Chapter 242 242 Grandalff
[Lucy's POV: ]
Her dance and her favorite place in this school were behind us now… and, we were standing before our class teacher.
"You ungrateful bunch."
He was glaring down at us with an upset look while all the other class teachers were complimenting the top students of their classes who helped them with the preparations.
"I know the announcements said helping with the preparations wasn't compulsory but if the toppers like you all don't take initiative in an important activity like this, what will we do in the future events where the unity of the classes will be a must?"
One of the reasons this whole preparation thing was important for these teachers was because of their inner competition to see who gets the best contribution rate in the preparation.
'The academy's personal system gives them unique tasks similar to quests and they get rewards according to their contribution rates.'
And since the class teachers have the special privilege that the contribution from the students of their classes would also count as their own contribution, the class teachers always have an internal competition going on between them where the winner or the one on top receives a month worth of the other's salaries.
'It's quite a childish-sounding game, however, this is actually quite important for the teachers since the salary we are talking about here is tens of thousands of Oz, which is hundreds of thousands of academy Points.'
From the normal perspective, that is a shit ton of money that not even the biggest merchants earn with their seasonal sales.
So, his anger at us was quite obvious.
[ "I should just give him the branch right now and shut his mouth. This bastard is more materialistic than me." ]
[ "No one here is as materialistic as us, El. Spare that poor bastard.
I heard he recently failed an advanced level summoning so he must be going through quite a rough time right now. Losing a month's salary obviously is not something that he can just ignore." ]
El and I were the toppers of this entire school, Ras was second, followed by Rex and Cathy. And including Nes, Lux the dark horse, Leon and Lily the little healer, and of course the Purple Witch Oak the current class A was theoretically the strongest force in decades, perhaps centuries of the academy's history.
And still… since none of us were present here, he lost the competition. And was not only humiliated, but he also had to lose the money that he was sure to receive.
[ "Jeez, Lucy. I don't care… I am in a good mood and he is running it. If not me, at least you talk to him!" ]
She just had a really great time with her performance, meeting one of the few people in this world she called a friend, and with the gift she received from him. She had a blast with all that and was looking forward to the next thing with the president of IAA.
'Getting her mood ruined by this class teacher of ours who was upset that he didn't win the competition he was sure to win was the last thing she needed right now.'
However, I knew she was enjoying seeing him like this.
She knew from the start he would react like this when the thought of this dedicated performance struck her for the first time. And that's why when she received that branch of Syilpheds, she reserved it to bribe this very teacher of ours.
'She was playing at something and I knew it was nothing small, civil, or morally unquestionable, but all that talk was for later.'
Right now, at this moment, she wanted to feel the happiness and the joy of this moment.
And she was not going to allow this teacher of ours to take it away from her.
"Do You Have Any Idea how difficult it was for me to explain to the other teachers why my top students weren't to be seen anywhere? Do you know-"
"Excuse me, mister Villex. Can I say something before you continue?"
"You want to say something now, mister Lucifer? Now? After you didn't show up all this time? Really?"
"Yes, since it is about one of the nine unique walls."
"Hmmm? What walls? Why are you trying to change the subject, boy? I not going to… Wait. Did you say the nine 'unique' walls? Do you mean The nine Unique walls?!"
"Yes… and shouldn't you speak calmly, mister?"
"Ahem! Yes yes…"
Yup. He was still as crazy about these walls as he must have been when he used to be a student in this academy himself.
"So, you see, we 'accidentally' encountered one of these walls when we were on our way to help everyone here."
I was speaking in a low voice but it wasn't so low that the others with us couldn't hear it.
'Which was intentional, of course.'
They heard me call it an accident that we ended up in that place and, since they had forgotten how exactly they had ended up in that place after El dragged them to that 'wall' they just gave a very suitable reaction to what I said.
'Which, again, was enough for the teacher to figure out whatever I was saying, was in fact true and that I had not forgotten about that place even with the 'laws' being in the place.'
The teachers of the academy were once students as well, and they all were the best of their batches and were also the valedictorians of their batches.
They all had undoubtedly gone on a hopeless search of finding out about these rumored nine walls and, after becoming teachers and gaining access to the greater resources, they must have also continued their search, however, they would still know less than what we knew about that place.
Which ultimately gave us a solid lead in everything related to these places.
"I see. I see. The accident happens, right? But, for me to believe your nonsense, young boy, don't you think I will need a little more than your vague words?"
"Easy teacher. I'm getting to those things. Let me speak…"
"Ah, alright…"
Spending a long time exploring, creating, and uncovering the secrets of the academy castle was something that took most of our time during each of the turns.
'And still, I can only say we knew only about only ninety percent of this castle.'
Perhaps less in this place, in this reality.
"I see… I get the gist of what had happened to all of you. However, I want the details of that place."
He was a teacher of the academy, the master elementalist and spirit arts master that had the most spirit contracts on this planet and he was certainly the strongest when it came to handling the elemental spirits, for now.
But he was still no omnipotent-omniscient higher being that could not be manipulated by some twisted words of a young mortal like me.
'He was a mortal. A greedy one that had spent a great part of his lifespan in search of unique spirits and things related to them.
And if I say so myself, he was obsessed with everything related to spirits.'
Hearing the details of all the things I had hinted at during the small explanation was something he could never ignore.
Not when I quite literally gave him a description of a legendary spirit tree.
"Of course, mister Villex."
"Alright then."
He had a better look on his scholarly face now.
"Go, all of you. Stand there and please, don't cause more trouble for us."
"We don't do anything intentionally teacher. They just happen to happen around us."
This, I spoke for all of us.
And he just shook his head with another upset expression and just walked away from us.
'In the academy in all this time, there have been many small and big incidents.
Some of them were related to Ras and how suddenly disappeared during his personal class outings. Some were related to Nes and her habit of asking too many questions about too many things. While some were related to Cathy and how she just knows everything the teachers want to teach them, or how she learns them so quickly that she has more than enough time on her hand to perfectly teach all those things to half of her class.'
Some incidents were connected with Rex who ruined the schedules and pre-planned teaching plans of the teachers, while some of the accidents were connected with our little Lily who was unexpectedly too charming for the other students for some unknown reason.
Like, it was really strange how the students were noticing her so early in our first-year curriculum.
But that was that. And all of us were one of the most well-known troublemakers of this batch.
'And since we hadn't been here for the last three months, those incidents and accidents were going to increase by many folds soon.'
But we can think about all that after we are done with this whole IAA president thing.
[ "Haaa, good one, Lucy basted. You did well sending him off with just that much. It will keep him anxious about all the things we would tell him." ]
[ "I knew you were enjoying seeing him like that. Haaa… you are naughty, El." ]
[ "Hell yeah I am~. I am naughty for you the most though, you know?" ]
[ "Why wouldn't I know." ]
That naughtiness of yours costs me many things.
I could never not know about it.
[ "Anyway, Grandalff's visiting at an odd hour. What might have fucked his ever-perfect schedule like this?" ]
[ "No idea. Perhaps it was because of us? Who knows?" ]
Gradalff the World shaper. That's what people usually call him.
But this sister of mine calls him 'fantasy wizard Grandalff' even though he is neither a wizard nor a mage.
'He just looks like a perfect fantasy wizard, and he is one of the few in this world who does, so, she likes calling him that instead of all his other titles and unique titles.'
But, he is one of the greatest swordsmen in this entire Worldline.
He is a unique being as well but above everything else about him…
"Uho-uho-uho! Apologies students! I was entangled in a spatial matter."
His unique way of greeting sounds like a hyena's laughter.
"Ptfff. Hehehe-hahaha-… ahem."
It is something I personally find unbearably funny.
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