Evade The Hero and Flee!

Chapter 93

Chapter 93

RATH 93

TL: Eevee

11. Not a myth, but a legend (6)

#6 Their story: Aris ril Letias story.

The imperial festival was all but Yugrasias to win.

Although we failed in our initial objective of total victory, that was only due to the unexpected fortune for Marcis named Ria el Nermia.

Coming into the final day, Yugrasia was in first place at 114 points.

Arucia, one of the strongest contenders to win was on 0 points, in joint third with Mercaria, also on 0 points.

Realistically, none of the other schools could catch up to Yugrasia.

Even if the final event was worth 80 points, the greatest number of points in imperial festival history, and even if, somehow, just somehow, we managed to lose that!

Even if the school who won that event was Marcis, in second place, Yugrasia would still have an overwhelming victory of 114 to 87.

Yes, thats what it should normally be

The maximum number of points 4000?

An unbelievably ridiculous rule was revealed to us on the morning of the event.

[Each academy will be in charge of defending 10 castles. And every time one is stolen, 100 points to the taking school.]

That meant that the maximum number of points a school could earn was 3000.

Although of course this was on the assumption that all the other schools were defeated within the time limit, but in the worst case scenario where Yugrasia failed to capture a single castle with everyone getting out, then we could finish this imperial festival in last place.

The favouritism of the administrators had far overstepped their boundaries here.

In order to lodge a complaint about this, officially, the student council, and the student council president, in particular, needed to make a move.

And so I went to find our stuco president but

Is that a problem?

The most important president was taking this catastrophe far too lightly.

Is that a problem? This is an unprecedented situation in the history of the imperial festival! This is a rule made purely to target us!

So?

What do you mean, so?! Our night study is on the line here! We cant get tied down because of a stupid rule like this!

I yelled at Pres hard enough for me to turn red, but Pres only smiled gently.

Lady Aris. What was our objective?

Of course that was to end this hell-like night study!

Yes, but we also had a secondary objective. To show how much we grew in the depths of that hell the objective of total victory.

Thats

I wasnt going to deny that the total victory was one of our goals coming into the imperial festival.

But two defeats had already made that an impossible goal.

This is our opportunity. A chance for us who lost to those children who barely play for a few hours at their schools, to revive our pride!

As Pres looked at me with a determined face, he quietly, yet clearly said.

By taking all of their castles, and not allowing a single one of ours to fall.

And thirty minutes after the start of the event.

The f*ck?

I swore like youd expect from some third-rate back alley thug.

[Come at me, Yugrasia!]

What was happening, the man who just this morning, personally said that we would not lose a single castle in our victory to uphold our pride, was personally annihilating one of Yugrasias castles and declaring war on us.

If that had been all, then it could have ended as just a slip of the tongue on my part.

Were we too harsh during yesterdays event?

That probably was a bit too far.

But you cant say that Nerkia is blameless either, can you?

As the student council and a number of other students that had gathered to stop the invasion of the other schools said things as if theyd known of the presidents betrayal in advance.

Haa, this stupid as hell academy.

If it were me from just a year ago, I would be in chaos if I were thrown into a scenario as ridiculous as this.

But having been dyed in Yugrasias colours, I could calmly make an assessment of the situation.

Yesterdays match if I recall right, Pres used his lover the Arucia vice-president to secure victory

So it was that human who ruined Siir after all.

Just what the hell have you been bullshitting to our Siir, you damn vice-president?!

And successor? That humans successor?

It wouldnt have been weird if Siir had cut ties with me after she followed me to Yugrasia to experience the silver devil.

And if she became that weird vice-presidents successor, then I would be facing the resentment of the Reia family for the rest of my days.

Anything but that!

Youre popular, Siir! If you want you can take anyone you want as your lover!

Siir is actually very popular.

As the eldest daughter of a high-ranking noble, unlike me, she was quiet and elegant, the perfect ideal of men!

Aris. Is that claim one confirmed by the boys?

N, no, but

The problem was that all these conclusions were things that Id heard from other noble ladies in the same faction None of us had much to do with male nobles after all.

Yes, thats it Aris. We were simply comforting each other Have any of us ever been confessed to since we enrolled into Yugrasia?

No, but

Despite starting academy life where it was countless confessions were said to be exchanged, neither of us had been confessed to.

But wasnt that because of the night study?

Even if there was none of the love letters in shoeboxes or desks, or boys waiting for you after school that wed only ever heard about from high society gatherings!

But we had the night study.

We trained and strategized purely for the sake of surviving against the silver devil, none of us even had the space of mind to confess to anyone!

But what about Pres? Even while Pres was doing the night study he had a lover?

Th, thats

But Siirs counterattack shut my mouth up once again.

Aris, dont try to make excuses for him. Even in that chaos Pres had a lover. No matter how much he couldnt leave the academy, even if he couldnt so much as get a glimpse of her face during the holidays. Pres still had a lover!

Kghhh

How do you feel right now, Aris? Annoyed? Do you feel something burning raw from deep within? Yes, that is what you should be feeling. We did our best purely for the academy, yet in that time the man we called out student council president wasted time on a relationship, and moreover betrayed us at this crucial moment where our night study is on the line.

He did

I could slowly feel something burning deep within me.

Now, think about it. Right now, Pres betrayed us under the excuse of his lover. He fooled you, Aris, he fooled us he fooled the academy and he chose his lover.

Yes, Pres had fooled us all

I nodded to Siirs words.

It was true. Whatever the cause, the fact that Pres had betrayed us hadnt changed.

Now, think about it, Aris. What is it that you have to do? Is it admonishing our allies that gave Pres an excuse to betray us, or execute the traitor that abandoned our trust, became the slave of a girl from a different academy and raised his blade against us?

Well of course, it was.

Execute the traitor!

Yes, yes, thats it, Aris!

Siirs expression brightened as she embraced me, and whispered into my ear.

The only person that can punish the Pres that betrayed us the only one that can punish our student council president, the Elemental Army, is you, our swordsmaster, Aris.

Yes Something only I can do

We need to end the night study, right? Weve got our second year, third year, fourth year ahead of us, right? You dont want to keep doing the night study, do you?

No. I dont want to get hit anymore. I dont wanna fight the silver devil anymore

I hated it. I wanted to just quit this academy and transfer to a different school but Father wasnt letting me.

That meant I would have to attend Yugrasia until I graduated and I had to keep doing the night study the entire time?

Yes, end it. With your own hands, Aris. The night study and the life of the traitor.

Mm. Ill end it. I will the night study and the Press life!

I realised afterwards that something had gone wrong, but that was only something that happened afterwards.

And much later on, when the imperial festival had ended, when I looked back at this particular scene through the recordings of the magic video tools

To be precise, when I saw Siir, exchanging thumbs up with the vice-president Risen with an evil grin on her face, even while she was embracing me, I realised.

I had been playing perfectly into Siirs hands the entire time!