Chapter Chapter 93: 11. Not a myth, but a legend (6) (1/2)
RATH 93
TL: Eevee
11. Not a myth, but a legend (6)
#6 Their story: Aris ril Letia’s story.
The imperial festival was all but Yugrasia’s to win.
Although we failed in our initial objective of total victory, that was only due to the unexpected fortune for Marcis named Ria el Nermia.
Coming into the final day, Yugrasia was in first place at 114 points.
Arucia, one of the strongest contenders to win was on 0 points, in joint third with Mercaria, also on 0 points.
Realistically, none of the other schools could catch up to Yugrasia.
Even if the final event was worth 80 points, the greatest number of points in imperial festival history, and even if, somehow, just somehow, we managed to lose that!
Even if the school who won that event was Marcis, in second place, Yugrasia would still have an overwhelming victory of 114 to 87.
Yes, that’s what it should normally be…
“The maximum number of points… 4000?”
An unbelievably ridiculous rule was revealed to us on the morning of the event.
[Each academy will be in charge of defending 10 castles. And every time one is stolen, 100 points to the taking school.]
That meant that the maximum number of points a school could earn was 3000.
Although of course this was on the assumption that all the other schools were defeated within the time limit, but in the worst case scenario where Yugrasia failed to capture a single castle with everyone getting out, then we could finish this imperial festival in last place.
The favouritism of the administrators had far overstepped their boundaries here.
In order to lodge a complaint about this, officially, the student council, and the student council president, in particular, needed to make a move.
And so I went to find our stuco president but…
“Is that a problem?”
The most important president was taking this catastrophe far too lightly.
“Is that a problem? This is an unprecedented situation in the history of the imperial festival! This is a rule made purely to target us!”
“So?”
“What do you mean, so?! Our night study is on the line here! We can’t get tied down because of a stupid rule like this!”
I yelled at Pres hard enough for me to turn red, but Pres only smiled gently.
“Lady Aris. What was our objective?”
“Of course that was to end this hell-like night study!”
“Yes, but we also had a secondary objective. To show how much we grew in the depths of that hell… the objective of total victory.”
“That’s…”
I wasn’t going to deny that the total victory was one of our goals coming into the imperial festival.
But two defeats had already made that an impossible goal.
“This is our opportunity. A chance for us who lost to those children who barely play for a few hours at their schools, to revive our pride!”
As Pres looked at me with a determined face, he quietly, yet clearly said.
“By taking all of their castles, and not allowing a single one of ours to fall.”
And thirty minutes after the start of the event.
“The f*ck?”
I swore like you’d expect from some third-rate back alley thug.
[Come at me, Yugrasia!]
What was happening, the man who just this morning, personally said that we would not lose a single castle in our victory to uphold our pride, was personally annihilating one of Yugrasia’s castles and declaring war on us.
If that had been all, then it could have ended as just a slip of the tongue on my part.
“Were we too harsh during yesterday’s event?”
“That probably was a bit too far.”
“But you can’t say that Nerkia is blameless either, can you?”
As the student council and a number of other students that had gathered to stop the invasion of the other schools said things as if they’d known of the president’s betrayal in advance.
“Haa, this stupid as hell academy.”
If it were me from just a year ago, I would be in chaos if I were thrown into a scenario as ridiculous as this.
But having been dyed in Yugrasia’s colours, I could calmly make an assessment of the situation.
‘Yesterday’s match… if I recall right, Pres used his lover the Arucia vice-president to secure victory…’
When I looked back at the magic video tool again, the students standing behind Pres were definitely Arucia students.
Seeing as the Arucia students would never trust our Pres that betrayed their vice-pres unless they’d gone insane…
‘It was a misunderstanding.’
A clear misunderstanding, and judging by what I could hear around me, this was a misunderstanding created by our allies.
And to clear up that misunderstanding… and to punish the Yugrasia students that created said misunderstanding to begin with, the Pres had betrayed Yugrasia.
Mm. fine. I can totally.
“How the hell am I supposed to understannnd thiiiiiiiissss!”
“L, Lady Aris?”
“Milady?”
Ignoring the shocked looks of everyone else around me, I clutched my head and screamed.
“Just what the hell did you do to the Pres for him to do that?!”
“Hiik!”
Everyone around me was doing their best to avoid meeting my livid glare.
Most of them are seniors… but now’s not the time to care about that.
“Just what manner of insanity did you guys do, that our Pres betrayed us and is fighting for the other side? Ahh? If you have mouths then could you speak?”
“Uh… Lady Aris? We’re still your seniors…”
“Ahhnnn?”
“I’m sorry!”
After I glared at and shut down one of my seniors who put up his hand with something to say, I started looking around at everyone else.
“Honestly, seriously, normally I’d never say this sort of thing, but right now we can actually lose at the last minute? Although some people are going home next year, I have to stay here for another three years… you want me to do this f***ing night study for another three years? Isn’t this just humanely not right?”
As I grit my teeth and glared at everyone, one by one their gazes aligned to a single point.
Very well, just what did I expect. The situation we found ourselves in being what it was, if that human wasn’t around I might actually have missed him.
And as everyone’s eyes fell onto him, the person suspected of causing all this, the vice-president, Risen proudly puffed out his chest and said.
“That asshole was pissing us all off with his flirting so I simply made them break up?”