The first prince, Kevin, refreshingly said that he was sorry to bother us and left.

Or rather, what kind of authority does that man have to interfere with me?

Even though he’s still the student council president.

Well, the first prince will join the student council when he becomes a 2nd-year student.

The secretary is the prime minister’s son, Gerald.

If you’re aiming for the First Prince Route, it’s essential to participate in the student council from the 2nd year on.

Even so, it’s troublesome because you can’t conquer him unless you raise your stats evenly.

Vivian-sama’s attacks are also fiercer than other routes.

With Ouji-sama, pass, pass.

Carol went to her room to work on alchemy, Curtis to the swordsmanship club, and Elmer to the magic club.

What should the lone remaining saint candidate do?

I wonder if I’ll look for club activities.

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The Magic Academy didn’t even have a manga research department.

I also do paint oil paintings in the art club.

When I was participating in the go-home club, my fashion stat would increase, and the second prince, Lloyd-chan, would approach.

Hmmm, I don’t really have anything I want to do.

“Hey hey, Seijou-sama, Linda is here for you.”

“…Please go back to the Great Temple, Linda-san,” I said.

“My, my, don’t say that, I did have some business with you,” Linda replied.

This person is also a mob NPC who was briefly drawn in the background during the Date Scene in the Great Temple, during the game.

She was Linda Crable, the Third Division Commander of the Holy Lady Knights.

She is a female knight in white and gold heavy armor who says something like “I’m going to kill you.”

She’s my bodyguard at the temple, and she’s kind of like a caretaker, but… she’s pretty annoying.

She’s a caring and nice person, but honestly, her love for me is annoying.

Her love for me as a saint and the faith she puts in me is too heavy.

“Hearing that Seijou-sama crushed the jewels of a 2nd-year thug of a knight and that she was poisoned at the welcome feast of the women’s dormitory, Kyoukou-sama and the rest of the upper echelon were furious,” Linda said.

“Poison doesn’t work on me, so the Great Temple won’t need to intervene,” I said.

“That’s not going to work,” Linda said. “It’s a grave sin in itself to poison the saint, who is the treasure of the temple. It’s proof that the saint was neglected at a facility of the kingdom. We’ll have to find the culprit and decapitate her.”

“Hey, don’t start beheading people like that,” I said.

“Is it no good? Currently, I have five well-trained holy knights following the man you crushed the jewels of, Michael, and they’re intimidating him to no end,” Linda said.

“Stop that,” I said. “Are you a gang from the slums or holy knights of the temple?”

“You are very kind, Seijou-sama,” Linda said. “Well, for the time being, the Kyoukou-sama ordered me, Linda, to improve the environment of the women’s dormitory.”

“I don’t have any particular problems with my life,” I said.

“Well, well, if I, a professional escort, can see it, there must be some areas for improvement, so let’s go, let’s go.”

Linda and I walked towards the girls’ dormitory.

Linda is a good person, but since she was in the Temple all the time, she lacks common sense.

Well, everyone involved in the Temple is like that.

“Hypothetically speaking,” I said, “what do you think the Temple would do if I were injured or killed by an upper-class noble like a duke’s child?”

“A holy war,” Linda replied.

That’s scary!!

“First of all, the duke will be excommunicated from the temple by order of Kyoukou-sama, after that, all the temple personnel in the Duke’s territory will be withdrawn, and any believers will also be ordered to migrate,” Linda said. “We will slaughter everyone, hang all the officials, sprinkle salt on the land, and make it a territory where not even grass will grow for 500 years. Seijou-sama.”

Linda-san something so horrifying with a smile.

Ugh, woah, don’t get dizzy.

Fanatical organizations are scary.

Moreover, I know which duke she’s speaking about.

“Th-That’s all so…” I said.

“Seijou-sama, we have been waiting for you for 20 years since Maria-sama passed away,” Linda said. “You want to harm our long-awaited saint? Very well, we’ll just put those anti-saint idiots on a cot and stretch their backs out.

By “cot,” she means a torture device where you tie ropes to someone’s limbs and pull, the rack.

Seriously scary, these religious fanatics.

“Ah, and I asked the Academy’s guard knights for information about the poisoner, would you like to hear it?” Linda said.

“Did you find out anything?” I asked.

“It seems that the blond maid Sara received gold coins from her employer, the 2nd-year student and viscount’s daughter Pamela Gaufre, and they conspired to poison both you and Caroline-sama.”

“You found out straight away,” I said.

“It seems they were told that it was a laxative that would cause a bit of intestinal distress, so they did it with the intention of harassment,” Linda said. “Both Sara and Pamela insisted they had no idea it was lethal.”

“Hmm,” I went.

I don’t know if they put deadly poison in it, they didn’t know, it wouldn’t make sense if it was a prank.

“The one who brought the poison was the bow gun-wielding maid, and it seems that they don’t know who she is.”

“So they decided to use poison from someone they didn’t even know?” I asked.

“Hilarious, isn’t it?” Linda said. “Do you want me to kidnap them both and torture them in the temple’s basement?”

“You’re going to get in the way of the investigation, so please don’t do that,” I said.

Linda wants to torture them right away, so I say no to that.

“The bow gun maid is silent, and her identity is unknown. And she died in prison this morning by a stabbing incident.”

“So she’s been silenced,” I said.

“It’s like substituting prison for a school, isn’t it?” Linda said.

“Pamela-sama, did she say who ordered her to act?” I asked.

“She insists that she did it for the purpose of voluntarily playing a prank on the arrogant Seijou-sama and Caroline-sama,” Linda said.

They won’t testify that it was Vivian-sama that ordered her and that she was forced to do it.

“And it’s even more hilarious, but Vivian-sama showed up in the prison and said, ‘I feel so sorry for you because you did it as a prank.’ The dormitory guard protested violently, but she took Pamela and Sara with her.”

“Uwah,” I groaned, “I wonder if this means that Pamela-sama and Maid-san are goners.”

These are the kind of people that will either be found buried somewhere at a later date or just disappear.

This is the world of otome games, isn’t it? It’s not the world of dark crime stories.

“For the time being, I have someone on guard, but it seems that the duke’s family has a lot of skillful people hidden in it,” Linda said. “It seems he’s not undeserving of the title ‘the Duke’s Poison-Keeper.’”

Light Sky’s hidden capture character, the dark magician butler who killed others by poisons.

The strategy with him is always super troublesome.

“That’s why, Seijou-sama, against Duke Pottinger, let’s start a holy war, shall we?” Linda says with a bright smile.

No, we will not.

What is this, smiling while recommending the massacre of millions of people?

Bianca-sama was always destined to fall into corruption if she was surrounded by these kinds of unscrupulous temple staff with so many screws loose.

“Le-Le-Let’s just see how things play out,” I said.

I never thought I would say lines like Komon-sama.

We enter the girls’ dormitory, bow to the janitor, and pass through the entrance.

Linda is looking around restlessly.

“No, it’s nostalgia, you see? It’s the same as when I was here,” Linda said.

“Eh, Linda-san, did you come from the Magic Academy?”

“Yes, there are many holy knights who hail from here,” Linda said.

“I thought all the holy knights were from the temple’s school.”

“Even if we’re all holy knights, we’re from all manner of stripes,” Linda said.

We go up the stairs together and enter Room 205.

Margot-san’s bed is now covered with a curtain, so I wonder if she’s sleeping.

“Uwaa, this is can’t be the room where Seijou-sama lives, is it? Is it a maid’s room?”

“There are also maid-sans here,” I said.

“For the time being, let’s move you to an upper-class aristocrat’s room, there’s no security here,” Linda said.

“It’s okay, I do not need anything,” I said.

The curtains opened and Margot-san showed her face.

Linda-san pulled out the long sword from her waist.

“Even Wilkinson’s dog isn’t happy,” Linda said, glaring at Margot with cold, freezing eyes.

“Hey, what are you doing?” I asked.

“They are the spy maids of Earl Wilkinson,” Linda said. “I will dispose of her now.”

“Stop it!” I yelled.

“I thought it was you, Linda Crable, long time no see,” Margot said.

“It’s been about five years,” Linda said. “Now please die.”

Linda held up her long sword.

“In the name of the saint, I spare your life,” I said. “Stop it, put it down, put it away.”

“Tch,” Linda clicked her tongue and reluctantly put her long sword back.

“I have to kill spy maids when I find them,” Linda said.

“I. Said. Stop. That,” I said.

“My true identity was discovered by the saint, how sad,” Margot said.

“What do you mean spy maid?” I asked.

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“It means she’s a spy who hangs around targets dressed as a maid,” Linda said. “She must have leaked information about you, Makoto-sama, to the earl’s family. By the way, Earl Wilkinson pledges allegiance to Duke Pottinger’s faction.”

“The fact that Linda has appeared means that the temple must be serious, and I will suggest to Master that it would be better to switch his loyalties to the royal family’s faction,” Margot said.

“Either way is fine,” Linda said. “We’re going to kill off the entire faction anyway.”

“People in the Great Temple don’t get jokes, so it’s scary, isn’t it?” Margot said.

What is this? The existence of this spy maid has no shadow or hint in the game.

If Anne-san says she’s like that with Carol, then it must be true.

“Information about Seijou-sama will be leaked to the enemy, so let’s move to a better room,” Linda said. “I will call Kyoukou-sama from the Great Temple.”

“I can’t afford to pay for an upper-class noble’s room because it’s expensive,” I said. “Otou-sama will go bankrupt.”

“The Great Temple will provide because we have quite a bit of unused budget for you, Seijou-sama,” Linda said. “That way, I can be stationed by your side.”

If I have Linda near me, I’ll never stop being annoyed.

“I like this room, so I reject it,” I said.

“There is a spy maid inside with you,” Linda said.

“It wouldn’t be a problem if someone found out,” I said.

“I can’t protect you,” Linda said.

“I don’t want your protection,” I said.

Linda shrugged her shoulders, raised her hands, and shook her head.

“Our saint is such a modest and humble woman, isn’t she? No, it’s one of the things I love about Seijou-sama,” Linda said.

“Geeze, please go back to the Great Temple,” I said. “Tell Kyoukou-sama that I don’t need a luxurious room, a lady-in-waiting, or an escort.”

“Well, it’s only this time, next time I hear that the daughter of Duke Pottinger has done something, I’ll make my move,” Linda said.

“Yes, yes,” I said.

“Also, if there is any sign that the Duke’s hands are approaching the Academy, I will unconditionally station the holy knights here.”

“The Great Temple is overreacting, I’ll be there on Saturday afternoon, so say hello to the children for me,” I said.

“All the little children are waiting for you, Seijou-sama, they will be so happy,” Linda said. “Well then, by your wish, I’ll be leaving now.”

And Linda did.

I let out a big sigh.

“I wonder if the Great Temple is more vicious than the duke’s daughter,” Margot said.

“I can’t argue with that,” I said “But the Great Temple is part of my family, so I have to stop them,” I said.

“Seijou-sama is also having a hard time, I see?”

“Candidate for a saint,” I clarified.

“Still not yet?” Margot said.

Margot-san giggled as she was on her bed.

Fuck, you mischievous spy maid.

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