Chapter Chapter 55: 7. Is your backside safe? (7) (1/2)
RATH 55
TL: Eevee
7. Is your backside safe? (7)
#10 Their story: the story of the imprisoned
“What is it this time?”
“Hm… there’s no traces on the surface. Should I try adding magic power?”
“Try it. After that try fire, then water.”
We found blank pages throughout the classrooms.
There were ones that looked like textbooks, ones that were just plank pages, and some that were even some that were in what looked like love letters.
And the majority of them were.
-Too bad! Better luck next time!
-A prizeworthy attempt, but no prize this time!
-Congratulations, you… didn’t win anything!
Duds were the overwhelming majority! And moreover, every time we found an actual hint, there were around 20 failures.
“Found ooooooooonnnnneee!”
“The letters this time are ‘cei,’ ‘cei!’”
“So the hints we have so far are ‘rou,’ ‘is,’ ‘on,’ and now ‘cei?’ That’s four in total, right?”
“Yeah, and the fails are nearing a hundred.”
“Are we just shit out of luck, or are there that many duds?”
“Probably both?”
“That’s true. If we were lucky then we wouldn’t even have enrolled into Yugrasia, right?”
“Yeah, or we’d have graduated before Professor Nicerwin came.”
As everyone heatedly nodded in agreement to that opinion, we checked the papers we had so far.
There were four types discovered so far.
The one I had found first was the type that revealed itself when you rubbed powder or dirt into the gaps.
Another type was one where letters revealed themselves if you poured in magic power.
There was also the type where letters revealed themselves if you soaked the paper in water.
And finally the type where letters revealed themselves if you heated it over fire.
If there are just these four types, we can identify all the clues on the blank pages!
“New type discovered! It’s a paper that doesn’t correspond to any of the methods we’ve found so far!”
Or we could until now!
“Damn it! Is there another method we can use?”
“Dunno, I dunno…”
The vice president Karen murmured while thumping her head against the desk.
The day had already gone by.
There were no windows in this room, but thanks to someone who was wearing a watch, we could tell the current time.
“Current time 7PM…”
“Even if we had night study it’d probably be over by now.”
“Because after we woke up after getting knocked out it’d be dinner time.”
“…Hang on?”
As we were talking the mention of dinner came out, and thanks to that I realised something off.
“Hey, has anyone seen something resembling a cafeteria?”
This was a place that although small, had everything resembling the features of the academy.
It had classrooms, it had teachers’ offices, it even had special classrooms for experiments.
But.
“We haven’t seen anything like that?”
“Neither have we.”
“Our side was all classrooms.”
“Then, how are we going to eat anything here?”
“Tha, that…”
After a short silence, Karen’s startled voice rang out.
“Hang on! Has seen any bathrooms here?”
“There aren’t any?!”
“There was even an infirmary, there has to be bathrooms somewhere.”
“But, we haven’t seen it yet.”
“There has to be. Even if we haven’t seen it yet either.”
“Yeah, even if it’s Professor Nicerwin… even though we haven’t seen them yet either…”
After those words, an even grimmer silence greeted us.
It was said that for humans to live, the essentials are food, clothing and shelter.
But here?
There’s nothing.
There’s no shelter?
No, this is a prison, not a comfortable lodging.
Food? Do you think there’s any food here? There’s no cafeteria here?
And finally, clothing.
We’re all wearing clothes. They might be pajamas, and although everyone was embarrassed at first, now they’re pajamas that everyone’s perfectly okay with!
But why do we wear clothes?
Is it not to hide our bodies?
Then why do we hide our bodies?
Is it not to show others our embarrassing parts!
And there aren’t any bathrooms!
Out of all the shames he could have chosen to inflict on us!
“Pres! We found the bathroom! There are bathrooms!”
“Ah, thank goodness.”
But thankfully, it seemed Professor Nicerwin hadn’t completely veered away from humanity yet.
Although that didn’t change the fact that it was him who’d imprisoned us all to begin with!
“Alright then, getting back on track. What do we do for food?”
“Out of the guys who’d rechecked again, no one’s found anything resembling a cafeteria, right?”
“Yes, there was nothing like that.”
Just what is Professor Nicerwin’s objective? Does he think we can escape before that?
Or he might actually be planning to starve us.
What was certainly true was that Professor Nicerwin most definitely knew how to torment people.
Before the holidays I’d actually thought that Professor Nicerwin might have been a member of the evil organization Howling that was only destroyed just last year.
The timing was roughly similar as well, right? This was simply a logical suspicion.
No, considering the shit he was pulling now that suspicion still hadn’t vanished!
“Search for clues with the knowledge we don’t have any food. Don’t search just the classrooms, but also the bathroom toilet paper.”
“Can we escape by tomorrow?”
“It seems like it’ll be hard, but it’s not like we’ve ever had it easy this entire year, right?”
“True…”
“Hey Pres, but those words’re just cutting at our drive, you know?”
“I know right, we’ve had it hard but we’ve never succeeded.”
“Damn it, the imperial festival. If we win the imperial festival then this hell is over too!”
I had a quaint feeling seeing the third years clench their teeth in rage and vowing victory in the imperial festival, but it can’t be helped.
“Imperial festival or whatever, we need to get out of here first to do it. So let’s all try hard for just a bit longer.”
After that, the number of duds were a lot less than we anticipated.
Who knew? That there would actually be a clue on the bathroom toilet paper?
And so after we found hints on the toilet paper, the classroom motto and timetable, as well as in the documents in the teachers’ office and handkerchiefs, and after we put them all together.
– The escape route is on the ceiling of 1.
Was the sentence we got.