HPDBC Chapter 24
Chapter 24
I Became the Academy's Pink Airhead - Chapter 24
It was during my 1st year, not long after enrolling.
The day after I had gone to search for randomly appearing dungeon gates in the northern wilderness but came up empty-handed.
I finally returned to school after receiving one ether ore that Hilde had given me after conquering a dungeon.@@@@
-This is payment for fighting together. So stop clinging to me.
The wind was cool in the dawn morning. As I faced that wind, pulling my bicycle through the old main gate of
Three 3rd year seniors standing in front of the main gate, bathed in the early morning sunlight. The only students attending
“...!”
“Clara!”
“Good heavens! How many days were you gone?”
“Look at the dust on your face!”
“Nina~ Bring a wet towel from the room~”
“Eeh... Why me again?”
“Hurry!”
“...”
The seniors had such ordinary appearances that it was hard to remember their faces even after not seeing them for a few days. When I returned with a disheveled appearance in the morning sun, they tried to wash my face with handkerchiefs.
And looking at me, who refused to wear
“Clara is cute but so strange... Always just wandering around in a tracksuit.”
“...”
That’s how a day at
The three 3rd year seniors took my hand and walked with me through the old, shabby school grounds, chattering about trivial things.
They weren’t particularly focused on studying.
They weren’t particularly devoted to fighting.
They weren’t particularly interested in the incidents happening in this academy city.
Just...
They were just really ordinary students.
“...”
These were probably the seniors that the ‘Clara’ in the game said she respected.
『Yes―♪ They were really good people☆ The memories of those times are still like jewels to me―☆』
“...”
They were people who would go somewhere in a year anyway.
And since they weren’t people who helped me become stronger, I didn’t really participate in conversations with them.
I was determined to become stronger to prove myself, following the long-cherished desire from my past life. For me, only exchanges with future strong ones and intense training were true daily life.
‘...Since hell knows who sent me to another world as they pleased, I’ll live as I please.’
Regardless of my thoughts, they were chattering away.
“Listen! There was a really touching story among the lunchtime broadcast stories played by the
“Aah... What a shame. I was taking a nap so I couldn’t hear it.”
“Ugh... I always apply for that but why don’t they ever pick me?”
“Nina, you always just write a bunch of stories about food.”
“There’s no one who isn’t happy eating pancakes to their heart’s content...”
“Sheesh, you pig.”
“Uuugh... So mean.”
“Really~! I said I’d tell you a touching story―!”
“When Frida speaks, the story goes off on a tangent and becomes boring.”
“...Uhihi. That’s right, that’s right... Yaaawn.”
“Yaaawn...”
They say yawning is contagious.
The seniors kept yawning as they continued talking.
“Yawn... Getting up early is really tiring...”
“Shh―!”
“...”
Frida unconsciously looking at me and cautioning her friends.
It seems getting up early wasn’t their usual lifestyle pattern.
I realized then that the seniors had gotten up early to welcome me.
‘...No wonder it was strange that the leisurely seniors were always up when I came back after being out all night.’
Although I hadn’t particularly developed feelings of affection for them even now, somehow I felt sorry for them waiting for my return every morning.
“...”
For the first time since enrolling, I joined in their conversation. Fortunately or not... I was able to speak in Clara language filtered through the pretty filter, not in the blunt tone inside my heart.
“Um... seniors☆”
“...Yes?”
“Huh?”
“A very very difficult and picky lady’s request♪ Huhuhu―☆ I wonder if you can handle it―♡”
“...”
Bell spoke in a slightly worried voice:
“...Even the cute secretary can’t do crimes, okay?”
“Huhuhu―♪”
“H-Hey. You’re not serious, right?”
“Huhuhuhu―☆”
“Wh-What is it?! What are you going to make me do―?!”
“Bring me a box of delicious cookies later―♪ And let’s have a meal together―☆ Of course, Bell’s treat☆”
“Hey, don’t speak meaningfully when it’s nothing much―!!”
Bell’s shout was loud enough to make her side tail hair stand on end. Because of that, my juniors sleeping in the next seats reacted by tossing and turning.
“Mmm...”
“Suu...”
Bell flinched seeing that, then turned back to me and said in a small voice:
“...Don’t tease me over something so trivial.”
“Hey―☆ It’s desperate for us☆”
“This is why beggars... Anyway, I can really do that much, so you absolutely won’t tell the boss? Please...”
Her voice gradually diminished until it finally changed to a whisper. But that small voice contained undeniable desperation.
“...?”
Although I had teased Bell, I was somehow bewildered by her too abundant reaction.
Compared to the shamelessness the concept freak had shown in the game, it was somehow an excessively servile attitude. As long as she was an executive of the
‘The flaw is that the help was requested from the union’s poorest school.’
Setting aside the moral aspect, it could be seen as doing her best to be able to bring us as reinforcements who she had become acquainted with, in a situation where there was no time to go via
‘Or is there a reason she shouldn’t be caught by Hilde?’
We didn’t have to go far, Bell herself had mentioned the punishment wing while muttering. She seemed to have caused more trouble than what had come out in the game.
‘...Well, it’s something that happened while she was at
An absent person in charge.
If we were to measure the degree of the mistake Bell had currently made, couldn’t it be compared to Ma Su who went mountain climbing because the scenery was nice?
‘It’s going to be big trouble.’
I nodded as I recalled Hilde’s face, who tended to be strict about principles. She was the type of person who would not only execute Yip Tsam Ma Su, but also behead Guan Yu who let Cao Cao go.
While thinking that, spending time.
I looked out the window with a somehow ominous premonition.
“...!”
“...?”
Bell seemed suspicious of my gaze and tilted her head before looking out the window as well. And seeing the gradually revealed state of the northern wilderness, she clicked her tongue.
“...Oh my.”
“...Oh dear☆”
At that moment, the train’s emergency broadcast was heard.
[...We inform all passengers. Due to an emergency situation that has occurred on this train’s route, we will make an emergency stop.]
[There will be an impact for the emergency stop, so please prepare in your seats.]
Screech――
The train gradually stopping with a chilling metallic sound.
My juniors who had woken up startled by the emergency broadcast sound walked towards the window we were looking at.
“Senior? What’s going on?”
“...Look over there.”
Rota, who had poked Alvit’s side, soon pointed at the window with her slender finger. And in Alvit’s brown eyes looking at the window, the afterimage of sparks twinkling from the horizon was reflected.
“...!”
“...That.”
“Are those... all fireworks filling the horizon?”
A festival of numerous fireworks rising over the darkness of midnight.
Among the flickering flames, though they looked smaller than dots, numerous human figures were moving around. Truly demons walking in a hell made of fireworks. In that baptism of flames heating the horizon, even hallucinations of the noise of fighting and destruction seemed to echo all the way here.
In the middle of that hell, magenta-colored flames were vividly flickering. Under the shadows cast by the vivid magenta flames, numerous debris and corpses of monsters were flickering.
Bell realized what those flames meant and lamented:
“[Crimson Trajectory]...”
“...”
The pyromaniac who uses a strange sword.
She was somewhere in that vast northern wilderness.
I recalled the face of one of the five fighting friends I was meeting after a long time.
-Huhahaha!! Are you that ignorant fistfighter battle-lover from the northeastern academy city?
-Oh my―♪ I’d like you to correct that☆ I’m a lady from the east―☆ Though I do love fighting―☆
The past her smiled, showing her crooked teeth, seemingly extremely satisfied with my words.