The Academy is Doomed

Chapter 106

Early in the morning, Rainbelt was diligently sweeping the main gate.

Swish swish swish-!

None other than the Grand Sword Master’s sweeping!

The dust and fallen leaves that had accumulated during the night were gathering into a whirlwind toward one spot.

After sweeping for a while, Reinbelt muttered while looking at the increasingly fallen leaves.

“I guess it’s becoming autumn. Looking at how the leaves are piling up.”

It seemed like a melancholic autumn mutter, but in reality, it was resentment toward the trees that were making him sweep.

“Damn trees, should I just cut them all down?”

When winter comes and it snows, Reinbelt will curse the heavens!

‘Anyway, it’s already been several days since Amon left. He must be working hard distributing promotional flyers here and there.’

At that moment, Amon was rolling around in a room provided by the Gold Road Company while eating chocolate.

“Hehehe! Delicious!”

Not knowing this fact, Reinbelt chuckled.

‘That guy is all good except he’s too shy and keeps hesitating to become my disciple.’

Reinbelt suddenly looked toward the student dormitory.

‘Come to think of it, his younger sibling enrolled, right? Should I try to persuade that child?’

If Amon knew this fact, he would completely uproot the “lingering attachment” near Reinbelt’s crown area that had become somewhat sparse due to the passage of time.

How dare this senile old man try to lead his sibling into a path of hardship!

Anyway, while Reinbelt was lost in thought and sweeping diligently.

“…Huh?”

Reinbelt stopped sweeping when he noticed a group approaching the academy.

When they stopped in front of him, Reinbelt said.

“Do you have business at Amonis Academy?”

There were several rough-looking men and one of them smiled coldly and said,

“Old man, step aside.”

Reinbelt’s cheek twitched at that rude tone.

If he wasn’t in the position of being the ‘head of security’ here, he would have slapped them first but since he had a position to maintain now, he decided to act calmly.

“Ahem ahem, if you have business at the academy…Huh?”

Reinbelt lowered his gaze.

The man who had spoken rudely to him was already lying on the ground with swollen cheeks.

‘Hmm, I hit him without realizing it.’

Reinbelt’s hand moved faster than his thoughts!

The man’s companions were shocked at the sight of their fallen comrade.

‘C-captain was taken down? He was our strongest…’

‘To think a mere gate guard could defeat our captain in one strike! As expected of Amonis Academy, the symbol of the Empire!’

One of them, shocked, hurriedly stepped forward.

It was the vice-captain.

“P-please forgive our rudeness! This person may speak roughly, but he’s actually a very warm person…”

Reinbelt, who had been quietly listening to the vice-captain’s desperate excuses, waved his hand.

“Alright, alright. I also apologize for letting my hand slip carelessly.”

“Th-thank you for understanding.”

“Anyway, what business do you have at Amonis Academy?”

The vice-captain decided to implement their second plan.

If forceful breakthrough seemed impossible, they would deceive them to infiltrate inside.

The vice-captain quickly said.

“Of course, when visiting Amur, shouldn’t we look around the historic and prestigious Amonis Academy!”

“Huh?”

Historic and prestigious academy?

Reinbelt glanced behind him.

At best, they were classic and traditional buildings, at worst, they were dilapidated buildings falling apart from lack of maintenance.

‘To want to look around a place like this. What peculiar taste they have.’

Anyway, the head of security was also in charge of managing tourists and such.

“Alright. I’ll report to the headmaster first.”

“Th-thank you.”

“But…”

Reinbelt looked around the academy vicinity once and said.

“There, there, and over there by the wall, someone’s peeking around. Are they with your group?”

“…!”

Cold sweat ran down the vice-captain’s back.

‘He-he detected the infiltration team?’

The ones who were supposed to secretly infiltrate the academy by dividing into teams had been discovered.

‘Amonis Academy! To have such an extremely skilled person as a mere gate guard! Simply…amazing!’

The vice-captain bit his lip.

‘Damn, now that we’ve been discovered, dividing our forces would only raise suspicion and cause chaos. Since we’re already pretending to be tourists anyway…’

The vice-captain smiled awkwardly and said.

“Yes, they’re with us.”

“Then why are they separated?”

“Ha-haha! They were eager and wanted to look around the surroundings first.”

“Is that so? Alright. How many people in total?”

“Thirteen.”

“Then I’ll ask the headmaster and return, so gather everyone in one place. I need to verify the numbers myself.”

Reinbelt headed to the headmaster’s office.

And when Reinbelt reported about the tourists, Anar’el exclaimed with joy, ‘Ah! Finally our academy is returning to its former glory! In the past, this academy was bustling with tourists wanting to look around every day!’

In other words, permission was granted.

Shortly after, Reinbelt came out with thirteen worn and tattered visitor passes, as if to prove Anar’el’s claim about the academy being bustling with tourists was true.

“Thirteen, that’s correct. Here, everyone wear these around your necks.”

“Th-thank you.”

“Now then, follow me.”

The vice-captain’s eyes gleamed as he followed Reinbelt.

‘We’ve successfully gotten inside.’

With this, they had achieved half their objective.

‘Heheh, glory to the Gunter Island Alliance!’

They were none other than the ‘Revolutionary Group’, extremists from the Gunter Island Alliance, who had come to destroy Amonis Academy, the Empire’s historic educational institution!

* * *

Anar’el welcomed the “tourists” with a bright smile.

“Welcome! I am Anar’el, headmaster of Amonis Academy!”

The vice-captain smirked at her politely bowing with a bright smile.

“It’s an honor to look around the historic Amonis Academy.”

“No need for such formality! Now then, shall we begin! I’ll guide you personally.”

The vice-captain was surprised.

“The-the headmaster will guide us personally?”

Anar’el flinched at that obvious question.

If Amon were here, she would have left the guiding to him, but Amon was currently away distributing promotional flyers (at this moment, Amon was eating chocolate).

And she was reluctant to leave it to other teachers.

‘Urgh! Everyone, let’s just drink here!’

‘I’m tired, let’s take a nap here.’

‘Amonis Academy has a long history wow! A bug, looks delicious, gotta eat the bug.’

‘Hack! Ptui! What tourism! Get out right now!’

Such unreliable teachers!

Of course, she couldn’t leave it to the vice-headmaster either.

‘This is the cafeteria. You must all be hungry, so let’s eat.’

For these reasons, Anar’el thought now was the time for her to step up.

Although she wasn’t particularly good with words, she thought she would be better than leaving it to those monsters mentioned earlier.

“Ahaha! Since it’s been a while since we’ve had tourists, I wanted to hear your impressions personally.”

That statement was half true.

“I see. Then we’ll be in your care today.”

“Yes! Then let’s begin!”

Anar’el led the terrorists disguised as tourists forward.

‘Fufu! I’ll show you every corner of our academy!’

* * *

While following Anar’el and looking around the academy buildings one by one the vice-captain, who had been following far behind, suddenly had a doubt.

Although its meaning as the ‘symbol of the Empire’ may have faded somewhat now, wasn’t Amonis Academy still one of the most prestigious institutions?

‘But why isn’t there anyone around? I heard it had declined somewhat, but I also heard there were still about a thousand students.’

That was information from before the academy nearly went bankrupt because Anar’el invested in a ‘Dragon Banana Orchard’ that takes 15 years just to harvest!

Due to the enormous distance between the Empire and the Gunter Alliance, information updates were slow, but not knowing this fact, the vice-captain opened his mouth with an inexplicable unease.

“Um, Headmaster?”

“And so, this history hall is…Yes! Do you have a question?”

“We haven’t seen anyone at all yet, is today perhaps a holiday for the academy?”

Anar’el, who flinched, said.

“That’s right. It’s a holiday.”

Anar’el, who learned about living in the world thanks to Amon responded promptly but the vice-captain’s face hardened at her brazen answer.

‘This can’t be. This is a disaster.’

The reason they came here was to show that the spirit of the Gunter Island Alliance wasn’t dead by thoroughly destroying Amonis Academy, the symbol of the Empire.

‘Damn, did we infiltrate too hastily? But we had no choice. It was already a miracle that we made it here while evading pursuit, we had no luxury to delay further.’

The vice-captain bit his lip and whispered to the members following behind.

“How’s the bomb placement?”

“Taking advantage while that elf was absorbed in explanations, we’ve completed installation on the pillars of all 7 buildings we’ve visited so far.”

“Remaining bombs?”

“Uh, none. There are more buildings than expected.”

Befitting its long history, Amonis Academy had an absurd number of buildings!

“…Damn, can’t be helped.”

Although there wouldn’t be the expected human casualties, destroying the buildings of Amonis Academy, the symbol and light of the Empire, would still achieve their primary objective.

Finally making his decision, the vice-captain shouted.

“Glory to the Gunter Island Alliance!”

The moment the vice-captain, who let out a roar, activated the bomb’s detonator.

BOOM BOOM BOOM-!

An ear-splitting explosion enveloped Amonis Academy.

* * *

Amon, who had been lying spread-eagled endlessly swallowing chocolate, jumped up in surprise.

“Wh-what!? What’s that sound!?”

Amon rose with a pale face.

When he quickly looked out the window, black smoke was billowing up.

And that direction was.

‘Th-that’s the direction of our academy?’

The startled Amon shot off like lightning.

And when Amon arrived at the academy’s main gate, his legs gave out and he collapsed.

The academy buildings were burning.

‘Th-the students! I need to save the students…Huh? Wait a minute.’

Befitting its long history, Amonis Academy was absurdly large, and the burning and collapsing buildings were empty buildings that weren’t being used due to insufficient student numbers.

At that moment, students rushed out of the student dormitory, which was at a distance where not even sparks could reach, let alone burn.

“Fire! Fire!”

“Teacher Amon! Where are youuu!”

“My-my dolls in the exhibition halll!”

“Should I put it out with magic?”

“You’re still spouting nonsense in this situation!?”

Amon ran toward the students in one breath.

“Kids! You’re safe!”

“Teacher Amon! What about the other teachers!?”

“Don’t know! As long as you’re safe!”

Before that shout even ended, teachers and employees rushed out of the main academy building, which was at a distance where not even dust from the collapsing buildings could reach, let alone burn.

“Urgh! Getting drunk but fire!”

“Ah shit, sleeping but…Fire!”

“Ah shit, eating but…Fire!”

“…Who did this?”

“Fireeee!”

Seeing his fellow teachers whose faces were gleaming with moisture as if they had eaten well and rested well, without even a hair being harmed, Amon smiled bitterly.

‘Everyone’s lucky.’

But wait, two people are missing.

“Everyone! What about the headmaster and Elder Reinbelt?”

“Huh?”

Marion, who heard those words, hurriedly looked around.

Come to think of it, those two weren’t visible.

“Co-could it be…”

While their faces were turning pale.

“Waaah! Uhuhuhu!”

“Huh? This voice…”

When they turned their heads, they could see Anar’el covered in black soot crying miserably.