Chapter Chapter 80: 10. We came, we saw, we won (5) (1/2)
RATH 80
TL: Eevee
10. We came, we saw, we won (5)
#10 Their story: A certain healer tent’s story.
“This is bad…”
“This is awful…”
“Kids these days are really scary.”
One of the healer tents of the imperial festival.
As casualties came out from the special magic formation, the healing magicians and the healers from the temple all paled as they began their treatments.
“Guuuhhgk!”
“S, stay strong! Your descendants can still live!”
“Yeah! They’re not broken yet! They’re not broken!”
As they looked at the ten or so students who were clutching their crotches, as fellow men, the healers felt a sense of sympathy as they used their magic to heal the students’ descendants as effectively as possible.
“Ah, there’s more… huh?”
“Did someone go on a rampage? We’ve got students popping out left right and center?”
“No, they’re all unconscious… and they’re all soaked!”
“Some go grab some towels! That’s five… no, seven, ten? They just keep on coming? Grab all the towels we have!”
As the magic formation kept on shining and spitting out more and more people, the bewildered healers eventually brought over people from other healer tents too as they healed the casualties.
“Hm? Wait a second, there are people wearing black clothes as well as the students?”
“You’re right? And they’re looking really awful, too. Did the spell not work properly?”
“It doesn’t look like they’ve got the casualty teleport tool on them?”
And as the healers examined the black-clothed people.
“Hang on, these are anti-empire army marks?”
“Huh? Here, too!”
“This guy’s got it as well! All these people are all anti-empire army people!”
“Someone get a guard! Ah, and a knight if you can find one!”
“Yeah boi! 30 gold per anti-empire member! This’ll be an even bigger profit than what I bet on the imperial festival!”
“Hey, didn’t you say you quit gambling?”
“Ah, keep it a secret from the missus?”
They all picked up some nice fat bounties!
#11 Their story: A certain student’s story.
“Now just what could this be…”
“What do you mean what, it’s a wave!”
My junior beside me shouted at my mutterings.
A swiftly moving current.
The screams of students as they were carried along by the water.
I don’t know why there’s water all of a sudden in the maze, but I do know one thing.
“We’re screwed.”
“Don’t give up, and do something about this!”
He’s shouting nice and lively considering he’s getting swept away by this current as well.
“They say that a married couple’s fight is like cutting water with a sword.”
“What’s that supposed to be for all of a sudden, sunbae!”
“It means that a married couple’s fight is pointless. And that is expressed as trying to cut water with a sword.”
“Well I know… that!”
New kids these days are quite something.
He’s opening his mouth so widely despite all the water flowing into it.
He’s either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid.
“Meaning, whether it’s Marcis, Yugrasia or Mercadia, whoever pulled this on us, as a sword swinger I can do absolutely nothing!”
“Damn it, this sunbae’s screwed!”
Hahaha! I’m trying to teach this young’un the truth that it’s easy if you give up, but as you’d expect, my lively junior doesn’t seem to get it.
“For the sake of Arucia’s victory I will not give… uuuhhk?!”
“Ah, sorry!”
But that determined voice could no longer be heard after a girl in Yugrasia uniform appeared at high speed and ran him over with her shark mount.
“Junior? Junior? You dead?”
But my underclassman, sent flying far away, never resurfaced.
Well, since casualties were automatically teleported out he probably wasn’t dead.
“I want to hurry up and get summoned out as well…”
As time went on, the current and the water level did continue to drop, but it still didn’t seem like I could do anything about it.
“Ahhh~ I can see the pres going nuts already.”
As I saw a turtle swim by with another Yugrasia student on its’ back, it became clear to me just which school was the one to pull off this insanity.
That is, this event, was winner Yugrasia.
Who knows what sort of fit that the pres, who once had a crush on the vice-pres would throw at me if we lost to Yugrasia again…
But in the end, I heard nothing from the president.
Because that day, Yugrasia won every single event.
***
[What is going on?]
[They’ve brought out an incredible tactic!]
The wall shattered, and the water flowed out.
A massive amount of water produced by 90 students doing their best to wring out their mana to produce as much water as they could.
As the water that was compressed to its limits was released, a giant tidal wave swept through the labyrinth.
“Really… such an absolutely insane tactic… incredible, Professor Nicerwin.”
“Well, the students have a very good understanding of water thanks to Professor Muam, after all.”
You could say that this was all thanks to Professor Muam.
After fighting again and again against none other than the Spirit King of Water, the students even went as far as to learn how to use magic to swim in the prison of water the Spirit King conjured up.
The kids that could even swim in hell’s river, the River Styx,(1) they were our Yugrasia students!
We needed to use their advantages, but there were no water-based events in the imperial festival.
Damn it all, if you looked at normal light novels, there’s always a swimsuit scene to bait in male readers!
A god hand illustrator’s illustration!
In full colour! And a two-page double spread to boot!