Academy Ankle Reaper

23. Newspaper Club Attack 4

“The duel is… invalidity… The truth of the ugly dwarfs?”

The Academy once again failed Lucia’s expectations.

Lucia, who went to school in a good mood, felt uncomfortable when she saw the newspapers scattered all over the place.

Everywhere in the academy, newspapers with ridiculous rumors about yesterday’s duel are strewn about.

When I listened intently, everyone holding a newspaper was cursing at Atlas.

“All… It’s all lies.”

Lucia, who couldn’t stand it any longer, left the place.

Atlas’s gossip continued even while moving to a deserted place.

Is this a non-physical attack that Atlas talked about the other day… ?

‘I… Will protect Atlas… That’s what I said…!!’

The promise we made yesterday has been broken.

I was a step late.

The attack has already begun.

“Atlas didn’t cheat… !

The one who won was Atlas… “

Thinking it was her own business, Lucia’s nose twitched.

It doesn’t make sense for Atlas to be criticized for winning a duel legitimately.

“….I can’t forgive you.”

You have to ask the newspaper department.

I must ask Atlas to apologise and correct this nonsense right now.

But going to an unknown place and talking to someone you don’t know…. Scary.

My feet, which were about to move, stopped.

Just imagining the pouring eyes makes his hands tremble.

‘No… No, Atlas will be harder… ‘

I thought of the pain Atlas must have suffered today.

I feel sick to my stomach just by being stared at by an unspecified number of people, but now I’m cursing Atlas from all sides.

Atlas must have felt these feelings as well.

Surely yesterday they said they would protect Atlas from these things, but what is this like?

It’s late, but I’m hesitant to go because of something trivial…

‘Yes… As Atlas said, I am… The Five Pillars…!’

It’s time to try the authority of the family.

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So she arrives at the newspaper department, and Lucia Russell sees a strange sight.

The newspaper department was a mess.

A smashed desk, scattered papers, and between them, people are holding onto their ankles and collapsing, and I’m confronting the head of the newspaper department.

“Ah… Atlas?! Why are you here?”

“I came to protest because you wrote a strange article.”

“That’s right!!”

Lucia, surprised to see me, gave her a big nod, then again she fixed her gaze straight on the head of the newspaper.

“… Atlas Nemea… As of yesterday, I decided to protect myself. Atlas and I are united… Any attack on Atlas is an attack on me.

Why did you write such an article for such an Atlas…!”

As Lucia protested in excitement, the head of the newspaper, Earl Malcolm Dunmore, broke out in sweat as if he were a singleton.

What I was trying to do in the newspaper department was actually a story related to this.

The manager and the two quietly tried to tell them to collect it quickly because it was a story that had not been discussed with the other five pillars.

But the newspaper clerk suddenly shoved my head?

Are you angry?

As a result of me not wanting to talk anymore, this horror came out.

“Um… You got hit. This makes it difficult….”

“What a difficult thing. Are you more troubled than me being treated as trash?”

Someone is insulting me just by walking down the aisle, and it’s absurd to say that it’s difficult.

At the time this was reported, all the plans I had made when I first came to the academy were destroyed.

I was just going to get good grades and help Amy and River and kill only demons, but look at me now.

What is the devil?

Now that it’s been reported like this, it’s going to be hard to find anyone at the academy who doesn’t know my name.

All the professors in charge of other grades would know, and even the mutt that passed by would know.

Even with such a bad image stuck in it… In the future, whenever I do something at the academy, I will be given a strange label.

Malcolm wouldn’t have thought that all five pillars would be one opinion.

At most, they must have thought that the remaining indifference was caused by one person, but they did not think that the other pillars were against it.

Being sandwiched between two pillars is unfavorable.

If I had known it would be like this, I would not have accepted it in the first place.

“Then let’s do this… I’ll try to make a correction. But…. If opinions are coordinated within the five pillars, I will do it, because I have been ordered to. I am afraid of all five pillars.”

As soon as Malcolm said it, I immediately retorted.

“Don’t say bullshit, just do it right now. Is the Russell in front of you funny? Do they look lighter than the other pillars?”

“..That’s right, do it now.”

This is where he is trying to avoid getting as much damage as possible.

What I just said is a ploy to thoroughly weigh both sides and not avoid it.

If opinions can be harmonized within the five pillars, are they saying the same thing? The same five pillars say ‘Hae’ now.

Why are you ignoring what Russell said when you did exactly what the other five pillars said yesterday… There is no other way to explain this other than ignoring Russell.

“Really… In the whale fight, only the shrimp’s back explodes… Yes, corrective information tomorrow… I will also post an apology.”

As Russell did not back down and continued to protest with me, the head of the newspaper department finally declared surrender.

In the end, it was Malcolm’s defeat at the point where he didn’t properly grasp the air currents between the five pillars and politely listened to yesterday’s order.

But this is correcting the reporting of incorrect information, so it is a matter of course.

The tangled affair between me and the newspaper club is real from now on.

I swung it like that, but I fixed my longsword that was not stained with blood.

“And…”

-Seoguk

“Aagh!!!”

A deep sword mark was carved on the right arm of Malcolm, the head of the newspaper department.

It’s not cut, but the wound is deep.

The head of the newspaper falls backwards, blood splattering from her cut arm.

“This is a personal gift from me.”

“You guys!!!!”

As the master he served suffered a wound on his arm, the escort hurriedly raised his sword.

A deep blue aura burned on the luxuriously decorated sword.

Seeing the escort raise the sword, Lucia’s hand touches her waist as she was carrying the sword.

It seems that he intends to protect me.

It’s not necessary, but I was grateful.

“They said it would cut if you lift it.”

My sword moved much faster than the sword raised by the escort was struck down, and even faster than Lucia drew her sword.

-Seoguk

“Keah…!!”

As the guard’s arms flew away, the aura of the sword he was holding disappeared.

“You…!”

Even though both of his arms were cut off, the escort ran with his teeth gritting.

You don’t have arms, so if you see someone running, are you going to bite them off?

“What kind of zombie are you!”

– Boom!!

He kicked the running escort in the stomach with a thrust in his face, and he fell backwards.

“… Do you think you’ll be all right…!”

“Did you guys really think it would be okay to do something like that?”

Malcolm is still figuring out the situation and quietly stopping the bleeding on his arm, but the escort is still barking as if he can’t understand the situation.

“You tried to bury a person, but you didn’t mean to end just like that, did you? I saw a lot of this too.”

They won’t understand.

If Russell hadn’t interrupted the atmosphere just now, he would have realized with his own body that a person can stick with her left and right arms even if they are reversed.

“Huuk… Huuk… A writer and a prosecutor… Doing their arms like this… Isn’t it too much..”

“I cut it cleanly, so if I go to the treatment, it will stick without aftereffects. Look at the wound and attack the opponent from now on.”

“That’s really… Helpful for life… Advice… Thank you…”

Although he endured it, Malcolm’s brow broke into a cold sweat at the pain he felt in her cut arm.

You may want to do something to me right now, but now attacking me is the same as attacking Russell.

The head of the newspaper department, who walks a tightrope in that precarious position, has no answer other than bitterly enduring it even if I do this.

If you think about what you’ve done, isn’t it worth watching that it’s just this amazing?

“So who ordered it? If you know who it is, Lucia will tell you to stop, and that’s good for you too.”

“That too… What I ordered was the Golden Age. As soon as the duel was over yesterday, I got a call right away.”

The five pillars of gold mean only one thing.

Golden Phrygia.

The one who planned this chirashi was Shaara Phrygia… That psychopath.

“Okay. Let’s go to Phrygia George.”

“Eh… To fight again… Store?”

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Unlike normal schools, the academy has a full-fledged hospital rather than a health room… The reason is that students are brought in every day.

Students who sharpen their swords, students who explore dungeons, and students who research magic are brought to the hospital after accidents.

Dueling was also one of the reasons why it was often featured.

After being defeated in a duel, Edgar Lemnos, admitted to a private room in a hospital, woke up after being unconscious for about half a day.

“Ugh… My whole body aches…”

As soon as he woke up, Edgar felt an excruciating pain.

The pain of a bruise is different from the pain of muscle pain.

I didn’t notice yesterday because I thought I was just tired, but it seems that I was beaten a lot by that dwarf during the duel yesterday.

“Next time we win…”

This is the first time I’ve been defeated by my peers.

After reaching the intermediate level of sword expert… After facing the wall, no one in the same age group could beat him.

It was because Lemnos’ arcane swordsmanship, the sword of flame, gave Lemnos an overwhelming advantage even though he had reached a similar level.

But this time we lost.

I couldn’t even brush my collar and I was beaten and lost.

“If only my body recovers…… No, I need to build up my skills first…”

Coming to think of it, I decided to start training again because I thought that if I fought right away, I would just explode if I gave the same amount.

The cut leg is intact.

The bruise hasn’t fully healed, but the most important leg wound has healed up nicely.

It seems that the treatment was focused on this side.

While checking to see if his legs were moving properly, something caught his eye.

It was a newspaper.

It looks like today’s newspaper published by the newspaper department, but it seems that each room was distributed one by one.

On the front page of the newspaper, there was an article about his duel.

“What is this, a duel is invalid…?”

Lemnos crumpled the newspaper.

“They look like an asshole!!”