How to Survive at the Academy chapter 97

Student Council President Election (10)

The Ophelis Hall where there is stillness.

Lortel Keheln was quietly blocking the exit to the central corridor.

Seeing this, Ziggs… grabbed Tanya’s shoulder, who was running side by side.

“Uh, huh?!”

Ziggs pulled Tanya’s entire body and hid it behind his back.

“Ah!”

Tanya, who was staggered by Ziggs’ strong grip, barely regained her body’s speed.

“Go, why all of a sudden…”

“Stay still.”

Ziggs’ intuition is almost certainly true. His sixth sense, which he had cultivated while living in the wild, saved him time and time again in a crisis situation.

This time too, Ziggs’ sixth sense screams uneasy.

As if he was sleeping, he was wearing a light wool coat over a slip dress made of lace. Her rich reddish-brown hair, flowing like waves, was completely unraveled.

“Lortel.”

Ziggs is in a position to know some of Ed’s relationship with him while he was still alive.

Those who recognized the true value of Ed usually became close friends with Ed.

Knowing that Lortel had a close enough relationship with Ed too, Ziggs carefully adjusted his posture.

Although he was holding the sword handle, he wanted to avoid a situation where he was fighting Lortel.

Lortel’s magical skills and agility were enough to make even the stingy Professor Glast put her name on Class A.

However, in terms of combat sense and combat sense, it was not up to a level that could match Ziggs. If they fight, probably Ziggs wins.

If you go to simple firefighting, Ziggs may be inferior, but in a one-on-one battle that utilizes their abilities and the given environment to the limit, there are very few who can defeat Ziggs.

However, Lortel’s true fear does not stem from its combat abilities.

Lortel Keheln is the one who will surely lead to ruin once he has set a goal. Even her adoptive father could not escape its grasp.

Never be deceived by her beautiful and noble appearance or her elegant words and deeds to regard her as a benevolent and good-natured man.

No one else knows, but Ziggs Eiffelstein knows for sure. she is a rose with thorns Its thorns are coated with several layers of poison that can poison even an elephant in an instant.

If I were to pick a person who should never be turned into an enemy in this Sylvania Academy…

He was waiting quietly with his head bowed and blocking the door. No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look friendly.

—It is clear that you have heard the news of Ed’s death.

It’s strange that Lucy doesn’t know that she’s been making such a fuss outside.

So, Ziggs had no choice but to hide Tanya behind.

“You better evacuate, Lortel.”

As Ziggs spoke like that, Lortel in the dark raised her head contemplating. It is not known how the news of Ed’s death might have affected her feelings or made Tanya think about it.

He was in a position where he had no choice but to wait for Lortel’s answer.

However, Lortel raised her head… and was smiling with a surprisingly elegant look.

“You say that, Ziggs… What have you been doing here without escaping?”

An orderly tone as usual.

The clothes are more comfortable and informal, but as usual, Jigs felt calm and relaxed… rather, he felt a sense of incongruity.

Ziggs did not relax and stared at Lortel, who was still speaking calmly.

“It’s a dangerous situation. I need to evacuate. Isn’t that right, Ziggs? And Tanya, you too.”

Did even Tanya feel something unusual?

However, he doesn’t appear to be hostile, so it’s okay to respond.

“Lortel.”

Ziggs does not release the hand holding the sword handle.

And asked outright.

“Did you hear about Ed?”

Lortel’s brow twitched and trembled.

It was a very weak reaction that was hard to catch with a fair eye, but the quick-witted Ziggs recognized the fluctuations in his emotions.

“Well. What do you think?”

“Yeah, I guess I won’t just let you go.”

“What are you talking about, Ziggs? I have no reason to stop you.”

The figure of Lortel, who closes her eyes and smiles, is still relaxed. However, Tanya and Ziggs are unable to move even a single step.

“There’s no way I can defeat you, Ziggs, in such a simple one-on-one battle.”

It hurts my mouth to say every single one of Lortel Keheln’s abilities.

However, if I had to pick the one that stood out the most, it was the calmness of a monster that maintains reason in any situation.

Even when Takan destroyed the student union hall, or when Glast’s magic tower rose to the bachelor’s office, she never panicked or lost her reason.

A monster of reason that acts like a machine in search of the best moves. Even in this situation where even Lucy, who has always looked gloomy, is engulfed in anger, she maintains a cold reason with her teeth clenched.

However, reason and rationality do not always work together as one body.

She lived the life of a merchant who converted everything in the world into money, but even she sometimes deviated from the scale of rationality. That’s when Ed is involved.

Lortel does not block Ziggs. The reason is that Ziggs has a higher combat ability than Lortel.

If so, I can’t help but turn around and ask.

“Not me… what would you think if Tanya was alone?”

Although it looks calm and orderly, there is no guarantee that it will be so on the inside as well. That girl never reveals my true feelings honestly.

So, no matter how messed up the inside is, you can never figure it out just by looking at the outside.

However, there are times when the fragment is revealed implicitly.

“It must have been torn to death.”

Goosebumps ran down Tanya’s back.

His expression is still calm and orderly. The tone of his voice does not change at all. However, a sharp threat that cuts through flesh pervades the atmosphere.

“You are lucky, Tanya. I should thank Ziggs for accompanying me.”

Tanya’s expression was clearly revealed in Lortel’s amber eyes that didn’t even move.

Perhaps the reason Lortel was sitting guarding this hallway…

“That is hasty, Lortel.”

“Right, Ziggs. It looks like you’re on Tanya’s side.”

Ziggs couldn’t say anything.

Apparently, all circumstantial evidence points to Tanya as the culprit in Ed’s assassination.

Tanya’s actions, which have been constantly showing their malice towards Ed from the past. And the vassals of the Roth Taylor family who appear to be the perpetrators of the assassination. It also overlaps with the fact that they were direct vassals of Tanya. Because it is rare for some vassals to act arbitrarily without the orders of their masters.

Ziggs’ actions, which once decided to believe in Tanya’s innocence… are thoroughly emotional rather than rational. Ed Roth-Taylor doesn’t want Tanya to have a terrifying ending, just a guess based on empirical evidence.

This is why Lortel, who always tends to act rationally, is terribly incompatible with the rather emotional Ziggs.

“So, rather than killing myself, I would have tortured him first. If you make a confession somehow, that’s another story.”

Seeing Lortel smiling roundly, Ziggs swallowed dry saliva. That woman is also not in a normal state. It seems infinitely calm, but it is clearly twisted somewhere.

“Looks like you’ve been taking care of your nails recently, Tanya. It’s fortunate.”

Tanya flinched and trembled, hiding her hands behind her back. Lortel’s words, thrown in the dark, had a creepy meaning.

First of all, the story that at least my nails wouldn’t be intact… made my heart tremble over and over again.

“Oh, no… I…! no…!!”

“Stop it, Tanya. It’s not something you can convince with emotional arguments alone.”

Ziggs calmly interrupted Tanya who was about to say something. Lortel also did not change a single expression.

However, he quietly allowed them to pass.

“Pass by.”

Lortel never wagered a battle without a win. He only fights to win.

It is the dignity of a person who has been firmly surviving from the time of his maturity on the business front where the wind blows.

This is not the battlefield of Lortel Keheln. Rather than bleed by exchanging swords and magic, he is the one who takes the battlefield itself into his own hands by faking in the dark beneath the water.

If you turn it into an enemy, you will surely see terrible things.

Turning Ed into an enemy means that, needless to say, that woman is also an enemy. I didn’t even know that Tanya was aware of it, but once it became a reality, a feeling of fear swelled up all over my body again.

Ziggs stared at Lortel with a vigilant posture.

She really didn’t even move. Are you really unwilling to stop it? Or is even this just an act and a plan?

no distinction is made

If it’s just an enemy with strong fighting ability, you can find a way to outrun it, find a compromise in another way, or choose the option of fighting and winning with your guts.

However, an infinitely cunning person like Lortel makes it impossible to be sure that whatever action he takes is the right decision. I feel like I’m wandering through a smoke screen, so it’s a more painful opponent.

When the confrontation with no answers continues.

“Then Lortel…”

– Clang! Kwagang! Kang!

“Ah, uh…! oh!”

[ Be careful! Aren’t you hurt?! ]

“Uh, yes…! I didn’t get hurt… What should I do… The window… Uh… It’s all broken… This is a very high-end item, I don’t have much money to ask for…

[In this situation, are you going to go to the culprit for each broken window and ask for compensation? ]

There was a girl who slipped through a window on one side of the hallway and slid into it. The sound of rain that had been heard out of the window began to reverberate directly into the hallway.

Her braided pale pink hair was completely soaked in the rain. The same goes for clothes. Both the white blouse and the royal blue skirt were completely pressed against the rain and stuck to the body.

While squeezing out one side of the wet skirt, he shook his head like a puppy and shook it off, looking at Tanya’s side, he painted a flower color.

“Ah, I found it! Tanya!”

After shouting that, only then did the atmosphere of the hallway caught my eye.

“…”

Tanya trembling, and Jigs with his hand on his sword in a cold sweat. And Lortel, who was staring at them calmly with cold eyes.

“Uh… um… Did I not understand the atmosphere…?”

Yenica groaned and stopped the gesture that was squeezing the water from her collar.

After that, Merylda, who was sticking her head out the window, let out a sigh.

[No, it seems that he came just in time. ]

*

– shoot

Her vision is blurry because of the pouring rain along with her extreme physical condition.

The blood swordsmanship, which was running wild as if it would eat the whole body, had already noticed that the state of the body had reached its limit… All magical power was gone.

He raised all his power as a swordsman and rushed to his death, but Clavius gained a situational advantage against Lucy for only a hundredth of a second.

Still, it was the result of Lucy’s carelessness rather than Clevius’s. Ironically, it was a gap created because the gap was overwhelming.

If Lucy had completely focused on fighting Clevius from the start, the match would have been over in just a few seconds, let alone a situational advantage.

Considering that Lucy was fighting while controlling her power not to cause any casualties, as well as maintaining the time prisons spread out in the garden and the magic orb that filled the sky… will be.

It was tragic and sad, but it was not unexpected.

defeated again. He was already accustomed to defeat.

“Uh, uh… uh…”

Even if he pushes the floor to get his body up for a hundred days, he loses his strength without being able to stand up halfway. As he raised his head and looked up, a man in a robe was looking down at Clevius.

As soon as he entered the rose garden, he checked the surroundings first. It was as if someone around him was in trouble.

Sadly, there were not many people to see him in the rose garden where most of the students had been evacuated.

The students and maids who are imprisoned in the time prison are of course meaningless, and at the most, Clevius and Elvira who is lying next to them.

Even the mist was thick because of the pouring rain, so it was not easy to see his face even if he was popular.

The first lieutenant water spirit ‘Laysia the Lioness’, who had stopped Lucy, disappeared in an instant. It was Hyeon-hyeon, who looked unstable even to pretend. It looks like it was summoned by barely drawing out the power it had reached its limit.

As a result, all that remained were Lucy, Elvira, Clevius, and a man wearing a robe.

When I looked up close, I could only see the face.

The boy with aristocratic features and short blonde hair had a familiar face.

“What is it… X arm…”

Barely supporting his upper body with his trembling arms, Clevius let out a smirk.

“You were alive. motherf**ker.”

“…”

“Uhhh…”

Clevius, who had bled once, clenched his teeth and looked up at Ed.

“Really… Dog… X-arm… If I had known…

“You were holding on. Cleviers.”

“Yeah…why… why did you pick it…??”

A boy with his head bowed down amid the pouring rain, crawling out of his accumulated sorrow and resentment.

“Are you saying…! X arm…!!”

no one said anything Clevius’ wrath is nothing more than entitlement. Still, Ed stood still and listened.

However, there was a certain kind of surprise in Ed’s gaze.

Clevius endured close to 10 minutes against ‘lazy Lucy’.

How many people in this bachelor can do that now? Even Ed, who had a thorough understanding of Clevius’ overall combat abilities, did not dare to think that it was possible.

“Yeah… Really… I was beaten like a dog… I know… I know I’m a real dog-ugly, stupid, stinky b*tch… I know best… X-arms… .!!”

Clevius clenched his fists and clenched his teeth.

“I knew it too. If you jump on it, that’s bullshit. I knew that even if I risked my life to make a fuss, I wouldn’t be able to reach the tip of my toes… Yeah… So I wanted to jump, but my X arm and foot don’t move, so what should I do…”

The rose garden reflected in the coward’s eyes was full of nerds.

There was no way he could stop such a monster, but there were only idiots who rushed in and tried to do something.

A maid who is imprisoned in a time prison, and the maids who succeeded him. The seniors of the grade who tried to stop it somehow… even the young alchemist who always grumbled against Clevius at the end.

These foolish idiots are the group Clevius has seen so much that he gets tired of it all his life.

Leaving them behind, they fled to a safe place, did not challenge themselves, defined the impossible, and lived without raising their heads.

Everyone wanted Clevius to do that. It was taught to be wise, and Clevius himself thought so. He could not even know how many more people he would kill while shyly challenging the blood of a swordsman.

When you get used to defeat, you forget the pain it caused. My self-esteem is completely worn out and I can’t even move my emotions. Even if someone insults you for being a coward or running away, there comes a moment when you can nod your head and agree.

Surely it will be.

“What the hell… X-arm… How long do I have to live by just hitting and running…”

The image of a hero who drew his sword and charged in the army that was coming like a mountain. A picture of Belker Nortondale, the founder of the Nortondale family, seen in the picture book.

Everyone was afraid of the curse of the sword drenched in Clevius’ blood and gave up, but the older brother who died alone affirming Clevius as a member of the Nortondale family until the end.

Takan, a high-ranking fire spirit, who was terrified by even the seniors, Ed Roth Taylor, who stood in front of him and came up with a trick to the end.

Among the towers of mana towering full of the sky, the swordsman Taylor rushed at Professor Glast without losing his will.

The maids, the seniors, and even Elvira who tried to do their best in front of Lucy who came by.

Those idiots corrode the defeatism that was ingrained in the boy’s heart.

Like a light in a gutter, he brings an ugly and stained figure to his face.

It makes them hold their legs to the ground and draws out a blade that has lost its blades.

It makes you bang your head like an idiot in the ordeal that everyone has defined as impossible.

“Really… I’m… I’m a dog, stupid piece of shit, f**king trash… I… I know… I know…”

bled too much It was time to take a break.

Clevius couldn’t speak any more and fell unconscious.

Ed just stood still and listened to Clevius’s reckless swear words. He was about to talk in a quiet voice, leaving Clevius who had lost his mind in the end.

“Uh, uh…”

-Shoot it.

The wrecked Elvira intervened between Clevius and Ed. It looks like I’ve already been suppressed and I’m having a hard time controlling my body properly, but I was blocking Clevius’s front with my arms wide open.

Perhaps he misunderstood that Edgar would do anything to Clevius, and Elvira was blocking the road in an awkward sitting position with her lips closed and her trembling arms not lowered.

It looked as if it was going to fall off immediately if it was kicked and kicked.

Still, with his eyes alive with will, he was trembling and taking a protective posture somehow.

“…”

Ed, who was looking down at Elvira, quietly opened his mouth.

“Thank you, Elvira. Cleviers. Your efforts were not in vain, they were really worth it.”

Elvira’s pupils suddenly widened, as they could not have imagined that such lines would come out of Ed’s mouth.

There was no particular reason to do harm to Edgar Clevius. Rather, Clevius’ struggles were a big help to Ed.

However, Elvira still didn’t like Ed, so she just got a little nervous.

However, contrary to Elvira’s imagination, Ed calmly tapped Elvira’s shoulder a couple of times.

At that gesture, Elvira lost all the strength in her body and fell to the floor.

“…you are…”

“Get some rest, now that I have confirmed that I am alive… I have a lot to tell you two.”

Then, Ed quietly put down Rob’s hat and turned around and proceeded.

It was time to bring Lucy back.

*

Solitude is a disease that leads to death.

It is a curse that comes to everyone equally and eats away a little at a time.

That is why people and people depend on each other to live.

Even for a girl who lives looking down on everything in the world with a gloomy face, the mortal disease is bound to come without exception.

However, the reason why the girl couldn’t understand the fear of loneliness was because she had Gloct as a child.

The presence of the old man who stroked her hair with her wrinkled hands and sat by her side as if she was always there… was protecting the girl from the fear of loneliness.

However, it is very difficult to realize it on your own.

Therefore, it may be natural to realize and suffer the pain of loss only after losing.

– shoot

When Lucy saw the figure of the boy with the robe hat on, his body almost lost his strength in an instant.

I open my eyes to see if I may be hallucinating, but the boy’s appearance is still there.

There was no dramatic reaction. She’s not a girl who’s screaming and running and hugging her.

“I’m sorry. Lucy. I didn’t tell you beforehand. I needed to die for some reason.”

However, it was only after the low-pitched voice that I thought I would not be able to hear now came rushing into my ears, and the sense of reality rose.

“However, I was in an urgent situation where my life was on the verge of coming and going, so I couldn’t deal with anything in advance. So there was no time to tell the news.”

Ed trudged through the rain to Lucy, who was standing blankly. And only after reaching to the front, it was definitely delivered to Lucy, who was making an expression like he was going to go crazy.

“I am alive. Come on, like this.”

Lucy looked up blankly at Ed.

Ed Roth-Taylor was struck by his steadfast body, his stretched blond hair, and even the faint smell of grass from that body.

The facial expression is also fine. However, it was not rainwater by anyone looking at the lumps and lumps flowing around the eyes.

He sniffled his nose in an instant, then jumped and scanned Ed’s chest. Then he buried his face in Ed’s wet collar and rubbed it.

“I thought he was dead.”

That damp feeling was a tone that was hard to hear for Lucy’s voice.

In the calming rain, Ed slowly wrapped his arms around Lucy’s shoulder.

As she looked up at the raining sky, she pressed Lucy’s body, who was sobbing slowly, tightly for a long time.

spring rain falls

After the rain, which sweeps down the petals piled up on the roadside or the scent of flowers left in flower beds, passes, spring reveals a new look.

The same goes for emotional torrents.

If you exhale coolly once and regain your reason again, a new phase will often come to you in a relationship that has been established in a stable way.

It starts with a small sense of discomfort.

Lucy, who cried in Ed’s arms, poured out her emotions for a long time…

It was Lucy who was looking at Gloct over Ed’s face… no matter how much I think about it, there seems to be a fundamental difference between the feelings I had towards Ed and the feelings I had towards Gloct.

Glockt’s wrinkled hands as he sat by the warm fire stroking Lucy’s hair,

Ed’s hand pressing down on Lucy, who is overflowing with emotion, is filled with emotion, and the emotions are similar… but strangely different.

The rain stops slowly, and the moonlight begins to seep through the clouds.

Lucy, who was in Ed’s arms and rubbing her eyes in his arms, suddenly swallowed her breath.

Worrying about what the difference is… Eventually, the answer will materialize.

Once you become aware of it, it is not a matter of realizing the identity of that feeling.

– Whik!

-sudden!

All of a sudden, Ed was surprised and regained his balance.

Lucy, who had been crying profusely in Ed’s arms, suddenly grabbed her tears and then pushed Ed’s chest away and lifted her head.

And then… he looks up at Ed’s face in disbelief. Surprised not only Ed, but Lucy as well.

Her eyes were still wet, but the embarrassment was evident.

Like a stray cat that seems to have met an unexpected natural enemy… Lucy’s face, whose eyes were trembling endlessly, heats up.

“Lucy?”

Ed just called out Lucy’s name in a normal way, but Lucy’s chest felt like a fire was burning.

When she tried to answer something but her voice was shaking and no words came out, Lucy swished back and stepped back.

Even the high-ranking wizards of the bachelor’s school can’t help but tremble in front of her… Lucy is such a great mountain.

Lucy looked at Ed with a trembling face as if she was facing an unknown entity. His face was only full of embarrassment.