Chapter Chapter 33: RATH 33 TL: Eevee (1/2)

RATH 33

TL: Eevee

5. Welcome to the summoners’ school. (3)

#1 Their story: The student council president’s story.

“Ah right.”

“What?”

“I left something in the student council meeting room.”

As I was packing my bags to prepare to head home for the holidays, I remembered that I had left behind some things in the stuco meeting room.

Well, since they’re personal things there’s no reason why anyone would take them, but since I might as well take them back while I was returning home anyway, I said that to my roommate and went back to the academy for the first time since final exams…

“Why is it under construction?”

Even if I look like this I’m still the student council president.

If there was a construction scheduled I would have been notified, but I’d never heard that there would be construction work done during the holidays.

“It can’t be…”

I heard that the academy could close down any day, but did that become reality?!

We wouldn’t be seeing a new dean shouting “Yugrasia is dead! It’s not here anymore! But not as a school of summoning, but the school of 000, we will live on as 00 Academy!”(1) as soon as next semester starts?

“Oi, are you a student?”

“Huh, uh, yes I am.”

Just as I was wondering what new subject the academy would teach, I felt someone tap my side and I turned around, but no one was there!

Thankfully it wasn’t a ghost, but I met something that was even harder to meet than ghosts.

“What’s the matter?”

“Ah, I left something in the stuco room…”

“What, so you’re a member of the student council? You’re acting about as rude as you look?”

When I looked a bit further down, I saw a head at around my waist-height.

Ah, of course it isn’t a child.

This person’s probably at least a few decades older than me.

With a slight exaggeration, arms that were as thick as my waist, a brown beard that came from his chin all the way down his chest.

And a height that barely came to my waist. Anyone would think of a particular race when they saw this.

Indeed. The people fixing the academy were none other than dwarves!

To think the dwarves that were hard to see even on imperial projects were doing construction work on our academy!

“What are you looking at? First time seeing a dwarf?”

“Ah, yes it is…”

“Oh, really?”

The dwarf was slightly taken aback at my answer for a second before he laughed uproariously and thumped my side.

“Hahahaha, well true, you do see the majority of our race are stuck in their workshops instead of out and about. Now now, your academy, it’s transforming into something beautiful, so you can have great hopes for it.”

“Re, really?”

After listening to the dwarf, it seemed that the one who hired the dwarves was indeed Yugrasia.

Thank goodness.

It seems that nothing’s changing, next year at least.

Surely we won’t be learning something else with just the name kept as Yugrasia, right?

Just as I thought that another thought came to me.

Just why were dwarves working on our school?

“Is a member of the imperial family transferring in?”

Wondering if the legendary imperial princess was coming or something, I picked up what I was looking for and went back to the dorms.

But due to the unexpected meeting with the dwarves I didn’t pay enough attention to my surroundings at the time.

If I’d looked closely, I might have suspected something.

When they were renovating the academy, just why was the majority of the work focused on the windows and exits.

And why were the dwarves moving countless steel pillars while working on those areas.

But by the time I realised, it was already too late.

***

-Owner? Isn’t the one who started something meant to be the busiest? Owner’s way too free?

-I’m not free. It means that work is proceeding well.

The one in charge of a project does not move himself!

It’s definitely not like I’m just playing around or something!

Even if I look like this I invited several lecturers, made contact with the dwarves to renovate the school, filed away paperwork with the dean even in this very room. Although of course all I did was stamp the final seal of approval.

“So next week is the beginning of enrollments?”

“Yes, Professor Nicerwin.”

When I asked the dean about the enrollment period that made up the majority of the documents we were stamping, he answered in the affirmative as he also stamped documents beside me.

Enrollment period.

A month before the opening of the empire’s holy lands of education that were the Four Great Academies, for a period of one week the schools were opened up to the public.

To put it simply, test even a stone bridge before you cross?

It was a time period where the parents really looked around with lit eyes to see just what place the school they would be sending their children to for the next four years, what kind of teachers and students were there at the place they would be sending their kids off to.

“The place we need to beware of the most is Marcis.”

“Very true. They have a lot of parts that overlap with us…”

Summoning and magic have many parts that overlap with each other.

No, if you look at the big picture one could argue that summoning is actually a subset of magic.

Especially since there are a lot of cases where the rearguard pure firepower magicians that focus purely on output have contracted summons to protect themselves.

And because of that, our greatest enemy is Marcis!

“The important thing is how many outstanding talents we can obtain. Since we’re only taking in 1/4 of our normal enrollment. We need that people with that kind of spectacular talents.”

“That’s true. This year…”

-The tuition fees are five times, would talents show up? Heck isn’t that just a scam? Why are the number of students decreased fourfold, but the fees by quint?

-If they’re nobles even if it was ten times higher the ones who would come will come. And the latter because a lot of money’s been spent.

The Made in Black Anvil that I always relied on was always outstanding, but the problem is that they are seriously expensive.