My On*Hole Academy [EN]: Chapter 373

EP.375 Kuaaaaaaak!!!

Next day.

“Kuaaaaaaak!!”

En-chan! Ceridwen! Isabella!!

Again, I was being flung out of the inn.

「I’m sorry」

When I heard the apology with such a sorrowful expression, it seemed like there was some hope.

I didn’t know she was apologizing in advance because she would be pushing me away countless times in the future.

A fortress of iron. This is an iron wall.

“What’s with that guy?”

“I told you. A guy with multiple lives. That’s him.”

“Ah. The one hitting on Eustia? He’s got a decent face, but how did he go crazy like that?”

Sigh….

If I keep being seen as a great person, I’ll become a famous tourist attraction in this virtual world.

I didn’t want to become famous for being rejected by women, so I was about to devise another method when…

“Are you okay?”

I saw Eustia crouching in front of me.

Yes! White panties.

“I told you not to come close.”

“……”

Huh?

The magical energy that was strongly rejecting me had suddenly calmed down.

I take Eustia’s hand and stand up.

Is she planning to let her guard down and then attack?

I was slightly wary, but Eustia said remorsefully.

“Seeing that you don’t give up after all this, you really are human.”

“I am……”

Both the daughter and the mother are making me suffer!

“I can’t believe the story about me having a daughter. I can’t believe I did something as troublesome as getting married.”

“……”

Is it because she’s Eustia from her maiden days?

It seems like her consciousness has returned to before she met her husband.

A mother who has never dated a man… what a unique setting.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Kim Sanghyuk.”

“I’m Eustia. Speak comfortably. We seem to be about the same age….”

I see.

I guess it’s okay in this world.

After confirming that I am 「human」, Eustia’s attitude was a little different than before.

“Shall we take a walk for a bit?”

Nod.

“Are you alone?”

“I do have companions. But I’m alone right now.”

“Hmm.”

Because I can’t bring Evangeline along when I’m here to pick up women.

I don’t know if she understood my inner thoughts, but Eustia said as we walked down the street.

“Do you know? All the people passing by here are not actually living people.”

“That’s right.”

“But they tremble in fear when attacked, and they shout. The reactions are almost 100% the same at times.”

“……”

Is that really so?

I felt that the reactions of the NPCs [Non-Player Characters] in this city were a bit realistic, but if you look closely, there should be differences.

“Didn’t you come from the outskirts of the city when you first started?”

“I came from a small village a little further away.”

“Would you believe me if I said that the reactions of the NPCs in that village and the reactions of the NPCs here are the same?”

“……Huh?”

The same? The reactions of those machine-like NPCs?

“The world we see is actually a world filtered through our brains once. Do you know that?”

“I think I’ve heard of it.”

“Sometimes you don’t notice even when strange things happen in your dreams. It’s the same as that. If you stay here for a long time, your brain corrects the margin of error and you gradually stop noticing the differences from the real world.”

Does that mean the boundary between reality and the virtual world becomes blurred?

“So. I’m still about 50% suspicious of you.”

“…….”

I understand.

If I do anything suspicious, I’ll get a knife to my neck again.

“But what’s the reason you decided to believe me 50%? Because I risked my life to hit on you?”

“There were many guys who risked their lives to hit on me. I’ve even been stalked in the world before last.”

Hmm?

Then, what was the element that made her think of me as someone from the real world?

Could it be because I’m too handsome?

“The fact that you say you have a daughter.”

Eustia chuckled.

“What kind of weirdo uses that kind of line when trying to pick up a woman?”

“…….”

Um, haha.

It is kind of out of the blue.

It seems like Quintia is helping me in some way…….

“But, it’s true.”

“I don’t know. Me, getting married. I don’t believe it.”

…….

Well, even if it was me before the possession.

If a stranger suddenly came and said that you were already married and had several children,

The sense of disconnect from reality would be too great to accept.

If it was after the possession…… um.

Honestly, if a few years pass now,

The situation may come where I have no choice but to accept it if someone says that you are the father of this child.

What if I get scammed into marriage?

What if I increase the heroines too much and have so many wives that I can’t even distinguish their names and faces?

Maybe I should find a lawyer-turned-heroine to get advice from now…….

I have a receptionist heroine, a weather caster heroine….

“So, if you’re thinking of persuading me to become a hero, you should stop.”

“Persuade you to become a hero? Why?”

Eustia stopped walking.

She turns around with a slightly surprised face.

“You came without knowing anything?”

“I don’t really know what you’re talking about….”

Eustia seemed relieved that I said I didn’t know.

“This virtual world is waiting for a protagonist to complete it.”

“That seems to be you.”

“Yes. But I have never completed it even once. It’s a long memory. A memory that I don’t even know when it started, but I swore to myself.”

…….

In the years that she even forgot that she had a daughter.

The restraints she placed on herself to not follow the Queen’s rules seem quite heavy.

The magical energy surrounding her now looked like an incredibly huge chain of restraint that she had placed on herself.

‘It’s not going to be easy….’

Even me, who is next to her now.

She probably believes I’m half human, but at the same time, she’s half doubting that I’m not human.

It’s amazing that she only lost part of her memory and didn’t develop a mental illness.

“Am I doing well? Even thinking about that is meaningless. I might just be an NPC keeping an old oath.”

For so long that she even forgot the reason for the oath…….

…….

‘How heartbroken must Quintia be? If she knew her mother was like this.’

At least.

If I defeat the Sword Saint, the mother and daughter can meet with a smile.

I can’t agree with the Queen’s methods. As the Ona-hole King, I want to promote the Sword Saint’s Ona-hole subjugation.

“It’s like a person stranded on a desert island writing a rescue signal, and so much time has passed…… that they’ve even forgotten why they decided to do that.”

“Yeah, exactly that.”

“But isn’t it a good thing that I came?”

Eustia looked at me with wide eyes.

“There’s someone who came after seeing the rescue signal. Your oath wasn’t wrong.”

“Is that so….”

At this moment, for a brief moment,

She seemed to have returned to being the Sword Saint.

“I… was fighting well.”

…….

“I’ll post the information I have. Whether you believe it or not is up to you, Eustia.”

Aside from the story about having a daughter,

I told her about what was happening outside.

The Queen of the Universe. The owner of the Galaxy’s domain. She is invading Korea, and she is trying to subjugate you, the Sword Saint, to achieve her evil purpose.

“It’s like the Demon King of this world.”

“In summary, yes. It’s similar to a Demon King who dreams of world domination.”

In reality, our world is Demon King Mark 2, Demon King Mark 3, Demon King Mark 4, and so on.

There are so many external gods that it is difficult to classify them even if you divide them into countless categories.

And above them is the goddess of erotic games who illuminates the vulgar, plump stars.

It is a world with a terrible reality for those who have transcended and realized the truth.

“……Hey. Why do you think I’m keeping an old oath?”

『Old Oath』

Eustia’s oath to not become the protagonist of any story,

To resist by leaving this world unfinished.

“I don’t really know. ……Because you’re too lazy to fight?”

“That’s also true, but when the world comes to an end anyway, all the monsters on the continent will flock to me. Until then, I have no way of distinguishing whether this world is real or fake to me.”

“…….”

“A friend you’ve been with until yesterday, a colleague you’ve opened your heart to, suddenly comes at you with bloodshot eyes and a knife.”

…….

In fact, it was all the Queen’s game~~.

In that kind of way.

That’s really fucked up…. Just hearing it…….

“If I combine the stories I’ve heard from you, it means that the world I’ve protected is in danger. That’s the same here too.”

“……That’s right.”

“Which one is real?”

Eustia looked up at the sky with wide eyes.

“Have you ever thought about which world is a simulation?”

“…….”

To me, who is aware that I am in a very well-made Ona-academy [Harem Academy],

That one word didn’t just seem like a topic to throw out.

This world was also created by the Queen of the Universe,

And if the world I was in was also created by En-chan.

What is real and what is fake?

“Of course, it’s foolish to stay in a fake world controlled by a crazy god, but if there’s no such thing as a real world anywhere you go. If there is only an environment created by someone who is controlled by a transcendent will…….”

“…….”

“Can you endure knowing that fact?”

I couldn’t answer.

Was it because I felt the need to organize my thoughts? My head wasn’t complicated, but I just couldn’t express the feeling I was feeling right now in words.

“Sorry. I just blurted out what I wanted to say.”

“No……. You must have had a lot to say. Being alone in a place like this.”

“It’s like you know. How it feels to be swayed by a god.”

…….

I couldn’t help but smile.

If the relationship between En-chan and I wasn’t as smooth as it is now,

Would I have been dying like her too?

“Kim Sanghyuk, what do you want me to do, then?”

“Get out of here right now. By splitting the space. You can do it if you’re the Sword Saint, right?”

“…….”

Eustia grips the handle as if responding to my words.

But she didn’t go any further.

She, who only moves according to the old oath, has no motivation to cut the world.

I don’t have the confidence to convince her that 「this is right」.

All she sees is pitch-black darkness.

In the eyes she glanced at me,

I could only see the suspicious look of checking if I had changed…….

This is severe. She can’t wake up without extreme measures.

“Sorry. For being a pathetic woman.”

“What are you going to do if you’re not going to cut it? Are you going to keep holing up in the inn and drinking sparkling water?”

“Come on a mission with me.”

Hmm?

What is this all of a sudden?

Eustia grabbed my clothes.

Tightly.

“Because you said something like splitting the space and getting out.”

“Because I said that?”

“……Conversely, I felt like testing the story progression.”

…….

As if tapping on a stepping stone to see if it’s safe to cross.

Has she developed a desire to check the truth of this world?

That’s like saying she’s going to drink poison little by little.

“If you make companions and friends in this world, you might become shackled and lose the former Sword Saint… Even though you think that? Even so, you want to progress the story?”

“……But.”

How does Eustia see me?

I realized that I didn’t know that fact well.

Can I be her salvation?

“I believe you are human 50%. No, I’ll correct that. Only about 40%.”

Even if it’s only 40%, the only real person.

……That’s because she’s thinking that way.

There are only a hundred people passing by on this street besides me, but I’m the only one she believes is 40% human.

It’s like a miracle that the word Quintia has created without her knowing.

‘40% is a lot.’

Eustia said as if she was belatedly embarrassed by the hand that grabbed my clothes.

“Don’t misunderstand. Originally, I don’t believe anyone even 10%……. Especially someone like you, who blatantly says, ‘I’m a handsome male protagonist,’ anyone would think you’re suspicious….”

“…….”

I didn’t know being handsome would work against me!?

I am the male protagonist of the Ona-academy [Harem Academy].

Well seen. Very…….

From Eustia’s point of view, a male protagonist who blatantly received the protagonist setting came up to her and said, ‘Do you have a daughter?’

She wouldn’t think that this is a well-crafted introduction.

It’s right to see it as one person’s impulsive behavior.

‘I shouldn’t try to seduce her. It’ll only make her paranoia worse.’

Change of plans.

“If we’re going on an adventure, we should form a party, right?”

“Party?”

“I told you I have companions.”