Saint Awakening, desu wa...?

That day, Ojou-sama remembered.

She remembered that Face☆Meet had a Demon King. And that if they didn't deal with it before the ending, everything would go sideways and end in disaster.

Since she was lazing around in her room anyway, she called out to Summer right then and there.

"Ah, Summer. Shall we have you awaken as a Saint soon?"

"Eh!? Awakening as a Saint is something you can just decide on a whim like tonight's dinner!?"

"You can already use Holy Magic, can't you? In the original game, the Heroine couldn't use magic until she awakened, and there's no way she could have passed off Holy Magic as Light Magic, desu wa."

"Wait, really…?"

In fact, originally Holy Magic was something you couldn't even use until you'd heard the incantation written on a scroll kept deep within the church.

"Honestly, why can you use it at all…"

"I heard from Emma the chant you used the first time you tried to use magic, Ojou-sama, so I tried reciting it too and it just worked."

"… Ahh. That time."

Back then, Summer had been so on edge about what Ojou-sama might do that she'd memorized her every move in detail. Truly befitting a highly capable maid hired by a marquis house.

"Thinking about it now, that was game knowledge, huh."

"Desu wa yo. That was around when my memories of my previous life came flooding back."

"What other spells are there?"

"Let's see. For example, Holy Shield and Holy Javelin, and there's also Perfect Sealing to re-seal the Demon King, desu wa."

Especially Perfect Sealing. She absolutely wanted Summer to learn that one. Even if Koleha pulled off her serves-you-right revenge and survived the bad ending, the world itself would be destroyed.

So she taught the specific incantations of Holy Magic as well. Normally you'd need to tour shrines with the church's support and decipher stone tablets to learn them, but Koleha already knew them. This is what you call a game-knowledge power trip.

And in any case, Koleha herself couldn't use Holy Magic. Teaching it to her lady's maid Summer cost her nothing.

"Oh, right. Anyway, Perfect Sealing has an activation condition, desu wa. Something-something about the power of love; in short, you need enough affection with a capture target. The Heroine's overflowing love strengthens the seal, desu wa."

"Mm-hmm."

"Once it triggers, you can re-seal the Demon King in one shot, so the climax hinges on whether you've raised enough affection to activate it! That's the endgame peak, desu wa!"

And if you've maxed out affection, the moment you learn it, the spell transforms into light and flies off to reinforce the Demon King's seal for an instant victory: a Demon King RTA route.

"While looking straight at your beloved, the capture target, recite it like this. 'O holy power, with my love seal the wicked, with my love bless — Love Perfect Sealing Love.'"

"You said 'Love' twice!"

"It seems it gets supercharged by sandwiching it with your love and theirs."

Looking at faces is Face☆Meet's main content, after all.

It's only natural for a spell that's just bonus content to be a little cringe.

"Maybe the special part is that the incantation and the spell name are subtly different? Well, with how things are going with Hiiro, you'll be able to use it soon enough."

"Uh… Ah. Um, then please let me practice once first, Ojou-sama."

"Very well, desu wa."

They decided to do a practice run with Koleha as the stand-in. Practice is important. Only a tiny handful of geniuses can pull off something in the real thing that they never did in practice.

Even in the game, Koleha had flubbed the voice input many times. Because it was just so… unfashionable… embarrassing. At least there had been on-screen subtitles as a cheat sheet back then; now that it was real life, the difficulty was that much higher.

"By the way, Ojou-sama, if you had to say whether you dislike me or like me, which is it?"

"Eh? I like you. A loyal retainer, no, you're already my arms and legs. There's no way I could dislike you. You're the arms and legs I proudly raised myself, desu wa. There's no reason to hate my own hands."

"That's what I wanted to hear. Then let's do it!"

Summer joyfully took Koleha's hands.

… A Saint practicing a love spell with a villainess. How did that even make sense? With that thought in mind, they gazed at each other. Koleha thought, (She really does have a good face, desu wa.)

"O holy power, with my love seal the wicked, with my love bless—Love Perfect Sealing Love…!!"

"Hn!?"

In that instant, a pillar of light whooshed up around the two of them.

The light pierced the dorm ceiling, gathered into a sphere in the sky, and flew off somewhere.

The Demon King's seal was reinforced. This should be good for the next five hundred years.

"Ah! It worked! We did it, Ojou-sama, I felt the feedback for sure!"

"!? W-what are you doing, Summer!? What about the prince!?"

"Don't be silly, Ojou-sama. That's Hiiro's situation, right? I'm Summer, your loyal lady's maid, so of course I love you, Ojou-sama!"

"O-oh? Now that you mention it, you're not wearing makeup right now…"

"I'll do it properly in the real thing too! Okay!"

Even though they'd already succeeded just now, "the real thing"? That thought crossed her mind, but deciding it was fine since the Demon King was no longer a worry, Koleha chose to forget about it for now and go to sleep.

Also, above their room was only an empty room and a storeroom, so apparently no students had their eyes burned out by the glare.