Just because the majority of people turned a blind eye to it, or it being performed out of sight, that didn’t mean 『it』 had disappeared or anything, though.

It had simply been hidden too much that they had forgotten that they lived with『it』 as the foundation.

『What』 they ate, 『who』 they trampled and exploited for the privileges that supported their lives, the Japanese people of these days were averting their eyes too much from them.

Such people wouldn’t be able to thrive in the battle of seizure with the installment known as life as the bet.

If there was a『sieve』 for the students of Toyoashihara Academy, it was the event that served as the first trial as well as foundation.

Even if they were not good with『it』 from start to finish, from the time they enrolled to the time they graduated, those students would still prove to be of some use enough to the academy, and their measure of salvations would be arranged.

Touma and the others decided to challenge dungeon diving tomorrow after school.

You wouldn’t go anywhere unless you made the first step first.

This was the common thought among all the new students.

The items they brought back from the dungeon could be converted into sen at the trade counter in the purchasing department.

Although the bare minimum living necessities were guaranteed in their life in the academy, there was a need for capital in order to be able to enjoy their academy life more comfortably.

Moreover, the higher the level of the student, the more the privileges, which could even be said to be blatant, they would be provided with.

The rights to live in the high grade dormitory that was akin to a high-class hotel, the rights to use the restricted floor on the second floor of the student cafeteria, as well as the rights to earn credits without having to attend classes if they so desired.

Some self-indulgences, with mostly being the trouble of male-female relationships, would also be favored by the academy’s arbitration judgments.

All of the facilities and systems arranged were inviting them to go to the dungeon.

Dungeon conquest, that was the goal in itself.

Kurou-sou and Hakutsuru-sou, the dormitories new students moved into at the beginning, were naturally the lowest-ranked low grade dormitories.

The number of upperclassmen living there decreased as the grade increased, but there were also whimsical people who deliberately decided to remain there even at high levels.

From the entrance of Hakutsuru-sou, Seiichi, who was leading Shizuka, ventured out under the starry sky in a nonchalant manner.

After having dinner and a bath in their own dormitory, they switched places.

This was a pattern that had already been in place for about a whole week.

There was no one in Hakutsuru-sou who condemned Seiichi, a boy, for coming and going as he pleased.

As expected, the number of prudent boys seemed to be a lot among the first-year students, but the number of boys who came to share the bed with their partners in the girls’ dormitory was by no means few either.

That was because if they brought their partner into their own room in the boys’ dormitory, they’d end up receiving meddling from the other boys.

Once they moved to a high grade dormitory, they would get their own private room instead of a shared room, so they would be able to pull in girls.

In other words, the male students who frequented the girls’ dormitory were second-rate, and they had to hang their heads in shame from the cold stares of the girls.

Boys who misunderstood it as a harem situation and behaved as though they owned the place were reported to the academy supervision department and would be officially banned from the girls’ dormitory as well as subject to various penalties.

In terms of image, the girls’ dormitory was not like that of a loose rundown brothel, but maybe more like a geisha quarter of the Edo era, the red light district.

*Thump, thump*Seiichi, who was taking the lead, walked down the path that would also be a return path for him.

The apprehension of taking the trouble to escort the girl, who was now officially recognized in the class as his roommate’s partner, toward him.

For the current Shizuka, it was a rendezvous with Touma, whom she had already opened up her heart to.

But that was not the case at all.

There were no shreds of such a heartwarming good will.

In the eyes of the people around her, Shizuka was a sacrifice to be offered to the boys’ dormitory, and Seiichi himself was self-aware that he was a lowlife who offered his own classmate to score brownie points with the upperclassmen.

No matter how the actual situation was.

As long as Touma wasn’t that, Seiichi was intending to precisely perceive the moment he actually fell into a fallen state and take advantage of him.

Building his own connections in Kurou-sou, securing a usable pawn in Hakutsuru-sou by seducing Mai, he was trying to stir agitation in Touma by letting Shizuka – whom he had exchanged feelings with – get assaulted.

Someone who got emotional tended to lose control over themselves and expose their inner selves.

This was the first lesson he was taught in the training he was given as a spy.

He wondered since when it was that his priorities had shifted.

Visiting Kurou-sou less often, indulging himself in sex with Mai, he could no longer even look at Touma and Shizuka directly in the face.

「… Say, what’s it like? Spending the night at the boys’ dormitory, I mean.」

Suddenly, Seiichi stopped in his tracks and inquired without even turning around.

It was not yet the season for insects to start chirping, so it was very quiet.

There were lights provided by the streetlights arranged sporadically along the path, but there were no artificial lights around the academy, which was surrounded by nature.

The faint night scene was illuminated only by the starlight in the sky as well as the light of the moon.

Shizuka, who had also stopped in her tracks, stared at Seiichi’s back in silence, not answering the sudden conversation they had never exchanged even once before.

「Yeah, I’m sure you’ve been showered with love very much. Night after night, I wonder how many boys you have to accompany. Touma sure is one terrible guy too, showing a face like there’s nothing wrong at all like that.」

Just as the excuse he had told Mai when she suspected him, Seiichi had yet to lay a hand on Shizuka even once.

If Touma were to hold attachment to Shizuka, he would console her with a triumphant look, but if he felt unconcerned and discarded her, then he could just enjoy her as a useless tool as well.

「… What, does that have anything to do with you?」

「Huh? Watch how you talk to me. You too showing a mug as though nothing is wrong at all, what a crazy slut you are.」

It was the best bravado she could muster.

As Seiichi turned around with such a thought in mind, he flinched at the sight of Shizuka unexpectedly staring at him with pitiful eyes.

He wouldn’t ever think that she liked him even by mistake, but even if she was scared of him, she should have still seen him as an object she could cling to when she had no other choice.

This perception was correct, at least by the time they first met in the classroom.

「… Oi, stop staring at me with such eyes.」

Grabbing Shizuka by the collar, he glared at her with still eyes.

Shizuka’s breasts, dressed in blazer as though she was about to go to school, contorted softly due to the fists that were pressing against them.

Sensing the softness of her breasts, which were two sizes larger than Mai’s, he slipped one hand inside her blazer and grabbed them over her blouse.

「If you are discarded by Touma, I don’t mind taking care of you, you know?」

「…..」

「I’ll keep you alongside Mai. If you service them with these huge boobs of yours, I’m sure there are many among our classmates who will happily breed you. So… stop staring at me with such eyes.」

Seiichi, being pushed away as though to reject him, stepped back, while Shizuka on the other hand, falling to her rear side, looked up at him in silence.

He ran away from the reflection of himself in Shizuka’s eyes, where even pity had vanished and were devoid of emotion.

There were no superfluous lights around, and Seiichi’s figure quickly vanished into the darkness as he ran towards Hakutsuru-sou.

With her butt planted on the cold stone pavement, Shizuka exhaled and looked up at the night sky.

At the moment, in a state where she had yet to receive correction from leveling up, it was not possible for her to resist if she were to get pushed down with the strength of a boy.

There was also the possibility of her getting assaulted by Seiichi who had gotten desperate.

She knew it wouldn’t come to that, though.

At this late of the game, as she thought as such, she had the feeling that she had already offered her body to Touma.

She hated the way Seiichi looked at her, as if she were an object.

However, there was no way she could ever hate Seiichi himself, who frivolously displayed his lecherousness as he frolicked around with Mai, the Seiichi who accepted Mai and her at the first day of school, no matter what his ulterior motives were.

And above all, Touma, who held a part of her heart in his right hand, didn’t hate Seiichi.

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