Why
“Why―――――――!?”
Hogner Magic Academy’s special class. Today too, Lily’s shouting voice reverberates in the classroom.
“Did you not hear? Or, could you not understand?”
Asch asks while holding onto both his ears.
“What do you mean you are changing the location of the excursion!?”
It has been decided that for their annual excursion, they’re going to the Hill of Belzebore. An overwhelmingly hasty beautiful young girl who has already, finished even the preparation for the excursion perfectly, gotten a grasp of everything, the famous places, the routes, and even the prices of the souvenir stores, she is.
“What……that huh. Well, calm down. Sirisasa Mountain is a great place, you knowー. The scenery is also beautiful since it’s a location where nobody on the entire continent resides”
“It is because it is a treasure cove of vicious monsters and Demon Insects and nobody can stay there! The Newrovaro that boasts one of the greatest ferocity on the continent, the Raettart that has a gigantic body that exceeds 5m, as well as the Demon Insect killer bee that put you into a state of paralysis with just a single sting!”
“Sounds like it’ll be a fun excursion, doesn’t it”
“Are you an idiot!? We will die! Everybody will die!”
“You don’t have to worry, I won’t die”
Ev-, even if you say that to us so proudly……the students’ thoughts were brilliantly aligned.
“Asch-sama……all of the students, they are not the slightest bit, worried about your life”
Mira indifferently retorts.
“Is, is that so……however, I guarantee that it’ll be an extraordinarily stimulating excursion”
W-, we don’t need such a guarantee though……again, the students’ thoughts aligned.
“Please guarantee our lives!”
“Aah, what a noisy child. I got it. I just have to guarantee your lives, right?”
It’s clear as day, that that wording of the worst teacher, hasn’t even an ounce of persuasiveness.
“I adamantly object! I, adamantly object! Object object object!”
While she’s doing her best, trying to remove the hands placed on Asch’s ears, the hot-blooded beautiful honour student young girl voices her opinion.
“Aah, is that so. Then, you won’t go, right?”
“……eh”
At the ill-natured Magician’s words, Lily takes several steps backwards.
“It doesn’t really matter. It’s not like I’m begging you to come after all. You will go ahead and do self-study”
“Tha-, that’s……not going is……”
Lily starts mumbling as soon as he says that. A beautiful young girl who loves excursions so much that she prepared for the excursion and checked if she had forgotten anything every single day since a week ago.
“We’ll go to Sirisasa Mountain and witness the wonders of life of unknown creatures and plants; you can just face the table and move your pen in this special classroom”
“Guguu……”
“While everybody is bringing their stories and getting riled up, you’ll act like you didn’t hear it while you’re listening to it, pretend like『I’m not interested in something like that』and act like you’re devoting yourself to studying”
The ill-natured Magician who turns the attack around and corners Lily with his words. And then, those words he spoke, they had quite a bit of persuasiveness. That is, something that came from the experience of he, who spent an overly lonely school life.
“I, I did not say I am not going. It is an annual event at Hogner Magic Academy, you know!? Everybody has been, looking tremendously forward――”
“You don’t have to go”
“……”
About to cry. Lily who tears up in her deep green eyes. A tremendously sad beautiful young girl who imagines herself self-studying because she could no longer go because she’s stubborn, she is.
At that moment, the classroom’s door opened.
“Asch-sensei……you’re always like this……”
“Wha-, wha-, what are you here for, I wonder?”
Instantly, the ill-natured Magician takes a few steps back.
In front of his eyes, stood Estelise who approached with her glossy black hair swinging.
“As the assistant teacher-in-charge, I came to stop the homeroom teacher’s rampage. The excursion has been decided to be at the Hill of Belzebore. It is not within the scope of a homeroom teacher’s authority, to change this”
A sound argument. A bespectacled beauty who comes straight at him with the sound argument of an adult.
“Guguu……damn Lioar. An assistant homeroom teacher without even my permission”
“Asch-sama……I said it when I conveyed today’s schedule to you though”
Mira answers indifferently.
“Lies! I didn’t hear it, you know”
“Is that, not because you have a rotten-to-the-core personality which only matters that interest you will enter your ears?”
“……”
“……”
“I got it. I had heard Mira’s conversation. Let’s assume that’s how it is. A butler’s mistake is, my mistake after all”
He won’t admit it. The worst Magician who considers the power dynamics and uses his authority to make it the butler’s fault.
“……thank you”
Mira, she once again thinks, what she thought thousands of times thus far.
‘You should just die’
“However, even if I gave in and acknowledged you as the assistant homeroom teacher, I won’t give in on the excursion’s matter”
“It matters not whether you give in or not, it is the Board Chairman’s authority”
Estelise who pushes up her black spectacles’ frame triumphantly.
“……in that case, I guess I shall speak to Lioar face to face and have him change it. For the sake of having him overturn that Board Chairman’s authority’s orders or whatever”
“Wha-, what did you say!? There’s no way you can do something like that, right!?”
“Fufufu……I am his revered great-senior, you know. I’m obviously on top if we talk about the power dynamics. The senior-junior’s relationship, surpasses the relationship of the workplace hierarchy by far”
An irrational argument.
The worst Magician, who comes straight at her, with a dirty irrational argument.
However, she knows that Lioar indulges this Dark Magician. The sentiment of ‘for all that we know’, wells up in Estelise’s mind, and she flusters.
“Ho-, how despicable! At least, we have to decide with a fair method like voting”
“……what, you’re fine with something like that, right?”
“Eh?”
“””Eh?”””
Estelise too, Lily too, all the other students too, they went ‘Eh?’.
“……are you fine with that? With voting?”
The bespectacled beauty who ends up asking him back unconsciously.
“What? It’s too late to go back on your words, you know”
“No……it’s not about that……”
“Then, here we go. Everybody, choose one out of the two choices. Raise your hand on either one. First, raise your right hand for those who choose the boring excursion of just learning the Aristo Religion’s boring dogma at the Hill of Belzebore that you can understand if you read the textbook, where you can go again at any time on a trip”
“……”
“Raise your left hand for those who choose the extraordinarily fun excursion of exploring the unexplored region of the Sirisasa Mountain, filled with stimulating events and brimming with ancient creatures and unknown plants, that you may not even get to go once in your lifetime, where you can experience the best ever adventure”
“……”
“Well, the result is obvious though……now then! Raise your hands”
The Dark Magician who shouts full of confidence.
The students raised their right hand unanimously.
