How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 186

Ed subjugation (9)

When assistant professor Claire arrived at the watch desk, the smell of alcohol wafted through the air.

“…”

“Cheer uh uh uh uh uh uh-“

It is early morning when the sun has not risen yet.

It was she who came out of the sudden pouring shower and arrived 20 minutes earlier than the originally scheduled time.

The sight she saw when she entered the watchman’s office was Professor Kalade, sitting in a duty chair and snoring with his head pulled back.

The desk was littered with all sorts of tobacco and bottles of spirits. It seemed more accurate to describe the interior of the office as a cave rather than a place where people live.

“Professor Kalade…”

Senior professors take turns taking charge of the night shift at the Tricks Hall.

This is because a certain degree of decision-making authority and authority are needed to cope with emergencies or changes that occur at night.

Most of the time, the advisor and his student take care of the work as a group, but because the youngest professor in the elemental science major is only assistant professor Claire… I always had to work with Professor Kaleid.

Of course, night patrol, checking changes, checking major building security… All chores were the responsibility of Assistant Professor Claire. To be honest, assistant professor Claire didn’t feel unfair about this.

However, what makes assistant professor Claire’s head hurt is Professor Kalade’s work attitude.

Claire is rumored to be born with one good luck, but is she paying the price for the accumulated blessings at once?

To that extent, Professor Kalade’s existence was like a disaster for Assistant Professor Claire.

“Professor Kaleid… wake up…! You have to sign the checklist…!”

Professor Kaleid is asleep, completely drunk and snoring. His face is covered with a book to cover the light from the light.

Eventually, Professor Kalade, who rose to his feet with a thud, looked at Assistant Professor Claire with blank eyes.

The shaggy back of his hair is floating, and his beard, which looks sharp even at a glance, sticks out.

Although they are wearing white gowns as professors, they just look embarrassed because of the tobacco fragments and traces of alcohol spilled here and there.

A fearful elemental mage who single-handedly destroyed nearly half of a group of demi-humans who once attacked the ecliptic.

There was a time when even the strict laws of the imperial family could not stop his slaughter temperament, and he was even called ‘outlaw’ Khaleid…

Now, it was an amount that could not be more pitiful than this.

“…are you here?”

Assistant Professor Claire almost burst into tears.

Even though Professor Glast had a rather tight temperament, he was an advisor who handled all assignments neatly.

Of course, being a thoroughly human being, being under him was a difficult task.

However, after welcoming a human who is no different from that as an advisor… I rather think that Professor Glast was like a fairy.

At least because he was the one who did what he had to do.

“Uh, since when have you been sleeping?”

“Don’t worry. I even remember greeting you when you went out on patrol.”

“It sounds like you fell asleep right away…!”

Professor Kalade staggered, raised his upper body, and spat the crumbs of tobacco that were chewing roughly into his mouth onto the ashtray.

Then, in order to revitalize the spirit that was still drunk, he bent his body once.

“Professor Kaleid…! What would you do if Vice Principal Rachel passed by…!

“Even if it’s not, she just passed by… I vaguely remember.”

“Hey…!”

Vice-principal Rachel, who holds the greatest power in the school after principal Obel Forciers.

Recently, I feel like I’m building a confrontation with Principal Obel, but anyway, from the point of view of a low-level professor, there is no change to the fact that he is a superior superior far above.

When assistant professor Claire’s complexion turned pale, Professor Kalade shook his arm as if he was happy.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m dating that woman. Hey… A woman who shuddered at the sight of subhuman soldiers during the war is now the vice-principal of an academy like this. Time flies.”

“Ah, no… Did you just pass by after seeing this…?”

“What are you going to do? She’s the one who put me on duty tonight, which was not planned in the first place. Well, they say there’s a sudden vacancy…”

“That, is it? No matter how much it is…”

Professor Kaleid roughly picked up a piece of tissue paper, blew his nose, and, clumping it together, took a shooting stance toward the trash can in the corner.

After a moment of preparation, I threw it quickly, and the piece of tissue paper flew in a parabola and landed on the floor after hitting the outside of the entrance.

“She’s timid, but she’s also cunning on many topics. Why would she take the initiative to manage the number of people on duty, which is what low-level employees do? It must have been intentional.”

“Intent? What intention…?”

“Well. It’s obvious, but that doesn’t give me any reason to think deeply about it.”

Assistant Professor Claire tilted her head and looked at Kaleid.

He sighed and licked his lips, as if he felt uncomfortable in his mouth, and then stood up from his seat with a staggering body.

“Well… I’ve known you for a long time, so she must know enough about me.”

“If you know enough…”

What comes to mind when you think of Professor Kalade… Most of them are pitiful things.

never work once To the point where I wondered if it was really the right thing to pay a salary to such a person.

“…”

Come to think of it, the top of my office desk is more messy than I thought.

Bottles of alcohol rolling around and stinky tobacco powder falling here and there are common sights.

It’s a plate that Claire has to clear before she can change.

However, apart from that… There were documents that I couldn’t normally see.

“What is this?”

“Report documents from the living quarters. Living quarters are not under our jurisdiction, so I threw them around.”

“Yeah, it’s close to the Maxes Bridge…! Shouldn’t you be checking…?”

“I checked. Umm… what was it…”

Professor Kaleid spoke as he uncapped a bottle of distilled spirits in the back of the office.

“Hmm… Actually, I think I checked it in my dream… I must have remembered it in my dream…”

“Please…!!! Professor Kalade!!”

Tears welled up in Assistant Professor Claire’s eyes.

If it was a report that would come up on a night like this, it was likely something urgent or important. It’s something you have to put in your head first.

It’s been left on the office table for hours, so if it gets caught on the upper part, it’s a waste.

In order to check the situation even now, it was when I lifted the papers without shaking off the rainwater on my clothes.

– Kikii Iik

late morning. night duty room.

No one will come in unless they are on duty. So is the time and place.

However, a girl with auburn hair came through the rain… She was staring at the two of them with her merchant robe’s hat swung back.

“you…”

“hello.”

At least among those who are professors of elemental science, there is no one who doesn’t know the girl’s name.

It’s because he’s a second-year student, and while serving as an assistant manager at a giant trading company… he was an honor student among honor students sitting in class A as a student.

“Who is this? The serpent from Class 2 A is here.”

Poor posture, sitting astride the table with your feet raised.

Professor Kalreid, who is outgoing enough to be called the model of a bad teacher… doesn’t even look like she’s taken aback by her appearance.

“What’s going on with the Trix building’s duty room at this late hour?”

Lortel, who came in after shaking off the rain and took a seat across the table, smiled like an adult.

“I was wondering if Vice Principal Rachel was here.”

“I think it’s first to explain how I came up to the Trix building to find people at this late hour.”

Assistant Professor Claire was speechless at the table.

It is late in the morning when even the moon is not visible because of the falling rain.

It was because Lortel, who trudged through the gap and came out… looked like a ghost.

However, Lortel is a living person.

He looks a bit tired, and his clothes are dirty here and there… but the dignity that flows through the person himself is still the same.

Lortel glanced sideways at the report papers assistant professor Claire was holding, and seemed to have roughly guessed what they were about just by reading the large letters.

“As you reported, it’s because something happened at Elte Firm.”

“I don’t believe in written reports. If you don’t have a face-to-face conversation, I don’t think it’s credible.”

You did a good job wrapping things that you didn’t read the written report because you were bothered.

Assistant Professor Claire seemed to be losing her mind, but Professor Kalade was just sly, as if asking what was going on.

“Whatever Elte Firm is doing in the Living Building has nothing to do with us, the Trix Officers on duty in the Professor Building… why did we come all the way here…”

As sly as Lortel, Professor Caladed lit a fire at the beginning of the year.

“Rachel, she’s up to it again. She’s really full of energy and ambition.”

“…”

“It would have been nice if he had the ability to match that. Obel must have suffered a lot.”

As the smoke rose, Professor Kalade said to himself like that.

As a senior professor, it is not desirable to openly gossip about the deputy principal, who is your immediate superior.

However, if you want to measure it with desirability… In the first place, Professor Kalade was a human being who did not have a desirable part.

“I think things are going to get a little more annoying, so I’ll have to talk to Vice Principal Rachel, who is in charge of making decisions on the undergraduate side.”

“You know I won’t be curious about the details.”

He talks like that, but he doesn’t explain the situation at all.

Claire was dumbfounded, but Kaleid rather snorted and put on a satisfied expression.

“I think there will be a report from the bachelor’s office sooner or later. Ed Rosteiler and Elte Co. are involved, so it could be a big deal about embezzlement of public funds. It’s a hassle to have gossip going on… I’m trying to deal with it in advance.”

“Ed Roth Taylor? Suddenly, the name comes out of nowhere.”

Professor Kaleid groaned, lowered his legs off the table, and swiped his toes.

Then, he gets up from his seat with his hands in his pockets.

As I looked down at Lortel, I felt a strange sense of intimidation welling up.

“Isn’t that the name of the guy who had a hard time during the final exam?

“Well, what happened in the Roth Taylor family isn’t necessarily that senior’s fault, though.”

“Yeah, well… It’s perfect to take advantage of. It’s a close political position, and the name is well known…”

Professor Kalade, of course, had the premise that Lortel’s intentions were dark. It is judged that the fact that Ed Rosteiler is involved is also because he was a human being easy to use for Lortel.

Lortel was already used to that gaze.

“Honestly, he was a guy who didn’t have anything to be proud of. If the kids came to learn magic, they should have a fresh and fresh feeling. He already has rotten eyes… He’s blunt like a guy who’s gone through all sorts of hardships, so he doesn’t taste like teaching anything. doesn’t exist.”

“In the first place, Professor Kaleid, you hardly ever teach.”

“No… that’s… noisy, Claire. Actually, he’s that guy. Well, whatever it is, it doesn’t matter. Even if he’s a disciple who’s been marked for success, what’s the point if he doesn’t learn it. A guy with a bright future?” Too bad, tsk.”

It’s a tone that sounds like half-drunk. Meanwhile, Professor Kalade was opening a bottle.

“Still, there are only three kinds of people I hate terribly.”

A person who is not even like a professor, despite being in the teaching profession.

Looking at Professor Kalade, who was smoking with an arrogant look, everyone said that in unison.

“The one who throws away alcohol, the one who doesn’t pay back the money he borrowed, and…”

“…”

“…The bastard playing pranks on my pupil.”

However, in any case, he is a person who has been teaching for quite some time.

Even though he may have become a pitiful old-fashioned thing to the core, he is a human who draws a line that cannot be yielded until the end.

The beliefs that remain at the bottom sometimes pop up even if you think you have completely abandoned them.

“Do not worry.”

However, Lortel, who responded, seemed rather relaxed.

Originally, she always seemed relaxed, but she spoke to Professor Kaleid in a much calmer voice.

“Because that person is mine. I take care of it myself.”

Are you covering it up to avoid the situation, or are you saying it from the bottom of your heart?

Professor Kaleid glanced intently into Lortel’s eyes, then spat out the tobacco and blew it with a bottle.

After a while, he exhales with a pleasant sound and talks.

“It would be nice. Young ones. There was a time when I also had fiery love. Ehehe.”

“…”

“I don’t know how you ended up making friends with that blunt guy, but how far did you go? It seems like you just hit the lip, and the speed at which kids prepare for lessons these days is no joke, but I can’t believe they slept…”

– Perok!

Professor Kalade, who was hit in the face by the pile of books that protruded as a reflex, fell backwards along with the chair and fell over.

The pitcher was assistant coach Clare.

“Muh, what are you talking about! That’s a crime, Professor Kaleid!”

Drunk on the floor in a drunken state, Professor Kaleid wriggled several times.

Assistant Professor Claire also felt sorry for her. I never thought I would commit atrocities like throwing books at my advisor.

No matter how reflexive it is, I wonder if this is too much, but… Unexpectedly, Professor Kaleid just stared blankly at the ceiling and collapsed pathetically.

Unexpectedly… is he someone you can just treat…?

At such a strange thought, Assistant Professor Claire broke into a cold sweat.

With Lortel, who seemed to be strangely avoiding her gaze, Claire spoke quickly.

“Since Vice Principal Rachel hates Elte Co., it won’t be nice for you to meet now. Rather than meeting with her, it would be better to leave a letter… Lortel…?”

Anyway, I don’t think anything good will happen if Lortel and Vice Principal Rachel meet.

Claire, who had judged that, was at a loss for words while trying to sort things out.

A sneaky snail. A fox whose intentions are unknown. Well, I was a girl who lived listening to such stories, and assistant professor Claire was also a child who was strangely depressed when she encountered something in elemental science class.

However, seeing her subtly averting her gaze and crouching, her face subtly blushing… Assistant Professor Claire doubted her eyes.

Isn’t it the girl who has endured for so long in the back world of commerce, full of all kinds of terrible news?

She must have maintained a poker face even in the face of much more insulting words and an attitude that scratched her ego…

The way Professor Kalreid holds back from twisting himself over a few trivial obscenities… is really like a girl of that age.

Were you able to make such a face?

Not getting used to that sense of distance, Assistant Professor Claire was speechless for a moment.

*[ It’s done. That can’t happen. ]

Rain streams leaked through the broken outer walls of the VIP waiting room.

As a few raindrops seeped through Jenika’s hair, a gigantic bird-shaped spirit spread its wings over her head and covered it.

-Toduk, toduk.

The rain fell evenly on Taylor, who was struggling to collapse.

“Quaaaaaagh!”

Taily, who had been pushing the floor to get himself up again and again… Eventually, his body slowly began to loosen up.

[It doesn’t make any sense to do more than this. Let’s close the situation, Miss Yenika. ]

The horse-shaped spirit that feels like it was made of soil, the lieutenant earth spirit Tyke, snorted and talked.

While capturing Tarkan’s magical power that had been reverse summoned and disappeared, Yenika quickly cleared her mind of surprise.

Tarkan was a fairly powerful spirit among high-ranking fire spirits.

The position of Theorphis, the highest ranking fire spirit, was so powerful that it was impossible to even dream of a phase shift to the highest ranking spirit… but among the highest ranking spirits, it is a spirit that stands in a position that is respected by quite a few beings.

Even Jenika could not have imagined that such a Tarkan could be cut down. The Tarkan’s shell, which easily receives any external shock… No one has ever penetrated this Sylvania with pure firepower except for Lucy.

However, that alone was not enough.

In the end, in order to overcome Yenica’s elemental magic, she had to rely on the advantage of a mutual relationship of elemental properties, but even that is meaningless in front of Jenika, who handles all elemental spirits.

strong.

With that alone, even famous students in Sylvania couldn’t hold out their business cards in front of Jenika.

Jenika, who was born with a strong sense of sensitivity, grew more absurd than expected while interacting with Ed Rosteyler.

Now, it’s not enough to break through with Taylor’s power.

Like that, Taily’s journey… ends on the 3rd floor of the Elte store.

Little by little, Taylor lost consciousness, and eventually she completely let go of her body.

The effort to get up while gritting teeth and maintaining consciousness eventually subsided.

“Kuh, ugh…”

When Taily stopped moving completely, Ziggs came up from the stairs downstairs.

There were no major injuries, so it seemed that there was no difficulty in controlling the body. In the first place, Taily had no intention of hurting Ziggs, and was only interested in clearing the way.

“It’s over, Jenika-senpai.”

“huh.”

While slowly summoning the spirits, Yenika quietly nodded.

Ed’s message to stop Taylor McLore from penetrating the upper building as much as possible.

A series of plans to use the building as a battlefield, cause chaos, check Taylor’s specs, and stimulate his growth if possible were all accomplished.

In the first place, it was only necessary to block Taily’s path, but Clevius’ intrusion made things a little more complicated.

Not only that, but Taylor had a stronger willpower than I thought, so it took longer and I had a hard time.

“I didn’t know you could last this long…”

“I’ll take care of the unconscious Taylor. Go back and get some rest, Yenica-senpai.”

“Yeah. I’ll have to tell Ed about the situation. I’ll go back to camp.”

Yenica put the magical engineering supplies back into her bosom, shook off the wand and saved it, then talked.

That’s how Yenika… quietly looked up at the rainy sky.

It is said that the purpose was to test Taylor, but why is she so interested in her skills?

To be honest, Yenika didn’t have a very good impression of Taily.

It was because he kept showing hostility toward Ed or making aggressive remarks. However, if you dig into the cause, after all, Ed’s behavior during the entrance exam is the most fundamental reason, so he didn’t bother to blame Taylor.

Even though he was just that much of an existence, Ed was curiously interested in Taylor’s specs.

On the one hand, it seemed like he was really praying for his growth… Jenika couldn’t hide her doubts either.

Although Taily certainly had a strong will and tremendous power of growth… Ed did not lag behind in terms of will and power of growth.

If Taylor’s strong growth power is his destiny as a protagonist, Ed Roth Taylor’s growth is the result of winning with his own will.

Of course, I can’t understand the big difference. At least Yenika just affirms Ed as a person to person.

Just like that, it was when Yenika tried to sort things out.

“Ed Rosteyler is at the camp.”

The boy’s voice, which he thought was unconscious, echoed in the VIP waiting room.

Before he could react, a storm of magical power spurted out and hit the entire waiting room.

– Quaaaaaaang!

Yenika and Ziggs reacted quickly and passed without much damage, but the building’s outer walls couldn’t do that either.

The outer wall of the Elte Firm building in the rain… About a fifth of it was shattered by the release of magical power.

– Quaang! Aaaaaang!

“Keukssuk…!”

Yenika quickly summoned spirits to block my aftermath, and Ziggs also hid behind the debris to minimize damage from the impact.

In the meantime, the magical energy that rose up… It must have been pushed up from the body of the sword master, Taily.

Swordsman Ceremony – As implemented in <Death Swordsman of Sylvania>, it is the last kick that is expressed when you are cornered.

It is a skill that allows you to continue fighting for a while by reviving in an intact state before losing consciousness after exhausting all energy.

It is a desperate technique that Luden, the first swordsman, devised after seeing blood swordsmanship, and it is a technique that is usually forgotten even exists because it is activated only when it is really pushed to the extreme limit.

However, Clevias, who uses blood swordsmanship, and Taily, who came sword to sword… In that short time, he succeeded in learning all of this desperate skill.

A flame that burns briefly before losing consciousness.

That’s why it burns more splendidly and magnificently.

– Kaaaaaaaang!

Is it a sword attack? Or did a ray of magic pass through it?

It was broken in two. Nothing else, this VIP waiting room.

– Kiyiyiying!

– Koo Goo Goong!

One neatly cut vertically.

Through the stained glass, through the floor… the traces of the sword wound that continued in a really fine way.

Around it… this building began to crack.

“what….?”

Taily raised her greatsword again… This time, she swung her sword diagonally.

The target was neither Yenika nor Ziggs. The target was this huge Elte Company building, which was nowhere to be seen.

Like an egg being cut with a thread knife… All too naturally, the building starts to fall apart.

– Kugoong! Koo Goo Goo!

Buildings begin to collapse as rubble and debris fall.

Even the buildings of the Elte Corporation’s Sylvania branch, which must have been invested with grandiose funds, would only disappear in a single shot in front of the Sword Master’s sword.

– Hui Iik!

The most urgent thing is to escape from the collapsing building.

As soon as Yenika and Ziggs met their eyes, they each escaped through the window in their own ways.

Ziggs, who landed by guiding wind magic, and Yenika, who rode spirits.

In the clearing of the store where the rain and wind blew… I could see Elvira running out of the crumbling wreckage holding Clevius.

– Kugoong! Whoops!

The majestic sight of that huge building collapsing.

In the sky, you can even see Tracyana, who has jumped out through flight magic.

He even showed the composure to rescue the employees who were roaming around the store with telekinesis magic, but even in the midst of that, his face clearly showed a look of bewilderment.

– Quagga gag gag gag!

– Quaaaaaaang!

It was like shooting a cannonball with each sword attack.

All of them just stared at the powerful strike as if they were dumbfounded.

After all, isn’t it just a rampage at the end before losing consciousness?

If she endured that brief gap, Sword Saint Taily would eventually collapse.

There is no reason to put effort into the outburst pattern that automatically collapses when the time is up. It is an attack pattern that you can quickly understand how to deal with just by looking at it.

Taylor herself knows. not much time given

That’s why… On top of the collapsed debris, I saw a path stretching towards the northern forest.

Before I could think of anything, I kicked the floor and ran out.

Footprints leading through the forest, traces of people passing by.

It’s not a single person’s mark. It is the footprint of a strong man and a woman following him.

The opponent… is at the camp in the northern forest.

Taylor has very little time. Right now, I’m on the verge of losing consciousness.

Before that, he cut Ed Rosteyler.

With that thought… Taily McLore ran through the woods.