Chapter Chapter 116: The others’ stories (2) (2/2)

Shards of glass scattered as I broke through the window.

Shatter!

And the sound another window breaking nearby.

“Oi, what the heck did you tell them that for!”

“I need to survive, too!”

When I followed behind Risen who grumbled as he accelerated ahead.

“Get them!”

“Kill them!”

I heard the howls and curses of Lady Aris and the other students.

And.

“And this marks the end of Yugrasia’s graduation ceremony, and finally, as one of Yugrasia’s showcases……”

Professor Muam’s words were laden with a bitterness as he said.

“The school’s team kill event will now begin.”

At those words, together with the rage of the Spirit King of Water, my unforgettable school life came to a close.

“I’m gonna kill yoooouuuuu!”

Although if I slipped up my life could be over.

#5 Their story: A certain knight’s story.

Their lives were over.

“Guwughhh!”

As I gazed over the corpses pathetically sprawled across the floor, I handed over the magic weapon in my hand over to Her Highness.

“It is done, Your Highness.”

“Mm. Good job, Reia.”

The ones on the ground were all swordsmasters that would normally be given at least a rank of Count and be treated as a pillar of the nation in an ordinary country, but right now, there were simply failures who had been defeated by a single person.

“And.”

“Hiik!”

When the others were being punished, the one that had been watching it all while shivering in fear, the person that could arguably be the cause of the failure of this operation, the moment her eyes met Her Highness’s, she immediately collapsed to the ground.

“Iris.”

“Ye, ye, yes, Your Highness……”

“Well, I know your loyalty. You probably did that in order to make sure this plan would be guaranteed to succeed.”

“I, I did, Your Highness.”

To be honest, her plan was actually a very good one.

An army of tens of thousands had been mobilised all to capture a single person, and yet they still failed.

In that case, it would not be unreasonable to think that the person in question was a monster that had reached the peaks of swordsmaster, or an archmage.

And considering Sir Ast’s reputation, it wouldn’t be weird to call him a monster.

So her actions were not a bad one.

If the person in that trap had been me, then I would have certainly be caught by Her Highness.

Although of course in this instance, by installing the magic-suppression device against Ast, whose weakness was that he had no mana, all it did was to weaken our allies and cause the operation to fail.

“So I decided to give you a special punishment.”

“S, special punishment, Your Highness?”

Her eyes began to cloud over in fear.

Her Highness’s special punishment.

Just hearing it made me scared.

“Mm. it is… to contact the others.”

“Huh?”

At the answer that not even I, who had served by Her Highness for a very long time could understand, even the person being punished was confused.

But at Her Highness’s next words, her face turned sheet white.

“Yes, contact. To those that were looking for… your precious Rein… I told them his location.”

“Y, Your Highness!”

“Your punishment is to experience the same thing that I am. Although of course considering how faithfully you’ve served me… I won’t take away what you have. But… it will be hard to hold onto it. So work hard.”

“Ye, yes!”

As she scurried off with Her Highness’s wave of dismissal, I looked at her back as she went.

“Your Highness, could you please explain to me what just happened?”

Almost automatically, I began pouring tea into Her Highness’s empty cup.

“Well, it’s simple. Perhaps it’s because he’s Ast’s disciple, but that man Rein that Iris is holding onto is a very popular one.”

“Well, he is quite handsome……”

Unlike the very plain Sir Ast, his disciple Rein was very handsome.

As the daughter of one of the greatest Houses in the empire, I had seen countless men, but I did not doubt for a moment that very few could beat that man’s face.

“What, are you interested in him too, Reia?”

“N, no……”

“No, Reia, you need to slowly… or not, hurry up and get married. Your age isn’t really……”

“Hhff!”

At Her Highness’s words which dug into a sore spot, I reflexively coughed a bit.

It hurt. It really hurt…… it hurt so much I could feel the tears out the corner of my eyes!

“Hm… alright. Then……”

Even Her Highness looked away and changed the topic when she saw my expression.

“Do we have any news on Ast’s location?”

“No, although we had a perfect encirclement of the surroundings, we couldn’t discover any traces.”

“And there were no other exits?”

“No, there weren’t.”

Unusually for herself, Her Highness sighed deeply.

“Does that mean not even this much manpower is enough to capture him?”

“That’s……”

Twelve swordsmasters and three archmages had been involved in this operation.

Add to that thousands of knights, and hundreds of magicians and battlemages.

In addition, tens of thousands of veteran soldiers had also participated as well.

A force that could handily wipe a small nation off the map was insufficient?

You could never say that this wasn’t enough manpower to capture a single person, yet there had already been two failures.

“I need to add more people.”

“That… seems like an impossibility.”

Soldiers at the level Her Highness wanted were not easy to come by.

Even these soldiers were only obtainable by absorbing the remnants of Howling.

If we accepted any average person, then all that would happen would be a slackening of the army’s standards.

“No, there is a good place.”

“Huh?”

But Her Highness said with a confident voice.

“There is a place with splendid talent that should not be used as ordinary soldiers, but commanders, or even the greatest hand to play.”

“Th, there is?”

They were words that had my head tilt automatically.

There was no way that Her Highness would leave such a place alone.

“And they know.”

“Know what?”

“Ast’s habits.”

“Ah!”

At those words, I realised what the place Her Highness was referring to was.

The place with splendidly talented people yet no one had touched until now.

No, more accurately, a place that hadn’t had any talented people until now.

But… a place that thanks to the efforts of a single person and magic weapon, had showed off their full power and abilities!

“If just one swordsmaster brigade won’t do, then two, three… no, I’ll even make ten of them for you, Ast!”

At Her Highness’s tenaciously obsessive shout, I could not offer a reply back.

“Send all these people to Yugrasia. And… have them create usable people, and send them to me. This is the punishment I will be giving them.”

And that was how a bunch of non-summoner teachers were sent en masse to the summoner’s school.