Chapter 11: C-level Magic Student, Joins the Battle
After the third period, Shion headed to the school cafeteria to have lunch.
Since the cafeteria’s peak crowd was during the lunch break after the second period, there were plenty of seats available after the third period.
After receiving his ordered meal at the counter on the first floor, he made his way to his usual spot on the second floor.
When Shion reached the second floor, there were far fewer students than on the first floor, only about a dozen or so.
As he sat down at a seat somewhat distanced from the other students in the nearly empty area and was about to start eating his lunch…
–Suddenly, the tragedy began.
A sudden explosion and violent vibration echoed from the floor below.
The peaceful early afternoon changed in an instant, and the second floor of the magic academy’s cafeteria was filled with commotion.
As everyone wore puzzled expressions, muttering “What was that?” and “What’s going on?”, one of the students near the stairs connecting to the first floor went to check the situation.
Soon, the student returned with a terribly pale face and whispered.
“It’s… it’s a dragon…”
“Huh…?”
The student’s acquaintances reacted with disbelief, but the student, ignoring their reaction, shouted loudly.
“A dragon has appeared!! Everyone run!!”
Immediately after, another loud explosion echoed from the floor below.
Amidst several screams, the student who had just checked the first floor immediately ran towards the walkway connecting to the adjacent building.
“…!! Hey, wait!”
One of the student’s friends called out, but without stopping, the student ran away to the neighboring building.
“Uwaaaaaaaah!! It really is a dragon!!”
Furthermore, another student who had gone to check the first floor ran after the first student towards the walkway, looking terribly frightened.
For the third time, an extraordinary explosion and strong vibration echoed from the floor below.
“…! H-hey, is this dragon thing for real?!”
“This is bad, isn’t it?! We should run too…!”
The commotion turned to complete terror, and students began to flee one after another.
Amidst the explosions from below, impacts, students’ screams, and the scattering of tables, chairs, and dishes…
–There was just one student who continued eating silently as if completely unaffected by this abnormal situation.
“(… I must look so cool right now…)”
It was none other than Shion Ichinose.
While maintaining an expressionless face as he continued eating, his inner thoughts were bursting with excitement at the idea of acting like a big shot unfazed by the emergency.
From the first explosion, he had shown no sign of disturbance, quietly starting his meal. The more chaotic and panicked his surroundings became, the more gleefully he ate his lunch.
Shion was an anomaly equal to the abnormal situation of a dragon attacking the academy cafeteria.
“(Kukukukukukukukukuku Hehehe… This is so great…)”
There probably wasn’t anyone else as abnormal as him who would find eating amidst the strong impacts causing chairs, tables, and dishes to shake “pleasant”.
As Shion continued his meal amid the unceasing noise, suddenly the floor exploded not far from his seat, and a student rolled nearby.
“(Whoa…!?)”
While internally quite shaken, he maintained an extremely calm facade as he observed the student who had fallen to the ground.
A male student with beautiful golden hair and blue eyes. A famous figure in the academy, even Shion, who had no connection to him, knew his face and name.
Alphonse Fried.
A descendant of the great hero Sieg Fried who had dragon blood, and the second-ranked S-class magic student at Crawford Magic Academy.
“Ugh…, oof…”
This Alphonse Fried, in tattered clothes, lay on the floor for a moment before struggling to stand up.
…And when he raised his face and saw Shion in his field of vision, Alphonse inadvertently let out a voice.
“Wha-, huh, …huh?”
With eyes wide as if unable to comprehend the situation, he questioned Shion.
“W-what on earth are you doing here…?”
“…What do you mean, ‘what’? It’s obvious if you look. I’m eating lunch.”
Shion answered as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
“…Huh?”
Alphonse looked even more confused, but Shion paid no mind and continued eating silently.
“(Hehehe…)”
While Shion’s attitude seemed to say “Don’t ask about obvious things,” in reality, he was overjoyed to be asked.
Unaware of this fact, Alphonse was at a loss for words at the incomprehensible scene before him, but soon remembering the serious current situation, he called out to Shion.
“This is no time for that!–“
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Shion had been savoring his meal slowly and carefully, thoroughly enjoying his “time of acting like a big shot,” but finally, all the containers that had held his food were empty.
After swallowing the last bite, Shion quietly stood up from his seat.
It seemed that he would finally leave the cafeteria and begin evacuating.
…However.
“Alright, time for seconds.”
Lunch, continued–.
While impacts from the lower floor still hadn’t ceased, he surprisingly went for seconds, wanting to enjoy this situation a bit longer.
Although there was no kitchen on the second floor of the cafeteria, there was a self-service area for bread and soup. He headed there for his second helping.
Most of the soup had spilled as the pot had fallen over, and many of the bread pieces piled in baskets had fallen to the floor and gotten dirty. However, he managed to put some bread that was still in the basket on his tray, returned to his seat, and resumed eating.
“(That exchange earlier was good too… …hehehe)”
Earlier, after explaining the situation to Shion, Alphonse Fried had urged him to evacuate before immediately jumping down to the lower floor.
Shion was in a dreamlike state, recalling how he had acted as if he were a strong person unfazed even by a dragon’s attack in his interaction with Alphonse.
“(Eating a meal as if nothing’s happening while the world’s strongest dragon, the Black Annihilation Dragon of the End, Schwarzwaldius, is rampaging right below… Aren’t I just too amazing…)”
“Wait a minute…”
In the midst of his trembling excitement, Shion suddenly came to his senses.
“The Black Annihilation Dragon of the End, Schwarzwaldius… …Is this for real?”
…Finally, he realized the gravity of the situation.
Shion, who had loved reading heroic tales since childhood, had read the story of the great hero Sieg Fried many times and had also gone through many documents related to Sieg Fried and the Black Annihilation Dragon of the End, Schwarzwaldius.
That’s why he understood well just how immensely powerful that dragon was.
It’s hard to believe that the dragon, said to have been completely annihilated four hundred years ago, was actually sealed away and that seal had been broken. However, if this truth was spoken by a descendant of that great hero, it was probably true.
Presumably, to avoid causing anxiety among people, only the Fried family, or perhaps a limited number of people around the world, had been guarding the seal.
However, if that seal had been broken and the Black Annihilation Dragon of the End, Schwarzwaldius, had appeared in the world again, it would truly be a global crisis.
Belatedly… truly belatedly, Shion realized this fact.
“…This is no time to be leisurely eating.”
Amidst even more violent explosions and impacts than before, Shion finally stood up.
It wouldn’t be strange if the school cafeteria, or even the entire academy, were to be blown away at any moment.
For a C-class magic student like him who had no power to fight against the Black Annihilation Dragon of the End, Schwarzwaldius, there was only one action to take: swift evacuation, that was the only option.
The direction his feet should take him was towards the walkway leading to the adjacent building. From there, he should evacuate, mount a magic broom used for flight magic, and flee as far away as possible. That would be the best course of action.
However, Shion, who had stood up, did not head towards the walkway.
The direction he took was towards the stairs leading to the first floor of the cafeteria.
“The Black Annihilation Dragon of the End, Schwarzwaldius, huh…”
With a daring smile on his face, he muttered.
“–Let’s go see what you’re capable of.”
He continued walking towards the stairs without stopping.
…In this abnormal situation, he too was an anomaly matching it.
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