How to Survive at the Academy chapter 36

Ophelias Occupation Situation (6)

“You know what, Elise? It was the car.”

The corridor on the 5th floor of the Ophelis Building.

A storage room for supplies and a lounge for the maids. Other than that, this space, which consists only of multi-purpose rooms, is still quiet as if there was something wrong with the downstairs.

In the first place, students never go up to the 5th floor. The rooms are all spread out on the lower floors, and most of the maids are locked up in the staff meeting room on the 4th floor, so the spacious hallway on the 5th floor is quiet.

A commotion was heard from downstairs. It seems that Ed Roth-Taylor did a more splendid run than I thought. This is good news for Lortel, which gets better as the situation escalates.

Eventually, something like the screams of terrified Clevius will be heard, and the students locked in the room will become more and more anxious as they go on. If the situation becomes serious, they will break down the wall and escape in unison.

Elise stood in the dark and looked at the girl who spoke to her.

“You know Alice, right? He’s the kind of person who looks evil and ugly just by looking at him.”

“Are you talking about Master Ed? The person I met last time at camp.”

“yes that’s right.”

“You like that kind of person. I didn’t know.”

“…she has a decent appearance, but that doesn’t mean it is.”

Lortel Keheln was sitting on a wooden cabinet in the furnishings and drying her hair. I was just checking to see if things were going as planned.

“I think I smelled the smell that I smelled from Mr. Elise, too. You made a sentimental sound that didn’t suit you.”

“Is that so?”

“Then he threw it away without a hitch. You are responsible for your choices.”

Lortel lifted her hair up and brushed it off with a smile.

“People like us must live by hearing such words.”

When Elise heard those words, she could neither nod nor shake her head.

Ellis is the chief maid of the Ophelis Hall, and is an elder maid with over 20 years of service.

He started working as an apprentice maid at the age of 15, ignorant of anything, and was eventually recognized for his abilities, becoming the manager of the Ophelis Hall at a relatively young age.

All such people are deeply hardened. Therefore, such people cannot easily buy with money.

If you want to do something that goes against the beliefs you have buried in your heart, you have to pour in a huge amount of money to destroy even those values.

This is where the most investment was made in order to forcefully call the scale of the occupation of Ophelis Pavilion.

Abandoning the job to which he has been loyal all his life, making the situation bigger, destroying the Ophelis Hall, and making him take responsibility for all of this.

If you were going to bribe them to do this, you had to make them pay all your sins and live your life without worrying about money.

Thanks to this, there was a big hole in the books of the Sylvania branch of the Elte Chamber of Commerce. Adequate investment is essential for greater profits, but it is a loss large enough to purchase a senior staff member of the Sylvania Academy. It won’t be easy to grind.

But Lortel was not at all worth the cost.

It is not simply an investment in the name of greater profit. A series of actions is also an act of finding kin.

I have seen countless people who have broken their beliefs by being drawn to the sparkling gold coins.

Such people are usually in a corner, or those who take pride in life’s worthless and weightless beliefs.

Such people are not even worthy of being called fellows.

The real people are those who threw away their hardened beliefs and values that they devoted their entire lives to in front of gold coins.

The more sublime and valuable those beliefs and values are, the more Lortel feels. It is because that appearance is the only thing that can relieve Lortel’s loneliness.

“It’s nice to have Elise.”

Even the elder maid, who has been serving students at the Ophelis Hall for over 20 years, collapses in front of greed.

In front of the Tower of Gold Coins, any sublime loses its value.

Lortel himself knows all too well that it is useless self-consolation.

A life that was led by gold coins and threw everything else away. It is nothing more than a psychological defense mechanism to receive affirmation of such a life.

Even though he is aware of it, Lortel does not stop searching for his people.

“Otherwise, how can such a plan work?”

It is needless to stress how much the involvement of the general manager of the Ophelis Hall was a big variable in this situation.

“If we hand over the initiative of the protection magic that ran rampant to him just in time for Willaine, the representative of the inferior student, to occupy the 4th floor management office like this… He will destroy the Ophelis Hall without knowing the English language.”

Considering the people Lortel has trampled on to survive, this is a cute level.

In the slums of the slums, or in the procession of merchants risking their lives for a single gold coin.

If I didn’t stab someone in the back first, I lived a life where I was stabbed to death.

However, even if it was done to survive, there was no justification for that evil deed.

Just saying that it was a way of survival to protect oneself… Although it may be extenuating, it cannot be completely rationalized.

“Things seem to be going well as planned, so I will stay in the warehouse as it is. Without knowing anything, I was terrified and had to act as a good student hiding in the warehouse in a hurry.”

“Okay, Miss Lortel.”

No matter what his unfortunate past or what the circumstances of the predicament are, Lortel is a clear villain and a black screen.

If there is an afterlife, it will burn forever in Hellfire.

You do not deserve to be understood or to be sympathized with. Lortel herself knew it all too well.

So, in the end, what you are looking for is your kin.

He desperately wanted only a companion to sink to the bottom of the swamp together.

Even though I know very well that such a person cannot exist.

You are such a pitiful human

I will die in loneliness for the rest of my life without ever loving someone like a girl of that age or opening my heart like a family.

At that fact, Alice sighed in regret.

…I took out the rapier and aimed it at Lortel.

“Lady Lortel. I will tell you as soon as I think of it.”

At the point when the wizard gave this distance to the one who wields the sword… the fight was no longer established.

“I am not your kind.”

*

“…it’s not as difficult as I thought.”

The corridor on the 3rd floor of the Ophelis Building.

Outside the window, the rain is still pouring down.

As they swam between them, Taylor’s group continued to move forward.

Taylor, Isla, Elvira, Clevius.

He caught Clevius fleeing from the second floor, subdued it, and forced him to join the party.

On the third floor, ‘Kelly in charge of washing the bed linen’ blocked the party, but they handled it appropriately and successfully subdued them.

– ‘I’m sorry, Elise-sama… I couldn’t finish the task you entrusted to me…’

Kelly kept talking to herself until she tied it up, suppressed it, and threw it into the corner of the hallway.

Now that I think about it, where did Kelly and her twin sister, Shany, go with them almost every day?

Of course, Taylor’s thoughts did not reach there.

“If we just go at this pace, it will be soon…?”

We reached the 4th floor.

Was it because I was too nervous? It felt like things were getting better than expected.

At first, the difficulty level of the first floor was strangely difficult. After that, there is no opponent who strategically pokes Taylor’s weakness.

“…”

Elvira had an expressionless face, unlike usual.

In the midst of a blazing flame, the figure of a sorcerer in a second year standing with her blood-soaked shirt rolled up keeps glimmering.

The terrifyingly skillful movement is constantly disturbing the nerves of the entrance exam, which is a departure from the ugly rolling on the floor.

Elvira is a mass of pride. The fact that Ed deliberately lost left a big scratch on his arrogant character, but that doesn’t make him lose his temper.

‘Don’t worry. He was obviously hiding his skills.’

It just seems necessary to confirm the facts.

Once the curiosity of Elvira rose, no difficulties could be stopped. Clearly, there is an aspect of Ed Roth Taylor that Elvira is not aware of.

“Do, run away!”

“aah!”

Elvira’s worries were only temporary.

At the end of the hallway on the fourth floor, a group of inferior students poured out. They all looked terrified, and started running past Taylor’s party and running towards the exit of the Ophelis Hall.

“Protection magic has run rampant!”

“You idiot Willane! I told you not to touch me!”

“shit! Where have all the maids who managed the protection magic gone? Let’s run away now!”

“I do not know! I really didn’t know it was going to be like this!”

In an instant, the hallway became a mess because of the students who came out screaming like that.

“Come on, wait! what! Why are you all here?”

Taylor screams and tries to stop the students, but it is in vain.

The earth shaft shakes, and the Ophelis tube begins to vibrate little by little.

In the corner of the hallway on the 4th floor, at the entrance to the management office, a man appears while staggering.

This is Willane, the representative of the 3rd year Magic Department and the inferior students.

All the protective magic circles that rose around his body were so delicate that even experienced wizards could not handle them. Usually, four or four maids with sufficient mana sensitivity rush in at once and control it.

It is an emergency alert system that manages the entire Ophelis Hall, so unless you are an administrator with clear authority, you do not have access right. The situation in which Willaine is being swayed by the court itself is unnatural.

It was a ploy by Elise and Lortel, who placed a crystal ball in the center of the management room that activates the management system of the courthouse.

“Ugh! Do, help!”

Willaine staggered as he was swayed by the pressure of the courts surrounding him. Swing your arms to one side. All kinds of laws engraved on the walls and ceilings were activated, and they broke the outer wall on one side of the hallway.

Dust rose with the sound of a quaggle, and raindrops invaded the hallway.

“I can’t stand it! help me!”

Willane slipped as it was and slipped into an awkward shape, but even that became a trigger to trigger some sort of magic trick, blowing up the ceiling and smashing the opposite wall.

Self-defense techniques engraved throughout the Ophelis building. It was originally designed to protect students with noble status from outside invaders.

But now the scene is just a child holding a gun loaded with live ammunition. If the danger is not fully recognized and used properly, the muzzle will be directed at the ally.

“First, we need to knock out the caster, Willane! In such a state, it is very difficult to disarm the legal circles one by one!”

Even though her actual ability to respond to magical powers is low, Ayla excels in her knowledge of magic itself. She quickly finished grasping the situation.

As soon as Taylor finished speaking, she nodded her head for a moment and leapt forward. Laying down his sword, he was planning to subdue Willain by hitting him with his sword.

“aah!”

However, if they rush in with a sudden momentum, they take a defensive posture in embarrassment to anyone. And that soon stimulates the activation of a new legal circle.

-Paang!

The magic wave emanating from the glass window and the bathroom door led Taylor to fall. He quickly took the fall and got up from his seat, but at the next Willane’s scream, new magic pours out into the hallway.

Wind Bomb, Fire, Earth Summon, Shadow Blade, Earthquake.

Various legal circles appear in their own way, causing havoc in the hallway, and they do not allow access to Willaine itself.

Needless to say, all the murals on the walls, the wooden cabinets that line the hallways, and the exterior walls and floors are all broken, broken and torn.

It was the students in the room who were trembling with anxiety at the sound of the chandelier collapsing. That patience will eventually reach its limit.

– ‘What the hell is going on out there!’

– ‘If it stays like this, isn’t it really a big deal?! I’m going to break down the wall!’

– ‘What the hell are the maids doing!’

– Kwaang!

In a corner room on the second floor, a girl eventually broke the wall and began to evacuate.

It’s definitely different from Clevius. This time, it really looks like the whole building is going to collapse. You can’t just stay still and die.

– Aww!

– Pah ah ah ah!

As two or three people start breaking through the wall, the students, soon swept away by the crowd, start escaping the room in different ways.

Students on the first floor break windows and run into the rain, and students who can use flying magic or have the skills to land from high places break windows and come out.

Students who fail to do so completely destroy the outer wall of the hallway, use all their magical powers to pop out by using short spatial magic, and even destroy the floor that leads to the first floor.

– Aww!

-bang! bang! Aww!

– Clap! crispy!

The sound of destruction resounding in the Ophelis Hall is unstoppable. I see students evacuating outside to save their lives in different ways.

Taylor and the others had a gut feeling that things were going wrong, but despite this, the rampage of the protection court controlled by Willane does not stop and continues to destroy.

“Elvira! Do you have any chestnut flower reagent left?!”

“Don’t be stupid, Taylor! The chestnut flower reagent twists the caster’s magic operation, and it has no effect on a pre-engraved rule like that!”

Elvira clicked her tongue and bowed down. As it was, I sprayed the melted reagent with a mixture of anglerfish seeds and crushed emperor clam shells on the bottom of the feet. Magical energy rises from the center of it, and all basic magic protruding from the protection circle is temporarily blocked.

Although the scope is narrow, it is not very practical, but in such a narrow corridor, it was a marrow’s reagent that did its job well enough.

“Anyway, that protective circle is only a secondary magic! The amount is just great, but the power itself is worth it! Get through it and knock Willane out!”

Having said that, Elvira quietly grabbed Clevius by the collar, hiding behind the wreckage of the wardrobe.

“Ahhh! Aww! What, I thought no one would know!”

“Anyway, stupid Clevius! Because whenever I have time, I try to hide!”

Elvira kicked Clevius in the ass, shouting at Taylor.

“If the two of us rush together, it will be enough to subdue them! I’ll support you from behind, so take down Willane before the damage gets worse!”

At that, Taylor nodded, and Clavius was stunned.

*

– Aww!

-Paang!

The outer walls of the Ophelis Hall burst. The 4th floor boss attack has begun.

Considering that the difficulty level is not that high except for the 5th floor boss Elise, there is not much left until the Ophelis Hall occupation is over.

“Ed, where are you going? The wound is open!”

“not a big deal! Most of this is not my blood!”

Yenica quickly followed me as I ran around the Ophelis Hall in the rain.

Before long, I found a large wagon standing in front of the staff aisle behind the Ophelis Hall.

The carriage, with its various gilded frames around it, looks expensive and dazzling at first glance, but considering who the human is in the carriage, it cannot be more frugal than this.

Essentially, he accompanies at least ten wagons when he goes somewhere. The fact that they came on a scale of this level is a story that something urgent happened and they rushed to each other.

Judging from the appearance, it looks like it has been standing still in this place for a long time. As if… waiting for the Ophelis tube to be destroyed.

Eventually, a woman in a maid outfit and an umbrella comes out from the staff exit.

‘Sheny in charge of tableware management’

He is one of the orphans raised by Elise, the maid chief, and is the person who should have stopped Taylor and the group together with his younger brother Kelly on the 3rd floor of the Ophelis Building.

However, unlike the affair, Shani got out of the scene and knocked on the carriage door.

The story is going awry. That’s clear evidence

As Shani took a step back and bowed down, a skinny gentleman inside opened the door and came out. He is Victor, an old executive of Elte.

Victor opened the door, raised his umbrella politely, and set up the environment for the owner of the wagon to walk out.

Before long, he walks out from the entrance of the majestic carriage.

A tight-fitting white shirt, a dark red belt, and leather pants with tight hem look frugal. However, the cloak with all kinds of gold lacquer and jewels dangling in it boasts the price of a ship, and the jewel rings between the fingers each carry the weight of a house.

Neither young nor old. A neatly trimmed beard stands out. The dignity of the body is already a part of the body.

The owner of the Elte Chamber of Commerce, ‘Golden King Elte’.

I intuited it.

Now, this point is the starting point that marks the beginning of all catastrophes.

If my memory is correct, the Golden King Elte’s visit to Sylvania is during the ‘Sage’s Seal of the Strife’ event, long after the occupation of the Ophelis Pavilion is over.

Elte’s position within the company is at a standstill. He tries to make a comeback through the purchase of the sage’s seal. Because the head of the Roth Taylor family, Crepin Roth Taylor, bid an outrageous price for the book.

However, he was eventually sent off after being stabbed in the back by Lortel. He ended his life as a merchant.

However, now he is here.

I don’t know the process. Only the result remains.

What, where, how, and how it came to be this way would be completely beyond my awareness. It is arrogant to try to figure it all out at this point.

However, if it happens in the future, it can be inferred enough.

Two twin maids, Shani and Kelly, who are completely loyal to the maid leader Ellis.

Among them, the fact that Shani is in contact with Elte, the Golden King… is a story that Elte, the maid chief, was communicating with Elte, the Golden King.

However, it was clear from the fact that the maid leader Ellis had been completely bought by Lortel.

He receives a huge amount of money and takes responsibility for failing to properly manage the protection of the Ophelis Pavilion.

After receiving all kinds of discipline and punishment at the job where he worked for decades, he puts down all the careers he had built up.

He is not a person who can simply be bought with money. Ellis is a person with strong beliefs and values.

How such a person was purchased solely for money is not dealt with very deeply. He must have paid that much money, I can only guess.

In the first place, Lortel tends to encourage such nobles to break their faith in the face of money. It is the obsession of Lortel, who wanders in search of his people.

However, the scene we see now is clearly different from the real one. That look is like…

“Ed… I caught a cold…! You shed a lot of blood, so your body temperature has dropped!”

Yenica, who followed later, took off the shawl she was wearing inside her robe, came forward, and quickly put it on my head.

“Why are you upset? really!”

“Jenica.”

“Uh, huh?”

It is not a situation to stand still. The situation is not yet fully understood, but what will happen in the future is sufficiently predictable.

“I have something I want to ask you. It’s urgent, but it might be a little too heavy for me to handle alone.”

With her arms stretched out over my head and her shawl raised, Yenika listened blankly to the story… and tilted her head.

It is clear what the answer will be from Yenika. When someone suddenly hears something like this, they tend to ask about the situation first. what is that? Is it urgent? What did you get involved in? explain the situation what are those things

If I wanted to make Yenika accept it, how should I explain it… How to convey only the essence of the situation in a short and bold way… As I was pondering about things, I got an answer from Yenika right away.

“yes. okay.”

Is it because he cares about the word urgent, or does he not even care about the content from the beginning?

“What should I do?”

With the attitude of omitting the intermediate process and asking what to do in a cool way, it makes me think that I have a really good friend.

*

[Letter to Elte Keheln]

Hello, dear Elte Chamber of Commerce, Golden King Elte Keheln.

From noblemtl.com

My name is Ellis, who is the head of the maid of the Ophelis Hall at the High Sylvania Academy.

After reading this letter, it burns and disappears by itself by the engraved code of fire. Please be careful not to get burned.

The reason I, who will never have any contact, pick up a quill to write to you, who will be busy every minute and every second, is because I have something to tell you about your adopted daughter, Miss Lortel Keheln, who is a student at the Sylvania Academy.

In order to buy the ‘Sage’s Seal’ as you commanded, she is leading a rebel of the Ophelis, causing a financial crisis for the Sylvanian Bachelor.

The plan went smoothly. Eventually, with the participation of that Elise, the general manager of the Ophelis Hall, it is almost certain that it will succeed.

If all plans go well, the finances of the Sylvanian Bachelor will be at a standstill, and the Elte Company will have an overwhelming advantage in the negotiation for the ‘Sage’s Seal’.

However, for ‘some reason’, I came to know her true heart.

Elte. Your stepdaughter, Miss Lortel Keheln, is not your ally. You should never trust her.

She… knows that you were the one who killed her biological parents. We recognize her talent, and we all know that it has cornered her life and forced her to hold your hand.

Without you knowing, she’s plotting to lure the 6 colossus and executives of the Elte Chamber to get you out of your position.

Negotiation for the purchase of the ‘Sage’s Seal’ is also a bait to attract you to the Sylvania Academy, preventing you from responding in time to the events occurring at the Elte Chamber of Commerce headquarters.

I keep secret letters from her room that could be evidence of that.

She certainly thinks it was destroyed by burning it in the incinerator, but it’s our maids’ job to light the incinerator.

No matter how thorough she is, I don’t think the maids of the Ophelis Hall would have thought that they would have been torn apart between the incinerators.

I am ready to accuse her at any time.

No matter which direction this case takes, I will be brought to justice for not managing the Ophelis Pavilion properly.

If I can only spit out the three letters of the name of Lortel, the black screen of all things, from the judgment seat, I won’t be the only one falling to hell.

However, as is usual with the world, nothing is free.

On condition that I remain silent on this matter, I was promised her a huge amount of gold coins.

The only thing that blocks the vast amount of gold coins is the greater amount of gold coins.

Below this letter, described in the attached paper, are the names of the ‘institutions’ that I maintain on a regular basis in secret. The amount of gold transferred to that institution will determine my future actions.

I am losing my sight. For some reason, I almost lost my hearing. There is no reason to explain the reason in detail, but anyway, this year will probably be the last time I can work as a maid chief.

I am the only human who knows all the facts of this case, and I am the one who is at a standstill because there is no more behind. Depending on which side I’m on afterward, things can get more complicated or simpler.

Please, be merciful and judge wisely.

– Chief Maid of Ophelis Hall, Ellis Olym.

[Attachment Paper]

Seren Province Crooks Orphanage

Cohelton Orphan Shelter

Artens Crossell Orphanage Sanctuary

Alton Orphanage, Odell Province

Temil Province Public Orphan Shelter

*

“Ed…! you hurt! If you move too fast, the wound will open…!”

What I am already keenly realizing is that the variables in the world are too complex to control all of them.

All you can do is try your best. It’s just a matter of managing the big variables so that there are no problems.

With Yenika, she goes through the rain and organizes her thoughts.

The reason is still unknown, but… If Elise really betrayed Lortel, it is safe to say that Lortel’s downfall is inevitable.

How important is Lortel Keheln’s place in politics?

In Act 3, you have to stand up against the Princess Fenia and lead the political battle within the school, play a role in gathering talented people in the Orunsan search operation, and in the Battle of Lucy, you have to play an active role as a representative of the top forces… person who has been given

In Act 4, his position as a facilitator of the main character’s forces is solidified, and it develops into the greatest friendly force that stands openly opposed to the Roth Taylor family… so many

Lortel, downfall.

It is just one sentence that breaks down the premise of all the scenarios.

The scenario where Lortel Keheln disappeared is a completely unknown world from my point of view. Future knowledge, information superiority, naval, all collapsed and there is no trace of it.

However, if I can fully master the role of Lortel… It may not be impossible, but it is a very difficult and arduous road. It’s like a habit, but it’s hard to put it in my mouth, but that kind of hard work is unconditional.

Unless you give up your academy degree and go outside and head to the bare ground in an unknown fantasy world… Lortel Keheln’s departure is absolutely unacceptable.

“Yenika, do you know where the Ziggs room is? I’ll have to ask him for some help.”

“Uh, huh? Well… I’m not very close… I don’t know…”

“…Yeah, I’ll have to go find them one by one. He may have already escaped from the building.”

I returned to the main gate of the Ophelis Hall, wiping the raindrops running down my face. The evacuated students are screaming, not knowing what to do.

The occupation of the Ophelis Hall is also coming to an end.

The protective magic has been activated and the staff will arrive in a few minutes.

Lortel Keheln is a person who can neither be sympathized nor understood because of his downfall. No matter how vast the circumstances, she is undoubtedly a villain.

Gwonseon jingak, private gwijeong, private beomjeong.

All of them are true stories, but the lessons in such fairy tales are put off for a while.

On the stage, the existence of a black curtain that will cover all the truth is indispensable.

No one knows how the scenario in which the villain disappears will turn out, or how the snowball will roll the world apart.

The rain at the main entrance of the Ophelis Hall.

I roll my head to the limit,

Together with Yenica, I looked up at the destroyed Ophelis Hall.