Chapter Chapter 54: 7. Is your backside safe? (6) (1/2)
RATH 54
TL: Eevee
7. Is your backside safe? (6)
#9 Their story: A certain student council president’s story
“Where… is this place?”
“I don’t know. It looks like a classroom, but it’s my first time seeing it.”
“Risen’s seen what it looks like outside. Wake him up and ask him.”
“No, he’s a goner. Risen… might not wake up again.”
Karen had been poking Risen, who was sprawled out with his tongue dangling out of his mouth, but when she got no response she shook her head.
And at that response, all the rest of us could do was sigh.
“Does that mean we have to break through this ourselves?”
“Probably. At least I think this is still somewhere on school grounds. Because he definitely said that he was going to teach us that being able to go to school was a blessing.”
“Going to school a blessing…”
But even so, who would have thought he’d imprison the students.
This is no longer a problem between nobility. This is a problem as a student, no, as a human!
Just what the hell have we done wrong for him to do pull off something this ridiculous!
Because we didn’t go to school?
Was not going to school during the holidays really that grave a sin?
Fine, let’s say it is a sin. But even if it is, the silver devil appears if you don’t escape the academy in time?
At the very least if that thing didn’t show up then we wouldn’t have tried to run away like this!
In that case our fate is to either escape from here.
“They’re not really going to keep us here until the start of the new term?”
“Hiik!”
“They wouldn’t!”
Professor Nicerwin said that he would teach us just how much of a blessing ‘going to school’ was.
To pick his words apart, we became unable to go to school.
He would teach someone already at school, the blessing of being able to go to school?
“Re, really?”
Although I personally had my doubts, the majority of the people here were thinking “surely they wouldn’t?”
But the enemy was Professor Nicerwin.
Every time we thought “but even so, would that ever happen?” the person who made that a reality was Professor Nicerwin.
If anyone else to say it, it would be bullshit but if Professor Nicerwin says it then it becomes reality!
Who would ever have thought we’d end up doing morning pre-reading, afternoon after-school classes, night time self-directed night study, and special holiday study during the holidays?
But this academy, no, Professor Nicerwin actually went forward and implemented these absolutely ridiculous ideas, and let alone the teachers, not even the parents are uttering so much as a squeak of complaint.
And then ourselves?
If he had imprisoned us on grounds of yet another new special study programme?
“We need to search this place now!”
As I hurriedly jumped up and opened the sole door in the room, the one the silver devil had come in through, outside was a hallway that was slightly narrower than normal.
The mood, colours, and overall outward appearance was very much a familiar Yugrasia hallway.
“Damn it…”
But even as I took in the sight I couldn’t help but spit out a curse.
Because.
“Where, where the heck is this…”
Indeed. Minimum two years.
And at most we’ve been in this school for three years, would there be anywhere in the school that we, the student council might be unfamiliar with?
The fact that we, the ones who do all the odd jobs in the school don’t know this place, means that no one knows where this place is.
“Pres, where is this? Is this actually inside the academy?”
“Judging by the looks of this, we are still in the academy. But, not someplace we know.”
“Damn it, to think there’s a place in the school that not even the student council knows about. You guys think that this might actually be a different academy? If it’s another school then we wouldn’t be familiar with it.”
As one after another began to scream externally or whimper softly in despair, one student offered his opinion.
“That might be possible.”
To begin with, the Four Great Academies were built in the same place at the same time.
So if it’s another school, it wouldn’t be weird for there to be a place we were familiar with, yet didn’t know.
But.
“That’s probably not going to be it. Professor Nicerwin’s final goal is victory in the imperial festival. There’s nothing to be gained by leaking out information about us.”
He said he would make us victorious in the imperial festival to raise Yugrasia’s glory days once again.
And would such a person really reveal our abilities to a third party so easily?
He could possibly do this to advertise Yugrasia to the populace, or to prospective parents.
But right now it was the holidays, very close to the imperial festival.
When the second semester begins, we’re all going straight into imperial festival preparations, so would he really reveal our abilities to the enemy?
“That’s true, Pres.”
“No, if it’s that human then once this is over then he might go [Your weaknesses have already been revealed so find a solution to them!] and say something as careless as that.”
“That’s also a definite possibility.”
Even I unconsciously nodded at that opinion.
But either way, this was an unfamiliar place.
And moreover, what we were wearing were not our uniforms which were inlaid with all sorts of defensive spells, but our very thin pajamas.
Even if only a very small number of teachers were guarding this place, it seemed like escaping from here was going to be difficult.
But for the sake of our holidays, we need to get through this crisis.
“Well then, same as always, Risen… is dead. Then Karen and I will split the class into two and search for a way out.
“Can we escape?”
“Professor Nicerwin always gives us a way to escape before he tells us to escape on our own. But avoid combat as much as possible. If the silver devil in particular happens to show up again, run away at all costs and spread word around you.”
“Understood!”
At the mention of the silver devil, everyone became tense.
“Alright, don’t let your guards down. Our objective is solely escape. If there is anyone who falls behind, it’s unfortunate but we’ll have to leave them!”
You could think of us as heartless.
But we, who had been trained by the night study all knew.
Just how many sacrifices were needed to save a single comrade!
After we realised this, even if we were abandoned, even if we had to abandon someone, we were all able to keep a level head.
This is the progress of the students of Yugrasia, honed by the night study!
“Pres’s group check the right side, and the vice-pres’s group should check out the classrooms on the left hand side.”
“The important thing is to discover ways to escape, and find out where this place is.”
As we nodded, we split up into groups of four and the odd group of five as we began to search the rooms.
“It looks like a classroom…”
“But it’s not a place we know.”
Even if the academy had changed a lot due to Professor Nicerwin’s modifications, the overall architecture remained.
But despite looking like a classroom of Yugrasia, this was an unknown classroom that none of us had ever seen before.
Was this made with escapes in mind? There weren’t even any windows on the classroom walls so everything was dark.
“Let’s look for clues.”
As we searched the desks and tables, even the furniture.
“Identified something that appears to be a textbook from a desk!”