How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 94

Student president election (7)

– Quaang!

The explosion was heard at the moment when the sparring with Elvira was coming to an end.

“What, what…?”

A student training facility in the basement of the Ophelis building.

Wade Calamore, the head of the freshman class, who enthusiastically challenged the heads of each department, was full of spirits.

Cleveland Nortondale, the head of the 2nd year combat department, declared withdrawal as soon as he appeared at the arena, and Elvira, the chief of the alchemy department, had just admitted defeat after having all the reagent bottles destroyed by Wade’s sword.

It was the moment when the onlookers and students gathered in the basement of Ophelis Hall shouted cheers.

Excluding Lucy, who is treated completely off topic, if you defeat Ziggs Eiffelstein, the second-year assistant in the Ministry of Magic in the second year… Next, it’s the third year’s turn.

“Thank you for your hard work, Elvira-senpai.”

“joy.”

Elvira snorted as she was taking care of the reagent bottle in the corner of the arena with a lot of dust on it.

“The momentum is on the rise.”

“It was a good fight.”

“What’s a good match? It’s clear that I feel good about beating the senior senior.”

“Haha, I’m a human too…”

Elvira is not very good at combat. In the first place, the study of alchemy itself was not a study specialized in combat.

However, by the time you reach the top of your grade, the combat field itself is usually of a different level. You can get a glimpse of how powerful Wade’s power is.

“Anyway, next I just have to defeat Ziggs.”

What an arrogant statement. Nonetheless, Wade was convinced that he would actually do it, and the onlookers and students couldn’t deny it.

Wade’s swordsmanship is definitely not at the level of a first year. He had a reason for taking the first-year senior position, beating Joseph of the Ministry of Magic and Claude of the Ministry of Pensions.

Ziggs, who was watching the sparring in the corner of the arena, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, shrugged.

Anyway, it’s too late tonight. The time for sparring had passed, so Wade and Ziggs’ sparring had to promise the next one.

The match that the students who came to see most wanted to see was the match between Ziggs and Wade. Thinking that the main event would be postponed, there was a sense of regret among the students.

“By the way, what the hell is that sound and vibration just now? Did something collapse because there was thunder outside?”

“Well, I have to go upstairs. It’s time to close the underground arena soon. The maids will be coming soon to ask for it to be vacated.”

– Quaang!

Sure enough, before Ziggs could finish his words, two low-level maids burst through the arena door.

Ziggs and Wade, as if they hadn’t thought that they would appear with such a strong presence, just stared at the door.

“You need to evacuate right now! Outside… something bad is happening…!”

What do you mean ‘not good’? What the hell are you talking about in such a lumpy manner?

Ziggs frowned, lifted the wall from his back, and stood up.

“It’s not good, what is it?”

“That… that… while evacuating…”

All the students in the arena nodded their heads in bewilderment.

The party went up to the ground floor, following the maid who hurriedly ran up. And as he passed through the main hall and entered the hallway, Ziggs stuck his tongue out at the sight he could see out the window.

The square is full of ‘statues’.

However, if you look closely, it is not a statue. They are the maids of the Ophelis Hall that has hardened.

Temporal Aspect Magic. ‘Time Prison’.

It is a time-based aspect magic that can be handled only by highly training the Aspect Magic.

It’s hard to believe, but there is a genius in the world who can roughly copy the Aspect Magic that someone has devoted their whole life to studying.

In the frozen time, the number of hot maids filling the plaza approaches one, two… dozens.

Among them, you can see Bell Maia, the chief maid who oversees the maids of Ophelis Hall.

“This… what is this…!”

Wade screamed. Looking up at the rainy sky, a giant orb of magical power fills the sky above the Ophelis tube.

High-ranking fire magic, ‘Fireball’.

It is the most famous high-level magic in the field of pure fire magic that can burn an entire area with only pure firepower.

Not even five minutes had passed since the first explosion was heard. What had happened during those five minutes could not be inferred from the sight alone.

center of the square. There is a girl standing with a hat tightly pressed down and a ghostly appearance. she is a familiar face

“Lucy… Mayril…?”

Are you out of your mind?

No matter how much Lucy is treated as a geek among geeks, she is absolutely not the kind of person who would do crazy things like this.

However, from the sight alone, it seems that Lucy will destroy this Ophelis tube at any moment.

There are still a lot of students inside, but if you really hit that level of magic, a catastrophe will happen.

“This is the news that Master Ed Rosteeler, a third year student at the Ministry of Magic, has passed away.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“At least that’s what Miss Lucy says.”

The maid quickly led the students and ran along the corridor leading to the back of the hall on the first floor. She was thinking of evacuating everyone through the back door for now.

However, the explanation of the situation did not stop.

“Right now, the head maid and the high-ranking maids are all in the process of being hit, so we’re also in a very confused state. For now, we’re moving in the direction of evacuating the students by banding together among the active maids. We have to move quickly first!”

There were about 20 or so students watching Dalian. For the maid, leading and evacuating all these students was an urgent task.

“Senior Ed… died…?”

If you run across the hallway, you can even see the scenery behind Lucy through the window. Two retainers who were captured by Lucy’s telekinesis magic were floating in the air.

“Yes. I must have seen him being assassinated by the vassals of the Ross Taylor family.”

“If you’re a vassal of the Ross-Taylor family… then… Tanya Ross-Taylor…?”

“That’s… not an area I’d guess.”

As the maid ran out, she unlocked all the locked doors. It was because she was thinking of taking all the students out of the room, if any.

The group of students who followed trembled in fear at the sight of the burning balls filling the sky.

“Then where is Tanya herself?”

“That… I don’t know…”

“…”

Ziggs, who was running after the maid, stopped. In a busy situation, Ziggs looked at Ziggs as if asking what was going on.

“You go first.”

“Yes? Master Ziggs. The current situation is…”

“I know. Evacuate them all.”

Ziggs could sense it.

If Lucy made up her mind, she could have finished the chant in an instant and put it down like that burning ball magic.

That was just a means of threatening to colonel Tanya right in front of her eyes. Rather, if all the students were evacuated and they were sure that there would be no casualties, they might actually hit the magic.

Lucy has completely lost her temper, but she still doesn’t let go of the last string.

The reason why I overpowered the maids with the cumbersome time prison was because I didn’t want to harm their bodies. Even if the burning ball was inserted down, there would be no damage to the maids who were separated from time itself.

However, destroying the entire Ophelis tube… should be stopped anyway. No matter how careful you are, you cannot think that there will be no casualties at all.

“I will act separately.”

“It can’t be.”

“I understand, but…”

“I’ve already been beaten by two seniors in the 4th grade department.”

Ziggs heard that and looked at the plaza again. Among the many statues, you can see ‘Dorothy Whitefelts’, the 4th year pension department chief, and ‘Tracyana Bloomriver’, the magic department chief.

How long will it be until the bachelor staff arrives. 10 minutes? 30 minutes?

Even if the bachelor’s staff arrived, would they be able to handle such a monster?

First of all, there is no one who can compete with Lucy Meiril, at least inside Ophelis.

If you look out the window, you can clearly see Lucy’s magical figure floating in the air.

The floating recurve bow belonged to Ed. Dozens of magical arrows were loaded by Lucy. Each one is imprinted with a law circle that exerts the power of high-level magic.

The elements filling the square are all so complex that it wouldn’t be strange if it took three days and three nights to interpret just one.

He is a genius who has received blessings from heaven. Does anyone who can stop such a monster exist now?

The recklessness of the act of preventing the disaster that came to the rose garden… can be represented with just three words.

impossible. It is utterly impossible to prevent such a thing.

Still, Lucy doesn’t cross the last line, and she’s not directly attacking the Ophelis Hall full of students… but if she really completely loses her mind and crosses the line…

“I’ve tried to talk to you, but it doesn’t work. I keep asking you to bring Miss Tanya.”

“Okay. Go first.”

When Ziggs said that, the maid frowned again. It was an understandable reaction.

“You’re too reckless, Mr. Ziggs!”

This time, Wade also blocked it. Wade frowned and spoke, holding the coward and blocking the road.

“How are you going to stop something like that…? Just evacuate…!”

“I’ll evacuate myself when the time comes, so leave first.”

“Why are you doing that?! Master Ziggs.”

The maids of Ophelis House are always polite and courteous. It’s really hard to see him raise his voice.

This is an understandable position. I don’t know what responsibility I’ll be held if it leads to human damage here.

So, Ziggs lowered his head with an apologetic heart.

“I’m sorry.”

Saying that, he broke away from the ranks and ran out. It was obvious why he was so stubborn.

It was because Ziggs couldn’t understand the current situation itself…

*

– Quaang!

As he kicked through the door, Ziggs saw the open exterior wall. It was the third room from the back of the third floor of the Ophelis building, Tanya Rosteiler’s private room.

The situation was the situation, so I broke down the door without knocking. The room was cute like a girl’s, but also luxurious.

Now, the broken outer wall makes no sense due to the wind and rain, but at least the shape of the room remained.

Ziggs dusted off his clothes and looked around. The fact that the lead maid ran all the way to the underground arena meant that they had already checked most of the places.

There’s no way I’m going out on a rainy night like this, so the only place Tanya can be is in my room. It was already a terrible sight to the extent that I couldn’t even call a room, but this was probably the only place I could hide without getting caught.

Few pieces of furniture are in good shape. Searching here and there, Ziggs opened a large closet… Finally, Tanya Ross-Taylor emerged from within.

“Uhhhhhhhhhh…”

The figure shivering while hugging her knees and shutting herself in the closet… is the girl herself who is absolutely terrified. I was dumbfounded because the way she curled up was more like a hamster than a person.

“…”

“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhw…why did the situation come to this?

Ziggs turned his head again to look at the half-destroyed outer wall. Here, if he looked straight down at the central plaza, he could see Lucy’s distraught figure straight up.

It is a landscape that is terrifying. Ziggs had no choice but to swallow dry saliva.

The idea of ​​jumping straight towards Lucy from here is impossible without a fair amount of courage. Rather close to suicide.

Looking at Lucy’s appearance, it wouldn’t be strange if she jumped out and was instantly killed. It was a natural and reasonable decision to hide.

“Listen up, Tanya Rosteeler.”

Ziggs took a deep breath, then took a chair that had fallen in the corner of the room and set it up in front of the closet and sat down.

Then, while staring straight into Tanya’s eyes, he spoke.

“You must answer my words with the truth. If you lie rudely, I will really not let you go. At this point, I am the only person who can judge Ed’s intentions and help you.”

Tanya nodded her head.

“Did you… instigate Ed’s assassination?”

A person with a straight head would not be able to nod his head at this question.

Nonetheless, Ziggs dared to ask such a question. Because I just can’t understand it.

Ed Rosteyler showed no hostility toward Tanya. He would rather have helped.

Ziggs’ unique wild sense was talking steadily. It seems Tanya harbors some grudge against Ed, but she decides it’s not serious.

Tanya is in a position to receive a lot of benefits from Ed. Tanya can’t be the great person to strike Ed in the back first. Regardless of this or that, the root is because he is Ed’s younger brother.

So, Ziggs wanted to be sure.

“No… really… no…”

Tanya shook her head while crying.

Hearing those words, Ziggs pondered for a long time with his head on his head. And then I came to a conclusion.

Tanya will die if she jumps out in front of Lucy. It’s safe to say that you will die unconditionally.

I don’t think Ed Rosteeler… would like that situation.

Getting blood on Lucy’s hands and Tanya getting killed like that… It doesn’t seem like the situation he wanted at all.

“Yes, I’ll have to listen to the detailed explanation later.”

Ziggs looked back toward the central plaza. Lucy is furious with the momentum to destroy the entire Ophelis tube if she doesn’t bring Tanya right away.

If Ed’s death is true… Lucy’s anger like that is understandable enough.

It was because Ziggs vaguely understood how special Ed was to Lucy. Ziggs himself felt alone.

“Listen up, Tanya Rosteeler. If you really go out into the square now… you could die.”

“…”

“So it’s right that we’re shutting ourselves up here for now. I don’t know what or how the misunderstandings have accumulated… But once Lucy regains her sanity, we’ll talk about it.”

If you think about it from Lucy’s point of view, Tanya is clearly the instigator of this assassination case. All the circumstantial evidence makes us think so.

So, no matter what you say, it’s not easy to convince Lucy. For now, it is right to hide unconditionally until Lucy regains her reason and understands the situation properly.

“I’ll stop Lucy first.”

“That shouldn’t be the case, Ziggs-senpai.”

Wade followed through the gap in the broken door. Wade had also broken out of ranks and followed Ziggs.

It looked like the maid was suffering from a throbbing headache. Jiggs felt sorry for her.

“You don’t have to challenge the impossible. Now… it’s only right to meet Lucy’s requirements. How can I deal with a monster like that…!”

Wade, who chased after Ziggs to stop him, blocked his path.

“Can’t you understand the situation? Right now… That… No one knows what will happen if you wrap Tanya around. Just… Send Tanya to Lucy-senpai as it is.”

“I’m on my own, Wade.”

What Wade said is the truth. Ziggs was well aware of that fact.

However, Tanya Rosteiler is the younger brother of Ed Rosteiler. If so, I won’t know until the second time, but once is worth believing.

Also, the Lucy that Ziggs knows… no matter how much she loses her sanity, she won’t cross the line to the point of smashing high-level magic into a building where people remain.

Ziggs made up his mind to keep his faith in only that one belief.

“You’re making irrational judgments… Senior Ziggs.”

Wade drew his sword.

“Then… I have to carry out my will even by force.”

“…”

“Send Tanya this way.”

*

– Quaang! Quaang!

A few more explosions were heard. A corner of the pavilion in the rose garden was shattered, and a statue hanging from the roof was smashed to the ground.

“Quaaaaaagh!”

Clevius, fleeing behind the rose garden, tripped and rolled on the floor at the sound of an explosion.

The maids leading the students should have fled with as many students as possible. As a result, the line was too long.

Clevias, terrified, couldn’t stand it at all, so he broke away from the ranks and crossed the back of the plaza alone.

While trying to escape by hiding among the flower beds on the outskirts of the building, Clevius slipped and rolled on the floor in the rain, and fell straight to the central plaza.

“…”

“…Heeek…!”

Lucy, who was entwined with an absurd level of magical power, glanced sideways at Clevius from the air.

However, Lucy turned her attention away from Clevius, showing no signs of caring, and no intention of attacking at all.

It was because Lucy well understood Clevius’ cowardly temperament.

Clevius, who managed to stand up by grabbing his trembling legs, screamed and ran away.

“Aaaaaaaagh!”

Clevius ran right across Lucy’s back and escaped out of the Ophelis tube. I have nowhere to go right now, but I didn’t want to remain in such a dangerous place.

If you can run away, you must run away. That was the first principle of Clevius.

“Seriously… X-arm… why… this is… happening… bitch… X-arm…! I didn’t come to Sylvania for this! Really calm in my life. Is there anything like that! It’s like a real X! A real dog X arm…!!!”

Clavius, who hit his teeth and ran away shaking his whole body, fell to the ground again at the exit from the rose garden.

– Kudang-tang-tang!

– Shoot aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Clevius, slumped on the floor unsightly, stretched out like that and lay in the rain.

The torrential rain tramples on Clevius.

“Really… if something like that suddenly appears… of course it’s scary… really… X-arm… dog… X-arm…”

I lie down and think of my own face. My whole body was soaked in the rain from running away unsightly, and after passing through the flower bed and rolling on the floor a few times, it was covered in mud.

It’s a gloomy look, but it’s even more like a drowning mouse, so I couldn’t be more pathetic.

“Really… X-arm…”

Clevius gritted his teeth as he lay down and brushed his face, which was covered in rainwater.

However, the feet do not fall. I was completely out of power. Clevius continued to spit out soulless curse words while sweeping his face.

“What are you doing, stupid Clevius.”

Suddenly, a familiar voice was heard through the rain. It was the meddlesome Elvira, the head of the 2nd year pension department who had been sparring until just now.

It has always been the same since we subdued Glaskan. He is the chief alchemist who only made fun of Clevias as if he was pathetic.

“I do, I’m lying in a place like this.”

“You… weren’t you sparring until just now…?”

“Yes. You lost all the reagents during sparring. So I have to go to the lab to get more reagents.”

Apparently, Elvira also came out of the ranks.

“In the current situation, who can stop that monster other than the top students? At least until the bachelor staff arrives… shouldn’t we hold out for at least 30 minutes? So, the remaining seniors decided to join forces. I did it.”

Elvira said that and kicked Clevius in the shin.

“Looks like your legs are getting tired. When you get your strength back, run towards the professor-dong. If there are any staff at the school, call them.”

Most of the high-ranking academic staff who were on night duty were out to investigate in the northern cliff area.

It’s still a long way away, and since Ophelis House was originally managed independently by maids, the crime prevention system wasn’t even meticulously connected.

It was obvious that it would take longer than expected to bring in the bachelor staff.

Elvira also thought it would be difficult to solve right away. Nonetheless, she stormed out towards her lab with her alchemy bag packed.

Elvira ran out, and Clevius, who was left alone again… lay on his back and was exposed to the rain for a long time.

“…”

“Really… X arm…….”

“You pathetic bastard… a poor bastard… really… a dog… an ugly bastard…”

Clevius had no choice but to lie down in the rain for a while.

He gritted his teeth and pressed his eyelids with clenched fists.

*

“Ed!”

Jenika ran into the cave where the bonfire was lit.

My magic power was completely exhausted, and my physical condition was also shattered, so I had no choice but to lie down and greet them.

“Hey… It’s a big deal, Ed…! First of all, the bachelor’s staff left first… Merilda moved… Just in case, I think Ed should move a bit…!”

“what?”

“I haven’t told you yet… but Lucy… must have found out… that Ed was dead before I could explain it…! I don’t know how he found out… but he already knew…! “

The screaming body does not move as well as intended.

“so…?”

“I think I went to the Ophelis building to find Tanya…!”

At those words… I had no choice but to get up and stand up. This… I feel like I’m going to have to do it myself.