Chapter 32 - Volume 3 (1/2)

School Arc – Chapter 13

Art’s injuries were a dislocated left arm and a bone fracture on his right leg. It seems he had fallen from the stairs.

Since it happened at the dormitory’s stairs, there were many witnesses. From the moment when Art, who was walking alone, dazed and unusually without his entourage, fell down the stairs, up until the moment he seized the handrail with his left arm in panic, but unable to regain his balance and tumbled down – the students were all there to witness it.

Since Art seemed to have been dishing out complaints that the painkillers weren’t working at all, by the time Wolf and Shade rushed in, I was at ease for the moment.

Nevertheless, it didn’t change the fact that he sustained serious injuries. It seems like his followers were all very distraught, and because the female students weren’t allowed inside the male dormitories, they were especially heartbroken.

But well… there are doctors who use healing magic in the school. Even if this was considered a big deal, Art should have come back to school healthy after 2-3 days at home.

However, he didn’t come to school, disregarding what was widely expected of him.

If one were to ask why, it’s because Art was throwing a tantrum.

That boy, who was being an inconvenience to others, said this:

『Until Lycoris comes to visit me, I won’t go back to school』That… seemed to have been what he said.

The moment I heard this, I was annoyed.

“Hah?”, like a yakuza, I made a sound that would even turn delinquents pale. In my head, that is.

After all, the one who came to relay these words of Art was just someone amongst Art’s followers, a girl in the same year as Art. She meant no ill intention from it.

Although in a fit of anger, I intentionally ignored the request, that actually ended up tying to another disturbance.

When I heard that Lily was called out by Art’s follower in the pretense of 『wanting to apologize or something』, I hurriedly rushed out of my classroom. A feeling of deja vu, that something like this has just happened quite recently, cut in.Actually, since I was also thinking of talking to Lily today even if I had to summon her out, this meant someone beat me to the punch.

In any case, I wasn’t deluded enough to think that his followers would call Lily out just to apologize.

Their thinking, sad to say, was something I quickly ended up guessing. In short, they speculated if things go well, they could use Lily in order to make me go visit Art.A scene where his followers put Lily on the spot by prostrating themselves before her came to mind.

But then, what I saw when I rushed in, was a much more terrifying sight.

With a crash, a loud destructive sound was made.

As it reflected in the sunlight, the torrent of glass rained down over Lily and the group.

Though it was quite pathetic of me, I simply stared at the scene in shock.

Once I finally came to my senses, I saw, amidst the flying glass shards, Art’s followers suffering small cuts on the bare portions of their skin such as the face and hands.There were probably some who got hit by the unfortunately large shards, besides the male students, who were dripping blood from their arms plain enough even for an onlooker to see, several remained where they were, unable to stand up, either due to fear or surprise.

Big or small injuries aside, objects that could turn into lethal weapons were falling from above in large quantities. I wonder how terrifying it must be. At any rate, I, at least, had to calm down, I told myself.