I Beca the Academy's Pink Airhead - Chapter 23
Bell, who had finished her business along with the absurd happening, said she would call headquarters before returning to the garrison on the late-night direct train.
Alvit spoke to Bell with a doubtful voice:
“Is it okay to go back and forth by train to for such a trivial matter…?”
“…?”
To Alvit’s eyes, Bell seed like soone who would take a taxi for any distance over 5 minutes of walking.
and weren’t that far apart, but it wasn’t a distance to be going back and forth so frequently either.
But Bell answered in a very nonchalant voice:
“…Huh? What’s the big deal? All necessary expenses co out of the ’s coffers anyway. And with the dignity maintenance fee I received in 1st year at , it’s enough to ride all year~”
“Di-dignity maintenance fee…?! And riding the train for a whole year?!”
“Isn’t that normal for schools from the union? should be part of the union too… Co to think of it, don’t you receive a dignity maintenance fee from your school foundation?”
“We don’t have a foundation… Let alone a dignity maintenance fee, we don’t even receive a survival maintenance fee…”
“Wow~ You guys really are beggars.”
“…”
Bell covered her mouth saying ‘Oh my oh my…’ with a truly shocked expression.
Alvit hung her head.
She just clenched her fists and vented her frustration.
“Ahh, this damn school…!”
At the sa ti, Kara and Rota also sighed while holding their heads.
“Hoo…”
“Haah…”
“Ahaha―♪”
Be strong, Peach Sisters.
Though you may be beggar girls of Takchoeon now, soday you will ride in carriages with huge roofs like the branches of that World Tree.
I was about to inwardly console Alvit while nodding my head, but flinched.
‘Oh right, Shu perished…!’
The example was too ominous.
Shu Road.
The place even Zhuge Liang couldn’t escape from.
Like the Shu Road in the treacherous mountains, was also on a steep hill road.
“…!”
I got goosebumps for a mont as I thought of Zhuge Liang’s tearful later years.
Ominous keywords swirling in my mind…
morial to the Throne, Five Camps at Wuzhang Plains, Zhang Wan, Flying Rain…
Our northern expedition had to succeed.
‘Ma Su…! We have to take down Ma Su!’
I decided that if I saw anyone saying they would climb mountains because the scenery was nice from now on, I would stuff the ultimate technique [Pink Lemon Sherbet] into their mouth.
Leaving Bell behind like that, who said she would make a phone call.
We returned to school from the shopping district with no results.
But I decided to have tea to stave off hunger rather than have everyone starve together. We had used up all the tea leaves we had taken out in the student council room. But since there were many tea leaves piled up in the supply closet, there was no problem bringing water in buckets to boil.
I clapped my hands to focus the attention of my juniors who were about to go to their rooms.
Clap clap―☆
The juniors turning around at the sound of clapping.
“…?”
“What is it?”
“Hmm?”
“Why don’t we have tea ti while drinking so tea? If we all chat together including Bell who will co back later―☆ Both hunger and sadness will fly away to heaven♪ It will☆”
“Hmm… The occasion is a bit sad, but I agree. The wind seems chilly today too… I want to drink sothing before bed.”
Twitch
As Rota agreed first while moving her cat ears, Kara and Alvit also nodded. And they ca out after changing into comfortable tracksuits in their rooms.
“Now now♪ Ladies―☆ Please follow this cute older sister well―☆”
“I get uncomfortable every ti senior calls herself ‘older sister’…”
“I agree with that. No matter how I look at it, you seem like a peer or younger…”
“Yeah, honestly I don’t feel any respect at all…”
I pointed at Rota and Kara who were chattering and said:
“Hey―☆ Those two girls saying bad things! 2 derit points―♪”
“What’s that?”
“Huhu. How scary.”
While the people in question were ignoring it, Alvit was the one who reacted to the word ‘derit points’.
“What bad thing happens if derit points accumulate?”
“By the way, if you accumulate 10 derit points for doing bad♪ things―! Oh my goodness!”
“If you accumulate?”
“If you accumulate…!”
Alvit looking innocently.
I puckered my lips like a duck’s bill at her and clucked.
My glossy pink lips collided, making a cute sound.
Smooch smooch―☆
“You’ll receive a barrage of kisses from this cute girl―♡ Chu chu―♡”
“…”
Alvit looked at with eyes like looking at trash.
Not quite food waste, but like sowhat dirty and torn newspaper… Eyes like looking at those paper bundles you occasionally see walking in the park.
That was about right.
I felt satisfied receiving that gaze.
‘I need to manage likability with ‘Clara behavior’ for a while since Alvit’s respect had risen above the allowable line.’
That way Alvit’s sense of responsibility will be maintained appropriately.
This is all behavior with deep aning.
The flaw is that Rota’s likability went down together so I still can’t touch those tempting cat ears.
Anyway, I headed to the supply closet in the basent of the main building for the first ti in a while since the day I had uniforms fitted for my juniors.
“While we’re at it, I plan to bring things we’ll use for several months all at once―♪”
“I see.”
“Is that so.”
“…”
The juniors following with indifferent expressions.
The path to the supply closet was unexpectedly complex. A haphazard path as if illegal extensions had been attempted countless tis. We had to go back and forth between the ends of the main building on deford stairs, and go down for quite a while before reaching it.
Thump thump―
Our footsteps echoed in the eerie path with only a few very small ergency lights on, the old passage where a stuffy dust scent could be felt.
I pointed to the supply closet in the middle of that path.
“We’ve arrived―♪”
“This is the first ti I’ve been here since the entrance ceremony day…”
“Yes♪ Because this kind and cute older sister brought clothes for Rota and Kara―☆”
“Our school is dirty, narrow and old, but the basent is surprisingly complicated.”
Twitch
Rota seed to be looking around with pupils shining like jewels even in the darkness.
At that mont, a faint sound heard from one side of the wall.
Thud…
[Beeeep―]
Twitching cat ears.
Rota stopping for a mont while walking.
“Hm? Just now what sound…”
“Yes―!! Miss Rota!! You just said a bad word~♪ 10 derit points!! Co here chu chu―♪”
“Aaaah?! Are you crazy! Stop it! I said stop―!!”
I quickly made a show of showering Rota’s cheeks with kisses, and Rota really recoiled and hid inside the storage room.
‘Phew… Avoided the spoiler.’
It wasn’t ti yet.
‘We haven’t even taken down one disciple of yet, and they’re already crying.’
Thoughtless spoiler.
I tapped the basent wall where the sound had rung out once with a sowhat resentful heart. Then I followed my juniors into the supply closet.
“Kids―☆ Did you already go in―♪ It’s sad to leave your senior in the hallway~”
Inside the supply closet we entered like that.
Past the wardrobe where uniforms were kept.
The three juniors were looking around the storage room which unexpectedly had many items.
“There are plenty―☆ of tea leaves in the supply closet~ So feel free to take them out and drink~ Huhuhu♪”
“Se-Senior?! That…!”
Alvit was shocked seeing the canned tea leaves filling an entire wall of the supply closet like the Great Wall of China. Seeing her surprised anew, it seed she hadn’t noticed last ti she ca because she was caught up in the atmosphere.
“Wh-What on earth is this…?! Why are there so many tea leaves when there’s nothing to eat?!”
“Yes♪ That’s because―☆ For girls like us, a cozy tea ti is as important as life itself♪”
“Why stock up on tea leaves instead of food!! Shouldn’t we take care of life itself before sothing as important as life?!”
“No way―♪”
Like the storage room of soone who obsessively stockpiled food in an apocalypse movie, an entire wall of the supply closet was filled with canned tea leaves. And each can had the nas and emblems of schools in the northeastern region of the academy city stamped on them.
‘Well, actually I just collected a lot in 1st year since they were often given out as prizes at other schools’ events.’
We took plenty of canned tea leaves from there, and various trivial items like blankets and oil drums, then ca out again.
Thud―!
Thud…
Fortunately, on the way back, the tallic sounds from the oil drums and cans echoed loudly. So we could no longer hear the faint sound of a spoiler.
To begin with, ‘that thing’ seed to have beco aware and stopped crying.
I finally declared an outdoor tea ti in front of the underground passage we had erged from.
“Now♪ We’re going to have a leisurely tea ti☆ while looking at the stars in the night sky―♡”
“Is tea ti… sothing done by lighting a fire in an oil drum…?”
“Rota, you lose if you think about it anymore. Haha!”
“Good grief.”
“What does it matter! As long as it goes in your mouth, it’s mories and romance! Hahahahaha!”
“Oh! Kara―♪ You’re saying sothing pretty for once―♡ I’ll give you 4 rit points―☆”
This ti Alvit reacted to the keyword ‘rit points’.
“There were rit points too?”
“Yes♪ Of course―☆ If there are derit points, there must be rit points! That’s the just and fair rule of girls! Goddess of justice! Noble maiden―♪”
“Then what are the criteria for rit and derit points…”
Alvit trying to find so connection in the ‘Clara sounds’ I was blurting out thoughtlessly and spontaneously. Kara patted her shoulder and shook his head.
“Comrade Alvit, you lose if you think about it! Hahahaha! That’s romance!”
“Kara♪ Plus 6 rit points―♡ Co here! I’ll give you a kiss as a reward! Chuuu~☆”
“I respectfully decline.”
“So an―☆”
The tea ti that started after much trouble.
In the open space in front of the dormitory building, branches and firewood piled inside an iron oil drum were emitting a warm light.
The night sky where a curtain of starlight had descended under the branches of the World Tree faintly shining white. The taste of tea drunk while looking at the night sky and burning bonfire in front of the quiet dormitory building was excellent.
Slurp―
Actually, since we had just roughly thrown water and tea leaves into a kettle and boiled it, the tea’s inherent aroma had long since flown away. We were just drinking to forget hunger and warm our bodies.
“Slurp.”
“…Gulp.”
“…Phew―”
My juniors quietly drinking tea while looking at the bonfire with blankets draped over their shoulders. Among them, Rota seed unable to drink hot things well, as she couldn’t take even one sip.
A bonfire lit under the dark night sky.
Girls in tracksuits wrapped in old blankets.
Bitter tea being swallowed to forget hunger and cold.
“…”
Isn’t this just a scene in front of a labor office at dawn…?
I couldn’t help but chuckle for a mont.
I thought it felt like a scene I’d seen many tis before.
But it wasn’t too bad.
“…”
Alvit spoke in a quiet voice while drinking tea:
“…Senior Bell. She’s late.”
“Hm? You’re right? She doesn’t seem like the type to just disappear without saying anything…”
Rota, who hadn’t been able to take even one sip and had just been blowing on her tea, reacted to those words. And Alvit continued speaking with her gaze still fixed on the bonfire:
“Is it because of the… dungeon gate erosion state? It seems like sothing bigger than expected has happened.”
The words Alvit blurted out.
Those words added a chill to the comfortable silence that had continued until now.
“…”
“…”
“…”
We had all been inwardly sensing the unsettling atmosphere since the mont we left the bakery with no results.
“…”
And I quietly put down the cup I had been drinking from.
Apparently sothing really unsettling had happened.
Because there was a presence rushing urgently towards this place reminiscent of a labor office.
“You guys―!! Wait~!! Help ―!!”
Tap tap tap―!
A brat wearing the sa red tracksuit as us.
Bell was running towards the bonfire across the school grounds, waving her hands with an urgent voice.
“…Senior Bell?”
Clatter
We who had been drinking tea, including Alvit, quietly put down our cups and looked at Bell.
“…?”
“What’s the matter?”
And Bell, who had run at a very fast speed befitting a high-level ether ability user, pleaded with a desperate expression:
“Aaaaah―!! Big trouble!! The guys at the garrison―!! They ignored my standby orders as the on-site commander and went to the north!!”
“What?!”
“Moreover, those guys are now wandering around in the north as they please and got into a fight with the guys―!! I don’t have enough hands by myself!!”
We looked at each other silently.
* * *
The vice president of the .
Sieglinde urgently knocked on the door of the president’s office, passing by dozens of attendants trying to stand up and greet her.
Her expression was terrifyingly stiff, and her black wolf ears were trembling.
“I apologize, President. The ether reception phone condition was poor, so I ca to report in person.”
Knock knock knock
“…!”
At that mont, the attendants who were about to stand up and greet her all rushed out.
Three knocks.
It ant a serious matter that only executive-level students could hear.
After the presence of the quickly departing attendants passed, an indifferent girl’s voice was heard from inside the door.
“…Enter.”
“Excuse .”
Creak
The president’s office she entered.
There, sitting in her seat was the silver-white girl with an expression like a wooden statue as usual… Brunhilde.
Sieglinde stood at attention in a polite posture and reported:
“The leader of the investigation team dispatched to in the northeastern region, Sigrun, unilaterally led the investigation team to conduct an investigation in the northern eroded area. And it is reported that a clash occurred with students of encountered in the northern region.”
“…”
“In the… process, news that one of the Five Colors… [Crimson Trajectory] intervened…”
Clang―!
As soon as Sieglinde’s words ended, Brunhilde stood up holding the lance behind her seat. And she gave instructions without even looking back:
“…Arrange a train heading to the northern region.”
“I’ve already instructed that.”
“Understood.”
Trudge trudge
Like that, Brunhilde left the student council president’s office without a mont’s hesitation.
“…”
While Sieglinde was counting instructions to give to the attendants in preparation for the president’s absence. She suddenly felt sothing off about the items on the president’s desk.
Narrowing her eyes as she looked, she could identify the source of that unsettling feeling.
“…?”
For so reason, the ether reception phone directly connected to the president’s office was smashed.
Amidst the shattered pieces of the phone, what suddenly caught her eye was… a very small amount of blood.
“…President?”
Sieglinde looked with an expression of disbelief at where Brunhilde had left, but there was only a chilling silence lingering there.
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