Chapter Chapter 94: 11. Not a myth, but a legend (7) (1/2)

RATH 94

TL: Eevee

11. Not a myth, but a legend (7)

#7 Their story: Ria el Nermia’s story.

“Just what on earth do they do over at Yugrasia?”

After we made an alliance with Arucia, we had each sent over a person in order to cooperate more effectively.

Under those circumstances, I had joined up with the vanguard of Arucia, and muttered that as I watched the Yugrasia student council president sweep away the Yugrasia students.

“I know, right…”

And the one of the other Marcis students that had been dispatched to Arucia along with me stared blankly at that scene and nodded.

Thank goodness, for a second there I thought I was too accustomed to living in an evil organization that I couldn’t adjust to normal society.

“Well, I suppose we can take it as a good thing?”

Yugrasia’s student council president was strong.

He had previously summoned a Spirit King to render Arucia’s best students powerless, and even now he was using high and mid-rank elementals to overwhelm the resisting Yugrasia students with brute force.

“Turning one of the enemy’s most powerful forces to our side is supposedly twice as effective…”

But what was this feeling of unease?

“He’s not going to backstab us all of a sudden, right? He’s already betrayed his lover once.”

“Ah, apparently that was a misunderstanding. And supposedly, he’s doing this right now to solve that misunderstanding…”

“Really?”

I blankly stared at him fighting.

Despite being strong, he never once let his guard down.

He freely switched between his elementals in order to have the advantageous matchup against his opponent, and he even finished them off to make sure they were sent back to the healers.

Not becoming complacent no matter how much weaker your enemies were than you is a very difficult thing.

Even in Howling, the instructor had always stressed that onto us time and time again, and yet I’d been taken off-guard and defeated. To me, those kill-confirming executions were clean enough that even I felt like I could learn a thing or two from them.

And especially, the way he brought along a few Arucia students to smack the downed Yugrasia students with their sheathed swords because there were too many of them to deal with himself, made me doubt whether he actually was the Yugrasia student council president in his perfect, textbook example methodology of making sure his opponents weren’t going to come back.

“It’s a bizarre school.”

Even if he was doing this to resolve the misunderstanding with his lover, it wouldn’t have been an easy decision to betray the students that believed in him.

So why it all look so natural?

“Lady Ria, he just outright declared war on Yugrasia.”

“What is he planning? Is it some sort of strategy of our foes to confuse us? There’s no reason he’d do something that insane otherwise?”

Even if I’d experienced things beyond the realm of common sense numerous times, the sight in front of me, was one I simply couldn’t get used to.

“That’s probably not going to happen?”

As No.1000, no, Haeel Reia tilted her head with a look on her face that seemed to know something, I sighed.

“You know, No… I mean, Haeel Reia?”

As No.1000’s face instantly contorted into a scowl, I hurriedly changed the way I addressed her, and only then did her expression turn neutral again.

“It seems that you know something, could you please tell me what it is?”

After we reunited, I grilled her as best as I can to get her confession that she was sent here on the Imperial Princess’s orders, but she didn’t tell me what her mission was.

If she failed to keep the secret then she’d lose three dishes from her menu…

I had no idea just what it was that Her Highness was feeding her, but because of that, No.1000’s mouth had turned into an impenetrable safe, and in the end, I could only give up.

I could only give up… so in that case, could you quit it with that ‘I know everything!’ face?!

You weren’t a kid who made expressions like that, were you? Weren’t you a kid with a blank emotionless face?

Just what was it?

“That’s a secret.”

“Did you just read my mind? Was that it?”

“Don’t be absurd. Lady Nermia, people are beginning to give us odd looks.”

“Ughh.”

When I turned around, the other Marcis students standing around awkwardly, looking at me.

They were whispering that I seemed close with a student I’d met for the first time, I seemed different to how I was normally, but you know, I can hear you.

“Now then, Lady Nermia. It seems that we should begin moving as well.”

Was this the power of the imperial chefs, No.1000 who had previously never taken the initiative was taking charge of her own accord.

How incredible you are, imperial chefs!

“Die, president!”

“Kaagh, Lady Aris?!”

A distance away, a crimson sword aura collided with lightning.

Although it was made quickly just for the imperial festival, an entire section of the stone castle walls disintegrated.

“Do… I have to go?”

As I saw that, my footsteps halted automatically.

A bloody battle that surpassed the level of students began, one that even the students of Arucia could only blink and watch.

Sword auras went flying, a Spirit King was rampaging, this scene was completely the opposite of the imperial festival, which was still a festival!

“You still have to go. Don’t you want to win the imperial festival?”

“I don’t really care anymore…”

Yugrasia this year was a force that anyone would have lost to.

To the point that I was the admirable one to go up against them to claim two victories on my own.

So to be honest, I don’t need things like victory.

Because I don’t wanna get involved with the scene in front of me!

“That’s no good.”

But No.1000 who had already been bought by the imperial palace’s cooking didn’t forgive me.

“Do I have to fight in the middle of all that? Is that Her Highness’s orders?”

“Not really, but someone would look very poorly on Young Lady Nermia showing off her weak side.”

“Her Highness?”

“No, the instructor?”

“Wh, what?!”

I instinctively hunched over looked around us.

I almost could hear the instructor yelling whether we were scared of a few mangy brats like them.

Also included was the whirring noise of something presumed to be a wooden stick of some design slicing through the air, despite being my own auditory hallucination, it was an oddly realistic one.

“Did, did he get caught?”

Last I heard, it was none other than that legendary Imperial Princess herself who was trying to capture the instructor.

If a tenth of those rumours were true, then the instructor would already have long since captured and dragged off to the imperial palace.

And as he looked at my defeatist attitudes from a VIP seat…

‘My teaching was lacking. I shouldn’t have left it to Rein… very well, this is the true strength of the bat!’

…would be what he might say as he dragged me off to the imperial palace to train.

I’m scared. If it was the instructor, he could actually do it as well, and that scared me even more.

“He hasn’t been caught. Yet.”

But thankfully, my imaginations remained imaginary.

To think he was still on the run from Her Highness’s grasp, really, that was our instructor for…

“Wait, yet? That’s implying that he’s likely to get caught very very soon?”

“Yeah, maybe.”

“And also, you’re saying that as if he’s watching over me right now?”

“Yeah, maybe.”