How to Survive at the Academy chapter 93

Student Council President Election (6)

It’s stupid to bang your head on the impossible.

If it is impossible to jump over the wall in front of you, there are many other ways, such as bypassing or giving up.

A wise and seasoned man will somehow find another way.

There was a reason why everyone in the world said it was impossible with one bite.

*

– Tuduk, Tudukduk.

Raindrops flowing down the hut roof can’t bear the weight and fall to the ground.

The girl, who had been sitting leaning against the outer wall, stared blankly at the sky, and let out a droopy yawn once.

It’s obvious why you don’t have to go inside the hut, but sit leaning against the outside wall and stare at every corner.

The girl is waiting for someone to come home.

I don’t have any business, and it’s not like we’d be able to greet each other very warmly just because we met.

Lucy Meryl used to wait for Ed for no reason.

Watching them sitting and guarding the house is like being a gatekeeper. In fact, she is closer to a squat eater than a gatekeeper, but Lucy herself is not aware of it.

It feels strange to roll up your gray hair, which has become brittle due to moisture, and to spend time idly while holding a witch’s hat.

For Lucy, who is lazy in everything, the act of waiting is directly related to boredom.

However, if you sit leaning against the outer wall of the hut and wait for Ed quietly, rather than boredom, subdued comfort settles in your heart. This is probably because the meaning of this camp space is very special to Lucy.

Ed’s daily life is always volatile and turbulent, but it is in this camp’s hut that he turns around and finally settles down.

Ed’s daily life always ends at this camp. It is not difficult to imagine that.

Coming out through the tattered grass, checking for the bonfires that have been extinguished, and then kicking the wooden ribs a few times to make sure they are sturdy.

I will go to the drying rack and take out all the wet laundry, and I will push all the rusty items out of the tools I took out under the tent.

Then, he comes to the hut while wiping off the water on his clothes, and when he asks Lucy to say hello to him, he will nod his head and accept it.

I’ll light the fireplace inside the hut, light the tech lamp, and then I’ll sit down at my desk and start reading tech books.

Then, Lucy roughly sits by the fire and falls asleep with a blanket wrapped around her.

The sound of rain hitting the window or the sound of a crackling fireplace. Every once in a while I hear the pages of Ed’s book turn.

– Ride up and down!

– Whoa, whoa!

Suddenly, in the grass beyond, I could feel the popularity. The traces of magic were not from one person.

Lucy, who was sitting blankly against the wall, shook the tip of her nose for a moment.

“…”

People rarely come to camps deep in the North Forest. Moreover, it is late at night, and it is raining.

If it’s not Ed, I wonder what he’s doing… Lucy wasn’t the type of person who was curious about such things.

However, it is not very pleasant for someone to approach the camp uselessly.

If Ed, the owner of the camp, gave permission, Lucy didn’t even have to react. However, there is no guarantee that there will be no one who sneaks in while he is away and does nonsense.

In fact, while Lucy was sleeping in the wooden shelter, Assistant Professor Claire, who had sneaked in without knowing it, tried to touch it.

Basically, Lucy hates strangers. Especially if that person sneaks into Lucy’s nest.

“Well…”

It was surprising for Lucy, who was indifferent and bothered by everything in the world. He stood up, brushed off his oversized uniform a few times, and threw himself through the rain.

Anyway, there’s nothing wrong with chasing out useless intruders. It’s not a bad deal to think that if Ed comes back, he’ll stroke his hair and say he’s grateful.

I sprinted towards the grassy forest where the sound was coming from. It came out over a hundred meters, but for Lucy, it was enough distance to narrow it down in an instant.

There were two people beyond the grass.

“Wow, ugh!”

A middle-aged knight, who had grown up and down, had turned to blood, and was sitting in the middle of the grass, holding a single stunned knight.

“Ugh…”

“…?”

“You… you…!”

Kadek and Knox, who were suppressed by Ed, managed to escape from the coastal cliff area and escaped to the living quarters.

Coincidentally, it was a passage that passed near Ed’s camp.

The smell of fishy blood stung Lucy’s nose.

“Do… help…! I was seriously injured…! That… stumbled… I stumbled on my leg in the woods and rolled down the slope…!”

“…”

“And then… my colleague met a wild animal and bit his throat…! Please go to the living quarters so that I can receive medical support… Help me…!”

Lucy stood still and looked at Knox. There were scratches all over his body, but most of them were more like burns than scratches or bumps.

Traces of fire or explosion magic were evident. This article is lying to Lucy.

People in extreme situations usually don’t even dare to lie and ask for help.

At that point, Lucy spotted an eagle emblem visible through Knox’s torn robes.

“The Roth Taylor family.”

As Lucy muttered so softly, Knox swallowed his breath.

But after he quickly made up his mind, Knox spoke again with a firm face.

“My name is Knox, a vassal of the Roth Taylor family. We are not suspicious. For Tanya Roth-Taylor-sama’s assistant, he’s the one who entered the bachelor’s degree with fairness and fairness.”

“…”

“If you help us, do a fair case for the Roth Taylor family. Could you please let us go back to the living quarters?”

This is more annoying than you think. Lucy sensed that fact.

Although I don’t want to get caught up in anything that bothers me, the name Roth Taylor tickled Lucy’s ear.

This is the same family that Ed Roth-Taylor once belonged to. Now that he was excommunicated, he was living a completely separate life, but Lucy, who he thought was a special relationship with Ed, did not easily break his name from the nerves.

While contemplating what to do… Lucy’s eyes caught the neck of Cardek, who had lost consciousness.

It’s different from a normal beast attack. The magical power of water spirits centered on the card deck. It remained only at a marginal level, but it was definitely caught by Lucy’s sensitive magical sense.

Even at a glance, the two knights do not seem to have the ability to respond to spirits. The spirit’s aura in the body… is probably the trace of a battle with the spirits until recently.

As it is, Lucy’s gaze goes to the bloodstains all over Knox’s body.

It is a sign of being caught up in explosive magic in the first place. It’s not a puncture or a scratch, but the shape of the bloodstaining is strange.

Traces of blood spattered from the inside of Nox’s body to the outside. It felt like blood was splattered from the front.

What we can infer from there is that the blood doesn’t belong to Knox himself.

The vassals of the Roth Taylor family who excommunicated Ed.

Traces of the battle with the spirits.

bloodstains.

And, the unnaturalness that appears in a place like this at this time.

Before long, his gaze reached the wound on the underside of Kadek’s leg. It was a wound pierced by something like a sharp nib, along with traces of magic.

—For example, arrows.

As soon as the thought reached this point, goosebumps ran down Lucy’s back in an instant.

– Whoa!

Just by clenching your fists, the magic moves like a part of your body. Mana responsiveness that has reached a level beyond the limit makes it possible to handle magic power as if it were one’s own body.

“Ugh, ah ah ah ah ah!”

As if grabbed by the collar, Knox’s body was thrown up into the air.

Lucy, who trudged through the rain, looked up at Knox and questioned him.

“What are you…?”

An ominous feeling rests heavily on the girl’s chest.

“What have you been doing?”

I can’t breathe properly. Knox’s mind was dizzy.

The amount of magical energy that erupted from the girl’s body was enough to be felt even by Rust, who is not very versed in magic.

There is no chant, no tools to help with mana tuning, and it is mana that can only be handled with pure sensitivity. that it is so huge. It evokes primal fear beyond understanding.

Really, you could die.

After overcoming the crisis of death twice, he managed to escape to the North Forest, but this time he is truly an unbeatable opponent.

“Speak straight.”

If the sensitivity is running, it is difficult to feel the magic itself. If Knox’s poor sensitivity alone makes the magic in the air feel thick and heavy, he’s truly a wizard at a level where he can’t even say anything if he loses his life with a single gesture.

“To be honest, I will help you. Anyway… you can’t do anything on your own.”

At the brink of such fear, very little tolerance.

Nox has already survived through too many trials. My mind was also pretty worn out.

In the face of repeated death, the last word of consolation… It was an offer that could not be rejected.

In the end, Knox makes a choice that he should never have made.

“I… killed… a man…”

*

A cliffside where the wind and rain blow.

Plebang, senior professor of magic science, picked up the dagger at the scene. When I took it out of the sheath and looked at the surface, the afterimage of the dark red engraving remained clearly.

“It feels like incidents like this only happen when I am on duty.”

Analyze the engraving pattern by scanning the unshaven chin. It is a trace of high-quality engraving to the extent that it is difficult to see the real thing.

‘The imprint of extreme poison’. Once stabbed, death is certain. The magic was not felt, and the traces of the engraving were already used.

That means… the deaths have already occurred. Plubin let out a deep sigh. Also, this is a big accident.

These days, there are a lot of accidents in Sylvania, and at least once a semester, it feels like an accident that is too big to handle.

At the edge of the cliff at the northern tip of Aken Island, four or four academic staff, including Professor Plubeng, were on the scene wearing robes.

At the request of the 3rd year Ministry of Magic, Yenica Palerover, most of the faculty members who had been working hard at the Trix Hall came out.

Among them, the fact that Professor Fullerbang, who was the chief executive among those who resigned today, came out suggested that it is not an incident to be taken lightly.

“So, when we arrived at the scene…?”

“yes…”

Were you in a big shock?

Witness Yenica Palerover… bowed her head under the robes the school staff had put on to protect her from the rain, and didn’t even show her expression.

He is a famous student, so Professor Flavin knows it well. She was always energetic and lively, and she was loved by students as well as professors.

It was very difficult to see such a girl with her head bowed down, barely speaking. I can’t see it very well, though.

“Yeah, to summarize the situation… I had made an appointment to meet here to help Ed’s spirits training… When he arrived, Ed was already stabbed with a knife… Is this this?”

“Yeah… that’s right.”

“Besides… Is it the mark of extreme poisoning… Even pretending to be a thoroughly planned murder?”

Near the cliff, a bow that appeared to belong to Ed and a frayed school uniform overcoat lay. It was a sign of resistance.

“The body will be reported to the cadets in daylight and searched, but the probability of finding it is low.”

The crashing waves crashed against the cliff. Professor Flavin organized the situation well, put it in his head, and then looked back at Yenica.

It was heartbreaking to see Yenika with her head bowed.

“Still, the truth will be revealed soon. Did you see the real criminal’s face?”

“yes…”

Yenika lowered her head and spoke clearly.

“The Roth Taylor family vassals, Kadek and Knox… I definitely said that.”

“I couldn’t have run away. Apparently, he must have been injured, and it wouldn’t be easy for him to escape the eyes of a bachelor with that body and leave Aken Island. Student Yenika, you seem very shocked, but please go back and rest.”

Plubang decided to take the dagger and put it in his arms, and finish the site check.

“When the sun comes up, I will report to the Chief Dean and then announce this matter. Anyway, the student council president election is just around the corner, so it’s noisy, but the bachelor’s degree is going to be more cluttered. Until sunrise, let’s conduct a basic search by ourselves.”

“You must be out of your mind, Professor Pllavin.”

“It’s okay, Assistant Professor Max. That’s a decent amount of work up to this point. It’s important to get things done right now, so let’s not think about that.”

It was the moment to come to that conclusion and return to the academic headquarters.

On the other side of the cliff, at the beginning of the forest in the distance. As someone stood upright, Professor Pllavin looked intently at him.

*

It is subtly different in form from living.

The sight of a girl standing in the rain on the far side of the forest is… cold anger.

Anger beyond its limits is cold rather than hot.

“I… that student…?”

The assistant professor who was with him also noticed the girl who was far away, and he looked at Professor Plubeng.

Since when was that girl standing still with her witch’s hat pressed down deeply?

He walks forward while holding his hat in the raging rain and wind. The gait is ridiculously wide for its height, as if it were unaffected by gravity.

“Lou, Lucy…!”

Yenica stuttered and called out the name of the girl who approached the cliff. The eyes peeking out under the hat are chilly.

The eyes, which always looked drowsy and weak, are as sharp as a veil, as if they had ever been.

“You… here…!”

Yenika stumbled.

Speaking of the truth of the case, there are too many ears around. There’s no point in telling Lucy about Ed right now.

Lucy pushed her hat back on, and stepped out of the staff and stood at the edge of the cliff.

The waves are crashing on the cliff you look down on.

If you look at the edge of the cliff, Ed’s bow is lying around. A coat stained with blood is a bonus.

If you think about even being stabbed by a dagger with an extremely poisonous engraving… The chance of survival is infinitely close to zero.

I can’t even feel the magic. If the body was washed away by the waves, it was natural.

In fact, Ed’s magic power was completely exhausted by using the legendary magic equipment. Coincidentally, there was no way Lucy could even consider that fact.

Yenika looked at Lucy in a cold sweat. The demonic demon standing on her body was already clearly showing that Lucy’s condition was completely different from her usual one.

“…”

Lucy checked the condition of the scene, and picked up Ed’s bow, which was lying on the floor. The recurve bow with his weak magical power was too large for Lucy’s body.

Picking up Ed’s bloody overcoat along with the bow, Lucy looked at the bachelor with cold eyes.

“Lu, Lucy… Calm down… Do you want to go back to camp and listen to my story…?”

“I caught the culprit. I kept it alive.”

Irrespective of Yenika’s words, Lucy spoke quietly to Professor Pllavin.

“What… what…?”

“Kadek, and Knox. The killer who killed the kid. The vassals attached to Tanya Rothtailer on the pretext of assisting with the service of the seal.”

Surprisingly, things seem to be resolved quickly. Professor Flavin looked startled and tried to say something to Lucy… but when he saw Lucy’s face, he swallowed dry saliva.

Lucy is still… there is no change in her expression. He puts on the witch’s hat with one hand, and… he speaks coldly.

“Lou, Lucy…!”

Every person he meets, Tanya’s revenge against Ed is engraved in Lucy’s mind.

It could be dismissed as simply a fight between siblings, but Lucy’s keen sense of truth was enough to feel a certain degree of sincerity.

However, Tanya’s power was infinitely weak, and Ed himself didn’t seem to care so much, so he just left it alone.

If Ed didn’t care, Lucy didn’t care too much, so it was a natural thing to do.

However, crossing the line is too obvious.

I never thought that I would try to assassinate anyway. in such a vague and obvious form.

It’s more than a sudden act, it’s completely insane.

All circumstantial evidence points directly to Tanya Rothtailer.

When it comes to common sense, there is no way Tanya’s vassals would do this without Tanya’s permission. At least for Lucy, that’s how it seems.

It’s because there’s no way Lucy was aware of the creffin’s breath behind it.

“Lucy!”

As Yenica’s call went unnoticed, magic began to swirl around Lucy.

– Aww!

Yenika tried to grab Lucy quickly, but when she woke up, Lucy was already there.

“Wow, what…”

There was nothing in the place where the strong wind blew through. Lucido and Ed’s belongings.

Yenika, who woke up from the rain and wind… quickly put on Rob’s hat. I thought there was going to be a lot of embarrassment, but when he saw a surprisingly normal expression on his face, Professor Plubin was greatly embarrassed.

“Student Yenica, what is this…”

“I have to go after Lucy right now! Hey, right now, before things get bigger!”

*

– Kwaang!!

The Ophelis Pavilion seen from above is in the form of an arch that gently surrounds the rose garden.

The tall building, which is six stories high, including the roof, is also remarkably spacious. It is not for nothing that it is one of the landmarks of the Sylvania Academy.

In the rose garden that the Ophelis Pavilion embraces, even there, two people fell on the wide central square and rolled on the floor.

– bump

“Uhhh

It was Kadek and Knox, whose recruits were being restrained by Lucy’s magic. Kadek was still unconscious, but Knox remained conscious.

Rainy rose garden.

If you look up, you can see the panoramic view of the Ophelis Hall.

Among them, the room in the corner of the third floor is Lucy’s room, and the room next to it is Tanya’s room.

Lucy shoved the sub-explosive magic ‘Explosive’ into the window.

– Aww!

An outrageous explosion. Ophelis Hall’s automatic defense magic is activated, but in front of Lucy’s magic power, it’s just a piece of paper.

As it was, one wall of the room collapsed, and rain and wind rushed through the rising dust and wet the inside… but Tanya was nowhere to be seen. Tanya was not in the room.

It was quite expected.

Lucy looked up at the Ophelis Hall without erasing her cold expression.

– ‘Wow! What was that sound?!’

– ‘Chief Maid! Bring the Maid Chang! Something’s happening!’

– ‘What, what? What is an attack?! Should I run away now?!’

From the windows inside the Hall of Ophelis, screams that were expected to be shattered could be heard. It’s only natural that one side of the building exploded.

After receiving the report, the final manager, Bell Maia, the maid, who rushed to the rose garden… saw Lucy’s appearance and swallowed dry saliva.

Rainy rose garden.

The central square that can be seen from all the windows of the Ophelis Hall.

A girl with a deeply pressed hat and a rolled up old, shabby men’s school uniform overcoat is standing. On one side, a handmade recurve bow is floating in the air.

The girl, who was drenched in the rain without even showing her expression, occupied the square and quietly looked at the Ophelis Hall.

“Miss Lucy…? Now what is this…?”

As he spoke, Bell had a faint intuition. A maid who has been taking care of Lucy for a longer period of time than anyone else.

She is a girl who has lived a life of indolence and indifference to the point where she really wondered if this could be okay, but she never crosses the front line.

Even though he was born with a magical talent that is stronger than anyone else, he has never treated a maid rudely, and he never used that mighty power to persecute or attack others.

So, if you watch the sudden action of hitting the Ophelis Hall with explosive magic, even if no one else knows, you can know for sure about Bell Maia.

It’s quiet, it’s quiet, it’s quiet, but…

Now that girl has lost her reason.

The reason is not yet known. However, the ghost that flows from under the deeply pressed witch hat… It makes it impossible to predict what will happen if you make a mistake.

Bell raised his hand to stop the maids who jumped out with rapiers all at once.

“Miss Lucy. Why?”

Lucy, standing among the raindrops, speaks softly as if she had her hat pressed tight.

“Bring Tanya.”

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Magical energy rises once again, and the collars of the two vassals are dragged into the air.

“Big, huh. Whoops!”

Leaving behind Knox, who was struggling in the air, Lucy spoke kindly once more.

“Bring Tanya.”