I Became the Second-in-Command in a Romance Fantasy Novel

#1 Codename Boradori.
The ant. Works hard again today.
Violet bit into a familiar grilled chicken skewer she bought from a festival stall and walked on the rooftop.
Since she had cast an invisibility spell to prevent recognition, she avoided people’s gazes.

“Hmm, it’s about time to explode.”
Just as if waiting for Violet’s words, a sudden loud noise echoed throughout the academy.
Bang!
Fireworks exploding at a festival is ordinary, but
the highlight fireworks never go off during broad daylight.
What happened at the academy was a natural phenomenon—
it was unmistakably a trace of a terror attack.
But—

“Really good at their job!”
Knowing exactly where the fireworks would explode, Violet summoned her magic thinking of her childhood friend and her workplace superior, who would be on a date right now.
Originally, the academy should have been engulfed in flames everywhere, but
the firepower was reduced to just the level of fireworks.
Moreover, it was in only one place.
The warehouse of Ilias, one of the continent’s three major merchant guilds, and the main setting of this story.
“You can’t fast during the Founding Festival.”

It was customary since old times that cutting off supplies was the best way to defeat a numerically superior enemy.
Currently, Ilias’s warehouse at the academy was stocked with even more food and supplies than usual in preparation for the Founding Festival period.
If this place burned down, the academy would starve for quite a while.
Of course, if a terror attack happened at the academy,
the Empire would immediately send support, but the enemies knew that too.
They kept intercepting the Empire’s support to isolate the academy,
and to resolve this, the protagonist party would move — that was the story of this arc.
“The original was already a mess; no need to suffer more!”
But since the original story was already completely wrecked, Violet had no intention of fasting just to preserve it.
In fact, from the branching point called Silence, she was full of plans to change the original story.
So she started acting without hesitation.
She suppressed the fire that started in the warehouse with magic upon explosion,
calmed down the startled staff by flaunting her friendship with Haedrick,
explained the situation to Haedrick, who arrived at the scene shortly after,
then mentioned Daisy to force cooperation, and using original knowledge, magic, and a bit of shamanism, she identified and subdued the revolutionary faction hidden among suspicious employees.
And soon, when Daisy arrived,
with Haedrick’s help, they would capture terrorists who had infiltrated places distributed by Ilias.

“……”
Yes, once Daisy arrives.
But why was she taking so long?
No, seriously, when will she come!?
“……”
“……”
“……”

Receiving the gazes of those around, including Haedrick,
Violet broke out in cold sweat and prayed for her childhood friend to arrive as soon as possible.
Though worried about accompanying the Pope, that worry soon vanished.
“Hah!”

With a thud, a man who had received authority from Daisy flew through the air.
“Retreat!”
The self-proclaimed remnants of the revolution, who approached with malice, started to flee.

“Arrow of the wind, pierce my enemies.”
Unfortunately, our Saint boasts dual, no, triple classes:
Saint, King’s authority, and Mage.
She was enrolled in the magic department after all.
The gathered wind energy in her hand turned into arrows flying toward the fleeing enemies.
Those struck by the merciless arrows rolled on the ground, screaming.
“As expected of the Saint!”

The Pope beside her admired with shining eyes.
Though a magnificent sight, it was hard to see how that fit the typical Saint image.

Well, thanks to that, I had nothing to do,
and could just stay right next to the Pope.
“Handle it.”
“Got it.”
Agents sent by Uncle Aerin began rounding up the revolutionaries.
Though the Empire worked doggedly and hard,
their results weren’t better than my and Daisy’s “date.”
So Uncle Aerin quickly judged and attached Empire agents to our side to swiftly retrieve the black mages instead of wasting time.
They weren’t black mages, but we could hand those guys over.

“Seriously, these bastards just pop out when we pass by?”
“No way this is a setup, right? Does that make sense?”
“We’ve seen the process. They aren’t moving either. Revolutionaries pop up even where the Saint or Pope go.”
“Is this not Leon’s conspiracy?”
“Does that make sense?”
These people really thought I was the mastermind.
Well, I was just an ordinary person.
If something like this happened in front of me, I would also be suspicious.
If a suspicious foreign shadow had been capturing black mages struggling and catching one after another, they would have been arrested immediately at the scene.
“Then, next!”

Looking at Daisy announcing the next destination, I quietly approached her side.
“Isn’t it about time for your appointment with Violet?”
“That’s true, but going somewhere else at this timing is a bit…”
Her expression said “where are you going when the academy is this dangerous?”
Unfortunately, the festival outing with Violet would be about the same as the “date” with me in content.
No, the main story was there anyway.
There should be more enemies over there.
“Don’t worry, go ahead. Ah, but take the Pope with you.”
“Really treated like dead weight.”

Muttering quietly, Daisy frowned and asked.
“Is this our date?”
“Have you ever dated?”
“This is my first time.”
“Then this is it.”
Youthful romance does not suit between fake lovers.
They are exactly a business-like, pay-for-service relationship.
…Though they were actually doing more than expected.

“Seriously, no mood at all.”
Daisy sighed deeply, looking at me with a dissatisfied face.
“Well, since it broke off in the middle, you owe me later.”
“Additional charges apply, are you okay with that?”
“Ugh.”

She angrily stomped the ground, and seeing the dent made by her kick, it seemed she was still full of strength.
“Well then, good luck.”
“…You too.”
Seeing Daisy and the Pope off with an inexplicable sense of regret, I answered Uncle Aerin’s call following the remaining agents.
Both Daisy and I
were about to start working in earnest.

“Yes, tell me the plan. I’ll obey completely.”
Uncle Aerin swore absolute obedience as soon as we met.
“Is it okay for an Empire agent to say that to a foreign agent?”

I asked if that was appropriate.
“Then what else can we do? Agents focus on results more than process. You know that?”
In short, no matter how hard they tried, nothing worked, so they would do anything to solve the case.

“Excellent mindset.”
People like us don’t last long if they have strong egos.
It’s easier if you just think of it all as work and let it flow away.
Think about it.
If I didn’t think this was work, I’d be a two-timing jerk.
But if it’s work, I can gain something from the Saint and the Empire Duke family’s princess.
“To work long, this is basic.”

He was indeed a skilled agent worthy of being dispatched to the academy even at that age.
…Though it was a bit off to say he was nineteen at that age.

“I’ll tell you the secret.”
So I decided to reveal the secrets of this world to Uncle Aerin.
“This easy?”

Uncle Aerin looked surprised.
“It’s not that difficult.”
I calmly revealed the truth.
Really, it wasn’t difficult at all.

“The flower arrangement club members. Especially Daisy.”
At the name I mentioned, Uncle Aerin nodded seriously.
After all, the prince he served was included among them.
“Yes.”
“If you just lurk around them, you’ll get most of it.”
“...What?”
“Everything.”

He looked confused, but I really told him everything.
Daisy was like the One Piece of this world.
Everything in this romance fantasy world was there!
“If you don’t want to tell, don’t speak.”
Uncle Aerin grimaced and complained,
but I felt wronged.

“I really told you everything.”
“You expect me to believe that?”
Honestly, if someone didn’t know this was a romance fantasy world, it would be unbelievable.
But for people like us, proof mattered more than faith.
“Follow me.”

Following what Violet told me earlier, I took Uncle Aerin around the warehouses of Ilias.
Then we found Violet running around excitedly, and naturally, following her led us to Daisy.
“What are they doing?”
Uncle Aerin asked for an explanation, and I briefly told him what Violet had said.

“I heard they caught revolutionaries who were hiding in Ilias, those bastards who want to revive the old kingdom.”
Uncle Aerin froze for a moment, then shouted in shock.
“Why are they in Ilias?!”

The fact that remnants of revolutionaries were included in one of the continent’s three great merchant guilds
would cause serious problems.
But—
“Is it possible that black mages are openly roaming the academy?”
“…Now that I think about it, that could be true.”
Seeing him immediately accept it was a bit pitiful.

“But ordinary people do that. Catching those guys… huh?”
Uncle Aerin watched Daisy and Violet find and strike down hidden enemies and tilted his head in confusion.
“What’s going on?”

Feeling sorry for his confusion, I reminded myself that adapting to a romance fantasy world always takes time.
“Don’t think of it as beginner’s luck. Watch closely what’s happening there.”
“……”
Seeing my serious face, Uncle Aerin nodded and followed behind the romance fantasy crew.

“Wait, someone fell there. There’s a magic circle made by black mages where they fell?”
“Don’t try to understand.”
Horrified by inexplicable coincidences,
“That’s understandable. Since only a weak Ilias heir and two female students are there, no wonder they got attacked like that!”
“Didn’t turn on eavesdropping magic?”
“Oh, I forgot.”
“Turn it on. They knew Daisy was coming, right?”
“…What confidence is that?”

Frowning at these moths suicidal enough ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) to attack a Saint who single-handedly normalized the Holy Nation,
“Why don’t those bastards show up all at once, but separately?”
After the revolutionaries with poor combat skills were knocked down,
less than 30 minutes later, five black mages appeared one by one,
and Uncle Aerin, showing a broken sense of reason, kept tilting his head, unable to understand.
Watching Daisy systematically crush the black mages, I told Uncle Aerin the truth of this world.

“I told you, don’t try to understand.”
Just feel it.
This romance fantasy world.