I Became the Academy’s Pink Airhead

Kara stood on the giant’s neck and raised the flag.

Then navy blue ether resonated, spreading like waves.

Dong—

And she shouted with eyes shining brilliantly navy blue.

“Comrades!! Everyone advance forward—!! We will unite and march on to save our friends!!”

Boom—

Boom—

Boom—

Hundreds of giants march.

Just that alone was tearing apart the dimensional barriers with pure physical force, and smashing obstacles blocking the way.

It was truly like a wave raised by one person.

[Nameless Hawk], flying alongside carrying Helina, muttered with a dumbfounded expression.

“Th-This is… Peep… truly an overwhelming sight. I can’t believe this is power one person can possess.”

“Of course it’s not just my power alone.”

Kara spoke while holding the flag atop the giant’s neck.

“It’s the power achieved by comrades… and friends!”

“…”

Helina glanced at that sight, then jumped down from [Nameless Hawk]’s back. Where she landed was on the steel giant’s shoulder.

Boom—!

Despite Helina in her heavy armor landing from the air. As if such an impact didn’t matter at all, the giant laughed heartily.

“Huhuhu… Hehehe…!! Hahahahahahaha—!!! In my 324 years of life!!! Youth has finally come to meee—!!!”

The hearty laughter of the old tailor dwarf.

Intense light burst from the steel giant’s eyes.

Zing—!

Circle.

Rectangle.

Long limbs.

And navy blue eye light.

“Hahahahahahaha—!!!”

That laughter echoed for several kilometers around.

But some chaos insects responding to that laughter flew in attacking.

Kieeek—!!

“Oh no?!”

The old tailor tried to drive away the chaos insects suddenly pouncing from the air, but it wasn’t easy to catch those dodging around with small bodies.

“Hiss…”

Helina, with gray ether wrapped around her black greatsword, kicked off the old tailor’s shoulder and jumped. And she cut down the charging chaos insects.

Slash!

She repeated the same action, hopping across the shoulders of hundreds of marching giants like stepping stones.

“Ahem, ahem… Anyway.”

The old tailor dwarf who had become giant.

Though his appearance was utterly simple, he exuded an intimidating aura due to her overwhelming size.

The steel giant with impressive optical fiber mustache advanced.

With each step, the black swamp exploded upwards.

Splash!

But no swamp could block the old man’s way.

The old man laughed heartily again, delighted by that fact. Because he recalled memories of not being able to cross even small puddles.

“Everything is beneath me—!! Hahahahahahaha!!! To think being tall would be this joyous!! Hahahahahahaha—!!!”

Boom

Boom

Boom

Boom

Rocks shattering before the footsteps shaking the earth.

Translucent curtains splitting dimensions were not even obstacles before steel legs.

The giant pillar-like legs leapt over everything.

But there was a shadow blocking the old tailor’s way. It was a giant mutant chaos insect crudely woven together with the power of death.

Rumble…!

The insect that rose from the black swamp was similar in size to the 20-meter tall giant. It approaches dripping slime from its enormous body.

The mutant chaos insect rapidly approaching.

That grotesque monster pounced on the giant heading towards . A disgusting smell spread from that huge body.

Kiaaa—!!!

The old tailor didn’t flinch even in the face of the chaos insect’s attack. Rather, he clenched his fist with his eyes shining like a lighthouse.

Zing—!!

“Go—!! You bastard—!!”

Due to the thunderous roar that shook heaven and earth, debris nearby flew backwards.

“You insect bastards—!! You…! You—!!”

Grind…!

The old man’s giant teeth grinding made a sound like rocks rolling. A steel fist as huge as a wrecking ball rose into the air filled with anger.

“You!! Are the ones who hurt our Clara—!!”

Recalling the pale complexion of the girl he regarded as a granddaughter, the old tailor’s mustache heated up with rage.

Woong—

The fist cutting through the air fled towards the chaos insect’s jaw with a terrifying momentum.

Whoosh—

A heavy wind sound chilling enough just to hear.

Like a strike unleashed by a god. Such tiny lifeforms… would be shattered without even leaving a form before that destructive power.

Eventually the fist hit the chaos insect’s head.

Boooom—!!!

The giant insect head burst.

The chaos insect perished without even screaming. The brain matter and bodily fluids that burst out exploded in midair, and fell down pitter-patter like a shower.

“Hmm!”

The giant dwarf old man tossed away the extra-large chaos insect that had started regenerating. Then his giant conifer-like mustache swayed with his breath.

The old tailor shouted heartily.

“What an unsightly insect!! Just as expected of those who gather in swarms to torment young girls!!”

“Haha… Elder. Allow me to correct you.”

Behind the excited old tailor, the young baker who had also become a giant caught up while chuckling. He too was in the midst of slaughtering numerous chaos insects with thunderous steps.

Hundreds of giant dwarves – those who had resided in ’s shopping district were shaking the earth while slaughtering chaos insects.

Boom

Boom

Boom

Everything for hundreds of kilometers they had passed through was shattered, and filled with corpses of chaos insects torn to shreds beyond regeneration.

Those who had been the smallest residents were now advancing as a giant wave.

“Oh I tell you, the leader of those insect bastards hurt Clara!!”

“What—?! Have you ever seen such vile creatures!!”

“Let’s stomp them all out!!”

“How dare they harm our school’s students!”

“Stomp! Sweep them all away!”

Boom

Boom

Boom

Swoosh—!!

Chaos insects all burst under the kicks of giants as huge as mountains. The blood they spilled was flowing like rivers.

Kara let out a hollow laugh seeing that sight.

“…Haha.”

In fact, even those who looked so bold now had hesitated at first.

-Even if we become bigger… will there be anything we can do?

The shopping district residents were scared to go out even after becoming giants, but they didn’t hesitate to help the students who had helped them.

“Oh my, look at that filthy insect! How dare it pounce on young ladies!”

A 20-meter tall giant wearing an apron strode forward. And kicked away one adult-class chaos insect.

Boooom—!!

A strike unleashed by a steel leg. The adult chaos insect as huge as a building flew away without even leaving a scream.

The steel giant in an apron picked up two girls the adult chaos insect was about to pounce on, and placed them on its palm. Then it opened its mouth in a kind tone.

“Goodness, are you students alright?”

“Ah… Uh…”

“Yes…”

“Do you live around here?”

“Uh…”

“Hm? Ohoho… You must be shy young ladies~”

“…”

“…”

In fact, the two girls were more afraid of these mysterious giants that suddenly appeared than the chaos insects pouncing on them.

Intense navy blue eye light burst out above the smiling eyes.

Zing-!!

“Eek…?!”

“Ugh…?!”

The two girls on the palm turned their heads away from that sun-like eye light.

Like that, hundreds of giants were able to reach advancing relentlessly.

* * *

Kara spoke with eyes shining navy blue.

“Our friends are trapped in that Golden Street. Launch all the airships to help them.”

“…”

“…”

Skadi and Maya had a lot they wanted to say, but hesitated to bring it up.

was in a precarious situation from the collapse starting from the outside. And they were struggling to even maintain the status quo within the encirclement of mutant chaos insects that had slowly begun.

Those giants had broken through all of that and appeared.

They instantly repaired the collapsing walls of and scooped up the black swamp with their hands. But after finishing all their work, they rapidly shrank back to ordinary dwarves.

Skadi spoke in a regretful tone.

“I-I want to go support right away too, but there’s not enough space to operate airships. The ground has collapsed and all the airfields are destroyed.”

Kara calmly replied to those words.

“If we make the dwarf comrades giant, we can fix everything.”

“…That’s more possible?”

“Yes. With my [Wave of Revolution], it’s possible.”

“…No way, for all dwarves? You can apply that [Unique Ether]-level skill? To all hundreds, thousands?”

Kara nodded in response to Skadi’s doubt.

“That’s right.”

“That’s really cheating. With just this, no one would look down on … All my efforts to raise the school’s status seem foolish…”

Skadi collapses with a dumbfounded expression. But Kara’s gaze looking at her like that was somewhat complex.

She recalls the bleakness from when she left school.

‘…Even Student Council President Skadi was such an ordinary girl. How did she create such a bleak school.’

No…

Actually, she seemed to know the reason.

“…”

Skadi met in person like this was not the dictator she had always imagined. She was just… a girl who wanted to hide her helplessness with coldness.

‘Were you struggling to protect a school without a single [Unique Ether] ability user?’

Though she still couldn’t agree with that method.

Now that thoroughness and bleakness felt like a kind of desperate struggle.

“…”

Well.

It’s all in the past now.

What’s important now is…

“Then, let’s get started right away.”

Maya, who had been listening beside them, casually blurted out with her hands in her pockets.

“…Maya. You always speak so simply.”

“Skadi, you’re the one who always thinks about simple things in a complex way.”

“Even so…!”

As Skadi tried to refute something, a black helmet exhaled breath behind her. Hot breath touched Skadi’s nape.

“…Hiss.”

“Hyaaah?! What is this?!”

“…Have you been enchanted?”

“What are you talking about?!”

Seeing that sight Maya muttered in a small voice.

“…If Clara is in trouble, we should help.”

“Senior Comrade Maya…”

“Hm?”

Kara hesitated for a moment then asked.

“Why does Senior Comrade Maya regard Senior Comrade Clara so specially?”

“…”

She had always been curious.

Always making an indifferent expression from behind. Yet quickly appearing to help with this and that before disappearing again.

“…”

Maya scratched her head, then spoke recalling her first year.

“…Just. When crossing the wilderness… There probably aren’t many who would give up their last can of food. We promised to be lifelong friends.”

“…Is that all?”

“Yeah.”

“…”

Maya spoke with a slight smile.

“That’s all it was, but I couldn’t see anyone else.”

“…I see.”

Kara also smiled brightly and spoke.

Indeed.

She was a senior hard to find anywhere else.

They were friends hard to find anywhere else.

“Then let’s go save them together.”

A little while later.

Thousands of giants and dozens of airships began advancing towards the Golden Street, breaking through the dimensional barriers.

“We’re going to save our friends.”

At the forefront, a flag flowing with navy blue ether was proudly leading the way.

* * *

A quiet living room.

Senior Selma fled to a cafe saying she couldn’t concentrate, and Senior Nina went to the library to prepare for her next certification.

‘Somehow it feels like the two of them switched places they should go.’

And Senior Frida and I were left in the quiet house.

Scratch scratch—

The sound of a pencil brushing against a sketchbook was heard.

“…Hey.”

“…Yes?”

Senior Frida suddenly asked while drawing my face.

“Are you happy now?”

“…”

Happy.

Happiness…

I pondered unexpectedly quite a bit.

“…”

I think… I’m happy.

The once bleak room is now filled with people I love.

‘Bleak…? Why was this single room bleak? I’ve been living with the unnies from the beginning.’

The everyday routine has always continued.

Stable days have continued.

‘Was there ever a time when it wasn’t everyday life?’

Just like this now.

If these calm, unchanging days could continue…

Yes, like a straight line extending…

On and on…

“…”

But why can’t I nod right away?

‘Something… something doesn’t seem right.’

Well…

Being happy is being happy.

What else could there be, I thought.

“…Yes.”

“I see. That’s good~”

“…”

Senior Frida’s face was hidden behind the sketchbook.