Student president election (8)
– Tap, tap.
There was always the sound of burning firewood in the hut in the Rameln Mountains.
He pushed the soft blanket up to the bridge of his nose.
This is Lucy, who always fell asleep somewhere around her. There is no such thing as wearing bedding or something like that.
However, this situation, which is unusually wrapped in a blanket, is because I caught a cold.
She was destined to become a master of magic in the future, but now she is just a girl who has just entered puberty.
All girls of that age are like that.
If it rains, it’s okay to be stuck in a corner of the cabin, but it’s not uncommon to catch a cold while wandering the mountains.
His magic skills, which grew at an absurd rate, were still in a transitional stage, so it was inevitable that he could not completely protect himself from the surrounding environment.
There was an old man poking around a crackling campfire with a poker.
In the field of vision, only the back is visible.
However, just looking at his bent back and rolled shoulders, he is a dwarf old man looking at the twilight of life.
It is said that he had a prime time. Of course, this was before Lucy was even born.
Traveling around the continent, researching all kinds of high-level magic, taking in numerous disciples, meeting someone I love and starting a family, making a name for myself in the academic world, becoming a first-class contributor to subjugating high-ranking monsters, and receiving congratulations from the imperial family several times. is said to have been approved.
It is said that it is a life of running with full force on the open road.
As much as I ran without looking back, I evaluate myself because it is a life that has achieved more achievements than anyone else.
However, the final years of the archmage were coming to an end at the edge of a mountain range where not a single person traveled.
what happened, what happened.
Numerous disciples and even loving family members are not by her side… She is alone in a cabin, lighting a bonfire.
The only connection he had left… was a girl who couldn’t even be called a disciple.
– ‘Originally, it hurts when you roll around in the rain.’
– ‘You’ll probably become an unmatched, strong wizard in no time.’
– ‘The time will surely come when the feeling of pain will also become a distant memory that I felt only in the distant past.’
– ‘It’s going to be rarer and rarer to lie down after getting sick like this, or to directly injure yourself.’
It is unknown how deeply the foolish Lucy understands the reason for saying such a thing.
Still, Glockt placed its meaning in the words itself.
– ‘Because of innate ability, life becomes boring, everything seems meaningless,’
– ‘People who are lacking… You will meet so many people who devote their lives to things you do so easily and simply that you will be trampled on the soles of your feet.’
– ‘So, make sure to keep that feeling now.’
There will surely come a day when even the feeling of being in pain becomes a distant memory that we felt only in the distant past.
It would be impossible to know what that fact meant to Lucy now… but at least I knew that Glockt wanted to convey something.
Even those memories were already deposited in the distant past.
– shoot it
The spring rain hits the skin.
Across the rose garden of Ophelis Hall, maids and students who have completely hardened in time prison are lined up like stone statues.
Stumbling between them, Lucy clenched her hat and looked up at the sky. The pouring rain weighed heavily on my body.
Few people know about it, but Lucy respects and approves those who are passionate about life despite their indolent nature. He just doesn’t show off or help, he never looks down on the perpetrators or downgrades them as meaningless beings.
Needless to say, it was the influence of Glockt.
If you live while walking in the Rameln Mountains with half-open eyes, you have no choice but to watch the old man’s enthusiasm for life with your own two eyes.
He put down all the achievements he had accumulated during his long life and became a dwarf and ugly old man who tried to live each day worthwhile even though he was left alone in the mountains.
When he came to his senses, the reason he had feelings for Ed that was more than friendly was probably because he acknowledged in his heart how he steadfastly clung to life even when he was cornered.
At least he wasn’t a man who deserved to die in vain.
“…a liar old man.”
Did you say that someday, when you become a powerful wizard, the feelings of pain and suffering will also become forgotten memories of the distant past?
However, what comes up in the chest is the ‘pain’ that I forgot and lived.
The preciousness that comes bigger only after losing it is what is truly valuable.
Lucy already knows that from experience.
And, I didn’t want to experience it twice.
There was nothing special about the times we sat around the campfire, chewing on the grilled fish, or the times we lay on Ed’s lap while he was reading and staring blankly at the sky.
However, the fact that those things were truly valuable… I wouldn’t have known.
How fragile are human beings?
He handles all kinds of high-level magic like limbs and is gifted with so much talent that even historical geniuses shake their heads…
It’s ironic that just the death of one person can be so bitter and painful.
– Quaang!
At that time, a huge explosion occurred under Lucy’s feet as she trudged toward the main entrance of Ophelis Hall.
A huge amount of smoke rose and the heat covered the area, but Lucy blew away all the aftermath with just one wave of her hand.
“It was a number of conversions in its own way.”
What kind of people did Lucy subdue just by walking to the main gate of Ophelis Hall?
Bell Maia, chief maid of Ophelis Hall, Patriciana Bloomriver, chief of the 4th year magic department, Dorothy Whitepelts, 4th year chief of the alchemy department, Drake Ragus, chief of the 3rd year combat department, and up to 14 senior maids.
If he had dealt with that much power alone with a body without a single scratch, at least there was no one inside this Ophelis tube that could stop this Lucy.
The girl who stopped Lucy right now must be well aware of the fact that there is no such thing as victory.
Elvira, the head of the 2nd year pension department and a meddler.
Armed with all sorts of magical engineering supplies, alchemy reagents, and basic magic, she… In the first place, her actual combat skills aren’t that great compared to other top students.
“I thought you were a more rational person, Lucy.”
“…”
Lucy’s cold eyes stare at Elvira standing guarding the entrance.
“No, in fact, you still maintain your sanity to some extent right now, right?”
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The magical sphere filling the sky above the Ophelis Hall, the maids trapped in a time prison and suppressed, and the rose garden filled with magic formulas given by Lucy.
It seems like they are playing a ridiculous game, but there was a clear ‘line’ in Lucy’s runaway.
Unnecessary acts of vandalism are suppressed to some extent, and of course there are no casualties. If he really loses his temper, he seems willing to break the Ophelis tube, but he’s leaving that as a last resort.
Ophelis Hall students are busy trying to escape. The low-end maids are running out through the back door as the center.
Elvira… if she could tie Lucy’s feet even for a moment, that was enough.
“Move.”
But, was even that arrogance?
It was just a swipe of the arm, as if clearing away leaves obscuring the view in the forest.
Even with that alone, Elvira was hit with a level of mana that she couldn’t handle.
It’s not even magic. It is nothing more than a physical force that simply materializes mana and pushes it forward.
However, Elvira’s body was propped up on the flower bed.
“Uh, black!”
The difference in strength was well enough recognized.
Elvira’s real purpose was the magical engineering items installed near the front door.
With the sound of a click, magic power rose, and magic power rose from the hidden space behind the pillar at the entrance.
Lucy cannot be defeated with simple force. If that’s the case, you have no choice but to rely on compatibility and laws.
No matter how powerful Lucy is, she cannot be free from the providence of the world.
When it rains, it gets wet, and when the wind blows, the collar flutters. When the temperature drops, it becomes cold, and boiling water evaporates.
Only God can be freed from such a providence that forms the foundation of the world. Even if it is Aspect magic that twists and breaks providence, it cannot be free from the basic principles of magical power.
That’s why Elvira decided to ‘evaporate’ her entire magical power.
When the back of the pillar at the entrance came into view, Lucy noticed all the magical engineering supplies Elvira had brought. They were items brought from a secret lab packed in a large backpack.
It seems that there are dozens of eolchu. It is impossible to recite their names one by one. That’s a huge amount.
“Huh!”
After falling out, Elvira wiped her lips and stood up, gathering all her feeble mana and manifesting a new magic.
When I raise my hand in the direction of Lucy and squeeze it tightly, the various magical engineering supplies that I have installed start to run out of control at once.
Krex Magic Separator, Noise Maker, Elemental Return Stimulator, Rake, Wave Orb, Illusion Disc, Katlan Magic Purifier….
After entering Sylvania, she had been spending her time researching all sorts of magical engineering items, things that could be called the essence of Elvira’s bachelor life.
All kinds of magic engineering items have different uses. There were a lot of things that didn’t suit this situation, and weren’t magic engineering items for combat in the first place.
However, Elvira’s purpose is not to ‘use’ magical engineering supplies as they are intended.
All of them are precious inventions like my blood, but… Elvira, without hesitation, drove the ‘Crex Mana Separator’ in front.
Alchemy, one of the sects of magic, specializes in scientifically analyzing the nature of magic itself.
An ‘understanding of magic’ that differs from wizards who wield magic only with innate sensitivity. It could also be said to be the specialty of Elvira, the head of the pension department.
“Where… let’s see through this too…!”
Elvira took out the ‘Crimson Crystal Reagent’ from her bosom and threw it.
Lucy, who reacted quickly, burst the reagent bottle in the air by clenching her hand tightly, but the purpose of spraying the reagent was itself in the first place.
Having achieved her intended purpose, Elvira quickly emerged from the back of the flower bed.
– Koo-Goo-Gung, Kung! thud!
The Crimson Crystal Reagent is like a lubricant that temporarily increases the fluidity of magic itself.
Of course, mana is required to activate magic engineering items. However, it is not easy to inject one’s magical power into a specific object.
Simple structured magical engineering items do not consume much mana, but as the structure becomes more complex and difficult, a considerable amount of mana is consumed.
The original purpose of the Crimson Crystal Reagent was to make the magical power flow itself a little more sensitive to use such magical engineering items.
Even with the same amount of magic power, if you are under the influence of the Crimson Crystal Reagent, you can inject it more smoothly into the magical engineering supplies.
Although it is only a kind of auxiliary reagent, it is a useful item for alchemists in its own way.
Of course, Elvira’s intention in throwing the crimson crystal reagent was completely different.
– Kugoong, Kugoong, Kugoong!
The runaway ‘Krex Magic Separator’ begins to absorb the magic of the surrounding area.
It is a device that acts as a ‘circuit’ that absorbs mana from the surroundings and efficiently provides mana to connected magical engineering items.
However, if it goes berserk by overloading it, it becomes a monster that consumes the surrounding magic power at random.
If the connected magical engineering items work normally, the runaway will stop, but the problem is that all the magical engineering items that Elvira has dedicated her life to making are all connected to the magical engineering items connected to the magic separator.
Time was running out, so I couldn’t properly calculate the magic efficiency and connect it. I just pushed the circuit with a rough fight.
However, that was enough. In the first place, ‘normal operation’ is not Elvira’s purpose.
The real purpose lies in absorbing mana itself.
Lucy’s magical power, lubricated by the crimson crystal reagent, began to be sucked into magical engineering items so quickly that it was out of control.
All kinds of magical engineering items start to run out of control centered on the magic separator.
It exploded, created an illusion, and made a loud noise, making the rose garden noisy.
The sight of all kinds of lights shining brightly, emitting smoke, and radiating magical energy… it’s like a huge magical power plant.
It is a magical engineering product that randomly connects circuits in a mess. Horsepower efficiency is near the bottom.
No matter how genius a wizard is, he will not be able to handle that level of magical power alone.
Yes. If you can’t win with the power of magic, it’s the alchemist’s way to win with the law.
Unfortunately, however, the opponent was a strong man who surpassed even the rules.
– Woe!
In a situation where mana was sucked in in an instant, Lucy’s choice was not to somehow control the out of control mana… rather, to release it.
The outrageous magic engineering supplies could not handle the incoming magical power… and began to explode one by one.
-Boom, quaang!
– Kwagang, Kwagagagang!
Against the backdrop of a girl standing still clutching a hat, the magical engineering items that Elvira has dedicated her life to making begin to explode all at once.
“Mi… Are you crazy…”
Elvira swallowed her breath as she brushed away the wound.
Although not exactly, I was able to roughly calculate the amount of magic power that would go into when all those magic engineering items exploded.
However, the units are astronomical. It is not an amount that can be expected academically.
Lucy’s eyes looking back in the explosion are quite frightening.
It seems that he doesn’t even show any emotion, but rather that’s why I was able to know that all sorts of emotions were swirling inside him.
It is impossible to stop that girl. Yes. This is the ‘realm of the impossible’.
It’s stupid to bang your head into the impossible.
I automatically backtracked by the overwhelming fear. But Elvira gritted her teeth and stood upright again.
“This is what happened… If you break down the entrance…!”
I tried to activate the basic fire magic as it is, but with one gesture from Lucy, Elvira was put on the floor and was overpowered.
It was a moment that lasted less than a second.
“Uh, heck…!”
Elvira rolled across the rain-soaked marble floor. As she fell, she must have chewed her tongue, leaving a bitter taste of iron in her mouth.
After rolling right in front of Lucy, Lucy’s eyes looked straight down at Elvira.
Primal fear invades the body.
There is no killing intent in Lucy’s eyes. Of course. Because he has no intention of harming people. He never kills unless he needs to kill.
However, a certain conviction that she could do it if need be… hovered in Elvira’s mind.
It’s crazy to disturb this girl now.
My brain was screaming like that.
But… Elvira’s hand stretched out through the rain and grabbed Lucy’s ankle.
“…”
Lucy didn’t say anything different.
Rather, it was Elvira who spoke first.
“If you keep going… you’ll regret it…”
Is only the mouth alive? Not really.
“I know it’s sad, but the dead don’t come back like this… Please think of the person you left…”
“…”
“Senior Ed… I don’t think he would have wished for something like this…”
It had been raining for a while.
The spring rain that falls with a whooping sound strikes everything in the world equally.
“That’s… something to decide after meeting Tanya.”
It was the moment when Lucy, who was looking down at Elvira, was about to activate the temporal aspect magic, ‘time prison’.
– Caang!
It was a sword attack so fast that it was difficult to follow with the eyes, but Lucy could not be cut.
However, it was possible to keep Elvira and Lucy apart.
In an instant, the figure dug in between them and once again launched a sword attack towards Lucy, and Lucy quickly sprinted towards the rose garden and widened the distance.
Elvira was completely subdued, and it was difficult to even control her body.
He just collapsed on the floor and tried to grab Lucy by force.
The man who stood upright in front of Elvira and thrust his sword into it… spat out curse words.
“I’m really… a crazy bastard. A crazy bastard…!”
His already long, unkempt hair, wet from the rain, made him look all the more gloomy. The dark circles on his eyelids were trembling.
The head of the 2nd year combat club, Clevius Nortondale.
He was a boy who killed his older brother on his own because he couldn’t control the blood of a sword demon, and was abandoned by his family and lived a gloomy life.
“That… monster… how… what should I… look at me… X-arm… dog… X-arm…!”
The power difference is overwhelming.
Among the students of Sylvania Academy, no one can beat Lucy Meiril.
If one hundred people see it, it is an ordeal that all one hundred people will define as impossible. Running away is the answer no matter who sees it.
There were many opportunities to escape. Lucy wasn’t even against him. In the first place, Clevius’ temper was not strong enough for Lucy to regard him as an enemy.
Clevius lived the life of a fugitive.
I got used to being called a coward because I always ran away from the fate engraved on my name, from trials, and from the curse of blood.
It will be the same this time too. No matter who sees it, running away is the answer. If they ran away, no one would blame them.
Nevertheless, Clevius drew his sword.
Not all of the students in the Ophelis Hall have yet been evacuated. Even the maids couldn’t finish all the work.
Yes. It is stupid to try to do the impossible.
That sentence, which must have been constantly rummaged in his heart, came to Clevius’ heart again.
In the eyes of a pathetic loser who has lived the life of a fugitive all his life, the view of the rose garden is stuck in his eyes.
Numerous statues in the rose garden are traces of the losers. Yes, they are all losers.
In the face of the great disaster called Lucy Meiril, they are fools who jumped at them even though they had a premonition of defeat.
Both this guy and that guy are stupid bastards. They run after romantic words such as duty to protect students and justice, and they are not worthy enough to die in their name.
The girl alchemist lying behind her is no different.
No matter how much I was the head of the 2nd year pension department, there was no way I could stop such a monster alone… I must have known it myself.
However, the feet do not come off. It’s not someone else’s, it’s your own feet, but the two feet don’t listen.
“Hey… I can’t pass this place… You bastard…!!”
You can’t win in the first place. If so, I don’t know if I can turn off the time.
Clevius screamed and charged Lucy with his sword.
The body of Clevius, who was extraordinary like a hawk, moved toward Lucy, – Whiik, and, at Lucy’s gesture, he fell out and fell.
Unable to withstand the magic bullet, Clevius’ body received a great shock and flew towards the flower bed, rolling over.
This time, too, a decision was made, but it took less than a second.
“This… Gee… Stupid… Clevius…!!”
The collapsed Elvira gritted her teeth and just stared at the smoke rising from the flower bed.
Lucy let out a small sigh and looked in Elvira’s direction… and then walked back toward the main entrance of the Ophelis building.
It was crazy to block that path.
*
– Caang! Caang!
– Woe!
Ziggs Epelstein can handle almost any type of weapon. Even though he was initially enrolled in the combat club, he was a boy with abilities that would not be strange.
What he was wielding now was the formal rapier that had been decorated above the fireplace. The ceremonial rapier swordsmanship he had learned from the Islan family was mixed with applied movements added with his own interpretation.
Embarrassed by the flying sword, Wade quickly took a defensive stance.
I thought that stabbing-oriented sword attacks would come in, but there was more freedom than I thought in Ziggs’ movements.
‘No… this is…!’
In the first place, it was difficult to find gaps in Ziggs’ abilities that were not limited by weapons.
The life of a beast walking in the northern grasslands, and the life of accepting civilization and learning the example of a nobleman in the Islan mansion.
The swordsmanship completed by combining the two is extremely practical, but it is not completely separated from theory either.
For Wade, who had mastered the aristocratic swordsmanship to the limit… he had reached a level that was difficult to deal with. This level is completely unmatchable.
Wade is also a strong man who will not be inferior anywhere, but if you want to deal with him as a swordsman, you have to overturn the background of the martial arts you have learned.
‘But… it’s not without gaps…!’
As he said that, it was the moment when he fired a sword strike at Ziggs’s side, which had been widened in an instant.
– Woe!
– Kaang!
Taking advantage of the gap in which Ziggs’ center of gravity was completely shifted to the left, he tried to attack his side, but Wade’s sword deflected. Wade didn’t understand the situation for a moment. Ziggs was in a position where he could never deflect his sword.
However, I was able to realize it before long.
It wasn’t Ziggs’ sword that deflected Wade’s sword, it was magic. The manifested wind blade blocked Wade’s attack.
In the first place, this gap was deliberately given. By the time I noticed that, it was after I had already hit her in the neck with the handle of a sword.
“Cheer, heo-eok!”
Ziggs then kicked Wade in the stomach. After rolling all the way to the corner of the room, Wade… coughed violently a few times, then managed to stand up.
“Are you going to do more?”
“Of course, Mr. Ziggs.”
Wade closed his mouth, stood up, and glared at Ziggs again. Only then did I realize the difference in rank.
A fact so self-evident that it was strangely forgotten.
Ziggs… is a wizard. Swordsmanship is only secondary.
Upon realizing this fact, he realized the difference in rank between Ziggs and himself. Still, Wade grinned and smiled.
“Do you think I’m going to give up this much? Senior Ziggs.”
“…”
“Kuh… Heh heh… I’m a person who enjoys fighting strong people. Like Ziggs-senpai, the opportunity to fight a powerful human from the Ministry of Magic came like this, how could I give up so easily?”
Wade chuckled, then again grabbed his sword and stood up.
“A little more… Please entertain me.”
Ziggs crossed his arms and looked at Wade. Then she gently closed and opened her eyes… and she spoke slowly.
“It’s ugly, Wade. You don’t enjoy fighting, you enjoy winning. Unless you have a certain chance of winning, you won’t burn that kind of fighting spirit.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“In the first place… you’re small from the bowl. Answer me. If you really wanted to fight a real strongman, there’s no reason to pick me out of the 2nd year magic department and pick me up. Isn’t that right?”
The tip of the long rapier pointed at Wade again.
“The second-year head of the Ministry of Magic is Lucy Mayril, not me.”
The words were to the core.
In the first place, Ziggs had penetrated Wade’s mind.
“It would be easier to define it as impossible and treat it as an off topic. In reality, there is no possibility of winning.
“That…of course…”
“Yes. That’s your vessel.”
Ziggs’s sword thrusts once more into Wade’s sword.
“Kuh, ugh…!”
Wade was in a daunting state just defending. He exchanged swords as he spoke, with Jiggs staring straight into Wade’s eyes.
“Give me strength in your hands. You coward.”
It was the first time I had ever seen Ziggs, who always looked grave, spit out curses. Was that even part of a strategy to embarrass Wade?
Despite Ziggs’ warning, the sword Wade was still holding fell from his hand. It was because he kicked the sword face while he was careless.
– Kagang, kang!
Wade’s sword rolled across the floor as it flew through the air several times.
Ziggs’s rapier was pointed straight at Wade’s neck.
“This, this…”
“Are you looking for an excuse or a reason to admit defeat?”
As it was, Wade’s pupils trembled several times.
There was nothing I could do but express my will to surrender. It’s because it’s crazy to resist even in such an overwhelming pushback situation.
It is not that there is no way to resist.
If you pretended to be crazy and leaned in while holding the sword side of your rapier, if you thought about picking up a sword with the determination to get stabbed somewhere, or if you were prepared to risk a fatal wound anyway… the methods were endless.
However, going further here would only increase the wound… Wade knew empirically enough to be sick of it.
Defeated by that fear, Wade… slowly raised his hands and showed them.
“Yeah… that’s your limit.”
– Quaang!
– Whoops!
It was after that that the sound of collapsing came from the entrance of the Ophelis tube.
*
It was more like being hit by a huge cannonball rather than a sword strike.
I couldn’t believe that it happened with just one sword attack.
The pillars supporting the entrance of Ophelis had completely collapsed.
– Whoop, thump!
Smoke billows through the torrential rain.
The boy who jumped out of the flower bed at some point was already bleeding from his head.
The figure that once again blocked Lucy’s path… It’s not even worth calling it a human being.
Because of the rain-soaked bangs, her expression and eyes were completely invisible.
It was just that he had injured his leg… He was bent over on one knee, holding the sword in the scabbard.
can’t win anyway
If so, it takes time.
There is no guarantee that anything will be resolved by taking time.
I hope that even a superman on a white horse will appear and sort everything out, but I think it is in vain.
raindrops still falling. Ophelis Coffin with collapsed entrance.
The sword demon, covered in blood and holding the handle of the sword… sits still with his head bowed.
There are no swear words as usual, and even the teeth that used to bump into each other in fear are still terribly quiet today.
Around the sword demon sitting in silence, time seems to have completely stopped…
Elvira, who was staring down, for a moment forgot to even exhale.
