104. End of Summer Vacation (3)
‘Joshua has an informant attached to him.’
An informant who helps to obtain these precious items.
However, even Vincent, who memorized the names of the Beltarq students, couldn’t figure out who the informant was.
Does that mean he is an outsider?
“Chairman… What will Prince Joshua do?”
The vice president sneakily asked me from the side.
How to deal with Joshua….
I want to kick him out, but….
“Joshua was sent as an exchange student to Servis Academy.”
“Is this Servis Academy…?”
“Yes. It’s an overly moderate disposition.”
Joshua said so in a disgruntled voice.
That was yesterday.
Vincent reported the situation to his father, the Duke of Beheritt, and received an answer.
[I heard that Ariel and Joshua fought.
Vincent, you are excellent, so I believe that you will do well on your own.
Ariel said she had no intention of returning. Let them do as they please.
Send Joshua to Servis Academy as an exchange student.
Rather than that, what about the status of the ‘seal’?
I hope you will report in detail soon.]
The letter written in that way was sealed very strictly.
Not only was it hardened with wax, but it was also enchanted with special magic. So that no one other than Vincent can ever see it.
This meant that someone had not changed the contents of the letter by intercepting it in the middle.
…… It’s a cotton bat that goes too far.
After all, my father backed away.
‘It’s fortunate that I was able to minimize the incident.’
It seems that Ariel had some circumstances, but she didn’t intend to escalate the incident.
She looks like that thanks to her she’s able to work it out effortlessly. All of the families involved in the incident were contacted to some extent and negotiations were completed.
The Antirus family…… Apparently Claire didn’t report it, so it seems that she doesn’t know the incident itself.
The families that joined Joshua could be solved by suppressing them with power.
On the contrary, he was used by Joshua…… For the families on the Philea side, it seemed that their father worked underwater in many ways.
It could have ended quietly somehow, but
However, that does not mean that the Duke of Beheritt was not harmed.
‘Considering the scale of the case, I have to kick him out of the family right now.’
… What good
The academy life without bothersome is two years.
In the next year, you will graduate from the academy and become the lord, holding all the real power of the family.
In that case, the first thing to do is to excommunicate Joshua from the family.
In the case of Ariel, I’ll have to think about it a little.
If you’re going to continue to be a nuisance like this, getting rid of Ariel as well will help her family.
Well, you can think about that later.
What we need to do right now is to deal with this incident and organize the faction.
The aristocratic students who had been united around Joshua had to be brought back to Vincent, and it would be necessary to weed them out.
Beltark Academy is going back to Vincent.
If that happens…… I guess it wouldn’t be bad
The process was not good, but the result of Joshua disappearing from the academy itself
If you think about the future, it might have been better.
‘However, there is still a feeling of discomfort.’
An item Joshua was carrying and an unknown outside source.
If Joshua is sent to Servis Academy, it seems that the identity of this awkwardness will forever be locked in her labyrinth.
Originally, most of the problems in this world happen when you let go of this awkwardness.
Need to be clear.
“Vice President, prepare to send Joshua to Servis.”
“Yes, I understand.”
“Besides Joshua, find a few more people to send with. She’s someone who won’t betray us.”
“Are you going to send surveillance?”
At the vice president’s question, Vincent nodded.
“Yes. I will send you surveillance.”
“…What would you like to do with Philea?”
“Filea.”
If it’s Philea, does that mean she puts surveillance on Ariel?
About Ariel…… She thinks she doesn’t have to keep an eye on her.
She’s not worth spying on him.
But.
‘… There was one thing that bothered me.’
She said that she had defeated Joshua, who even summoned a demon.
As for Ariel, she doesn’t want to care, and she doesn’t want to attach any value to his existence.
But that alone.
“It’s better to be prepared just in case. Send someone to Philea as well.”
The port city of Pwaliver.
It is the largest port in the empire, and it is a city where all kinds of trading ports come in.
Correspondingly, the floating population is also the largest in the empire, and various businesses are being developed in this city.
There is even a rumor that the number of gold coins coming and going is sky-high.
Marie borrowed her clothes from Rose and came to the theater with Ariel.
Then.
“Ariel, I want you to be my sister.”
In front of the theater.
As expected, she was there.
Beside her, Ariel lets out her sigh.
“…I won’t.”
‘… How did this happen?’
Marie was feeling suspicious.
Maybe it’s because it’s a place where various affluent people gather as befits a big city. The inside of the theater was quite sophisticated.
The seating arrangement is also quite good. Neither the back nor the front, opera glasses…… So it seemed like it would look good without a telescope.
The atmosphere is also quite good. The inside of the theater is very large, so you don’t feel stuffy, and the audience fills the seats moderately, so you don’t feel empty.
But….
“Ariel, the idea of becoming a younger sister…”
“No.”
I can hear such a conversation from the two seats next to me.
Ariel is sitting next to Marie.
And the one sitting next to Ariel is Erra.
Erra appears in front of Ariel. This has happened several times over the past week, but Mari was perplexed for three reasons.
The fact that she didn’t know that she would follow her to the outside of the floating island.
Normally, if Ariel refuses, she goes straight back, but she still stays.
… And that Ariel is using her short language to Er A.
“You keep calling me little brother, but you and I are the same age.”
“I was born on January 1st.”
“Oh sh*t… I’m frustrated. I’m going to search.”
Ariel knows she’s annoyed and she’s sighing.
Ariel has always used honorifics for seniors in her grade. Because that has been the unspoken rule of the academy.
She is, but she must have felt that Er A was not worth respecting as her senior, so she had given up on using her honorific words since the meeting with her earlier.
“Eh, Ariel…”
“I’m sorry, Marie. It’s because of me.”
Ariel said in a voice that seemed to relieve her irritation.
“Huh? Eh, Ariel isn’t going to apologize…”
“Because I’m the one Er à Blaine Cleat is aiming for. She’s on a long-awaited holiday, so I’m sorry I offended her.”
“Oh, no… I, I’m still enjoying myself, so it’s okay…”
“Then I’m glad.”
Saying that, Ariel puts on a relieved expression.
I was relieved. She
Could it be that she was taking care of herself?
-“I was originally a party with Marie. So we’re going to find a way to get back to normal.”
-“So leave Marie to me.”
Ariel’s words to her sister came to mind.
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Marie smiled nonchalantly.
Senpai——It’s not comfortable to have Erua, who is also a difficult senior in many ways.
Even so, she was annoyed by Ariel’s sudden appearance of Er A, and she asked her sister to take care of it at that time.
She thinks that she values herself, and she is somehow happy.
“It begins.”
Marie raised her head at Ariel’s words.
She was announcing the start of the play as the curtain that was covering the stage slowly rose.
What was on the other side of the curtain was the figure of a girl.
[This is not a heroic story.]
The girl was covered in scars.
Her skin was covered in scratches, her clothes were torn here and there, and everywhere was covered in dirt.
A girl who cannot be said to be neat even with empty words quietly monologues while looking at the audience.
[It is insignificant to be called an epic, and it is far from catharsis to be used as a bard’s song. It’s just a common story that can be heard everywhere.]
[What are you mumbling about, you ugly woman!]
A boy kicks and knocks over a girl who is quietly monologue.
Until Marie heard the voice, she couldn’t close the boy’s presence.
Marie is inadvertently startled by the sudden appearance of her new character.
“I see. Is it a directing using magic?”
At that moment, I heard Ariel mutter quietly.
Ariel’s eyes were looking straight up at her stage.
Her hand rests on her chin, her eyes slightly wider than usual. As if she would watch over her every move.
‘… Did you use magic?’
Marie chewed on Ariel’s muttered words.
Only then did Marie understand what had happened on stage.
Shine a spotlight on the girl, the main character of the play, to draw the audience’s attention there, and fill the rest of the space with darkness.
She thought it was simply the difference in lighting, but it was the darkness, but it wasn’t. It must have been an artificial darkness created using dark elemental magic.
The boy takes advantage of the darkness to approach the girl.
Then, he kicked right away and wrote a directing that seemed to interrupt the narration.
“The voice is also amplified using magic, and in addition to that, the stage direction also relies on magic.”
Ariel was watching the stage more as an analyst than as a spectator.
Since then, the play has continued.
It was a story about an inferior student.
An ordinary girl who is behind in everything, in terms of lineage, talent, and skills.
Even with bad luck, the village where the girl lived is attacked by the demon king’s army and is in danger of losing her life.
The girl had nothing.
She had only one thing, an obsession that never gave up.
It was a story of overcoming everything with only fortitude.
Even with her death in front of her eyes, the girl didn’t know how to give up.
Losing one of her arms fought her one arm.
Lost both of her arms and fought with her teeth.
If she loses her life, she fights until she becomes undead…… It was such a story.
“…….”
Ariel watched her play with her face as if she had forgotten to breathe.
With a face that seems to have forgotten not only her Erra right next to her, but also her own existence.
She was just concentrating on the content of the play unfolding in front of her eyes.
Marie watched the face next to her indifferently.
Without hesitation.