A Virgin Civil Servant Is Reincarnated as a Trashy Character in a Otome Game, but Because He Doesn’t Make a Move Despite Being in an Otome Game, the Girls Treat Him Like a High-Class Catch and Aggressively Pursue Him
Am I going to have to start over again? But I have to wake up quickly. Otherwise, the same thing will happen again.
With a sense of urgency, I open my heavy eyelids. Then, I hear a desperate voice. Is that voice… Aile…?
“You worthless insect! What are you spacing out for? And Elis! If you’re feeling weak, just run away! What are you going to do, run away?”
Aile is much more assertive than before. This is a return to the state from a few minutes ago. Previously, I was taken back to the confrontation with Mary, but now I’ve time-traveled here.
“Got it! I’ll do it!”
She made the same resolution as before. This suggests that she must have made the correct choice somewhere within the game.
From this, it can be inferred that in the previous encounter, only I could face the battle. However, even with three of us in the last encounter, we were crushed. Therefore, another course of action is necessary.
“Aile, in a situation like this, can Elis chain any magic?”
“What are you talking about? I don’t know that. I think you can do it if you have the magical aptitude to handle that magic.”
“Got it. Aile, cover me.”
Unlike last time, I stood in front of Dranble. This time, I responded to Dranble’s smug smile with my best smile.
“Let’s start the counterattack, you damn bear!”
I ran straight toward Dromble without any plan. Dranble must have thought I was an easy target, because he swung the wooden stick in his right arm down, just as he had done the last two times.
“Elliott! You can’t win by rushing in without a plan!”
“Aile, trust me and cover me.”
“I don’t know! Ellis, here I come!”
Aile seemed to have given up on me, saying that and then starting to chant. I couldn’t hear Ellis’s reply. Was she still feeling uneasy?
It was up to me to dispel that uneasiness. I was the only one who had seen her desperate face so many times.
“I know that attack.”
I’ve taken it many times. I dodged the falling leaves with a swift movement of my body. The large opening created by narrowly avoiding the attack.
I was waiting for that opening. The carelessness that comes with being a strong opponent…
I slashed at his unguarded right arm. However, my strength was not enough to cut it cleanly.
But that was if I was alone.
“Ignite, small flame—Flame Spark!”
In sync with my attack, Elis launches her own. She precisely strikes the wounded area with a fireball.
As the right arm bursts into flames, the sound of it crashing to the ground like a tree trunk echoes. We’ve succeeded in severing Dranble’s dominant arm.
“We did it! Aile sama!”
“We did it! Elris!”
The two girls in the rear hold hands and celebrate, but I don’t let my guard down. I know he’s not the type to stop at something like this.
“Hey, it’s not over yet. We have to defeat him.”
“Yeah, you’re right.”
I had already made up my mind. I wouldn’t lose anymore. I wouldn’t let Elis and Aile be killed again. That’s why I knew from the start what I had to do.
“I’m not the main character. I’m just a supporting character.”
I muttered to myself. Aile looked at me, surprised by my childish muttering. Let me be cool at least here.
“Aile, I’m counting on you to take care of me after this.”
“What are you talking about?”
I turned to Ellis. Ellis looked at me with a puzzled expression on her face.
I looked at her again. I know it’s not the time to think about such things, but she has a very beautiful face. She is indeed the princess of this game.
“W-What is it, Elliott sama?”
“I want you to chain my magic to Ellis.”
She looked at me with a look of refusal. Probably because she understood what I was trying to do. Still, she had to do it.
Besides, I know her better than anyone else. Better than she knows herself, even.
“Ellis is the main character. She can definitely do it. I believe in Ellis. That’s why I want her to succeed.”
“Please don’t! You can’t ask me to do that…”
“Even if Ellis doesn’t believe in herself, I believe in her.”
She didn’t say anything in response to my words. Maybe she thinks that nothing will happen no matter what she does.
“Aile, make sure the attack doesn’t hit Elis.”
“Eh, what!? I can’t do that!”
“I’m counting on you!”
“Counting on me!? You trash!”
She ran away and cast a spell.
“Whispering wind, draw the gaze. Light gather to me, and hearts be bound here—Focus Charm.”
She cast a decoy spell on herself and fled. Dranble’s attention was completely focused on Aile. In the meantime, I cast a spell.
Due to my inexperience, I could only unleash a single strike of royal magic. I knew I’d get scolded by Mary later. I might even die. If that happens, I’ll face it again.
Even if it’s a shitty “game over.”
“King of Flames, play the melody of destruction—Agni Requiem!”
Please, lend me your power once more. My wish was granted. A dragon was summoned above me.
“…Elis, I’m counting on you.”
“Yes, Elliott sama. I will succeed for you.”
Without looking at my eyes, I think her eyes reflected the dragon’s back, responding to her will.
As for me, after capturing Elis’s cool and heroic figure, I closed my eyes