Chapter 16 Opening Ceremony and Riot (4)
"Why, why is he here?
According to the original plot, shouldn't he have chosen the east corridor to go to the auditorium today in order to avoid being late for the opening ceremony because he didn't get up on time? "
Perhaps thinking that Alfred couldn't hear him, Edward muttered to himself in a low voice.
"If he runs to the west corridor, what will happen to the protagonist's incident?!"
(According to the original plot, incident? Could this guy be...)
Hearing these words that sounded like the content of a game, Alfred couldn't help but have some guesses in his mind.
He moved a little closer to Adelaide and looked at her carefully again.
"Is there anything?"
Adelaide asked tremblingly.
She was like a rabbit being stared at by a snake, so scared that she dared not move.
"Nothing. Since Miss Bartlett is also going to the auditorium to attend the opening ceremony, how about we go together? It just so happens that I have something I want to talk to you about."
Alfred gave Adelaide a friendly smile and held out his hand.
"Hey! No, no problem!"
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Roderick E. Zimmermann, a nobleman of the imperial court, the fifth son of Count Zimmermann.
A dandy boy who had almost no chance of inheriting the family business because he was born later than his brothers, but was doted on by his mother and sisters because he was the youngest child in the family.
His appearance is slightly below average, he is a little fat and doesn't like sports.
His qualifications and talents as a puppeteer are very average, and he is always laughed at by his brothers and their followers...
Although it feels like there is a lot more to say in the introduction, in fact, all of this is just Roderick's disguise.
In reality, Roderick is a reincarnated being and possesses memories of his past lives.
In his previous life, Roderick was a college student, or to be more precise, a college student who failed to graduate successfully.
He has been gifted since childhood and can easily succeed in anything he does.
This of course also includes things like school exams.
In his previous life, he didn't work very hard and was admitted to a prestigious university easily. However, he played too much in school and got into a lot of trouble, and in the end he was unable to get his diploma.
After leaving college, the cynical Roderick became a otaku, escaping reality by indulging himself in various beautiful girl games every day.
Until one day, he worked all night for two consecutive nights just to clear a brand of butter.
While admiring the game CGs and feeling proud of his complete collection of CGs, he suddenly felt dizzy and fell asleep in front of the computer.
When he woke up again, he found that he had become the fifth son of Count Zimmermann.
By the time Roderick confirmed that he had been reincarnated into the world of the series of beautiful girls he had played in his previous life, it was three years after he became Roderick E. Zimmerman.
As soon as he confirmed that he had arrived in the world of that game series, Roderick immediately began to prepare to attend Illya Alia Academy.
The first preparation he made was to continue to be a playboy in the eyes of his family.
There are good reasons for this.
A custom given to the nobility of the Empire.
Nobles with lords always tend to send their children to the Illya Alia Academy with a long history, where they are trained to become independent puppeteers.
The court nobles who had no territories and mainly made a living by working in the palace and receiving annuities liked to send their outstanding children to the First Royal Puppet Master Academy established by the Empire, so that while they were studying as puppet masters, they could actively expand their network between the palace and the nobles.
By the way, in order to lower the reputation of Illya Arya Puppet Master Academy, the court nobles also like to force their own good-for-nothing young men into Illya Arya.
After these students graduated, they put all the blame for the students' failure on Illya and Arya's school and criticized Illya in the palace.
As for why this happened, Roderick was not sure, but it seemed to be related to the inside story of the court.
But he didn't care about such insignificant details.
All Roderick had to do was to completely disappoint his father and successfully enter the Illya Arya Puppet Master Academy.
Perhaps it was the experience accumulated in his previous life, Roderick easily made his father give up, and came to Illya Arya as he wished.
(Everything was going smoothly before, why did this happen this morning?)
Roderick hurriedly put on his uniform and shouted in his heart.
Last night he was so excited that he could not sleep the whole night, thinking about how he could quickly conquer those super cute girls in the game, and then push them down one after another and do this and that to them.
As a result, he woke up late this morning without any surprise.
Not only did Roderick miss the encounter with Liliana D. Christiana, the official heroine of the game, he might even be late for the opening ceremony.
The version of the game that Roderick played was a remake that was released ten years after the original game was released.
Compared to the original version, the remake adds a lot of new content, and also launches an exaggerated number of seven DLCs and more than a dozen paid bonuses.
If you own the full set of DLC, most of the female characters in the game can be conquered.
And everyone has at least two CGs and scene animations.
Among these female characters, there are several who are extremely popular despite their rare appearances.
The cute and contrasting elf big sister, Principal Alberta is one of them.
In the game, if you fail to attend the opening ceremony or are late for it, the favorability of all instructors will be reduced by five points, and the favorability of Principal Alberta will drop by fifteen points at once.
Once his favorability dropped so much at the opening ceremony, Roderick had almost no hope of conquering the other party.
(I said you can't be late!)
With strong belief and will, Roderick rushed out of the dormitory.
The route he chose was the shortest way from the boys' dormitory to the auditorium, the corridor on the east side of the auditorium.
According to Roderick's exploration of the academy's terrain yesterday, there would be more than enough time if he rode the Rock Hyena summoned from the Pseudo-Life Gate yesterday.
The rarity of the Rock Hyena is very subtle, only at the D+ level.
Therefore, players often regard the Rock Hyena as a useless waste puppet.
However, this thing is very convenient for running maps in the early stage.
It's fast enough and very flexible.