Towards the Founding Festival


 * The Order of the Academy council room is as spacious as an elementary school classroom of modern Japan.
 * Office desk and chairs are set up with bookshelves lining the walls with documents and manuals.
 * Lorec-sama sits in a modest chair but recognized as a seat of honor.
 * The princes sit on other, inferably close, seats of honor.
 * This reinforces the idea of nobility.
 * Rei is hated for being able to sit next to Claire.
 * The Founding Festival is an event commemorating the Royal Academy.
 * It is similar to the school festival of Japanese schools.
 * Each classroom must have a program to entertain visitors.
 * This is represented in-game with contests.
 * Lorec-sama assigns tasks to the Order members when Rodd asks if the Order itself will host an event.
 * Typically, it is a café but Rodd finds that boring.
 * Yuu shows interest while Sein found it troublesome to deviate.
 * Rodd suggests a gender-reversal themed café.
 * Misha is the first to ask what this is.
 * Gender-reversal cafes according to Rodd:
 * Men dress like women, women like men, and we wait on the tables like that.
 * Although only the clothes are different it is a lot more interesting than normal.
 * Claire asks if Rodd will be allowed to cross-dress.
 * Rodd answers yes as long as he can maintain anonymity
 * Claire responds that she's okay with women dressing as men but seems uncertain about the other way around.
 * She's conflicted but reconsiders when seeing assessing how pretty each prince is.
 * First formal introduction of Lambert Orso.
 * The eldest son of the Orso Company.
 * Lene's elder brother.
 * Entered the academy as a scholarship student.
 * Vice-leader of the Order of the Academy.
 * Specifically adept at inventing and adjusting magical tools.
 * Can infer he was in charge of the magical tool that allowed the mock battles to occur.
 * Currently working on a magical tool to control monsters.
 * In this world, he is a minor celebrity.
 * Had he been a noble, he would have been the leader of the Order.
 * Rei appraises how Lorec-sama would look in gender reversed attire.
 * She admits that while he is handsome, it's a different kind of handsome that would not work well with him.
 * Rodd ignores Lorec-sama and believes everyone else is in agreement.
 * Sein and Misha both have reservations.
 * Claire immediately votes against when she hears Rei admiring a gender reversed Claire.
 * Lorec-sama is against it as well but Lambert-sama ends up consoling him.
 * The official name of the Order of the Academy is Cavalier.
 * According to Lambert-sama, nobody uses it anymore because it sounds exaggerated.
 * The difference in name is likened to the subtle differences between the words used.
 * Example: Rash and Carefree.
 * Lambert-sama is slightly resentful at Rei's comparison but concedes it is technically correct.
 * Rei makes a pun on Claire being a lady of Cavalier meaning she is a Cabaret Girl.
 * Claire doesn't understand but automatically assumes it not to be a compliment or appropriate.
 * In this world, there are no cabarets.
 * Rei suggests Claire do her hair in a spread updo.
 * Claire is convinced because of the idea of it being special.
 * Rei and Lene take time after the meeting to fix Claire's hair.
 * Lene is into it and asks questions during the process.
 * Claire's hair also keeps her trademark vertical drills.
 * Claire ends up enjoying the new hairstyle.
 * Rei never gives a complete explanation of Cabaret Girl but Claire feels pride from her praise.
 * Lene asks that Claire keep the new hairstyle but begrudgingly asks for her regular hairstyle.
 * Rei describes how the winding curls are the influence of her late mother's hairstyle.
 * Claire always imitated it.
 * Rei remarks that Claire had a tiny bit of a mother complex, in its original meaning.
 * As Rei leaves Claire in her room, she cheers that she looks forward to seeing Claire as a man.
 * As they flirt, Claire responds by dismissing her brusquely.

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Translator Notes:

 * Cavalier is written as kyabariaa; Rei called her kyabajou, which can mean Cavalier Girl or Cabaret Girl, which itself means hostess.
 * A hairstyle of the aforementioned kyabajou.