Chapter Chapter 61: 7. Is your backside safe? (13) (1/2)
RATH 61
TL: Eevee
7. Is your backside safe? (13)
“Hooo?”
After the vice-president Risen escaped, the student council were surprisingly quieter than I had expected them to be so I undertook an investigation, and the results were amusing to say the least.
“His bootlicking skills are pretty good.”
Like the metal bat beside me said, the vice-president Risen’s ability to suck up to people was nothing short of exemplary.
Using his shared experiences as a baseline, he used items that were essential to the other students as bait and made allies one by one.
Moreover, he provided food and other daily necessities and appealed of himself as a necessity, and the results were successful.
“That’s no fun.”
“Owner? Dint’ya say that this was to remind the students how important coming to school was? But fun? Fuu~uun~?”
“They say even geniuses can’t defeat people that enjoy something.”
“That’s their problem. Owner’s got nuffin’ ta do with thaat?!”
Lately this kid’s been retorting back at me a fair bit.
Did something happen that I wasn’t aware of, why’s she caring so much for the students?
“That’s cause, the students’re obvs way to pitiful, dat’s why!”
This kid, now what the heck is she saying.
“If you didn’t go around hitting everyone, I could guarantee that the students would have absolutely no complaints left anymore whatsoever?”
“Uwiit? That ain’t rite!”
Just why are the students risking everything to escape from school?
The answer to a majority of them would be to avoid this kid’s tushitushis.
“In that case, no more action for you from now on.”
“Owner, owner said it rite? It’s youth ‘cuz it hurts! So these kids in the prime of their youths need me!”
What a clean stance change.
If she’d been a tiny bit quicker she could even pass for a politician back in my previous world.
“Cuz it’s meh! The textbook example of stance changing!”
And the unique thing is that said textbook example was all for the sake of hitting people.
“So owner, whatcha gonna do? You gonna tell th’ vice-pres to stop, or penalise the other stuco members on the rooftop?”
Now what kind of dreary suggestion is that.
“I’m not going to do anything?”
“There’s no way my owner would do that?”
Now just what kind of human does this thing take me for.
“Course that’d be an evil human more demonic than a demon, exactly like the evil god’s apostle!”
“What evil god’s apostle. You say that carelessly and I’m going to get hauled off.”
“Wiing, the evil god’s apostle’s denying the evil god, awuu!”
Since she kept on harping on about the evil god’s apostle I delivered a chop to her head and she bit her tongue.
Perhaps even metal hurts when it bites its tongue, no, to begin with I’d have to research to see what part of the bat corresponds to the tongue anyway, but this amusing research topic would have to be put off till later.
“Since it’s about time for them to get out on their own anyway, it shouldn’t matter if there’s a bit of assistance.”
“About time to get out? I reckon that’s probs a long way off.”
The person on the scene knows of the situation on the scene the best.
The metal bat’s opinion who was guiding (violating) the students on the site in person would probably be correct.
And even in reality, they have still yet to break through Professor Muam on the first floor.
“But they’ll escape all the faster because of that!”
“Owner’s words’re always so fulla bullshit I can’t understand it!”
Hmph, this creature knows much too little about the organisms named students.
“Hmph, owner’s being mean cause I can’t even go to th’ academy cuzza you, it’s unfair!”
“Eh, you’re not old enough to attend the academy?”
“Wiing? Yer rite?”
I nodded after I simply told her the simple truth of it.
“And for the record students, are creatures that study.”
“That’s obvious innit? Even I know dat?”
Indeed, the duty of a student is to study.
“And for the record, if you tell someone that’s crying to not cry, they want to cry even harder.”
“Really?”
Judging by her tilted head it seems she doesn’t get it.
In that case let’s give her a personal example.
“If Aris came begging to you to not hit her, and begging while crying as well, what would you do?”
“Haak? Our absolutely delicious Aris begging in tears… U, unni can’t wait any longer! Hak! It’s, it’s this feeling!”
“Yes, it’s that feeling.”
Actually I think it’s a bit, no, a lot different but since she understands I’ll let it slide for now.
“And the specifics of that kind of people, if you keep telling them to study, the less they actually want to do it.”
“Even if they don’t wanna what can they do? Owner’s locking them up and making ’em.”
“Normally if they don’t want to they run away, and the ones that run away you lock up and make them study.”
And if you lock them up they run away again, and the one who is teaching them does their best to stop that.
The endless Möbius strip(1) of education is the same in any world.
“So what’s that got to do with the students escaping now?”
“Simple logic. They want to go, yet we are holding them back. But in front of them is a giant wall. A giant wall that they cannot escape without climbing over, but is too big for them to.”
“So they can’t?”
“But these kids are going to face an even greater ordeal very soon.”
“Dat me?”
“No, the start of the new semester.”
“Wiing?”
The metal bat’s eyes widened to saucers.
Yes, she wouldn’t have thought of that.
The reason the kids are running to leave school was to get away from her, but their first and foremost priority was to enjoy their holidays.
But if the holidays were ending?
If their normal academy life returned?
Without ever having experienced the joys of the holidays.
“There’s less than a month till the end of the holidays. And moreover since the student council have to prepare for the imperial festival, they need to mobilise during the holidays as well.”
“P, poor them…”
“And so they need to try even harder to enjoy their holidays.”
Especially the first years, who couldn’t possibly waste the first holidays of their lives like this!
#15 Their story: Aris ril Letia’s story.
“Kuaaaaahhhghhh!”
As the daughter of a marquis, no a noble lady I shouldn’t scream like this, and I knew it.
But, sometimes there are situations where you just have to scream.
“What is it, Aris?”
“Milady, did something happen?”
“Did a devil appear?”
As I clutched my head in a stress-induced headache the other students began to gather, but it seemed they didn’t know why I was like this.
The reason I was despairing, was simply because I checked today’s date.
And the meaning of that was.
“There’s, exactly one month left.”
“Till the imperial festival? No, there’s at least two months left til the imperial festival though?”
“A month? What’s there in a month?”