A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

128 – Scholarships for Excellent Clubs (1)

Everything for my favorite Astasia.

To be honest, I’m not sure if saying this is a good strategy to persuade this woman.

‘Are you a human, a blood elf, or an alchemist? Since I don’t know where the human focus is, I’m not sure what the best hand is.’

It would be better to talk to Habsburg von Tersian, even if every moment means walking on a knife’s edge.

When it comes to him, I know every little detail about him, such as his way of looking at people, his tastes, and his hobbies.

There is little basis for judgment regarding the existence of Vice-Chancellor Bathory Erzsebet.

So, head on.

She wants to convince Bathory by showing Gray Gibraltar’s true feelings that she showed to the crown prince.

“…Foot.”

And that persuasion.

“Ahahaha!”

To some extent, it seems to have worked.

“Yes, yes, Chairman. I guess I was a bit rude a few days ago. Seeing you come out so sincerely like this.”

“If you know, I hope you will not disturb me in that way next time.”

“I understand. Hehe.”

As expected.

‘If you act with sincerity, even the crown prince will be deceived.’

My acting was not wrong.

“Because a strange woman came into the meal while I was on a date with a girl I like-“

“She’s not an ajumma, is she? You wouldn’t know it if she were a sister.”

“How about calling me sister instead of sister? If it’s a private situation.”

“Next time, let’s create a private space separately.”

If you can recruit, not your mother, but your sister or whatever, it’s best to recruit her.

“For now, let’s talk about education. For more details-“

“Leaving aside the kingdom’s educational vision for now, shall we have a quick discussion about the ‘club’ part that needs to be done next week?”

“Good.”

Whether it is graduate school, night school, rural volunteer work, or a movement to enlighten residents through it, the academy’s ‘club’ activities will ultimately serve as one of the roots.

“There are many clubs in the Imperial Academy. Academic clubs, research clubs, cultural clubs… Among them, the most popular clubs are the arts and physical education, music, and art clubs.”

Bathory continued speaking quickly in an excited voice.

“The problem is that if a club is provided in a pre-made form, students in the kingdom will perceive it as a regular curriculum. Of course, that is a good plan, but it cannot be called a club that is an autonomous student organization.”

“It would be difficult to go to a regular class. That is not the scope of the ‘scholarship society.'”

“Do you understand well?”

“I also have experience running a daycare center.”

“Ah, if that’s the case… I’ve heard it through rumors.”

Is it a rumor or a shadow?

Although mistakes are often made secretly, they are of little nutritional value since mistakes are corrected from the beginning.

“In the end, the best thing for me is…”

“Magical engineering research club. Is that right?”

“Yes. That’s right. If we go a little deeper, it would be nice to create an alchemy club. If we go further in alchemy, it would be like a theory about ergonomics.”

“Ergonomics?”

Pair.

Bathory snapped his fingers and laughed.

“Yes. Although no separate school has been created in the empire yet, I am researching life. I am looking for someone who wants to explore with me about human life and its engineering principles.”

“…Isn’t it magical engineering that creates machines and brings convenience to human life?”

“I’m researching it to save money, and what I’m personally interested in is biology.”

“I see.”

The study of humans.

It feels new to meet someone I couldn’t meet before the regression and hear new information.

‘What the Habsburgs most despised was the alchemical approach to human life.’

Should I call it alchemy, or-

“If you give it a name, it should be called biotechnology-

“That’s it!!!”

“…”

“…Oh, hmm. Sorry. Was I too excited? I couldn’t think of the right term, so I’ll use that term from now on. It’s biotechnology. Hehe…”

There are many things to think about, but I think I know at least this one thing for sure.

This woman is a researcher by nature.

The style of an unlucky genius alchemist who would give the crown prince time and budget to create a secret weapon, then make it into a manual, and if anyone could make it, they would immediately kill him and throw up his stomach.

And what is usually the best way to persuade researchers like this…

“It’s biotechnology. Well, whatever the term is, you can’t research it on your own, so you’ll need several students to research it. As the chairman, I can’t do anything about it, but there just happens to be a few aspiring alchemists at the Gibraltar Orphanage.”

“…Oh my?”

One is manpower.

“We will need staff to support the club room. We can use them as research assistants.”

“Oh my god?”

“If necessary, I can call you. And if possible, we need to attract those who are interested in alchemy among academy students, so it would be important to provide the clearest inducement possible.”

“The most certain…?”

“Money.”

Two, capital.

“The Gorgek Foundation will support the cost of club activities. From the students’ perspective, it may be called ‘blind money,’ but if you think of it as an investment, then what?”

“Are you going to apply just once, Chairman?”

“Just try it the first time, and if it’s okay, continue in the future.”

Three.

“Isn’t education about planning for a hundred years? If the club becomes the root and stepping stone, it will definitely be of great help.”

Time.

Overflowing manpower.

Overwhelming budget.

Infinite time.

“I believe that the resources used for technological development should not be considered economic feasibility.”

“…Ugh, ugh.”

“Bathory…Vice-Chancellor?”

“Oh, no. Just.”

Is it an illusion that Bathory’s unique pale white skin has a red blush somewhere?

“Then, hehe, it’s not the alchemy graduate school… Hehe. Let’s hear about the club’s plans. Hoho.”

“We are not recruiting club members or graduate students.”

“Of course. I’m a graduate student. …Huh?”

“…”

“No, club member. Seriously, do you really think that I would treat my club members like graduate students? Chairman, you don’t seem to know much about graduate students, but they willingly sacrificed their lives with a passion for academics and a quest for the truth.. ..”

* * *

It is a school policy that all students at Orosol Academy live in the dormitory.

The dormitory rule is to live in a shared room per person.

It is no exaggeration to say that a dormitory, which is essentially a small house with only one room, consists of a kitchen, bathroom, living room, and even a small bedroom.

In the eyes of nobles, they think, ‘This is a decent enough place to live in,’ but in the eyes of general society, they think, ‘It’s an okay place for a commoner couple to live.’

The dormitory, which was built with the architectural culture of an imperial hallway-style apartment, was well-received by parents of new students, and each student enjoyed their own freedom in their own space.

The first week has passed and the first weekend has arrived.

Some people studied in their rooms, some looked around the academy, and some looked around the academy facilities, including borrowing books from the academy’s library.

Meanwhile, a new notice was posted on the first floor of each dormitory for everyone to see.

“What is a club?”

Noir urgently called Wednesday-45 to his room

“It refers to the act of forming a small group of people with similar hobbies and holding social gatherings.”

Wednesday, who came wearing a maid uniform rather than an academy uniform, cleaned up all the clothes lying around in her room and put the laundry into the large bin on the terrace outside her living room.

“Huh? What does that do?”

“This is something called a magic tongdol. It’s an item called a washing machine brought in from the empire.”

“Washing machine…?”

“You didn’t read the user manual. Just put some cloth in it, add powdered soap here, press the magic stone button, and the washing will start automatically.”

“Oh, was that something like that?”

“…”

Wednesday held back something boiling inside her.

“Master. This has been used in the Gibraltar territory since last year.”

“Because I don’t do the laundry.”

“You must know. Orosol Academy is basically a place where students can take care of all their food, clothing, and shelter needs.”

“Isn’t it okay if you do it?”

Wednesday was momentarily speechless at Noir’s attitude as if it was so obvious.

“Master. I could be expelled at any time.”

“…”

“What would Master Gray think of the state of this room?”

“Well, that doesn’t work.”

Noir quickly took out a thick book that had been placed in the corner next to the bed.

The paper book with the phrase [Orosol Academy Student Dormitory Life White Paper ver 1.0.097] Written in large letters contained instructions on how to use all magic tools that can be used inside the dormitory space and the dormitory life rules.

“Let’s see. The washing machine, the bathroom… Oh, was this the refrigerator? I was wondering if cold air was blowing out to cool my body.”

“Master. I will tell you about that one by one later, so now is the time to focus on the club.”

Wednesday took away her life white paper and covered it.

“This is clearly an organization created by Master Gray.”

“Tongue, brother…?”

“Yes. Each person must unconditionally join one club. The content of club activities is free, and an activity support fee of 3 million gold per semester is paid to each formed club. Additional support funds are paid to clubs that show excellent club activities each First of all, the important rules are roughly like this.”

“So, what should I do?”

“…”

“Ho, is it also a test to figure out what to do based on this club? Ugh… “

Noir grabbed her head.

“Before, memorizing the names of nobles who keep clinging to me would be difficult and tiresome, but now there is even a club…”

“Master Noir. Think at ease.”

“Comfortably…?”

“Master Gray doesn’t expect much from Master Noir.”

“Well, that’s right. Anyway, I’m my brother’s smoke screen and shadow…”

“Come to your senses!”

Wow.

“Ooh, ooh…!”

“You’re not saying such weak things!”

Wednesday grabbed Chat Noir by hitting him hard on the cheek with both hands.

“You must act confidently, whenever and wherever you are. Rather, you must act with the determination to truly say, ‘I will stand in the position of margrave,’ so that even Master Gray will think, ‘That is my brother.'”

“Really?”

“Of course. Master Gray sincerely hopes that Master Noir will usurp the position of his successor.”

“Did your brother say that?”

“No, this is just my guess.”

“If that’s your guess, you don’t know if it’s actually like that or not. You, you don’t know. What a scary person your brother is. He…”

Noir instantly grabbed his own neck with his hands.

“…”

“…I don’t know what happened between you two, but Master Gray hopes that Master Noir will be active as the future of Gibraltar.”

“…”

“If you want to be recognized, use this club. Create your own club. Master Noir will become the club president, and I will handle the cumbersome administrative tasks as vice president next to you.”

“W-what club…?”

“It’s simple. It’s a club to enjoy hobbies, but in the end, it’s also a social gathering. Master Noir, you can do what you do best.”

“What am I best at… ?”

Noir pointed to the sword neatly placed on a stand on his desk

“I’m good at using a sword!”

“Yes. Then, let’s create a swordsmanship club. Luckily, I’m at the level of a low-level knight, so the justification will be sufficient.”

“Is that okay…? If I create a swordsmanship club, won’t it just be violence…?”

“Of course, of course. You are free to form a club.”

Wednesday took out the application form he had brought in advance to form a club.

“During the lecture tomorrow morning, let’s go around and look for club members.”

* * *

If you create a club, you will be paid money.

From the perspective of freshmen from the nobility, it is nothing more than pennies, but since they are from the nobility, they all know the characteristics of money with these characteristics.

In any case, if you don’t eat ‘blind money’, it will be your loss.

“Can’t I just make it and not be active?”

“Activity report? Can’t this just be written by someone over there?”

“I don’t know. Should we create a food club and go out to eat snacks? Haha. They just said it was an academic research club to experience the kingdom’s traditional culture.”

“Noir Gibraltar said to have created a ‘swordsmanship club’? What is it? Hehe, are they trying to make weapons with the club activity fees?”

“If we go out to eat meat together while training in swordsmanship, we’ll be using academy money to eat meat. Hey, should we go eat meat with school money too?”

The freshmen, who had become close friends over the past week, were talking about what kind of club they would form.

Long before the time when club applications were supposed to be received.

A club had already been created, and a piece of paper was placed in the club application form box.

Canyon Exploration Club.

Main action plan.

Research and investigation on the Gibraltar Gorge that divides the continent.

We plan to visit Gibraltar Gorge and write an exploration report once or twice a month on weekends.

List of club members.

1. Astasia von Tersian. (Chairman).

2. …

Approval.

Cooperation. Gray Gibraltar.

Examine. Bathory Erzsebet.

Approval. Winchester Morgania.