Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

12 – First Ordeal (1)

A break after the sparring.

I was sitting on a bench near the arena, basking in the sun.

Since I had no strength in my body, I stayed still as if I was dead, and birds flew in and landed on my head.

“After.”

I felt relieved as if a heavy burden had been lifted off my shoulders after I had somehow successfully resolved the first difficulty that had come before my eyes.

It was really fortunate that it wasn’t a route where I was cut by a sword and flogged after being sloppy, as I was worried about.

That said, I should rest to my heart’s content, I didn’t think the same thing.

This is just the first obstacle I faced, and in the academy’s strongest swordsman, it’s just a part of the main character’s training.

That means that the real hardships and trials have yet to come.

But I didn’t think that I had to prepare for it.

Why?

Cause Kyle, the main character, will take care of such a case.

All I have to worry about is not getting caught up in the incident.

Yeah, at this point, it wouldn’t hurt to look back.

Now that I have some time to spare and the incident is not far away.

“Was the next event a monster commotion?”

The place where the incident takes place is the Magic Engineering Building.

The magic engineering product that supplies the entire Trinity Academy defense was overloaded and malfunctioned and exploded.

The aftermath of the explosion reaches the place where monsters for training are bred, and as they are released outside the cage, the incident intensifies in earnest.

For reference, there is no way to prevent this explosion in advance at this point.

The shield supply system is already broken.

Explodes even when stopped.

Even if you try to repair it, it explodes.

It is an event that inevitably occurs.

Anyway, originally, the first meeting between Sylvia and Kyle would have taken place here.

Kyle insists on going to rescue Lucy with her injuries, and Sylvia tries to stop him and treat him.

The opinions of the two did not narrow down, and in the end it was Sylvia who raised the white flag.

Kyle goes to rescue Lucy, and Sylvia becomes a wreck, but she becomes interested in Kyle, who goes to rescue Lucy.

In the meantime, the uproar will come to an end as Kyle, who came to rescue Lucy, rescues Sylvia, who is in danger…….

I don’t know if this will work.

Since Kyle and Sylvia’s first meeting was twisted, there is a high possibility that things will not go as normal.

That’s why I tried not to get involved with the main characters as much as possible, but it’s a situation where a sigh comes out naturally.

It was when I was breathing a deep sigh.

A cold drink bottle with water droplets on the outside appeared in front of me as if it had fallen from the sky, casting a shadow over my face.

“Bocchan, thank you for your hard work.”

It was Charlotte wearing plain clothes, not a maid outfit.

“Did you see?”

Charlotte took the open drink and took a sip…… Frowned at her.

It was a bizarre taste that I had never felt before.

It’s strange that it’s soft like jelly even though it’s a drink, and I also felt it wriggling in my mouth.

“What is this—”

The answer that comes back even before I finish talking.

“It is water boiled with medicinal herbs that are good for restoring mana. I brought it because I thought you would be tired after the sparring.”

Even if I knew it wasn’t strange, I didn’t want to drink it because of the color of the liquid on the mouth.

There were countless things like sesame seeds embedded in the purple liquid, but they were wriggling like maggots.

“… ….”

I quietly passed the drink to Charlotte, but Charlotte did not take it even though she understood the intention.

On the contrary, it felt as if he was pushing the drink toward me and telling me to drink it.

“What are you doing…… ?”

Charlotte urged in a soothing voice as she spoke to a child who did not want to take bitter pills.

“I made it from the early hours of the morning thinking of you, young master, so please drink it with sincerity.”

I wonder if that thought was that he wanted to kill me.

Anyway, as you said, I forcibly drank it thinking about the sincerity.

I don’t know why I made so much, but I tried to drink that much at once, and in the middle of it, I got nauseated.

…… Is this a potion in this world?

There seems to be a reason why there is a limit on the number of uses in the game.

I wiped the drink from my mouth with the back of my hand while thinking such useless thoughts.

“Fuu, the taste is good, but the effect is good…” ….”

“Prepare every day─”

“You don’t have to. Don’t suffer for nothing and take care of your sleep.”

She dismissed Charlotte’s words, asking her to prepare for the next day instead, looking up at her cloudless sky.

The sounds of birds chirping and chirping, leaves shaking in the wind and making waves, and the voices of students chatting among themselves.

Peace and impeccable atmosphere.

…… It was before the storm.

* * *

A small rural village reached by taking the train from Trinity Academy for two days.

A place far from society, like an uninhabited island with no schools and no shops.

It’s a town with nothing special to say and nothing to see, but if there’s only one thing to be proud of, it’s Kyle and Lucy who entered Trinity Academy.

─Kyle That guy is a man, so you, a woman, should stand beside him and help him.

In a small farming village, men were a valuable labor force, and the villagers repeated that word as if brainwashing Lucy, a woman, to take care of Kyle.

Because of that voice she heard from her childhood, Lucy thought she was an older sister and was not dissatisfied with taking care of Kyle, who was like her younger brother.

Kyle follows her own words well and helps her, so it seems that she was like that even more.

But lately, Lucy has gradually been dissatisfied with Kyle.

“…… Kyle, why did you go to school alone without saying a word?”

The two went to school together every day.

Sometimes Kyle adjusts to her Lucy, and sometimes Lucy adjusts to Kyle, but she never went to school separately.

“I’m sorry if I wake you up in the morning.”

Kyle replied, not even looking up, brandishing her sword.

“I go to school early to make up for what I lack, but you don’t have to come early.”

It was because Kyle started to act alone like this.

I know now that I’m not old enough to stick around all the time, but now I know Kyle can do anything on his own, but it was such a sudden change.

“I waited for 30 minutes in front of the dorm today.”

Couldn’t you have thought of the person who waited for a long time in front of the door, wondering if he hadn’t woken up yet this morning?

If she hadn’t met Kyle’s roommate by chance, she could have been waiting, wondering if something had happened.

I didn’t specifically want Kyle to apologize.

She didn’t ask Kyle to wait, she just waited on her own.

But she said it in the hope that she would tell me if she would go to school first, since it was only natural for her to go to school together until now.

But even that wind didn’t seem to reach Kyle.

Kyle was still concentrating on swinging his sword and only answered casually.

“Sorry. Let’s go to school separately from tomorrow.”

“… ….”

Lucy was about to say something, but bit him.

Because I understand why Kyle neglected himself.

Adele has been bullying herself and Kyle for a long time.

It was Lucy who always rebelled against what he did, and it was Kyle’s role to dissuade him, but I could see that Kyle, too, had anger building up in his heart.

Because if I hit you there, it’s just like what Adele did.

So, while she was drying herself up, she had been waiting for the sparring that would officially flatten Adele’s nose.

But what was the result?

As Lucy saw, it was a crushing defeat for Kyle.

The impact must have been quite large.

Kyle’s empty expression was still visible when he woke up in her infirmary.

She

And thought she could be like this.

After a while, she had no doubt that if she overcame the sadness of defeat, she would return to her old Kyle.

“I’ll go first.”

“Yes.”

Although she said she was going to the classroom, Lucy wasn’t heading to the classroom.

There is still an hour left before the lecture begins.

During that time, she walked aimlessly around the academy, thinking of taking a walk to cool her head.

I brusquely kicked cans that had fallen on the street, and I also crumpled leaflets from the walls and tossed them in the trash.

Lucy It was her way of relieving stress.

“Huh?”

It was in the middle of that.

Coo-goo-goo-goo… ….

The ground rumbles as if an earthquake had occurred somewhere.

Lucy, who was walking with her head down, suddenly raised her head and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

“Magic Engineering Hall?”

The source of the ground tremor is the Magic Engineering Hall.

Incontinence began to form on the outer wall of the building as high as a tower, and it spread down like tree roots, and blue light was leaking through the cracks.

“Uh, uh…… ?”

Even if a lot of magic fails, that amount of magic won’t leak out.

As expected, if that mana explodes uncontrollably, the aftermath will reach the vast Trinity Academy.

For a moment she was taken aback, but Lucy hurriedly evacuated to a nearby building.

Being exposed naked to that blinding blast would either get blown away by the gathering aftershock, or be hit by flying objects.

Kurrr… ….

The building shook even more violently.

The cracks spread throughout the building like an egg about to pop out at any moment.

And.

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As the warfare bounced, the top of the Magic Engineering Hall absorbed the surrounding air and contracted.

──────────!!

They gathered at one point exploded in an instant.

A gigantic mushroom-shaped explosion blew away even the clouds in the sky, and the sky instantly cleared.

The cloudless sky was dyed a deep blue, not the usual blue, as if looking at the deep sea, and the aftermath uprooted and blew away the surrounding trees.

Kwagwagwagwa!

The storm even reached the building where Lucy was hiding.

“Oh…… !”

Lights swayed and then fell, and statues tumbled towards Lucy.

The windows were shattered without a sound, and the earth mixed with the transparent debris rushed into the building like a tsunami.

Lucy, who lost consciousness after colliding with the statue, was helplessly buried in the soil.