Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 104 Summer Plan
“I said something like ‘see you next semester’ as a summary, but it’s impossible for your storyline to just go black and skip summer vacation and go straight back to school. It’s also impossible for me to just close my eyes and wake up a month later.”

"really."

It was July, the height of summer.

On the first day of summer vacation at Earls Higher School of Magic, the Bathing Goddess was "online" as usual.

Then, the Bathing Goddess saw Ritas simply packing his luggage.

"Hey, are you going back home during the holidays?"

When Ritas received the letter from his "cousin" before, he successfully found out about Ritas' family situation. The Bathing Goddess would occasionally tease Ritas with the title "the descendant of the Sword Saint". Naturally, she was full of curiosity about the western border of the Holy Kingdom of Libera and the rumored "Elson Family".

"No, I just plan to stay in the mansion in Spring City during the holidays."

As an adopted son who was suddenly picked up by the head of the family, Ritas was in a very delicate situation within the family, and he shook his head and answered.

The summer vacation at Earls College lasts for more than forty days.

Although the number of days is not short, since Earls is a college built on the border of the kingdom and accepts students from all over the continent, for some students who live far away, it may take nearly a month just to go back and forth from their hometown.

Therefore, according to the past, during the summer vacation, about 70% of the students in Earls College would choose to stay in school. Only those students who lived nearby would choose to go home.

In the special Yew class, this ratio was even higher. Only Sylvie chose to live in the Latras Chamber of Commerce's base in Spring City during the summer vacation.

In addition, most seminars will continue as normal during the summer vacation.

Therefore, apart from not having to attend classes during the day, there are no particularly huge changes in students' college life compared to before.

"That mansion."

Since Ritas occasionally stayed in Spring City on weekends, the Bathing Goddess had naturally seen that mansion.

In response, Bathing Goddess commented that it was “very ordinary”.

Although it was a two-story single-family house, on the one hand, the house was located in the suburbs, and on the other hand, the house itself was visibly old.

As a professor who always spends a lot of money to buy fakes without blinking an eye, Ritas's villa can only be said to lack a sense of "decay".

"Anyway, you have a lot of things to do in the academy on weekdays, is it necessary to move out for a while?"

The Bathing Goddess asked somewhat puzzled.

Although Ritas’ “hometown” is not that close, Ritas has many “magic ways”, so it shouldn’t take too much time for him to go back if he really wants to.

So, what really tied Ritas to Earls was the bunch of problems he had to deal with.

For example, the bathing seminar, the Bathing Goddess Church, and the August meeting with the sisters of the Latras family.

"During the holidays, we need to leave some space for the students to rest. Let alone the others, if Miriam can still see me in the dormitory every day, I think she won't feel like she has a holiday at all."

"That's true."

The Bathing Goddess thought about it and thought that if it was her turn and she didn't have to be pressed down by her tutor and made to cook in circles for the entire holiday, she would have been sliding around on her knees in the living room by now.

"Oh, by the way, didn't I say before that in the game world, because the acting instructor Adeline was unwilling to lead the team, the Yew Fir class was disqualified from the practical test?"

Listening to the words of the Bathing Goddess, Ritas continued to pack his luggage and just nodded casually.

"Then the hero said something like 'Even if the academy doesn't allow us to participate, we can still hold a practical test ourselves', and ran to another maze with the members of the Yewsugi class."

Ritas continued to nod, this was also what the Bathing Goddess had said before.

"And in that maze, the protagonists actually had some stories with an adventure group. Just imagine, a group of freshmen who didn't understand anything in the academy ran to the maze to adventure without the help of enthusiastic adventurers. It's hard to imagine how it would end."

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Ritas finally stopped what he was doing and looked at the white disc with an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Then, the protagonists naturally formed friendships with the people in the adventure group. After that, during the summer and winter vacations, the hero can choose to advance the story related to the adventure group. There is a simple adventurer system and some adventure group side quests. Well, these are not important. What is important is that the adventure group and some adventurers are self-propelled characters. And there are two. No, three special characters who joined through those side quests."

"A special character. Is it the 'Star Mark Holder'?"

"As expected of Xiao Li, you get it right away!"

At this time, "Xiao Li" couldn't help but hold up his forehead.

"Well, apart from the mandatory choice between two options every semester, the stories of the side characters are basically quite bland. There are rarely any particularly tragic ones. So, even if you leave it alone, there probably won't be any problem. Besides, adventurers are the kind of profession that is responsible for their own profits and losses. Even if they encounter something, they can only blame themselves for not being skilled enough, and can't blame others for not coming to help them. But it's not a bad thing to get in touch with more star mark holders, right? Even if you don't need to form a protagonist group or something, can't you, Xiao Li, get useful information from the style of the 'star mark' and the like? Moreover, maybe they have been targeted by those suspicious organizations, so you may be able to follow them and get some clues about other organizations."

"Are there any 'wives' of the Bathing Goddess among them?"

Ritas sighed and asked directly.

This bathing goddess is just like a child beating around the bush to get her parents to buy her a toy.
".That's right! My second wife after Merce's first wife! I plan to make a will and have someone bury my second wife's figurine with me!"

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It seems that there is another girl in this world who has unknowingly "married" the Bathing Goddess.

With a sigh, Ritas thought about it carefully and felt that what the goddess of bathing said made some sense. Moreover, unlike the students who were protected in the garden, the wildly growing weeds like adventurers might have mastered or passively mastered some important information about the star pattern.

After roughly calculating his holiday schedule, Ritas asked,
"If there are no restrictions on the date, I should be able to spare a week to ten days before school starts in late August to contact those adventurers."

"No limit, no limit! Speaking of which, the side quests in the game 'Star Mark' are all triggered at any time. At most, there is an earliest trigger date and a latest trigger date. I don't know what the situation is like in your quest."

As she spoke, the Bathing Goddess simply provided a list and the approximate areas where those adventurers were active.

Although it will take some time before he actually goes there, Ritas plans to entrust others to investigate these people. After all, it would be a rare trip, and if he fails, there will be nothing to talk about. Coincidentally, there is a Silver Dragon Adventure Group near the academy. Even though the members of the Silver Dragon cannot go there in person because they have to guard the Shadow Mist Forest. But they are familiar with adventurers, and introducing some adventurers who are good at investigation through their connections is also a good result.

Just like that, the summer vacation had just begun, and Ritas's schedule for the end of the summer vacation had already been decided.

Before moving out of the academy for a short time, Ritas needed to go to the principal's office to meet his teacher.

On the way there, the Bathing Goddess continued to chat with Ritas.

"Come to think of it, now there are more and more people who know of my existence and can hear me speak. At the beginning, when Cecilia heard my voice in person, I felt like 'everything is over'."

The Bathing Goddess sighed aloud.

Today, the people who can hear her voice directly are Ritas, Miriam, Mercy, Cecilia, Noah, and Tabatha, and many more know of her existence.

After discussing with the Bathing Goddess, Ritas did not ask others to keep the matters related to the "Bathing Goddess Church" secret. However, since those who knew about this matter were not the kind of big mouths who liked to spread rumors, the Bathing Goddess's affairs have not yet spread beyond a certain range.

"Why does the Bathing Goddess feel this way?"

"That's the kind of thing that usually needs to be kept secret until death. You asked for the specific reason, and it really stumped me."

The Bathing Goddess pondered for a moment.

She didn't know the reasons why the existence of other "travelers" had to be kept secret, but she sorted out some reasons why it wouldn't be a big problem even if Ritas was exposed.

Because before her, the religious environment of the Holy Kingdom of Libera was already a hellish scene, so a real "Bath Goddess" would not have any impact on the existing church environment, system, and the like.

Moreover, even if her existence posed a threat to some things, this threat would certainly not be as great as that of Ritas and the tree witch behind him.

It can be said that if a low-level adventurer saw the disc she was on, then for that adventurer, the disc was an important thing that could change his own destiny, so he couldn't be discovered or coveted, and could only make a fortune in silence.

But for Professor Ritas.

Apart from the initial accidental change that changed his inevitable death, the disc of the bathing goddess was mostly just the icing on the cake.

Sometimes, the Bathing Goddess herself felt that she had only increased Ritas' already strong "six-pack abs" to eight-pack.

Hmm. Or maybe four?
"Since we want to expand the Bath Goddess Church, it is inevitable that the Bath Goddess will stand before the public sooner or later."

“Eh? Is this the role of a goddess? Is this also the role of goddesses in other churches?”

So how bad is the religious environment in Libera? The gods of every church are like poster girls.

"Moreover, only when the light of the Bathing Goddess shines brightly enough can it hide things that need to be hidden more to a certain extent."

Ritas said calmly.

"Yes, indeed. The impact of the goddess's appearance is much greater than that of the star mark. Those who are more interested in the star mark than the goddess can only be said to be some people with ulterior motives. But, Xiao Li. Although this is a decision we made after discussion, I seem to have become accustomed to being treated casually. However, in order to consider my feelings, can you be more tactful in saying that you want to take advantage of the goddess?"

While complaining casually, the Bathing Goddess thought of another reason why she was different from the "time travelers" and that it would not be a big problem even if she was exposed.

Unlike those girls with star patterns, the Bathing Goddess in the world of Ritas does not have a clear body. Therefore, even if someone with ulterior motives meets her, they will not be able to harm her.

In fact, since her cooperation or not was just a personal choice, even if she was taken away by some force one day, it would have no meaning or value to the other party.

Perhaps the only thing that would make the Bathing Goddess feel uncomfortable is the destruction of the white disc.

But to some extent, Ritas proved that the white disc is basically indestructible.

"By the way, Xiao Li, when did you start researching the material of the white disc?"

"When the Bathing Goddess is not online."

At this point, Ritas, who has been completely exposed, said frankly.

It is very simple to judge whether the Bathing Goddess is online, just look at whether the disc is unfolded. Occasionally, when the disc is unfolded, the Bathing Goddess is still not there. But when the disc is not unfolded, the Bathing Goddess will definitely not appear.

"I always say 'what on earth is this disc'. And the goddess of the bath thinks that I really only talk about it and don't try to analyze the material and structure of the disc?"

".You seem quite confident! Tsk, no wonder you seem to get angrier every time I say that. You probably haven't figured out anything, have you?"

The Bathing Goddess inferred reasonably.

The rare flash of displeasure on Ritas's face showed that the Bathing Goddess's guess was correct.

However, Ritas's research was not completely fruitless.

At least, he confirmed that the usual means could not leave even a scratch on the disc.

Therefore, he used the white disc, this extremely solid and mysterious object, in the teleportation magic circle.

The teleportation magic circle is quite special, it is a magic circle with a "core".

Since ancient times, more than 70% of the failures in the research on teleportation magic circles are due to the material of the magic circle core.

Since the teleportation magic array puts a huge load on the core when it is in operation, most of the teleportation array cores will be turned into dust during the operation of the magic array.

Once such a situation occurred, the teleportation would undoubtedly end in failure. As for the people in the teleportation array at that time, their fate was not much better than the shattered teleportation array core.

"That's not right. During that time, you not only had to go to class during the day, but also had to tutor Miriam after school and learn cooking. In your free time, you actually had time to study the disc and the 'star pattern', and you were able to get results? Do you work ten more hours a day than others? Do you usually sleep?"

Faced with the discovery of the Bathing Goddess, Ritas, who was actually conducting more research in a place where the Bathing Goddess could not see, stopped in silence for a moment, and then said a word that was not quite suitable to be connected with "sleep".

"Occasionally."

(End of this chapter)