Student Council President Election (1)
It is arrogance that killed the most warriors in the world.
Be on the lookout for those who are confident in their abilities, and who make a virtuous charge to charge with enthusiasm and valor.
Do not respect those who risk their lives to reveal their existence to the world without fail.
Be afraid, Clevius.
Fear is your weapon.
When the moment comes when you have to run away, run away from your tail.
Don’t risk your life on your pride. Don’t be obsessed with things like honor.
You do not need to force yourself to respond to all the crises and trials that come your way. There is no need to increase the wounds on your own by challenging the impossible.
If you live like that, there will come a time when your feet won’t fall off.
There will always come a time when both feet are stuck to the ground and won’t move, even though you can run away from your tail as you have always done.
In front of the ordeal that the whole world calls impossible, I feel like I have to stand up straight with my legs crossed.
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My whole body trembles like crazy, but strangely, the hand holding the sword is strong and strong. Although defeat is certain, the body is enveloped in an inertia to move forward.
What makes you that way is a completely different kind of belief from pride and honor.
If not, run away. Beg for your life in an ugly and humiliating way, and survive cowardly.
Even if you roll in the mud, stay mean and wait for your time. Never do anything that sacrifices your comfort in pursuit of high honor and glory.
Don’t live the life of a hero. Don’t walk on a thorny road that no one has forced on you.
The flowers that bloom on the cliff look sublime, but it is the tough weeds that fill the garden in the end. I hope you never forget that fact.
– ‘Dalian Application’
“…”
after the snowstorm. Gradually, the school of Ophelis became lively with students busy preparing for the next semester.
First-year senior Wade Callamore’s application for a match against Clevius. It was a challenge that arrived in front of Clevius during a snowstorm in full swing.
Clevius got up from the bed in the private room and sat down at the table where the maids had prepared refreshments.
In a dark corner of the room with the curtains always drawn, Clavius took a handful of refreshments, put them in his mouth, and chewed them.
And shivering, bowing his back and looking at the floor, he spit a few swear words.
“Why… why the X-arm… me…”
A streak of sweat crept past the dark circles that had descended gloomily.
Clevius didn’t even respond to the Callamore family’s genius swordsman Wade’s challenge request.
However, he was unable to overcome the public opinion demanding an answer, and eventually expressed his intention to abstain. I didn’t want to get hurt in a fight, and I didn’t want to humiliate myself in front of people.
Again, Clevius did not have any complaints about the evaluation of those who said it was Clevius. It might be better than this.
It’s better to hear a coward and disappear from your attention than to be beaten and defeated in a filthy way in front of everyone.
Clevius glanced at the window curtain with a timid gesture.
A warm light creeps into the dark corner of the room.
The scenery you see out the window is a sight of spring, when winter is completely over, but new life is in full bloom.
It was the scene that the gloomy Clevius hated the most.
“If it’s that child’s personality, he’ll come up with a lot of challenges again…”
Clevius was also hearing rumors about Wade.
Rumor has it that they are overflowing with their skills and want to be recognized. It is also an added bonus to say that the first-year students are also on the same level as they are excitedly shouting that they will defeat all of their seniors.
It was unfortunate and fortunate that the first hitter was Clevius. Now, when the next batter is decided, the first hitter will be secretly buried.
“Life like a dog…”
When spring arrives and the world blooms with gorgeous flowers, the Sylvanian bachelor is once again engulfed in a unique romance.
Locked in the darkness in the corner of the room, Clavius sat, turning his back from the radiant romance.
Philly himself is a human belonging to the dark.
As if it was something, the petals of spring blowing outside the window were telling me.
Now it was a new semester.
*
Spring comes around when you forget. So it’s more special.
Watching the world that was all covered in white snow go away, and the warm sunlight opens the petals, I think that it’s been a year since I’ve been living this life.
It feels like yesterday when I was kicked out of the Ophelis Hall at this time last year and lived in the woods recklessly, but now there are quite plausible camps and huts, and they are full of useful furniture.
Once I went to school, my body, which used to be sweaty like a river, has been trained quite a bit, and I can easily handle jogging to and from school.
“Oh my, nice face.”
He was on his way back home after taking advantage of his lunch break to purchase lab supplies from the living quarters. It was a thought to bring after school.
A familiar girl was sitting on the terrace seat of Laplace Bakery, the most famous tea shop in Sylvania, near the bridge from the living building to the professor building.
Now that it has become famous enough, there is no one who doesn’t know that there are hundreds of serpents inside that smile as if they are good-natured.
“The school has just finished, but are you already working in the lab, Ed?”
Seeing him say hello casually, I waved my hand to say hello.
If you want to check a girl’s condition, just look at her hair. If the sunken reddish-brown hair is well tied to one side and neatly lowered, then the strength on the shoulders is relaxed.
This is in contrast to the fact that when you go to an important job or go out to a formal event, you loose your hair abundantly and wear a lot of accessories like this.
Anyway, she is a girl who cannot be taken lightly as she is a person who occupies a place at the top.
Lortel smiled and beckoned, talking to me as if to come and have a cup of tea.
“You drink tea in a place like this alone, Lortel. It’s surprising.”
“Actually, I was taking a break after I stopped by for work. The important story was over, and the staff was about to leave once they were done with their inventory.”
“Stocktaking?”
“Would you like another cup of tea here?”
After sitting with his chin crossed and smiling, Lortel spoke softly to a nearby employee. Then the staff sprinted out.
It was an employee who jumped out, but it was the owner of Laplace Bakery who came back with a car.
A yangban who once worked in the imperial kitchen and owned several famous restaurants in Huangdao, sweating, put down another cup of tea.
Then, he bowed his head to ask if he needed anything more, and went back into the kitchen.
As Lortel said, it seemed that some kind of finishing work was being done in the kitchen.
“I’ve never seen him make that face before.”
“Well… let’s see if there’s something interesting. Because there is no one who doesn’t come out of dust by wiping it off.”
“But what authority do you have to look into the bakery’s warehouse? Is it okay to just have one customer?”
“We are only one business partner, but it is worth paying attention to as much as we are a bakery that orders all important ingredients from Elte Trading Company, right? There is no other place in Sylvania that can actually win orders for a bakery like this other than Elte.”
The quantity is also large, but Laplace Bakery uses a lot of high-quality ingredients. They are also materials whose freshness is the key. He has accumulated a lot of distribution experience, so it is difficult to trust him unless he is a fully experienced top.
In a city of any size, companies may compete to win orders, but within Aken Island, where the size is limited, the story is different.
If you do not receive an order for supplies from Elte Chamber of Commerce, Laplace Bakery will be very difficult to operate even from tomorrow.
Lortel had the nicest smile in the world.
“Isn’t monopoly power really fun at times like this? It gives you powers that you don’t have.”
“Looking at the faces of those people, it seems that you are the only one who is having fun.”
“Oh my, what you’re talking about is mean. That’s true, though.”
Lortel chuckled and looked over the teacup.
“From our point of view, there is some justification. It seems that a false order has been discovered.”
“Fake order?”
“yes. It’s ordering a bunch of stuff you don’t need in advance, and then canceling them all when the delivery date approaches. In the end, it all comes down to it, but there are always customers who end up doing this.”
I put down my belongings and sat across from them and gently picked up the teacup that the owner had brought me. Something more mellow and darker than usual, I feel like I prepared it with all my heart.
“It is natural to say, but during the snowstorm, there were some difficulties in supplying Aken Island supplies. The road was frozen and the wagons couldn’t move.”
“It’s a natural disaster, so there’s nothing we can do about it.”
“yes that’s right. So, most of the business partners in the living quarters were waiting for supplies in turn. From our point of view, we were supplying supplies quickly from the point of high demand and urgent…”
From then on, it was an obvious story.
Laplace Bakery, who wanted to receive supplies quickly, inflated food materials that were not needed and placed a false order, and as the delivery date approached, almost all orders were canceled, leaving only necessary items.
It was a bit of a complacency decision, thinking that this level would be exceeded because the size of the materials handled by the company was so large.
Demand for food is high right now. The canceled goods can be sold elsewhere, so there is no financial loss to the company.
However, right now, most of the customers are waiting for their order, so it’s disgusting to get supplies by trickery by yourself.
“If the balance is right, the merchants sell their souls for a penny of gold, but it’s not that there are no commercial morals to protect. From our point of view, we are all the same business partners.”
Lortel, who entered the ranks of the real powers of the Elte Chamber, rose to a position that was almost the same as the king of the underworld, at least in the living quarters.
Of course, Lortel does not directly rule or govern anyone. It has neither the identity nor the authority to do so.
However, where people gather, there is also confusion. So you also need someone to control it.
Lortel’s means of control is money itself. If you look underneath the seemingly peaceful living dong, eventually all the money flows into Lortel’s wallet.
– Bang!
Suddenly, the kitchen door slammed and a man came out. It was the chef who had just brought me tea. It looks like the inventory was pretty well done.
It is not particularly difficult to compare the actual amount used and the amount ordered.
“Lo, Miss Lortel! Please listen to me! It seems that the staff in charge is asking too much! I don’t have anything to say about the amount of orders… However, if you limit the amount of future orders to this level…!”
The guy will know. Without Lortel’s approval, there is no way that the staff in charge arbitrarily placed a limit on the order quantity. Everything was done with Lortel’s permission.
Despite this, he came to appeal to Lortel with a sense of grasping at least straw.
He explained the situation to Lortel in a half-empty position.
After several minutes of explaining to Lortel about personal circumstances, excuses for the amount of orders, and the status of the store’s operation, Lortel just sat still, closed her eyes and put the teacup to her mouth.
“Please… just take into account the situation of the store…! If this happens, we will…”
“right.”
Lortel, who had been listening while drinking tea, opened his mouth, and the man quickly swallowed his breath.
And the words that followed were directed at me, not the man.
“I have class in the afternoon. Would you like to go to the faculty building together?”
From the beginning, Lortel had not even listened to the man.
Raising from his seat, Lortel glanced at the man, but his gaze was infinitely cold.
*
“The student council president election is coming soon.”
“You don’t seem to want to run for office?”
“The power of the student council is coveted, but if you do not want to be the student council president and do not deal with the business of the upper body, the main customers will be overthrown.”
If you cross the student square in the professor building, the crowd is so huge that you think it’s really a new semester.
During the vacation period, it was so empty that it would hum if you scream, but now you can’t even see the overall appearance of the square at a glance.
“The best thing is that someone who is kind to me becomes the student council president. Ed sunbaenim, don’t you want to do it? I can push you.”
“I don’t mean it. There is no guarantee that it will happen.”
“It’s unfortunate. I thought you would.”
Lortel wore a semi-robe over her school uniform blouse and walked while hugging a couple of books.
Lortel seems to be busy with studies that are above Lortel Boulevard. Anyway, as a student, I decided to train my magic, so I’m putting my utmost effort into this as well.
I don’t know, but he must also live a day divided into minutes.
“Your brother and sister said you were running for office. Was it Miss Tanya? I want to push her.”
“Tanya?”
Lortel glanced around a few times before lowering her voice and talking to me.
“Even if I kill you, I don’t want to support Princess Penia. Well, most of the bachelors seem to support the princess… Once you run for office, you will be the most likely candidate.”
“I’m not going to explain it in detail, but…”
“I know, sir.”
Lortel spoke softly.
“I don’t know if Tanya herself knows, but once Princess Fenia is running for office, it can be safely said that there is little hope for Miss Tanya. Even if a truly absurd miracle happens and most of the seniors in the senior year support Miss Tanya… it’s probably still not enough. Even the second daughter of the Roth Taylor family, the difference in class is too great.”
At that, I nodded my head.
Tanya also loses in a love affair by a really ridiculous margin of votes.
He mobilizes all he has, and tries to get even one more vote because he is ugly and wretched, but the overwhelming difference in votes does not diminish at all.
Tanya Roth Taylor, the girl of the lesser evil.
In the face of a desperately overwhelming difference in votes, he ends up suppressing his resentment and leaving with a shudder… He’s just a stepping stone villain from Roth Taylor.
“Is it possible… Ed-sunbaenim is supporting Princess Penia?”
“me..? well In the first place, there is no question of who I support or not, I would rather support Tanya, my blood relative.”
“That is fortunate. I was a little nervous because I thought that even seniors would be able to support Princess Penia. Most of the academics look up to Princess Penia, but… well, if it wasn’t for her senior, that’s okay.”
It’s been awhile since I’ve been involved with Princess Penia. There were incidents and accidents like this, but I can’t say that I left such a good impression, even with empty words.
“In the first place, he must hate me.”
“is that so?”
“I’m not sure either… Considering that I was in the position of a princess, it seems difficult for me to have any good feelings for me… Yeah, maybe I have a lot of resentment towards me, or at least I have a bad feeling… ?”
“If you say that, I’m relieved…”
“…relief?”
“…”
Lortel grabbed the book and shook her head.
“Do you know that I see Ed sunbaenim as the opposite sex?”
“…”
“Jealousy is a more universal emotion than you think, right? After all, I am also a woman.”
Then he wraps one arm around me and raises his gaze with a smirk.
She closes her eyes narrow like a fox and opens her eyes a few bewitching times, and looks up at me with a sly smile.
“Was it a valid hit?”
“…”
“Can I check your heartbeat?”
In the middle of the square, Lortel, who was about to bury her ear in her chest, was blocked by pressing down on it with one hand. Lortel, who was pushed away with a hum, smiled and shook his head.
“Anyway, just hitting the iron wall. What have I sinned against?”
“You haven’t done anything against me, but… I’m in a difficult position until the day I graduate.”
“…until graduation day?”
She is a girl who catches even the smallest word at the negotiating table hundreds of thousands of times and seizes the opponent’s weakness. Even the slightest tone and word choice are clues and information to her.
“When you graduate?”
“…”
“Oh my, this feels like I’ve caught a piece of big information.”
The way he smiles with his arms wrapped around him is the stag beetle itself. Lortel looked up at me with a sly expression, with his chin on his shoulder.
“It’s kind of a time constraint. Would it be okay to hand over such great information? I don’t know what you mean by alternative graduation, but you’re going to see some progress mentally after you finish your studies.”
“…”
“Actually, I don’t know if I will be able to hit the iron wall until then~”
Lortel released her arms and swung her back. Then he staggered forward, turned around, put his hand on his lips, and laughed like a fox.
“I’ll do it like this, um… graduating seems far away, but anyway, it’s the next year. It came unexpectedly quickly, didn’t it?”
“I don’t know what to say about that, but…”
“I guess so, huh? Anyway, it seems that there is nothing wrong with your health, and it seems that you are making steady progress in your studies, so I am relieved. What happened to the tech supplies you gave me last time?”
“I wrote everything. I did some magic training during vacation.”
“Oh, did you have any good results?”
I pondered for a moment what to answer… then nodded. In terms of results, it was a huge success.
With a really ridiculous schedule, I only practiced magic engineering all day, and on the day before school started, I finally completed a prototype of a legendary magic engineering product. Since it has not been used in practice, it is treated as a prototype.
“That’s nice. It’s a good thing for me to say that it was helpful. Unfortunately, I had so many problems that I couldn’t handle them all during vacation.”
“Are there so many problems? Something like Laplace Bakery?”
“Well, that’s just part of the problem. The major problem right now is the lack of cash. I need some money in my wallet.”
Lortel is in need of money. I wonder if this is a proposition that can be established, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, it was clear what the problem was.
Assets and cash are completely different concepts.
“I don’t know how to use the cash, but to make matters worse, a wagon carrying a box of gold coins from the main store of the Sanghoe was involved in an accident. It looks like it was swept away by an avalanche, but it seems that there is going to be a time lag between checking the accident situation, repairing the damage, and receiving cash. So, the available funds are short-lived.”
There was a problem in the distribution channel of Sanghoe, which receives regular cash. Disasters like this seem to happen on a regular basis when you run a business like this.
“Thanks to that, we have so many assets, but in reality we have to tighten our belts. The branch side is also avoiding unnecessary spending. Personally, I will never spend unnecessary expenses, and I plan to reduce the expenses I have as much as possible.”
“Are you that short of cash?”
“It’s just a temporary bottleneck. Still, I’m not saying it’s just a dramatic lack of money. The basic maintenance cost to maintain a normal life remains at a leisurely pace. But I just can’t afford to spend more.”
In fact, even if it is a basic maintenance cost, if the Lortel is the standard, the unit of the amount is different.
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Most of these variables are also the aftermath of the snow storm near Aken Island. Spring has arrived, but the aftermath of winter still lingers.
“It’s not a very pleasant situation. However, yesterday, an uneasy customer requested repayment of the transaction amount with a long remaining maturity, so I declined.”
“I don’t think it was that good either.”
“It is a difficult time for everyone. It’s a particularly difficult time to manage money.”
Lortel brushed her hair fluttering in the spring breeze.
“Well, money management is my main specialty. Once I made up my mind to be strong, I have no intention of increasing unnecessary expenses any more.”
“Still, spending isn’t going to work out the way you want it to… I’m going to have to suffer a bit.”
“What do you mean, Ed? Who am I? Can a human being who can’t manage spending work properly at the top? Aren’t you underestimating me? Don’t worry, you will never increase your expenses for nothing.”
Lortel said so and laughed like a fox again.
I remembered the cold eyes looking down at the man in the bakery. Whatever it is, Lortel has the temperament to be a cold metal human when it comes to business.
“Do not worry. Ed-senpai, but you’re on your way to class, so why don’t you bring a book with you?”
As we entered the faculty building, the distance to the classroom where the class is now taking place was not long.
“me? I have to go to the library and borrow it.”
“No, can you borrow a book and take a class? If it’s a student library, you have to go almost to the outskirts of the professor building.”
“You should think of it as just running around for exercise. If I didn’t take care of my physical strength, I quickly became weak.”
“No, it’s not a good place to run around. I just bought it from the bachelor’s side for a few pennies…”
Lortel stopped talking. Obviously, the price of books is not a small amount for a student to bear if he piles up this and that. This is because the textbooks in Sylvania are all high-quality books.
However, sprinting between the library and the class building is not something I would do in my sane mind. From my point of view, it’s normal as usual.
Suddenly, Lortel began to sweat in a cold sweat. Then he took out his wallet and checked the contents with his trembling hands.
Why is it so painful? After trembling in agony in the end, he asks with hesitation.
“Uh, how much is it… If you add it all up…?”
“…”
I just politely declined.
*
“Did you check the library arrangement? Sir Ed.”
It is easy to see the face of Ziggs after the new semester begins.
After finishing the elemental science class, after wading through the crowd and coming out to the plaza in the faculty building, Ziggs, who was standing with his back on a nearby tree, spoke like that.
“Oh, yes. Well done. Thank you.”
“It’s nothing. It didn’t take too long to get the job done by magic. But, Sir Ed. Have you heard of Wade?”
“Wade? 1st year senior?”
Ziggs nodded.
Hearing Ziggs’ words, I slowly remembered it.
Act 3, Chapter 3, the episode that cuts off the start of the student council president election.
Breaking Wade Callamore’s seal. As far as I know, this seal breaking continues until Act 3, Chapter 5.
As the son of the commander of the corps guarding the northern border, Wade was born with a natural talent for swordsmanship and took the position of first-year chief with overwhelming force.
Unsatisfied with the position of the first-year head alone, Wade applied for a duel with the head of each department and defeated them all, and eventually even applied for a duel with the seniors in the upper grades.
Wade, who was on the verge of trying to win everything as long as his limits allow, fights against celebrities and chiefs of the bachelor’s degree and beats them down one by one…
Of course, Ziggs was quite exhausted, so he couldn’t fully use his power, and if he had been in a perfect state, he couldn’t know what the outcome would be, but anyway, he lost and lost.
It was Wade, who was running wild as if he was going to defeat all the strong men in the bachelor’s. However, in the end, he is defeated by Taylor in a joint combat practice.
For a first-year student, this is an achievement that can be said to have vomited. Until he is defeated by Taylor, none of the opponents he defeats count as water. He was a student who could be called the ace of the first year.
“Recently, all of the students who want to be promising are all freshmen who go to duel. Hearing that, it seems like you are interested in seniors as well.”
“Yeah, thanks for letting me know in advance. Take care of yourself too.”
“They say they have a welcome event for new students this evening, would you like to come and check their faces?”
Anyway, Wade’s face was familiar enough.
“No, it’s done. I have a separate reservation for this evening.”
“Are you talking about a promise?”
“Yenica decided to take a look at her spirits.”
The mana suppression caused by the ring had also subsided to some extent, so I was able to fully utilize my magic power.
After finishing the Lieutenant-Elemental Contract, at least among the 3rd graders, there will be only one person left who can be said to be better at spirit arts than me, Yenika.
In addition to that, if you learn intermediate magic, fill in the remaining basic magic proficiency, and make a little more progress in your magic sensitivity training… I think you’ll be able to get into the top ten among third graders.
Thanks to progress, I have a taste for spurring my training these days. If there are visible results, the training itself is also interesting. I wonder how people who stick to the gym all day feel this way.
I waved my hand to say hello to Ziggs and left the square.
When I suddenly turned my head and looked at the view of the square, it was a lively landscape of a bachelor.
I thought he was the kind of person who didn’t really care about things like this, but after seeing a lively bachelor’s degree, I feel a little more energetic.
The fresh air unique to the new semester makes the steps light.
I walked over the hill and across the gallows building.
*
“Hmm… I should have said that as well.”
It is still very difficult to draw a line between human relationships.
Ziggs muttered a little as he let Ed go, leaning against the tree.
In addition to talking about the library, he also gave a warning about Wade… I wonder if he should have talked about Princess Fenia.
Since Jigs and Penia are in the same grade, the class flow often overlaps. Normally, it is difficult to get close because she is a Phoenician princess surrounded by escorts, but when she takes a class, it is a different story.
A princess of Penia who seems to have no energy after vacation.
However, when Ziggs or the people around him are talking about Ed, it is often seen that he looks at him with his head bent strangely or pretends to listen.
At first, I thought it was an illusion, but the more I watch, the more I feel like I’m reacting to the name of Ed Roth Taylor.
“I’m not quite sure yet…”
Ziggs leaned against a tree in the corner of the square and stared blankly at the sky. It was a clear and high sky.