Chapter Chapter 62: Change in subtitle which means guess what? Time for the beginning of a new arc! (1/2)
RATH 62
TL: Eevee
Change in subtitle which means guess what? Time for the beginning of a new arc!
8. If you do it, it works. (1)
#1 Their story: Aris ril Letia’s story
With a meaty smack the snowball flew into my face and disintegrated, falling to the ground.
“What… did you just do?”
It was not a question about him throwing snow in my face.
The things that the human named Professor Nicerwin couldn’t be understood more often than not, but they usually had a purpose behind them.
And what I was asking about right now was the strangeness of my body.
As the daughter of an elite martial family, I learned to fight with and among countless knights and swordsmen.
And as a result I would never be hit by an ordinary snowball without even any mana imbued into it that cleanly.
“I simply used the flow of your blood to halt your body for a moment.”
And the one who gave me the answer was Professor Muam.
“Is that possible?”
“Yes, when you think about it blood is also a form of water.
“So why didn’t you use it on us?”
It was a technique that could cause the enemy to freeze without any kind of warning whatsoever.
And what if he had used that technique on us?
Just when I had been brooding over that serious matter.
Smack!
“…Professor!”
The serious mood was shattered by another snowball flying into my face.
“I have said this before, but the teachers are holding back in their own way.”
The words of Professor Nicerwin who was rolling up the snow piled on his desk into a snowball were very heavy, but his actions were all too light and causal.
“In that case, what is the reason you are freezing me, and throwing snowballs at me?”
“I said it, didn’t I, Miss Aris. I know the theory at least.”
“What does that have to do with…”
Smaackk!
Again. Again! And if you could call the previous snowballs ones that ones that annoyed you but didn’t hurt, now they were annoying and they hurt.
“Does it hurt?”
“Are you absolutely freaking serious!”
I cannot stand for this any longer.
Even if it is imperial law that students must respect their teachers even if they were commoners, this crossed the line.
“It hurts! Now I will not…”
Stand for this any longer! But before I could finish what I was going to say, Professor Nicerwin cut in and said.
“And that’s the trick to it.”
“Eh?”
“Didn’t the later ones hurt more than the previous ones? That is the difference between those who lie on the boundary of swordsmasters and the ones who have crossed them.”
Professor Nicerwin looked at my expression and sighed.
“Now, imagine this is the sword ki that ordinary swordsmen use.”
He rolled around a small snowball on his desk until was about the size of his fist and placed in on one corner of his desk.
“And this is a swordsmaster’s sword aura.”
He made another snowball, but this time he squashed it down as hard as he could and put it on the other side of the desk.
“Which of these two snowballs will hurt more?”
“Well of course the one you squashed together…”
Smack!
“Correct.”
Hang on, there was no need to throw the snowball even as you’re saying it was a correct answer, right?
“Uwuuu…”
Although perhaps because Professor Muam didn’t use his technique, thankfully I could dodge this time.
“Aren’t you treating people too much like a toy?!”
But you had to take a stand on things you needed to take a stand on!
“I did it because it was effective.”
“There are times when Professor needs to consider the students before effectiveness!”
“Hm… I need to consider the students more…”
As Professor Nicerwin closed his eyes in thought, I was feeling proud of myself, but.
“Uh, excuse me, Miss Aris?”
Professor Muam had gotten closer to me with a serious expression on his face and revealed a shocking truth.
“You know, Professor Nicerwin. When the members of the student council began to play truant, he was the one who said this would be a big problem, and personally kidnapped and imprisoned the entirety of the student council over a single night?”
“Huh?”
“What did he say? If the students don’t come to school, and stay at home all day they’ll develop anthropophobia(1) and something along those lines, and immediately carried it out. In my opinion if he thinks of the students any more than he is currently it’ll be a big problem, even in my eyes as a teacher…”
Although I have no idea why kidnapping, imprisonment is the first thing that comes to mind when dealing with students but I understood what Professor Muam was saying very well.
That is, if Professor Nicerwin thinks of the students any more then we’re all in grave danger.
“Uh, uh excuse me, Professor Nicerwin?”
“Hmm…”
Ah, this is bad.
That human is thinking seriously.
Any other teacher looking at their students like that while in deep thought would be seen as a kindly and wise teacher, yet if Professor Nicerwin’s the one making that expression then that is the face of an archdevil wondering how to plunge the students into an even deeper pit of hell.
“Professor? I think I said something I shouldn’t have. I mustn’t have been quite right in the head when I said that to a teacher who cares for his students as much as you…”
I threw out as many compliments and words of praise I could think of but he isn’t listening.
If the difficulty of the academy spikes because of me then marquis family or whatever, I could actually be lynched by the entire school!
“Miss Aris’ words are indeed correct. It seems that I have been neglecting the students too much lately.”
Don’t do that!
“Indeed. From now on, no matter what trials and tribulations there may be, for the sake of my students I will not fall back!”
“No, you can fall back a bit! None of the students want Professor to be troubled, not at all!”
-Aris, you lunatic! What the hell are you doing by giving that madman motivation!
Even the goddess started blaming me.
The expression that Professor Nicerwin had on his face was as full passion for education, but equally as much of finding ways to screw us all over.
“No, there were numerous initiatives that I had thought about but neglected to implement due to the resistance it might face from parents, but I will have them implemented even if I have to convince the parents as well.”
Ah, no… I brought disaster upon us with my own mouth!
“No no, it’s okay. There’s no need for Professor to work so hard for us students.”
“Of course I must, as someone who has taken up the role of a teacher as a profession, I must sacrifice myself for my students.”
The students do not want your sacrifice! Was what I wanted to shout, but if I did I had the suspicion that I would create another incident.