I’m Just an Ordinary Clown at the Academy

112 – Special Training 2

“It’s been a while since I actually saw you, Jester.”

Erika, who had a lovely smile that could make even a priest who had trained for decades momentarily lose focus, said.

“…………”

I realized for the first time that when people are too surprised, they lose their ability to speak.

I had so much to say, but all those words shattered and disappeared in my mouth before they could form into sentences.

The emperor’s shadow called me, and since the emperor was currently at the academy, I naturally thought it was the emperor who called me.

But the one in the classroom was Erika, not the emperor.

“hehehe, I was even more surprised when I actually saw you, right?”

Although she was wearing a mask, Erika immediately noticed that I was flustered, and with a mischievous laughter, she took a step forward, slowly approaching me.

Watching her like that, a small chuckle escaped from my mouth.

“It seems like she wasn’t like this when we first met.”

At some point, Erika started showing a cheeky side like me.

Of course, it’s not that I dislike this side of her.

Unlike the other people I’ve become close with now, Erika didn’t appear much in the game, so I didn’t know much about her until we became friends.

But precisely because of that, each new aspect came to me in a different and unique way.

“Come to think of it, even Johanna has subtly changed.”

Sometimes her cold eyes that look at me or her cold hands that brush against my neck.

“Lord Jester? Am I not pretty?”

Erika, who had suddenly come close to me, tilted her head and looked at me from a distance.

“No way. You are so beautiful that I forgot how to speak for a moment. When you first came, I almost kneeled, thinking that the goddess had descended upon the academy.”

“Ahem! I am pretty to that extent.”

If there had been a priest nearby, they would have been enraged at the blasphemy.

Erika and I continued our banter, not caring about such things.

“Honestly, am I not prettier than the goddess? I don’t really know which part of the goddess is beautiful.”

Suddenly, Erika began gossiping about the goddess as if she were a villain talking behind someone’s back, but I could immediately tell that it was an act.

Since Erika and the villain were not a good match from the beginning, every line of dialogue felt awkward.

“I’ve thought the same thing in my heart for a long time. How about the two of us creating a new religion while we’re at it?”

To match her act, I replied with a theatrical gesture, clasping my hands together.

“Huh, then Lord Jester will be the first believer?”

“Are you going to make me a pope? I didn’t know you could elevate my status like this.”

“Not exactly. Well, if you follow my orders well, I might make you a pope.”

If the real pope had seen this, wouldn’t they have collapsed from high blood pressure?

But as I mentioned earlier, there was only Erika and me here.

“Just give me any command. If I can become a pope… No, if I can be of help to the goddess, I will even jump into a pit of fire!”

“Ahem! Then come here and pat my shoulders. I’ll allow you to touch my shoulders specially.”

“Yes, my goddess! I will consider it a lifelong honor!”

And so, the peculiar play between Naha and Erika continued.

The actors were Naha and Erika.

The audience was Naha and Erika.

The script was all improvised.

The play was titled “The Religious War of the Villain Princess and the Traitor Jester.”

Even though I called her a goddess, I wonder if the kingdom would say the same.

When Naha and Erika partially destroyed the existing religion with the new religion they created.

“*Phew!*”

Unable to contain ourselves, Naha and Erika burst into laughter simultaneously, and for a while, the only sound in our classroom was laughter.

“By the way, Princess?”

After laughing for a while, I was the first to speak to Erika.

“…………”

Erika didn’t respond at all. Instead, she puffed up her cheeks and turned her head to the side, as if openly showing that she was sulking.

Of course, I know exactly what mistake I made.

It’s probably because I called her Princess instead of Erika.

Although I had become more accustomed to calling her Erika rather than Princess, when I actually saw her, my old way of addressing her unintentionally came out.

“Erika.”

“Yes! Jester!”

It was a cheerful voice, as if denying what had just happened was a lie.

“Master Clown, how about we start speaking informally now?”

“Ahahahaha, I still find this comfortable, that’s why.”

“For now, I’ll let it slide. But! I will definitely speak informally to you later, Master Clown.”

After laughing once at Erika’s strange determination, I asked the question that had been on my mind since I saw her here.

“But why is Erika wearing our school uniform?”

Erika was currently wearing the Croa Academy uniform.

It looked so natural that I momentarily forgot to ask.

“How does it look? Does it suit me well?”

Erika elegantly spun in place and lifted the ends of her skirt slightly as if greeting at a ball.

“Uwaaah!”

To give the best reaction, I covered my eyes as if I were staring directly at the sun and pretended to be in agony.

“It’s too bright, I can’t see!”

Giggling, Erika’s laughter echoed through the classroom.

“I never really wanted to attend the academy in the first place.”

“Is that so?”

“After all, Lucas is the one who’s going to be the emperor, and it’s not like I have any desire to become strong either.”

When we communicated through the telecommunication device last time, Erika said she was going to enroll in the academy next year.

“But having you, Master Clown, by my side makes the academy seem more fun, so I decided to go after all.”

I also think that with Erika by my side, it will be even more fun than it is now.

“I will help Erika have the best time for two years.”

Anyway, when she becomes a second-year student, she won’t have much to do, so enjoying a normal academy life wouldn’t be a bad idea.

“Thank you. But why two years? The academy goes up to the third year, right?”

“When Erika becomes a third-year student, I will have graduated and won’t be at the academy anymore, right?”

Upon hearing my words, Erika pondered seriously, stroking her chin.

And then, as if she had come up with a brilliant idea, she exclaimed, “Ah!”

Erika, after much contemplation, had come up with a solution.

“Clown, will you take a leave of absence?”

“Pfft!”

“Don’t laugh! I said it seriously after thinking about it!”

Although Erika told me not to laugh, anyone would have burst into laughter.

To think that her solution after much contemplation was a leave of absence.

“Well, that’s a bit problematic… Excuse me for a moment.”

I asked Erika for her understanding and concealed our appearances with a fantasy.

Because I sensed someone nearby.

“Clown? What’s the problem…”

“Shh.”

I raised my index finger and pressed it against my lips.

Fortunately, Erika didn’t say anything, and a little time passed.

-Snap.

Someone opened the door and entered.

“Surely, you didn’t hear anything here, did you?”

“You must have misheard. This is an unused classroom.”

The person who entered was a man and a woman wearing Academy uniforms.

From the atmosphere and the fact that they were holding hands, it could be inferred that they were a couple.

Judging by the whip in their hands, they seemed to have just finished training.

“A whip, an unusual weapon they’re using.”

Although they seemed to have trained, neither of them was sweating, so it seemed like they hadn’t just come from training, but rather had heard something on their way to training.

[Let’s just keep doing this until those people leave.]

I created a fantasy so that only Erika could see the text.

Erika nodded her head as a substitute for an answer.

“But how long are we going to hold hands?”

“You were the one who grabbed my hand first.”

“No, you were the one who grabbed mine first.”

“Then let’s both let go at the same time. One, two, three!”

“Why aren’t you letting go? Instead, you’re holding on tight.”

“You did the same thing.”

The couple who didn’t know that Erika and I were there started to cuddle.

How youthful. So youthful.

I’ve been in that situation too…….

Didn’t exist, right?

Before the possession, I lived in Croaca.

The couple’s skinship grew longer and now they were kissing.

Such youth. Yes, if it’s youth, mixing tongues like that…

“Tongue, huh?”

The atmosphere between the couple was becoming strange.

“Yeah, since there’s no one around, it’s fine to mix tongues a bit.”

I’m not someone who gets blocked by that much.

But, even so…

“We’re not taking off our clothes!!”

I lowered my head and looked at Erika, who was clinging to me.

Erika covered her blushing face with both hands.

I didn’t have a hobby of watching other people’s reactions, and especially for Erika, whose face was getting redder and redder, I vowed to stop that reaction.

But I didn’t want to step out directly, so I made a sound as if it was a fantasy.

“Meow.”

Suddenly, the sound of a cat outside made the students who were biting and sucking startle.

“Did you hear something just now?”

“It’s just a regular cat. Don’t worry and continue undressing. It’s a horny kitten.”

“Yes, Master.”

Upon hearing the woman’s words, the man began to undress.

Horny bastards? Master? Did I hear it wrong?

“Hurry, hurry, don’t take it off?”

The woman began to seduce the man who was undressing.

“Oh, f*ck. It can’t be, right?”

Ssshhhhh!

But my stupid expectations were shattered, and the woman started hitting the man with a whip.

“f*ck.”

Seeing that, Erika covered her mouth with her hand in cultural shock.

Honestly, I was also taken aback.

Why the hell are these guys doing such a grotesque thing in the academy?

“If you keep watching that, you’ll get mental illness.”

I borrowed the voice of one of the professors I heard from the disciplinary committee earlier, not the sound of a cat.

“Who’s there?”

The couple heard the voice and hastily put on their discarded clothes and left the classroom.

“………………”

“…………………”

The classroom was left empty by those perverted bastards.

Silence dominated me and Erika.

“Uh… um, Erika? When men and women usually form a relationship, it’s not common to do it like that, so please don’t imitate it….”

“I know that much too!”