I entered the school for nothing (27)
Lesson 7. I absolutely do not do this because I like it – 2
“I’m glad everyone is safe!”
Yumina, who saw Ban Yu-Won’s group coming out of the tower, was sincerely relieved and her shoulders drooped.
In addition to her, all the faculty and staff of the academy, including professors and associate professors, were all around, and students could be seen everywhere.
If there is one thing in common, they all seem to be out of their mind.
“What happened?”
“That’s uhh… Let’s move the location first.”
When Ban Yu-Won asked directly, Yu Mi-Na let out a huge sigh and fiddled with the pendant hanging around her neck.
Then, the next moment, the party entered a lecture hall without doors.
“It’s not a good thing, and I couldn’t make a big noise, so I gathered you all here. I wanted to hear about the first exploration, too.”
“so?”
Dokgoyeon let out an annoyed voice.
“Why was this setback from the first exploration?”
“It’s because of Irregular.”
I knew it before I even heard about it.
Knowing that this is not the answer they were looking for, Yumina nodded and continued.
“Did you talk about the outside intruder this morning? The presence of the intruder was clearly revealed. To him… the student is dead.”
“Hick!”
Ruchel, who had been completely dead from the moment she left the tower, was frightened by those words and reflexively grabbed Banyuwon’s forearms.
Looking at the chaotic atmosphere, Ban Yu-Won, who had been preparing himself in his heart, asked to make sure.
“You mean you didn’t just die, you couldn’t get out of the tower?”
“that’s right. Those who were at the same party as the student testified. The intruder… ended up missing it.”
sick. Because Rachel squeezed his arm even harder.
Even so, Yu-Won Ban let out a laugh.
“Then what will become of the intruder?”
“well. Maybe I was recognized as a climber by the top.”
Yumina’s expression when she said that was very bitter.
Ban Yu-won saw through to the truth that what she said was not an assumption.
At that moment, there was something I realized in the realm of intuition, not reason.
“Could it be that the tower deliberately induced it? So that the intruder kills the climber… the existing climber?”
“…!”
Yumina nodded her head so subtly that she couldn’t tell unless she looked closely.
Ban Yu-won’s teeth were grinding.
It was a moment that completely changed the way I thought about the tower.
“You did a qualification test, so. A test that admits if you can kill a climber and makes you die if you can’t.”
If you can’t beat the existing climbers, then the intruders don’t have the minimum qualifications.
Conversely, if you defeat the climber, you will be given a chance to climb the tower because you have proven to be better than the existing climbers.
It was… a test that could never be understood by a semi-amusement with a normal human mind.
“Isn’t that the reason why there are so many intrusion attempts on the day freshmen enter the tower? Because intruders want to kill relatively easy freshmen and be recognized as climbers.”
Yumina didn’t answer his question, but it was as if she had already answered with a look on her face.
“What a great place Union Academy is.”
Dok-go-yeon, who had listened to the conversation and finished grasping the situation, sarcastically sat down on a nearby desk.
“To think that there are people who openly infiltrate the tower, which is the reason for the academy’s existence, and even the tower can’t stop the intruder from inducing the students to kill… It’s ridiculous to say that it is the best prestigious school in all dimensions.”
“There is a misunderstanding, student Dokgoyeon.”
Yumina said with a bitter smile.
“Union Academy has a duty to protect students, but from the moment they enter the tower, everyone becomes responsible. Moreover, if the tower chose the intruder instead of the student, that’s something we can’t interfere with. Because that’s what the tower means.”
“It means the tower…”
Dokgoyeon murmured stunned, looking out the window at the towering tower.
Even though one of the students had died in it, the tower just stayed there with an unchanging appearance.
Will the intruder, now a climber, still be inside the tower?
Perhaps.
“…I don’t like it either.”
“Student Dokgo Yeon for a while—”
Dokgoyeon muttered something like that and put her hand on her student ID.
Yumina, who knew what that meant, called her name, but Dokgoyeon was no longer there.
“Huh really.”
“Please understand, Professor. Something unpleasant happened inside the tower.”
Ban Yu-won soothed Yu Mi-na, who seemed discouraged.
She raised her head.
“Feeling bad? something?”
“What a strange voice called the Observer of the Bay of Eyes…”
“A constellation?!”
Yumina’s reaction was really intense.
Rather, Ban Yu-won was surprised.
However, Lucille and Light laugh bitterly as if they had expected her reaction.
“It’s the first time in academy history that you contacted a constellation on the first day you entered the tower! No matter how much the Irregular Incident caused the Constellations to rampage, the Tower’s vigilance was loosened, but no matter how!”
It was to the point where I doubted if she had been acting all this time because of the completely different reaction from the moment before, when she was depressed.
Ban Yu-won shook his head and asked her a question.
“So what is that constellation?”
“…yes?”
In response to Ban Yu-Won’s question, Yu Mina let out an idiotic voice.
She looked back and forth between Lucille and Light, asking if you didn’t know either, but the two shook their heads to mean that they already knew.
Yumina, who was slightly relieved there, looked back at Banyuwon and was dumbfounded.
“I can’t believe it… I heard that it’s a lower dimension without mana, but I couldn’t believe the Constellation’s access was blocked.
Ji-gu has just been treated like a thug.
Just because there was no Constellation or anything!
“So what is a Constellation?”
“Patron or observer.”
The answer came from Wright.
For some reason, he said with a very contemptuous look in his eyes.
“It refers to transcendental beings who observe countless dimensions, find a being they like, make a contract, and exercise influence in that dimension through that contract.”
“Give me magical powers, authority… or artifacts. I ask for a lot in return.”
In addition, Ruchel, who was explaining, had a similar expression.
Ban Yu-won also nodded naturally, recalling what had happened in the tower earlier.
A superior being who arbitrarily observes beings from other dimensions, sponsors their abilities, and demands the price at will.
Aren’t you really a transcendent?
“It is a real fantasy. Are you looking around the dimension as if you were looking at a lintel? Besides, it’s not like shooting star balloons, so you take off your abilities so easily…?”
“The classmates at Yuwon say really interesting things.”
“It’s a fantasy, really.”
To give an example from what Ban Yu-Won knows, is the tall man at least similar to this?
If everyone had diligently read Mr. Long-legged, they would have known very well that there is no sponsorship in the world without a price.
Didn’t a young girl who had a bright future just because she received some support for her school expenses, mortgage her life to a man with a 14-year-old age difference?
“It’s okay to make such uncomfortable contracts. How do you know what to ask for?”
“The Constellations have different needs, but if we can borrow their power, there are many people willing to pay the price. That’s why you need so much power. Especially… in a space where strength is important.”
Yumina’s gaze turned to the tower.
“The tower is the space with the most contractors in the Constellation. It is also the space where the Constellations are most interested.”
“What is the Academy’s position on the contract with the Constellation?”
“On the surface, they claim to be neutral, but the reality is that if the opportunity presents itself, they are encouraged to seize it somehow.”
Yumina, who said with a wry smile, added her words.
“Did I originally say that you can’t enter the tower without a student ID? But why would an intruder show up? How on earth is that possible?”
“No way…”
“Yes, most of that is the power of the Constellation. Wouldn’t it be strange for someone to stake their fate on the Constellation if it allows them to dream of becoming a climber, which they can never achieve unless they belong to the Union Academy?”
But to become a climber, you inevitably have to kill other climbers.
It goes without saying that the Constellations support the intruder knowing this, of course.
Banyuwon, who became even more disgusted.
Yumina said yes and asked Ban Yu-won with a sparkling jewel.
“What was the request of the Bay Area Observer?”
“Murder.”
“oh…?”
Professor Yumina pushed her face in and her expression hardened.
Ban Yu-won pushed her away slightly and continued.
“I will make a contract with two of the four, so whoever wants to make a contract must first kill the other. … that’s what I asked for.”
No, actually it was a little different from that, but that’s a little too much to talk about here.
It seemed that the voice of that constellation could still be heard vividly in Banyuwon’s ears.
―Only the hot bloodline full of vitality will serve as a praise and offering to me. You children of amazing potential, if you decapitate your comrade and present it to me, I will make you my closest children. My love will not leave you until you reach the top of this tower and win what you want!
I will believe and follow the crazy bitch who demands to kill my friend in the first place, saying that he will give me strength.
Fortunately, before anyone reacted, Dok-go-yeon got angry and raised his energy to ‘drive it out’.
Maybe she wasn’t easy enough, but she had a hard time right after that, but thanks to that, she was able to safely escape from that space and leave the tower.
“Oh…”
The price must have been more shocking than he had imagined.
Professor Yumina sighed as she touched her forehead, then muttered as she looked at the empty seat of Dokgoyeon.
“So she listened to me…”
“I must have been fed up with seeing our deaths being treated like some kind of fun prank or test. In fact, me too.”
Whether it’s the Tower or the Constellation, I knew that it’s the same thing to try to control humans.
Perhaps there is a Constellation that is very benevolent to humans and willing to give it away unconditionally.
Today’s experience was enough.
A semi-leisurely man would never trust an entity that would interfere with him.
“Professor, then you can’t enter the tower this week?”
“yes? yes it might be difficult sorry. But during the weekend, we watch the tower and try to find intruders…”
“The professor has nothing to be sorry for us.”
It was embarrassing for Banyuwon, who had a match against Erekto on the upcoming Tuesday. If this happens
, there is no choice but to
explore the outer dungeons with a slightly higher level of difficulty .
“Ugh. If possible, I’d like to hear it myself… Do you have time tonight? Let’s have a meal together and talk.”
“….”
“….”
Yumina clapped her hands as if she had a good idea, and Ban Yu-won stood still while Wright and Ruchel stared at her.
Then Yumina blushed slightly as if she had been stabbed with a lever and said,
“I’m sorry if you guys wanted to have a meal with me too. But since the class president is going through a lot of hardships, I feel like I have to take care of it myself… Let’s eat together with you guys next time!”
“No, not that… All right.”
“…”
Yumina’s response seemed to be out of focus somewhere, and Light shook her head without trying to say something.
At least Yumina didn’t seem to be interested in Ban Yu-won as a member of the opposite sex, so I thought that was enough.
On the other hand, Ruchel was still staring at Professor Yumina as if she was suspicious of something, then glanced in the direction of Banyuwon, sighed lightly, and placed her hand on the student ID hanging over her chest.
The next moment she disappeared.
“Then semi-fun students and light students too. It was really hard. I hope you don’t think too badly of the academy because I’ll be careful not to let this happen from next week.”
“I understand the professor’s position. Anyway, thanks for caring.”
“Haha… then let’s go take a rest. Have a good weekend.”
Light, who seemed to have no energy, left the room first.
Ban Yu-won also bowed his head and was about to leave the room.
“Before that, a semi-amusement student.”
Yumina’s voice caught him.
It was a sight that made me feel deja vu.
“I have something to ask.”
“Can we do it tonight?”
“No, I just want to finish the gloomy story ahead of time.”
Yoo Mi-na’s bitter voice made Ban Yu-won realize that his thin tricks didn’t work for her at all.
Ban Yu-won, who gave up everything, turned around with his shoulders drooping, and Yumina looked straight at him and asked.
“Then I will ask you directly. Didn’t the Observer of the Bay… actually designate a scapegoat?”
“…that’s right.”
Ban Yu-won, who hesitated a little, eventually closed his eyes and agreed to her question.
If you want to become a contractor, kill ‘first’?
No, she wasn’t that nice.
* * *
―The two of you will surely reach the top of the tower. by the way Yes… if you get rid of the useless clumps of luggage.
With those words, the observer of Bay’s Bay ‘tied’ two of the party to the spot.
-Come on, my dear children. kill them Then, I promise you, you will have the brightest potential of all climbers.
and even demanded
To Dokgo-yeon and Ban Yu-won.
―Kill and claim it. I’ll let you know that that’s what the world is all about.
He demanded that he kill Lucille and Light to gain power.
