The World After the Bad Ending - Chapter 9



8 – The Shy Vice President

As I told Card, I had something to do.

That something was none other than the student council.

Before I knew it, I had passed through the martial arts department corridor and arrived at the central bridge.

Then I walked straight towards the main building.

‘I’m not late.’

The main building where professors and the student council were together.

I looked around as I entered.

Maybe because it was lunchtime, the main building was quite deserted.

The professors must be having lunch too.

‘The student council room is…’

This way.

Setting my direction, I walked straight down the corridor and soon saw the student council room.

Knock knock-

I knocked twice.

“Come in.”

Hearing the voice from inside, I pushed the door open.

Then, what met my eyes were green pupils.

Her identity was the dragon lady of disaster.

Nikita Cynthia.

Today, she was still shining with her noble appearance.

“Junior?”

She blinked, perhaps not expecting me to find the student council room so soon.

In front of her were documents and pens.

Seeing her handling student council matters even during lunch break,

I realized once again that she was a genius of effort.

Nikita tilted her head.

“Junior, it’s not time to recruit additional student council members yet. I think you came too early.”

“If it’s where Senior Nikita is working, I have to go anywhere.”

I said flattering words without hesitation.

Perhaps because I had showered her with excessive praise just yesterday,

she swallowed her embarrassment and cleared her throat.

“Junior, I appreciate your sentiment, but there are many things in student council work that you shouldn’t see until you’re officially selected.”

Well, that makes sense.

Given the large number of noble students,

the position of student representative holds more power than one might think.

So, there were many important matters resolved at the delicate line of the student council.

“Oh, it’s okay. I didn’t come to help with student council work today.”

“Then?”

“I have a proposal for the student council.”

Nikita tilted her head again.

“In the northern region, within the Dragon Mountains, isn’t there a recent incident where the trees in the Great Forest of Spirits are turning into hard iron?”

“That’s right. The spiritists’ kids are making a big fuss about it.”

The trees in the Great Forest of Spirits are all precious trees imbued with spirits.

When such trees suddenly turn into iron, the spirits within them disappear, causing great losses to the spiritists.

This story is already well-known among the students.

So it wasn’t strange for me to know about it.

“I’ll solve that issue. Can you grant me permission to visit the Great Forest of Spirits?”

“You, junior?”

The Great Forest of Spirits imposes penalties on anyone who enters without permission, except for spiritists.

However, the student council is allowed to enter under the pretext of problem verification.

But Nikita found this point more puzzling.

“Of course, it would be great if you could solve it, but…”

The question was whether I needed to step in and solve it myself.

“I have personal reasons. It’s also preparation for the mock battle.”

“Are you planning to make a contract with a spirit?”

“Something like that.”

Nikita tapped the pen in her hand on the desk.

The problem in the Great Forest of Spirits was also troubling Nikita.

The main reason was the absence of the professor of spirit studies, who belonged to the special studies department.

The professor, who originally managed the forest, was injured while helping a student with a high-level spirit contract when the spirit went berserk.

As a result, the professor is currently recuperating.

So there was no one to properly resolve the issue.

Although the assistant professor of spirit studies, who has only one year of experience, is trying to solve the problem in the Great Forest of Spirits in his own way.

Seeing that the problem hasn’t been resolved yet, it seemed like things weren’t going well.

The Great Forest of Spirits was also a headache for the student council.

While it was certainly appreciated to have someone solve the issue.

Nikita knew almost nothing about me.

There would be some uneasiness.

“If anything…”

“Oh, just to be clear, I’m not particularly suspicious of you, junior.”

Then Nikita corrected my thoughts.

“You’re willing to take on the student council work. Interpreting it with bad intentions would be too much.”

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With a faint smile, she encouraged me.

What is this, an angel?

The heart that was hurt by the contemptuous glances I experienced today feels like it’s melting away.

“…Can I recite my admiration for Senior Nikita right now?”

“That, I don’t think that’s necessary.”

Nikita hurriedly covered my mouth.

What a pity.

I wanted to praise her to the point of embarrassment.

Nikita, with a dazed look, covered her forehead revealed between her hair.

“What I’m concerned about is safety. The Great Forest of Spirits dislikes outsiders. You might be in danger.”

“That’s true.”

I didn’t particularly deny it.

Spirits extremely dislike humans with low spirit sensitivity.

The Vickerman I possessed is, to put it bluntly, not very compatible with spirits.

Moreover, spirits extremely dislike wizards who violate the laws of nature.

Even though Vickerman was part of the Magic Department, the aura of magic flowing through his body would be immediately noticed by the sensitive spirits.

“Then let’s do this.”

Nikita offered a new suggestion.

“There is a child in the student council who is a spirit medium. I’ll introduce you to them. Let’s go together and solve it.”

Support from the student council, no less.

For me, it is very welcome.

“Thank you, senior.”

I bowed my head deeply.

Then Nikita waved her hand with a smile.

“I should be the one thanking you for helping.”

Although her face usually showed a noble demeanor, perhaps because I bombarded her with compliments yesterday, Nikita smiled quite often.

Indeed, a person’s smiling face is the best.

“Oh, come to think of it, I haven’t had lunch yet.”

I rummaged through the bag slung over my shoulder and took out the sandwich I had packed.

“How about having lunch together? I brought enough for two people.”

Nikita’s gaze fell on the sandwich.

Nikita hadn’t had lunch yet, as she was too busy dealing with urgent matters to go to the cafeteria.

She often had late lunches, and sometimes skipped them when she was in a hurry.

Seeing that there was nothing in the student council room today, she probably planned to skip lunch again.

While sending off the president and other student council members to have their meals.

She looked at the sandwich in my hand for a moment, then turned her gaze to her pen.

“If you’re in a hurry, it’s okay. The sandwich won’t get cold.”

Hearing my words, she put down her pen and stood up.

It seems the cute junior’s plea worked.

“Would you like to have tea together? How about it?”

“That sounds great.”

It’s a precious tea made by the vice president herself.

I should savor it.

So, I had lunch with Nikita.

And in the middle of it, I just complimented Nikita.

Nikita was embarrassed, but I did it because I wanted to.

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North, Dragon’s Mountain Range.

I checked the time as I arrived at the entrance of the Great Forest of Spirits.

‘Nikita said this should be the right time.’

The incident where the trees of the Great Forest of Spirits turned into hard iron.

To solve this, Nikita assigned me a spirit mage from the student council.

Come to think of it.

‘Was there a spirit mage in the student council?’

Even after several repetitions, I am well aware of the student council’s situation.

Therefore, the existence of a member of the Spirit Society’s student council was questionable.

‘Well, the administration has changed.’

The most important protagonist, Lucas, was dead.

Nothing would be strange no matter what happened.

It was solely my responsibility to prepare for this.

Tap, tap, tap!

Just then, I heard urgent footsteps approaching.

It seemed that a student council member sent by Nikita had arrived.

The moment I looked up to see who it was.

What I saw was short brown hair and large glasses.

“Ah, ah, I’m sorry. I’m late!”

A boy with a rather small build, though not as small as mine.

As soon as he saw me, he bowed his head deeply.

I looked at the name tag on his chest.

A yellow name tag.

A first-year student.

My name tag was blue for second-year students.

The third-year students’ name tags were red.

‘I didn’t expect this guy to be a member of the student council.’

My subtle gaze turned back to the boy.

It was because I knew about this guy.

Second semester of the second year.

The boycott incident against the student council that starts in Act 4, Scene 1.

It happens after Nikita becomes the dragon of disaster in Act 3.

Nikita, who caused a commotion using the power of the ancient dragon, is eventually killed by the protagonist Lucas.

Due to the death of Nikita, who was the vice president, the entire student council is shaken.

In this process, many students who were dissatisfied with the student council’s power staged a massive boycott.

‘In reality, it was a means for the final villain, the third princess Iris Heisirion, to monopolize the student council.’

In the third year, to rise to the position of student council president and completely take over the student council.

Iris incited the students behind the scenes.

Without knowing that, the students boycotted, claiming that Nikita had tarnished the name of the student council.

One of the central figures of such a boycott.

First-year spirit representative, Poara Silin.

This awkward boy standing right in front of me.

‘Is he in the student council?’

Of course, in all the game rounds so far, Poara has never been a member of the student council.

In the end, the students who were boycotting made a big deal out of it.

As a result, when they occupied the student council room and even staged a violent protest.

Lucas stopped it, and when he broke Poara’s glasses, he said this.

「A student council that ignores the voices of students should disappear! I will erase it from this world!」

The image of him spitting out those words filled with hatred is still vivid.

At that time, he hated the student council.

“Uh, uh, senior, why are you doing this?”

Was it because I was staring too much?

Poara shrank back.

Although I transferred here recently, from Poara’s perspective, I am a senior.

This kind of gaze must be burdensome.

“Just, your glasses seemed crooked.”

“Oh, I must have run here too quickly!”

Poara hurriedly straightened his glasses.

Even now, he still gives off an awkward feeling.

“Poara Silin, right?”

“Yes, that’s right, senior!”

“Nice to meet you. I’m Hanon Airei. I was assigned to investigate the Great Forest of Spirits this time.”

“Nice to meet you!”

Poara was energetic.

Instead of the gloom in my memory, his face was full of brightness.

So it felt even more out of place.

“Poara, do you hate the student council or anything like that? Is there something you don’t like about it?”

“What? Oh, no. On the contrary, I’ve always admired the student council of Jerion Academy!”

Poara was startled and answered as if she didn’t understand what was being said.

“Even though I’m a temporary member now, you have no idea how happy I am to be part of the student council!”

“A temporary member, you say.”

“Ah, because of the previous incident, there was a vacancy in the student council, so even though I’m a first-year, I somehow became a temporary member. Hehe.”

The previous incident.

It was definitely Lucas’s incident.

‘There was a student council member in Lucas’s party.’

Lucas’s party was annihilated.

As a result, a student council member who had been nurtured since the first year was missing.

The seniors were graduating, and the student who had been painstakingly nurtured could not return.

The student council must have been in a difficult situation.

So they hurriedly selected someone temporarily from the first-year students who had just joined.

‘I understand now why they readily accepted when I mentioned the student council.’

The student council was also struggling with a shortage of manpower.

And at that moment, Poara was selected as an additional member.

‘Could it be that Poara turned dark and boycotted because…’

Was it because she couldn’t become the student council member she longed to be?

If you can’t have what you originally loved the most until the end…

Sometimes, you end up becoming what you hate the most out of a sense of rebellion.

Poara must have liked the student council at first.

Then, when the vice president became the disaster’s dragon lady and tarnished the student council’s name…

Eventually, her love and hate must have gone too far and turned into hatred.

‘What to do.’

As mentioned earlier, Poara is the main person boycotting the student council.

If such a person is part of the student council, the power of the boycott would naturally weaken.

In other words, if Poara is removed, the direction of the story changes.

‘Although the story was already twisted from the moment Lucas died.’

This world is a world after a bad ending.

It’s natural for the story to creak since it’s been twisted for a long time.

The protagonist’s death has that much of an impact on the world.

However, the boycott incident is a necessary event in the main story.

The Flaming Butterfly episode is a well-made game.

If the event itself does not occur, the scenario will be shattered in an instant.

And the result is the destruction of the world.

If we can’t stop the evil in the final ending, the world is doomed.

I have no intention of dying with the world.

Therefore, despite Lucas’s absence, I am determined to elevate the scenario to the level of the main story.

Even if we have to patch up the rest, at least the flow of the scenario must be the main story.

‘I guess I’ll have to make the student council look bad somehow later.’

If it doesn’t work, let’s consider the direction of being expelled from the student council.

“Okay, I’ll be joining the student council soon, so please take care of me.”

“Yes!”

Poara answered energetically.

I hope she answers energetically like today when she gets expelled from the student council later.