Chapter 77
RATH 77
TL: Eevee
10. We ca, we saw, we won (2)
#2 Their story: A certain student council presidents story.
In a giant hall several tis the size of Yugrasias main auditorium.
The insides were decorated with extravagant decorations and the food was luxurious and plentiful.
Mm. its tasty.
It is, the wines high class as well.
And we, the main characters for today were looking around here and there for food.
Hey, but why does all this delicious at, taste worse than those sandwiches we desperately searched for during the holidays?
Oi, Risen. Are you really the one to be saying that? You found and ate them on your own so of course itd taste good!
Yeah, it would have. Ah, but wasnt the one bite we each shared around pretty good as well?
I know right. I rembered them every now and then and went to the sandwich shop to buy a few, but they just didnt taste the sa.
And yet none of all these decorations and furniture, the food.
Nor the VIPs that ca here to et us satisfied our hearts.
Damn it, Im bored.
I know, they should just start the damn festival already. They do this on the last day as well, dont they?
Its actually even bigger on that day. With the mind that since its the last day theyre using everything they have left.
Hear, hear. Im honestly not in the mood for all this.
Until we are victorious.
Thats how it was. Our objective was victory in the imperial festival.
And on the side, we were aiming for an extrely overwhelming, total victory that would leave its mark on imperial history.
Because otherwise, hell awaited us.
Hm, its been a while, Nerkia.
As we wet our throats with low-alcohol wine and I wished for tomorrow to co as quickly as possible, soone ca looking for .
Milord Duke Zearr.
The twin pillars of the empire.
The Raina Archduchy, and the one that led the Archducal House of Zearr.
But the important thing here was that this Archduke Zearr was a mber of Arucia during its golden age, and the one in charge of this years imperial festival.
aning in so aspects, he was our enemy!
I feel sothing quaint from the students of Yugrasia this year.
As I accept his outstretched hand and shook it, he imdiately took a wary shot at us.
Hmph, thats a forr Arucia for you.
He probably set the events up that Arucia would be ever so slightly favoured as well.
But Professor Nicerwin said this to us.
Luck is also skill.
And if luck is a skill, then of course schooling, contacts and bloodline must also count as skill!
And his teaching that since the world revolves around it all even if they dont count, then get promoted and set up your own faction, is still ingrained in my head!
Indeed, dont get angry that Arucia has the favour of an archduke, but win a perfect victory at this years festival so that we have an archdukes children enroll at Yugrasia next year!
This hell, its unfair if Im the only one to I an, its a great loss for the empire if Im the only one that receives such excellent education!
There were many changes in Yugrasia this year. Thanks to that the students skills have improved.
As I thought of the days gone by at school, my mana flow wavered montarily.
Huh? Did my hand break out in a cold sweat, the archdukes hand was damp as he withdrew.
Damn it, its my mistake.
Im sorry, as I was thinking of what happened at school, I just
W, was it so trying for you?
Trying? Did that co anywhere near what it was actually like? Wed all have rather fought the kings of hell!
Dont they always say that students grow through adversities?
Although of course we didnt want those adversities.
They say that one must overco trials and tribulations to beco a hero and earn your happy ending.
But as we struggled through our trials and tribulations, we realised.
Youre perfectly happy if there are no trials or tribulations to begin with, right?
Through great sacrifice, we realised that doing nothing and gaining nothing made us much happier than sacrificing sothing and enduring all sorts of trials and tribulations to obtain sothing at the end of it all.
If we could et ourselves of the past, we would want to yell at them that we dont need anything like Yugrasia rising up again so dont ever bring Professor Nicerwin, but it was already much too late.
It seems you have had it hard.
No, milord. How would we turn back ti that has already elapsed? We simply wish for anyone wanting to enroll at Yugrasia next year to not co.
But humanitys greed is endless, and they endlessly repeat the sa mistakes.
Those who could not abandon their greed in the face of Yugrasias victory will end up in Yugrasia one way or another.
I have no reason to care about those moths charging into the flas!
Really now
I waited for milord archduke who was lost in thought.
But hes thinking for too long? What is it?
Ah! Might this not be so strategic action?
It wasnt out of place for soone managing the festival, and one of the highest representatives, an archduke to co et the student council presidents, but eting an archduke which was like the difference between heaven and earth for most students, even if they are nobles, would put them under extrely heavy pressure.
Although it was nothing to
that had already faced the fear of death multiple tis, but if it was
from last year, then no doubt I would have been shivering and quivering all over hoping I didnt make so mistake.
In that case, he was definitely aiming for that and pretending to think over sothing.
Thats a forr Arucis for you!
I need to assu that the battlefield is already all but enemy territory already.
Im sorry. I have kept you for too long.
No, milord.
Did he realise I had caught onto his machinations.
Even as I bowed my head to Archduke Zearr as he moved away with a slightly sheepish expression, in my mind I had different thoughts entirely.
Yes, struggle all you want! Victory is already ours!
Of our certain victory.
#3 Their story: A certain managents story.
If you were to ask what the most popular event in the imperial festival was, then it would undoubtedly be the swordsmanship tournant and the contest between the Four Great Academies.
And so as the one in charge of this years imperial festival, I attended the pre-festival party where all students were in attendance, and was going around greeting all the student council presidents.
Encouragent for my successors at Arucia, courage for Marcis that challenged Arucia.
And for rcaria that didnt suit the imperial festival, yet did their best anyway, I gave them so special words.
And finally, when I went to et the Yugrasia student council president
Wh, what the?
Before I was an archduke, as a proud swordsmaster of the empire, I led from the front in countless battles.
And yet this space was filled with an aura that made even
halt my feet montarily.
With a few very friendly exceptions, the students that fought each other at the imperial festival often stayed with their peers from the sa school.
aning, the students standing here were almost certainly Yugrasia students, but this mood does not suit the Yugrasia of the rumours I had heard.
The aura emanating from these students was one of bloodlust and iron willpower that you would only expect from an army that had fought in countless battlefields, and would have to fight in many more in the future.
Was this the mood of Yugrasia, a school that could be dropped from the Four Great Academies at any minute?
Although rumours said that there were drastic changes in educational policy driven by the legendary summoner Professor Nicerwin, but the ones leading the students in practice were still the student council, with their president at the head.
Hm, its been a while, Nerkia.
And my predictions were exact on the mark.
Milord Archduke Zearr.
The Yugrasia student council president that was present at last years opening ceremony led by that Archduke Raina looked like a completely different person compared to the one in front of
now.
His figure as he led Yugrasia, the ones considered weaklings, unexpectedly well compared to the powerhouses of Arucia and Marcis left a deep impression on my mind, but that was nothing compared to him right now.
I feel sothing quaint from the students of Yugrasia this year.
Firstly, the way he unhesitatingly reached out for a handshake.
That was not the reaction of your average low-ranking noble.
Even when the child of a high-ranking noble, Arucias student council president took my hand, just how much did he shake?
But this Yugrasian student council president, he simply kept his composure and smiled without so much as a twitch.
There were many changes in Yugrasia this year. Thanks to that the students skills have improved.
The smile was befitting his answer, but his force was not.
The flow of mana he unleashed for but a mont was similar to that of His Majestys aura of pure annihilation.
And the force that a re student emanated cause my hands to soak through with sweat.
Im sorry, as I was thinking of what happened at school, I just
Was it to pretend he didnt notice my mistake?
The Yugrasia student council president calmly apologised to .
W, was it so trying for you?
So flustered was I that I uncharacteristically stuttered, but he seed to not care.
Dont they always say that students grow through adversities?
Instantly, the atmosphere of the room shifted.
At just one word from the Yugrasia student council president, the mana of all the students in the area was oppressively pressing down on this space!
This was not simply a matter of showing off.
When a soldier freshly returned from war, spoke of an enemy country or mortal enemy that stole sothing important from them, they would unconsciously unleash bloodlust, and this pressure was the exact sa feeling I got from that!
As the parents around us looked around in shock, the boy himself was surprised as he cald down his mana.
It seems you have had it hard.
No, Your Grace. How would we turn back ti that has already elapsed? We simply wish for anyone wanting to enrol at Yugrasia next year to not co.
Yugrasia already had the lowest enrolnt rates out of the Four Great Academies.
Even if the Letia House and a few other influential families sent their children to Yugrasia with expectations of Professor Nicerwin, if they dont have a good showing at this years imperial festival then that could really be it for them.
To think that he would not want students to co to his school even under those circumstances.
Although he graduates next year, those words should simply not be said as Yugrasias student council president.
Really now
Was Yugrasia in such dire straits that even their student council president would say such things?
One could assu that from the rumours, but the force emanating from this Yugrasia did not match them.
Then, was it possible for students to be standing with this much strength in just half a year?
No matter what, I could never train soldiers like these in just half a year.
Moreover, to make students like this, not even soldiers, the only person that could make this happen in the entire empire would be Her Imperial Highness the Imperial Princess.
Hang on no, it cant be!
A shiver ran down the length of my spine.
To think I would see vestiges of the Imperial Princess, a person untouchable in the imperial court in these students!
Im sorry. I have kept you for too long.
Once I realised that I also realised that I had kept a single student for too long.
No, Your Grace.
Normally in situations like this even a noble hardened in high society would be nervous, but none of it applied to this student council president.
And after my final farewells and well-wishes, where my feet took
was in front of a single noble.
It has been a while, Archduke Zearr.
No, Marquis Letia.
Marquis Letia, the father of Young Lady Letia, the person that might be most closely related to the changes in Yugrasia, as well as the leader of a division of the imperial army.
He who protected the inside of the empire, and I who protected the far reaches of the empire often talked together, and were quite personally close to one another so I got straight to the point.
I heard your daughter enrolled in Yugrasia.
She did.
I also heard that it was Yugrasias education that allowed her to beco a god-class summoner. And I also heard that the army contributed a fair amount to Yugrasia as well.
They did. I heard that so mbers of the summoning corps beca teachers at Yugrasia.
Yes, there were so that went to Yugrasia after retiring, but it was quite an amusing topic when so active soldiers were also sent over.
Looking at Marquis Letia nod his head, it seed that there was not much information regarding Yugrasia.
So, your daughter went to Yugrasia, was there anything else she got out of it aside from becoming a god-class summoner?
But since it had to do with his eldest daughter, he would still know more than I did.
And the answer I got back was an unexpected one.
Sothing she got out of it yes, there was. Aside from when she was young, I saw the tears of my daughter that had grown up so quickly.
Lady Ariss tears?
Young Lady Letia was nicknad the female general in high society.
The tears of Lady Aris, that everyone around her wished her on to beco a splendid female knight?
And my daughter, learned how to overco death in Yugrasia.
Wait, hang on?
How to overco death?
Its as I have said. I am very grateful to Professor Nicerwin for allowing what can only be learned on the battlefield to be taught in a safe environnt.
Marquis Letia, the man who I thought was reasonable kept on saying things that I simply couldnt understand.
Yugrasia is that kind of place.
In the end, the only other thing I got out of him was that he was currently in the process or restructuring his army with the enlightennt he gained from Yugrasia, I couldnt hear what I wanted to know.
I cant understand what you are saying.
Youll understand once you see Yugrasias first matches co tomorrow morning.
Now even more curious, I stayed with Marquis Letia for a while longer and asked him a few more questions, but in the end I could not get what I wanted.
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