Admission is a waste of time (316)
Lesson 62. Change – 1
When Ban Yu-won and his party returned to Union, the situation had already been resolved.
Outwardly, nothing seemed to have changed in the Union.
There was such a big deal, and yet everything was fine, with absolutely no changes.
The academy building, of course, and the tower, as well as the dimensional wall that many outsiders have invaded.
“Yuwon-ah!”
The spaceship landed on the station―― The moment Ban Yu-won got off the ship, there was someone running towards him with a sharp scream, and of course it was Yumina.
No matter how hard I try not to show my emotions, I can’t stop my face from distorting.
It was natural for Yumina to sense something was wrong when she saw his confused expression.
“Yuwon, where are you hurt? Tell your sister what happened, that damn son of a bitch Zenon told you――.”
“It’s okay, sis. I… … .”
I hesitated to say out loud that it was okay.
It’s because my heart sinks heavily as I think about Dokgo Yeon sacrificing herself and constantly telling me that it’s okay.
“professor.”
Ruchel gave a small hint to Yumina, who was holding on to Ban Yoo-won without anyone noticing.
Only then did she check the rest of the members, and finally noticed Dokgo Yeon’s absence, and her jewel-like eyes opened even wider.
“No way, that can’t be… … .”
“It’s my fault.”
Ban Yu-won continued speaking with difficulty, suppressing his emotions that were about to flare up and scream at any moment.
“I… … was too unwise. I was arrogant and careless. I absolutely could not have done that to someone, but I had no resolve. I didn’t even think that I could die.”
But Yeon-man, only she, fought with the resolve to die from the beginning.
She must have realized it from the moment she faced Zeno as her enemy.
Unless reinforcements show up, someone there will have to sacrifice their life to kill Zenon.
Knowing that Ban Yu-won was on the other side of the scales, Dokgo Yeon offered himself without hesitation.
In place of Ban Yu-won, who had lost the constellation too easily and was lacking in a sense of crisis, at the most crucial moment.
At the perfect timing to exchange his life for Zeno’s.
Without hesitation, he threw away his life and cut off Zeno’s head.
It was a sublime sacrifice that no one but Ban Yu-won could dare to imitate.
“Yuwon-ah… … .”
“I’m sorry, but… … I think I need to rest for a bit now. I have a lot to talk to you about later, really.”
Ban Yu-won, who had managed to convey his intentions while struggling a bit with his words, left her arms and started to stagger away, but someone came out from behind and grabbed him.
It was Ruchel.
“I’m sorry, Ruchel, but I’m alone right now… … .”
“No.”
“Ruchel said firmly and grabbed his arm.
“You can’t be alone right now, Master. You have to be together.”
“you…….”
I try to suppress the harsh words that are about to come out.
He knew very well how Lucelle felt about him.
So, I thought it wasn’t good for her to be with me right now.
But Ruchel didn’t seem to think so, and comforted Ban Yu-won by hugging him with her ample chest.
“Go to sleep. I’ll put you to sleep. Sleep for now, and when you wake up, talk to me again. I’ll listen to everything.”
“……huh.”
The kidnapping happened in an instant.
When Ruchel returned to his room with Ban Yu-won, those left behind just blankly followed his footsteps.
“What happened now…?”
“I feel like I’m being shown off for my class difference. It makes me feel bad… … .”
Shati mutters in a daze, and Mira spits out while stamping her feet.
Asha muttered quietly next to them.
“I wanted to comfort you too… ….”
Probably everyone there agreed with what she said.
Yumina, who had been nodding along with Asha’s words, realized that the students’ gazes were focused on her and spoke in a slightly raised voice in embarrassment.
“Then can you tell me what happened? In detail, from when you first came to Fairy Tail?”
* * *
The next day, Union Academy announced a temporary closure through the weekend.
As the final exams were coming up, it was something that we would not normally dare to dream about, but no matter how well we handled it, the incident itself was so huge that the students had to be given time to gather their thoughts, and the instructors, associate professors, and professors had to be given time to clean up the mess.
First of all, the current heirs of the teenage family, Ulrike Prominence and Lucain Ortima, are both outside due to some circumstances.
The two also needed time to safely finish their ‘housework’ and return.
“Umm… … .”
Ban Yu-won woke up in the girls’ dormitory, the room that Ruchel and Dokgoyeon used to share.
I cried like a child in Lucelle’s arms all night, but now that I woke up and came to my senses, I was extremely embarrassed――.
“Did you sleep well?”
When he faced Ruchel, who was still holding him in her arms and smiling lovingly like the Virgin Mary, even that shame flew away.
“Sorry, Lucelle. I was… …so rude yesterday.”
“No, not at all. It was a big deal for everyone… … .”
“thank you.”
“It’s my job to always be by your side, Master. But I’m glad I could be of help.”
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Ruchel hugged Ban Yu-won tightly once more and then pushed him away from her arms.
Then he carefully opened his mouth and spoke.
“Can you tell me a story? A story about Dokgo Yeon?”
“But in front of you, I’m talking about another woman… … .”
“I want to hear it. Because I also want to be loved more by my master.”
Ban Yu-won knew full well that those words were just words to appease him.
Looking at Ruchel, who was looking at him with clear, unclouded eyes, he realized anew how much he was loved by her and what a blessing it was.
“Then will you listen?”
“As much as you want.”
While Ruchel was flirting with Ban Yu-won, while Asha was flirting with Ban Yu-won, what kind of interactions did Ban Yu-won and Dokgo-yeon have during those moments when the two of them couldn’t see each other?
How fascinating it was the gap between her jaw-dropping brute force and her unexpected innocence.
She always has a cold expression on her face, but how dynamically her eyes change as her emotions change.
Ruchel, who was listening to each of these stories, thought, ‘Isn’t Dokgo Yeon a total bitch?’, but decided not to think too deeply about it since she also took splash damage.
“So… …Yeon probably stepped forward in my place.”
As we talked, we couldn’t help but talk about Dokgo Yeon’s end.
As his voice grew hoarse and wet, Ruchel hugged him again.
“It’s okay. It’s okay… … .”
“Yeon-do, that’s what happened. I said it was okay… … . But I see, maybe what I said was okay back then… … .”
It wasn’t like he was just pretending that his condition was okay.
I’m worried that he’ll look back on that moment later and feel sad.
It was meant to reassure him that it was okay and that he wouldn’t get hurt.
Tears flowed again.
But I feel a lot better now.
It must be thanks to Dokgo Yeon and Ruchel who comforted me together.
“Thank you, Ruchel.”
“Are you going to save me?”
The truth about the constellations has already been shared with everyone.
A shocking tale of how the Tower of Babel may have been nothing more than an institution for creating constellations, and that students were admitted to Union Academy as prospective constellations rather than gods.
However, the fact that the pendant that Ban Yu-won had obtained directly from the main body of the followers of Eternal Calamity was a student ID card was more certain than anything else.
There was a lot to think about, and a lot to hear from Yumina and Celon――but that wasn’t what was important right now.
In Dokgo Yeon’s last moments, her student ID card reacted to her, and she was transformed into something beyond human when she was on the verge of death.
That she did not disappear and remained as a constellation.
That was enough for now.
“Of course I have to save it.”
He still didn’t know how to return from the constellation to human, but that wasn’t a problem.
He even restored the previously sealed constellation Celon to human form.
Wasn’t he a half-universal genius who could handle all concepts freely and who had already set foot in the realm of creation?
If only she could exist in this world in some form, then he would definitely get her back and return her to her original form.
“So help me, Ruchel.”
“I’ll help you. Anytime. Anytime.”
“Uh… … So.”
Suddenly, while looking into Ruchel’s unwavering eyes.
At the end, I recalled the conversation he and Dokgoyeon had shared.
Did he respond to Dokgo Yeon’s confession without any hesitation that he loved her too?
However, he couldn’t say that to Lucille and Mira, with whom he had a deep relationship from before.
At the time, I only had eyes for Dokgo Yeon, but thinking back now, I feel very sorry for both of them.
“Ruchel, uh… …sa,”
“No.”
But at the very moment when Ban Yu-won was about to make a belated expression of affection, Ruchel shook her head as if she had already guessed what he was going to say.
Ruchel, who had stretched out her finger to prevent his lips from opening, spoke with a sour expression that she had never made even when listening to the story with Dokgoyeon.
“I don’t like it now.”
“… … Sorry. I made a mistake.”
“It’s okay. I know how you feel, Master. But I don’t want to hear words that come out as if you’re being forced by guilt.”
The woman who had been gently embracing and comforting him until just a moment ago had disappeared, and only the woman who had been stabbing Ban Yu-won in the face with a sharp blade remained.
She added, poking his chest with her finger.
“Tell me later. So, for example… … at night, in bed. Hold me close and lovingly. Then I will be very happy.”
“Yeah, I remembered.”
He patted Lucelle’s head with a bitter smile.
Ruchel didn’t deny that either.
* * *
In the president’s office, a doll appeared on a large table and spoke to Yumina.
-Yeah, I refused.
A doll with a mangled body, one arm missing, bulging eyes, and a prosthetic leg.
Although he was just a doll, the president used to reveal his own psychological or physical state through dolls… … so right now, he was probably quite tired and exhausted.
Why not?
He dealt with and exterminated a pirate group that had grown for thousands of years, and he even dealt with and captured all the constellations that had escaped the tower and were running wild.
But now, Yumina, who was standing in front of the doll, simply found him disgusting.
“Have you forgotten the human heart, teacher? There’s no way that child would come running right away if you called him right now.”
-Yes, you need to have that kind of spirit to be called a successor.
The doll lifted the long cane in its hand and tapped it on the table.
Over a large desk in the president’s office, dozens of holograms appeared in turn, illuminating various parts of Union Academy.
-It seems like the restoration of the Academy is almost finished.
“As for the exterior, the teacher has already taken care of it. … … A lot of the materials that were stored in the warehouse have disappeared, so you need to restore them.”
-Now you have to help with that work too. Since you are the Vice President.
Yumina sighed involuntarily at the doll’s words.
The president was very encouraged by the fact that Yumina was able to handle the Holy Light without the constellation.
Moreover, since Zenon disobeyed the president’s wishes and ran wild, eventually meeting his end at the hands of the students, it was only natural to put Yumina in the vacant vice president position.
But honestly, Yumina didn’t really like this place.
Being in a position of responsibility in the Union meant that one had to contribute to the order led by the president―― and it was impossible to predict how Ban Yu-won, who was suffering as a sacrifice to the president’s intentions, would perceive that fact.
“I don’t want to do it, really… … I don’t want Yuwon to hate me… … .”
―We have a duty to manage and develop the tower more perfectly so that one day that child will become the ruler.
“Would Yuwon want that?”
―The child’s current psychological state has no influence on the certain future.
No, I’ve known this for hundreds of years, but I still can’t communicate with you, teacher.
She sighed softly and finally pulled out her ultimate skill.
“Yu-won, you must have already noticed. That the teacher knew about Zeno’s plan and ignored it. No, that’s already aiding and abetting. Isn’t that right?”
―It’s for the child. It’s time to learn how the tower works――and it’s time to stop playing childish games.
Suddenly, Yumina ground her teeth.
“Student Dokgo Yeon was also my student. That child’s life was by no means a light sacrifice for someone else’s mental growth.”
―It’s not light. The constellations are necessary for the maintenance of the tower. They exert influence on many dimensions on behalf of the tower, and deepen the connection between the dimensions and the tower.
Every year, there are students at Union Academy who fail to graduate and disappear.
Children who were exceptionally talented and had a glorious future ahead of them if only they could graduate.
The tower evaluates them, scores them, and selects the most suitable ones――to make them its errand boys, its constellations.
The constellations are transcendent beings, but they did not transcend themselves; they were simply forced into their positions by the will of the tower.
So, for the constellations, the tower is nothing more than a prison.
The group that desperately organized to escape from it―Exodus (Great Escape)―was ultimately annihilated without achieving its goal.
―They are the administrators of the divine dimension, and they are the ones who will ascend to the place of glory when all things become one in the end. To have ascended to that position while still a first-year student――is an amazing, great, and blessed thing, even though it requires adaptation and training.
“… …Teacher, I really hate it.”
You even took the starlight player away from me.
Holding her life hostage so she couldn’t even complain.
It made me do what I wanted.
-Celone.
“Don’t call me by that name.”
That’s the name her real family used to call her in the now ruined world.
No one has ever called her Yumina since she was given the name by the president who brought her to the Union.
It was also a nickname only allowed to the Starlight Performers.
“I’ll go and see. If you hurt Yuwon any more, I really won’t be able to forgive you, teacher. Really.”
―I have no intention of hurting him. I just want to make him the brightest being in the universe, the new ruler of a world that will become one――.
-bang.
Yumina couldn’t stand the president’s nonsense any longer, so she closed the door and left.
The doll that was left alone stood there blankly for a moment, but soon one of its prosthetic legs that had been hanging fine was ripped off and it rolled around in that place.
-I’m tired.
-That child is mine.
pupil.
Eyes opened from all sides and glared as if they were going to swallow the doll.
The president responded with a laugh.
―The observer of the ten thousand eyes… … Where would a servant covet his master?
-I’m sure you secretly wish that too.
―… … I’m tired.
The president muttered again and severed the connection with the doll.
Soon all the eyes closed, and peace returned to the principal’s office.
