Chapter Chapter 51: 7. Is your backside safe? (3) (2/2)

“I hope you have an enjoyable holiday, everyone.”

Wishing us a holiday that felt like it would be not at all enjoyable.

#4 Their story: A certain group of students’ end of term ceremony (2)

“And this marks the end of Marcis’ end of term ceremony.”

The boring teachers’ speeches that were at every event finally ended.

And the students started cheering at the student council president’s final words.

“Are you going home to visit your family, Lady Nermia?”

“I heard that there was a seminar on magic running at the imperial palace, how does it sound?”

“No, Miss. I heard that there was a special seminar being run by the Magic Tower…”

And the way back home.

Since it was the holidays now, and the standards of what they taught us at school were so far below what the instructor taught me I’d even thought of going out and practicing on my own.

But the pests are already sticking to me.

The reason that Marcis, no, all the four great academies were constructed were to gather and raise talents that could become the empire’s strength.

Because of that, aside from Yugrasia, the other academies each reside in a certain sphere of influence of specific authorities.

In Arucis’s case, they’re influenced by the knight orders, and Mercaria has the imperial domestic officials looking over them.

But Marcis is different.

In addition to the imperial family, Marcis is also influenced by the Magic Tower.

In reality, the Magic Tower has greater influence over the school.

Why else would it be nicknamed the ‘education tower?’

Thanks to that both the imperial family and the Magic Tower are trying to gain more influence over Marcis, and especially in their efforts to bring in neutral individuals to their faction.

And the greatest of the neutral individuals this year is none other than me!

Grandfather belongs to the Magic Tower as its head, and Father is associated with the imperial family as the head of House Nermia.

Because of that, I boast the two highest affiliations in both factions but my own affiliation is neutral!

Because of that, starting from the student council, to the classroom, in clubs.

Everyone and their dog kept trying to pull me into their faction, and it seemed like that would continue even as the holidays began.

Although I honestly want nothing more to be able to tell them all to just piss off, this is not the evil organization, but high society.

As a child of the esteemed Nermia family, it’s unfortunate that I cannot lower my family’s standing.

“I plan to stay in my family’s residence in the capital. I will try to visit if the opportunity arises.”

As I gently smiled with a smile radiant in elegance everyone regretfully backed off.

-Uweek.

Although it felt like a slave started to dry retch somewhere, I ignored that.

I hurriedly left the academy with light steps before I attracted any other unnecessary pests.

-Owner. The holidays have started, what are you going to do now?

-You saw all that, I have to train.

In all honesty, I felt that I, who had trained in an evil organization who didn’t see people as people, would ever lose to these kids at school.

But even as I did, I remembered what I saw at Yugrasia.

The despair that reminded me of the times where No.1, No.1000 and I screamed under the bat’s beatings.

Their expressions dyed in fear I saw on their faces, the ones that looked the ones like we had when we ran to escape the bat.

When I thought of their faces that reminded me of the time that I was trained under the instructor, I couldn’t let my guard down just because they were only kids studying at school.

Because of that, I have no plans to simply do nothing like the other students at Marcis!

-You’re a student so can’t you just enjoy yourself owner?

-My goal isn’t to just become your average student.

If being an ordinary student was my goal, I wouldn’t have gone into the evil organization to suffer.

I would have just been married off to someone befitting the Nermia family’s status, and spent my days laughing haha hoho in high society.

But my childhood dream was an archmage like grandfather.

But after I entered the evil organization not even that satisfied me, and I chose to become the greatest magician in my family’s history, no, the empire’s history.

One whose name would be remembered in a hundred, no a thousand years in the future!

Someone with goals like that can’t dare to lose in something as small as a school!

-Alright, having big dreams is all very well and good. But owner, rather than just training by yourself, isn’t training with others like that kiddo said an acceptable option as well?

-Even if they said it’s for study, it’s obvious. What kind of student studies during the holidays? It’s probably just a social gathering under the pretext of education.

There can’t possibly be people that study properly during the holidays.

That’s common sense, no?

#5 Their story: A certain students’ holidays.

Just what, just what crimes did I commit in my past life?

In my present life I could throw around my weight as a marquis family, but I didn’t, and really worked very hard.

I didn’t whip my people for being commoners or executing them for bumping into me like some corrupt villainess noble like you’d see in old novels.

Let alone ridiculous things like that, I can say with pride that I hadn’t even done any insignificant wrongs either.

Thanks to that, I’m pretty loved by the people on our lands, you know?

When I patrol our territory, the children follow behind me saying ‘it’s Lady Aris’ you know?

And so, if the gods aren’t dead.

If it wasn’t a lie that the gods watched over man!

Unless I committed some insane sin that to destroy a few nations, this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever!

“What.… what kind of holiday is thiiisss!”

I yelled as I poured out my mana.

A short while ago.

Classes ended at 12:30, and after we were told we could leave after a short announcement.

With familiar slam! slam! slam! Noises, Professor Nicerwin’s voice began broadcasting over the intercom.

-I will now explain the special holiday rules. Break through the teachers and escape. Unlike normal, around half the teachers are absent due to their various circumstances or on leave.

That sounds doable. If there are only half the number of teachers it seems more than doable… then can’t he just send us on our way nicely?

But we couldn’t do anything. I even brought my father in but failed.

Afterwards I even talked with my mother again, but she told me that he’d even started to alter the training regimes of the family’s troops after being inspired by Yugrasia’s methods.

Then the only option was to break through and leave school as fast as possible!

And so we broke through the third floor, and were fighting against the teachers on the second floor when we heard a weird announcement.

-For the students who have not yet left school, we will now be entering the special holiday plan for fast exit.

As I was fighting Professor Aruhan at the time, back then I didn’t pay much attention to this announcement.

But shortly afterwards.

When I saw a mass of students charging down with a rumbling noise, just when I thought all the other floors were cleared and we could finally leave school.

“RUUUUUUUUUNNNNN!”

As I saw the student council president and the other student council members at the front, faces dyed white and screaming, and I was beginning to think something was wrong.

“Heeheehiit, you kids still haven’t left school yet, bad children!”

At the sounds of the devil coming from behind them, I immediately ignored Professor Aruhan and put everything into running as I screamed.

“What.… what kind of holiday is thiiisss!!!”

And so, the holidays with our lives on the line began.