Chapter 10.1 - Black-and-White Princess and Soul Dress [4] – part 1 (1/2)
10. Black-and-White Princess and Soul Dress [4] – part 1
The moment that Leia announced the members of The Big Five Holy Festival.
「P-Please hold on a moment!」
A male student shouted.
「Nn, what is it?」
Leia-sensei asked him so and quietly waited for the boy’s response.
「How to say, that is… Ria-san and Rose-san being chosen… It’s only obvious. It is a famous story that Ria-san can use soul dress since she was five years old, and Rose-san is the legitimate successor of Sakura Blossom One-Sword Style… It’s vexing to admit but, they are certainly better than us. Therefore, I can comprehend them being chosen.」
「Fumu, and your point is?」
「But … I don’t understand the reason why this unknown swordsman, Allen-Rodore, is chosen as a participating member in the prestigious Big Five Holy Festival!」
He glared at me with a sharp glance.
(No, even if you make such a scary face…)
Leia-sensei was the one who chose the participating members, so you’re barking up the wrong tree.
Somehow uncomfortable, I scratched my cheek, and two more male students backed up the first guy.
「That’s right! Why were we excluded, and such a suspicious unknown guy chosen?」
「Please give us a convincing reason!」
Looking at them closely, these three were the guys who ignored my greeting a while back.
In response to such questions, Leia-sensei,
「Reason? Obviously, it ain’t anything other than strength.」
She answered indifferently.
However, of course, the three men cannot be convinced by such a simple explanation.
「……Strength? A self-taught swordsman who can’t belong to any school! Surpasses us in ability!? It’s ridiculous!」
「President… are you sane?」
「His old academy – do you know Gran Swordsmanship Academy? A small academy in the countryside, and the yearly average number of students who make it into one of the Five Academy is zero. There seemed to be a little better guy this year, known as Dodriel, but his whereabouts are now unknown. It’s a nameless mediocre academy, you know?」
There was one interesting piece of information in their desperate defense.
(…Dodriel was missing)
Speaking of which… I never saw him after the duel.
(Well, I don’t care, but…)
Leia-sensei, who heard the enthusiastic claims of the three of them,
「So, what do you wish to do in the end?」
Surprisingly enough, they took some time to digest their own defense.
「That is… we would like you to… select the participating member once again carefully.」
「In the first place, it should be customary to select the members for the Big Five Holy Festival after taking into account the results of the practical test.」
「T-That’s right! This is so unprecedented! We firmly request you to redo the selection!」
As Leia-sensei took a step backwards, their volume gradually increased.
However, such momentum was instantly stopped with just one question from sensei.
「Fumu, that is, you are saying that you are dissatisfied with my, the president’s decision?」
「「「……!」」」
Not only the three, but the whole classroom fell dead silent.
Everyone was silent and an air of tension filled the room.
That’s obvious,
Even if she seems like this – Leia-sensei is one of the Five Academy, Thousand Blade Academy’s president.
If one were to say something imprudent, it wouldn’t be strange to be expelled from the academy at once.
However, those three also couldn’t back down after asserting this far,
「…Y-Yes, we are dissatisfied. We can’t accept this!」
They still replied defiantly to Leia-sensei.
Starting with one guy’s remark, the other two also voiced out.
「From a nameless and obscure third rate academy – in addition, a self-taught swordsman is not fit to be our representative!」
「We three, are all graduates from a prestigious academy of swordsmanship! And we also graduated with almost the top grades! There is no way we are inferior in ability to that nameless guy!」
Oh damn… my name was being torn into pieces.
(…Just what kind of person do I look like to people?)