Chapter 131 – Revenge -Part 3 Epilogue-

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A new morning at the academy after the three-day festival. Originally, the withdrawal of each department had to proceed slowly, erasing the traces of happy days.

Along with the stories of the academy professors that an urgent situation had occurred, the heads of each department and professors gathered to hold a meeting.

Of course, Layla, as well as Aruru, Riomes, and all Cleon’s acquaintances were called to the meeting.

The movement of the party, which was about to prepare to leave the academy in earnest, was also put on hold.

“The Council of Twelve… Exterminated? Who the hell. How?”

At the story delivered by the professors, the students are greatly agitated and gossip. Of these, only Laila was the one who maintained her composure of her.

Aruru and Riomes seem to have noticed something after seeing Layla’s reaction to her, but they look at the situation without saying anything.

However, they weren’t the only ones with good eyesight. Each of the students gathered here are students who have reached a certain level in their field.

The head of the political department talks while looking at Lila.

“Lyla Flamewatch. Do you know something?”

After all, a man who has mastered some level of political science, which can be said to be a war waged with human psychology. When he opens her mouth to interrogate her Lila her, Lila responds with a slow nod of her head.

“Of course. I know. It’s me who watched their last.”

Once again, the students start to stir loudly at Layla’s bombshell remarks her.

Some of the professors prepare to subdue Layla immediately, but it is the professor in charge of the Department of Magic that Layla belongs to that stops it. In other words, Layla’s teacher.

Mrs. Rude, a professor in the Department of Sexuality. The other professors couldn’t move easily just by being restrained by the two.

“…Lyla. You wouldn’t say you killed them, would you?”

At Aruru’s words to her, Laila looked back at her and once again quietly opened her mouth.

“I’m not dead. I’m just sealed. Of course. If the seal lasts forever, it’s as good as dead.”

“Who the hell would do that! Lila, even if you’re the most proficient student of magic in this academy, it would be impossible to harm all the elders!”

The head of the Department of Political Science raises his voice after hearing absurd facts. However, Layla shows a gesture of covering both ears in front of him and replies with an annoyed expression.

“That’s because I didn’t do it. All I did was send them to prison where they were supposed to go. It wasn’t me who executed the sentence-“

“Exactly. It’s me.”

The moment after Layla had talked to that point, a chill that seemed to freeze everyone gathered here dominated the space.

Then, through a slit in the air, what appeared was a blue-haired, noble-looking woman wearing a sky-blue dress.

Horns sprouting from her head, and visible scales on her skin. Like her hair, a blue tail like the waters of the deep sea.

All of that was telling everyone that the existence in front of them was a living being that far surpassed humans.

“Dragon…!?”

“Why is the dragon at the academy…!?”

Most of the gathered students show fear or hostility at the sight of the dragon, but the professors carefully lower their posture and are careful not to offend her.

If she had appeared with hostility, at that moment, more than half of the humans here would have turned to ice on the spot.

“The coldness of silence. Mr. `Anatis`.”

A professor in the Department of Magic recognizes it and calls it by name. Then, Anatis nods her head and turns those blue eyes at her.

“The Academy is an institution created through a contract with me to concentrate power in exchange for the accumulation of knowledge and the exploration of numerous studies so that humans can maintain the balance of the world. I turned it into a place to satisfy my desires. Therefore, the contract with them is canceled. Those who betrayed me will receive the punishment they deserve in the ice that will never melt.”

Anatis puts her hand on Layla’s shoulder as she speaks. The hand her was as cold as ice, even colder than ice. It was as if there was no warmth in her body.

Touched by the cold, Layla unknowingly flinches, but she erases the change in her expression Her as she swallows her saliva so as not to appear weak.

“This human child only helped me. He along with my old friend.”

Anatis’ words silenced the others this time. What she meant by her words was her declaration that she would protect the Lyla Flame Watch herself.

One of the five dragons, and also related to the founding of the academy. Being Anathis’s friend was most likely another dragon after all.

In other words, it became a story that now Lila has two dragons attached to her at the same time to protect her.

Of course, the others didn’t know, but the other one was the annihilation storm ‘Lutios’.

Currently, she is a dragon in the form of a girl who is working as a guild master in an adventurer’s town in the corner of the country under the pseudonym of Wind of Happiness.

Rutios also had no good feelings towards the academy. He dispatched the Enforcement Department to kidnap Albein, and the Enforcement Department tried to manipulate the guild with the past of himself and the guild staff.

Therefore, in order to reconcile with the other dragons with the dragon ring she received from Rhetios, she informs Anatis of the current situation of her academy and helps her to purify her 12 elders her.

Anatis, like other dragons, is basically a dragon who likes to leave all troublesome tasks to humans and do research in his cave his, so he did n’t know that humans were doing whatever they wanted under the contract he had made.

“The 12 elders are gone. In my mind, I want to make this academy itself, where their rule is rooted, non-existent. It isn’t fair to treat all of you as one… “

Anatis said, raising his finger and pointing at the students and teachers.

“I declare the coldness of silence here. From my point of view, you humans are beings that have no right to stand at the top of this academy. All of you are helpless, feeble, and insignificant creatures lacking in knowledge.”

Her cold voice resonates inside the space. It was such an arrogant statement, but there was no human in this space who could protest against that statement. A chill like a blizzard hits all the students and teachers.

“Therefore, all of you, cultivate and maintain this place on an equal footing. This is a new contract. If anyone in this school, including you, tries to exercise domination or power over this place. Like the 12 Elders. It will come to an end.”

As a voice imbued with the dragon’s magic, a new oath – Gears – is executed for all the characters in the academy.

Soon, when the mana calmed down, the cold air that froze the body also disappeared, and everyone looked at Anatis with bewildered faces.

“…This should be enough of a warning. Read one more book and gain one more second of experience in order to spend your time searching for useless culprits like this.”

Saying that, Anatis turns around with a still expressionless face, opening the gap in space just as he did when he appeared.

Then, he glanced back at Layla and sent a telepathic message.

[The person Lutios talked about… That too is part of the contract. When this one is ready, let them know that I will go find it.]

A cold sweat ran down her spine when Lila heard the story, but she struggled to show her wit her and nodded her head. I’m sorry Cleon. I think I made an appointment on my own. Thinking the same thing

When the place seems to have been settled somehow, Layla stands up from her seat her. Then, with a snap of her fingers, she set the insignia of the Magic Department hanging over her seat her on fire.

“Muh, what are you doing!”

When the head of the other department raises her voice, Lila answers with a raised corner of her mouth.

“Isn’t it strange that being the chief is worthy to stand above someone? Wearing such a grandiose badge, are you going to hide away and hold secret meetings forever? You’re no different from the elders.”

After that, once again, as silence fell in the space, a student from the Department of Political Science stood up and tore off the insignia of her department her.

“It is as you say. Layla Flamewatch. If a new order is established, we will follow it.”

“…It’s unexpected. You’re the first to stand up.”

When Layla says that, he replies with a ‘huh’ and laughs.

“That’s politics.”

“Maybe.”

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In this way, when Lila safely returns to her house her, she is greeted by her companions her, who have received her rough story from Lutios.

Quon was anxious about what to do if things went wrong and something happened to Layla, but Innis, who should be concerned about her safety the most of her.

“Ah, if it’s Master, even if you turn all the humans there into ashes, you’ll have enough leftovers. What? Waiting and eating rice cakes with Papa!”

He said the same thing and is reflecting in the underground studio.

Quon runs out to her front door and greets Laila, and Laila suffers as her face her is pressed against her chest her.

Seeing that, Sasha let out a sigh of relief. And in the living room, Luti and Perdia are cautious with their heads sticking out.

And-

“Lyla.”

Cleon walked from behind Quon and approached Layla. When Cleon’s voice is heard, Layla punches Quon in the back, barely breaking free from her restraints.

Fuhaah, she exhaled and looked at Cleon as she straightened her disheveled bangs.

“Yes.”

And then, a short answer. Like what’s going on

“I did what I wanted to do.”

“Of course.”

“I have no regrets.”

“There can be no way.”

“Is that your revenge?”

“Yes.”

Cleon closed his eyes for a moment as he heard Lyla’s answer to her.

Starting with herself, Rubera, and then Lila.

She had completed her own revenge, and they had no regrets.

Her feeling that she had done what she had to do was even greater.

And, for a while, she felt empty.

Cleon could see why Leila’s answer was too short.

For her, right now, her two emotions will be swirling inside her.

One is revenge. Turning her her own grandfather’s garden of knowledge into a power struggle and humiliating him.

Under the name of the Enforcement Division, he gathered students and used them as private soldiers, but it was stolen by the Black Warden. Joy and joy for presenting the end of retribution to the 12 elders who hurt Beatrix in the process. And satisfaction.

And the other was the emptiness that came from achieving that revenge.

Revenge is like a raging flame, burning itself to death until its purpose is served.

When revenge, which was the purpose and driving force, is over, feeling the emptiness of the fire that has gone out, inevitably feels empty in the heart.

Cleondo, Ruberado. This could be filled by the beings by my side.

“…”

Cleon’s hand her reached out and placed it on Laila’s head her.

It reminded me of something I had heard from someone before that it was bad manners to carelessly stroke a woman’s hair.

For now, I wanted to make her feel at ease.

“What, what… My hair is disheveled…”

Layla put her hand on Cleon’s her, but she didn’t want to take it away.

For a moment, she feels the big hand, then blushes and shyly replies.

“What… But. I’m fine today.”

“Yeah, me too!”

“What? Are you all stroking Laila? Then me too~”

Sasha and Luti tried to run at them, but they screamed and drove them away.

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[Zzz…]

From Cleon’s waist, the sound of the sleeping holy sword’s quiet breathing.

“Then… I’m going to finish it with this.”

Two days from the day the new contract was made to the academy.

After completing all preparations to leave the academy, the party bids farewell to their long life at Layla’s mansion.

Even so, the place was not completely empty.

“Be sure to contact me! Take care of yourself! Papa and I should get along well! Master!”

Lyla’s homunculus, Innis, who doubles as housemaid, was to guard this place while her master left her academy.

When everything is done and she graduates from the academy, she will return to Helis with her.

And, another one.

“Bea. Can we really not go together?”

“Yes. Of course, I have a chimney-like desire to go with senpai. Classes in the magic department have been delayed for years. If I want to help senpai, I’ll start by catching up with Lyla.”

Beatrix looked at Cleon while saying that.

“…Thanks to my senior, I was able to come out of the endless darkness with my friend. I will definitely do my best to become a proud junior of my senior.”

“Yes. I’ll be looking forward to it.”

“…So, can we hug before we part?”

As Beatrix spoke cautiously, Cleon nodded her head.

Then, it’s as if he won’t forget Cleon’s touch her even while we’re apart! It was a hug.

After the long hug, Quon looks around and expresses a question.

“Huh? Everyone in the sex department?”

“If it’s a farewell party, I already finished yesterday. I told you not to come because I don’t want to create a strange atmosphere for nothing.”

“I see… Everyone must have been disappointed, right?”

At Quon’s words, Cleon recalls what happened last night.

“Is it true that Pairu and Luzuri are pregnant, Instructor?”

“It’s shameful! Why are only those two people doing it when you’re not doing it with us!”

“According to rumors, with Chief Riomes…”

Before parting, he pushed away the students who rushed at him, saying at least once, and somehow protected his pants his.

“Instructor. I will never forget a friend named instructor. Instructor Cleon, my soulmate…”

“Should I dye my hair blonde next time too…? I’m joking.”

He had safely said goodbye to the siblings Demis and Riomes.

Sasha seemed to still have some lingering feelings about her school life her, as Sasha sniffled around her neck with her arrowhead necklace, which had been given to her by her friends her.

She said that as long as she was okay with it, it would be no problem for her to stay here, but she made up her mind, saying that she hated breaking up with Cleon more.

And- another student leaving school with them.

“Everyone! It’s good that we haven’t left yet.”

Throwing off her uniform of her, it was ‘Aruru Tromeia’ who appeared in clothes that were easy to move.

“I sent the attendants first. I want to go with Cleon.”

Sweeping away at her blonde hair, which glistened in the sunlight, she moved closer to Cleon.

After hearing the story, it seems that she got a call from her mother, and since her vacation is about to begin, she is going back to the royal capital a little faster.

“With this, we can be together for a while again. Cleon.”

While talking like that, Layla stops Aruru from trying to cross her arms with Cleon.

“Wait a minute. Of course, I’d appreciate giving you a place to stay in the capital, but don’t stick around too much as we have to start soon.”

“Lyla. The right side is empty. Use that side.”

However, Aruru said so naturally, and Layla hesitated for a while, then clung to Cleon’s right side as if she couldn’t help it.

“What are you doing. Both of you…”

Quon sighs as he sees Aruru and Layla. Sasha tries to get behind Cleon, but she stops her movement at Quon’s words and scratches her head.

“… Let’s get on the carriage soon. We can’t make Ruba and Iona wait any longer.”

Iona, who had returned to the royal capital one step ahead of her, was investigating the incident taking place in the royal capital with Rubera, but she seemed to be having a hard time.

Although she was the one who didn’t have to devote herself to the kingdom, she was no longer a knight of the intelligence agency.

She, too, seemed unable to leave Ruba alone.

After saying goodbye to each other, the party gets on the wagon heading to the capital.

Slowly moving away from Beatrix and Innis, who were waving from behind.

At the same time, the scenery of the academy passes by outside the window.

“It was a nice place.”

When Cleon casually said that, Lila, who was sitting in front of him, blinked her eyes.

Then, she responds with a bright smile.

“It will be a better place.”

To the extent that it does not lose even compared to the bright sun shining on a summer day.

Like a gentle breeze flowing through a slightly open window, it is refreshing and light.

It was the candid smile of a lovely girl.