My On*Hole Academy [EN]: Chapter 102

Chapter 101 – Serena’s Play

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“Hoo….”

Serena watched the twin sisters, defeated, and lowered her bow.

Further support fire would be meaningless.

She had helped just enough for the twin sisters to fight without being disturbed by the mage, nothing more, nothing less.

‘I’ve confirmed Oppa’s [older brother or male friend] affiliation….’

She had no intention of hurting Oppa,

but unfortunately, their affiliations ended up on opposite sides.

It was good news for Serena that Sol and Sarika, her squad members, were with Oppa,

but she couldn’t just run over with an Imperial Army name tag.

Serena decided to do her best in her position.

Oppa would surely welcome that.

“…Lena.”

But she couldn’t help feeling heavy-hearted.

Even though she shot to avoid hitting Oppa directly, still….

“Serena. Are you listening?”

“Ah. Brigid….”

Brigid, who approached from behind, was also a first-year student.

She was a female student armored with thick plate armor to the point where her uniform was not visible.

“Let’s move to the battle zone too.”

“Yeah. Go ahead. I’ll follow.”

Serena, along with Brigid, who had strong defensive capabilities, earned over 100 points in the second round alone while playing as an Imperial Army player.

She had been moving with the hope that Oppa’s affiliation would be the Imperial Army, but….

Now that she knew it was the opposite….

Swish.

Serena aimed her bow at the back of Brigid’s head.

“It’s not Serena’s fault that the twin sisters lost just now, so don’t dwell on it. Everyone will be happy if we go to the main force and give them strength.”

“Yeah….”

Brigid would also know that Serena’s Oppa is Kim Sanghyuk.

She doesn’t suspect anything….

She doesn’t even seem to think that Serena might turn away.

Serena couldn’t bring herself to shoot the back of her teammate, the tanker who gave her such pure trust, with her bow.

‘I can’t change roles at the cost of hurting others…….’

She really likes Oppa, but

It seemed like she had no choice but to hate the god who gave them opposite roles this time.

“……Haa….”

“…Serena. You really like your Oppa, don’t you?”

Serena flinched.

“D, did you just…. notice?”

“Yeah. A tanker has to notice the signs of attack before anyone else.”

Brigid the warrior. Her database price is 1.13 million coins.

She, who possessed a talent specialized in 「protecting allies」 more than anyone else, had already noticed Serena’s change of heart.

She was just pretending not to know.

“Why didn’t you do it?”

“……Brigid has protected me until now. I can’t… repay that kindness with enmity….”

“Your Oppa likes Serena a lot, doesn’t he?”

“…….”

Serena’s cheeks flushed red.

“I hope he does……. We’ve actually been out of sync for a long time.”

“I’m jealous. I’m an only child, so I thought it would be nice to have a reliable Oppa.”

“……I’m sorry for having bad thoughts. Brigid.”

“No. Family comes before friends.”

Family. The warm resonance warms her heart.

“It’s a relief it’s just a role-playing game, Serena.”

“Huh?”

“What if it wasn’t a role-playing game?”

Brigid took the lead and said something meaningful.

“If it was a situation where Serena’s Oppa might really die if you didn’t betray us, would Serena have had to harm me?”

“…….”

It was a very sharp point.

It’s not like all high-level dungeons force a faction war-type rule, but

There could have been a terrible situation where she had to let someone else she was fond of die in order to save her Oppa’s life.

“Ah. Sorry. My usual habit came out….”

“It’s okay. I’m getting a little used to it.”

Brigid always….

Has a habit of thinking about the worst possible situation that could happen.

That’s her secret to staying calm in case of an emergency.

“The carriage is following too~!”

“Yes! Brigid Chief of Staff!”

Serena and Brigid move to the main force, pulling dozens of Imperial Army NPCs [Non-player characters] and prisoner carriages that follow them.

The main force is still in a fierce battle between the necromancer Kibele and the climbing master Hilaria.

Other academy students are also fighting hard, but the two are the most noticeable.

The two are fighting like crazy, with unstable maps like chain bridges.

Brigid took out her weapon, a heavy shield, and pressed it firmly against the inside of her body, taking a deep breath.

“Take a sniping point. Serena. I’ll protect you from whoever comes.”

“……Sorry. Brigid.”

“Serena?”

Serena stopped with a sad expression.

Brigid, sensing a different atmosphere, became tense.

She had no choice but to be nervous because she had seen the power of Serena, who had been her comrade until now, from the side.

“Are you going to your family after all?”

“I won’t hurt Brigid. We’re comrades.”

“I’m not so weak that I’ll fall from a weakened attack. What are you going to do?”

If Serena betrays them, Brigid has only one thing to do.

To desperately tie her up here so that Serena’s snipes don’t pierce Kibele, who can be said to be the heart of the Imperial Army’s main force.

A tense energy flowed between the two.

“You said, what if this wasn’t a role-playing game?”

“Yeah.”

“I know someone who doesn’t care about anything for the sake of Oppa. I’m going to release that person from now on.”

“……?”

Serena shot the wheel of the well-rolling prisoner carriage with her bow and blew it away.

Then, the cargo compartment tilted to one side, and the roughly covered tarp came down, and a female student wearing a hood stood up from inside.

“Who…? There weren’t any academy students like that!”

Brigid was momentarily flustered.

The female student flipped back her hood, revealing her bright blonde hair and red eyes.

Stella, who made eye contact with Serena, smiled.

“Serena. You’ve endured for a long time. I…….”

“You’ve worked hard.”

Serena looked back at Brigid.

“Didn’t you notice? During the 「Rebel Capture Operation」 in the first round, I secretly let Stella sneak in.”

“You let in a rebel? You’ve been betraying the Imperial Army like a spy since then!?”

“Ha, that’s a hurtful thing to say.”

Stella shone brightly alone among the damp prisoner NPCs.

“I was originally unaffiliated, you know? From the beginning, I killed all the rebels and Imperial Army soldiers as they came.”

Unaffiliated.

Stella was chaos that did not belong anywhere. There are sometimes academy students of this type.

In dungeons where they are forced to divide into factions and fight, they say, 「Huh? I’m not going to belong to any faction?」.

A person with extreme rebellious spirit.

Team play is not an option in the first place, and they sometimes squeeze out all their strength in a strange place alone in an exchange match and get eliminated.

That troublesome irregular was right here.

“This is more than just a spy act…….”

Serena smiled brightly.

“It’s a sister alliance for my beloved Oppa. I told him that if I confirmed whether Oppa was a rebel or an Imperial Army soldier, I would let him know and drop him off at the best point.”

“……Th, then….”

Are you going to release Stella here?

Brigid was on high alert. She had heard of Stella’s reputation.

Isn’t she a mage with A-class magic power like Dihirit, one of the current Imperial Army generals?

If you release such an asymmetric force here…….

“So. Serena.”

Stella coolly tore off the prisoner cargo compartment with magic release and came out.

The Imperial Army NPCs all aimed their spears at her, but she didn’t even blink an eye.

“Which affiliation is our Oppaya?”

“Rebel.”

“Isn’t Serena coming with me?”

“I’ve already shot them, haven’t I? I’ll take responsibility here until the end.”

Stretch.

Stella stretches.

“You’re diligent. Serena. You could just ignore that and go help Oppaya.”

“……You keep calling him Oppaya. Stella. Cute.”

“Ah, ahem!! Oraboni [Another term for older brother or male friend]! I’m going to side with Oraboni.”

“Stella. We’re having an exchange match, shouldn’t you collect some PT [Point] ?”

Serena says it for nothing, even though she knows she won’t listen.

Stella snorted as if she wasn’t interested.

“Siding with Oraboni is the top priority. Even if he’s gotten a little better, he’s a D-class Oppa. He might get hurt somewhere.”

Straight to Oraboni.

She, who had been abandoned as unaffiliated from the first round, had been chasing after him with 0 points, only in Oraboni’s arms.

“Did you see that? Brigid.”

Serena knew.

“I’m going to release Stella, who doesn’t care about anything. That’s my choice.”

“……Keuk.”

Even the great Brigid has no way to deal with an A-class mage.

The thing that tankers hate the most is mages.

Magic is basically unavoidable and always hits, and the power correction is so generous that if you take it head-on, your nose will break.

“Serena is playing Imperial Army. I’ll save Oppa.”

“Fighting. Stella!”

“Now, do you understand?”

Stella declared, wrapping red lightning around her body and erasing the blizzard and snowfield with her power.

“Get out of the way.”

“…I can’t let you go. You’re going to wipe out the Imperial Army.”

“You know me well.”

“Serena is going to let that happen.”

Nod.

Serena has no reason to get her hands dirty because she has released a beast that only looks at Oppa.

“Yeah. This is the best.”

“The best? We’re the Imperial Army! Then we have to stop this somehow.”

“Fighting a dangerous unaffiliated criminal during an operation is a big loss for the Imperial Army. Brigid.”

Serena emphasized again that 「Stella」 was unaffiliated.

“If we don’t do anything, you and the Imperial Army here will all live, but

If you block Stella’s path…….”

“I’ll burn them all.”

“She doesn’t care about anything. Shall we avoid it a little? While earning PT appropriately with the Imperial Army play.”

“……Eueuk….”

The Imperial Army’s PT increases when they catch rebels.

But currently, the unaffiliated criminal, Stella, who is executing her own play with 0 PT…….

From the perspective of a player who is doing a good job in the role-playing game, it is like a bomb that should be avoided.

It’s a huge loss if you fight, and

A bomb that doesn’t have any special rewards even if you win.

Even knowing that the bomb would fall on the Imperial Army’s main force, Brigid had no choice but to admit it.

“I lost. Serena….”

“What do you mean you lost? We won together!”

Serena held Brigid’s hand tightly.

“Let’s send Stella away and rest here for a while? We have to be together for the third round too.”

She captivates people with a kind and pretty smile that seems to say, We’re still comrades ♡.

Brigid unknowingly stepped aside as if she had been possessed by a fox that was taking her liver out [a Korean idiom referring to being completely deceived or charmed].

“Good thinking. Brigid.”

“…….”

This planning ability…… is not ordinary.

Brigid realized that the most terrible situation had occurred for the Imperial Army.

By the design of a girl with mysterious black hair and beautiful smiling face.

‘I’ve already been caught by her.’

The empire is not a country that Brigid has to protect.

It’s just a country that she got caught up in during the role-playing game…….

So, in this situation, it is much tastier to suck up the rebel PT safely by Serena’s side and finish the exchange match than to face the unaffiliated A-class gangster Stella.

It was a structure that she had no choice but to realize even if she didn’t like it.

In the end, Serena is a player who is honest with Oppa, does not hurt Brigid, and helps Oppa directly and indirectly by releasing Stella.

She had prepared all three of these things from the first round and accomplished them all.

Brigid could only continue to be surprised as she looked at Serena’s pure profile.

“It took me a long time to understand with my head….”

“There are good things about it being a role-playing game, right?”

“Yeah.”

It was Brigid who was relieved that it was a role-playing game.

If she had been a warrior who risked her life to protect her country, she would have fought Stella to the end and fallen.

It was Brigid herself who was forced to choose death.

When she knew all that, Brigid sobbed inwardly in fear.

‘……Don’t make Serena an enemy.’

Stella storms the battlefield.

With a devastating thunderbolt……!!

Kuguuuuuung!!

“Keut!?”

Kibele is flustered. Because the rear of the Imperial Army was taken over by an unaffiliated mage she didn’t even know.

‘I can’t withdraw like this!’

“Uhyo~ Is that reinforcements coming!”

Hilaria laughs vulgarly and charges towards Kibele.

“Kibele!! Just you wait!”

“K, Keueut! Retreat!”

“If I win, I’ll lay you down and rub your breasts!”

“Stop talking nonsense!?”

No matter how many undead legions she summons, it’s useless in the face of the devil’s lightning.

“Brigid, where is Brigid!?”

Brigid’s unit does not move.

Kibele had a feeling that something had happened and felt dizzy.

Right then.

Kim Sanghyuk returned.

“Gomu Gomu Gatling! [A reference to the anime One Piece]”

Pupupupuk!

[Imperial Army Rebel Ratio Collapse]

[The Rebels Win]

[Crown Holder – Kim Sanghyuk]

[Moving to Neutral Zone]

“Hilaria!! See you in the 3rd R! I won’t let you get away with this!”

“Haha! Our D-class senior is better than your general?”

“I met the wrong team!”

The dungeon is being demolished.

[1st place in 2R contribution Kim Sanghyuk]

[1st place Kim Sanghyuk – 245pt]

[2nd place Quintia – 188pt]

[3rd place Serena – 133pt]

[4th place Brigid – 124pt]

……….

This time, the contribution ranking is printed out, and the lowest ranking is revealed.

[34th place Stella – 0 pt]

“Why do I have 0 pt! I just caught twenty Imperial Army soldiers. This game rule is really weird!”

Stella stamped her feet while protesting even as the dungeon was being demolished.