Chapter 7 Disciplinary Committee
Edwin was sitting in a chair.
saliva is dry A cold sweat was running down my back.
In front of him were the famous teachers of Constell watching him.
Surrounded by them, Edwin sat like a criminal.
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Now he is attending the disciplinary committee.“… … Edwin.”
“Yes, yes!”
The white-haired man sitting opposite Edwin. Inside the wrinkled eyes, a dark blue eye glow was placed, and a long robe of unknown size was wrapped around him.
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He is the final manager and highest rank of Constell.
The president is Osprit the ‘Zodiac’.
“There is no need to explain the circumstances. You have committed suicide.”
“… … That’s right.”
Edwin nodded silently.
The young man on the right spit out a loud voice. It was Alex, a teacher in charge of basic combat techniques.
“They unilaterally assaulted the students. Some of them even suffered serious injuries! Gary, in particular, has a broken jaw and is still in the hospital! That sin is never light. Even if I embroidered!”
“I think ‘I embroidered’ seems more important to me?”
The answer was ‘Jane’, a teacher in charge of basic mana theory and basic practice.
A teacher who led Frontier’s lower class dungeons.
Still, his youthful face stood out even within the committee.
“It was he himself who was being unilaterally assaulted before Edwin used the golem. All the students who were affected belonged to the commoners’ group ‘Aktober’, and the circumstances in which they systematically harassed Edwin have already been confirmed.”
“Even so! They didn’t hurt Edwin that much!”
“It could be that Edwin stopped there because he was acting defensively. It is not correct to describe what would be judged as ‘excessive defense’ as ‘unilateral assault’.”
Jane and Alex are both full-time teachers at Constell, who teach common classes in the first year. They taught Edwin and Gary in their freshman year.
It was around that time that the structure of the conflict between commoners and aristocrats intensified.
Jane tried to distinguish individuals in the conflict, but Alex was on the side of the commoners from the start.
Because he himself is the person who built up his efforts repeatedly with sincerity and honesty among the common people.
The sunglasses of the fallen nobility are worse than the sunglasses of the nobility.
Many teachers and students knew that Edwin did not fully belong anywhere and was circling around.
But Edwin persevered, and so far has not been involved in any case.
So Jane trusted Edwin in this case as well, while Alex believed that it was Edwin this time.
“Calm down, both of you.”
elegant voice. It was Malia de Roach, a health teacher.
It is strange that Malia, who is just a health teacher, will attend the disciplinary committee, but no one has complained about it.
“I brought Edwin here today, not because of an assault case. Yes?”
“right. The golem is the problem.”
Alex replied with satisfaction.
Jane pursed her lips.
In fact, for the teachers at Constell, this is more problematic than the assault case.
Jane, who wants to defend Edwin in her heart, doesn’t have much to say on this matter.
“Edwin, you stole the golem from Teacher Vinkis and used it for assault. Do you agree?”
Alex’s question is malicious.
Literally, Edwin had previously confessed.
Edwin closed his eyes and answered.
“Yes that’s right.”
“The gap between the date the golem was stolen and the assault case is very close. It looks like you stole the golem to assault the students from the beginning, do you agree?”
“Teacher Alex!”
Jane exclaimed. Now, Alex’s remarks are just logic based on speculation and coercion.
However, the attitude and expression Edwin had seen since he first came here, already withered from guilt.
Such nonsense can work.
“Why don’t you say anything? You agree, don’t you?”
“Teacher Alex! You are talking too much!”
“I didn’t ask you, Teacher Jane!”
Alex got up from his chair.
The staggering, indifferent gait that was approaching was daunting in itself.
Approaching Edwin’s close, Alex put a threat.
“Answer me, Edwin! If you weren’t meant to attack the students, then why did you steal Teacher Vinkis’ golem! Right after you stole a golem, the first time you used it was for assault! If this sequence of actions is not intentional, what is it?”
Edwin still had his eyes closed.
It wasn’t that Alex’s threatenings made Edwin’s heart flutter. He was just shaking himself, shaking himself.
-I did something worse than that.
Hitting students is almost any excuse.
However, he tried to silence his close friend Elin, and Frontier tried to kill him with all his heart.
He did not know the origin of his unknown anger, but it was clearly his will.
-Are you really down? Edwin.
Erin, as you said.
It is also ridiculous to deny.
“Answer me! Edwin!!!”
Alex’s rant.
Edwin slowly opened his eyes.
Yes, everything seems to be intentional. It is right to admit Because Edwin von Behertio has fallen.
slowly his mouth opens,
damn!!!
A shrill sound pierced the entire conference room, pounding the walls and ceiling.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound.
“… … Mr. Vinkis?”
Alex tilted his head as if puzzled.
Teacher Vinkis’s hands were touching.
she claps her hand
“Ah, I finally understand.”
“What does that mean now?”
“Hey, I don’t understand why Edwin is here and doing that. I’ve been watching the situation for a while, and that’s right. So now Edwin is being scolded?”
Teacher Vinkis was speaking with a cool expression as if he had finally solved the problem.
It was bizarre, and Teacher Alex frowned.
“You know what Edwin did wrong, don’t you know better than anyone?”
“So everyone said nothing to me. Because there was such a misunderstanding.”
misunderstanding?
Alex’s expression became more and more displeased. For some reason, I had a feeling that Vinkis was going to say something very unpleasant.
Vinkis put both hands on his waist and spoke in a very proud tone.
“That golem was the one I gave to Edwin. Edwin didn’t steal it.”
Surprisingly, it was really offensive.
“What, what?”
“As you all know, Student Edwin has been my longtime assistant. Edwin was such a gifted student, he was ashamed to have helped him a lot when researching golems. The golem is that gift.”
Alex opened his mouth and said, “Huh,” he said.
A teacher gave a metal golem as a gift to a student? Where is that guy with a penny or two? A guy who only needs a book or two of knowledge? Will it be made with the skill of a day or two?
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NeverAlex looked at Edwin.
Edwin was more surprised than Alex, looking at Vinkis with his eyes wide open. Her lips were trembling and her eyes were wide as if she was about to cry.
“Looking at Edwin’s face, it doesn’t seem like it?”
“Huh, the expression?”
At Alex’s words, Vinkis was sarcastic.
“Where are the ‘logic’ and ‘guess’ that you were proud of to Edwin a while ago, and suddenly you’re talking about facial expressions? Are you now able to read the heart of a person with a human face?”
“Master Vinkis! Even so, does it make sense to give a metal golem as a gift?”
“Don’t you know? Do you think you are making more absurd claims than this?”
“More absurd claims… … ?”
At Alex’s questionable question, Vinkis looked around the crowd. As everyone noticed her at the gesture, Vinkis smiled profusely.
“I ask the other way around. You seem to think Edwin stole my golem, how did he do it?”
“… … Hey, sneak into the lab.”
“Are you going in?”
“… … her.”
All the teachers knew what Vinkis meant. I knew the intention for sure.
Vinkiss teacher tries to protect Edwin even by force.
It is impossible to break that logic now.
“My golem has a password and security that I designed in several layers. Without me, I can’t interfere in any way with the design of the golem. From what you are saying, Teacher Alex, you seem to know the value of metal golems. Would I have left such things in the lab without any measures?”
“Huh, but wouldn’t it be possible if you had deep knowledge of golems, metals, and magic?”
“I assure you.”
Vinkis shifted his gaze. At the end of it was Osprey.
“None of the teachers here can crack the password I put on the golem. The same goes for the president.”
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Not everyone said anything about it.Even Osprey can’t solve it, he knows the weight of that statement.
Osprey, on the other hand, did not respond. It seemed to affirm or ignore Vinkis’s remarks.
Vinkis looked at Alex.
“I ask again. Which one seems more probable: I present a metal golem to a student, or a student unlocks the golem’s security device that no other teacher here can unlock?”
“… … Teacher Vinkis, forcing me like that… … .”
“It’s not something I do forcing myself.”
while those words come and go.
Edwin simply heard their conversation as background noise.
Guilt shudders, and shame covers my eyes.
Teacher Vinkis is protecting him. He tricked her and stole her golem himself.
Vinkis, who was a few ally to Edwin, who was caught up in the perception of the fallen nobles. Edwin betrayed her, and she trusted Edwin once more.
That one fact just made him all tremble.
Edwin bowed his head.
I was miserable, so I didn’t know what kind of face I was making, so I just looked at the floor.
Osprey saw it.
He clenched his knees tightly, his trembling shoulders and his shaky head.
‘… … Behertio.’
The family, Behertio, was already considered to be completely over.
The time when it was called a prestigious school was truly the time when the head of Behertio and Osprit spent their heyday together.
I thought we would grow old together slowly as time passed.
what was so urgent What kind of greed and self-interest has seduced you into your downfall?
I thought it withered so quickly that I would never be able to stand up again.
“──Malia-sensei.”
Osprit, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth.
“Yes.”
“I heard that at the site where the golem was destroyed, a boy and a girl, and Edwin went to the infirmary together.”
“That’s right.”
“Didn’t you say something from them?”
“Oh, right.”
Edwin’s eyes lit up. This is the story of Elin and Frontier. When he raised his head, his eyes met Malia, who was looking at him.
“Edwin, these two are telling you.”
“Yes, yes?”
“First of all, the boys, said Frontier de Roach.”
Malia’s expression was as soft as ever. Those eyes seemed to embrace Edwin softly.
“Golem, I’m sorry I broke it. Please tell me that.”
“… … !”
Edwin listened to the words, losing his expression. In the end, tears flowed from both eyes, which were shaking incessantly.
“And this is what Elin is saying.”
Edwin didn’t even think to wipe his tears away, and wet his dry face with tears.
Seeing this, Malia gave her a rare, playful smile.
“I didn’t know you were sleeping.”