Chapter Chapter 103: (1/2)
RATH 103
TL: Eevee
The beginning of what’s functionally the last part of the Yugrasia arc. After this is the epilogue of the Yugrasia arc before we get back to Ast’s (mis)adventures with the princess.
12. It’s not over til it’s over (1)
#1 Their story: Aris ril Letia’s story.
“Welcome, all of you.”
This was a place off to the side of Yugrasia’s main base.
As I looked over the 100 people gathered there, the vice-president had a determined face, different from the usual.
“We have all had extremely challenging times up til now.”
Very slowly, and making eye contact with each and every person, the vice-president spoke to the gathered hundred with a slow yet powerful voice.
“Now, what was our academy life like?”
“It was hell!”
“It was horrifying to just imagine that we have to stay next year as well!”
“We are pinning all our hopes on this one imperial festival.”
The first condition the vice-pres had in his request for reinforcements.
That they would still be at Yugrasia for at least one more year.
And ideally, not just a single year, but preferably those who still had two, or three years left, that is, the first and second years.
“Yes, yes. However, Nerkia betrayed us! Yugrasia’s president, the one who should have thought of the school’s future more than any other student in this school, betrayed us just for his girlfriend!”
“That kind of asshole is our president!”
“We still have to do night study for another two years!”
“I have three years!”
“So he’s saying he doesn’t give a crap just because he doesn’t even have a full year left?”
The enmity against Pres piled on greater and greater.
“Yes, indeed. The one who abandoned us for his own benefit is none other than Nerkia! The very fact that that type of person is Yugrasia’s student council president is an insult to us all!”
“Hear, hear!”
“We have no reason to call a traitor our president!”
“Asshole! He needs to be beaten by the silver devil for three days straight to see some sense!”
A hundred people were spouting vitriol and curses.
And the person who instigated all that, our vice-president, looked down at the people cursing the president with a satisfied expression on his face.
“And… Nerkia has another unforgivable secret. He… has a total of five lovers!”
And the second condition that vice-pres had set for our reinforcements.
All of them must be solos who had never known a lover.
“F, five…”
“Is that number even possible?”
The hundred people that had been yelling curses instantly fell silent.
For them who had never known a lover in their entire lives, the thought of having five lovers at once would be like a tale from a legend.
“Grrr…”
“Damn him…”
But that shock soon turned to anger.
“Five all by himself?”
“That immoral asshole. He betrayed the academy, and he betrayed all men as well.”
“Four more solos were made just because of him, hasn’t he?”
Each and every one of the individuals assembled here had fit the vice-president’s criteria.
And the final condition of the vice-president that these people had to meet.
“You’re all elementalists as well, do you not think that the difference is too great?”
That they must all be elementalists.
“Kuhk…”
“Damn it, someone’s collapsed because he couldn’t take the brutal truth!”
“I can’t help him… I think I’m going to fall as well…”
“What’s different between me and the president?”
“Your face.”
“Your skill.”
“Your face.”
“Your fame.”
“Your face.”
“The rank of elementals you control.”
“Your face.”
“Who the hell keeps bringing up my face? Then what about you? Are you more handsome than the president?!”
The unity that had barely been brought about by anger was destroyed.
“Make them all angry, and surpass the strengths of an individual. Was that not the goal?”
It was said that one of the strategies used in ancient times was the use of a berserker brigade by means of berserk spells.
A spell that would make men lose their fear with their rationality, and bring forth a superhuman power beyond their limits!
But just one use could cripple the person the spell was casted on, and if things went wrong, they berserkers would even attack their allies, so this tactic was no longer used in the modern day.
So I thought that if it was Loki’s contractor, the vice-president who had escaped all sorts of different dangers with nothing but a few words, he could create berserkers without even using any magic?
Was this not what he meant by sedition and lies?
“Hm… Lady Aris. I prepared this moment for the purpose of winning the imperial festival.”
To win?
Right now they’re over there grabbing each other by the lapels arguing who’s uglier than who?
“Now, do you see, Lady Aris? This is my new ultimate move Professor Nicerwin taught me! Sedition and Lies!”
It sounded nothing like a name of an ultimate one could be proud of, but I might as well listen on.
“Now, losers of life like myself! Shall I tell you an even more exciting truth! I will tell you all who are the girls that Nerkia is dating!”
At that moment, each and every pair of eyes there were focused straight onto vice-pres.
“Well, you all know this from the public confession, but we have one of the greatest beauties in Arucia, Arietta rul Meirae!”
“Damn, I’ve lost here.”
“That’s not a class of girl I could ever hope to meet in my life?”
“And her family’s a higher rank than Pres as well. She’s from a Count House, a god damn Count.”
The students turned listless with just a single person.
“And another named beauty of Arucia! Renya ti Silgran!”
“The famous angel of Arucia?”
“Damn it, it’s another Count family!”
“Damn it all! Are we going to get a Ducal house or something as well?”
Names that even I’d heard of were coming out.
Renya ti Silgran.
Arucia’s Holy Maiden, who treated everyone kindly irrespective of class or rank.
“Is, is the president really going out with her?”
“I told you, didn’t I, Sedition… and lies! Right now I can just say whatever the hell I need to!”
It was a fake?!
“Yugrasia’s student council president has already claimed the greatest beauties of Arucia. Now will Nerkia’s evil hands have stopped there?”
“Could, could it be… even in other academies?”
“Yes, that ‘could’ was the truth! One of the Four Beauties of Marcis, Lady Julia, and the Queen of Mercaria, Lady Rudratian!”
“Is, is that even possible?”
“Pres… what kind of man…”
Names which we wouldn’t be able to handle started to pop up now.
The name of the eldest daughter of the Rudratian family was mentioned. Although her family only held the title of viscount, she was the granddaughter of the current Head of the Magic Tower, and her family was an important name in international diplomacy.
‘This is being broadcasted live through the entire empire, isn’t it?’
Sedition aside, if you were going to lie, at least stick to what you can handle.
How shocked would the families of the girls mentioned be if they saw this scene right now?
Their daughters, were currently in a romantic affair with Yugrasia’s student council president?