Admission is a waste of time (236)
Lesson 46. Union Foundation Day – 3
The Masquerade Ball is a competition that has been more famous for its special matches than the tournament itself.
The price of competing in a special match is by no means light, and each and every player participating is determined to do their best.
Those who enter the tournament to win simple prizes prepared by the academy were bound to have different spirits.
“So, senior, what is the runner-up prize?”
“One intermediate artifact and a VIP membership to the Ronica Special Hotel.”
In response to Ban Yoo-won’s question, Rika, the head of the external activities department who had just finished the awards ceremony, responded indifferently.
The pair of Rika and Vegan took second place in the tournament that concluded this afternoon.
The winner was a fourth-year couple from the special class, but even they weren’t the strongest in the special class.
When the student council learned that Rika and Vegan would be competing, they sent out a pair from the special class students’ club Noblesse that was at a level where they could beat them.
“If Graham and the Chairman had teamed up, they could have won.”
“I, Graham, have a wife waiting for me back home. It is impossible for me to leave her and partner with another woman.”
“Have you ever seen such a stubborn kid! Did Vegan and I go out because we’re a couple? No, we were the only ones who wanted to go out, so we had no choice! We held back our frustration and went out!”
“Well, it was a performance befitting the position of head of external activities.”
“But it’s second place… … !”
If the tournament hadn’t had the restriction that only male and female couples should compete, Mira and Shati would have gone out as a pair, but they couldn’t break the rules that formed the basis of the competition.
In the first place, the masquerade ball tournament is an event for students to enjoy, so there is no need to compete so fiercely, but the student council and Noblesse got into a fight for no reason.
Ban Yu-won, who was watching Rika stomping her feet and disintegrating, saying that she was pushed by Noblesse, with a bitter smile, took a step back from Rika and asked Vegan, who was standing next to him, a question.
“So are you going to use it?”
“what?”
“Hotel membership card.”
“I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it.”
Vegan pretended to be shocked and shook his head at Ban Yu-won’s words, but now that his relationship with these people had deepened considerably, Ban Yu-won was able to read his mind quite well.
“But it’s a shame to pretend it never happened since we worked together to get it. There are many convenient services that come with the membership, such as the buffet and bar, so why don’t you just go and have fun together?”
“… … Just hanging out at the hotel? Just the two of you? Don’t you think it’s a bit much? You look like a couple.”
There were many things I wanted to say to Vegan, who was having a blast with Rika at the masquerade ball and now denies the suspicions that they were a couple, but now is the time to be gentle.
“Don’t think too deeply about it. You two should go out and have fun to celebrate your second place. You don’t have any tower exploration this week, so you have some free time.”
“Um, but next week is the midterm exam preparation period.”
“That’s why you have to play even more this week.”
“That’s true… … Okay. Okay, I understand.”
Vegan nodded as if he understood and approached Rika, who was still grumbling while holding onto Graham, and spoke to her.
Rika looked startled when she heard him, but she nodded with a faintly excited expression, as if she had been secretly looking forward to it.
In this regard, Graham, who was perceptive in many ways, would quietly step aside so that the two could talk, then blink one eye when his eyes met Ban Yu-won’s.
“Huh, that was simple.”
“Ah, I was already tired because of my junior and Mira, and now they’re adding another couple to the student council.”
Ban Yu-won responded with a snort to Shati, who came up behind him and whispered to him.
“I thought you two would fight sooner or later. I just gave you a little push.”
“Isn’t it better for us to hesitate, to miss each other, and to cry?”
“I thought the chairman would say something like that.”
It’s really good that he occasionally spits out lines that are true to his identity, for fear that people might think he’s the devil.
Ban Yu-won, who accepted it with a smirk, looked behind her and asked with a sense of emptiness.
“What about Mira?”
“He said he didn’t want to come because he didn’t want to see his junior getting along with another woman.”
“You are the queen of jealousy.”
The tournament awards ceremony is over and the venue is just beginning to clear up.
From the start of the tournament to the awards ceremony, everything was just a decoration to decorate the special match that was about to begin.
“So where is that girl who has been monopolizing our Mira’s jealousy these days?”
“I’m going to stay in the training room alone to concentrate. I’ll be back before the match starts.”
“Then who’s your second partner?”
“Second? Ah.”
In a situation where all the student council executives are gathered to cheer on Rika and Vegan, who are representing the student council in the tournament, there is one person who is absent.
Ayre was Ban Yu-won’s partner for the second special match today.
“It’s a tower.”
“……tower?”
“I heard that a large-scale adjustment is needed to reveal power precariously without revealing one’s identity. The top is the best for running wild without causing damage to the outside world.”
“Is there anyone who still doesn’t know his true identity?”
“It’s like a magical girl. Everyone knows that but pretends not to know.”
Soon the stadium was cleared, and for some reason, more spectators filled the stands than at the tournament finals.
Not only the students of the academy, but also all the guests who visited Union Academy were crowded together as if they had been waiting for this moment.
If there had been no spatial expansion magic, this large number would not have been able to enter.
“Then, from now on, we will begin the special masquerade ball matches for the honor of the students. The first match is the Ban Yu-won & Dokgo Yeon pair and the Lucain Rownpalomer Equinas Ortima & Ulrike Prominence pair.”
“Your name is still dirty.”
I stood up from my seat and left a message for Dokgo Yeon.
The next moment, Dokgo Yeon appeared next to him, wearing a pure white mask covering his entire face from the top of his nose to his forehead.
“What, you learned how to teleport using your student ID too?”
“I just walked quickly.”
“I’m sorry.”
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He couldn’t resist Dokgo Yeon’s urging eyes any longer, so he also hurriedly took out his mask and put it on.
A mask with the same structure as Dokgo Yeon’s, but dyed black.
“It’s a couple look. But their images are opposites.”
“That’s why it’s cool.”
“Yeah, I guess it was a good thing Mira didn’t come.”
“joy.”
Dokgo Yeon, who dismissed Shati’s words, which had many implications, with a laugh, jumped up and got down onto the field.
“I know both of you are capable, but be careful, junior Yu-won. The Daesin clan is not called Daesin clan for nothing.”
“I know. But thank you for your concern.”
I’ll just put it on and come back.
Ban Yoo-won, who had declared briefly, jumped down to the stadium following Dokgo Yeon and landed.
The chairman is enraged by the provocative appearance of the two people, and the higher-ups inevitably become furious.
Ban Yu-won was thinking about pulling out his sword and putting on a show, but then he flinched at the sight of Dokgo Yeon glaring at him, reading his thoughts like a ghost. He stood upright.
A little later than them, Lucien Ortima and Ulrike Prominence, who had risen from the waiting area, walked into the stadium.
Unlike the half-moon pair who wore masks, each of them wore extravagant masks with their respective family’s seals engraved on them, completely ignoring the original purpose of the masks, which was to hide their identities. This was truly typical of the teenage families.
“Ohhh… … I never thought I’d see the descendants of the ten great clans join forces.”
“Both of those families were properly fed by a brat from a lower dimension, so why bother nitpicking now? It’s fortunate that the so-called successors have at least put aside a little bit of their pride.”
“It’ll be really funny if we lose this time.”
“Maybe the family’s position will really change… … It’s fun, it’s really fun.”
The mood in the hall suddenly became heated with the appearance of the two teenage successors to the family, Ortima and Prominence.
Since the events that took place with Ban Yu-won and Rebellion during the last semester and vacation were known throughout the entire dimension, the public’s view of them was not very positive.
Of course, both of them have their own wishes for this special match, but even putting that aside, it is a match they cannot back down from, for the sake of their family’s image and their positions as successors.
“under…….”
Lucien Ortima, wearing a flashy mask on her face and ornate robes that were not suitable for vigorous movement, clicked her tongue as she looked straight at Ban Yu-won.
“A guy who doesn’t know his subject matter has come all the way here.”
“If anyone heard, they’d think we beat out some fierce competition, man.”
“Competition? Who can compete with me? I am only here to punish that rascal who forgets her place and raises her head presumptuously, and to open her eyes.”
In fact, Ban Yu-won still couldn’t figure out why the tournament and special matches were held separately, but Ortima was now proving the reason.
It is against the nature of the noble families of the Ten Clans to fight over who is superior!
In fact, the pair representing Noblesse in the tournament would not have participated in the tournament if they did not have a sense of purpose to defeat the student council.
Going to the tournament itself was a kind of punishment game for them.
“I will deal with you.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Ban Yu-won, who was completely fed up with Ortima’s arrogance, gave up on responding and drew his sword, but Ortima looked back at Ulrike as if she thought she was the coolest person in the world right now and made a promise to her.
“Senior Prominence, as I told you before, you just need to hold her back for a moment.”
“Hehe, that doesn’t matter, but… … it wouldn’t really matter if I knocked that woman down, right?”
“… … Of course.”
After hearing Ulrike’s confident declaration, Ban Yu-won smiled with a sense of conversion and whispered to Dokgo Yeon.
“Yeon, we won!”
“I’m concentrating right now, so don’t get excited and start acting up.”
“You are unpleasant, mongrel. Get away from her.”
Ortima Fair is stacking up flags step by step, to the point where you’d think no one would be able to do it even if they were told to.
Dokgo Yeon clenched his fists and looked back at Ban Yu-won, expressing his intention to deal with him, as if he was crying at the sticky gaze of Ortima that was fixed on him, but surprisingly Ban Yu-won shook his head.
“I have to show you that I am a good fit for your partner.”
“Really? … … Huh, then I’ll just endure it this once.”
No matter how much of a mask you wear, you can’t hide the delighted smile on your lips.
Ortima and Ulrike, who had been attracted to them because they had seen the two flirting from close range, had their eyes turn bloodshot as if they had used a berserk skill.
“If it was a provocation, it was great.”
“Ha… … It really annoys me, there are so many women like that… … .”
“That’s enough of the pre-match greetings. Players from both sides, please step back to the indicated line.”
The tournament was supervised by an associate professor, but surprisingly, the person who directed and judged this special match was the Academy’s vice-president, Zenon.
Perhaps it’s because the players who appear in special matches are generally stronger than the players who appear in the tournament… … No, why do we have tournaments anyway?
As the players, who had been excited, came to their senses at the sound of Zeno’s cold and heavy voice and took their assigned positions, he opened his mouth again and spoke.
“Then, we will start the special match as soon as the signal is given.”
The number 3 floated in the air.
It changes to 2.
And then change back to 1.
The moment it becomes 0 and disappears like a goblin.
“Burn it all away, leaving behind not a single ash!”
Ulrike Prominence, who was very excited, opened the attack first.
Ban Yu-won, who tried to use his power to stop it, clicked his tongue and retreated when he was faced with dozens of iron balls sticking out from beyond the flames.
I have no choice but to trust Dokgo Yeon’s abilities and leave it to Ulrike to deal with!
Now is the time to deal with Ortima’s successor, who has unleashed his power of domination and is concentrating all his magical power on one person.
“Kneel down!”
Iron balls are pouring down, blocking all sides.
Although I knew the mechanism because Dokgoyeon had previously picked one up, the incredible magical power contained in each bead was mind-boggling.
It would be foolish to accept each and every one of them, so… … .
“Disconnect!”
He swung his longsword and severed the bonds of power between Ortima and the iron balls he controlled.
Surprisingly, the iron balls that had been coming at him from all directions all fell to the ground, caught in trajectories that they were not supposed to hit.
“I’ve never seen such talent before.”
“It’s a special service. Thank you, right?”
“But… … if that’s all, you can’t beat me!”
-Wooooow.
There is no way that the power of Lucien Ortima could be blocked so easily.
Seeing the iron balls that had lost control and been thrown in all directions regain their strength and rush towards him, Ban Yu-won also prepared a secret card to deal with him…
-dump.
“… … Ka, Hak.”
The red flame that was boiling up to fill the stadium suddenly disappeared.
Ban Yu-won and Ortima, who were estimating their opponent’s numbers while each showing a glimpse of their power, looked back at Ulrike with their eyes wide open.
There, Ulrike was lying unconscious, and Dokgoyeon was standing on her head.
“kite…….”
“Ah. You can take your time, okay?”
Dokgo Yeon, who finished off his opponent without even drawing his sword, ripped off the mask from the unconscious Ulrike’s face and crumpled it, laughing.
“I will be here watching your performance.”
“… … .”
“… … .”
Couldn’t it be that Dokgo Yeon could have taken down both Ortima and Ulrike on his own?
Ban Yu-won had such a thought for a moment, but when he saw Dokgo Yeon looking forward to his performance, he kept his mouth shut and turned to Ortima.
