Vol. 4 - Chapter 25 - Maid girl's circumstances • Side Ronaldo
A clash with the strong person where he couldn\'t read the outcome of the battle. A sense of elation as if his blood was boiling that made him actually realize just how much he has grown-up in this one year. And that intoxicating feeling was abruptly crushed by Stella, the red haired girl.
After the intervention of Stella, he thinks all members of the S class, beginning with short-tempered and straightforward Alan, must have felt extremely uncomfortable. When he and other team members entered the waiting room to give a voice of protest to Stella for insulting their fight, they saw her huddled in a corner of room with her whole trembling, and realized that they had a fetal misunderstanding.
They were then driven out by Aqua and others, the girl group of class S, saying to leave Stella\'s matter to them.
That night, even though he should have been dead tired, his mind was strangely clear and even when he wanted to close his eyelids, he couldn\'t remove the image of Stella\'s retreating little back that was etched into his retina.
In the early morning next day, he visited the familiar S class classroom.
A lot happened in this classroom. In the beginning, it may be because of his stubbornness after being called an ordinary person by the talented and famous Lord Horus of military affairs but he was gradually absorbed in the lessons of this class.
"Yo~ Ronaldo"
A rough looking red haired boy, Allan Kruger, raised his hand in greeting to Ronaldo.
Except Aqua and Stella, the rest of the members were sitting on their respective seats in the classroom. He guessed Aqua is beside the depressed Stella to take care of her.
"It\'s really hard work to gather everyone when the classes are over for the time being"
"Exactly"
When he shrugged his shoulders and smiled bitterly, Alan\'s face turned serious.
After all, everyone\'s reason for coming here is the same it seems.
"It\'s about yesterday\'s Stella right?"
"Yeah, she was indeed dissatisfied being in this class clearly but i think she must not have wanted to act selfishly and go that far"
"You\'re right. Rather, wasn\'t she more cooperative than a certain someone?"
Stella\'s best friend, blonde twin tailed young girl 一一 Aria, gave her blunt opinion while looking at Alan.
"Shut up! You horse tailed woman!"
"You\'re a brat in this regard. I think you need to learn from His Highness more"
When Aria shrugged her shoulders in amazement,
"So, why did Stella do that in the end?"
He asked the question everyone present here wants to know the most.
She should have been together with her after the finals.
"Stella didn\'t said anything after that and only that kid knows the truth"
"Don\'t put on air Aria, you must have a rough guess at least, right?"
"Well yeah, we are still best friends and I know more about the surrounding in details than you guys"
It\'s not only because she\'s the daughter of the Academy Dean. She\'s a member of the Sagami Company managed by Professor Shirabe. She\'s also apparently the manager of the Leithe shopping district. So there\'s no doubt the information she has about the same member Stella must be world\'s apart from them.
"Then hurry and say why. We are comrades, aren\'t we?"
"No way"
Aria immediately rejected Alan\'s request.
"Sto一一"
Alan stood up violently in a fit of rage and was about to shout when Aria interrupted him,
"You will have to hear it directly from Stella\'s mouth"
"I wouldn\'t have been asking from you if I could do that!"
"Why? I don\'t think it\'s hard to do as long as you try with your usual cheekiness. Well I can more or less guess your reason for not being able to do that"
Alan\'s whole body flushed red in an instant and everyone showed him a smug face.
Everyone in the class can see that Alan likes Stella. More specifically, everyone except Stella herself knows that.
"Is the reason for that professor Shirabe?"
"I will not deny this. Ever since that incident, Stella is becoming a bit timid"
A deep sorrow was confided in the eyelids of Aria who muttered this vacantly.
"That incident?"
At Ronaldo\'s query, Aria\'s face, who stopped spacing out, become expressionless and said,
"That\'s a secret"
Aria refused to say any more to Ronaldo and others with an uncharacteristically cold voice.
Ronaldo and others are still taking her worries lightly as if it\'s just a naive story like a quarrel between man and woman. However it\'s not as simple as it looks. It\'s much more about their fundamental perspective. It was simply conveyed by Aria\'s abnormal appearance.
"It\'s fine if you don\'t want to say. I will ask from the person herself as you said. Even if it\'s something bitter or painful, she should be able to feel better once she speaks out. Hey, isn\'t it right? you guys!"
Alan stood up while looking at everyone.
"That\'s right"
In response to Ronaldo,
"Yeah, Alan can speak about good things once in a while!"
"That\'s right. After all, he\'s a child who can\'t read the atmosphere. I\'m a bit moved"
"Yup, it\'s hard to think these words come out from a self-conceited boy"
Everyone nodded while giving their thorough evaluation of Alan.
"You bastards一一"
Just as Alan was about to shout,
"Ok-Ok. We listen to you slowly later. More than that, I have a message from the G class homeroom teacher."
"From Shirabe Sensei!? What did he say, hurry up and speak!"
As soon as Alan heard Aria mentioning the homeroom teacher of G class, he urged her to speak and class members fell silent. This name was the driving force that kept Ronaldo, Alan and others working hard frantically throughout this one year. So it can be understood why they are excited.
Aria sighed deeply at Alan\'s childish action, coughed slightly and said,
"I\'m sorry for yesterday\'s Stella. We have settled everything about the academy\'s side, so there will be no disadvantage to you students. Please get along with the class G members from next year"
She spins out the expected words.
"So the matter regarding the academy has been solved huh. It really turned out just as you said, Aria"
In the beginning, Alan was almost ready to beat the examiner who messed up Mia\'s answer sheet. Ronaldo was somehow able to keep Alan in check but Mia may be expelled due to the Injustice of the selfish members of the Magic knight academy. In this fact, he also felt a murderous intent like a deadly poison.
However, Aria who was watching the exchange in the examination venue together with Ronaldo just looked at examiners with sympathetic gaze while muttering, "I really doubt their sanity to send oneself into the mouth of the demon themselves. Are they idiots? Or they had a death wish?" and "it\'s a waste of time to worry about this, not worth it. They are in [his] class. Anyway, all the Morons who have weaved this charade will end with thier bones being sucked completely and tossed outside \'\', declared straightforwardly.
Of course, Alan, who have the knowledge of how terrifying and sly those pure bred aristocratic faction, didn\'t believe in her words so easily and opposed but when he heard about the fate of the pitiful villains who become the sacrifices for Professor Shirabe, he finally believed in the authenticity of Aria\'s word and didn\'t bring up this topic again.
After all, he\'s the persona who overthrew Duke Cyrus, who was said to have great pride in his power and was the most brutal in the empire. If you think about it, the pure-bred aristocrats working in the Magic knight academy indeed aren\'t even enough to fill the gap between his teeths.
"Yeah, it seems the research division is currently busy investigating Matthew Muru, the preparator behind the incident this time, including several other professors as well as the members who are training from an early age. As for Deputy head and new professors, they have decided to feign ignorance about this"
This information most likely came from her father, the academy\'s dean. I have had the chance to meet him several times but he\'s an absurdly doting parent. To a larger extent, he must haven\'t been able to refuse his daughter\'s request.
"Matthewー, or rather what about that idiot?"
"Who knows, but there are rumors that even the retired emperor was seriously angry, so it\'s also possible that national defamation law may apply. In short一一"
"Capital crime...... That\'s the fate you get for picking up a fight with him. It\'s just too numbing"
I felt the same. Now I can easily understand the meaning of what Great sage Sieg meant by expressing him as [A devil even more terrifying than the demon king].
"Anyway, it\'s our victory. As promised, Professor Shirabe should be our homeroom teacher from next year!"
"All right! G class will be with us next year! I\'m getting excited!!"
When Ronaldo declared so, Alan leaned on his desk and shouted in a loud voice. A cheers rose up from the rest of class members too but,
"Sorry, that\'s most likely not going to happen."
Even though Aria said it while scratching her cheeks apologetically, for Ronaldo and others, it was as if she had said something extremely outrageous.