How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 189

Ed subjugation (12)

The red bow hairpin was shining softly in the moonlight that passed through the stained glass.

Although it is not a magical device to speak of, the hairpin makes the sincere appearance of Saint Clarisse, who always looks noble, look even more noble.

The gray hair flowing down the face line is spread out on the prayer table prepared for the church members.

The pure white color that symbolizes innocence was subtly dyed from her hair to the elegantly dressed saint’s attire.

“Ah, ah… Saint Clarice. Ear, I heard that you returned to school, but I didn’t expect you to come to the Academic Cathedral. I’m sorry… I wish I had told you in advance…”

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

The diligent choirmaster opened the chapel door at an early hour, and almost fell out of his liver.

If you are a believer of the Church of Telos, you can live with the honor of a lifetime just by seeing her face once in your life… It’s because she was sitting in the chapel alone.

“Oh, I’m sorry I came without saying anything.”

Unlike when she was an immature aristocratic scion, Kylie Acne, this girl looks noble as always when she is a saint Clarisse.

It’s such a gap that it’s hard to believe that the two are the same person.

“Oh, you didn’t attend the prayer meeting at Cleric Monastery this summer.”

“Seonghwang made it easy for me to prioritize my academic schedule.”

“I-I see… Excuse me. Sorry to interrupt your prayers.”

“Is there anything I’m sorry about? I came in on my own.”

In fact, Clarisse was also embarrassed.

I was thinking of taking off the pendant imprinted with camouflage magic for a while and praying in a comfortable, empty chapel.

However, I didn’t even think that another follower would come in during that moment… I had to respond with improvisation.

“Suddenly, unscheduled early morning prayer, have you had any changes in your mind? Or… even troubled…”

The student on duty asked for a while, then hid again and bit his tongue.

“Ah, ah… I’m sorry. I asked a presumptuous question. Eh, forget it… Gee, the situation is so embarrassing that I’m speechless…”

“Oh, you don’t have to be too difficult. It’s just… school is starting again.”

Clarisse calmed the student down with a calm voice, then closed her eyes gently again as she clasped her hands together.

“I fall in love with the prayer meeting at Cleric Monastery, the agency of the Church of Telos, and I think that Seonghwangdo is continuing his life in this Sylvania school far away from the building… I feel very strange.”

“Is that so…”

“So, I just wanted to pray to Telos, who gave me help to pass this semester without any major problems.”

After saying that, Clarice quietly lowered her head.

The student on duty took a breath and took a backward step, feeling that she was indeed a saint who was respected by the Church of Telos.

The image of a saint sitting alone in a chapel praying to Telos. Feeling as if time had stopped in the chapel, the choir student was determined not to disturb them.

As it was, the sound of the student leaving the chapel echoed softly… but Clarisse, who was silently praying, did not hear it.

The phrase of prayer to the Lord was always different.

Depending on whether it is day or night, whether it is Sabbath or Advent, whether it is a holy city or a regular church, whether it is with religious or non-believers, whether it is a happy time or a sad time… it’s all different phrases. Clarisse had memorized all of those phrases already when he was young.

However, the phrases of private prayers were always arbitrary. Even if she is a saint who represents the Church of Telos, wouldn’t it be okay to do as she pleases?

It was full of all sorts of trials and painful experiences, but anyway, Clarisse’s college life always excites her.

Every day was like a dream, to the point where I wondered when this kind of life would be possible again. There were a lot of things I was experiencing for the first time, and for the first time in my life, I had a person that I wanted to be close to.

However, it is not always happy and enjoyable. The same goes for the experiences you have accumulated.

——Saint Clarisse was the only girl who witnessed the revival of the Holy Spear Dragon, Velbroke, along with Ed.

Edgar is the only human who can believe without a doubt when he talks about Valveroke, even if there is no basis, and can accurately understand the context of the story.

That alone means a lot to Ed, because he doesn’t even realize anything yet… he just prays that things unfolding in his future will work out.

Nothing good will happen. There will definitely be some hard work.

Even if the remaining trials are full, I hope that you will gain the strength and courage to overcome them…

Clarisse murmurs quietly.

– God who looks down on us from the sky and cares for us with kindness.

– Please give us strong will and firm courage to overcome the trials that are full of our way forward.

– Please give me the reason to react calmly without losing reason even in unexpected situations.

raindrops fall

As soon as she sees Ed lying down bleeding, Princess Fenia throws away her lace umbrella and runs out into the rain.

The servants are surprised and chase Fenia with an umbrella, but Fenia doesn’t care and straightens Ed’s body full of mud.

Blood was oozing from the deep sword wound. The blood was already forming puddles on the floor from the pounding rain.

The servants jump out in surprise, but Fenia doesn’t even seem to care. Her expensive imperial dress is covered in mud and blood.

He tried to stop the bleeding by tearing his collar, but the amount of blood was so great that he couldn’t help it. Princess Penia calls out to her soldiers and orders her immediate medic to be brought in. She calls out in an exasperated voice to make her duty request on the bachelor side as well.

– Give me the character to keep a cool head even when unbearable anger comes up.

Magical energy surged up from the collar that was holding onto Taily.

In front of Taylor, who can no longer move her body, Lucy feels an indescribable rage.

it is raining.

It reminds me of the day Glockt, the girl’s teacher in my memory, left.

I’ve put down a lot now. The longing left in his heart has been replaced by a new bond, and there is no other empty place left in Lucy’s heart.

The void was filled long ago. That’s why, from now on, I don’t lose my temper and run amok, and I don’t do things out of anger.

However, that does not mean that the anger that rises will disappear.

The sad chill in his eyes as he glared at Taylor made a goose run run down his spine.

Dozens of ice spears float behind Lucy.

The ice spear is a medium-level magic, and it is a level of magic that high-ranking students who have become proficient in magic often use.

However, the size and magic power are completely different.

Even if one materialized, it would be exhausting magic at the student level, but the ice spear that Lucy manifested filled the air.

From Taylor’s point of view looking up at Lucy… the sky is invisible.

I didn’t even do a chant. There is not even a sign of raising one’s mana.

A magic of this magnitude could be realized just by reflexive movements caused by anger. It makes it easy to see at a glance just how devastating the gap between Lucy Mayreel and Taily McLore is.

Even if he wasn’t in a mess and was in perfect condition, Taily couldn’t even go crazy with Lucy’s toes.

Lucy’s furious look shows no mercy whatsoever.

Cold anger rather than hot. Without shedding tears, without swearing or shouting evil.

The chill that just permeates coldly… Gradually turns into a greater sense of fear.

– Even in an urgent situation, please give me the wisdom to always look at the logic of work first.

Secretary Lienna ran across the half-destroyed hallway, closing her eyes and clenching her teeth.

It is a situation where Dune has completely gone out of the upper house. In the absence of a leader, the store’s employees, who faced a catastrophic collapse of the store’s building… are already in a state of panic.

I can’t find order. First you have to run away. Elte Sanghoi has already reached a point where it is difficult to normalize.

I couldn’t exactly know the whole story, but I knew it through my intuition. Dune was unable to fully subdue Lortel Kecheln.

I thought I had completely imprisoned the smirking fox girl, but she still had an escape route.

The memory that bloomed in Lienna’s secretary was the face of Jenika she saw in the VIP waiting room.

The girl guarding the waiting room with all sorts of spirits manifested was fear itself to Rienna.

Rienna’s secretary who was timid in the first place. It felt like I had already reached my limit just by gnashing my teeth and running out of the hallway.

However, the wall on the side of the corridor suddenly exploded, throwing debris.

Secretary Rienna rolled on the floor, clutching her chest in shock. The one that broke through the wall… was the object that Rienna’s secretary had been running away from just before.

The raging rain rushed into the hallway inside the half-destroyed store.

It was here.

Jenika Failover broke through the wall and talked to Secretary Rienna.

– Even if you are cornered, please help me come up with a way to overcome it.

Assistant Professor Claire leads Lortel Kecheln to the Deputy Principal’s Office at the Trix Building.

Now, Lortel and Rachel meeting doesn’t seem like a very good thing.

The relationship between Elte Co. and the school has already gone astray, and nothing could get worse here.

Not only that, but Lortel, who seems to be in a pretty precarious situation… How can she negotiate with Vice Principal Rachel?

However, at Lortel’s strong request, they put in contact with Vice Principal Rachel’s office for now.

Surprisingly, when the acceptance fell, only assistant professor Claire felt bewildered.

In the end, it’s unreliable, but Professor Kalade is left alone in the duty room, and Assistant Professor Claire and Lortel enter the Trix building side by side.

When I walked down the corridor and opened the door to the vice principal’s office, an elderly woman with dark red hair was sitting at a desk in the office.

The outfit of the vice principal in Sylvania is not very luxurious, but it is not so simple either.

A bluish cape over neatly well-dressed clothes.

If you look at the wrinkles on the arms that show the past and the wrinkles on the back of the hands… A woman who looks young even with empty words is definitely not.

He is the one who has been at odds with the principal, Obel Forciers, and has constantly built up a negative impression with Elte Corporation.

When Rachel sees Lortel following assistant professor Claire, she expresses surprise.

The bachelor took part in the takeover of the Elte Company that Dune had planned, but he didn’t deviate much from the line of closing his eyes.

I just received a promise to release the monopoly on some items monopolized by Elte Corporation.

Instead, how fierce was the internal war of nerves that the merchants gave up their right to become money?

As soon as Rachel saw Lortel’s appearance, she succeeded in predicting the situation to some extent.

However, the conversation between Lortel and Rachel is different. Negotiations between the person at the forefront of the school and the person at the forefront of the business association… cannot be concluded simply by appealing to emotions.

The two sit face to face at the negotiating table.

Although he is in a predicament, Lortel smiles coquettishly even in this situation.

– Even if something doesn’t go as intended, please give me the wisdom to set things right again.

Ayla’s body is losing the energy of young Aspect Magic.

As Ed Roth Taylor is wounded, and control over magic completely disappears… Only then Isla succeeds in coming to her senses.

The place is inside a closed wooden shelter.

It was once a favorite napping spot for Lucy Meiril, and the floor was covered with fluffy fur, and the ceiling was made of wooden frames and thickly padded with large-leaved leaves.

It’s a dark situation because the entrance is tightly blocked.

Ayla, who opened her eyes, shook her head and stood up. The sound of her rain fills the inside, so I can’t hear her outside, but it seems like there’s been a commotion anyway.

It’s dark and I can’t find the entrance. Still, Ayla drags her heavy body around her walls and touches them here and there.

The sound of crowds of people can be heard from outside. After groping for a long time, listening to the sound, I find a door that I can barely push to the side.

In the dark, I whimper and push the knob in my hand, but the door doesn’t move very well. Still, it seemed to be moving slightly, so Ayla continued to squeeze his hand tightly.

– and….

“…”

There, Clarisse’s prayers pause for a moment.

I would like to ask God for help in all conceivable crises, but there are far more unforeseen trials in the world.

An ordeal is an ordeal because it is unpredictable. Since Clarisse was well aware of that fact, he closed and opened his eyes for a moment, and spoke softly with his hand tight.

– Even when a huge ordeal that cannot be overcome comes, please give me the courage to face it without being afraid.

“Keuh, huh…!”

Taylor overcomes her fear.

Even if the trials that stand in front of them have no hope of overcoming them… there are those who won’t stop knocking on the wall.

Captains of sinking ships.

Or, they are soldiers who maintain formation to protect the capital even though they know they will be defeated.

The same goes for the workers who repaired the dam without running away even after seeing the flood.

This is the case with fathers who send their children behind their backs even in front of a murderer with a weapon.

They have something in common. It’s not such a great philosophical thought, nor is it a sublime will to the point of sticking out the tongue.

There is something you must keep.

That simple fact makes a person overcome an unbearable fear. It makes you continue to resist even at the end.

Taily squeezes Lucy’s small hand tightly with her bloody hand.

Even though she is a girl of about half her size and weight, she cannot be shaken off even with all her strength.

Even so, Taylor gnashed her teeth and resisted with all her will.

“Lortel Kecheln’s villa is over there… The convoy is ready to enter…!”

“As informed, search mainly underground!

Meanwhile, Princess Penia, who was holding Ed’s wound tightly, doubted her ears.

Senior Trainer Tune, dispatched as an escort under Persica’s order, was thinking of raiding Lortel’s villa with the convoy.

The number of convoys is limited.

As they entered the interior of Sylvania, the personnel left behind to go through the procedures and the personnel guarding the wagon were missing, and due to the nature of the space inside the forest, many people were unable to move at once.

It was a situation where there was nothing good about distributing the number of people.

“What are you talking about? Can’t you see that people are bleeding?”

Not only Ed, but also Taylor is seriously injured.

Taily’s condition, which has accumulated so many wounds, is also in a state, but even Ed’s bleeding right now is not serious. Ed is overwhelmingly serious with only the smell of bleeding.

I didn’t know what would happen if I left Ed unattended on a rainy day like this.

“Hwangmyeong. Move right now.”

“Princess Fenia.”

“It’s a warning that people’s lives come and go. Don’t you understand what I’m saying?”

Princess Fenia, who jumped out of her seat and stood up, aimed straight at Tune.

A female knight with red hair hanging down with her helmet off. He is dignified and trustworthy, but his loyalty is not towards Princess Penia.

She is the closest aide to the Knight Commander, attached to Princess Persica.

It has been dispatched under the name of Princess Penia’s escort, but in the end, the purpose is to carry out Persica’s command.

Disobeying the emperor is a matter punishable by the death penalty.

The female knight, driven into a corner between the orders of Princess Persica and Princess Fenia… gently closed her eyes and spoke.

“Princess Fenia.”

“Senior Trainer, Tune. Don’t make me remember the name.”

“If you stay still like this, you will see the sinner’s actions…”

Tune couldn’t finish speaking. Because his head was completely turned. Surprised Tune’s pupils widened once.

Princess of Kindness, Fenia Elias Chloe.

Her tendency to embrace and acknowledge even those with low status made her nickname. This is because when she was in her labyrinth, she judged people solely on their ability and character.

From the cleaners cleaning the floors of the imperial family, to the third-rate assistant cooks of the imperial chef, to the new maids… Her disposition to treat everyone equally was a miracle that blossomed in this world of insidious trickery.

Shouldn’t there be people like this among the royal family?

Her evaluation and rumors that circulated among the servants were usually like that.

Then, she lifted the slap from the lower person. In a place where so many people are watching.

The sight is so rare that it feels unreal.

Tune, as well as the other soldiers who were watching the situation, all held their breath.

Even if it lifted the cheek of a female knight who had lived through training, there was no way it would exert great power.

It only dyed her immaculate hands, which had grown noble all her life, more red.

However, the eyes glaring at Tune in the rain with her eyebrows narrowed were still firm.

– shoot it

A single raindrop runs down her jawline. Around the time she was dangling from the tip of her head, Princess Fenia opened her mouth.

“Please… keep the line.”

“…”

“A person… a person was cut down by a sword and fell.”

Princess Fenia also understands the life story of Ed, who was in danger of death several times.

The hard truth to bear is that in the life of Ed, who has lived so tenaciously, Princess Penia was the biggest burden and wall.

“There are people who are holding on this far… What do you mean by that now?”

The words he spits stab himself.

It was she who first expelled him, and she was the one who stood opposite him every time at important turning points.

Blame and scolding, doubt and contempt, trials and pain. If you go to the source, most of them were headed towards Princess Penia.

The darkness of the Ross Taylor family, the wild life that was painful to live day by day, and the bachelor life that was ridiculed everywhere.

A man who never gave up his will to live, gritting his teeth, even though nothing in his life was painless. The one who always stared into the man’s eyes on the other side was Princess Penia.

However, there remains one well-known fact that no one can deny.

——Ed Rosteilor had never held a grudge against Princess Penia.

Although there may have been times when he was bored or indifferent, Ed was never pessimistic about his life, blaming others for his situation.

Tune suddenly looked at Princess Penia’s face again, and then swallowed her breath.

Rainwater wasn’t the only thing running down her chin.

She sniffs her nose once and manages to maintain a firm expression, but if you dig deeper, a weak girl of that age comes out.

“If I stay still like this… I will die… How did I keep my life…”

It is a fact that is so easily forgotten because of its distant lineage and authority.

Even if you were born into the most noble lineage, wore a dazzling dress in a magnificent rose palace, and went to a splendid dinner party.

Even the imperial family, who rode around in a wagon the size of a commoner’s house, looked down on the world, and commanded hundreds of troops with a single gesture.

The fact that after flipping the eyelids, what you see is only a girl who has grown up.

It flew like a long spear into Tune’s head and stuck.

I stopped realizing that I was completely in love with the prestige of the imperial family, which I had seen while serving in the imperial knights for many years.

The imperial family is also a person. That all-too-obvious fact approaches as if it had become an absurd twist.

“…We will organize the staff toward the Haksa-dong.”

Tune spoke slowly, in a trembling voice.

“Tune trainer! If not now…!”

When the assistant next to him tried to say something, Tune raised his hand to stop it.

Eventually, seeing the image of Princess Fenia, who went to the fallen Ed and pressed the wound tightly, Tune hesitated for a while before talking.

“For now, follow the orders of Princess Penia.”

“Well, if that happens…!”

“Lortel Kecheln can also be caught. However, it is only a priority to deal with the situation in front of you.”

Talking like that, Tune gathered the soldiers.

Calling in medical personnel is not that difficult. However, the problem is Lucy Meiril, who is holding Taily by the collar.

She is a girl who has the mighty power to end any situation.

With one gesture from her, Taylor’s treatment is decided.

The only boy who can stop her is also unconscious and bleeding.

Just like that… as the released magic power covered the sky.

—The story is finished.

– amen

After finishing her last prayer, Clarisse raised her head like that.

The darkness of the night had receded a lot in the sky that was vaguely visible through the stained glass, and the energy of the morning was slowly rising.

The dark red dark clouds have also subsided considerably, and a gentle breeze is blowing in the scenery outside through the outer window.

It’s too dark to be called morning, and a bit bright to be called night… Time on that boundary.

Clarisse nodded, feeling the morning air. He stretches out greatly once to loosen up his swollen body, and as he tries to leave the chapel, he stamps his toes on the wooden seats prepared for the believers.

Heeup, I nodded in pain alone with the sound of the streets, and then I grabbed the necklace and walked out again.

My toe hurt so much that I burst into tears, but somehow I endured it and came out again in the form of a noble and holy woman. Then she took a short deep breath.

The cool morning air entered his lungs.

At this point, it was what you might call morning air.