Chapter 5.11 (2/2)

Nerkia, who tried to find the most peaceful solution to escaping, was unable to hide his shock at the report he just got.

“…I’ve tried requesting the Summoner’s a.s.sociation and the Magic Towers to take a look at it, but they barely understood anything. According to my uncle, the answer to these problems… are probably in Nicerwin’s book of summoning… ”

“…In other words, we can’t graduate with this?”

“We might, as long as we stay here for ten years.”

“Haha, the school would be gone by then. They wouldn’t have graduates for ten years, after all. It would be faster to make the school go bankrupt.”

“…Should we just shut down the school?”

“Oi, you idio…”

Nerkia, who was just about to shoot out a stream of swears to the student who said this, felt some powerful realization strike his head.

-W, we can do that?!

“T, that’s genius?”

“Wait, hold on. Don’t you guys get why this happened?”

Aris stopped everyone as soon as the discussion turned into that of how to end the school.

“The school became like this because they were about to go down! What do you think they’d do if their situation became worse? They’d get even worse than now!”

“…No way they’d do that…”

“Think about it. Our enemy is Nicerwin.”

The t.i.tle “professor” had disappeared a long time ago. But then again, students never addressed teachers by their t.i.tle when talking privately anyway!

“…Well, can’t refute that.”

“Eh, if they make things worse than this…”

“They would stop us from sleeping.”

“Mm… we just have to give up sleep.”

“…They might actually do that?”

“Since the faculty’s full of former soldiers, they should be able to stay up for a few nights?”

“Holy s.h.i.+t, they aren’t gonna let us sleep?”

“…Silence!”

Nerkia shouted when the meeting room began to get noisy. When everyone turned towards him, Nerkia stood up from his spot, and began to speak.

“There is no longer a place we can run to. It is true that cla.s.ses got much better than before. It is true that we are improving at great speeds. But… our freedom is being sacrificed in the process! As students begin summoning extremely strong beasts, our complaints become meaningless. Now… It is time for us to take back our freedom! And today… today is the day we begin our first battle!”

A warmth began to rise up in everyone’s chests. Right. They’ve realized something after countless tries of getting out. They can’t win like this. They needed to do something new!

“Comrades, today, we may have to sacrifice many of us. Many of our friends may fall in this great battle. But! Each and every one of our sacrifices will be the stepping stones to our freedom. So let us fight! Let us fight against our tyrants! We will take back our freedom with our own hands!”

-Uooooh!

Nerkia’s speech was able to rile up the morale of the students in the room. And when this morale reached its peak, Nerkia shouted.

“We start at seven! When the clock strikes seven, we all move simultaneously!”

The resistance of the students was finally beginning to take form.

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