176 – [Side Story] Student from the East Continent – 35
After class, Sir left the classroom after having a light conversation with his classmates.
I heard in advance that Liliana’s mother and her younger sister Tania would be coming to the academy today.
I wouldn’t have dared to look for them in the morning when students were busy coming and going, but since morning classes had just finished, it was the perfect time.
“Okay then, let’s go.”
“Ah, yes…! Sir.”
The ‘real’ Alyssa, wearing a hood, who was watching from behind the classroom, hurriedly followed behind.
Originally, she was ‘Alyssa Leifert’ and it was a class she would have taken herself, but she watched the class from the perspective of her servant.
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Well, the person who actually stole the body, the ‘fake’ Alyssa Leifert, did not show up for class.
Of course, it was not uncommon for her to skip her morning classes, but this time her circumstances were different.
Usually, when she skips her classes, the whole of her crown prince’s gang, including her, does not show up for her classes.
However, this time, only the crown prince and Alyssa did not show up for class.
The two people in class, Nord Uboris and Prince Portis, also reacted as if they did not understand the meaning.
Maybe something went wrong.
That was my thought at the time.
“!!”
Leaving the classroom, Cyr’s eyes widened as she walked.
‘God bless you…’
There was a response to the protection.
Before she came to the West Continent, she placed a prayer for safety on her family.
“Tania…!”
“Sir…?”
Sir took a quick step forward, followed by Hood’s real Alyssa.
The elf servant Lilu was there to support Liliana and her daughter Tania, who had come to the Western Continent.
While the two were being shown around Belle Noah Academy as guests, Lilu left the place after hearing Liliana ask her to come find Sir.
As the bell rang for the end of her class, the owner, Sir, would be able to find her if she went to class A where she was receiving her education.
Then, Lilu caught the sight of the owner running towards her.
“Lilu!!”
“Sir…?”
Lilu’s expression hardened as she sensed that something had happened, seeing as the owner had a somewhat urgent look on her face.
“Tania…What happened to Tania??!”
“You mean Lady Tania…? I’ll be with Liliana for now…”
“I think something happened to Tania!!”
At Sir’s words, Lilu closed her mouth with a stern expression.
She wondered what happened not long after she left.
“Tania… I think she’s in the nurse’s office right now. Let’s go!”
“Miss, would you please go first?”
“Lilu…?”
When Sir looked at her, Lilu nodded her head and said.
“I’m going to go check out the situation.”
“…Yes, please.”
I have been with Leelu for several years.
Since it was Lilu who always solved problems in some way, Sir trusted her and nodded at her.
As Lilu was about to leave the place, she saw her real Alyssa behind her and looked at her.
“Please take care of the young lady.”
“Yes…Yes!!”
Leelu smiled when she saw her nodding her head strongly, and she left the place.
After a while, Leelu arrived in front of a room on the upper floor of the academy.
When she knocked on the room, she asked from inside, ‘Who are you?’ A woman’s voice was heard.
The door opened, and what came out was a girl with red hair.
“Uh… Servant? What brought you to the leadership club…?”
“My name is Leelu, servant to Lady Sir Wentoth.”
Hearing those words, the red-haired girl seemed to understand the situation and nodded with a stern expression.
“…I’m Letia Eagle, a member of the leadership team. Please come in this way.”
Lilu entered the leadership club’s room under Letia’s guidance.
While Letia was guiding her, she saw Lilu’s ear and her eyes widened for a moment, but she returned her expression as if she had never done it before.
Then, she guided Lilu to her seat and sat down across from her.
“…How much do you know about the situation…”
“I learned that Miss Sir’s younger sister, Miss Tania, was harmed, and that the culprit was caught by the leader.”
I found out by questioning students who seemed to have witnessed the situation.
And she knew the culprit’s name, but she didn’t specifically say it.
…It was disappointing.
If the criminal had not been ‘an object that should not be harmed’, he would have been torn to death right away.
After hearing Lilu’s words, Letia Eagle nodded her head.
“Yes, she is currently being held in the detention center. She is currently being held in captivity.”
“…What will be her punishment for her?”
“She is expected to be severely punished, as she has harmed a state guest… But now the situation has become a nuisance.”
Lilu did not understand Letia’s words, but after a while she sighed as if she understood.
“…You are Prince Joshua?”
“Yes…You knew.”
Letia also let out a deep sigh.
“Free her right now!!”
“…I’m sorry, but even if it is an order from His Highness the Crown Prince, I cannot honor that order.”
In front of Prince Joshua, who was running wild all over the place, a female student stood with a troubled expression.
She is a lower-class student belonging to the Belle Noah Academy student council, and her role is to usually receive complaints coming into the student council.
But she came with that complaint because she is the crown prince of this country.
If the Crown Prince had come with an ordinary complaint, this situation would not have been a big problem.
But her crown prince’s request was something she could not do anything about on her own.
She asked for the release of a female student who had committed a serious mistake within the academy and would be subject to disciplinary action.
It was something she couldn’t do as she was just working to receive complaints.
In the end, what she chose was to focus on her FM and respond mechanically.
“What is wrong with her?!”
“…I will tell you in detail later when the person in charge comes.”
In fact, she also did not fully understand her situation.
She had just been caught by the female student who was subject to her disciplinary action, and she had just heard that her leadership team and her student council president had arrested her, detained her, and were interrogating her.
But how can she tell us in detail what she knows?
“Do you know who I am?!”
“…This is a message from Crown Prince Joshua.”
Somehow overcoming the crown prince’s anger and pressure, the girl prayed.
‘President Martina…Please come quickly.’
And, did her prayers work?
The student council room door burst open and Belnoa Academy student council president, Martina Wilthard, entered the student council room.
“What is this fuss…Your Highness the Crown Prince?”
“Martina!!”
Prince Joshua shouts in a voice full of anger.
Martina looked at the crown prince in surprise for a moment, but after understanding her situation, she returned to her expressionless face.
“Your Highness, what are you doing? You came to the student council room and scolded the executives.”
“Martina! What did you do to Alyssa?!”
“If you mean Alyssa Leifert, she is currently being held by the Ministry of Justice.”
Seeing Martina answering calmly, the crown prince became even more angry and shouted.
“Free her right now!!”
“I’m sorry, but it is impossible to accommodate that request.”
“A request? This is an order!! An order from the crown prince!”
Martina replied, her expression slightly wrinkled as if she was bored.
“I’m sorry, but I cannot freely release students who have committed mistakes within the academy and have been referred to the disciplinary committee, even if I tell them to do so to the Crown Prince.”
“What…What…?”
“If His Majesty the Emperor steps forward, we cannot change her treatment even if His Highness the Crown Prince orders it. Much less…”
Martina sighed heavily.
“She probably won’t end up being disciplined within the academy.”
“…??”
Prince Joshua looked at Martina’s face with a frown, as if he didn’t understand what Martina was saying.
“After the academy’s internal disciplinary action, she will be taken to the imperial palace. She has committed such a mistake.”
“What…She…Alyssa did?!”
“I caused injury to someone who came as a guest of this empire.”
At Martina’s words, the Crown Prince opened her mouth in a daze.
“And that’s for a child who isn’t even ten years old. She did something like that and she doesn’t really think she can get away with it, right?”
“That…That…”
As he listened to Martina’s words, a face appeared in Joshua’s mind.
This is the girl whose face I briefly saw in the banquet hall just yesterday.
A girl who was smiling happily with her younger sister, the princess, Runiel.
She is the daughter of a noble lady from the Eastern Continent, and she is the girl who is said to be the younger sister of Sirwentos.
“Wasn’t there some mistake…? There’s no way Alyssa would do something like that…”
“…There are already several witnesses. I am one of them. Fortunately, it didn’t seem like he was seriously injured…”
“K… If you weren’t seriously injured, wouldn’t there be no problem…?”
“If you were seriously injured, do you think it would have ended with detention?”
In response to Martina’s slightly angry tone, Prince Joshua did not say anything.
“… Anyway, she can’t release that woman. This might turn into an international problem.”
“Ugh…”
Prince Joshua makes a bitter noise and reluctantly turns around and leaves the student council room.
Martina looked at his back, sighing deeply.
That day, after class ended.
While all the students were returning home or to their dormitories, one student from the leadership group remained and was walking down the hallway.
In his hand was a tray of hot meals prepared in the student cafeteria.
“…Ha, I should quickly bring it to you and go back too.”
The girl who sighed was a child in charge of chores within the leader club.
She will one day take over when her successor comes in, but for now, she is the one at the bottom.
The meal in her hand right now was the dinner of Alyssa Leipert, a female student being held in the leadership club.
Usually, a student who is to be subject to disciplinary action is released and then brought back when the disciplinary committee meets, but her situation is different.
When she came to the academy, she was a female student who had made a big mistake by hurting a state guest, and she also had a bad reputation.
So, under the strict orders of the academy director, Georges, she was to be detained in the guidance department overnight until the disciplinary committee was held the next day.
He will be locked in a strong solitary confinement now.
A girl putting her meal down for a moment to open the iron door that leads into the hallway with solitary cells, a little away from the Seondobu.
That was the moment when she felt her popularity and turned around.
“Evil!!”
A girl loses consciousness after being hit squarely by a suddenly flying fist.
Putting her aside, her assailant searched in her arms and took out her keys.
He is none other than Nord Uboris.
He was a follower of the crown prince… No, it might be more correct to think of him as a follower of Alyssa Leifert.
Behind him, two figures appeared.
They were Crown Prince Joshua and Prince Portis of the neighboring country.
Nord, who picked up the key, opened his mouth.
“…Your Majesty, are you really okay? I wonder how much you will have to pay for doing something like this…”
“I’ll take care of everything, I can’t leave Alyssa like this.”
As far as Joshua knew, since she had harmed a state guest, it was obvious that she would be executed.
No, of course, the state guest was not seriously injured, so it will not go as far as capital punishment, but even so, it is natural that he will be severely punished.
Joshua, who did not want his beloved girl to suffer like that, planned to take her out and run away, even if it was a little too much.
The crown prince and his party entered a hallway dotted with solitary cells.
Although it is called solitary confinement, it is not as gloomy or bad as a real prison as it is a place where students are confined for a while to reflect.
But perhaps because it was soon dismissal time, the hallway was a little dark.
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“Alyssa!! Where are you!! Alyssa!!”
At Prince Joshua’s shout, a rustling sound was heard from inside.
Joshua and his party try to go in that direction after learning that they are pretending to be popular.
“Um… Your Highness? Are you here to save me?”
When Joshua and his group realized that the voice was that of Alyssa Leifert, they moved quickly.
They even laughed happily at the sound of Alyssa’s voice.
It was that moment.
“It’s as expected.”
With a cold voice, someone appeared behind them.
At that voice and presence, their steps toward Alyssa stopped.
“It may have been unthinkable, but I thought you guys would go out of your way to attack us.”
“Me…Maid…?”
The person who got down was wearing a maid uniform.
She pulled out her two daggers from her waist.
“I’ll suppress you guys for now… Well, you might get seriously injured in one or two places during the suppression.”
The maid, who had drawn her dagger, spoke cold words that seemed to be somewhat selfless.