I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 11. Breaking the Academy (3)

The attack point of Hrímsaxa, thick with smoke.

From its center, golden energy currents began to flow.

Whoosh—!

The golden energy was released, blowing away the thick smoke covering the area.

What Truth saw then was a truly unfamiliar sight.

“What is that… what the hell…”

Golden, shining chainmail.

No, it was more like a long, trailing chain structure, hardly worthy of being called armor.

It coiled around Elsie like a snake made of chains.

“It’s armor, what else?”

“That’s a bit much! There’s no way a long, trailing chain structure is armor! There’s no way something like that could deflect my Hrímsaxa…”

Elsie simply smiled at Truth, who seemed unable to believe it.

“This. As you can see, it’s not a complete form. The name Brynja-hildr is almost laughable.”

“…What are you trying to say?”

“Even without a complete form, it can block a normal strike from a famous weapon.”

Elsie gently stroked the golden chain structure floating around her.

Then, she glared at Truth with a cold expression.

Her expression seemed to say that the previous attack was disappointing.

So Truth gripped the Hrímsaxa in his hand even tighter.

“Normal… you’re saying the weapon I wielded was only that much?”

His tone was calm, but he seemed to be blaming his own inadequacy.

Thwack!

Truth, drawing on all his strength, charged at Elsie with tremendous force.

Truth’s slash, filled with all his might, came crashing down on Elsie.

Enough power to cleave a small human like Elsie in two in an instant.

Such was the level of sharpness.

Elsie focused the golden chain structure on her arms, guarding with both arms and deflecting the fierce attack.

But the momentum created by Truth’s full-power swing was immense.

_Thwack!_

“Ugh!”

Crackle! With the sound of the chain structure breaking apart, Elsie was sent flying into the warehouse.

Being small and light, Elsie couldn’t help but be thrown back.

“Now that I’ve drawn the family’s symbol, I can’t lose!”

At Truth’s cry, Elsie, who had been thrown into the warehouse, burst out, scattering the debris.

And immediately, she flew straight towards Truth.

The clash that followed in an instant.

It was the beginning of a relentless, fierce battle.

Elsie’s fists, wrapped with the chain structure like gauntlets on both arms, were swung at Truth.

He blocked the barrage with the large blade of Hrímsaxa, but in an instant, she would penetrate his flank, launching kicks that were difficult to respond to directly with a large weapon.

‘Each strike is heavy!’

Elsie’s onslaught was truly fierce.

It was difficult enough to defend against, so he had to allow non-lethal attacks.

His stamina was gradually being chipped away.

No matter how tough a frost giant warrior he was, he didn’t have invincible durability.

Truth’s limit was definitely approaching.

The shocking fact was that Elsie still hadn’t drawn a proper weapon.

Apart from the strange chain structure, she was fighting as if her own body was a weapon.

Truth was using techniques similar to the combat patterns of named frost giant players.

Elsie, who had been interested in his appearance, was inwardly surprised from the moment that weapon called Hrímsaxa appeared.

That was a weapon that was difficult to deal with without Valkyrie armament or a skill equivalent to it.

Elsie judged Truth’s skill by comparing it to the Aesir Saga’s PvP system, the tournament.

Taking into account the unexpected weapon and the advantage of not having the restrictions of the game system.

She judged that he was probably a mid-to-lower-ranked player.

‘Anyway, shall we settle this soon… I’ve roughly grasped this lump’s skills.’

She gathered her momentum and took a deep breath.

And, released energy.

Accelerated!

It flowed through her body and was converted into physical power beyond imagination.

Elsie’s long legs stretched out faster than could be perceived.

_—Thwaaang!!_

A kick of tremendous power struck Truth directly.

Unbelievable power.

Truth, who had been gradually pushed back, was hit by Elsie’s roundhouse kick and sent flying.

“Ugh!”

He somehow managed to block it with Hrímsaxa, which had turned into a shield at some point.

Truth could feel himself falling with a brief sense of floating.

“Th-this is!”

He was definitely fighting in the academy’s warehouse district.

But with one kick, he was sent flying all the way to the athletic field.

He could only admire Elsie’s terrifying energy output now.

Bang! Truth collided with the ground as he was.

He raised his creaking body and looked around, his eyes widening.

It was because the two aides who had crashed into Elsie’s party and broken through were lying coldly on the floor.

‘Those two were beaten!’

They were promising warriors of the territory, even if they didn’t measure up to him.

To think they would be settled in such a short time.

He saw Thrud and Doyun, dusting themselves off without a scratch and talking.

“I was arrogant.”

There was a sky above the sky.

Elsie, having confirmed that Truth had been sent flying towards the athletic field, suddenly thought.

“Come to think of it, I made a provocation to deal with him with my eyes.”

Since she had said it, there was a need to show him something with her eyes at this point.

“The sun is shining brightly, there’s not a cloud in the sky, and the time is right. Shall I use it?”

Elsie nodded and leaped after Truth, who had been sent flying. The entire academy began to darken as if clouds had covered the sun.

***

“What is it? Did a cloud come? It’s gotten dark.”

Thrud, who was picking up and examining the weapon of the frost giant student she had defeated, tilted her head.

She looked up at the sky, but it was a clear sky without a single cloud.

“The light… has weakened…?”

That was the only way to express the current situation sensually.

The sunlight had weakened, and the surroundings had become dark as if they were in the shade.

“N-no, that’s not it! The surrounding light is gathering in one direction!”

Doyun, who had an excellent ability to see, noticed that the light from all directions was moving like fog in one direction.

This phenomenon was the same as what Elsie had shown when she threatened to shoot a beam with her eyes in the cafeteria.

It was a supernatural sight that he wanted to disbelieve.

Even though such things were normal in this world, it was still surprising.

“L-look at that!”

The two raised their heads, following the place where the light was gathering.

Then, a silver figure seemed to be slowly falling from the sky.

“Elsie?”

Elsie was sucking in and concentrating the light from the entire academy on a wide scale.

So much light was gathering in her eyes that the surrounding brightness was rapidly decreasing.

“Crazy…”

Thrud muttered blankly at the absurd sight.

Doyun was also vehemently agreeing with her mutterings.

It was a crazy sight.

Enough to pity the frost giant who was shouting battle cries and trying to face that.

Valkyrie combat skill, Heat Ray Emission.

A common skill for the Valkyrie class that gathers surrounding light into the eyes and shoots it out in the form of a beam.

The power increases the closer it is to noon when the light is brightest, and the power decreases sharply in dark places, making it an inconvenient skill to use in many ways.

‘Who was it that said it was a skill used for romance?’

It was often ridiculed as an eyeball beam.

But the powerful heat ray emitted from the eyes was just as attractive.

A Valkyrie common skill with no combo bonus, and a useless restriction that its power decreases sharply in the dark.

Thanks to this, its usage rate was not high, so the prevailing opinion was that it was used for romance, as Elsie thought.

But wouldn’t it be fun to use it if you could use it?

Use the right skill in the right situation.

It was also the method that Elsie insisted on.

“Let’s end this with this!”

“Ooooh!!”

Truth, standing firmly as if rooted to the ground, stuck his weapon into the ground and stretched out his right hand.

It seemed he was trying to deal with it somehow.

Elsie’s lips curved softly.

After all, battle is fun.

Too fun, she can’t control herself when she fights.

The area darkens as intense light gathers in her eyes.

Truth felt a tremendous energy from Elsie’s golden eyes.

There was no way to avoid that now.

Truth instinctively sensed that.

He plunged Hrímsaxa into the ground and stretched out his hand.

At the same time, a golden beam was emitted from Elsie’s eyes with tremendous force.

A pouring golden waterfall.

The overwhelming heat ray, which could be called that without awkwardness, came crashing down on Truth.

Kwaaaaaaah—!!

“Shield of Ice, Kaldur Skjǫldr!”

A huge shield made of black, non-melting ice appeared in front of Truth.

At the same time, his figure was swallowed by the surging golden light.

In an instant, that was the end.

Hiss-

Thud! Elsie, who had landed on the ground, gently rubbed her eyelids with her slender fingers.

Even in the game, she had never done such a high-output heat ray emission that absorbed this much light.

“It’s originally a surprise attack skill… but it’s also fun to spend time using it like a main skill.”

After checking the area swept by Heat Ray Emission, Elsie saw Truth sprawled out.

Next to him lay a badly worn black shield.

Thanks to his top, which had disappeared without a trace as if burned by the heat ray, he was quite a mess.

“Not bad for a post-meal duel, Whitey.”

Elsie walked along the path of extensively burned grass and approached Truth, giving a bright smile and saying a word.

“…He’s passed out.”

Seeing Truth seemingly unconscious, Elsie squatted down next to him.

If her opponent were awake, she would play pranks that she would never do sober, given his personality.

She poked his cheeks and pinched his nose.

But there was no reaction.

Elsie, who had expected a little reaction, gave up and stood up.

Elsie dusted off the ashes on her skirt, spotted Thrud and Doyun approaching her, and moved towards them.

It was a satisfying battle.

Elsie’s ability, which she had been obsessed with to the point of fixation and had honed for years, was based on the Aesir Saga.

To use it by moving her body directly, not in a game.

It was exhilarating, almost addictive.

A familiar yet strange world, and herself transformed into Elsie.

The enjoyable battle was the best means of escape, allowing her to forget everything.

But she couldn’t just fight all day.

“You guys finished fighting faster than me, which pisses me off a little.”

“The opponent was weak. There was no need to fight as flamboyantly as you did.”

“Thrud is right. Honestly, they were disappointing opponents.”

Elsie shrugged.

If all the Hrimthursar students were as skilled as Truth, the aftermath of the battle would have been a disaster.

‘It’s already quite a mess… will it be okay? Most of the property damage was caused by those hulks, right?’

As Elsie worried a little about the aftermath, a crow suddenly flew over her head.

Flap!

“Eek! Wh-what?”

“Caw, caw!”

“A crow?”

Elsie, startled by the crow that landed right on the crown of her head, staggered and grabbed Thrud.

“W-why won’t it fall off?”

She touched the crow with trembling fingers, but it remained unmoved.

The crow only moved its head from side to side.

“G-get it off! Thrud!”

“No way, I’ve never touched a crow before. I can’t touch it because I feel like it’ll explode if I grab it wrong…”

“How are you even thinking of grabbing it, worrying about a bird exploding? I’ve never touched a bird either!”

Unable to bear it any longer, Elsie shook her head from side to side, trying to chase the crow away.

But the crow, as if it had glue on its feet, didn’t budge, and Elsie was starting to get annoyed.

“Um… I’ll grab it for you. If someone is raising it, it would be difficult to just chase it away.”

“Who raises a crow?”

Doyun, who almost burst out laughing at Elsie’s question with a crow on her head, held back his laughter and continued.

“I don’t know. That crow isn’t running away and seems used to people, so that’s why I said that.”

“Caw, caw!”

As Doyun approached to grab it, the crow cried loudly, pecked Elsie’s head with its beak, and flew away.

“Ouch!”

Elsie jumped and covered her head, glaring at the crow that had flown far away.

“What the heck! I’m already upset enough!”