44 – 44. Between Duty and Desire

We must find Scarlett.

In this large auditorium building, there are students who intentionally avoid me.

It was tiring, if not impossible,

Therefore, we decided to create a helper.

“Well, I lured Sister Scarlet…”

It is also called Prakchi in vulgar language.

“Forgiveness is easier than persuasion.”

Paula Maria.

He is the only student who can talk to Scarlett, The person who can lure her out is not her

Instructor.

“I don’t think this is right either.”

Even though the evaluation grade was used as bait, she was a saint.

A being impervious to persuasion.

It’s like a doll with doctrine inputted into it, and the values of right and wrong will not change even if the sky falls.

However, she was a saint in the original.

Paula is a little different now, with her ‘humanity’ emerging within the cracks in her mind.

If you gently encourage them, there is a chance they will come over.

“Paula. Why did you go through so much trouble to enter the academy?”

“That’s it… To evangelize future heroes as closely as possible.”

“I see. Then, what have you done for evangelism?”

A dark hallway and a collapsed saint.

Her eyes roll, recalling the past.

“The church’s special candy and snacks, and counseling for concerns… What else was there…?”

“That’s enough.”

She tilts her head.

I said with a very serious expression.

“Now, that won’t work.”

Thump.

I felt like I could hear her heart sinking.

Paula’s expression was worth seeing.

“Well, that can’t be right! How delicious the church’s special snacks are! Even the instructor approved it!”

“Paula, you know.”

A foundation for persuading the saint.

That is an uncomfortable truth that she herself knows.

“After the last incident, didn’t the students’ perspectives on sisters and brothers subtly change?”

“…”

A saintly woman who ranks last in grades and cannot kill even an ant.

She did something that completely contrasted with her usual image.

The image of a student named Paula Maria,

It is no longer based on ‘idiocy’ or ‘purity’.

I stimulated her even more.

“You are under a lot of suspicion. Reasonable questions are being raised about how you, who was in last place for 100 years, brought down seven strong students.”

“That’s it! It’s the power that Lady Arca gave me to realize my true duty as a saint!”

Paula, who doesn’t know what’s going on behind the scenes, She considered the reason for her awakening to be ‘Arka’s blessing.’

“That’s it.”

“…Yes?”

“Now you have clearly risen to the ranks of the strongest among first-year students. I am emphasizing that.”

I took a step back.

“Let’s imagine. You, the students, who have achieved the highest grades that you can’t help but hope for, and the catechumens who are flocking to you like a cloud, asking how on earth that happened.”

“Heh…”

Her mouth opens and her expression softens.

A happy future is drawn beyond those clear eyes.

“What will you answer?”

“It’s thanks to Arca… Then there’s no room to step into the temple… hehehe.”

“Then, first of all, you have to become an excellent student, right?”

Score and evangelism had nothing to do with each other.

That was connected.

Now to fulfill her duties as a saint,

Not like the religious order’s special snacks.

You have to prove yourself.

If you have guided this flow of thought,

It’s already over.

You can hear the sound of drooling.

“Uh, uh…”

“What do you think?”

If things were as they were originally, no matter what reward lies ahead.

If the process had been impure, this character would never have nodded.

“I will do it, please let me do it!”

“You are wise. “I’ll see you on the third floor in 30 minutes.”

The saint who has become flexible,

You are eating well today as well.

She had already finished expanding the temple in her mind.

I jumped up and ran downstairs.

“…Um, Ivan? “Why are you doing this?”

When I turned around, two instructors were standing with similar expressions.

“It’s because I don’t think Scarlett will be easily caught or eliminated like other students. “I will bring it out and evaluate it myself.”

“So, why are you being so harsh when you are my own student?” .”

“Aren’t you going to get off work?”

They were wondering if they should go this far.

Because we were already accomplices, we couldn’t respond any further.

Just like that, they disappeared to ‘evaluate’ the other students.

They went down with their own missions.

I was the only one left in the hallway on the 6th floor.

I knocked on the warehouse door.

Knock knock-

No answer came back.

“I am.”

The door opens only after you speak out.

“Uh…. “Is the evaluation over already?”

“We haven’t even started yet.”

“Then why did you call me?” . “You said you just need to stay still, right?”

“Still, evaluation must be done. “This is a much easier assessment than getting into a fistfight with me right now, so please follow along.”

With the justification of her

Evaluation, he puts her on standby.

The place where Adela should be is not in the corner of the warehouse,

“Please follow me to the rooftop.”

A board built by Professor Hera and on which I designed the mana circuit.

Because it has to be in front of that magic circle.

A small classroom that can accommodate about 30 students.

The number of students spread out in all directions there was about a dozen.

“Ah, uh….”

“I’m dying…” .”

They were all challengers who came to attack the instructor,

Right now, there were only four students standing on their own two legs.

Among them, there was Scarlett.

I didn’t belong to them, but my goal was the instructor’s silver badge.

A short male instructor wearing a suit sits leisurely on the table in the center of the classroom.

He opened his mouth.

“Students who have collapsed, if they feel like vomiting, they should speak up immediately. “I’ll take you safely down the hallway.”

He goes so far as to say that if you vomit in the classroom, it will be difficult to clean it up.

He looked so relaxed despite being surrounded by four enemies.

It was worth it.

When the students were still lying and moaning,

I took all of their fierce attacks without even getting up from my seat.

Even Scarlett didn’t think of rushing in first.

“Whoa.”

I was just holding on to the handle of the pillar on the exterior wall of the classroom and catching my breath.

At that time, one of the students who was still able to move rushed forward.

“aaah!”

With a strange combination of energy, the massive body gains acceleration.

This will be enough power to not think about the future.

However, the central instructor became the target.

I just stretched out my hand towards him.

A purple magic circle is formed in front of the palm.

It was an instant.

Boom!

At the same time, the male student who was rushing fell to the classroom floor and hit his head.

The mana shield exploded and he became one of the fallen students.

Gravity magic. He is the culprit who threw fifteen students into the ceiling or impaled them on pillars.

That instructor’s area of expertise.

“B minus.”

The instructor, who was contemplating his actions, simply graded the fallen male student.

There are now three students standing.

Except for Scarlett, the other two people exchange glances with each other.

“Freeze!”

“Magic Arrow!”

Two different magics attack him from different directions.

However, after he stopped the ice magic and mana arrows at the same time….

Crispy!

It was completely destroyed.

The two stunned students soon lay down on the floor.

It was a kind of surrender. I don’t really want to hit my head.

Now she was the only one standing.

“Hmm. “I guess you’re the only one left now.”

“…”

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Scarlett let go of the pillar she was holding on to.

Move forward slowly and carefully.

He lifted his finger upward toward her.

And Scarlett did not miss that moment.

Woe!

Gravity reversed, and her body began to soar toward the ceiling.

In that split second, she twisted her leg.

Tak-

Just like that, Scarlett landed on the ceiling.

The instructor, standing upside down and looking down, looked interesting.

“As expected, the intermediate evaluation rankings don’t lie.”

“…”

“But.”

As her fingers go down, her body goes down too.

Unreasonable combat cost-effectiveness.

“I held on well. “If it ends at a certain level, it will be difficult to reach the highest point.”

That was correct. She also agreed.

Scarlett pulled her gauntlets from her hands as she prepared to land.

A piece of iron filled with her red mana.

With this, I could be free from the coercive power of that magic circle, even for a few seconds.

Boom!

She landed with a dull sound before he could even lift a finger.

With all her might, she threw the metal ball at the instructor.

A gauntlet that flies quickly.

But she stopped right in front of his nose.

The instructor exclaims words that are close to admiration.

“Wow, I almost got hit. What is power…. “Are you a first year student?”

He dropped a small piece of iron in front of his nose and looked at it with interest.

After, of course, Scarlett’s hands were tightly bound with gravity chains.

However, he overlooked it.

Tadadadadak-

I was buried in the thought that ‘I only have two hands to write with’,

He didn’t pay much attention to her running towards her.

“What, are you going to headbutt me?”

“No.”

It was natural to think that way.

She was the one who solved all battles with her own hands.

However, she grows up.

Under the instructor who was crazy about educating her students, she trained all day long, engraving the know-how about the mana circuit into her head along with harsh words. I went through each day.

So it was something that could be done.

Scarlett can now wear mana on her legs.

The instructor momentarily let down his guard.

And, a piece of metal swimming between the two.

With the same force as he ran, he suddenly lands a spinning kick.

Paang!

Repulsion force enough to cause a shock wave to explode.

The gauntlet was aimed precisely at the instructor’s face.

“…Wow.”

He broke through the magic circle and let his hand take it on his behalf.

With an exclamation mixed with embarrassment, a red mark was left on his hand.

Even so, there was no change in the fact that it was blocked.

“Damn.”

In the end, she failed.

However, the instructor did not seem to think so.

“Have you been experimented on by Ivan?”

“I’ve never done that.”

“Then just talent? “That’s scarier.”

A silver badge came out of his arms and was thrown to her.

Proof that ‘significant damage was caused to the instructor.’

She snatched up the badge.

This is the second one.

“It hurts my pride, but it’s true that I let my guard down, so there’s nothing I can do about it. “This is not the chief, but the second, so it looks like there are monsters in this class.”

I heard the compliment, but she just turned her back. She didn’t feel like she won.

I felt it desperately even while fighting.

This is a place where the instructor evaluates the students.

That’s why he’s not even showing half of his original skills.

As proof of that, the magical power rippling behind her back.

It was at a level that was incomparable to before.

“Okay, now that it’s over, let’s all go back to the dormitory. What is Scarlet Student…. I don’t know. “Let’s go as far as we can go.”

The bodies of all the students lying around come to mind.

Humans with different weights and body types are constant.

If this was her real battle, and that her power was directed at her without limit.

Only terrible results would remain.

It wasn’t an attempt to defeat the instructor.

However, she knew that there were many strong people to overcome.

Squeak-

Open the door and head to the next destination.

Next treasure…. Is the 5th floor where the posing instructor is waiting?

As I was going up the stairs, I saw a familiar face.

“Sister Scarlet!”

“……”

“…Sister-in-law!”

A saintess coming down the altar, waving as if she were friendly.

Scarlett kept her mouth shut, but Paula began to tell her story so far.

Roughly speaking, the story goes that after being chased by Ivan all day, he just got rid of him.

“I’m so anxious. “Can I go with you?”

“Do whatever you want. “It doesn’t matter as long as it doesn’t disturb you.”

“Thank you!”

The saintess was right as usual.

For some reason, it seemed a little unnatural to check the watch carefully, even though it was barely visible.

It didn’t bother me too much.

“Let’s go to the third floor!”

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