Chapter 5.08 (2/2)

“…I had heard about you.”

Most of the first years succ.u.mbed to the night study time. No, there was no need for them to resist it.

The tuition of this school is extremely expensive. It’s more expensive than anyone would ever imagine. And then it rose.

The tuition was already a little too much for n.o.bles. Some n.o.bles can’t even afford it.

That’s why some of the new students tried to study hard enough to be able to graduate in three years.

Most of the students here would rather graduate in four or five years, but of course there were exceptions.

And since we’re almost done with school anyway, we decided to go crazy. But the first years just decided to take advantage of the night study times to do their homework. I guess they’d rather work in school instead of the dorms? I mean, it’s not like you can work properly in dorms anyway.

Since being in school lets you interact with other students while studying, it can be considered to be a good thing.

Only for first years, though.

But I guess not all of the first years were fine with this setup.

“By the way… why did you name it ‘Student Liberation Army’?”

“…Professor Nicerwin named us this.”

“…What.”

The story they told me was quite something. The Student Liberation Army was a club made up of twenty four first years. Hoho, a club? Nicerwin said that it was alright to run, but it’s still against the school rules. It’s only alright if you succeed.

But then these first years made a club out of this bs.

I wondered if these students went crazy after staying in school for so long, but after taking a look at the official club approval doc.u.ment in their hands, I could only laugh.

Student Liberation Army

Club Patron: Nicerwin Ein

Club Leader: Aris Ril Letia

25 Members

…The patron is Nicerwin Ein.

Hoho, are they siding with the enemy now? Wait, hold on, isn’t Aris the representative of the first years? She’s the leader?

“Call the students back.”

A bit later, a few students came into the room.

I gave them some tea and cookies, and tried to make them a little calmer by doing so.

“Mm… So the patron of this club is Nicerwin Ein?”

“Yes.”

“…The leader of Aris.”

“Yes. She was the first one to suggest all this to us.”

“…Can’t she just call her family over? I’m sure they can end all this.”

The girl was from a powerful family of a marquis. They had the power to end just about anything in this nation.

What differentiated this empire from others was the number of powerful n.o.bles.

Normally, big empires had a huge amount of prestigious n.o.bles. There were cases where there were over twelve thousand, even.

But Karuan was different.

There were just 29 prestigious n.o.bles in total. Five counts, and twenty four marquises.

Honestly, this was a ridiculously low number of n.o.bles. There was no way there could be that little in such a huge nation.

And more than half of these n.o.bles from actually from subordinate nations. Ten are from the nation of Raina, and seven are from Zearu.

In reality, there are just ten prestigious n.o.bles in the nation.

One of these ten n.o.bles was the Letia family, which was the family Aris belonged to.

The daughter of this family ran away because she didn’t want to study? It’d be faster to just call the family.

“She called them already.”

“…Yeah?”

“Yes. The marquis’ wife came in person. She then had a private chat with professor Nicerwin… After hearing his words, she told our leader to study hard, and then left.”

“…What?”

“She also told our leader to never call her about things like this ever again.”

“Did the woman get brainwashed?”

“The same happened for other n.o.bles as well. They all got persuaded in ten minutes or less.”

“Hah…”

I didn’t think he’d be normal, but… He managed to take down Aris’ mother herself. He took down the woman famous for being so particular about everything. No, he made her into his ally?

“So, what do you mean about me leading you?”

“We heard that you were one of the first to run. At the same time, you are the student council president. You also escaped to the front gates faster than anyone else.”

I ran first. That is true. I’m the student council president as well. But.

“I didn’t escape. They just let me be.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean just that. They let me be. There were plenty of traps, so they didn’t really need to do anything until I got to the gates. I was only used to showcase the fact that this was a war.”

“A war?”

“yes, a war. We need to beat the faculty by making use of anything, and everything. Right, so how many summoners do you have?”

“Fifteen.”

“So ten are not yet contracted? Hmm… even so, the leader and her closest friends should have powerful beasts by their side.”

“The leader does not possess a beast yet.”

“Really? That’s annoying…”

I thought she’d have a summoned beast, but I guess not. That’d probably mean that her family left her to mature a bit before summoning anything.

“But since her family is famous for their martial arts, she should still be able to help. Alright, I will help you.”

Back then, I didn’t realize. I didn’t realize how big this organization was going to be. And because of that fact, I was able to have memories of school that I would never be able to forget about.

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