49 – Midterm – 4
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Max, hit by my judge’s tackle, flew far away from the gymnasium and landed with a bang. The floor of the gymnasium was smashed, flying debris and dust clouds rising. I don’t know, but it’s probably about the same amount of impact as being hit by a truck.
In the case of the gymnasium used by the foundation class, it was an ordinary stone floor that had not been treated with any magic, so the floor was broken even with such an impact. After a very brief buffering, the students went into a frenzy. A student who was in sparring threatened another student using an aura, and another student jumped in and blew that student away. It’s a situation where you can’t calm down. Even if a wasp entered the classroom, it would be quieter than this.
Helford held a hand the size of a pot lid above his eyes, biting down on the darkness before his eyes. This situation seemed unbelievable. As I said before, a student who could not use mana suddenly raised mana and tried to harm her opponent, and that student was attacked by another student and destroyed the gymnasium. All the other students even intuited the sight with their eyes wide open. There is no way it will end with a poem. Wouldn’t it start with a pay cut?
But who is to blame? The sparring you ordered, the opponent you matched. The job of a teacher requires you to be responsible. I have to endure it with evil. I’ll probably go around with an exhausted face for a while.
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Max chuckled and vomited blood. It won’t hurt your life, but you’ll need a fairly long period of recuperation. Although I have to go to the disciplinary committee before recuperation. No, if this is the case, where will you go to prison after being expelled?
I ran to the staggering Cordelia, clutching her grip. She simply clashed her swords, but her eyes were still blank as if she had received quite a bit of shock. Blood flowed from her torn grip.
“Are you okay?”
I took her handkerchief from her bosom and tied Cordelia’s hands tightly. Cordelia politely gave me her hand. She wrinkled her expression as if her hand, which she had injured, was sore. When I lived on Earth, I used to throw away handkerchiefs even if they were given free, or used them as dishcloths, but I feel like I’m using them well here. Maybe it’s because I don’t have tissues.
Cordelia, who had been staring blankly at me tying her own hands, was suddenly startled. As if in response to her questioning gaze, she pointed behind her and screamed at her.
“Behind, behind!”
I looked back.
“What a bastard!”
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Max rushed at her, bloodshot in his eyes. Behind him, Helford slumped, stomped on his buttock, dazed eyes. It seems that the guy who thought he was knocked down suddenly got up and wielded superpowers, and he got hit in an instant. You look very incompetent today.
Red bloodshot eyes, bulging muscles, carotid arteries in the neck that can be seen fluttering from afar. The skin also turned dark red. Anyone can see that he was in the middle of a runaway under the influence of something. Doesn’t it come out a lot when you read comics or novels? And the best way to deal with something like that was different. I flashed Cordelia. She, who had been screaming until just now, was taken aback by my sudden action, but her mouth went blank. Who pressed the mute button? She asked slowly.
“G, G, G, what are you doing?!”
“I’m running away!”
I took her in her arms and ran away with her full power. If I could maintain a state full of energy like that for the rest of my life, everyone would be like that. Usually, such runaways are short and it is the national rule to burn and collapse. I started running around the gymnasium. Max chased after me as if nothing else caught his eye. Running with one person in your arms is obviously different from running alone. His hand is about to snatch me by the nape of my neck.
“Come on, get caught!”
Cordelia squealed and buried her face in my chest. She was more frightened than she thought. I live here and everything, but the inside is just a high school girl.
She thought I was getting caught, but she didn’t get me.
Boom!
A roaring sound that can’t even be compared to before. I was in a hurry just now, so I came forward, but it’s not my role to deal with that bastard.
“A f*cking baby!”
Helford, who had risen before he knew it, ran at lightning speed, grabbed Max’s head, and slammed him on the floor of the gymnasium. Gagging! Drops of blood spurted from his mouth at the shock. Debris bounced and the stone floor cracked open. Isn’t that dead?
Helford overpowered him with a blushing face, probably very angry. He laid the already unconscious man on his face, then twisted his hands behind his back and sighed heavily with his knees resting on his back. He was trembling with his fists clenched tightly, as if a fire was rising inside him, but he couldn’t bear to think of hitting the unconscious student any more.
Only then did I stop running away. And he tapped Cordelia, who was still trembling. She wrapped her arms around my neck, closed her eyes, and she trembled, barely opening her eyes. I looked over my shoulder and saw Max’s mark on the floor. She asked in a serious voice as if she had cried.
“No way, is he dead?”
It was a pretty bloody sight.
“I would not have died. If you use mana, not only your physical abilities, but also your strength will increase tremendously.”
“As expected, was that mana?”
As Cordelia approached her, she trembled as she remembered the sword. I nodded her head. She was lost in thought without a word.
Her After watching her situation for a while, I decided that she was safe and put her on the floor.
“… Is it heavy?”
“……”
To be honest, it was a bit heavy. Cordelia was quite tall and had a toned body as she worked hard in her workouts. She’s just a well-known fact that she weighs more on her muscles than on her fat. But here, she honestly said that it was a bit heavy, and it’s hard to deal with it. Originally, she said she wasn’t talking about women age and weight. Seolah? These days, it’s to the point where I look like a woman, not a woman.
“It wasn’t heavy at all.”
As if relieved by my white lie, Cordelia let out a small sigh. She seems to be quite mindful of her own weight. I tried to do a little bit of article writing, saying that knights don’t care about weight.
Cordelia was silent for a moment, then she looked at my face. And she nodded her head, as if determined to something, and she asked me.
“Why… , did you help?”
Cordelia’s voice was moist. It feels like it’s been an incredibly long time since we’ve had a conversation like this. I was delighted I didn’t say anything and smiled, so she screamed in frustration as if she was frustrated.
“Why did you help me!”
Look at how he started screaming because he was trying to get into a good feeling for a while.
“Ai-san, it’s a surprise. No, why are you screaming?”
Why did you help? Are you asking because you don’t know? I said the reason very plainly.
“Are you friends? Your friend looks hurt, do you need another reason?”
It didn’t take long, but she fit in pretty well with her. It’s good that he’s easy to fool when he’s joking around, and he’s stupid enough to be innocent, but it’s also nice that he’s not completely thoughtless. Sometimes it shows a thoughtful side that is shockingly deep.
You don’t have to spend a lot of time together to be called a friend. I didn’t know what she might think, but I considered her a friend.
“Friends….”
When Cordelia heard the word friend, she laughed helplessly.
“Let’s talk later. We.”
She passed out, leaving only those words behind.
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It was that afternoon that Cordelia came to her senses. The doctor said she was unharmed except for a torn hand and a few bruises on her mouth from the fall. She said she was just stunned and that she fainted. She thought it was a big deal for no reason, and she was worried, but fortunately.
“She said the doctors said she had so much traumatized her in a short period of time that she passed out. She said, in plain terms, that she passed out from fear.”
At my words, Cordelia’s face contorted as she lay on the bed in her infirmary listening to my story.
“No!”
“Miss Cordelia, it is not good for the recovery of the patient to be so angry.”
“Because I am not a patient….”
Hestia and I came to visit her in the hospital. I feel like I’m skipping class following a friend lying in the health room saying he’s sick. Hestia seems to be really worried about her.
Cordelia, who had just been annoyed with me, but gave in to Hestia’s worrying words with a shudder. All she could do was mumble timidly that all she could do was not be patient. Of course, Hestia didn’t even eat her seeds.
“That’s not for us to judge, it’s for the nurse to judge.”
Hestia lifted her upper body and pressed Cordelia’s shoulders back onto her bed.
“What happened to that person?”
Cordelia, unable to resist Hestia’s touch and buried herself in her bed, stuck out her mouth and asked. She’s probably asking Max.
“I haven’t woken up yet.”
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Maybe Helford’s hands were a bit overworked, but Max still couldn’t get up. No matter how mana-enhanced it was, it would be unreasonable to get up right away because he hit his head hard enough to crack the floor of the gymnasium.
I answered her questions and cut the apple that Seol-ah brought as a present for her hospital visit. When she heard that Cordelia had collapsed, she went to the store during lunchtime and took a handful of her apples and left them behind. He said it was annoying, but he seems to have given me a lot of affection without knowing it. Of course, that’s that, and he didn’t forget to tell Seol-ah to see her later.
A mysterious incident occurred around her and around her where a person who did not know how to use her mana suddenly became able to use her mana. It can’t be a completely separate incident from the original story. Seol-ah also nodded her head without saying anything to see if there was a place to find out.
Cordelia put her apple I had cut into her mouth and mumbled happily. When she heard that Seol-Ah had left her apology, she put on an incredibly moved expression.
“Isn’t it a successful life if you have three friends who help you when you are sick?”
“Aren’t the standards too low?”
The standard for a successful life is three friends who help you when you are sick. And actually not even three. Hestia added with a smile.
“It’s not three. People who had taken the same class earlier came and saw the condition.”
“Really?!”
Cordelia was on the verge of tears. I decided to divert her conversation topic before she wet her pillowcase with her tears.
“So, why the hell did I ignore you?”
She stabbed the part she had been trying to ignore. The situation was urgent until just now, so she naturally started talking again, but she couldn’t do it for nothing. Won’t let it be like that. Cordelia’s expression, which had just been laughing happily as she chewed on her apple, hardened awkwardly. She laughed at that awkward expression.
“You said we’d talk about it later.”
I thought I was going to cover it up with a smile, but it doesn’t work. At my determined attitude, Cordelia secretly noticed Hestia. The corner of Hestia’s mouth, which had been smiling brightly, gradually went down.
“Are you saying I want to leave?”
“Sorry….”
“Is this something I shouldn’t have heard?”
Cordelia nodded her head. The eyes of the two collided. Hestia’s natural smile gradually turns into an artificial one. Only her eyes are smiling and her mouth is not smiling at all. What is the atmosphere like? The temperature in the room is cool as if it has gone down 5 degrees.
After the confrontation between the two, Hestia was the first to step down. She got up from her seat with a very disapproving look.
“Whoa, okay. It’s a two-person job, so two people have to solve it. I’ll be out for a while.”
Hestia slammed her door and left. To be honest, she’s scared of what’s going to happen next, but she can’t just ignore her story at all. Only me and Cordelia were left in the room.
“So, without Hestia, what are we talking about?”
“I said we were friends.”
“Yes. I consider you a friend, Cordelia.”
“Do you really only think of me as a friend?”
Cordelia’s eyes shone dazzlingly.
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