I Became the Academy’s Pink Airhead

The elf girl in modest farmer’s attire fluttered her dazzling blonde hair. She stepped on the towering yew trees and jumped up.

“Clara, you can follow well, right?”

“Oh—☆”

Chasing after that back, I climbed up the trees like in a classic game.

Tatat—!!

While I climbed up one step at a time with jumps, Anna ran as if sliding vertically on the trees.

That appearance was like a beautiful elf girl from a manga.

‘No, these guys are elf beauties, but until now their pseudo-religious image was too strong…’

Seeing an elf-like appearance after so long, I felt glad. But the distance quickly widened to the point where even that was hard to see.

Tat tat—!

Clearly my pure running ability was faster, but it was hard to chase Anna who was already far ahead.

As expected, elves seemed to get buffs in plant zones.

Anna aimed her bow just before reaching the treetop. Brilliant verdant ether like plant leaves shone at the tip of the aimed arrow.

“[Ydalir]—!”

Fwooosh—!

An arrow sharply cutting through the air.

The verdant arrow stuck into the tens of meters tall conifer that shot up from the ground. Then another tens of meters tall yew tree grew long from there.

Kugugung—!

On top of the vertically growing tree, another tree grew diagonally upwards.

Like endless slashes.

The sight of trees growing on trees.

After repeating several times, it became a tree ladder reaching the sky.

A slender yew tree majestically soaring like a sky ladder from a fairy tale. The farmland where we were fighting was visible far below.

It was truly a scene reminiscent of the fairy tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. Of course, what we were chasing wasn’t treasure but a dragonfly.

‘It’s amazing this doesn’t collapse…? Is it because it’s a structure made with ether skill?’

Clearly at some point it should normally collapse unable to bear the weight of the stem… but Anna’s ether skill continued without collapsing.

Anna shot an arrow towards the stem again.

“Grow! [Ydalir]—!”

Fwooosh—!

Another tree grew from the tip of the stem.

Now we could really approach within reach of where the giant dragonfly was. Moreover, even though he clearly saw us approaching, he didn’t actively run away.

‘Why isn’t he running? I could attack now, right?’

If he doesn’t dodge, he should get hit.

I’m planning to hit even if he dodges.

“[Blue Sweet Macaron]—☆”

I swung my greatsword towards Goin who had now come within attack range. A pink sword strike containing an ether wave rushed to engulf him.

Tuuung—!!

A heavy blow fired into the air.

[Kuh…!]

The price for not actively dodging engulfed him.

Instead of narrowly evading the attack, he got scratches on his outer shell. Some of the numerous horns sprouting on his body were cut off.

The brown dragonfly flinched, then hurriedly moved its wings to rise upwards. Its long translucent wings made a sound like a giant drone.

“Now we’ve caught up!!”

Anna fired an arrow towards there, and the verdant glowing arrow flew flapping like a fish towards Goin.

Swoosh—!

The arrow narrowly missed the dragonfly’s huge eyeball, and the brown dragonfly stiffened in shock.

He seemed visibly flustered.

As expected, Goin was an unmanly guy with weaker nerves than Ofnir.

‘I thought there’d be something more, but he really came empty-handed…?’

Not completely empty-handed, he brought an infinite regeneration cheat that seemed to be Jinsu-kun’s handiwork. But that too was utterly unmanly.

Pink airheads are creatures that become endlessly mesugaki to unmanly guys since ancient times. The soul of a mesugaki was gradually rising in my heart. (tl/n: at its core, ‘mesugaki’ describes girls who: are small, young, provocative, suggestive, sexual, and brash towards adults or their superiors, are full of self-confidence & assertive about it, and have a tendency to be temptresses/teases)

‘Completely weak♡’

The spear and greatsword made by Rota’s magic also answered my call.

-Pathetic—♡

-Idiot—♡

“Pathetic, pathetic—♡ Go die—☆”

I jumped on the stem and spun like a whirlwind.

Two girls’ strike mixed with mockery. [Blue Sweet Macaron] that had been rushing like waves flew towards Goin like a vortex.

The so-called mesugaki vortex spear-sword technique. An attack with 25% bonus damage to pathetic unmanly guys rode the waves of pink ether and rose towards the dragonfly.

-Pathetic♡

-Pathetic♡

Swooosh—!

The mesugaki spear-sword technique rose valiantly like a pink waterspout over the sea. Riding that momentum, it slightly tore the unmanly guy’s wings.

‘If only we were a bit closer, I could have cut it off…’

But that level of pressure was enough to mentally shake the unmanly guy. As expected, he was weak mentally too.

[Kuh?! Y-You arrogant inferior species…!]

“Pathetic, pathetic—☆ Idiot who can only fly—♡ Go die—☆ Unmanly guy who only hides behind his little sister’s butt and summons—♡”

[I’ll cut off your bitch’s head myself—!]

“Ahaha—☆ Even the unmanly guy’s shout is pathetic♡”

The properly scratched unmanly guy roared and charged this way.

‘The provocation finally worked.’

It seemed I had to use the provocation skill several times with a cute pink airhead’s appearance for it to work. Thus everything in the world has its pros and cons.

Goin approaching right in front in an instant.

Aiming his sharp saliva at the corners of his mouth, he stretched his long body and charged like an arrow. It was his only melee attack skill.

“That won’t work—!”

But that charge was blocked by the shining elf girl’s suppressing fire. Five verdant ether arrows fired simultaneously in a fan shape flew like guided missiles.

Swooosh—!

The unmanly guy flying like an arrow was flustered.

He was just flying like an arrow, but real arrows were scary.

[Uwaah—?! Damn it!!]

Goin doing acrobatic flight using inertia.

Dodging this way, running away that way.

But with his torn wings he couldn’t reach his original speed, and failed to dodge 2 arrows. He ended up allowing attacks on his long body.

Swish—!!

Blood burst from where the arrows struck and explosions containing verdant ether occurred.

[Kuhak…!]

Though he was a dragon, he trembled gasping for breath. But even in that moment he spewed mucus from his mouth and threw it at us.

Within that sticky mucus, sub-adult chaos insects the size of bears formed and rushed this way.

Shaaaaat—!!

Hmph, unmanly guys’ actions are so predictable.

That’s why they’re unpopular with women.

…

‘Did I originally think like this?’

Since awakening the rainbow vision, my blood macaron levels seem to have strangely increased.

“…”

But now I had to respond to the unmanly summoning technique.

I sent those guys ascending again with the mesugaki waterspout spear-sword technique. Then pink ether explosively gushed from my body.

-Pathetic♡

-Pathetic♡

Kieeek—!!

A storm made with greatsword and spear.

The sub-adult chaos insects caught in the pink whirlwind were shredded without even leaving screams.

The chaos insects that failed to ascend were pierced by Anna’s arrows and fell down. The chaos insects that fell down the dizzying tree stem perished with a splat.

The summoned chaos insects completely disappeared like that.

[…]

Goin who watched that sight maintained a precarious distance, but saliva dripped from his mouth.

[Damn it, I was told there was only one to watch out for…!]

He had an expression of clear despair like a support alone defending a lane against two fully-grown fed heroes rushing in.

But Goin didn’t run away.

[D-Damn it…! How long do I have to do this…!]

“…”

We alternately poured out one sword strike, then one arrow shower like that. Slowly burdened by the stacking attacks dealing damage, Goin flew up high.

“…”

I thought he would disappear far into the sky, but he just circled around hovering. He was hesitating in a place just out of reach of Anna’s and my attacks.

‘If he’s going to run away he should just run, why is he doing that?’

Watching that appearance closely, I realized the reason Goin was lingering.

“…!”

I couldn’t tell from below, but there was a tricky condition attached to Goin who seemed to have an infinitely advantageous high ground position.

He had to fly at low altitude, maintaining a precarious distance from the target so that the summoned chaos insects wouldn’t be smashed more than necessary.

‘Just throwing recklessly wasn’t the answer. Even if he tried to hit and run, it’s useless if he can’t hit.’

Just by Goin rising slightly higher to avoid us now. The chaos insects he automatically summoned shattered on impact with the ground, unable to keep up with their regeneration.

Splat—!

Splat—!

He couldn’t use those that achieved incomplete regeneration as full force.

The longer our fight dragged on, the summoning waves were noticeably weakening.

‘The kids fighting below should be able to catch their breath now.’

What’s left is catching the dragonfly. If he has risks like this now, it’s fully possible.

…

And I’ve felt this since earlier.

‘That guy…’

Anna muttered beside me while aiming her arrow.

It seemed she had the same thought as me.

“Doesn’t that guy seem to be stalling for time?”

“…Yes.”

We looked into each other’s eyes.

It seemed we had the same thought this time too.

“We should go big, right?”

“Yes—☆”

We don’t know the reason for stalling time.

But we know we can’t let him do it.

“Now!”

“Now—☆”

Then we’ll change the situation with our biggest techniques.

It felt like we had to smash them right now, ether waste or not.

Anna pulled her bowstring, creating a huge verdant ether arrow like a giant ballista.

I stabbed my greatsword into the tree stem, raised my spear and slowly wrapped it in a pink spiral.

Kugugung—!!

The air vibrated and resonated.

The tree shook and swayed.

[…!]

As the [Unique Ether] users prepared their strongest strikes, Goin flying in the air sensed the threat and wavered.

[Th-This is…!]

Giving up on enduring until now, he was trying to escape at full speed.

[Damn it, damn it, damn it—!! Damn it, how much longer—!! I’m really at my limit now—!!]

But…

The world of an instant.

Rainbow-colored vision.

Keen senses.

Everything was predicting our attack would hit.

In less than 0.5 seconds.

We finished preparations in that slowly flowing time.

“[Ydalir]—!!”

“[Pink Lemon Sherbet]—☆”

Pink and verdant.

Throwing spear and giant arrow.

Attacks made of two types of ether flew towards the staggering dragonfly. And without time to dodge, they hit directly.

Kugugung—!

[Kuuuh… Uwaaah—!!]

The dragonfly was writhing between two pillars of verdant and pink. To escape from attacks he absolutely couldn’t dodge.

His wings were torn, outer shell peeled off, and bleeding from his long body.

Now sensing the end of this battle in my heart, just as I was about to deliver the finishing blow.

“…!”

An unbelievable rainbow-colored vision appeared before my eyes.

Huge teeth.

Eyes blazing like flames.

A mane containing darkness.

-You did well, Goin. I’ll take over from here.

A black crack formed in empty space.

And it instantly widened, becoming a large hole.

He’s coming.

“Anna! Dodge!”

“What…!”

I instinctively hugged Anna and fell below the tree stem. And at the same time, I heard the sound of the tree stem being miserably torn apart.

Crack—!!

Even while falling far below, fragments of the deep green tree stem formed by ether skill are visible in the corner of my vision. They fell as debris.

Pressure that shook my navel.

Even amidst the impact of falling, I clearly felt killing intent.

“Kuh…!”

I struggled to raise my head even while falling.

“That’s…”

Above the tree stem we fell from, the head of a giant wolf was casting a shadow.

Grrrr…!

A huge mouth that seemed like it could swallow even the moon. Opening a mouth with teeth each the size of a human torso, it was tearing at the tree stem.

The remains of a wolf claiming to be a god from myth.

It was protruding from within a man wearing a black robe. Tangled messily within the robe’s shadow, only its head was out glaring.

The man who summoned the wolf’s head opened the hood of his black robe and looked this way. His eyes were like they had been soaked in the abyss.

“…”

The prophet made a surprised expression seeing my face as I fell hugging Anna.

“…You are.”

You are.

…

That face was too familiar.

Though the right side of his face was twisted from burns.

It wasn’t a face I could possibly fail to recognize.

“…”

It was ‘me’.