I Became the Academy’s Pink Airhead

“Whew—! It’s hot!”

“…”

Greetings over in an instant.

Eir immediately put down the spine-like sword she was carrying on her back and plopped down on the bench seat next to me. Seeing her up close, her dirty appearance was even more noticeable.

A faint smell of sweat emanated from her black coat and red uniform reminiscent of flames, and her long red hair seemed unwashed for who knows how many days.

‘If you’re hot, why not take off the coat… Is the recent academy city trend not washing? The delinquent students were like that too, it feels somewhat unsettled.’

Eir, who usually doesn’t leave the school vicinity. I was also concerned that she had come alone to the northeast street far from the north where is located.

Unable to contain my curiosity, I spoke to Eir who was wafting a rich smell of sweat:

“If you’re here—☆ You came to take the final exams, right?”

“Hm? Oh… yeah. This was the only place I could stop by to take the exam while passing through. Well, I didn’t know anything so I just guessed and came out.”

I see.

Indeed my sister, my friend.

Heroes don’t study.

‘But I don’t think I saw Eir inside the exam venue…’

It seems Eir was assigned to a different exam room than me. But even so, it was strange for her to come here to take the exam.

“Oh my☆ As far as I know, there’s a separate administrative office in the north too—☆ And if you, the student council president of , come this far, won’t the kids at your school go wah♪ looking for you~☆”

“…”

“If something happened and you came all this way~ You can come rest at our too—☆ We’re sister schools now after all♪”

“…”

Seeing that she didn’t particularly deny it when I subtly called us sister schools, it seemed our promise to think of each other as sisters was still valid.

‘Though it’s a bit rough, actually the school that suits my heart more than any other is… , so I’m glad.’

The school of warriors.

The passionate send-off from the students still remained in my heart. The passion contained in their stomping feet and shouts was deeply engraved in my heart.

Although due to a misunderstanding, we parted in such a solemn atmosphere.

‘I should probably clear up that misunderstanding soon…’

I wanted to help if had any problems. With that feeling in mind, I subtly suggested it to Eir.

Eir opened her eyes wide, blinked, then soon smiled. The shark-like teeth visible between her pink lips were quite impressive.

“Kuhehe… About the kids at our school, well… there’s no need to worry about them. It’s about time for those guys to choose their new boss too, so shouldn’t I vacate my position occasionally? There’s already one strong candidate.”

“Ah~☆ I see… Then why did you come all the way here…?”

“…”

Eir didn’t answer for a while. But soon she looked up at the sky and answered in a cheerful tone.

“As I vowed that day, to reach the realm beyond [Unique Ether]… somehow I felt I needed to push myself to the limit. I’ve been going around adapting to dungeons and environments I haven’t been to before. Huhu.”

“Heeh…☆”

“Before I knew it, I ended up coming this far while wandering around alone like that. I took the exam while I was here too. Kukuk… though I just guessed everything.”

“Ohhh…☆”

“Anyway… looking at things from various angles, I saw where I needed to go and I’m running towards it.”

“Ohhh…☆”

I couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.

‘She instinctively guessed the correct answer to reaching wuji…’

A state of selflessness.

Beyond [Unique Ether] that creates one’s own world, the stage of completing a world solely one’s own.

In game terms:

Raising experience to the limit, completing character growth that is no longer swayed by external factors.

‘Hilde and I rose to the limit through PVP experience.’

Freya through awakening via boss battles.

Eir is awakening through various experiences and adventures.

“Mmm.”

Eir nodded proudly and said:

“Still, coming out this far, I did have some unique experiences. Last night there were delinquent students who didn’t recognize me so I taught them a lesson… Puhehe, it’s been a while? Those guys trying to pick a fight with me. After getting beaten by me they abandoned their hideout and ran away to some corner far away.”

“…”

An intuition flashing through my mind. For some reason, hearing those words reminded me of the rich smell of green hair.

“Don’t tell me, did they have green hair?”

“Oh, are they famous?”

“No…☆”

I see.

The green-haired robber girl gang that became a giant kimbap…

Did they get beaten by two people in one night…?

No wonder they were excessively scared.

“…”

Well… anyway.

I was glad there wasn’t any particular problem with Eir and .

“…”

“…”

We sat blankly like that, observing passersby. Because we had sensitive senses different from others, for us, this street where numerous people passed by and made their presence known gave an impression like a magnificent fountain show.

“…”

“…”

A comfortable silence continued for a while.

‘…I should clear up the misunderstanding soon.’

Eir grinning from talking to someone after a long time.

Even though she’s a student from a rough slum, her nature was good and brave.

I couldn’t keep misunderstanding her any longer when she showed such deep friendship as to call me ‘sister’.

I carefully spoke to Eir:

“You know.”

“Huh?”

“…I’ve fully recovered from being sick back then, and I can use ether now—☆ Actually I could use [Unique Ether] back then too♪ [Faded Spiral] was a lie…”

“Oh, was that so. No wonder. You’re a good actor.”

“…?”

…?

I was rather taken aback by that nonchalant attitude.

I thought there would be some reaction, even if not sulking for a couple hours like Hilde…

-Lara, why did you lie to me?

-Hnngh…! W-Wait…! Not the nape…♪

-Lara, Lara… I need to punish bad Lara.

‘That day I had to kiss Hilde five times to be forgiven… She kept ordering increasingly lewd places…’

I was curious what kind of sensibility Hilde had to order such things even knowing my contents.

Anyway…

Even hearing the same truth, Eir was surprisingly nonchalant.

“I see, so?”

“…”

Eir yawned widely as if bored by the lengthening story and scratched her ear. Then she huffed and said with a smile showing her shark teeth:

“Hehehe… The sincerity was already conveyed, so I don’t see why the truth matters. Do you always live like this?”

“…”

“[Spiral], you probably don’t know since you don’t come to the slums, but explanations over 10 minutes are forbidden for students. Got it?”

“Huhu…☆ You talked for over 10 minutes too—☆”

Eir frowned at my counterattack and shook her head. Then as if she didn’t want to hear any more talk, she shouted loudly:

“Ah shut up! Anyway! I’m going to defeat [Azure Lightning Lance] in the fighting tournament this fall and become the strongest in the academy city! That’s what I’ve decided! So I need to hurry towards beyond [Unique Ether]—!!”

A roar shouting with both hands stretched towards the sky.

Because of that, passersby were startled and looked over.

Recognizing the appearance and epithet of the one who shouted and being shocked.

I smiled wryly seeing that.

‘Does Eir not know that Hilde has risen to the realm after wuji… the realm of ‘weapon true name release’…’

[Gungnir]

The weapon containing Hilde’s [Fate].

Weapon true name release.

Unlike ‘wuji’, it’s a name temporarily given based on the game system, but anyway Hilde has clearly advanced one step beyond us… students remaining at ‘wuji’.

‘The difference between characters with only max level bodies and breakthrough characters whose exclusive weapons level up too…’

I couldn’t help but smile bitterly watching Eir’s actions, not knowing this. Without her knowing, her goal had taken one step back.

In the end, I decided to tell Eir about the growth Hilde and Freya had achieved.

“Ahaha…☆ W-Well, about that…”

* * *

In the end, Eir decided to stay at today.

Alvit’s group, who had diligently finished their exams and come out, flinched when they saw her.

“Uwah?! [Crimson Trajectory]?! Why?!”

“Ahaha…☆”

“Oh. It’s me.”

Ensuing silence.

“…”

“…”

“…”

But they soon regained their composure with steel-like minds that had been tempered. They had experienced too much over the past semester to be surprised by every little thing.

Alvit muttered while calming her surprised look:

“Well… we’re used to the Five Colors suddenly popping up now too…”

“We’ve… seen three of the Five Colors ourselves now, right…?”

“The strongest from the biggest and second biggest schools… and someone who used to be the strongest we spend time with every day…”

Alvit exclaimed as if realizing the truth:

“Do we need to be particularly surprised seeing the Five Colors at this point?!”

“We don’t.”

“Doesn’t seem like it.”

“Then let’s welcome Senior Eir!”

“I agree.”

“Agreed.”

So the juniors welcomed the surprise guest Eir.

The guest reception protocol they had become familiar with by now.

We took her dirty clothes to be washed at the repair shop, then gave her training clothes. And we helped her shower by opening the shower room.

’s shower room.

Powerful streams of water poured from the ether pump that had been repaired recently. There, Eir was receiving the falling water droplets naked.

“Damn it…! Kuaah—!! How could this be…! A-Am I below that nerdy cat…?! Now I’m not below [Lightning Lance], [Trajectory]… but [Spinning Wheel]…? No, that can’t be…”

Actually, the one getting kiss-pecked under Hilde wasn’t Freya but me… but it didn’t seem necessary to tell her that.

She was shouting so loudly.

It could be heard even from the dormitory cafeteria.

Twitch

Orange cat ears moving whenever a loud sound was heard.

“…?”

Rota tilted her head while wearing an apron and preparing dinner. But soon she ignored it and busily moved her hands again, putting ingredients in the pot.

Alvit and Kara were taking over the errands I used to do in the shopping district. They had become the new mascots of the shopping district, receiving adoration.

‘Now that the juniors have completely settled into their own lifestyles and boldly go on dungeon explorations…’

Everything was falling into place.

Everyone was growing.

All misunderstandings were gradually being cleared up.

“Huhu…☆”

I smiled, feeling proud of that.

Now we were moving forward with sincere hearts.

* * *

A blade pointed at my neck.

“D-Don’t move!! If you don’t want to see this p-pink hair get hurt!!”

“…?”

“…?”

“…?”

Oh, it’s been a while since we had a tense angle.