I Became the Academy’s Pink Airhead

Tens of minutes before [Snake of Wisdom and Cycles] appeared.

Alvit’s group was being chased by dark elf students from .

A pursuit continuing from midnight until morning.

They were being chased by dozens of threatening magic armor weapons and hundreds of dark elf students. Just when they were about to be caught, they would widen the distance again, only for the pursuers to tenaciously chase and surround them.

The vehicle that was finally damaged in the process.

Alvit’s group ended up fleeing on foot to the urban area in front of the gate.

The escape process wasтэt smooth either.

No matter how much they tried to escape through back alleys, their path was always blocked by pursuers. As they ran, subordinates directly under ’s Student Council President Andrea would inevitably appear again. The ill-fated encounters with them continuing for a whole night had become sickening by now.

Even in the urban area in front of the final gate leading to Golden Street, Alvit’s group was still being chased.

Pursuers chasing them even to the back alley going up steep stairs.

“There they are!! They’re there!!”

“…Tch!”

“Secretary Bell!! I’ll take care of the rear─!!”

Bell always took the lead using ether skills, and was exhausted to the point of not even having energy to whine anymore. So she silently frowned while controlling flying daggers, and Sigrun provided cover matching those movements.

While drawing her bow, Sigrun alone tried to tenaciously persuade the dark elf students in a loud voice:

“Fellow students attending ─!! Shouldn’t we stop this meaningless fight─!! More important than money and power is the stability of the academy city…!”

But the pursuing dark elf students retorted with expressions as if seeing something disgusting:

“Shut up! As a dark elf, you left and sucked up to , so just quietly become our bounty!”

“What stability of the academy city! You just latched onto powerful bitches too! Money is originally earned by fighting!”

“You’re also talking about justice or whatever, but you sniffed out money like us…!”

“…Such misunderstandings are saddening. Not all dark elves unconditionally love power and money.”

Sigrun muttered bitterly, and finally fired ether arrows.

Whoosh!

Paat─!

Dark red daggers and ether arrows being fired, disrupting the enemy lines. But in a situation where they couldn’t even use ether skills due to the battle continuing all night, it was difficult to shake off the pursuers.

“Ugh…?!”

Vision blurring from harsh ether consumption.

Bell struggled to control the daggers, but the ether connection was cut off due to fatigue. The daggers in midair, whose ether threads were cut, fell with a sharp sound.

Clang─!

Bell and Sigrun startled by that sound.

“Uwah─?! I dropped them…!”

“B-Bell, Secretary Bell, are you okay?!”

A sudden gap created.

Between the gaps of daggers and arrows, three armored pursuers pushed into the narrow back alley stairs.

“Charge! Charge in!!”

“Push through with the armor─!!”

“They’re exhausted so they’re all as good as caught now!!”

Alvit leapt out between Bell and Sigrun.

“Senior Bell! I’ll block them!”

“Alvit, sorry…! I’ll definitely repay this debt later!”

“What debt is there to repay between friends!”

“I’m your senior─”

“Secretary Bell… It’s ugly to insist on that now…! A true strong person should have the leeway to bow when bowing─”

“Shut up─!”

Leaving that banter behind.

Alvit used an ether skill on the armored students. At the end of the prolonged battle, only Alvit, who hardly consumed ether, was still able to use ether skills.

Alvit thrust her sword towards the charging students.

“Haah─!! [Flash Sword]─!!”

“Damn it…?! She can still use ether skills─?!”

An exploding sword strike.

Boom!

The sword strike exploding like a red volcano made a thunderous sound and emitted scorching heat. And Alvit dove between the armored students surprised by that attack and pushed with her shoulder.

Tap─!

“Whoa?!”

“Uwak!!”

The two students hit by Alvit’s push had activated their armor’s defense function, and couldn’t budge until they rolled down the steep stairs.

Two armored students tilting on the steep stairs.

“Daaaamn─!!”

“Damn it all!!”

But there was one student who dodged Alvit’s charge.

She was about to swing down a black greatsword towards Alvit.

“You bastard…! How dare you!!”

“…!”

A voice cutting in between.

“I can’t let that happen!”

“Greta!”

Just before the greatsword was swung.

A white-haired student… Greta, who jumped out from between building shadows, tripped the armored student. Sudden unarmed combat was her specialty.

“Justice low kick─!”

“Uwak, hey!! That’s not a low kick…?!”

Wobble─!

“Uh, uh…?!”

Though it wasn’t exactly a low kick, it was enough to make her lose balance.

The armored student’s body wobbling, rolling down the slope leading to the back alley stairs below. Like that, they all fell down making sounds like tin cans rolling.

The voices of the armored students echoed from far away.

“Daaaamn─!!”

“Daaaamn─!!”

“Daaaamn─!!”

“…”

“…”

Alvit and Greta sighed in relief seeing that.

“…Whew, thanks. Greta.”

“It’s nothing! Everyone’s too tired to fight properly… If it weren’t for Alvit, we wouldn’t have made it this far! It’s right in front of us now!”

“…!”

Where Greta’s slender finger pointed.

There was the western gate leading to Golden Street… the place they had so desperately tried to reach all night long. Through the slightly open gate, the sight of red ether passing back and forth as fighting took place could be faintly seen.

The group silently looked in the same direction for a while.

“…”

“…”

“…”

Originally, they should have arrived long ago and joined up with the , but they didn’t expect to be chased so tenaciously.

Bell picked up her dagger with difficulty and returned, speaking in a dazed voice:

“How on earth did it turn out like this… Nothing is going according to plan… Surely Clara and [Purple Spinning Wheel] aren’t still being chased too…?”

Kara rummaged through her completely depleted ether conductor pouch for summoning [Revolutionary Comrades] and answered bitterly:

“That’s what I’m saying… It’s really worrying. Our vehicle was damaged, and endless waves of long-ears wherever we go… Haah.”

“I won’t allow racist remarks… but…! I strongly acknowledge that my former school has somewhat materialistic and clingy aspects…!”

“Ah, Captain…! No matter how you look at it, it’s not just ‘somewhat’… That attitude of embracing even your old school’s faults…!”

“…”

Alvit watching Sigrun and Greta’s conversation with a subtle expression.

She climbed the steep stairs to take the lead, and spoke to the group:

“Everyone, I know you’re all very tired. But let’s hurry and move, as much as our plan has gone awry, ’s plan must have gone awry too. The situation isn’t all bad.”

“…Yes.”

“I often wonder if Alvit is really a 1st year.”

“I agree. Comrade Alvit is as reliable a comrade as Senior comrade Clara.”

“…Is that a compliment?”

Alvit chuckled and answered Bell’s question. Though her face was covered in dust and her hair was messy, it was a laugh filled with satisfaction.

“Yes, it’s a compliment to me.”

“…I see.”

Like that, as everyone dragged their tired feet, when they climbed the stairs and headed towards the main road.

Whoosh─!!

Several automatic weapons waiting with operating sounds.

The causes that made the group take back alleys to evade those huge bodies were waiting.

“…?!”

“They came ahead and waited?!”

“Oh, yes. Welcome. I instructed them to let you go and drive you here.”

“What…?!”

“It’d be good if you were caught, if not I’d catch you. Yes. Isn’t that how it is.”

The owner of the leisurely voice answering the group’s shocked words.

Light reflected off the luxurious sunglasses she was wearing, making them shine.

Bell spoke in a shrill voice seeing her appearance:

“Andrea…!”

“Yeah, our kids will chase you to hell if you pay them… To think you shook them all off… Are you perhaps interested in working under me?”

Student Council President Andrea.

A dark elf girl wearing a coat mixed with black and gold, sitting on the shoulder of an automatic weapon. The gold of her flashy accessories and high-quality school uniform stood out.

Despite pursuing all night, she somehow had a leisurely air. The smile visible under her sunglasses was like that of a product salesperson.

Whoosh─!

Whoosh─!

…And the eerie operating sounds of numerous armor puppets surrounding the street were presumed to be the basis of that leisure.

“…”

Alvit inwardly clicked her tongue and spoke to Andrea while standing at the very front.

“…Please move aside.”

“Oh, negotiating when you think force won’t work? This is exactly the innate talent our school looks for, you know? Want to get a tan and come under me?”

“You should know by now too. That it’s been a fight the Eastern Alliance had no chance of winning from the start. While you were chasing us, the noble faction students will be continuing the fight isolated in Golden Street over there against [Purple Spinning Wheel], [Azure Lightning Lance]… and [Pink Spiral].”

“Hmm, is it [Faded Spiral] now? I’m glad to hear that epithet after a long time. But so what? Two of the Five Colors. And a has-been who used to be the academy city’s strongest joined in, so we should retreat while fighting miserably?”

“…”

At that moment, a voice rang out from a loudspeaker in the distance.

[Announcing to approaching students! From now on, this area belongs to ’s main force operational zone. If you do not vacate immediately, you will be designated as hostile forces─!]

“…”

The sound of hundreds approaching.

Andrea not changing her expression at all despite that. Watching her like that, Alvit tried hard to hide her inner turmoil.

“To put it in terms you can understand, doesn’t it no longer balance out? ’s reinforcements will soon come from that side to join up with us. In that situation, do you think Frau of will try to help you? To begin with… do you really think she can rule this academy city?”

“Oh, when did you call for reinforcements while being chased? This is getting troublesome again. You’re quite capable. Yes. But you know…”

Swish─

Andrea spoke while slowly taking off her sunglasses:

“I don’t particularly think of Frau as my real employer.”

“…What?”

“The one who really paid me told me to definitely capture the brown-haired girl from .”

Her eyes revealed as she took off her large sunglasses.

There was a wriggling ‘snake’ shaped tattoo there.

Seeing that ‘snake’, Alvit felt a strong sense of discomfort.

“…?!”

A voice ringing in Alvit’s mind.

The cry of a huge bird.

Screech—!

[…Fight against the beast god of chaos.]

[…The balance and order of the World Tree.]

‘What… is this…?’

An unfamiliar scene suddenly appearing.

The scene flashing through Alvit’s mind was… the wings of a giant hawk.

‘A giant hawk…?’

Not noticing Alvit’s confusion like that.

Andrea spoke in a leisurely voice while wriggling the snake tattoo by her eye:

“Frau was a big-spending client, but. The real owner of the academy city that will be decided from now on… isn’t an inadequate moron like Frau.”

“Wh-What do you mean…!”

Andrea quietly pointed to the ground.

“Our new master is below.”

“New… master…?”

And the hundreds of main force members who arrived clashed with the armor weapons. Andrea continued chasing Alvit’s group while sitting on the shoulder of an armor weapon.

“Just what… do you mean…?”

It was a few minutes later that Alvit understood Andrea’s words.

Because a huge snake popped out from underground… and riding on top of its massive head was the priest transformed into a dragon.

The giant snake roared towards the World Tree, wrapped in ominous black ether. And the massive wall surrounding the World Tree collapsed with a thunderous sound.

The wall of Golden Street was… collapsing.

Booooom—!!

Alvit’s group hurriedly ran towards the golden street along with ’s main force that had joined up, while being chased by Andrea.

‘Senior Clara…! Rota…!’

* * *

[Golden Witch] approached [Snake of Wisdom and Cycles] just before it died. Both beings were continuing labored breaths while severely wounded.

[Golden Witch] spoke to the ‘snake’:

“…”

“I… couldn’t find the ‘story’ together with my friends in the end.”

“…”

“All I knew was ‘fighting’ after all.”

“…”

“But… someday… surely, someone will find it. The true meaning… contained in the magic I left behind… truly…”

“…”

“My friends… the ‘prophet’… will carry on my will…”

“…”

The ‘snake’ that erases individual [Fates] of followers and engraves circulating truth slowly closed its eyes. Thinking it wanted to watch its nemesis’s will be fulfilled someday.

[Golden Witch] also slowly closed her eyes while coughing up blood.

“Someday… surely.”