Ophelis Hall Occupation Situation (3)
“Is it the second semester from tomorrow?”
Ziggs Eiffelstein was training alone in his room when he suddenly realized that quite a bit of time had passed. It was a strange thing.
Looking out the window in the pouring rain, I can’t get my spirits up. Due to the gloomy weather that continued for several days, I couldn’t even go jogging like the start of a daily routine, and there was no condition to train my magic outdoors.
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My plan to train as much as possible while taking advantage of the vacation was also a bit sluggish. I tried to build up several basic skills to keep up with the progress of the class, but I still feel like I’m still lacking.
The class A curriculum led by Professor Glast was quite daunting for Ziggs, who did not have a knack for zero. Lucy, who solves anything with an overwhelming amount of magical power, is out of the question, but I wanted to see and learn Lortel’s delicate operation of magic and her agility to solve tasks sensibly.
Ziggs would have the upper hand when it came to combat ability, but Lortel’s skills and skills needed in such a civilized life tended to be pushed back.
“I should try to get rid of as much emotion as possible…”
Ziggs, whoops, sighed.
At the fan behavior of beating Tote in a moment of rage, his companion Elka was genuinely angry. It was very rare for Elka to be angry with Ziggs. It was Ziggs who even went to Tote to apologize for being pushed back, but his emotional tone does not disappear.
“Well?”
Suddenly, in a corner of the garden where it rains, I see a familiar human figure. Wearing a robe and wading through the rain, he is entering the Ophelis Hall, and he is definitely a different species living in a hut in the northern forest.
“Weren’t you kicked out? If you forcefully enter the Ophelis Hall, the maid will kick you out…”
I’m worried that I’ll be harmed, but I don’t think there’s any need to worry because I’m not a human who doesn’t even know such basic facts.
Ziggs bent his body back and forth again and looked away from the window.
*
The main hall on the 1st floor of the Ophelis building that you can see when you open the door. Normally, the entrance is tightly locked.
Whenever students using the dormitory enter and exit, the maid in charge of the entrance will simply check their identity and let them in.
If you don’t wear a red brooch, which is given only to Ophelis students, it is impossible to verify your identity at all, and the maids remember all the faces of the 53 dorm students, so you can’t cheat.
“Ed, are you right? The story was delivered to the head of the maid.”
Originally, I would have been in a position where I had to stand in the rain in front of a tightly closed entrance, but today, the entrance to the Ophelis Hall has been opened.
‘Kelly in charge of washing the bedding’
A dwarf, neatly dressed sub-maid outfit. Along with her older sister, Shani, she was in charge of the middle boss of the Ophelis Hall Occupation event.
There is no way the loyal Ophelis maids would be involved in such an occupation. However, Shani and Kelly, who were raised by the maid, Ellis, are different. They are persuaded by Elise to join her plan.
Shani, who is in charge of the vanguard, wielding a rapier, and Kelly, who uses basic magic with a fairly high level of skill, takes over the entire hallway. You’ll encounter enemies on the 3rd floor, but to be honest, it’s not that difficult. If you take down Kelly, who is in charge of firepower, well, you can break through it more easily than you think.
Well, it’s up to Taylor to figure this out.
“If it had been a little later, it would have been a big deal. It will be a shift soon.”
Anyway, this time zone was the time Kelly was managing the entrance. As instructed in advance, she brought me into the Hall of Ophelis.
“Soon, I will take a shift with another maid and go see my work. Selara is a child, and since she is a new maid, she will be able to subdue it without using force. I don’t even have any weapons.”
“Can such a kid be in charge of the front door?”
“It’s not that difficult to confirm your identity and let you in, right? In an emergency, I have a magic tool to inform the maid chief directly of the situation, but today the maid chief won’t answer the call.”
I nodded.
It hides inside the hall, and when the time comes, it overtakes the maid guarding the entrance and opens the door wide. Then the inferiors will come and go upstairs.
At that time, Maid Jean Ellis will activate the Ophelis Hall protection law and block off all entrances to each room, so I only have to go around the first floor and check whether the magic formula has been properly activated.
Then, if you think there is no problem, go back to the hall on the first floor and wait for Taylor.
According to the truth, the breaking-out members of this event are Taylor, Isla, Elvira, and Clevius.
Clevius meets and joins on the second floor in the scenario, so you only have to deal with the other three.
“What about the rest of the maids?”
I looked at the quiet hall and asked Kelly.
“With the exception of essential personnel, most of them are gathered in the conference room. The head of the maid gathered the important agenda.”
I’m going to put him in there and block off the entrance. After all, the top head has been purchased, so the plan is a breeze.
“And I prepared the things you mentioned in advance.”
Kelly whimpered and brought one of the basins she had brought near the entrance. It was filled with thick liquid.
“Oh, thank you.”
“Can I just leave it in a corner?”
I nodded and looked up at the hall once.
As it is a luxurious building, the entrance is dazzling. As soon as you open the door, you can see the main hall with a neatly laid out marble floor and a high floor height, so you feel like you are still outdoors.
A magnificent chandelier adorns the ceiling, and a small chandelier surrounds it like stars adorning the moon.
If you walk to the center of the hall and look around, you can even feel the empty feeling. Along with the decorative cabinets lined up along the wall, the stone door leading to the hallway even looks old-fashioned.
“The walls and floors are all marble.”
It is definitely a luxurious place. From Taylor’s point of view, I’ve already been to this place while working on the script, but seeing it in person has a different feel.
I opened the closet door in the corner and put some of the things I had prepared. Then, after grasping the location and structure of various objects in the hall, he nodded his head and gave a rough estimate of what would happen in the future.
The first-floor boss battle wasn’t too bad either. It just takes some time.
The key is to gently connect them so that Taylor can proceed with the second floor boss battle. After that it will probably go well.
The 2nd floor boss is ‘Dismal Clevius’.
It’s an event that pursues Clevius, who broke the wall because he was afraid of the work himself, even though things haven’t grown properly yet. The scenario was to subdue Clevius, who was making a fuss, saying he was going to run away, and then joined the party and took him up.
So, wait until you hear Clevius breaking the wall and that’s it. You just need to connect the timing gently.
To be honest, I decided to admit it. In the first act of the boss fight, I felt deeply, because the butterfly effect is really unpredictable… The decision to control all the variables in the world is nothing more than arrogance in the end.
So, once the first floor boss battle is over, we will go out to the rose garden and watch the situation until the end with Yenica, an unexpected emergency power. If there is any other abnormality, we can respond immediately.
“I might as well check out Taylor’s specs this time.”
Even if it doesn’t meet the clear specifications, it’s a big deal. In particular, the final boss of Act 2, Glast the Investigator, is an excruciatingly painful opponent. The character magic and curses he uses make him constantly experience pain as if he is stabbing his body with an awl, destroying his heart altogether.
Stats and mental strength, all of which are difficult to deal with if they are not trained well enough.
I carefully checked that I put all the items I had prepared in the closet, and closed the door.
*
Since then, it has been a breeze. Everything flowed naturally like water.
Hiding between the decorations in the main hall, the new maid and Kelly took charge of the front door a little after 8 o’clock. As I waited for a while, the sound of students screaming from outside also climbed over the wall.
– ‘I can’t stand this kind of treatment anymore!’
– ‘This is the land of learning! Guarantee at least gender equality!’
– ‘Answer our voices!’
The shouts of inferior and ordinary students echo through the front door. They are gathering in front of the locked Ophelis coffin and shouting slogans. At the forefront of that is Willane, the representative of the inferior student.
His light yellow hair, horn-rimmed glasses, and the brown-grey robe he was wearing were already soaked in the rain.
The Ophelis Hall symbolizes the nobility of Sylvanian privileged students. The students gathered in front of the symbol and sat in anger.
In the original plan, it should have ended here. It is inevitable that they will sit down to express their dissatisfaction and express their injustice to privileged students. Even so, the door to the Ophelis Hall is firmly closed.
“Ugh, ooh! what’s this! You have to report it to the maid…!”
Embarrassed by the sudden situation, the new maid trembled and began to search for the magic tools that were given to her. Taking advantage of her embarrassment, I went out alone again, swooped behind her back, and covered her eyes with a scarf.
“Woah, whoa! What, what! Who is it!”
I lifted up the blindfolded maid and placed it on my shoulder, and clasped my wrists tightly to keep the scarf from unraveling. After that, he unlocked the front door with one hand and kicked it open.
The door to the fairly large Ophelis Hall creaked open.
– ‘…ooh?!’
– ‘What, what!’
The group of students who did not understand the situation for a moment were perplexed, but
– ‘The door to the Ophelis Hall has been opened! Let’s go in!’
When representative Willaine shouted, the crowd suddenly rushed into the hallway of the Ophelis Hall.
– ‘The management office is on the 4th floor! Let’s occupy the fourth floor and issue a statement!’
– ‘Let’s make our voices known!’
– ‘Minimum treatment! I don’t want much, I just want the least amount of treatment!’
– ‘let’s go! Let’s show our power!’
I suppressed the maid and watched the crowd of students rushing in.
“You, are you… Ed Rothtailer?”
Willane, a 3rd grader who took the lead, saw me and reacted. Is it true that even 3rd graders know my name?
“Were you the one that Lortel bought…!”
“yes. I am the watchman who checks and guards the first floor.”
“Why are you…”
I spit out the lines I had prepared.
“There are things that I deeply sympathize with in the words that Willane sunbaenim has always shouted. Of course, I have lived in the Ophelis Hall with favor and kindness, but it was only after I was kicked out that I realized how privileged I was.”
“Ed… Roth Taylor…!”
“Now I understand! That what Willane-senpai said was right…! However, I, who belonged to the privileged class until I was kicked out, couldn’t understand it when I had to say this, so I proved it by my actions!”
At those words, Willain shook his hand as if in admiration. Ed Roth-Taylor is a man who, after living in all his privileges, has now been thrown out of his cozy cradle. The more such a human being, the greater the sense of how great the rights he enjoyed.
“okay! You really… made a big contribution to our demand for a fair return! I didn’t even know you were such a good person, and I’ve only heard rumors and judged carelessly…!”
“No, I was just a f**king human, Willane-senpai. I was so moved by Willane-senpai’s words that I just did my best! Everything is thanks to Willaine-senpai!”
Having said that, I urged Willaine.
“Come on upstairs. Mr Willane! Take control of the management office on the fourth floor and issue a statement!”
“Yeah, yes! I’m counting on you!”
Willane is in a position to dump all responsibility after the case is over.
You will be treated as a general manager who incites students and encourages violations of school rules, and will be severely punished.
The school won’t go back if all of these students are severely punished, so they will be beaten as an example.
Humans who simply took part in Willaine’s occupation were only succumbed to the instigation and temptation, and did not engage in direct destructive actions, so they end up with their own harsh punishment compared to Willaine. It’s not a good thing to be disciplined for nothing, but considering the 20 gold coins and the importance of maintaining a stable flow of love, it’s not a risk you can’t afford.
So, I was moved by Willaine’s words and acted! You followed Willain’s will! and shouting is the key. It is to make the subject of responsibility that comes to me as blurry as possible.
In fact, Willaine has no intention of destroying the Ophelis Hall.
I would have thought of ending this situation peacefully by simply occupying the occupation and issuing a formal statement… But things in the world don’t go as planned.
Well… I’m sorry, but I’m in a position to be severely punished no matter what I do… Is it okay for me to carry one or more people…?
“Go ahead, Willane-senpai!”
“Yeah, don’t forget! Ed! You are the best junior…!”
I’m sorry!!!
Stay strong…! Willane…!
The light of the magic circle filled the dark hallway. At the entrance to each room, the engraved protective ordinance was doing its job perfectly.
– ‘What the hell is going on out there! Is it okay to just stay in the room like this?’
– ‘Is anyone there? The door won’t open? Can I break this…? It looks expensive…’
– ‘I saw students rushing in through the window, what the hell is this!’
– ‘Ki, if I wait, will it recover? Wouldn’t that be a big deal?’
As I crossed the hallway, I heard the voices of students in confusion in the room.
The first floor is mostly 3rd graders. I checked each room and carefully checked if there were any missing magic circles. If the story went according to the truth, of course, there would be no magic circles missing. Still, I wanted to see it clearly with my own two eyes.
It took about 15 minutes to finish checking, and when I went out to the hall on the first floor again, it didn’t make sense.
Outside the wide open front door, rain is pouring down. The new maid guarding the front door is nowhere to be seen. He must have gone looking for his superiors to report the situation, but sadly, all the superiors who deserve to report are locked up in the conference room on the 4th floor.
The marble floor, which had always been kept clean, was completely filthy with mud-stained shoes, and some of the cabinets and display shelves were completely toppled.
“Oh my gosh, it started out more brilliantly than I thought.”
And there is a girl breaking through the rain and plucking her clothes.
“As expected, Mr. Ed. It’s good that you can trust me.”
She smiled brightly, brushing off her wet robe, and lowering her hat, revealing her pure white skin.
“Ugh, my socks are all wet. This is why I hate rainy days, I.”
“You were watching the situation from the outside, Lortel.”
“I have been locked up in my room, so I don’t know if things are going well. You should also check outside whether the students have gathered well. Still, I didn’t expect it to rain this much, eh. It was completely wet inside.”
Lortel smiled like a fox and took off his robe and brushed it off. Even the casual clothes he was wearing inside and the white one-piece skirt were all completely wet, so he was speechless.
Unusually, he grabbed the loose reddish-brown hair with one hand and lifted it up to dry, and with the other hand he rolled up the robe that had been completely wiped off.
“Once the bachelor’s staff starts to intervene, it will be put down sooner rather than later, so we have to move on quickly.”
“Yeah, suffer.”
Lortel smiled brightly, packed up her clothes, and walked into the hall. I’ll probably go up to the 5th floor like this and discuss future plans with Elise.
The story will go in the direction of exacerbating the situation by running the Ophelis Hall’s protection magic and handing over the leadership of the magic circle to Willane, the representative of the inferior student.
‘Willane, the representative of the inferior student’, who is protected by all kinds of protective magic that has been applied to the Ophelis Hall, becomes the boss on the 4th floor. It is a scenario in which you quickly subdue Willaine, who is losing his mind in the midst of a magic circle that is running wild.
“Sir Ed. Can I ask you one thing that is a little out of the way?”
With that thought in mind, Lortel spoke to me instead of walking towards the hall. The next question was surprising.
“Have you ever killed someone?”
Turning around, Lortel’s voice is still lively, but the feeling is as gloomy as the current weather.
When I frown, Lortel smiles ahaha and turns back to me. Her drenched, reddish-brown hair had gathered and flowed down her shoulders.
“No.”
“Neither do I. Ahaha.”
And Lortel continued as if confessing.
“But… I’ve done a lot of similar things.”
Lortel’s past history cannot be said to be clean even with empty words.
All of the secret tricks, trickery, and trickery that she has committed in the Elte Chamber must have all been acts that lead to ruin.
It may not have been a felony comparable to murder, but it can be said that it is in line with the fact that it ends a person’s life.
Lortel herself knew that fact better than anyone else.
“First, I had to survive.”
It is quite natural to hit someone in the back of the head as we struggle to survive in a reality that was like a thorny road. The remorse of conscience disappears quickly the first time or two.
Suddenly, after accepting the honorable title of ‘Colossus’, a human trampled on a truck in the process.
The world is full of humans who will pierce their hearts with daggers if given the opportunity. After that, it was only then that I began to question whether I was living the wrong life.
He trampled on other people’s lives in order to survive, and to avoid being hit in the back of the head, he hit someone in the back of the head first.
I’ve been living my life with indulgences to myself because it was inevitable, but if you think about it carefully, it’s just a self-rationalization.
“Sir Ed. What do you think of such a person?”
Even if you realize that fact later, it doesn’t mean that the stains already on your body are gone.
If you do good deeds now, it will only be accepted as hypocrisy, and you will not be able to make a bold decision to give up all the wealth you have accumulated throughout your life.
From now on, I can’t go back.
He knew too many ugly secrets of all kinds of merchants, noble families, and influential people to get out of the way of commerce. The moment Lortel’s name loses its usefulness, the word is fixed.
In the end, you have no choice but to run towards the final station like a runaway locomotive on the track. You’ve come too far to be hypocrisy by now.
As a merchant, as a villain, as a darkness. It was eaten up little by little by the swamp where he first set foot, and when he came to his senses, his whole body was already settling into darkness.
Who would you tell them to rescue you from, it’s a disaster that you have brought on your own. You know better than anyone that you don’t deserve sympathy.
Therefore, he wanders in search of his fellow men as if possessed.
“If you were a senior, would you sympathize with such a person?”
It’s because he understands well that he’s already stuck in a gutter all the way to the tip of his head, and that he can neither be accepted nor sympathized.
The feeling of loneliness comes to both good and evil people.
To get out of this solitude, you have no choice but to find someone who is rolling in the mud like you. You can only be saved if you find someone who will settle down to the bottom of this swamp together.
“no.”
Of course, that person is not me.
“You are responsible for your choices, Lortel.”
At those words, Lortel remained expressionless for a moment, then finally smiled.
“Senior is right.”
Lortel Keheln is a girl who has lived her whole life pursuing only reason and rationality.
I know that fact very well. Until the day when all the scenarios of ‘Sylvania’s Failing Swordsman’ are finished, this girl never loses her temper or is obsessed with something.
“It didn’t suit me, and I said something stupid. Sorry. Whoa.”
Lortel, who soon regained that mischievous smile, quickly erased her sentimental appearance.
“Well, then, I have to go do my job. Because I don’t have much time.”
Having said that, Lortel went up the stairs and disappeared.
I nodded and sat down on a chair that had been lying around.
From now on, all you have to do is sit back and wait for Taylor to come.
Anyway, at the time of Act 2, Taylor, Ayla, and Elvira know what their stats are, what skills they know how to use, and what strategies they fight with.
The difference in absolute numbers and stats alone would not be able to penetrate me easily. It’s not like you’re completely suppressing it, it’s just that you’re taking the time. That’s not even a thing.
If you wait a while and lose, Taylor will quickly go up to the second floor.
Still, in the process of hitting and hitting, there may be a few hits or injuries.
Well… it’s a necessary sacrifice…
*
“What kind of carriage is this late at night…?”
Sitting in the corner of the pavilion in the rose garden a little far from the Ophelis Hall, Yenika was looking at the boulevard.
In front of the rose garden, a large wagon passed proudly. It was like seeing such a luxurious carriage for the first time. The golden crown drawn on the carriage was impressive. Is there even something great going on?
– ‘I think I may be a little late because I have something to deal with all of a sudden. I’ll go as soon as possible, so please wait for a while. Sorry.’
He was watching the rain pouring down among the beautiful roses, with the note that Ed had left behind, folded up and placed in his arms.
rather good I have time to clear my mind.
“Ta, did you prepare something special…?”
The pavilion in the rose garden is a place we saw every day. This is because when you walk out of the main gate of the Ophelis Building and walk towards the professor building, you can always see it.
It’s late at night, so I can’t see the whole view of the Ophelis Hall, but I can still see it in a blur through the rain.
Something strange seems to be happening.
A large number of students seemed to be heading towards the Ophelis Hall, and a huge wagon had just disappeared in the direction of the Ophelis Hall.
Yenika was curious, but did not dare to move. I wanted to move around and get confused with Ed.
For the past three days, I was having trouble sleeping, and I thought deeply about what story Ed wanted to tell.
perhaps? is that? Maybe… I’m overreacting. Or is there any reason to bring it here? Talking to myself like that all day long made my best friends worry.
Although suffering from a sense of guilt, he continues to listen to Ed’s movements heard through Merylda.
There are more people than I thought about the camp where Ed lives in the first place. Merylda said that not only Lucy, but Princess Fenia, Bel Maia, Ziggs, and even Lortel had seen the scene coming out of Ed’s camp.
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Merylda is not a 24-hour close monitoring, so there may be additional people coming in and out.
Coincidentally, the fact that most of them are female students was heartbreaking for Yenica…
If so, what is the position where you can intervene? Thinking like that, blood rushes to my head again.
“I’m sorry, did I just do it for nothing? Oh, don’t you like it?”
After a while, I came out with the orange persimmon hairpin sent from my hometown. All right, I brushed my hair once more and came out with no wrinkles.
Come to think of it, I think the cosmos pins used at the festival were prettier. It doesn’t seem to go well with the clothes you’re wearing, and it’s dark at night, so it’s hard to see, so I think a brighter color would be better.
“Gee, would you like to change it now…?”
Yenica, who was sitting still in the crowd of students or a large wagon procession, for fear of being confused with Ed. It would be funny to come and go to the room quickly because of one hairpin.
However, Yenika thought seriously as she looked in her hand mirror.
“Papa, it might be all right if you go quickly.”
Once you’ve made up your mind, it’s better not to waste time and move quickly.
Yenika swallowed her saliva and quickly came back into the rain with her robe cap on.
I was worried that the hair that had been carefully cleaned would be swept away by the hem of the robe, but nevertheless, Yenika ran quickly.
If my hair got a little messy, it was enough to quickly rearrange it in the room.
*
“Is it really the right decision to enter the Ophelis Hall?”
“Do you know how much all the herbs in my room cost?! Taylor!”
“Still, it would be better to wait for the academic staff to deal with it…”
It was still pouring rain. In front of the main entrance to the Ophelis Hall, Taylor, Ayla, and Elvira were fighting each other.
“If you don’t collect herbs in time and apply conservation magic, your nature will change! It is the difference in delicacy that determines the results of the experiment! Do you know the depth of it, Taylor?”
Elvira brushed off Taylor as she inflated her cheeks.
Elvira was not involved in the Ophelis incident because she was testing reagents in a secret laboratory built on a cliff on the shore without the bachelor’s knowledge. However, he was so concerned about the herbs he had left in the room, so he ended up dragging all the people who looked roughly at him and asking him to help them enter the Ophelis Hall.
Taylor and Isla were the victims.
“Anyway, they are a group of inferior students, so the three of us can subdue them all! All you have to do is beat the action leader, Willane!”
Saying that, Elvira strode towards the front door of the Ophelis Hall.
“Ayla… stop her…! You’re trying to enter the Ophelis Hall by yourself!”
“Hey, can’t we just pretend we don’t know? Elvira is the head of the pension department, so she should be able to take good care of herself.”
“It’s not Elvira who’s at risk, it’s the inferior kids! When Elvira rolls her eyes, she sprays any reagent!”
At that, Ayla swallowed her saliva. Elvira, whose personality was completely destroyed, might have thrown all kinds of explosive reagents at the really inferior students.
Taylor is right. It’s not Elvira who’s at risk, it’s the inferior students.
Taylor and Isla, hastily followed Elvira towards the main entrance of the Ophelis Hall.
“Elvira! stop! Stop it!”
“Stop talking and come along! I have to break through to my room on the 4th floor together!”
“Then… can we just go to your room? So you’re not doing anything?”
“right. I just need the herbs to be okay.”
After hearing this, Taylor sighed and shook her head.
“okay. Then, let’s go to your room, Elvira.”
“If there are any obstacles on the way, I will break through them all, okay? Taylor.”
“Please don’t just hurt people, Elvira.”
Taylor said so and looked at Isla. Taylor’s companion, Isla, took a deep breath and followed them.
Eventually, they reached the front of the Ophelis Hall, and Elvira quickly kicked the front door. The door opened with a bang, and the wide, spacious main hall on the first floor caught my eye.
In the center of the hall, there is a man sitting quietly on a wooden chair placed in a pile. All three know who he is.
In the hall on the first floor of the Ophelis Hall filled with the sound of rain, the man raised his head and looked at the party.
Act 2, Chapter 3 The Ophelis Hall Occupation Situation, the boss on the 1st floor, different from the affair.
Excommunicated Fallen Nobility, Ed.
Just like when he caught Takan one day, he sat with his arms folded and his hands clasped, waiting for the party.