Chapter 116 – 10.11 Shinozaki Shinobu

After breaking up with the Naiad-Nives siblings at the academy.
Shinozaki Shinobu was out on the academy outdoor track.

“Whoa…….”

The line of the track is faintly visible under the light of the street lamp.
Shinobu took a half-prone position at the starting point.

Ready position for sprinting.
It’s a crouching start.

“Suck!”

-Beep.
Press the button on the stopwatch in your hand.

-That’s right.
At the same time, he kicked off the ground and ran.

The body is light. The legs are full of strength.
I could feel the strong wind blowing against me.

What is this feeling Are you really running?
I can’t breathe even though I’m running as hard as I can. Legs don’t get tired either.

It was a strange feeling. It was like running in a dream.

-Beep.

At the same time as crossing the finish line, press the stopwatch button once again.
Slow down your steps and catch your breath.

“Haha. Haha.”

It obviously ran with full force.
But I wasn’t as out of breath as I thought. I thought I could still run for a while longer.

With faint anticipation, she checked the time on her stopwatch.

“Haha… Under?”

10 seconds 55.
A number was displayed that advanced her own record by more than one second.
Shinobu was so shocked that he forgot to catch his breath.

“That is… Really?”

The grip force meter prepared by Knives may have been manipulated.
It was the moment when even those last doubts disappeared.

Even Shinobu doesn’t know what the 1-second update means in the short distance record.
Her record her, which she now set, was close to the women’s world record in the 100m category. If she prepares properly and sets the right time, she may even be able to break the world record.

──Of course, the rune holder’s record does n’t count as her record her.

“Ha, yes, is that so…….”

Shinobu seemed to know why.

In sports, a record is meaningful only when it is completed after constant effort and moderation.
It is for this reason that doping or the use of non-regulated equipment is taboo.
There would be no meaning in a record that could be moved so easily.

After the Go world was conquered by AI, the research and efforts of professional players did not shine as brightly as before. Even the knight who built the monumental tower was often slandered with the words, “You can’t win against AI anyway, right?”

It may be the same reason why rune holder records are not even made public.
In this way, any sport loses its luster the moment it is compared to the records of rune holders. Even for a world-class sports star, there is no choice but to say, ‘You can’t win against rune holders anyway?’.

It’s a foul from birth. So rune holders are not recognized as human beings.

“——That kind of thing doesn’t matter.”

What Shinozaki Shinobu wants is neither world records nor recognition from people. Sports can be left to the general public who likes the sport.

What Shinobu wants is to protect Chairman Mizuki and those who believe in and follow him.
For that reason, Shinobu wanted to become stronger. He had pride in putting in more effort than others. At least he never lost to girls his age his.

However, it is also a story between women.
Even Shinobu couldn’t win at all against a male opponent.

“…… It’s only natural that you can’t win.”

Cheat.
His physical abilities His increased by 30 % just by catching weak monsters for a few hours.
It was only natural that men who had experience fighting monsters in the era of great disasters would have a much better advantage.

I didn’t even know that and struggled like that.

Clearly, there are fundamental physical differences between men and women.
But with some men, there was something beyond that. Something that cannot be dismissed as a simple ‘physical condition’.
No matter how hard Shinobu tried, he couldn’t seem to get over that wall.

Thanks to her hard work her, she was barely able to join the SS.
However, within the SS, Shinobu was the last of the last.

At that time, there were only a handful of women in the SS.
Thanks to that, he was able to serve the chairman closer than others, but that was all.

There was nothing in particular that stood out to the chairman, and nothing that was recognized purely for his abilities.
The path to becoming an officer of the student council, let alone captain of the guard, was far off.

-Uh, what was your name? Shino… Shinoshino?

The man who approached Shinobu, Knives Windsor.

The bright blond hair and exotic looks were bound to stand out.
As a first-year freshman, he spoke without hesitation to his seniors and even to the president.
Even to the president of the academy, who can be said to be the absolute leader, the reckless attitude of spitting out words were shocking.

However, for some reason, the chairman also took Knives’ attitude lightly. The chairman who is as sharp to others as a well-honed blade and cold as ice to his daughter.

Shinobu felt the unusual attitude of the chairman.
This bully is the ‘personal connection’ of the chairman. So, you can be crazy like this.

Ah. Is he now being pushed by the 1st grade bully?
When Shinobu was so desperate, Yangachi spoke.

– There will be a coup next year.

The story he came up with was absurd.

He claimed to be a ‘rune-capable man who can see the future’ and said that next year the principal and student council vice-president would revolt and destroy the academy.

The story he brought out was quite specific.
Behind the principal is the governor’s political rival. Encouraged by their backing his, the principal manipulates the extremist male students in the academy to subdue the academy by force.

As a result, Chairman Mizuki and Chairman Mizuki are humiliated by them, and President Mizuki, who is caught using the video as a weakness, is removed from politics.

After that, the person behind it will rise to the position of the next prime minister. Also, due to a series of events, the general public’s perception of rune holders fell further to the bottom, and they were treated even more harshly by the policy of the new prime minister——the story of ‘the future seen by Knives’.

It was such an absurd story. I couldn’t believe it.

However, the chairman and the chairman were listening to the story seriously. Moreover, the evidence collected by a suspicious senior named Kumon Kikuno supported Knives’ argument as if it had been pieced together.

As the story progressed, even when the president of the board and the student council president accepted Knives’ story as truth, there was something that Shinobu couldn’t understand.
Why is he, a member of the SS, listening to this story with the chairman and the chairman?

Knives answered Shinobu’s question.

-Because Shinoshino can be trusted.

She could have given her life for the president she respected.
No one would believe it, but Shinobu truly loved Chairman Mizuki and valued it more than his own life.

But what does he know about himself that a man who has never even had a proper conversation with?
In Shinobu’s ears, Knives’ words could only be heard through his mouth.

What angered me more than anything was that he was delighted with the fact that he was recognized even by such a bully.
True loyalty is to be happy to die for the sake of your lord, even if no one recognizes it. I was so pathetic to see myself flustered at the words of such a man.

– Kill everyone in the student council room right now.

Even in the midst of Shinobu’s hectic acceptance of the situation, the work went smoothly.
In the end, the president and the chairman gave permission for the strategy Knives conceived, and Shinobu raided the student council room where Knives and the other two were having a secret meeting.

Is this man really insane that he is going to deal with the student council and all of the bodyguards alone?

Even Shinobu agreed that public authorities should not intervene in the sacred academy. However, he could not agree to such a reckless operation.
Now that there is no one to trust next to the chairman, what should they do if they have to fight a battle in which they will almost die.

But Knives didn’t seem to want to die in the slightest.

– You can’t let a single person live. I’m going to break in inside, so Shinoshino is waiting outside and only catch those who run away.

2:30 siege annihilation!

Knives’ words, shouting like that, did not even distinguish whether he was serious or joking.

But he himself only obeys the president’s orders. If you order him to go and die, he will only die.
Even if this operation fails and both die, the fact that the chairman was involved in this will not be revealed. Then no problem.

Shinobu thought so, but–

– Shinozaki! Help me! Have you forgotten who put you in the SS!

──Seeing the student council vice president who ran away with both of his hands cut off, Shinobu had no choice but to admit that he was wrong.

The vice-president begging for his life with a face covered in tears and mucus.
There was no image of the vice president whom Shinobu usually admired.
There was only one dog that lost the fight and ran away with its tail curled up.

-…… Pitiful human being.
-Shinoza–!

The vice president’s head is blown off before he can even finish his words.

-Oh oh. Is it a revenge success?

And, as if waiting for Shinobu to kill the vice-president, Knives appeared from inside the student council room whistling.

What does revenge mean? He said he hadn’t done anything to the vice-president.

-How are you, Shinoshino? How did it feel to kill someone for the first time?

It was a calm tone that made it hard to believe the words of someone who had just killed 30 people. He had a refreshing expression, as if he had finished all of his homework.

He was so different from himself, who he had just killed one person and had his fingertips shaking like this. How can you kill so many people and still laugh softly?
If it was enough to cut off both hands in the first place, you could have done it yourself, right? Why did you let go? Is it your intention to get your hands stained with blood like this and put them on the same boat?

There were many things I wanted to ask.
But Shinobu kept her mouth shut.
It was because the moment he opened his mouth, it seemed that twisted feelings towards him would pour out.

– Shinoshino. All of this is what you did. I still can’t stand out. Because the small puppies are still hiding.

Are you trying to play a hero who hides his power his?
Clearly, his method was right. If his strength had been known to the student council, this job would have failed. He could understand why Knives was doing it in his head.

But he didn’t like it.
A lighthearted act of laughing and joking around, an attitude that doesn’t know what’s inside, and a particularly snobbish act of glancing at the chest.
I didn’t like everything about Knives. I didn’t like the person named Knives.

Shinobu soon realized her feelings for Knives.

The fear that comes from the overwhelming power car.
And inferiority complex.

With his amazing intelligence, he searches out traitors.
Slash the chairman’s enemies with overwhelming force.
Usually, he becomes a conversation partner with whom the chairman can talk comfortably.

A person the president can trust and rely on, both privately and publicly.
There was an existence that Shinobu thought of as her ideal type of her.