Chapter 65 ─ School Festival (1)

Headquarters of the Ministry of Magic.

In the room reserved for meetings of the holy wizards, an important meeting was taking place.

"The latest report showed that magical zones are forming in different regions of the empire that didn't exist before."

Magic zones are the equivalent of natural disaster in this world. A magic zone occurs when the magic element mutates in a special region, resulting in a place that is uninhabitable for everyone due to high mana density.

It would be the same as trying to breathe by climbing the highest mountain in the world, the higher you climb, the harder it is to breathe.

"We don't know the cause, we have sent investigators to get to understand what is going on."

The holy wizards were concerned, this phenomenon was not rare.

It happened every few hundred years, but it is happening at a strange accelerated rate.

The wizard god, Oscar's grandfather, had his fingers crossed.

"Exactly what is happening in the country?"

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"I am pleased to report that, on this wonderful day, we begin the school festival."

November was already drawing to a close.

The school festival lasts three days, two days for the cultural festival and one day for the sports festival.

The principal was lecturing us about how exciting today was, I don't mind actually.

I just kept thinking about when I played this event.

Lily was accompanied by some of the idiots, and Eli who was the villainess, was picking on her because she didn't deserve to be at the side of the prince.

Once her speech was over, we all went to get ready.

For my part, I was saying to my classmates...

"Everybody ready!"

"Yes!"

My classmates was ready to make Japanese greasy snacks.

We had the food, the oils, the fryers, and the necessary space.

So... let's get to work!

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"Everybody get ready."

In Class A, Eli and the others were getting ready.

The capture targets were dressed as waiters.

Eli was also dressed like that, the reason was because he matched Lily, who was dressed as a maid.

Because Eli's chest was so big for the uniform, he wore a straitjacket.

Using all her muscles accompanied by several moans, Eli managed to hide her large breasts and look like a man with her hair pulled back.

Opening the door, Eli and Lily gave a warm welcome to the students.

And so, the cultural festival began.

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"Come one, come all, come taste our specialties!"

I had just brought out a new batch of takoyaki.

Cliff and Derrick were grilling the skewers.

We were all working hard.

At first no one was coming, but Cid advertised for us.

But his way of expressing himself was horrible.

"Yummy! They're the best thing I've ever tasted!"

The way he said it was just like watching a doll moving its mouth, but if the third prince said it, it must be true, it was what the customers thought.

It's two long days, so let's make an effort.

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"You want something else, my lady."

Eli was attending to girls from other classrooms.

The girls were embarrassed as Eli's masculine look (which was achieved thanks to makeup) was all the hype.

Just like the game Lily's event and capture targets at the cultural festival was happening, only no bonding happened with them despite similar things happening.

When lunch time came for class A, Eli grabbed Lily and lifted her up in his arms.

"I've always wanted to do this since Razel does it, and this was the only way to prove it."

"I understand, it's a bit embarrassing for a girl to do it, but since it's you Eli-chan I'm fine with it."

"Don't worry Lily-chan, I won't let anything bad happen to you."

For some reason, the air around those two was weird, very weird, so much so, that they felt like a man was actually carrying a woman.

Eli took Lily off to find Razel.

And after a light lunch and resuming work, the first day of the cultural festival ended.

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The second and last day of the cultural festival started smoothly, the young students work hard.

But there was someone who had a question mark.

"Is the food really that good?"

Regulux was on his break, he had heard from many people that Razel's greasy food stall was very popular.

Regulux wanted to go try one to see if it was true.

(It's been a long time since I've eaten something greasy, wonder if it's similar to the Japanese stands?)

(They say they give them on skewers or on plastic trays, and that reminds me a lot of my former life).

Even if Regulux wanted to go, he didn't have that luxury as the customers kept coming.

By the end of the day, Regulux was never able to go, or even go out to the bathroom, he had missed the chance to find out from the saucers, that Razel was a Japanese reincarnate like him.

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The cultural festival ended smoothly.

My classroom earned a lot of money.

We were happy as the winnings were divided equally for everyone, no coin was left over.

Now I was resting up for tomorrow, the sports festival.

It was starting early so we closed very early today.

The girls also went to bed early.

Despite the fact that I am not used to this life, it was very nice to spend fun times with everyone.

"I wish these days would never end."

I closed my eyes to prepare for the big day tomorrow.

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We got up early to leave the academy in carriages.

We were going to a different place to celebrate the sports festival.

It was amazing how they hid this from us.

But it was a surprise as I always wondered how we would do many things about the events.

The place was a territory that belonged to the academy and was only used for events like that.

It reminded me of those tournament games as there were different stadiums grouped together.

We all went to the biggest one, the floor was made of sand.

The principal gave us a speech about how nice it was to say goodbye to the year in this way and the school semester.

I was really bored out of my mind, so I dozed off for a while until I felt someone pinch my cheek.

"Hey, wake up."

It was Eli and the others.

Apparently everyone was already leaving.

The first event of the day would be starting soon.

They expected the bleachers to fill up.

This is where anyone would wonder. "What do they have to do with the bleachers filling up?"

Well, it turns out that the sports festival is a public spectacle where different people can watch the events and thus see if there are any low-ranking family guys they might want on their side or at the ministry of magic or at the palace.

It was mostly to promote the future workers to the society.

The first event is relay race, girls go first.

Eli and Lily wore a very tight sports bra, I asked them why and they said...

"Our breasts will flutter a lot and we don't want anyone but you to see us."

I was touched by that.

But girls, think of the chest pain you are feeling.

Their bloodshot eyes are scary, and the predator shape they take to run is scary too.

In the end, Eli and Lily ran in a way that scared many.

Then came Celia's turn, she did do what I expected, her big breasts bounced wildly, she even won as she used the force of that bounce to win. The girl next to her couldn't even believe it.

Then came Evelyn's turn, she fell down the first second she started, so she fakes her role as a clumsy girl with perfection.

Now it was my turn.

My friends were on my side, as the classes were mixed.

The boy next to me was stretching as he bragged to me about his workout.

"I've been really prepared for this day."

It was Jake, the one who never shuts up who was talking trash to me.

"For that reason I will show you my fruit of my training."

Jake was talking trash to me that I wasn't interested in.

This guy never shuts up.

It's really maddening to hear him talk.

The worst part is that he was always like this in the game, I wouldn't be surprised if Lily had beaten him at some point in the game.

But, there's a big problem that has nothing to do with his mouth.

It's his ego.

He exalts himself a lot, as the best.

That's his main factor why he was always losing on his route or the reverse harem route.

Forgive me Jake, but you are very irritable at times, so I'll shut that mouth right now.

We were getting into position as our partners were coming to hand us the next "pass" to the finish line.

Jake kept saying. "I'll win Razel, I'll show you how much I've grown."

While I mumbled.

"I'll get serious then."

With that said, I waited quietly for him to come.

My breathing was relaxed as were my muscles.

I was calm my consciousness, I just had to run as fast as I could to shut Jake up.

The distance is a hundred meters, that would be about five minutes without using magic power since it is forbidden.

I could feel my classmate signal me by tapping my hand that it was my turn.

My eyes were swollen shut, so I just ran.

I used all my strength to do it while my eyes were closed from concentrating on winning.

It was only a few moments closed and when I opened them I realized something strange.

I had reached the finish line.

I don't know how, but I ran what would be five minutes in seconds.

Jake didn't even understand what happened and reacted too late.

When he got to the finish line which I already crossed, I said to him.

"This should show instead of talk."

I left the place as even I didn't understand what happened.

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Since I didn't know what happened, I remained thoughtful until my next turn, this time it was my turn to participate in a competition of throwing our magic power at some dolls from a long distance.

I kept the gum wrapper in my pocket since I was called, I had to compete together with someone.

I was not expecting this.

"It seems that fate is to pit us against each other."

It was Oscar, who was very serious, he was telling me...

"I saw what happened with Jake, I can't believe it, neither that you cheated since there was no trace of magic power in the environment."

"But don't think I'll lose like him. My magic is my gift, so as the heir to Pleven Household, I won't lose at anything to do with magic."

Oscar was similar to Jake, instead of having a big ego, he had great pride about his magic.

Certainly Oscar's magic attacks are strong, but it's just wind magic, I've fought stronger and more dangerous rare magics.

So Oscar, if he had been face to face against the dark knight or Astraea would have been killed.

Let's show him a little bit of the harsh reality.

Our goal was to take down three dolls each.

There were several dolls, but the dolls were for the other students.

Oscar was concentrating and after a while his hand glowed a deep green and he shouted his attack.

"Wind Magic: Slicing Sickle."

A crescent-shaped gust of wind rushed towards the dolls and with one clean cut, half of their body was knocked off.

Everyone applauded before that spectacle, no doubt it was wonderful.

Oscar looked at me with an expression of absolute victory.

Let's humiliate him.

It was my turn.

I stood firm and then pulled the wrapper out of my pants.

It is forbidden to use objects, but a gum wrapper is not classified as a weapon... until now.

I activated my electric attribute and the wrapper hardened. I molded it my way for more impact.

(Perfect.) I screamed in my head.

I turned the sheath into a shuriken.

I visualized my target and then threw it.

I didn't just throw it at mine.

I did it against everyone else's as well.

The shuriken covered in electricity spun in such a way that the electricity of magic power grew.

The damage was more than I expected.

The dolls were shattered as if a cannonball had shattered it.

When it finished with the last of them, it looked like it would continue, so I threw a small lightning spear created with my finger to stop it.

Again everyone went unresponsive, I walked over to Oscar who was open-mouthed and placed my hand on his shoulder before walking out.

"When you do something like that, I will believe you."

I was now preparing for the next event, which was against him.

Bellange.

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"Yo..."

"Ready for defeat?"

The event was about pulling the rope.

Both me and him talked our teammates into leaving us alone in this event, which they agreed to, for some reason mine said "We don't want to be dragged in too."

I didn't understand what was wrong with them, but they were all in the stands.

Me and Bellange were taking the rope from different sides.

In the middle of the small ring was a big yellow line indicating that by crossing it we would lose.

Bellange's arms were very exercised, you could tell those muscles were not meant to be shown off.

I was holding the rope very tightly so as not to be pulled easily.

The referee had not yet given the signal to start so we could lose our concentration briefly.

Bellange was talking to me as he tied the rope in his hands.

"You know Bartlet, since that day, I understood why I lost."

(This is interesting, let's hear it.)

"It was because I was weak. Weaker than you were back then."

(... Huh?)

"For that reason, I will win this time. I rely on my strength and muscles, so it's impossible for me to lose to you."

"Fraser Household is categorized as strong since we guard the border against a hostile country."

"I won't acknowledge my defeat that day as it was only weakness from not training hard enough. I'll show you that I'm the strongest in the academy!"

His smile was really hateful.

In the game you always gave me trouble as you relied too much on your strength and that's why you were never good for strategy battles.

I'm sick of these guys who think their defeat was a fluke or that they are better.

The reality is that you are all stupid and here and now I will put an end to that confidence!

The referee gave the signal and in this event you can use magic power.

So I released a lot.

I grabbed the rope and then when Bellange started to pull from her side, I did too.

The feeling was weird.

Bellange was supposed to be pulling on the rope right now, but I didn't feel like he was.

Looking in his direction, I found that the rope was in the sky.

Apparently I pulled so hard that Bellange was lifted and propelled into the sky while holding on to the rope.

He gave himself a loud thump as he fell to my side.

His face showed that he didn't understand what was happening.

I bent down and said to him.

"Here's the reality, you are weak and I am strong. I am superior to you and you are an insect. If you want to beat me, get above yourself and get some brains while you're at it."

The referee announced the winner and then I left.

I've already taught three out of five the reality.

How do I get the other two to learn reality too?