Episode 296 Last Semester (1)
“……Grumble.”
Correspondent Morgue Banshee.
As soon as he got out of bed and the morning sun hit him, he frowned.
His face did not straighten the whole time he threw off his incongruously cute sleeping cap and eyepatch pajamas.
“I’m not very good at dreaming.”
I had a strange dream last night.
A nightmare so bad that it made my clothes and even my bed drenched in cold sweat.
It was a dream in which a giant one-eyed serpent and a unicorn fought each other.
The one-eyed snake coiled around the unicorn’s gigantic body, tightened it, and tried to swallow it in one bite.
The unicorn waved its horn and resisted, but the moment the one-eyed snake opened one more closed eye, everything was useless.
The snake wrapped around the unicorn with its golden left eye glowing, and swallowed it in one bite.
“To have such a nightmare on a day when I have to report to the principal. Is it because of stress?”
Professor Banshee grumbled and finished getting ready for work.
The way from the official residence to the lecture building.
Lightly ignoring the greetings of his students, he went straight to the principal’s office, ignoring even the greetings of his fellow professors.
In my hand, I had a bunch of reports and papers prepared until last night. When the
knocking
sound was over, the door opened by itself.
Inside, we see the headmaster, Winston, sitting with an always benign expression on his face.
“Huh? Professor Banshee. You’re here early.”
“Yes. I came about 1 minute and 30 seconds early. If you’re busy, can I wait outside the door until the appointed time?”
“No no no. Just come in.”
Winston waved his hand and summoned Professor Banshee.
Banshee laid down the reports in front of him.
“This is the settlement of accounts for the promotion of the campus recording project.”
As soon as Winston returned to his position as principal, he redesigned the landscaping inside the academy.
greening. It was a project to more than double the number of trees and plants on campus.
Winston was by nature mild-tempered and quite fond of planting trees.
Even the principal’s office was full of plants of all kinds, so no one found it particularly strange.
“In addition, the new mana stone has also been newly reinforced.”
During the midterm exam not too long ago, a student named Bikir found a crack in the magic wall and entered the arena through it.
This was an incident that could cause serious trouble if misused, so Winston had strengthened the academy’s security with the newly released magic stones.
However, Professor Banshee was quite skeptical about this.
“The new mana stone has the advantage of higher mana efficiency and higher hardness of the mana wall than the old mana stone, but its durability has not yet been confirmed.”
“Hahaha. Isn’t that why we alternated the old and new magic stones? Invaders will be confused because they won’t know where the old magic wall is and where the new magic wall is. No, there can’t be an intruder in the first place.”
When Winston finished speaking, he looked at Professor Banshee with sympathetic eyes.
“You always care about the safety of your students. I respect you.”
“……I’m just a small person with a lot of worries to preserve my position.”
“It can’t be. Even though Professor Banshee says that on the outside, I know that he doesn’t. So I tried hard to live up to his heart.”
After speaking, Winston held out something in front of the banshee.
It was a bracelet adorned with jewel-like black seeds.
It was designed to be worn on the wrist by adjusting the size with a thin gray root growing under the seed.
“The key to pass through the new magic wall. It’s a bracelet type. These days, many locker rooms such as bathhouses and gyms are replaced with something like this? It seems that the security is good.”
“It’s an artifact with magic power. Can it be mass-produced?”
“I make it manually whenever I have time. I have already made everything for students, so I just need to distribute it.
Winston laughed and said, and Professor Banshee grunted and groaned.
Then he held out a new document in front of Winston.
“That’s enough for security-related issues. Next on the agenda.”
“Hmm? What kind of document is this? I don’t think it was reported in advance.”
“This is not a formal report. However, there is one thing I would like to tell you personally…” ”
Oh- what is it?”
Winston bent his neck intriguedly toward the papers.
Professor Banshee hesitated for a moment before speaking.
“Recently, the atmosphere within the ecliptic has been unusual.”
“What does it mean to say that it’s not serious…?”
“Look at the stats.”
Professor Banshee pointed to the various graphs and diagram charts written on the papers.
“Recently, the number of criminals within the ecliptic has subtly increased.”
“That’s because a lot of people gather when a big event is held in the ecliptic.”
“No. This is the rate of increase in crime relative to the inflow of population. The crime rate itself, which increases with the influx of population, is higher than the normal level.”
Professor Banshee narrowed his eyes. And with a cold voice, he analyzed the current situation.
“Recently, criminals from all over the empire are flocking to the ecliptic. Reports of sightings of the most wanted person have also increased.”
“That’s a big deal. What are the Imperial Guards doing?”
“Strangely, it is said that the rate of arrests of felons has dropped significantly these days. Criminals say that they run away cautiously, as if they knew about the arrest plan in advance. Also, some wanted criminals have no clue what they are doing. I wonder if he’s helping them hide…”
“I see. But what does that report have to do with the academy now?”
“As the principal knows, isn’t the final exam and the parents’ observation class going to be held at the same time? These days, the situation is turbulent, so why don’t we postpone the date…” Then Winston laughed
.
“What kind of place is this Colosseo Academy? Isn’t it a place where geniuses who will become the great heroes of the empire in the future are educated? What about the skills of the professors who teach them? Also, the students’ parents are also outstanding. You are the backbone.”
“…”
“This is where these great people gather. What does it matter what petty criminals are out there?”
“…”
“But I understand and respect Professor Banshee’s caution. That’s why I’m also paying attention to strengthening security by replacing the mana stone, right?”
Professor Banshee could only nod.
No matter how hard the criminals outside Hagiya try, they won’t be able to do the slightest harm to the parents who come here.
In the first place, they were not an ‘organization’, and they were lowly beings without the ability or reason to harm the academy.
“Yes. And this is the last report.”
Professor Banshee opened his mouth to Winston.
“This is related to the dismissal of Professor Saadi.”
Then Winston’s expression changed for the first time.
He had a really embarrassed, yet sad expression on his face.
“…Did Professor Sadi have another accident?”
“Yes. I received a letter saying that I was dishonest in my role as advisor to the Imperial Guard.”
“……Ahh, that’s right.”
“During search and espionage activities, they say that they showed a lax and negligent appearance, such as causing a disturbance due to a disagreement with a colleague or losing and omitting important equipment or information. It is said that he was asleep in the official residence drunk.”
“Haa… that bastard’s alcohol. If Professor Sadi doesn’t drink, he’s a very competent person.”
“That is also an old saying. Certainly, Professor Sadi in the past did a great job as an advisory member of the Imperial Guard Tracking Team. In fact, Professor Sadi arrested almost all the criminals at that time. It was almost comparable to Marquis Sade’s exploits in his heyday. I wonder if he even heard the evaluation of ‘the second coming of the Marquis of Sade’, but now he is just a loser who is addicted to alcohol and lamenting his life and denying reality.”
Professor Banshee shot sharply, as if he had accumulated a lot.
Then Winston closed his eyes and was silent for a while.
silence. How long did the heavy stillness pass?
Winston opened his eyes and opened his mouth with a low sigh.
“Discipline… I’ll do it.”
“It shouldn’t be something light like a pay cut or suspension…”
“Okay. This case will be severely punished with the principal’s title.”
Only then did Professor Banshee shut up and retreat.
I was saying that, but I was wondering if the cotton bat would stop as a punishment.
Eventually, Professor Banshee finished his report and left the principal’s office.
Jerk-jerk-jerk-jeebuck-
As we were walking down a dark hallway, a black shadow began to move beside Professor Banshee.
Professor Banshee stopped and spoke in a low voice.
“Did you recognize it?”
Then the shadow behind Professor Banshee prostrated himself and opened his mouth.
“Yes. There were definitely a lot of things that went wrong.”
Banshee had a separate informant to investigate the principal’s background.
‘I need to find out why on earth I love Professor Saadi so much.’
It was a plan to get rid of her, who was a thorn in the eye.
at that time. Professor Banshee’s henchman said something surprising.
“The reason why Principal Winston cares for Professor Sadie is that he wants to increase the number of members of the Principal’s faction, such as the elite arrest team with a high rate of apprehending criminals, the former prerogative of aristocratic descendants, and so on… It wasn’t because of it.”
“Then what is it for?”
Then the servant answered in a very low voice.
“Probably related to the ’47 Man Unrest’.”
It was a report that made Professor Banshee’s eyes widen.
* * *
“Now, today’s class is about major events after the unification of the empire~”
said the professor, knocking on the blackboard.
Freshmen in the first year were listening to the lecture today with expressions full of enthusiasm.
said the professor.
“As for the great events that occurred after the unified empire, there are many big ones such as ‘the conquest of the barbarians on the western front’, ‘the merger of the 5 greatest swordsmen’, and the ‘great escape from the New Wave prison’… It’s going to be an ‘event’. Can anyone explain what’s going on?”
Then, several hands came up among the students.
The professor pointed to the first student to raise his or her hand.
“Yes. Shall our chief Sinclair of the Fever Army give an answer?”
Then, with the sound of a chair being dragged, a female student stood up from her seat.
Sinclair, a girl with white hair and a calm voice.
She calmly started talking about what she knew.
“The ‘47-person unrest’ is an unprecedented event that occurred 35 years ago, shortly after the empire was unified. It is also called the ’47 Family Unrest’.”
“Great. Can you give me more details?”
“It was a treason case in which 47 people staged a coup d’état, massacred countless people, and invaded the imperial palace. As a result, 46 out of 47 people were summarily executed on the spot, and one surviving person is currently imprisoned in a prison ‘New Bag’ in the outskirts of the continent. Also, the purpose of the coup is still unknown, but it is known to the world that it was just an impure aim for the throne…”
Sinclair answered fluently, and the students around her shed a small exclamation at her appearance.
“Sinclair. Did something change?”
“Huh? what? Do you still think you’re smart?”
“Not that, but the attitude. Atmosphere.”
“Ah, that’s right. It’s been strangely cold these days.”
“But that’s also strangely attractive. It feels like I’ve become an adult.”
“I thought that too. I became mature somewhere overnight. I wonder if she went from being a girl to a woman.”
A girl who was always strong and bright.
Looking at her, she reminded me of a lively puppy, but the atmosphere of Sinclair has changed a lot in the past few days
. Sinclair seemed to calmly accept and accept the inner change that had happened to her ,
just as a girl becomes a lady through some unknown opportunity. Eventually, after Sinclair finished her answer and sat down, the professor
applauded “Good answer
, Sinclair student. I hope to show a good performance like this in the finals of the fever donation final exam, which will be held later in the afternoon.”
The professor looked around the entire classroom and continued.
“I believe everyone knows. Not only you, but also many parents will come to the finals of the final exams to be held later.” There is
no way that the students don’t know that.
A few days ago, greening work, security work, etc., the principal planted trees and plants himself, rearranged the magic stone, and so on. Because there was no uproar.
That’s why most of the students reacted indifferently.
Anyway, the final exam was the stage for Tudor of Cold Weapons, Bianca, Grenouille and Sinclair of Heat Weapons, and they were the bridesmaids. Even the students who were excited to
see their families after a long time However, there were many students who were worried that they would be scolded because of poor grades.
Maybe that’s why the professor revealed another piece of news to get the students’ attention.
“And everyone knows that? We’ve got a new friend at our school soon!”
A transfer student. That’s always a fresh interest.
One student raised his hand and asked,
“Professor! Is a transfer student coming?”
“That’s a good question! But unfortunately, I am not a transfer student!”
The professor waved his finger and continued.
“It would be more accurate to say that I am a transfer student, not a transfer student. This is because it is not a transfer of grades from another school, but a new admission during the semester. Anyway, making new friends is a good thing!”
“Wow – what kind of friends are you? female? man? How old are you! I’m really curious about which wife it is!”
The students asked questions with curious expressions.
Then the professor smiled and replied,
“Gender is female. I’m 19 years old, a year younger than the average freshman year. Affiliation is a fever donation. Since he is a friend who transferred from the famous ‘Mado head family Morgue’, I think you will learn a lot from him. The student’s name is…”
