RATH 98
TL: Eevee
11. Not a myth, but a legend (11)
#13 Their story: A certain student council president’s story II
“Coming from someone from a s.h.i.t household?!”
“You’re getting c.o.c.ky for a mere junior?”
“You, I always hated you, you know that!”
“So what if you’re a senior?”
Just why did it come to this…
All of a sudden, the other students began raising their hackles against each other, and when one person pulled their sword out, the others pulled out their respective weapons and started fighting each other.
“What the heck just happened… aghhh…”
I didn’t know why. But all of a sudden I started to get angry as well.
“You d.a.m.n small fry, can you not hear your student council president?!”
Just as I was about to draw my own sword and show these louts the power of the president!
“Uwaaak?!”
The floor disappeared.
“What the? What’s going on?!”
“That’s what I want to ask, d.a.m.n it! Someone’s about to die over here, so can’t you get your a.s.s moving?”
Something shoved my b.u.t.t upwards, and all of a sudden I found myself flying back up towards the surface.
“Aaaaaaaaah!”
“Haah, haah…”
I flew through the air for a brief moment, but my body was one that had been honed in martial arts for years!
Although I did scream, my landing at least was perfect, and when I turned around after landing, I saw, caked in dirt, was the Yugrasia student council president, Nerkia.
“Die.”
“You too?!”
And the moment I saw him, for some reason the desire to kill him began to boil.
At the very least this brat’s death is just, to the point even the world wants him dead!
And just as I was about to stab him in the name of justice.
“Kuhk?!”
“Shut up and listen for the time being.”
All of a sudden my eyes met the floor.
Before I even realised what had happened, Nerkia had mounted my back as I stared dumbly back up at him.
Even if I wasn’t in my right mind due to this unknown feeling, I was still Arucia’s student council president!
As the president of the holy land for all swordsmen, where the empire’s, nay, the entire continent’s finest bodies honed themselves, to think I would be pinned down by a summoner!
This was inconceivable. This was all… part of Nerkia’s plot!
“Die, die, die, Nerkia!”
“No seriously, I get that rage has spread out everywhere, but why the heck is that every single person that sees me wants to kill me?”
The gaze with which he looked down on me was nothing short of humiliating.
As I thought, if I didn’t kill him now…
“Listen up, Kiir. Right now you’ve been hit by a mental attack. You normally didn’t have these feelings against me, right?”
Mental attack? I didn’t normally have these feelings?
“Not really, I’ve been wanting to kill you for a long time now?”
“Does this world only have people that want to kill me?”
As Nerkia screamed, that filled me even more with the conviction that he needed to be killed as quickly as possible.
“Anyways, it’s the enemy that’s making you say what you normally kept bottled in! He’s using an spirit of wrath to control your emotions!”
“Wrath… it doesn’t sound like a bad idea to just give into the wrath and kill you?”
“It is bad! It’s plenty bad! No, before that your own students are fighting each other as well, you know? At this rate, Arucia will be routed!”
“That’s… problematic…”
I regained my reasoning at the word ‘routed.’
If we were completely routed like this, we would lose pathetically to Yugrasia.
Just what did we make an alliance with Marcis for, for what did we cooperate with Nerkia for!
“Your death… will be suspended… for now… although it’s a crying shame…”
“Hey, did you have to add that on at the end? Weren’t we on the same team?”
No. You are the enemy of men.
I am leaving you alive for now because I need you, but you are an absolute evil that must be eliminated someday.
“d.a.m.n it, I thought only Yugrasia was abnormal, but everyone else except for me is abnormal!”
No, if the entire world is abnormal and you are the only normal one, can you truly call the world abnormal?
I think it’s more correct to say you’re the abnormal one in a normal world?
“Yes, yes.”
But first, I needed to support this a.s.shole with our strongest forces.
Although it p.i.s.sed me off, but for now… for now!
“Then, what do we have to do?”
“We need to take people out of the Spirit King of Wrath’s zone of influence. And to make the rage effect ineffective, it would be best to move individually.”
“Alright…”
I nodded, then I embued mana into my voice and shouted.
“Retreat!”
And to my retreat command, Arucia’s students replied.
“Who the h.e.l.l are you to order us around!”
“So what if you’re the pres?”
“Retreat my a.s.s, you’re just running away! Do you have any shame as a Arucia student! It’s because this kind of idiot is our pres that our points are in shambles like this!”
Hold it in. Those are the words of students who have lost their reason to mental attacks.
There’s no reason to pay heed to their words.
It’s obvious that they would normally respect and rely on their student council pres…
“That’s why he’d lose his crush the vice-pres to the president of another school!”
“I thought it was suspicious, but he liked her after all!”
“No, from what I know, the Yugrasia pres and our vice-pres knew each other since they were little?”
“I heard as well. They said they’d marry each other when they grew up when they were ten, right?”
“Really, now?”
“Then pres is…”
“Yep, he is. That. A pathetic loser who didn’t read the mood and got in between another couple’s relationship, and lost without even managing to confess.”
“Gaaaaagh! Who was that last a.s.shole? Come out here. Come out like a knight and fight me to the death!”
I take that back. They’re all enemies as well.
And unlike Nerkia who could die after being used, these were enemies I could kill right now!
“Come at me you little sh… kuhk!”
My vision turned blurry, and something smashed into my gut.
“I’m tired, so enough of this already.”
Nerkia’s voice was laden with weariness.
“Take a nap and get your heads back on straight. I’ll deal with them as well.”
That was the last thing I heard before I lost consciousness, and when I came to, most of the Arucia students, including me, had returned back to our base.
And that day, another legend was added to Arucia.
Never p.i.s.s off the Yugrasia student council president.
#14 Their story: Risen de Roa’s story.
“d.a.m.n it, did it fail?”
After defeating the Spirit King of Lightning, I threw Mystletainn numerous times into the hole that Nerkia had supposedly dug himself into, but it didn’t feel like Nerkia was dead.
“He’s alive, isn’t he?”
“Survive at all costs. That is Yugrasia, after all.”
“If it were last year’s Nerkia he would definitely be dead.”
“It’s too late to regret it now. d.a.m.n it. I charged in thinking it would be like fighting the Water Spirit King, but since I got electrocuted every time I got into close range…”
As I grumbled, I summoned the bamboo spear, no, Mystletainn and threw it into the ground again.
“Reedan, do we continue to give chase?”
“We should. Karen’s fine leading the student council on her own anyway, so tying down the hands of the alliance’s main forces should be helpful.”
Indeed, the cause was important. Even if Karen, who was normally an enemy, acknowledged us this time, Nerkia is oddly popular, for some reason.
There is no reason think that an alternative portrayal Nerkia’s betrayal would not surface, a bittersweet one where the Yugrasia student council president and the Arucia student council vice-president were on opposing sides yet loved each other all the same.
Love over friendship!
Kah~ that’s a cool story. It’s cool…
But save looking cool for fiction.
Don’t come out and pretend to be awesome in reality!
“Alright then, as the elite task force, let’s take on the responsibility of taking out the enemy!”
And so, we need a cause to rally around.
We were not trying to kill Nerkia because we were jealous, but instead, we were a special ops unit with a mission to take Nerkia out, and eliminate a key element in the Arucia-Marcis alliance!
“So is that it?”
As if the drug named zealotry had worn off, Lady Aris was standing there with an unimpressed expression on her face.
Tch, this is why we should have finished Nerkia off here.
“Indeed, Lady Aris. We are moving for the sake of the academy. Milady, think about it. You have to stay at the academy for another three years. Three years with the silver devil!”
“Hnn!”
Lady Aris’s face stiffened.
Indeed, it would be traumatic.
Even I would want to kill myself if I had to spend another three years in the same s.p.a.ce as the silver devil.
“Yes, milady. We need to win in this event. Then that’s the end of the night study, the end of the devil!”
“End of the night study… end of the devil…”
“Yes, our victory lies with your blade, Lady Aris. Defeat those d.a.m.ned little brats, and win, in order to put an end to the night study.”
“Yes, let’s end the night study!”
That was easy.
“And in order to do that, we need to get rid of the former president, Nerkia. He is an elementalist specialising in fighting against many. If Arucia and Marcis manage to use that power, victory draws further from our reach.”
“Very well, I will dispose of the pres… no, the traitor!”
Very good, this was the perfect combination.
Reedan would sow chaos within the majority of the enemy’s forces, and the others would eliminate the remaining elites.
And while Lady Aris would use her sword aura to bring judgement down on Nerkia, I would finish him off with the bamboo spear.
Now that we all know what we’re doing, we need to finish it quickly before the enemy can get ready.
“We will now proceed to attack Arucia!”
“Yes!”
And it was thus that the twelve brave heroes went on an adventure to sentence judgement.
#15 Their story: Ria el Nermia’s story.
“Haa… haa… haa…”
My breath came in rough pants.
But my mind at least was at ease.
“It’s finally over.”
No.1000’s obsession with food was incredible indeed.
To the point she’d drive me into a corner over something that happened nearly two years ago!
But barely, just barely, with countless sacrifices from Surtr I just barely managed to peel off that black thing that had stuck to No.1000 to bring her back to her senses.
“Are you tired?”
“Are you… really one to talk right now…”
“Probably?”
As No.1000 blinked blankly back up at me from the ground, all of a sudden I felt a ma.s.sive feeling of vilification surge from within me.
Our current situation was the worst it could be.
I felt my cheek sting as rivulets of blood ran down it, and my left hand which had been defending against her attacks was almost completely numb.
Moreover, I was limping from the pain of my right Achilles tendon having been kicked in to within an inch of its life, and both my eyes which had had dirt thrown in them seven, eight times were still tearing up.
“Sorry.”
“If you’re sorry… then do your work properly!”
“But, Haeel Reia is…”
“The scene of you beating the c.r.a.p out of me’s probably already been broadcasted all over the empire? I don’t think there’s anyone left that thinks Haeel Reia is weak?”
“Uwuuu… my meals this week are in danger…”
“My life was in danger, you know?”
While showing absolutely no sense of sorrow for being mind-controlled and driving me near death, she was extremely depressed at the threat to her meals.
“If you help Marcis win, I’ll let you taste all the foods that the Nermia family have. So work hard.”
“Really?”
I’d just tossed it out there, but she actually bit!
To be swayed this easily, are you really alright with this, the Imperial Family?
Wasn’t No.1000 a secret agent under the direct subordination of Her Highness the Imperial Princess?!
“Okay, I’ll do my best!”
As No.1000 nodded with a slightly happy expression, I worried for the empire’s future…
“I don’t actually have to worry, do I?”
If it were just last year, I would have cause to worry, but from now on, the thing called Yugrasia existed in the empire.
An absolutely unbelievable school that over the span of a single short year, produced a contractor of a Spirit King, a swordsmaster, and numerous other G.o.d-cla.s.s summoners.
If they could just keep this up for another 10 years, let alone unifying the continent, they could also probably conquer the demon continent and the rest of the world.
“Yugrasia is a dangerous place. So even No… I mean, Haeel Reia has to be careful of them.”
“Mm, I know.”
But it seemed that No.1000 didn’t see Yugrasia as much of a threat.
“No, they’re a lot more dangerous than you think.”
At her emotionless response I scowled and warned her, but the answer she gave back was shocking.
“Mm, of course. They’re the students of the academy being taught by the instructor, of course they won’t be a pushover?”
“Huh?”
What did I just hear.
Instructor, did No.1000 meet a new instructor after being employed by the imperial family?
Were there one of the imperial family’s instructors among the teachers of Yugrasia at present?!
-Owner, face reality! It was that motherf.u.c.ker! His face wasn’t just similar, it was the same person!
-It, it can’t be!
-Humans, no, all living creatures have a limit! That’s a matter of fact! And Yugrasia is full of lunatics that have all surpa.s.sed those limits! You know perfectly well what that means!
-N, no… it, it can’t be…
All of a sudden I felt my lower lips flare in pain as I tasted blood on my tongue.
At the same time, I recalled the events of the past.
‘I see that you have great potential as a summoner. Have you considered coming to Yugrasia?’
Ahh… the instructor told me to come, yet I refused.
No, I went beyond just refusing him… I flat-out ignored him, didn’t I?
‘I’d rather sell my soul to another devil and win instead, I can’t fight against the silver devil!’
Now I finally understood the meaning of the words of the Yugrasia students.
Yes, they had met it.
No, experienced it.
The one that had even forced the Sword Star to submit, the being that was still unknown territory to me, the metal bat!
And after putting all the pieces of the puzzle together… I realised one overwhelming truth.
“I’m screwed…”
The fearsome truth, that the instructor had been my enemy this entire time.