I Became a Demon Who Can Never Be Headpatted in the Academy?!

It was Nikea Hollimpia.

The main heroine of Legend of Academy.

Nikea, the princess of the ‘Empire Where the Sun Never Sets’, is basically a young lady trying her best to become a ‘Hero’ at Cosmos Academy.

Therefore, in the ‘Hero Route’, she becomes a good rival with Murmur, and in the ‘Demon King Route’, she becomes an enemy to be defeated.

She often shows her face in various events, so it was a heroine that there was absolutely no harm in building up her favorability in advance. If you become friends, she is also a princess who openly takes your side.

“Gulp…”

『Stress has increased by 5!』

However, Nikea Hollimpia was an existence that was too much of a comparison to Murmur.

Murmur, who was saved by the Hero but is ultimately an orphan and fundamentally receives discrimination and contempt from many people.

Nikea Hollimpia, who has a noble birth as the daughter of the Emperor and is praised and loved by everyone.

If Murmur were to become a hero, people would laugh, and if Nikea were to become a hero, they would clap their hands, saying she was trying to accomplish a great task.

When playing the game, I thought the difference between the two characters was quite interesting, but being the person involved, the feeling is quite strange.

“Princess, the tea prepared today is a precious item brought from the Duchy of Agrippa.”

“It’s so wonderful to see you eating a balanced meal without being picky!”

“Count Flandre is scheduled to meet you after school today, but shall we decline?”

Unlike me, Murmur, who was eating alone forlornly, Nikea was very noisy.

Fortunately, Nikea’s appearance was not an event I hadn’t expected. Rather, I was even glad for this meeting.

“Princess? Would it be okay if I joined you for a meal?”

The brown-haired young lady who approached with a bright smile was holding a bowl in both hands.

It was natural to join a table in the dining hall, but I wouldn’t be able to do something like sticking my butt next to the ‘Princess’ as if it were natural.

“I’m sorry. I’m already sitting with someone.”

“Huh…? You’re not talking about this demon race here, are you?”

“I told you I’m sitting with someone, Esme.”

The brown-haired lady, Esme Bloodberry, glared at me openly.

I expected this situation, but it’s still scary. Does a princess of the Empire have a political sense even from elementary school?

If she said that she didn’t want to be disturbed during the meal, she would naturally make the arrows that would fly towards her fly towards me by putting me forward, right?

Scary, really scary! Thinking about what will happen in high school, she definitely had the makings of it.

“Unbelievable… eating with such filth…”

“Esme. Didn’t you hear what the Princess said?”

When the maid added one more word, Esme snorted and then glared at me.

“Don’t think you’re so great. The Princess is just playing with you lightly!”

Esme, sticking out her tongue, quickly walked to another table in the dining hall.

Anyway, the event I remember ends here. It was the first event where Nikea Hollimpia and Esme Bloodberry appear, and it was a story that subtly informs the player of the hardships to come.

Even after this, Esme Bloodberry was a character who appeared often and picked fights, to the point where she was nicknamed the ‘combat power measuring device’.

“Princess, did you receive the Empress’s letter?”

“Ah… I’ll reply tomorrow.”

Nikea was still sitting in front of me. She had just finished her meal, but she was enjoying the tea and dessert that the maid had brought.

Come to think of it, there was dessert in this dining hall too? I’ve always liked the cake with fresh whipped cream and lots of fruit on top, so shall I have a little taste?

“Hmm, hmm…”

By the way, Nikea is really a well-educated ‘princess’. She doesn’t make loud noises with her cutlery, and she eats so gracefully without spilling food?

Even though she’s royalty, she’s also obviously well-developed, so she really looks graceful. I never knew that seeing a simple illustration and seeing it with my own two eyes would feel so different.

─ Growl!

“Hooeng…?”

“Hmm?”

In the situation where I was staring intently at Nikea, my stomach growled loudly at a very bad time.

“…Do you want to eat this cake?”

Nikea pointed to the cake that still had one piece left.

“Princess… there’s no need to show such mercy to a demon race…”

Looking at the maid who was looking at me with a troubled expression, I felt like this moment was an opportunity for no reason.

I, Murmur, am certainly a demon race, but I’m not a kid who is rude and violent like they imagine!

Shall I show them that I can eat a piece of cake just like Nikea? I also wanted to eat it, and maybe I can increase Nikea’s favorability by sharing the cake like this!

Sharing snacks with a friend is obviously an event that increases favorability, right? There was something like this in other characters’ events too!

“If Nikea is okay with it, I’ll eat it.”

* * *

Nikea Hollimpia smiled and grabbed the plate with the strawberry shortcake and handed it to the maid.

“Please, eat comfortably.”

“Thank you for the meal.”

After properly thanking her, Murmur held the fork in her right hand. It was a large fork that didn’t quite suit her small hand, but rather, in the situation of eating cake, it was an advantage because she could lift the cake like a spoon.

‘I felt sorry that she couldn’t even get up from her seat because of me, but it worked out well.’

Nikea held the tea with a refreshing fragrance in both hands and slowly drank it while looking at Murmur.

Murmur’s sky-blue hair sparkled beautifully like a clear sky, and her well-dressed uniform had a slightly worn feel, but it wasn’t dirty at all. The only minor flaw was that the sleeves covered her hands because she was wearing it big, intending to wear it for a long time.

As the princess of the Empire, Nikea found Murmur’s reactions and actions very interesting.

‘Other demon races look at me with hateful eyes or openly avoid me, but this child doesn’t act like that.’

It was natural. Murmur didn’t hate Nikea, but wanted to befriend her.

‘Not avoiding me… but also not openly flattering me.’

It was natural. Murmur thought Nikea would hate her.

Most people who dealt with Nikea, like Esme Bloodberry, wanted to befriend her somehow, and acted desperately to form a relationship. Some were told at home, ‘Be friends with Princess Nikea!’, but even elementary school children instinctively knew who was a ‘noble being’.

Therefore, Murmur’s appearance of receiving the cake, cutting it into three large pieces with a fork, and then munching on it was incredibly fresh to Nikea.

“Murmur, do you like the cake?”

Nikea naturally knew Murmur.

Murmur was a child who was saved by someone called a ‘failed hero’ and was spending her childhood at Cosmos Academy, attending elementary school, so there was no way Nikea wouldn’t know the name of a fellow student taking the same classes.

However, Murmur looked at Nikea with surprised eyes and nodded. It meant that she was openly flustered.

“I… I like it. It’s delicious.”

“I’m glad. If Murmur is okay with it, shall we have a meal like this next time too?”

Nikea smiled, but Murmur’s face turned subtly pale.

“Because you don’t like it when people approach you like Esme?”

It was a bit of a sudden statement, but it was the correct answer. Nikea didn’t want to be disturbed by people who flattered her during mealtime.

“Yes, I think if I eat with Murmur, that won’t happen.”

Murmur looked at Nikea with wide eyes.

“…How dare you not answer when the Princess has proposed a meal…”

“But, she’s quite polite, isn’t she? If it were other young ladies from the Count’s family, they would have clapped and made a fuss.”

“She’s not from Pandemonium either, is she?”

Murmur couldn’t hear them, but Nikea’s maids covered their mouths with their hands and whispered.

They had a general prejudice against the demon race, but their views were changing due to Murmur’s polite and cute behavior.

“Umm…”

“If it’s difficult for Murmur, I won’t force you either.”

“Can Nikea and I eat together? Murmur is a demon race, you know.”

Nikea was momentarily speechless. As a ‘royal’, she had a duty. She had a sacred duty to protect the people of the Empire from the evil, violent, and heinous demon race.

To put it a little differently, it was to fight against the demon race. Unlike the heroes who were selected by passing tests, the ‘royals’ had such a duty from birth. To put it badly, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that all royals were beings who had to kill the demon race.

‘To be so wary that she calls herself a demon race…’

Nikea’s heart ached. Murmur’s reaction felt painful to her, who was trying to walk a different path from her sister with compulsion.

‘But it’s natural. I’m royalty after all. It’s natural for the demon race to harbor hatred, suspicion, and distrust towards me.’

Nikea wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and then smiled.

Just as a snake cannot know the heart of a frog, a frog cannot know the heart of a snake. There were still many stepping stones to cross in order to understand each other’s hearts.

“I want to have a meal with you, Murmur.”

“Uuh…”

Murmur grabbed her horns with both hands and crouched down.

“Murmur?”

“Y-Yes, ma’am! Your Highness!”

Nikea couldn’t help but burst into laughter at Murmur, who was speaking while getting up with a pale face.

At the same time, she thought.

This child might be the person she was looking for.

* * *

//slw『Stress has increased by 10!』

[ 『Murmur』]

[ 【Health 100 Mana 100 Hunger 0 Stress 35】]

“What do you mean ‘yes, ma’am’! Murmur, you idiot!”

Things had gone wrong too perfectly.

Princess Nikea was indeed a scary young lady. She was thinking of using a demon race to block the advances of annoying nobles like Esme?!

The cake was delicious, but isn’t that too much?! She knew that if she sat with me, no one would approach her in the future, and that’s why she suggested it, right?

[ 『A new event has been discovered!』]

[ 《Have breakfast with Nikea Hollimpia》]

[ 《Time: Morning》]

If we make an appointment like this, what happens to the events that occur in the dining hall? Does the opportunity to meet other characters completely disappear? I unknowingly agreed because I thought I could get closer to Nikea, but she didn’t say that it was okay even if I was a demon race, did she?

Will I be able to see the events that I absolutely have to see in elementary school? If all the events get messed up, my perfect plan to see the true ending will be ruined too?

“Uuu… hot…”

And there’s a variable that I didn’t think about.

Murmur’s body was too weak, perhaps because of the disadvantage of ‘genetic defect’. When she thought about complicated things, her horns became incredibly hot.

It got so hot that it was like a smartphone battery exploding, and if she didn’t grab it with her hand to cool it down, her head would spin.

Damn it! How ridiculous did I look? Nikea ended up laughing too, right? Was the sight of a demon race grabbing their horns and whimpering that funny?!

Even now, my horns are suddenly getting hot, and I’m squatting in the hallway and whimpering, is that funny?! Is it funny, huh?!

“Haa…”

Even at the end, my pronunciation was off. I was trying to show that a demon race could also be polite and kind, but I failed, no matter how I think about it!

“Murmur… let’s not think too much about the past.”

It wasn’t an original event anyway. My favorability didn’t go down. What’s more important is now!

In Legend of Academy, characters could take ‘desired classes’. Since this is a ‘raising simulation game’ like Princess Maker, and since that’s the set rule, I had to go take ‘desired classes’ from now on.

What kind of classes were there?

Martial arts classes had a chance to increase strength, agility, and health, and I could also learn some skills, right?

Magic classes had a chance to increase intelligence, and I could learn skills that I couldn’t learn in martial arts classes.

Art classes had a chance to increase charm, and they helped in making gifts needed to increase favorability!

History classes had a chance to learn new knowledge, and I had to unlock some triggers here to choose hidden options in certain events.

Basic knowledge classes had a chance to increase wisdom, and I could gain knowledge that I couldn’t learn in history classes.

Even these classes were further divided when moving from elementary to middle school, and from middle to high school, in the case of martial arts.

Right now, we’re still just toddlers in elementary school, so it felt like we were learning everything comprehensively.

“As expected, because I’m a demon race…”

Murmur’s strength and agility are a dismal 6. In Leoa, if your stats are low, you receive ‘penalties’ every time you check conditions in events, so it was more likely to be advantageous to focus on what you were good at.

I, who mainly do ‘ironman’ playthroughs where you absolutely cannot save and reload, knew how to choose the environment that gave me the highest advantage with my choices.

“Nikea doesn’t take magic classes, so maybe it’s a good thing.”

Murmur’s intelligence is 10. She’s a child with the ability to use magic as well as an average adult.

In other words! The class that Murmur can benefit from right now is the ‘magic class’!

I didn’t hesitate for a moment and patted my now-cold horns, then quickly ran to the classroom where the magic class was held.