135. Battle to recapture the Cultural Center (2)
Philea Academy’s cultural center building is designed to be tall.
It may be the tallest of all the buildings on campus.
There are two reasons. The first one is that the number of students at Philea Academy is basically quite large.
Although there is a rather difficult procedure called the entrance exam, a large number of students apply each year in the first place. Although most of the students, including myself, are from the Empire, the academy itself travels around the world in the form of a floating island, so students apply all over the world.
That’s why there were many applicants every year, including foreign students. As a representative example, Tia is not actually from the Empire.
Since the number of students is large and they come from various places, cultural facilities should also be diverse.
High-ranking nobles such as dukes attend, and there are cases where even royal families from other countries enter the school, so the scale should never be small.
In the first place, the fact that there are many students means that there are as many clubs as there are, so there should be many club rooms. As a result, the cultural center naturally grew.
It was only about 2 years ago,
In fact, it was a year ago that the cultural center was repeatedly expanded.
In fact, the second reason is much stronger than the first.
The first princess, Christirp Arfelicia, likes the cultural center.
“It’s done, Ariel.”
Erua says so in an emotionless voice.
The surroundings are full of blood.
The monsters of the abyss are finely chopped to form a puddle of blood, and drops of blood are also forming on Erua’s sword.
Erre waved her sword as if not paying much attention to it.
Her magical powers are released from her aura hand, and her wind blows and sweeps her blade.
The magic, a mixture of water elemental magic and wind elemental magic, made the blade clean in an instant. The bloodstains disappear and it becomes clean without a spot. It is one of the magics Erua can use, Magic.
“Are there dangers around?”
“Nothing. It’s all sorted out.”
“I see. Then let’s go.”
As I waved my hand, the waiting students came rushing in.
Their expressions are all bewildered. I came all the way here with a resolution to die, but nothing happened.
-“I will divide it into a rescue team that will save Her Highness, a magic battle team, and a garrison group that will protect the building.”
-“The rescue team is composed of about 20 people. I lead it.”
-“The rest of the garrison remains centered on senior Belairam Anderson.”
About 30 minutes ago, I made that decision.
Anyway, since Hilka mentioned Kristiff, I couldn’t help but go.
That said, it doesn’t make sense to go to the rescue with just a handful of troops. In any case, since the name is ‘The Princess’ Rescue Team’, it should be worthy of that name.
But we can’t drag all the survivors away.
The magic combat department building is currently the safest base around here, so we need personnel to protect it. Because of this, I left about 10 people who were obedient to Belairam.
-“…Why do we have to leave the leadership team behind?”
-“Yeah, that’s right…! Rather, shouldn’t the leadership team be the first to step in…?!”
Of course, there were students who were dissatisfied.
However,
-“What is it? Are you saying you don’t want to save Her Highness?”
-“It could be mentioned as a crime of blasphemy, but it doesn’t matter if you want to stay.”
When I mentioned the princess, the faces became like chicks who ate honey.
Giving the name of the imperial family to that extent is like a kind of refusal. No matter how much Philea Academy advocates class neutrality among students, the imperial princess is untouchable.
-“If the Cultural Center building isn’t safe, Her Highness may have to attend the Magic Combat Department building here. So I’ll just leave someone to protect this place.”
-“There is no guarantee that one is safer. Magical combat and quarantined infected inside buildings are definitely a source of uncertainty. How to manage them will be decided by the remaining members.”
-“Only those who have the responsibility and the skills to do so remain. If you don’t have the confidence to take on the responsibility, don’t be shy and follow me.”
Anyone who is under the same roof as the infected will hate it.
But does anyone want to kill the infected with their own hands? There won’t be
According to the adventurer’s manual, infected people who are undergoing monster transformation are no longer defined as human beings. So it’s okay to kill him.
However, they are characters with the possibility of returning to being human again, and at the same time, they are students who were once friends or colleagues. To kill them is to some extent consistent with murder.
You may nod your head saying you can’t help it when someone else kills you, but if you say you might have to deal with them yourself, you’ll feel resistance.
So, in the end, about 20 students came out to the rescue team like this.
However, few of the 20 students were very helpful,
In fact, it’s a composition where Erra eats everything by himself.
“…If that’s the case, shouldn’t we have come?”
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One of the students said so.
What he said was only half true. In fact, until arriving at the cultural center, almost no one other than Erua had fought.
And if it was half true, the other half was not.
Cultural Center.
The place was already occupied by monsters.
“It’s painful to die~♪ It’s not painful to live either~♬”
By the time the cultural center building was visible, I could hear singing.
A characteristic voice that seems a bit short-tongued. Somehow, if it wasn’t for this world, it was a voice that would have been voiced by an anime voice actor.
The owner of the voice that the Japanese often describe as ‘Lorigoe’ doesn’t look younger than I thought. Rather, is it an image of a female college student?
She was dancing with her ponytail tied to the side.
She improvises her body movements by spinning her body like in ballet.
She had an ax in her hand,
Her clothes were covered in blood.
Seeing the girl humming with an innocent smile, our rescue team stopped.
“Oh my, guests?”
The dancing girl stops her movement.
She looks this way with her head tilted down to her left. It was a strangely zombie-like movement.
“Yes, no. The word ‘guest’ is not correct. That’s right, this place isn’t really my land, and I’m not the owner of it either?”
“…….”
“Then, are you all visitors? Hmm, but since you’re carrying hideous weapons, it doesn’t seem like you’re visiting~? Then, should I call them passers-by?”
“This is the rescue team that came to rescue Her Highness, the lead manager.”
“My God, you knew me.”
Chuck.
She covers her mouth with one hand and holds her other palm out to her side, slightly bending her knee of her front leg…… She strikes an odd pose.
“As you said. I am Bianca Plach, the head of the leadership team. I am a 4th year weapon combat department. By the way, I don’t have a girlfriend yet!”
“Oh, is that so?”
“Whoops, you’ve come to rescue Her Highness. Warriors who have not been weighed down by the hardships of life and have come back to find their only honor… But reality is not easy.”
Chuck.
She strikes a pose again.
A hand with only her thumb and index finger raised. In other words, she pointed at me, shaping her gun with her hand.
Then, from her mouth, “BBANG~!” He said with a fluent pronunciation.
“You know what? Mirrors are actually green.”
“Is that so?”
“And chickens can taste salty, but not sweet. Humans can hear frequencies between 20 and 20,000 hertz, but elephants can make sounds between 5 and 50 hertz. Humans can think I can’t feel more.”
“So, what did that mean?”
“Whoops… I forgot what I was trying to say.”
Bianca said so.
Bianca Flach, Leading Director of Philea Academy.
They say meaningful things, but most of them are eccentrics who say meaningless words that are not worth listening to.
There is no filter in the brain, and even self-control crawls on the ground.
24 Hours a day, talking bullsh*t most of the time.
Truly the shame of the leader.
Truly the epitome of a fool.
It was a girl called that.
“Even moving.”
I told the students.
The students also nodded and walked past Bianca. All the students at Philea Academy know how eccentric Bianca is.
“Oh, are you ignoring me?
“It’s the first time I’ve seen you today.”
“Yeah, I know. But if I said it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, I thought we’d become friends for about 10 years. My older sister is preparing dinner today, so would you like to go out to eat?”
“I have no intention of becoming childhood friends with Director Seon Do, and I heard that Director Seon Do is her only daughter. Rather than that, we are busy going to rescue Her Highness, the princess.”
“It would be better not to enter the cultural center building~. Will I die if I move?”
“Yes?”
In the middle of a great banquet, I heard something troubling.
As I stop, Bianca gestures like her child and explains.
“It’s in the building of the Cultural Center~, there’s a monster there.
“What does it look like?”
“Yes, it looked like it was wearing armor. Oh, do you know it’s a pangolin? It feels similar to an animal called a pangolin. Pangolins are about 30 to 90 cm long and don’t have teeth, so they eat things like ants~. “
“…They’re leaking somewhere else.”
Anyway, I knew that there was a monster that looked like armor in the cultural center building.
I have a guess. He is the lord of the abyss
‘The original story is different.’
The Lord of the Abyss is a named monster that appears in this Apocalypse incident.
If the ‘Henchman of the Abyss’ that spread this Apocalypse is the boss, then the Lord of the Abyss can also be called the mid-boss.
Normally, it’s a monster that appears on the way Lucius is on his way to defeat the ‘Henchman of the Abyss’.
Now that Lucius and the others are scattered, it seems that the Lord of the Abyss has flowed into the Cultural Center building here. It must have happened because the apocalypse broke out 4 days early.
‘… I don’t know why it exploded four days early.’
Anyway, it was annoying for the Lord of the Abyss to occupy the Cultural Center building. Because that monster has the ability to command the monsters of the abyss as much as it is called ‘lord’.
“Where are the rest of the survivors, Director General?”
“By the way, isn’t it hard to be called the lead manager~? It’s not like my name is the lead manager~. Oh, come to think of it, I haven’t heard the name. Shall I guess? Ariel Beheritt, right?”
“That’s right. So what about the survivors?”
“Oh, there’s no need to rush. The survivors are in a safe place. But I guessed Ariel’s name, but are there any products? I’m out of shampoo lately.”
“Since there are no products, please guide me.”
“That’s too much.”
Bianca shrugs.
Even though I thought that this person’s communication skills were at an inferior level, he began to guide us obediently.
Madness… It’s because it’s the same character, but it’s not that he’s fundamentally a bad person. There is a certain user base who likes this brain-watering talk, so it is more popular than it looks.
Anyway, following Bianca, we enter a place a little far from the cultural center building.
Stairs going down to the basement.
Now it is blocked by something like a rock.
“It’s an underground area.”
“The ground area of the Cultural Center was all occupied, but the underground area was barely out of reach~. That’s why a certain amount of survivors are gathered here.”
“How about the Princess?”
“If you want to check, why don’t you go inside yourself?”
Having said that, Bianca turned her back.
Bianca moves further and further away with limping movements and light steps.
“……Are you alright?”
Rarely did Tia ask anxiously.
I nodded.
“There will be no problem.”
Bianca is a fool to say anything. And the only reason such a person could become the leader was because of his fighting ability.
Andy Parfum, senior year chief of the 4th year and leader of the Student Knights, followed by Jayka Ancilla, second year chief and deputy captain of the Knights.
His grades are lower than those two, but he is the owner of skills that are never inferior. In fact, Bianca is also one of the best characters in her Unknown Saga.
So if you leave Bianca alone, she will survive.
Rather than that,
“According to the leader’s words, there will be survivors down here. Erua, can you clear it up?”
“…….”
Era did not answer. Because I didn’t call her her older sister.
She did pull out her sword, though.
Er Ah doesn’t care about the eyes of the people around her, but she’s still a bit better lately. She seems to understand that I don’t want to call her older sister in front of other people.
“.”
I swung it like I was touching it.
Then the debris in the way rises high.
Erre manipulated her magic and moved her remains right next to her.
The neat appearance of the stairs is revealed before her eyes,
“Wow… Did you move all of that…?”
“How did you raise that much weight?”
“As expected, the academy’s strongest…”
A whisper is heard from behind.
But as if Erua couldn’t hear those voices, she went down the stairs first. She is to look out for her possible danger.
The door to her basement opens,
There.
“Ariel Beheritt…? I never thought I’d see you in a place like this….It’s been a while.”
There was a female knight who answered in a weak voice.
It has been almost a month since we met.
There was Gene Kartix.
“Clerk….Clerk, get in touch with me at once.”
The building of the student union building a little far from the cultural center building.
From the rooftop, there was a person looking down at those entering the underground area of the Cultural Center.
No, it might not be called human.
It looks like a human, but it was actually a monster.
[Yes, I got a call from ‘Professor’. This is the bookmaker.]
‘Professor’ receives a voice from the communicator.
And that voice was something I heard often during these four years.
That must have been because it was the voice of Elpis Bamir.