recognized by the empire, especially if it was a person who entered through a test rather than a letter of recommendation.

If all goes well, she might be able to grab the strings of a high-ranking official.

To succeed and save Yeongji… I’m thinking very kindly.

In the end, she talked for a long time after that and broke up.

“Thank you for today…!”

“What… Then see you tomorrow.”

“Yes…Yes!!”

I’m not sure yet.

Is she really destined to be the main character, or is she a completely different character?

It is impossible to endure the fate of the protagonist as it is now.

However, if the main character is defeated by fate, the only ending left is a bad ending.

In that case, the country has no choice but to help me through somehow…

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All the way back to her dormitory, Amy was happy thinking about her relationship with her today.

“This is enough for a friend… Right?”

A blonde boy sitting alone in the garden,

She

She was smaller than herself, but her aura was mature and she didn’t look like a child.

She went to a cafe together, took out a little bit of family members that could be sensitive to each other… And talked happily.

It’s the first time I’ve talked like that with a peer… Since that accident.

She has not had a relationship with her peers for a long time, so her senses have been dulled, but if she had gone that far, she could be considered a friend.

Atlas Nemea, Amy’s first friend at the academy.

“hehehe… “

Actually, I was very depressed.

There were accidents while coming to the academy, there were embarrassing things during the entrance ceremony, the splendid wagons that came to load luggage were a burden, and the enormous facilities of the academy all became a burden and shrank.

‘That’s more than a letter of recommendation. You can be more confident’

Judging from the fact that she entered with a letter of recommendation, Atlas must have come from a great family.

Since Atlas didn’t have anything to offer, she praised her shrunken self as great, and Amy’s mouth went up without realizing it.

“Contrary to my worries, he was a good person.”

Amy’s self-talk gets longer.

If you look closely, it’s a little different from talking to yourself.

“..Be careful?”

Amy had no one near her, but she was exchanging words with her as if she were talking to someone.

“No.. Thank you for helping me so far… So you did what you said. She even entered the academy… Atlas is a good man… I don’t want to do anything suspicious.”

Amy’s words stopped for a moment as she was talking to an invisible person.

“You gave me a fake name?”