Chapter Chapter 44: 6. Hell is just beginning. (5). (1/2)

RATH 44

TL: Eevee

6. Hell is just beginning. (5).

#7 Their story: Aris ril Letia’s story.

In my sixteen years of life so far, I can proudly say that I have lived proudly as the eldest daughter of House Letia.

Although I was born in one of the empire’s Ten Great Families, one of the most influential in the empire, unlike the other nobles I did not use my title as a daughter of a marquess.

Until now…

“Mother, it’s so hard.”

-A, Aris?

My mother looked shocked.

It seemed that my mother was shocked to see my tears that I had never cried even during the house’s brutal training regime.

I was kind of surprised to see my normally elegant looking mother look so taken aback, but I couldn’t give up now.

If only to avoid that devil!

“As the Letia family’s oldest daughter, it’s kind of pathetic for me to cry because school is hard, but… it’s still so hard.”

Showing a weak appearance unlike my normal self.

It seemed that my mother was very shocked to see my weak, timid and fearful appearance.

But I couldn’t give up now.

“Sniff… mother…”

-Aris, did something happen at the academy?

As I pretended to wipe my eyes, I looked slightly further beyond to the magic video communication device.

1. Cry.

2. Don’t say anything first.

3. If she tries talking to me first then pretend to start talking before crying sorrowfully.

4. Sniffle and keep repeating that school is too hard.

5. End the night study.

Looking at number five on the list, I harden my resolve.

I saw my roommate wave her hand in encouragement as she held up the paper with the five points written on it.

The last resort planned out by the student council, and executed by me.

That was to borrow the help of my parents, use the power of my family to end this disgusting night study once and for all!

We had endured until now but after we got beaten up by the silver creature we could endure no longer.

Because that was impossible for humans to stand against!

“No, there was… sob… nothing that happened at the academy… I just wasn’t good enough… to follow the curriculum. Sniffle… I’m sorry.”

-Yes, Aris! Cry like that! More! Harder! Wring out your tears! If it will help get rid of that disgusting thing called night study, I’ll do everything in my power as a god to help you!

Thanks to the goddess’s strong will, even more sorrowful tears came flowing out.

And the day after my performance with all my heart and soul poured into it.

It was that time came once again.

7 PM.

The time that to us, the hell named self-directed night study began.

“Move out like we always do! Sort out…”

“Aaaaaarghh!”

The same time as normal.

But different screams from normal.

“Wha, what?”

“P, Professor?”

There was only a single reason for that.

“Ahh, sorry about that. Professor Nicerwin gave me different instructions compared to normal.”

“So don’t hate us too much.”

Unlike normal, the two teachers had taken up positions at the front and rear doors of the classroom!

-It, it can’t be!

-What is it, Lady Athena?

-Those teachers… have finally begun to use the terrain.

-Terrain… ah!

-Yes, there was only one reason why you could defeat the teachers that were far more skilled than you! Because each teacher had to fight against more than ten students on their own.

-But right now…

-Yes, all they have to do is defend against the small number of people that can fit through that door…

We had fought against the teachers in corridors much wider than other schools as if it was perfectly natural, and we had gotten far too used to that.

And because of that we let our guards down, and had the classroom doors taken from us. And since these were supposedly the orders of Professor Nicerwin, odds were that our classroom wasn’t the only one in this situation.

-For now, we need to get through one side to allow people to attack the other door from the rear.

-Can it be done?

-It’s possible as long as it’s not the soldiers on the second floor or the silver devil. Getting through the first line is the hard part, as long as a single classroom can break through, the situation will be the same as normal!

Borrowing the strength of the goddess I summoned a spear. I didn’t need a shield.

What we needed right now was a swift breakthrough!

“A few of you exit through the windows!”

We need to divide the teachers’ attention. Although the windows leading outside are blocked by black metal bars that can’t be destroyed by any summon, but the windows between the classroom and the corridor are normal.

Even if they are narrow, they’re big enough that students can fit through them.

“Alright, I’ll do it!”

“Kurgh, that little?!”

“Jumping through windows is a breach of school regulations!”

And perhaps we’d done something genuinely unexpected, on seeing the shocked teachers, one of the male students leaped through the window at full speed.

“Professor Nicerwin definitely said this to us! Use any and everything at hand in order to escape… uwaaaaghh!”

But unlike his heroic jump, his body became stuck in the window.

That student was a normal student, but he was smaller than average. Yet he became stuck in the window. The reason was…

“Even the classroom walls…”

We realised that even the school itself was our enemy.

No, we’d realised that it was a hindrance long ago.

The walls that would spring up from underneath our feet, and when we jumped to avoid the walls arrows and magic would fly towards us. And the stairs with all sorts of heinous traps as well.

We knew perfectly well that even if it was normally an ordinary school, the moment that the so-called self-directed night study time came around it would turn into hell.

But… to think even our final bastion of peace, the classroom would also become our enemy!

Watching the walls chew on my classmate like it was alive filled me with a bizarre sense of fear!

“Well, it wasn’t very good to see you kids dive in the moment we acted a bit surprised.”

“Even after getting fooled so often, seriously, you kids have a lot to learn, don’t you?”

We couldn’t bring out any large summons inside that narrow doorway.

Only small summons, such as equipment-based summoners could break through those teachers, and only after that could the summoners with large summons move freely.

-We’ll end it in a one attack.

-Alright, if we drag it out then we’re the ones at a disadvantage here!

I moved to the end of the classroom and gripped my spear in both hands.

My legs were spread out wide despite wearing a skirt, but since I was wearing gym shorts underneath it didn’t matter.

Since we began night study, wearing gym clothes was already second nature to all of us!

“Professor Magirek, Miss Aris is headed your way!”

“I know!”

“Letia-style, cavalry spear arts.”(1)

The Letia family was more famous for swordsmanship rather than spears to begin with.

Because of that the only spear arts we knew were for cavalry, but the firepower alone is first-rate!

“Single Fang(一牙)”

Normally I would only have used the bare minimum mana, but today was not a normal situation.

So I gathered more than half my mana into the tip of my spear, and charged forward.

“Follow right behind me once I break through!”

Even if I was right at the end of the classroom, it was a distance that wasn’t even thirty metres.

The moment my mana-strengthened legs hit the ground, a summoned beast with the appearance of a small wolf was already waiting in front of the classroom door.

“Block it, Raypit!”

“That is not enough to defend against the Letia House’s fangs!”

The wolf is the symbol of the Letia House! I knocked away the teeth of the wolf in front of me with my own fangs(spear).