Chapter Chapter 37: RATH 37 TL: Eevee (1/2)
RATH 37
TL: Eevee
TN: I see now. I’ve gone back to some of my earlier chapters, I suspect a large chunk of my grammatical errors lie in the fact that I tried to retain the emphasis of the specific parts that the original Korean emphasised, and I’m not skilled enough to fully convert it. The second being that when I edit, usually in terms of wording, sometimes I go full dyslexia and accidentally leave in what I really should have taken out during the editing process. Derp.
Welcome to the summoner’s school. (7)
#4 Their story: A certain student council president’s story.
Now, if I were to explain.
I like practical experience.
Although I am in the top ranks of the academy in my theory marks, I am someone on the boundary of the middle and higher-tier grades overall.
Of course, I do my best to study in my own way, but should I say I’m not the type to get theory all that well?
To be honest I couldn’t understand a single thing in the handouts Professor Nicerwin gave us.
…was all just an excuse! My soul is crying out! To run away from this damn so-called self-directed night study!
And wasn’t this the day I promised to meet up with my lover?
Because of that I chose to run.
But the moment I began my escape, I was stopped by a wall.
First, pretend to be going to the bathroom, then the moment I tried to run.
The so-called wall in the corridor that barely came up to my ankles suddenly shot up to the ceiling.
“Wha, what?”
Anyone would be surprised if a wall shot up all of a sudden.
And at that moment, all the teachers in the classrooms poked their heads out.
“Nerkia is running away!”
“Get him!”
“If we lose him our salary vanishes!”
The teachers ran out instantly.
I suspected the situations of the teachers on the other side of the wall weren’t going to be too different either.
-Just get caught here, and study, Nerkia. You’re the stuco pres, aren’t you? You should set an example as the president.
The angel in my mind said.
-No, run. Just run. You want to run. And this is what Professor Nicerwin officially said. This is practical training. As the stuco pres what you’re doing now is the showing the other students an example of it.
And the devil in my mind said that.
-So it is?
-See?
And the angel agreed with the devil. Alright then. First off.
“Run.”
The moment I made my mind up I started chanting. The target was the wall.
The summoned spirit was a mid-class earth elemental.
“Break it!”
The wall broke easily under the attack of the earth elemental.
But, the remains of the broken wall disappeared into the ground with the magic circle.
Perhaps in return for being weak, it was set up to be easily repaired.
Meaning that that wall will be soon be repaired.
I started to hurry.
Raise movement speed with the blessings of the wind elemental on my shoes.
And use the walls from the earth elemental to widen a gap with the teachers.
Well, that was the plan but…
“Why, are there arrows flying around in the academy?”
In an instant, the low-rank wind elemental was hit by an arrow and was desummoned. Not from someone’s snipe, but from the lights in the corridor!
It seemed that the walls weren’t the only traps in the academy.
“We’ve got you, Nerkia!”
“The student council president of all people!”
The moment I hesitated, the teachers rounded the corner. Having summoned their summoned beasts too, no less!
“Wait, using your summons against a student, are you serious?!”
“Every time you run away, all the teachers’ salaries vanish by a number you could never imagine! If you resist, we can only get rough with you!”
Ah, they’re serious.
Those eyes are dead serious!
I didn’t know that the teachers that I went to school with for three years were this desperate for money!
But those, are the teachers’ problems! I have my own problems to deal with!
“I, will leave to meet my lover!”
“Is that so. I respect your will. But… we have our own families to protect!”
And, the fight between people who each had their own things to protect began and ended, and I was beaten down and dragged to the remedial room in four minutes.
And there, I could meet the cause of this incident, Professor Nicerwin.
“Why did you make these things!”
At my sincere outburst, he just laughed and said.
“I wish for your skills to improve. And for that, between theory and practical experience, either one of them needs to get better. Now, president, between theory and practicals, which do you think I prefer?”
“Practical?”
At my answer he nodded as if satisfied, and said.
“Indeed. And so, it’s okay if you run away. No, to be honest, I wish for you to run away. And you as the student council president, provided a splendid first-hand example of what I wanted.”
Ahh, this man was a devil.
He just needed an excuse.
The thing called the self-directed night study, was simply an excuse for us to run away, and if we ran away the teachers could legally suppress us by force.
But, just because I knew his purpose, would I be able to give up escaping!
The next day, and the next day.
I kept attempting to run away, but I kept getting caught without even being able to escape the classroom’s floor.
And just as I was about to give up out of despair.
“I have seen your resolve!”
“President, let’s fight together!”
“Together, we can beat the teachers as well!”
The student council that had simply been watching on took a stand!
Each and every one of them were aces of Yugrasia’s summoners! With this much fighting power we could push through!
And so, we memories the patterns of the traps, found out the weaknesses of the instructors.
Preparing for everything we’d seen thus far, just as we thought we’d beaten the teachers!
“Alright then, so is the 8th floor down?”
“But, we are still here.”
We realised.
The floor we were on was the highest floor, the 8th floor!
Meaning, we needed to go down seven more times to leave the academy!
“Now, come, student council!”
All that time, people that had gathered to defeat the 8th floor were defeated by the 7th floor’s fresh teachers and their summonjs.
And a week of this later.
We realised.
“This is a fight of numbers.”
“We need more students.”