Kenshi o Mezashite Nyūgaku Shitanoni Mahō Tekisei 9999 Nandesukedo! ? Chapter 28 (1/2)
CHAPTER 28: THE PRELIMINARIES STARTS
The tournament within the school is held between each school year.
It is impossible for all three school years to be held in one same day, so it would follow a three day schedule.
The location will be at the circular arena inside the school grounds.
And, tomorrow will finally be the first day of the tournament.
It is the day when the strongest first year is decided.
「h.e.l.lo, everyone. This is the block table for tomorrow’s preliminaries. It’s a battle royale where Warrior Department and Magic Department is mixed together. So the trick on winning, is to defend rather than to attack. You should place yourself not to lose」
Inside the first year’s cla.s.sroom of the Magic Department, Emilia pasted huge paper to the blackboard.
There are 82 students in the first year with the two departments combined.
And they are divided into 8 blocks, and do a battle royale.
The only winning 8, will be able to enter the main part of the tournament.
「……a-re? Emilia-sensei. My name’s not on it!」
Laura stared intently at the block table, but her name wasn’t anywhere.
The student’s number was only 81.
「Laura-san is, seeded. You should only fight during the tournament’s finale」
「Ehhhh?! Why〜, why〜! I also want to fight with everyone!」
「Please bear with it. If Laura-san competed normally, the students that might reach to the top will steadily drop after all……」
When Emilia said that apologetically, all of her cla.s.smates nodded at once.
「Laura-chan. Please bear with it okay. Just being sure that we will not have a contest with you until the finals, the relief is very different」
「That’s right. With this, we also have a chance」
「Well, even if final bout is impossible, there’s the hope for at least reaching the main tournament」
Her cla.s.smates had bonded strongly.
“Gununu”, Laura groaned, but she understands what everyone was saying.
In reality, Laura wasn’t planning on losing at all.
「I understand……being on seed is okay. By the way, what will Charlotte-san do? She also didn’t come today. If she also won’t come tomorrow……」
「Charlotte-san is in the 8th block. If she doesn’t come until that battle royale, she’s disqualified」
「No way……」
A half month since Charlotte went missing.
Her whereabouts is still unknown.
Inside the school, the theory of her death is being rumored.
Of course, Laura doesn’t think at all that Charlotte had died.
She was only having a secret training for tomorrow’s tournament.
But, even how much she train for, there’s no meaning if she doesn’t make it.
「It’s okay, Laura-san. Charlotte-san would come, for sure. There’s no one who has more insatiable thirst for winning than that girl after all……」
「……I agree」
It looks like Emilia was believing on Charlotte.
Laura was also believing.
Training herself until the last minute, she would appear so strong that Laura would be surprised.
If it wasn’t like that, I can’t forgive her.
Making us worried this much, yet she wouldn’t make it on time, that is not worthy of Charlotte Gazard.
The light attack magic that she showed Laura at the first day of school.
That was the one, the first instance, that Laura thought that magic is cool in her whole life.
That s.h.i.+ne, once again.
This time, on the fighting groundーー.
The Gyrdorea Adventurer School’s arena is decently large scale, and there is still plenty of room even after all of the school’s students enter the audience.
So, during the tournament within the school, it is released to the public, and residents with free time, or relatives of the students comes to watch.
If they leave a good grade here, it is also possible that they would be scouted by a dominant party after their graduation, so the third years are desperate.
Although, for the first years that had just entered the school, they only feel like it’s a festival.
「Uwa〜……people this much would come and see huh〜」
Laura who was on stand by around the ring, looked up at the audience and was impressed.
「Maybe at least a thousand」