Chapter Chapter 44: 6. Hell is just beginning. (5). (2/2)
The first exchange was a draw, but a wolf’s weapons are not limited to its fangs alone!
“Letia style, Twin Claws (二爪)”
Using the rebound momentum, I spun around and gouged out the summoned beast’s flank.
It is far easier to make use of centripetal force with a spear than it is with a sword.
Although I couldn’t swing it very widely due to the narrow space, but as if the strike was effective, the wolf whimpered, and I didn’t miss the moment the wolf stumbled and immediately ran forward.
“Alright, now we… huh?”
The moment I broke through the front door to target the other teacher’s back, waiting beside me was someone who should not have been there.
“Why…?”
“As in, why am I here, Miss Aris?”
Watching me with a smile, was Professor Aruhan that had constantly stomped us on the second floor.
“It seems that you are quite surprised. Well, as a teacher it should be my role to explain a student’s curiosities, no?”
Without any change in his expression, Professor Aruhan pulled out a spear similar to mine from thin air as he began talking.
“Although a few students seem to be misunderstanding this, the reason why the teachers acted in the same way every single night study time was not because we were stupid, but because we moved according to Professor Nicerwin’s instructions for the night study.”
He revealed an extremely shocking truth as he leisurely spun his summoned spear around in circles.
“To give you an explanation, the current night study system that the students had been receiving was Plan C. Each teacher would be in charge of the students of their year level. The teachers without a dedicated year level like ours or assigned to paperwork, were on standby on the second or ground floor. But from today onwards is Plan B.”
“What is different in Plan B?”
“It’s simple. The floor restrictions for each of the teachers have been lifted. Meaning, the teachers are as free to move around as the students are. Because of that, we can send down our elite forces to pick off the more dangerous individuals as well.”
Professor Aruhan stopped twirling his spear, took a stance and pointed his spear at me with a smile full of fighting spirit.
“Because of that, the one responsible for you was unanimously voted to be me by the other teachers, so I do hope you won’t reject me because I am a commoner.”
“Although I desperately wish to reject this, but if this is what Professor wills for us.”
This is very bad. If the hardest matchup for me, Professor Aruhan was here, odds were that other teachers had been sent over to the other key individuals among the students.
But before all that, from Plan C to Plan B!
-Is the feeling that there is also a Plan A and other nefarious schemes just my, a goddess’s false suspicions?
-No, I think those could exist too! If it’s that Professor Nicerwin then there definitely will be something more!
This feeling that something else would pop out even if we beat this Plan B!
-Aris, even though your talent is outstanding, you are still too young! In contrast your opponent is an ordinary but highly experienced veteran! It’ll be difficult to face him one on one!
-I know that!
-So attack the teacher facing the classroom and allow the students to break free outside the classroom. The fact that this man is here means that there is no one on the second floor! Use the other students as bait and escape!
-You, you mean to abandon everyone else and escape?
I would be lying if that I said that didn’t tempt me.
But everyone’s pulled together, gathered their strength to escape school together, to think I would run away alone!
I couldn’t do such a thing!
-Who was the one who went crying to her parents because she hated night study?
I felt like I could!
-C, can I actually do that?
-What’s the problem. It’s fine as long as you get away. If Plan B is having the teachers mobilise then that means the silver devil could appear somewhere as well.
-You’re right!
That was it. The living must live. Thankfully my classroom was on the third floor. It was the easiest to escape from among the floors with classrooms.
Clang!
Spear met spear and made a dull noise, different from swords.
“Not just the tip, but you could even imbue mana into your spear’s shaft. Really, you would think, no less of the princess of the Letia House?”
“If Professor is here, then that means the other teachers on the second floor have also moved elsewhere? Then since you can’t use the normal defensive formation, doesn’t that present another opportunity for us?”
Spear and spear clashed again.
I tried to aim for the professor still guarding the other door behind me, but Professor Aruhan didn’t give me the opportunity.
“That’s true. There is no one on the second floor. Nor is there anyone on the ground floor. Because all the teachers have gone to the eighth floor.”
“What?!”
If it was the eighth floor, that was where most of the student council members, the strongest students in the school were.
No wait, even before that!
“If the first floor is empty as well, then even Professors Muam and Harian?!”
“Indeed. So, if you cannot defeat me then there will be no hope for you, Miss Aris!”
Our spears clashed again. But unlike last time, I poured all my mana into it but the results didn’t change.
-This man… was he always this strong?
-I’m sorry, goddess, I can’t do anything about it!
-It’s fine, let’s just ditch everyone else, and run, just the two of us!
-O Goddess, grant me, your contractor a powerful mind and body.
As I swung my spear I chanted in my head.
Descension, accepting the soul of a god into your body, the strongest technique a god’s contractor could wield!
Although it didn’t work against the devil, if it was against a human, there was no way it wouldn’t have an effect!
“My, my, is it the goddess?”
“Indeed, you seem to be quite powerful, would you mind entertaining me?”
“If I may do you a service, it would be my honour.”
Although I didn’t know it at first, when a god descends into your body apparently a part of your body changes.
In my case, my characteristic red eyes turn blue. Professor Aruhan who noticed this sighed wearily before his took a stance.
-Do your best, Miss Goddess!
-Trust me!
-Despite the fact that my physical capabilities remained the same the goddess held her spear with just a single hand.
Even though she had been showing some unsightly forms recently against the silver devil, our goddess was the goddess of war!
“Come human!”
To the goddess’s booming shout, Professor Aruhan replied.
“Understood.”
“What?!”
But it was not Professor Aruhan’s voice that replied, but a different professor’s.
“A pity, Lady Goddess, but it seems that you were so beautiful that you seem to have attracted some flies.”
“Da, damn it…”
When the professor turned his head to the source of the voice, in my vision that was being shared with the goddess, I saw countless professors starting to stream down to the third floor.
“God damn it…”
And ten minutes later.
Despite the goddess’s descension into my body, in the complete opposite manner to my fights with the teachers until now, I became a wreck due to fights with multiple teachers at once.
-Aris… let’s just quietly do the night study in the classroom…
-Kurrrghhh…
Just as I was sitting back against the wall with no strength to move, and seriously considering doing the night study.
“Do you educate your students like this every day?”
“Indeed, we do.”
“Fa, father?”
I don’t know when he’d arrived, but the person that was approaching very naturally with Professor Nicerwin was my father and the current head of the Letia family.
“You’ve worked hard.”
“Fa, father…”
As my father that had been cold to me all this time stroked my head and praised me, I unconsciously began to start tearing up.
Maybe, if he’d seen just how much his daughter had struggled! Father might!
“And do your best from now on, too.”
…Eh?
I felt like my tears that had been about to fall had crawled right back around into my eyes.
Father? What did you say just now?
“I have felt many things as I observed Yugrasia’s teaching methods.”
“It is an honour, my lord.”
Father? Why are you looking at that devil of an instructor with such serious eyes?
“There is glory at the end of the grueling path of pain. I, who call myself a commander of the empire’s army forgot words of the empire’s hero of the Great War. As the family head and the commander of the army I have spent far too long immersed in peace.”
Father? Excuse me, father? Your daughter is sprawled out in a wreck beside you, are you seriously saying that?
“So work even harder from now on.”
Fatheerrrrrrr?!
“Yugrasia, will more than live up to milord’s expectations.”
And from this day onwards, the number of students that tried to escape the night study dwindled, and the period that future students would call the age of despair began.