Chapter Chapter 57: 7. Is your backside safe? (9) (1/2)

RATH 57

TL: Eevee

7. Is your backside safe? (9)

“As expected of the student council.”

“No, we were simply lucky.”

The stuco pres nodded affirmatively with a few others following suit.

No seriously, there’s no need to be so stiff here?

Their bodies were all rigid exactly like people lining up for a job interview.

Anyone would think I was about to eat you kids. Loosen up a bit!

“Are the others not coming yet?”

“Yes, we were going to be the first scouts, followed by everyone else but…”

What’s with the ‘but’? Surely you weren’t going to say that the reason that the others aren’t coming down isn’t me, were you?

I put in looooooootts of effort to personally look after the students who were playing hooky as a group!

So what’s with this treatment?

Isn’t this too much? When this happens the majority of the teachers would simply ignore it.

But I personally moved to bring the students to school, and teach the importance of being able to come to school.

Where else would you find a teacher like me?

Although of course I didn’t say that out loud. Because I didn’t want to get stabbed!

“In that case, it would be better to get everyone together as quickly as possible.”

“Eh? Could you please tell us why?”

Although I didn’t mean anything much when I said that, just what are the student council thinking of me when they tense up like that.

No, even before that, the other members that are taking up combat positions are looking at me like I’m some arch-demon king of the century’s end?

Seriously, how cruel.

“Because the time is past 1PM right now.”

I need to endure it as I am a kind person.

As my gaze turns to the grandfather clock in the corner of the room, the faces of everyone else present in the room follow it.

Current time 1:02 PM.

Even if I’ve been telling the metal bat to walk more slowly lately for the sake of the students’ motivation, she should still have gotten to the seventh floor by now, easy.

“1PM? Why… hang on!”

The stuco president mulled over my words for a bit before his eyes shot wide open in horror.

“P, pres?”

“What is it!”

The others who hadn’t yet caught on grabbed onto the pres, who was visibly shaking either in horror or range, but the pres did not answer.

“Is what I’m thinking… correct?”

As he asked me with the face of someone who was just told of the end of the world, I smiled back.

“Yes, it is.”

“Run!”

“What the hell’s that supposed to mean, pres?”

“Explain, pres!”

“Morons! What else is there at 1PM? We need to meet up with the other students and run before we get beaten by the silver devil!”

Indeed.

I took the ‘right to go to school’ from these kids.

And so if they want to go to school again?

They need to leave school first.

If the moment when they heard my video say [let the game begin] was the prologue, the room escape part wouldn’t even be a 100 pages out of a 300 page novel!

If they want to see the epilogue of safely returning to their dorms, they need to break through the metal bat and escape from the academy!

“Wha, what about everyone still up there?”

“We don’t have time for that right now! Now’s our chance! If we give up now we might never be able to go back!”

Although some people tried to take care of the people still in the rooftop as well, one by one they also began to agree with the president, and the moment he barged out the door, everyone else followed behind.

“Just why does one of the long-esteemed Four Great Academies carry the scent of the evil organization to it.”

If the metal bat was here she’d probably yell “cuz it’s all owner’s fault!”

Of course there’s nothing for me to feel guilty about. Since it’s an evil organization with a long and distinguished history, perhaps things with deep histories share similarities with each other.

I wondered if I should close the open ceiling, but since the others had to come down anyway I decided to leave it alone.

And exactly 1 hour later.

“Re, really?”

“Indeed.”

The one who poked her head through the gap in the door was the female vice-president, Karen, as her face twisted in betrayal.

“Idiot, think for a second.”

The one who calmed her down was her fellow vice-president, and the one who came up with the moronically insane idea of playing truant.

Risen smiled brightly as he consoled her.

“Those idiots, I think they’re flustered enough that they forgot something.”

“Mm?”

“Even with thirty minutes in advance, even with every available man backing them we still couldn’t beat the silver devil, and yet they’re trying to run even later than her? Do you think that’s possible?”

“Th, that’s true?”

“Yep. So all we need to do now is wait for the corpses of the idiot pres and his lackeys to come back and kick them once they’re back.”

As far as I knew, this kid was the first one to break through the walls and run away by himself, but since that was a matter to be discussed with the student council I decided to overlook it for now.

And shortly afterwards.

As Risen had predicted, the other teachers and their smaller summons came in with the pres and the other runners over their shoulders, dumped them in front of us and left wordlessly.

“Well, since more or less all the relevant people have all gathered, I will now tell you the escape conditions.”

“This wasn’t the escape?”

“Yes, of course. If you wish to go to school, you must leave school first.”

At my words Karen made a blatantly despairing expression, and Risen bowed his head.

He might actually charge and try to knife me or…

“Fu… fufufu…”

Yep he’s insane. I need to prepare to call the metal bat…

“Wahahahaha! We were already anticipating that much!”

Eh?

“If you’d told us to just go on our way, I would have been so anxious I wouldn’t even be able to sleep properly, but since this was exactly what I expected, we can just escape with an easy mind!”

“Wh, what the… Risen, are you mad?”

On the contrary, a surprised Karen was the one grabbing onto Risen.

“Mad, no I’m perfectly normal! The mad one is this world, not me!”

“Wiing, it’s the reality denial that owner’s so good at!”

At some point the metal bat had returned and nodded her head at Risen.

Me? That?

“Yep. Owner doezzat a lot. Ya pretend to be all serious and solemn and whatnot when there are other people around, when no one’s here, or just with me ya become a lunatic like dat.”

“I wouldn’t.”

Even if I do lose myself more than normal when I’m alone, surely I wouldn’t look as insane as that.

“See, denying reality already. I’m telling ya owner’s similar ta him, y’know?”

“Kwahahahahahaha!”