chapter 5
5 – Episode 2. The entrance ceremony of chaos.
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‘Chungmyeong’, ‘Edelweiss’ and ‘Le Rose’ are three private academies.
There is also a ‘Central First High School’ directly operated by Academia.
Even in Academy City, where there are numerous schools, these four were proudly called ‘prestigious’. Guardians protecting humanity in each country after graduating from Academia. Among them, most of the active ones were from those four schools.
The four prestigious students were proud of their school, and the school subtly stirred up their feelings. The splendid entrance ceremony, which cannot be seen in other schools, was part of it.
An important event to remind freshmen that they have become members of a prestigious school. However, now that an unprecedented incident occurred in Academia, they were no exception to panic.
Right after the shocking event of the chairman’s death, irregulars began appearing everywhere. Even if they are prestigious students, it is the same that their bodies froze at the fear they experienced for the first time.
But among them, there were those who mustered up the courage to move.
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“Vice President, are you okay?”
“Yes, I have no problem. More than that, are all the classmates all right?”
“Yes, thanks to the vice president.”
“Thank God.”
She stroked her chest, relieved by her return answer.
A neat hime cut, black straight hair that goes down to the waist.
A beauty with sparkling red eyes and a gentle impression.
I am Suise Kasuga, a third-year student at Edelweiss Academy High School and the student vice president.
Suisei’s face was as usual, maintaining a subtle smile. With an elegant expression, she single-handedly slaughtered half of the irregulars that attacked Edelweiss.
The sight of Suisei, who had not shed a drop of sweat and was not stained with blood, reassured everyone around her. However, what she said next was completely different from everyone’s thoughts.
“Then, I will ask everyone to defend this place.”
“That..But without the vice president.”
“If you are a member of Edelweiss, it is possible. Besides, it’s not even a very strong opponent.”
Suisei said that and swung her black sword. The cold air that freezes even the air extends along the trail of the black island.
At the end of that trajectory, there is the Irregular who moved silently.
“□ □ □?”
A sound incomprehensible to the human ear. That was the Irregular’s last breath.
Not a single drop of blood escaped from this regular body that was neatly cut in half. Because the cut surface froze in an instant due to Suisei’s coldness.
“Does anyone want to come with me?”
“…… “
Everyone averted their eyes at Suisei’s words. She was now proposing to the students of Edelweiss to go out of the academy. However, at the point where it was just now safe, it seemed that no one was willing to fight back and forth.
‘I can’t force you… I don’t think so.’
It’s just a waste of time arguing with them when they’re terrified.
In addition, there is no guarantee that the irregulars outside the academy will be this weak.
Suisei was not cruel enough to send those who were not prepared to the battlefield where their lives depended. So, she opened her mouth again.
“Okay. Everyone please take care of yourself.”
Suisei lifted her skirt slightly to greet her and immediately left Edelweiss.
The streets were surprisingly quiet. Since the whole incident happened during her entrance ceremony, everyone must be hiding inside the school.
Sui Seiui thought that students protesting inside her school would be safe, and her judgment was correct.
Most of the irregulars that appear in Academia are not strong.
The B-rank Suisei’s specialty was close to killing, which disproved him.
Even an ordinary person should be able to resist with bare hands.
‘As long as it’s not for fear.’
Fear hardens a person’s body. Fear narrows a person’s field of vision. Fear stiffens people’s thinking.
As a son of a samurai family, Suisei was trained to overcome fear.
She would have trembled in her place, like everyone else, if it had not been for the attitude she had carved into her heart from her childhood.
Saving the weak is the duty of the strong.
Thanks to the family’s teachings that scabbed in her ears, she was able to overcome her fear and move.
‘Two, no three.’
Every time she saw this regular on the way, her black sword flashed. It doesn’t have a proper destination. Just cutting as many Irregulars as possible to prevent any tragedy that could happen.
How long has it been? Suisei stopped her. Not because she was tired, but because of the question that popped into her head.
‘It’s strange.’
More than an hour has passed since the tragedy of her entrance ceremony. More than enough time for the troops stationed outside the Accademia to mobilize.
But there is no sign of that at all.
‘Couldn’t it be that the situation inside the academia is being communicated?’
Other than that, I can’t explain it.
But why?
Suisei shook her head, but she couldn’t come up with an answer easily.
Only one high school student holding a baseball bat knows the exact reason why this happened throughout the academia.
“… Calm down, Suisei.”
Suisei’s worries did not last long.
Her one day support will definitely come. This situation won’t last long. She believes that and has no choice but to fight.
Deep in her heart, the moment she tried to move, quelling the fear that began to slowly open her eyes.
-I heard a metallic sound.
A sound that clearly suggests someone is nearby.
Did you not go to school for some reason? No, judging from the fact that he is outside at this time, he might not be a student.
Several possibilities popped into her head, but at first Suisei spurred the ground and ran.
The place Suisei arrived at was a nearby park, following the periodically heard sound.
A lot of irregulars were camped at the entrance of the park. The density is so high that it is incomparable to other places.
Even for Suisei, it was not an easy move to break through at once.
‘In that case.’
A road of ice was created under Suisei’s feet. The path leads to a tree outside the park.
Suisei climbed up the tree on the road and moved towards the center, moving to another tree in the same way.
Suisei finally noticed the identity of the metallic sound that kept coming.
It’s a metal bat. Someone is fighting the Irregular with a bat.
And a strange sound mixed with that metallic sound.
“Music… Are you?”
It wasn’t long before she reached the epicenter of the sound.
A toilet in the middle of the park.
A male student surrounded by irregulars with his back to the outside wall of the bathroom.
If you look closely, her whole body is covered in this regular blue blood.
“There you! Just hold on!”
After Suisei came down from the tree, she ran straight towards her male student. Oddly enough, there were fewer regulars here than near the entrance of the park, so she was able to easily break through the siege.
“Now, let’s escape!”
“… I finally got one.”
“Come on, move quickly!”
Suisei stretched out her hand, but her male student ignored it and swung her bat at the regular near her.
“It’s nice to see you. The car is slowly losing power, please help me.”
“What the hell are you talking about!”
At the unexpected reaction, Suisei involuntarily screamed. The male student shrugged his shoulders and chined towards the nearby floor.
There is a cell phone playing strange music.
Cell phone. Music. Irregulars flocked suspiciously. Boy.
In an instant, Suisei’s head understood how this situation had taken place.
“Could it be that you attracted the Irregulars?”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“Why?”
At that question, the male student muttered calmly.
“There are quite a few elementary schools around here.”
Hearing that, Suisei immediately understood everything.
It is possible to repulse irregulars through students’ sit-in, at least from middle school. In an elementary school where there are only children, there must be only a few adults who can fight.
This man realized right away in this confusing moment, and used himself as bait in this park.
“Aren’t you afraid?”
“That’s scary. But someone has to do it.”
The man muttered that and swung the bat. The Irregular’s head at the end of the trajectory was smashed with a cheerful sound, spraying blue blood in all directions.
A single drop of blood brushed against Suisei’s cheek. Is it because of those drops of blood that makes Suisei’s heart beat strangely?
“Do you have any big skills?”
“Yes? Oh, yes.”
“Then let me ask you a favor. We need to clear this area quickly so we can move on to our next destination.”
A man who gives instructions as if it were natural. Strangely enough, however, Suisei was not displeased, and even felt a strange sense of relief.
“But it’s not a skill that is strong enough to pierce the bow.”
“Because it’s okay. Hurry.”
The man who lightly ignored her opinion of her Suisei urged her again.
At those words, Suisei hesitated for a moment, then he inserted the black sword into the scabbard of his waist.
He catches his breath and tightens his grip on his hilt. Since he wielded the sword, he has swung it thousands of times.
一閃 白雪
” Sun Island, Shirayuki “
The slash that extends from Suisei along with the sword moves forward while freezing the space itself.
Five, ten, twenty. Irregular’s body froze, unable to move.
But that’s all there is to it.
She knows herself better than anyone else, Shirayuki’s limit range.
But this time something was different.
The Ice Princess’s slash does not stop, but spreads in all directions with ferocity.
Twenty, thirty, fifty, one hundred, two hundred…..
The extended slash finally stopped after turning the entire park into frozen ground.
At that scene, Suisei just stared blankly at it.
“This is… how.”
A rather frivolous man’s voice came to Suisei’s flustered ears.
“What, you are so strong. Were you being mean just now?”
“No! This!”
“Okay, I got it. Her humility goes there. Let’s move quickly.”
The man, Lee Si-hyeok, stepped on the frozen irregular and continued.
“I have a place to go with you.”