Episode 67. There are too many abnormal people in this academy.

The Festival Research Department is the core club of the school festival that comes at the end of every first semester.

It is also a place that boasts a long tradition that has been maintained since the beginning of the academy, but ironically, it was discontinued last year.

The person who became the manager requested to bring in gunpowder to use for the festival, but the academy rejected that request over and over again.

Nevertheless, he took the illegal route and brought gunpowder into the academy…

In the end, an accident blew up a laboratory, and the fire that broke out at that time could have burned down the entire campus if it hadn’t been extinguished.

Even so, Rudger did not quench his lingering attachment to gunpowder, but instead he couldn’t hide his ecstasy at the scene of a fire.

‘There was only a slight mistake. Just a little… A little more and you’ll be done! Please, give me one more chance!’

This is nonsense.

Even that was regarded as a punishment once for the fact that his grades were excellent, but in the end, that only ended up being a once-in-a-lifetime.

If you repeat the same thing twice, it will never be forgiven.

“I’m going to go ahead and ask. Where did you get the gunpowder from?”

“Procurement? What are you talking about?”

“I was asking where you got the ejection from the cannon.”

Maya’s gaze was directed straight to the prisoner leaning next to Ludger.

Slightly rising smoke from the narrow muzzle. It indicated that the two previous shots had leaked from that muzzle.

There must have been great damage to the place where the projectile landed.

“Ah. You mean this?”

Even so, there was no sign of guilt on his face.

“I came across a very good opportunity by chance, so I made it myself.”

“To make, to say, what is that… ….

“Whoops, are you curious about what I mean?”

A smile slowly developed on his haggard face.

“Well, to put it simply, failure is the mother of success. Explosions caused by chemicals that occasionally occur in experiments such as alchemy……. After meticulously studying those failures, I was finally able to make gunpowder that can be used stably using only the materials provided by the academy.”

“You mean you made it yourself, not procured it?”

“Yes Chairman! Do you know what this means!?”

My body, which had been stretched out without strength, unfolded.

A different color begins to appear in the eyes facing Maya.

“Finally, at the academy, we can achieve what we want! The perfect festival that everyone can enjoy equally, the parts suitable for the finale to decorate the hemp have finally been gathered!”

“That is nonsense. No one wanted that!”

“No, I’m sure the president would like it too! Because you are more loyal than anyone else to Maris’ ideology of equality!”

A state where no guilt is visible from his bright smile.

Yes, even when the arson incident occurred at the time, witnesses said that they reacted like that.

Not only was he immersed in ecstasy watching the burning laboratory, but he was so engrossed in it that he even begged the leader who was trying to redeem himself.

A person who would be considered crazy despite his position as a person with excellent grades.

Since Maya had only heard about it, she hadn’t even thought that the other person was this insane.

‘No… If you think about it, it’s nothing new. Because there are a lot of abnormal people in this academy.’

I know why.

In the first place, the academy recruited students from all over the continent.

There are so many diverse students, but among those who are commonly called geniuses, those who are often called geeks are bound to account for a considerable percentage.

That was the case with a female student who shared the same dormitory as Maya when she just entered middle school.

‘Yes? Taking cabbage for a walk?’

‘Is there a problem?’

‘No, it’s cabbage…… ?’

Cabbage every morning…….

In other words, a female student who went for a walk with a leash on the vegetables growing in the field.

I gave serious reasons such as being a vegetarian myself, that there is such a culture in my hometown, or that I was helping the environment rather than raising a pet, but to others, it looked like I was just doing crazy things.

Of course, she didn’t have any problems other than that, but that’s because her eccentricity, as far as she can see, is done in a non-violent way.

A misdirected eccentricity cannot be persuaded by common sense, so it is impossible to control it.

‘Wayden, have you been dealing with people like this all this time and still reporting so calmly?’

I didn’t do anything wrong, but for some reason I started to resent him.

To be honest, he seems more like a man than a woodpecker.

“… I thought I came to my senses during the suspension, but I must have been careless.”

“Uhhh, I also tried to suppress my desires somehow until I left this academy. But unfortunately, I’m about to graduate this year……. I didn’t want to blow the last chance of a lifetime, so I ended up doing it.”

Once I graduate, I won’t care what I do outside of the academy.

Anyway, the author seemed to be aiming to achieve something within this academy, not just using gunpowder.

“What are you aiming for?”

“To see everyone in this academy face the same spark I saw back then!”

Soon Rudger opened his arms and shouted proudly.

“The moment everyone on the ground sees the fire that fills the sky, everyone will realize it. The equality that Maris seeks is that it is achieved by an explosion… And a bigger explosion!! Oh yeah This is the path this Maris should take! And!”

“It’s too hard to listen to geeky bullsh*t!!”

The words of a madman are worthless than the cry of a beast.

The moment the school supplies he took out were thrown, Ludger drew mana into his body and deployed a shield in front.

School supplies bounced off by the curtain of physical force.

The fact that the aura bounces lightly even though it is young means that the opponent’s ability is also excellent enough to match one’s own.

Of course.

The opponent is (former) the senior of the 3rd year of high school. If he hadn’t become a pyromaniac, he would have graduated from this academy with better grades than anyone else.

“Huhuhu, even if I say it anyway, you won’t understand. But don’t worry, I’m ready, and when the time comes, everyone will know what ideals I’m pursuing!”

“Stand there!!.”

Ludger grabs the cannon and jumps off the bell tower.

Maya also jumped down after him and started aiming for Ludger’s back as he ran across the field.

Brushes sharpened by mana will produce powerful penetrating power within range.

-Pakak!

However, immediately after that, the thrown objects were intercepted by the person who intruded between the two, and they all bounced off and fell to the floor.

The moment someone got in my way to protect Rudger.

“Who the hell…!”

“Oh, who is this?”

A man who proudly presents himself in front of the bewildered Maya.

What Maya felt when she met that face was intense anger.

Blonde, tanned skin, sunglasses covering her eyes, and a clunky outfit created by arbitrarily adjusting the fit of her school uniform.

“Sean Goldroff… ….”

“Ahahahaha~ It’s been a while since we met like this, but you remember me well. How have you been, Chairman?”

I can’t forget it.

Because the opponent was one of the worst problem children acknowledged by the entire school, who committed the most problems in the current school.

Sean Goldroff. Like Ludgar, he didn’t commit anything that led to his expulsion, but that’s why he’s a man of even worse quality…’

Yes, the opponent is not the one who causes the problem himself, but the one who only creates the opportunity

Usually, it is to covertly approach students who may cause trouble, and induce them to break school rules by coaxing them out.

At the same time, he erased only the traces of his involvement, avoiding punishment, or receiving only minimal punishment.

Like Rudger, he had a narrow accident only in the line where no severe punishment was handed down, and he was a troublesome piece of trouble for Maris, who was careful even to convene a disciplinary committee according to school rules.

Obviously, I heard that Wayden was arrested and sent to the punishment ward a while ago, but is it already the release date?

“… Okay. It was something you were hooked up to.”

No, no matter what, the important thing is that he protected Rudger now.

“What do you mean?”

Sean Goldroff raises his sunglasses and expresses his doubts at my words.

As usual, Maya took off her pretense and gave him a fierce glare and shouted.

“The Rudger student currently being tracked said: He said that he committed this incident by getting a ‘good opportunity’ at this academy to manufacture gunpowder.”

Who gave you that good opportunity?

That’s something that can be known just by the fact that the author in front of me blocked the target of pursuit.

“Yes, you were the one who provoked Rudger into doing this.”

“I don’t even know what you’re talking about~ I just interrupted because it looked interesting.”

Sean Goldroff laughs at my words and shrugs.

Anyway, it’s just like usual. While he was thinking and vigilantly, his gaze slowly moved to the place where Ludger had fled.

“But now I can understand the situation roughly. In short, the president will punish our senior Ludger for manufacturing gunpowder at this academy……. What is it?”

“Of course. In the first place, possession of gunpowder is strictly regulated at this academy. If he wasn’t just a good grader, he would have had nothing to say even if he was immediately expelled!”

“Ah, that’s not it~ No matter how high the president is, isn’t it too extreme to think about it?”

“What… ….”

“As far as I know, the only thing that is prohibited by school rules is the ‘carrying in and possession of gunpowder’… …. If that’s the case, isn’t Ludgar-senpai innocent?”

The answer to the bewildered Maya.

After that, Sean shrugged his shoulders and told Maya what he thought.

“Yeah, sunbae-nim definitely means ‘made’, right? They didn’t use gunpowder from scratch, it was just a combination of what was in this academy……. Even if it has explosive power, it seems like an explosion, and if you name it differently than gunpowder, wouldn’t it be gunpowder?”

“… Do you mean he is innocent because the school rules for ‘priestly items’ are not specified?”

Yes, this guy has always been like this.

Those who think it’s enough to distort and interpret only what is written in the law code.

This is a speech method often used by lawyers defending the wicked.

“Studying this and that with a failed work can also be used as part of an experiment. If you think about it that way, the punishment that our seniors will receive seems to end with a light punishment of the misuse and abuse of experimental products…….”

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“Among Maris’ school rules, there is a provision that the student council president can convene a disciplinary committee regardless of the school rules.”

Unfortunately, the current situation is too bad even if it is bad.

Though cigarettes and alcohol he has brought in are the realm of luxury goods, gunpowder is definitely the realm of weapons.

There is a risk that the academy will mass-produce the object that Waden hates so much and that he risked his life to exclude from this academy.

Couldn’t you be the chairman yourself?

“If the student is judged innocent, I will take responsibility as well, so I cannot abuse it, but if the target deals with gunpowder, anyone will understand.”

“…… Woah, since school rules won’t work anymore, are you using force to suppress them?”

“Yes. This time, I intend to solidify my resolve. All the more as you start to guess why you’ve been in trouble…”

Yes, the opponent belongs to a high-ranking aristocratic family in the empire.

Of course, the school rules will be applied equally regardless of family, but committing a problem in Maris itself can come as a stain on the family.

If you still commit a problem, there are two reasons you can think of.

Anyway, in the family, they are pushed back in the battle for successor, or they are treated as outcasts and are in a state of desperation.

Or if it was for my own purpose, I could endure giving up my family on my own.

“Are you trying to destroy this Maris?”

Maybe.

Perhaps the problem child in front of me is just acting as a problem child and collaborating with an outside criminal organization?

Aren’t the minor problems they’ve committed so far just a handful of tricks to make their work easier?

In front of Maya who was swayed by such anxiety, Sean immediately burst into laughter and said,

“Well, that’s not entirely wrong.”

-Charleureuk!

A number of school supplies are pulled out of the bosom as soon as you hear the answer.

All of that started to be sharpened while floating in the air in response to Maya’s will.

“Maya Karis, the current student council president of Maris. I’m going to start fighting the problem student from now on.”

If it is to protect this Maris.

As if it taught me the determination not to refuse even the determination to get my hands dirty.

***

And Waden too.

‘…… This is the trading floor.’

I can still feel the cold metal feeling in my arms.

As he touched it anxiously, Waden’s gaze began to turn to the building where the people he had been following had entered.

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