Academy’s New Guard is Unusual - Chapter 12

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Episode 12
Elysium Academy is the foremost academy on the continent.
And this year, an Oracle has been issued that a hero will emerge among the new students.
In this world, Oracles are absolute. Naturally, the continent’s finest talents flocked to the academy, and as a result, the level of students rose abnormally—or so the setting claimed.
But the actual level of the new students I saw was pathetic. They deserved to be called trash.
Actually, though, it wasn’t that they were weak.
‘I’ve just become too strong.’
It was the result of me maxing out all my Stats to S. Because of that, I’d spent twelve years in the Tutorial, and now I was facing this situation.
I wasn’t happy about it at all. If anything, the opposite.
Because I knew the level of enemies that would come later.
S is a high Stat, but it’s not the highest grade. To face the Foreign Gods and Calamities in the latter half, I needed S+, which was beyond standard specifications.
Even knowing that, I had one reason for distributing my Stats evenly.
‘There’s no need for it.’
Like Andy, the youngest Archmage, there are talented character prodigies chosen for each Stat.
The efficient method was for me—with my evenly distributed Stats—to carry the story into the late game while developing each Stat’s geniuses.
I’d actually cleared the game this way before.
However, this possession was a hard mode I’d never attempted before.
“I’ll need to push them hard.”
“Push them? Who exactly?”
Mailo, startled out of nowhere, asked reluctantly. I pointed at the new students.
“The new students.”
“You know we’re in the Guard Corps, right?”
Mailo spoke urgently, as if worried I might suddenly make another absurd request.
According to Mailo, I was part of the Guard Corps. I wasn’t in a position to push students around.
However, there was one way.
‘If a professor at Elysium Academy refuses a teaching assistant, a Guard Corps member is assigned as a substitute assistant.’
That was why I’d saved Leon on the train. The problem was that Leon was a newly appointed professor this time.
To get the people I wanted to take Leon’s class, I needed to spread rumors about him. The issue was how to spread them—.
Just then, I spotted the method far ahead.
“You’re the reason we’re late! Spending all day picking bread!”
“The academy matters? Bread matters!”
“Ugh.”
It was Andy and Evangelline bickering.
They were at the end of the line. By the order, they’d be getting on the carriage ahead of us.
“Mailo, switch our order with the carriage ahead.”
“Huh? We’re supposed to wait our turn and board, but switch the order?”
“So?”
“No, we need to keep the order—.”
“So?”
“Good grief, you little brat.”
Mailo screwed up his face and headed toward the carriage ahead.
Mailo thrust his fist at the man in charge of the carriage ahead. It seemed like he was just challenging him to a brawl. Soon Mailo gestured to me.
“Done.”
“Well done.”
I shifted to the carriage ahead with satisfaction.
“Why on earth did you switch carriages? They’re basically the same anyway.”
Mailo asked, baffled.
I turned my gaze away instead of answering.
Evangelline and Andy were still loudly bickering.
Behind the two of them stood a man with a harsh face.
His nose was sharp enough to cut, and his entire body was covered in expensive Magical Tools unbefitting a student.
“Having to ride in such a shoddy carriage—. Tsk.”
It was Killian, the heir to the Magic Tower Union.
Resurrection Chronicle is a romance fantasy academy novel in its genre.
True to the romance fantasy style, there were male leads.
The problem was that all the male leads were abnormal. The bigger problem was that Evangelline was even more abnormal. The synergy between those two was truly deadly.
The ending of the route connected to Killian was Killian using Evangelline as an energy source for the Magic Tower.
Killian’s a dead end. But it’s not just Killian.
When Evangelline fell in love, she gave everything. Studying was naturally pushed aside. Romance was fatal to Evangelline’s graduation.
That was why I’d deliberately switched the carriage order.
Because this is where Killian and Evangelline meet for the first time.
‘Evangelline loses her footing while boarding the carriage and falls into the arms of Killian, who was behind her.’
Roughly when her glasses fall off and Killian becomes smitten with her—a development so clichéd that even bone broth couldn’t extract more flavor from it.
“The step is high, so be careful when you board.”
Just then, Mailo warned the students.
‘Surprisingly kind to the students.’
The students who heard Mailo’s warning boarded carefully. Finally, Evangelline climbed aboard the carriage.
Even if the carriage step was high, it was only slightly higher than other carriages, and Mailo had even warned them.
There wasn’t even the slightest reason to fall.
However, the other party was Evangelline.
Evangelline ran toward the carriage. For some reason, like an elementary schooler crossing at a crosswalk, she bounced up with both feet.
Naturally, she lost her balance and teetered backward.
‘This is ridiculous.’
I clicked my tongue and swung my Guard Staff. The staff caught Evangelline’s back.
“Oh, thank—.”
“Don’t jump when boarding a carriage.”
“But the carriage step seems perfectly suited for jumping——.”
I closed the carriage door without listening further.
Killian looked up at me.
“Take the next carriage.”
Killian merely nodded. A hopeless little punk indeed.
Soon the carriage began moving slowly.
‘First crisis averted.’
I gathered my Guard Staff and breathed a sigh of relief.
“Elysium Academy looks even better than the rumors. Really amazing.”
“Right? I’m so amazed I can’t close my mouth.”
Through the carriage window, I overheard the new students’ conversation. It was light icebreaking between people meeting for the first time.
The problem was that Evangelline had joined in.
“The front gate of Elysium Academy was personally commissioned by Alec, our founding Headmaster, to be built by dwarves. Creating just that one gate required enough gold to buy three carriages.”
Evangelline lifted her chin and arrogantly spouted information no one had asked for.
Fortunately, there was someone easygoing enough to take it, and one student laughed and accepted it.
“How do you know such information? That’s impressive.”
It was purely perfunctory praise, but the target was unfortunate—it was Evangelline.
“I read a book about the history of Elysium Academy. It’s basic knowledge. Surely you read it too?”
“Haha, I see. You’re really——.”
“You didn’t even meet the basics. Tsk. The front gate you just saw is like a record book depicting the history of Elysium Academy. The founding Headmaster built the gate, but back then it was just splendid and beautiful, they say. It was Bedrian, the Archmage who first established the concept of the Magic Tower, who imbued it with meaning. Bedrian——.”
The new students’ faces began rotting in real-time, but Evangelline didn’t care one bit.
“Here’s the interesting part—Bedrian actually wasn’t that interested in the front gate. It was all just to squeeze funding from the Empire.”
Naturally, no one responded.
Just then, Andy, who caught my gaze, squeezed his eyes shut and spoke.
“Wow, that’s so cool. How do you even know that?”
“It’s basic. The really interesting part comes next. Once the Empire’s funding came through, but Bedrian wasn’t satisfied——.”
The already cold carriage atmosphere deteriorated catastrophically. Conversely, Evangelline grew even more animated——.
One of the new students urgently knocked on the window.
“We’ll get off and walk the rest of the way.”
Despite there being considerable distance remaining, the new students got off the carriage.
In the end, only Evangelline and Andy remained in the carriage.
“Do you need to use the bathroom?”
“…Apparently so.”
Andy answered Evangelline’s question in a tone of resignation.
‘I’m actually seeing this.’
Everyone except Evangelline abandons the carriage and gets off. It’s exactly as the game story went.
And here’s when he shows up.
“Oh, is this the carriage heading to the dormitory? Haha, I was lost, so I’m glad I found it!”
As I raised my head at the pleasantly deep voice, there was a handsome man with orange hair.
His smile was natural—a typical charming handsome man. However, if you looked closely into those arc-drawn eyes, you could faintly sense a cold glimmer.
Another male lead candidate, Raven.
‘Raven.’
Raven was an assassin belonging to Crescent Moon, one of the Ten Calamities of the Empire. A highly skilled assassin who later becomes the Assassination King.
Raven was extremely gloomy, meticulous, and persistent.
In romance fantasy terms, the so-called schemer type.
Raven’s ending is Evangelline tearing out her own heart and giving it to Raven. Even smiling while doing it.
Raven was like a serpent. If I let him in the carriage, he’d find a way to coil through any crack.
“No room.”
I rejected Raven firmly.
“Oh really? Didn’t someone just get off?”
Raven asked with his characteristic ingratiating smile.
“I heard that the Guard Corps is obligated to take students if they request it.”
Raven brought up the Guard Corps rules. He seemed to have prepared well. Of course, it didn’t matter.
“I don’t know about that. I’m new.”
“…Pardon?”
“I said I don’t know because I’m new.”
As I listlessly scratched my ear, Raven’s lips trembled slightly. But Raven maintained his smile.
“Wouldn’t it be better to ask the senior next to you? You seem to be one.”
Raven pointed at Mailo.
I looked at Mailo too. Mailo was——.
“Get lost.”
He spat out the curse as if he’d been waiting for it. Raven’s smile, which had barely held on, shattered.
“Taking students is a duty of the Guard Corps——.”
“I said get lost, you punk. You want to brawl?”
Mailo spewed curses with raw brutality. Faced with such primal rejection lacking any logic, Raven had no choice but to back off.
“I will report this to the Guard Corps.”
“Yeah, sure. It’s Mailo, Unit 42. Write it down good.”
Grinding his teeth harshly, Raven disappeared.
I looked at Mailo anew.
So he was kind to the students, but sensed something off about Raven?
Mailo spat after Raven’s departing back.
“That pretty boy actually thinking he could ride my carriage. You little brat.”
Hmm, he was just trash-tier after all.
Thanks to Mailo, I’d driven off Raven, but Raven was a gloomy assassin.
He wouldn’t give up easily.
However, I had a countermeasure.
That countermeasure was surprisingly simple.
“That guy just now, Raven. This is a secret, but——.”
I trailed off while glancing sideways at the carriage window.
“I heard he’s quite the notorious womanizer. Over a hundred women this guy’s touched so far——.”
“Really?! This jerk! You bastard!”
Mailo exploded with genuine anger.
I confirmed Evangelline with a sidelong glance. Evangelline wasn’t looking at me, but her ears were perked up.
“Oh! Raven! I’ve heard about him too. He’s a real woman chaser!”
Andy caught on to my statement as expected. Evangelline pretended not to know and asked back.
“Raven?”
“That guy who just came. I heard he can’t resist a pretty woman. Just rushes right at them——.”
“Oh no! That’s a problem! I’m pretty!”
“Yeah, yeah. You should be careful, right? If you get involved with Raven, your ears could rot right off.”
Even so, getting your ears to rot off just from talking—isn’t that a bit much? Who would believe that——.
“Eek! I heard him earlier?! My ears! What do I do! My ears! Quickly!”
Evangelline urgently thrust her ears toward Andy. Andy, sighing, inspected Evangelline’s ears.
“Did they rot off?!”
“Hmm, hard to tell?”
“They rotted! They did rot! My ears!!”
“Wait, it was just earwax.”
“Clean it off for me! Now!”
“Why should I clean earwax—. Phew!! There! Cleaned it!”
“Thank goodness!”
…In any case, from now on, Evangelline will scream and cover her ears whenever she sees Raven and run away. Raven won’t be able to make any moves for a while either.
Then, my eyes met with Andy’s.
Andy glanced at Evangelline, who was holding her ears and genuinely relieved.
His eyes seemed to ask: Is this really right?
Unfortunately, she’s the protagonist.
I gave a reluctant nod.
We sighed simultaneously.

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