Chapter 82 Volume III – Chapter 3: Unexpected Member

Alice Liate, real name Alysia Laute, is a really important person in terms of her position in the story, but unfortunately she… She’s not a good person in Lunerra.

She is one of the villains of the story. Whether it’s her environment, her own personality, her physical and psychological problems, or her illnesses; she’s almost ‘forced’ to be bad and there’s no way to bring her to the ‘good’ side in the game.

One of the reasons for this is that Alysia comes into the game quite late.

By the time she’s active in the game, her traumas are already weighing her down and she’s already on her journey to the bad side. That’s why no one who plays the game is given such an ‘option’ directly.

If I remember correctly, Alysia appears a few times in the early stages of the game, but she really starts to appear about five or six months from now. The reason for her appearance is simply to observe Adrian because of the mission her grandfather gave her.

And now… here she is this early, sitting in the same room with us.

“So… you want to join the group because you think you can improve your grades?”

“Yes.”

Her answer to me is quite simple, her facial expressions are usually static, so I can’t guess what she is thinking.

It’s true that her grades are not extremely good, since she has focused all her attention on the tasks her grandfather gave her, on empowering herself and investigating other issues. Not bad, well above average, but could it be better? Of course, they can.

I mean, there’s no loophole, but I know she wouldn’t have come here because of something so simple.

Because of what I did, did his grandfather take action early?

No… the reason he acted earlier was not to observe or eliminate Adrian just because he was strong. He had a different motive.

He can’t realize that this early. He may have doubts in his mind, but he shouldn’t act yet.

So, something must have changed in the story again because of my actions and something is happening that I don’t know about.

“Well… Okay.”

Still, can’t I fix her, just like I did with Adrian?

“Of course, you can join us.”

Isn’t this world my reality now, even if I’m not given a chance in the game?

Likewise, won’t every force I bring to my side increase my chances of survival on Lunerra?

Absolutely.

So should I ignore someone’s potential just because they are ‘bad’ in the game?

Of course not.

In fact, it might even be easier to do so than I thought, since Alysia has been brought into the current scenario earlier than usual.

The more I thought about her, the more ideas started to sprout in my mind about how I could get her on my side.

Of course, I won’t just pick one of them, I need to observe her first.

What is her real purpose in joining the group? What is her current personality, and her psychological state? What about her congenital illness?

I have to examine all of these and determine the route I will approach her according to the results I will reach.

With a smile on my face, I turned to the others in the room.

There used to be three of us gathered in this karaoke room, but now there were seven people here with me, all of whom were important to the story of the game.

As I was thinking this, I noticed two dark blue eyes looking at me.

Okay… maybe ‘everyone’ in the room is not important. Although I’m not in an important place either…

Yet.

“Thank you.”

Alysia’s thanks for my approval was not sincere at all, but I ignored it and turned to Sue.

These two came together, but they must have bumped into each other, right? I don’t think they were friends at all…

“Welcome to you, too.”

Sue responded with a simple nod. So I took a deep breath and shouted without lowering the smile on my face.

“All right!”

All eyes were already on me, but by suddenly shouting out like that, I brought the focus back to the distracted ones.

Now everyone was literally looking at me.

“Let’s do a little introductory sequence, you’re being too serious.”

So what? I hope they didn’t think I was just going to give them a lecture.

No, I want to build a stronger bond between me and them. They shouldn’t see me as a friend who will simply tell them the lessons they don’t know and forget about me in the future.

I should be a close friend who will be an important part of their lives.

Of course, the look on their faces seems to say that this is childish, but it doesn’t really matter.

“I’m Aiden Tenebra! I’m eighteen years old and I think I know most of what the academy tells me in terms of studies.”

There’s a lot more I could say, but there’s no need to overdo it, a simple introductory sequence is enough.

This way I am setting an example for them, they don’t have to force themselves… They just have to tell me their name, their age, any additional information they want, and how they are doing in their studies.

So I left my speech there and then turned my eyes to Adrian.

It didn’t take him long to realize it was his turn.

“Adrian Caleo… I turned eighteen about two months ago, I’m not doing very well in my studies.”

It was a very short introduction, but almost everything about him was already known.

“Julian Virhen, I’m eighteen and I’m not very good at studies either.”

“Celine Potenbea, I’ll be nineteen in four months, I’m… well…”

Celine kept her eyes on the floor, and then I noticed a slight smirk forming on Julian and Lucia’s faces.

Well, no lie… she looks really funny, but I hope she doesn’t realize it and get angry.

“Lucia Quie, I’m eighteen years old. I’m happy to explain anything you don’t understand.”

The mask on her face hid her appearance a little, but even her voice had an air that drew those around her to her. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Julian’s mouth drop open, but I ignored him with a slight grin on my face.

“Alice Liate, I’m nineteen, and my grades are slightly above average.”

Again her face was expressionless and her voice emotionless. It was as if the others in the room were beginning to shy away from her.

“Olivia Sue Gemma…”

Sue sounded a little timid. As the weakest and most ‘ordinary’ of us, it was natural for her to act that way, but at least she had made it here.

I believed she could go on, and she did.

“I am eighteen years old… My studies are not bad, they are average…”

So, everyone in the room introduced themselves, even if it was in a simple sentence. I didn’t really like it because they were so simple, but at least we had taken the first step.

“So now I want each of you to take notes on what you want to learn, what you think you are missing. Lucia and I will first explain the common problematic lessons, and then we will go over each subject with some sample questions that we will carefully make out. If, after the common subjects, you don’t understand something in particular, we can help you in our free time, but for now, this is how I want to proceed. Any objections?”

No one objected to me. In fact, they quickly grabbed their tablets and started looking at the lesson subjects.

Adrian, Julian, and I had already done this before, so we were just waiting on the sidelines. Julian kept looking at me like he was trying to say something, but he must have been shy because of the atmosphere.

I didn’t pay much attention to him, if he wanted to talk to me he should take the step himself, I’m not always going to do it for them.

In this way, about fifteen minutes passed. It was very quiet during this time, but I wouldn’t say it was boring as everyone was doing something.

When everyone had made their own lists, they put their tablets on the table and I started going through them.

There were only two subjects on Lucia’s list. One of them was something I knew about and the other one was something I also had problems with.

The lists other than Lucia’s were…

Alysia and Sue’s list was about the same size. I already knew what Adrian and Julian were stuck on, so I didn’t need to look at them, but then something caught my attention.

Celine’s tablet only had a few lines written on it, which I was surprised to see.

I knew very well that she was literally ‘terrible’ in her studies, so I frowned, but then I suddenly paused.

“Ah…”

When I saw the ‘note’ written on the tablet, I felt the need to laugh for no reason.

The note said ‘subjects I know’.

“‘Well… I got a general idea.”

I handed the tablets back to their owners, then stood up in the middle of the group and smiled slightly.

“There seem to be a couple of issues that everyone seems to have in common. First of all, I think the one we’ll be dealing with the most is mana theorems.”

Mana theorems was naturally one of the lessons that was not in my old world. The aim was for students to have a basic knowledge of ‘mana’.

The lesson was actually kind of like a sub-branch of mathematics, but it was seen as a separate one because it had practical training and so on.

Well, this lesson was not very difficult in middle and high school. Therefore, students did not study this as much and saw it as ‘easy’.

Of course, since the situation was reversed in universities and private academies, students were technically driven to the wall.

That’s why this was one of the most difficult subjects in the academy. In fact, the two subjects that Lucia could not understand were both in this class.

“I plan to focus on mana theorems for now, but in order not to leave out other subjects, I will divide the days we meet into two. Half of the time we meet will be for mana theorems, and the other half will be focused on other subjects.”

As I was about to continue, I saw a hand raised in the air.

It was Lucia, asking for permission to speak.

“Not everyone has the same missing subjects, how do we bridge the gaps?”

“I will explain the gaps that are not common to everyone separately, or you can explain them if you are available. Don’t worry, I will arrange things like the timing.”

“I see…”

In this way, I continued to explain my plans for the meetings. Despite what I had said, none of them objected, on the contrary, they seemed to think it made sense, nodding their heads absentmindedly at times.

“Yes! If I don’t make any changes in the future, this is my plan, if anyone has any objections or has any ideas, please don’t hesitate to tell me.”

Despite my modesty, no one objected.

“Okay then…”

I lifted my wrist and looked at the time, it hadn’t even been an hour. We still had plenty of time.

“The next round of written exams starts in three weeks if they are not postponed, and then there will be competitions for a long time after that… So, if you are free, let’s start our first session right now.”

Again, no one objected to me.

“Good…”

So I put my tablet down on the floor in front of everybody and clicked on it a couple of times, and then my tablet switched from the digital screen to the holographic screen, and I made this holographic window the size of a fairly large blackboard, and I turned back to the people in front of me and smiled.

Actually, I want to do some fun activities and so on, but it would be better to tire them out first and then pull them in that direction. That way they can participate more lively.

“Then… Let’s start from the first subject again huh?”

They all clutched the tablets in front of them and looked at me curiously. So I started with the basics of mana theorems, which are often difficult to understand.

Although the beginning of the session was quite easy, there were some really ‘difficult’ questions that could be asked even from the basics. Of course, I gave them these questions in a slightly modified order, so that they didn’t suddenly stop when it came to the difficult questions, and they didn’t hesitate to tell me if they couldn’t do something.

The trio of Celine, Sue, and Lucia were even chatting about the questions among themselves without me, which was really nice to see.

Celine kept getting frustrated because she couldn’t get the questions right and it was really funny, but apart from that, Lucia always helped her in a dignified way, while Sue still kept a certain distance from them. She didn’t chat with them much, but when they were solving questions together she was a bit more engrossed.

Adrian and Julian were more on their own rather than with them.

Of course, they weren’t very good at ‘lessons’ so they had a lot of questions they didn’t understand, but I sent them over to where Celine, Lucia, and Sue were so they could mingle with the group a bit more.

Alysia approached them a few minutes after she saw them go over there. She too seemed to be focused on the questions.

In this way, throughout our study, I tried to bring them especially close to each other, helping them with every problem they had and never taking my smile off my face.

In this way, three hours passed by before I even realized how it had happened.

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