novelraw Chapter 111 : Chapter 111
Chapter 111 : Chapter 111
Volume 2
Chapter 35 : Fans
The next day.
After the final full-body examination was finished, Muen was promptly booted out of the hospital room.
That balding, middle-aged, single doctor seemed deeply displeased that Muen had spent yesterday chatting in his room with several beautiful girls in a row.
When he shoved Muen out, his impatience could not have been more obvious.
It was still morning when Muen left.
Anna had class, and Selicia was hardly likely to come visit him twice in a row.
So with no one coming to receive him, Muen simply headed back toward the dormitory building alone.
Fortunately, his hands were empty, so traveling by himself felt rather light and easy.
The weather was still lovely.
But the moment he stepped onto the wooded path leading to the dormitory district, a strange female student who seemed to have been waiting there for some time stopped him.
“Muen Campbell.”
“Hm? And you are?”
Looking at the girl who had suddenly appeared in front of him, Muen felt his heart tighten a little.
She was fairly pretty. Although she could not compare to Anna or Selicia, he would still give her a solid seven.
She had come on strong, all force and momentum.
Could she be one of the original Muen’s ex-girlfriends, here to settle old scores?
He glanced around. This little grove really was the perfect place to stab a scumbag to death and dump the body.
But no matter how hard he searched his memories, Muen had no impression of the girl before him.
“Fanny. Third year,” the girl introduced herself.
“So it’s Senior Fanny.” Muen let out a sigh of relief. Since she was introducing herself, that meant she was not someone Muen had known before, much less an ex-girlfriend.
“Is there something you need, Senior Fanny?”
“I’ll get straight to the point.”
Senior Fanny seemed to be the straightforward type.
She did not beat around the bush at all, and instead looked Muen directly in the eyes as she asked in all seriousness:
“Muen Campbell, would you like to join our Magic Art Club?”
“The Magic Art Club?”
The Magic Art Club?
What kind of magic art?
Muen froze for a moment.
Then he understood.
The so-called Magic Art Club was really just the art club. It only had such a “magical” name because this was a magic academy.
The club’s activities were basically just the study of art. After all, this academy had quite a few nobles, so ordinary artistic pursuits naturally existed here as well.
Which meant...
Senior Fanny was inviting him to join a club?
“Why?”
Muen could not help asking:
“With my reputation... wouldn’t I have a bad effect on the club?”
For a club, if one of its members had too terrible a reputation, it could even make recruiting new members difficult.
That was why Muen was so surprised.
“Muen, your reputation is indeed not very good, but after what happened before, we all feel there may have been some misunderstanding involved.”
Senior Fanny spoke earnestly:
“It would be such a waste for someone as handsome as you, with such a good figure, not to join our Magic Art Club.”
Handsome, with a good figure...
Why did this feel less like club recruitment and more like she was looking for a nude model?
Muen grumbled inwardly.
Still, he was a little happy.
Since someone was inviting him to join a club, then just as Anna had said, the image others had of him really had begun to change.
At the very least...
He would no longer be shunned by girls like the plague, the way he had been before.
It was a very good start.
An exciting one.
However...
“I’m very sorry, Senior Fanny, but someone already invited me to join a club before this,” Muen declined apologetically.
“Oh?”
Fanny looked a little surprised.
“Someone was actually faster than me? Which club was it?”
“The Ancient Potion Club.”
Muen answered, then added, “It’s a rather niche club.”
“The Ancient Potion Club... that’s Anna Carp’s club, right?”
Fanny frowned slightly, as if she had thought of something.
“Muen, I do not have the right to tell you what choice to make, but I still have to remind you that Senior Anna’s reputation among the upper years does not seem to be very good.”
“Not very good... what do you mean?” Muen narrowed his eyes slightly, and a trace of coldness flashed through them.
“I’m not too sure about the details myself. I only heard a few things from some older students in our club.”
“Is that so?”
Muen thought for a moment, then smiled.
“Thank you for the warning, Senior Fanny. But more than anyone, I know how unreliable rumors can be. Unless I see something with my own eyes, I generally will not believe that kind of talk.”
“I see.”
Senior Fanny did not say anything more. She merely gave Muen a polite nod.
“Sorry for taking up your time, Muen Campbell.”
“Not at all. I’m happy just to have been invited.”
“Then goodbye.”
“Goodbye.”
...
After Muen left,
several little heads suddenly popped out from the bushes behind Fanny.
They were all first-year girls, their faces still carrying that fresh, youthful innocence unique to new students.
“Well, Senior Fanny? Did he agree?” Once they saw Muen walk away, the girls immediately began chattering all at once.
“No. It seems he’s already decided on a club to join.”
“Eh? How could this happen?”
A freckled girl said regretfully:
“Didn’t they say he’s hated by all the girls in the academy? How could someone have beaten us to him?”
“Exactly, exactly...”
Another girl with baby fat on her face complained:
“Didn’t you explain it properly, Senior? Our Magic Art Club has lots of pretty girls.”
“I really did leave that part out, but...”
Fanny recalled the exchange she had just had with Muen, then said with a hint of agreement:
“I do not think a boy who gets angry the moment someone speaks badly about a certain girl is going to be drawn in by other girls, at least not for now.”
“Wasn’t that Muen Campbell supposed to be a scumbag?”
The last girl, a twin-tailed one, huffed:
“So those gossiping women really were just making things up? My family runs a publishing house, so I already know how unreliable newspapers are. The moment I saw him in the cafeteria on my very first day here, I knew it. This Muen is definitely going to be a good man.”
“A good man? You’re just a shameless fangirl for his face.” The freckled girl snapped viciously.
“And his background!” the chubby-cheeked girl added.
“Being the Duchess does sound rather nice...”
“But I heard rumors that Muen Campbell might be gay.”
“Wouldn’t that be even better? Ah, my nose is bleeding...”
“What a shame. We couldn’t recruit him. If only we could use drawing as an excuse to admire his body to our hearts’ content... Heh-heh. Oh no, my nose is bleeding too.”
“...”
Fanny looked at the girls fooling around in front of her and felt rather helpless.
Even in the Magic Art Club, these little girls counted as rare oddballs. Out of all the people they could have become fans of, they just had to choose the notoriously ill-reputed Muen Campbell.
Although his heroic leap before had indeed stunned quite a lot of people.
But...
He was still someone who had dared to strip completely naked in front of the whole school.
On top of that, there were all those earlier rumors.
No one could say for certain whether he really was some kind of pervert.
Lately, some new claims had indeed started surfacing, saying that Muen Campbell was actually a good person, but Fanny still did not dare make such an early judgment. For now, she remained in the observation stage.
The reason she had come to invite him was, first, that she could not resist the pestering of these younger girls; and second, because the Magic Art Club was a large club, with many older boys and girls in it, so she was not afraid that Muen Campbell would try anything.
“Still...”
Fanny recalled the brief exchange she had just had with Muen, and could not help nodding to herself in slight agreement.
“He really is very different from the way the rumors described him.”