I Became the Academy’s Pink Airhead

Chapter 50 - When You Target Someone, Your Back Is Exposed☆ (4)



As the sun was starting to set.

Under Student Council President Skadi’s leadership, the city’s defense system was fully deployed.

Numerous disciplinary committee members riding mechs were guarding the main gate, and general students including outsiders gathered in assigned dormitories to evacuate.

We tried to find a way to contact the again but failed.

After the meeting ended, we gathered at the garrison and tried calling nearby shopping districts and schools, but failed. It was due to the Eastern Alliance’s encirclement completely set up in the wilderness.

More precisely… it was due to hundreds of threatening armor puppets.

‘What the… ’s final technology is already completed…’

In the original work, this was a summon that appeared at the [Priest of Erosion] point… that is, the final named boss except for the dragon.

According to the testimony of disciplinary committee students who went scouting, a threatening fire network with those magic armor weapons and other menacing weapons had formed in the wilderness.

‘Those 2nd year furry beasts… Their forces were sloppy but they set up the communication blockade and fire network perfectly… I guess they’re good at making others do things even if they can’t do it themselves.’

I sighed recalling the incompetent young ladies who had become completely bald-eared. I heard they were imprisoned in detention facilities after being handed over by disciplinary committee members.

Click―

“Haah…”

Bell, who had tried contacting until the end, put down the phone and sighed. And crossed out the name of the last school remaining on the list.

“Ah… It’s no use. Even if we found something out, it’s all useless if we can’t quickly relay it to the boss… This is a big problem… We can’t even gauge the atmosphere like this… Being desperate isn’t like me…”

Bell muttered for a while.

Plop―

Finally knocked down, Bell buried her face on the office desk.

Her black side tails drooped limply like a withered plant.

“…”

“…”

Silence returned to the garrison office. Through the open window, we could hear the worried voices of outsiders and general students who had come to .

It was just like the sound of people groaning under the Yellow Turbans.

‘Azure sky and yellow heaven… Then is Don Ghost, the student council president, Zhang Jiao?’

Student Council President Andrea.

The one who serves as an early boss along with furry beast leader Frau due to her materialistic and selfish nature.

Though originally not such a threatening enemy, the elves who had raised their final tech with a cheat key obtained from somewhere had become a Yellow Turban-level threat.

‘Could that be… ’s doing too… But they don’t have such power…’

Well, you need to get something right to guess correctly…

This damn original work knowledge hasn’t been helpful since first year.

I thought that while looking around.

All I could see were exhausted high school girls collapsed everywhere.

“…”

The attempt to restore communications that started from lunchtime ultimately failed by the time evening approached. We were all sprawled out exhausted after going through hundreds of numbers trying to find detours through numerous schools and shopping districts.

The investigation unit members were also all lying face down on the floor resting.

“…”

“…”

Rota and I were sitting on the floor leaning on each other’s shoulders. And Kara and Alvit were hanging their heads in front of their assigned phones along with investigation unit youngest Greta.

‘Since it’s simple repetitive work… everyone seems mentally exhausted.’

I understand.

When I worked at a company too, the hardest thing was simple repetitive labor. Moreover, ‘Clara’s’ current body hasn’t fully recovered its ether, so fatigue came quickly.

“Mmm…”

Sleep-talking sound from beside me.

Rota seemed to have fallen asleep, unable to overcome fatigue, nodding off.

“…”

Twitch

Twitch

Orange passing by with quiet breathing sounds.

Cat ears twitching temptingly.

“Nom―♪”

I bit Rota’s cat ear that brushed past my mouth. Then a pleasant throat sound came along with a savory scent from under her head.

“Nom nom…”

“Purr…”

I savored the plain taste of Rota’s cat ear while thinking:

‘We need to know the situation of the furry beasts’ main force and contact Hilde in the golden street to be able to do anything…’

Even if we break through with a small squad including high-level ether ability users like this. If the furry beasts are lying in ambush on a large scale, overturning our expectations, it would be game over.

Plus the potential threat of on top of that…

‘Freya or I at full recovery could easily beat 100 incompetents, but 1000 fully prepared incompetents are hard to ignore…’

It would be good if communications were restored so we could know the situation.

Filled with such impatience, I gently pressed Rota’s ear with my teeth.

“Mmm… Sister… Stop it…”

“Nom nom…”

This bewitching chef cat. I finally get to hear her affectionate nasal voice.

I achieved another bucket list item I wanted to do as ‘Clara’.

‘I’ll cherish you until you come into my arms asking to be petted first and rub your head against me someday.’

I planned to dote on her until she becomes a very plump house cat. While resolving that, I stroked Rota’s chin and head with my remaining hands.

“Purr…”

“Nom nom…”

Alvit spoke looking at me with incredulous eyes even while tired:

“Senior, doing that even to someone sleeping is a bit…”

“Nom nom…”

“Purr…”

“Haah.”

Alvit looked with rude eyes, but I ignored her.

While everyone was tired like that, Freya who was lying on the office sofa suddenly muttered:

“…Shall we do it.”

“Huh? What did you say?”

Bell who was slumped over the desk got up again rubbing her tired eyes. And Freya spoke with a clearer voice than before, as if resolved:

“F-Forced breakthrough… Sh-Should we do it… With wh-whatever we have… Sweeping away everything in our path… With the people gathered here… I think we c-can do it sufficiently.”

Freya’s amethyst-like eyes swept through the darkness.

Of course, I was also included in that gaze. And students who reacted to that gaze and words opened their eyes and got up.

“…!”

“…!”

“…!”

I felt goosebumps hearing those words for some reason. So I stopped petting Rota and looked towards Freya.

Rustle…

Martial arts students get up one after another.

Rota who was sleeping beside me flinched and woke up at that sound.

“Hmm. I know it’s not possible in my head but…”

“A forced breakthrough to protect justice…!”

“Isn’t it a little dangerous?”

Bell spoke as if finding Alvit’s worried muttering ridiculous:

“Alvit, you’re saying that but you’re already being persuaded too.”

“That’s right, just looking at your eyes it seems like you’re about to rush out already.”

“…”

Light starts returning to the eyes of students confident in their fighting ability like Bell, Sigrun, and Alvit. Even investigation unit youngest Greta gulped while her red eyes shone.

‘Right… Everyone’s temperament fits attacking rather than defending their home.’

The best defense is offense.

In the end, that’s what Freya wanted to say.

Freya looked around at the strange fervor of the martial arts students focused on her and said:

“At th-this moment… when they’ve completed the front lines and are feeling relieved… The e-elf magic weapon units scattered in the wilderness will all be paying attention to their main force…”

“Because this isn’t the main battlefield…?”

“Th-That too… But in the end the Eastern Alliance is… j-just an alliance in name… They’re no d-different from servants bought with noble faction leader Frau’s money. It doesn’t seem likely they’ll recklessly enter a difficult siege while risking threats…”

Freya now completely got up from the sofa. The sunset light reflecting off her curly purple hair gave off a transparent light like diamonds.

“N-No matter how much they form a front line… The d-direction they’re really paying attention to is…”

“The west, breaking through the front to seize the …”

Freya continued speaking saying Alvit’s answer was correct:

“If the basis for j-judging they can even beat [Azure Lightning Lance]… is r-related to forming the front line so hastily…”

“They have no choice but to turn their backs here even more due to time constraints… is that it?”

“A strategy to instead strike the Eastern Alliance’s exposed back from here and join up in the center… Is that the plan?”

Bell and Alvit’s guesses respectively.

Freya nodded.

“…”

Bell crossed her legs in a corner of the office growing dark as the sunset passed. Despite her childlike physique and youthful face, it was somehow a fitting posture.

“Speculation piled on speculation… It’s truly a luck-based strategy.”

“In a s-situation like this… Expecting 100% probability is… t-too idiotic, isn’t it.”

“Is that something a rational magic scholar should say―☆”

“Hehe…”

Freya showed a smile at my words for the first time and spoke. And there was no hesitation in her words:

“M-Magic studies is originally a luck-based idiot discipline. What kind of discipline can’t be used without skills?”

“Ah…!”

Rota who had completely woken up let out a short exclamation hearing those words.

『I wish everyone could share the same magic and skills.』

Rota’s fairy tale-like dream.

Perhaps the initial question most closely connected to that idea.

『Is magic studies truly close to an unchangeable truth of the universe?』

It’s because the student with the most excellent magic skill in the academy city said that. This too was something that didn’t happen in the original work… Though the original work has changed, sometimes it was better than the original.

‘That’s good, Rota.’

I smiled contentedly seeing that sight.

Slam!

Bell who thought all the talk was finished stood up and declared:

“Then let’s all gather our equipment! I’ll divide up the infiltration routes and attack teams so hurry and prepare and gather!”

“Yes!”

“Understood!”

“…Okay.”

Students quickly leaving the office.

Since Freya and my juniors also left their equipment in the guest room, they instantly left the office saying they would go ahead.

“…”

The office suddenly emptied. I also got up from my seat to follow after them.

At that moment, the ether phone on Bell’s desk rang.

Ring ring―

“…?!”

What, now?!

I hurriedly tried to call Bell, but everyone had already left.

If I didn’t answer now, who knows when the phone would ring again.

With no choice.

I picked up the phone before it stopped ringing.

Click―

“H-Hello―☆”

“Bell, it’s an emergency. Report the garrison situation… Lara…?”

That voice was Hilde’s.


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