I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 31. Magical Beast Subjugation (1)

In a corner of the Glitnir guardhouse detention center.

Hrókr, who had tried to kill Elsie and her party but was instead subdued, was imprisoned with his head bowed.

“Tsk, tsk, useless bastard.”

The space rippled, and a man in a gray-white robe appeared from the hallway.

“S, Svik!”

The man called Svik twisted his beard with his fingers and leaned against the bars.

The inside of the detention center, magically soundproofed, was as silent as a tomb.

“I wondered why I hadn’t heard from you… you’re making me more dumbfounded than I could have imagined, Hrókr.”

Svik, who had been twisting his beard, reached out towards Hrókr.

A red aura began to ripple from his fingertips.

“Do you have any excuse for me not to dispose of you? Or should I report to the mistress that you were arrested by the city guard for trying to kill a girl?”

“Wa, wait! Th, that Elsie girl, she’s changed! She’s awakened! Like a completely different person!”

“Awakened…?”

Hrókr prostrated himself on the floor and shouted.

“She’s become stronger, like a different person! And how am I supposed to deal with a woman who wields sinister artifacts that mess with your mind!”

Elsie, that girl, has awakened?

It was such an absurd statement that it was doubtful he wasn’t just spouting nonsense because he didn’t want to die.

Svik withdrew his outstretched hand and was silent for a moment.

“What about the poison? There’s no way she could be completely fine.”

“Sh, she showed me the empty bottle!”

Svik sighed. It was truly a pathetic answer.

Hrókr swallowed hard, raised his head, and cried out pleadingly.

“Th, the black hair! There was also a black-haired swordsman!”

Svik’s expression twisted at those words.

It was a more plausible story than the nonsense about Elsie awakening.

“That bastard…”

That damn swordsman is involved again.

He was annoyed that just one swordsman was bothering him so much.

“Please believe me! There’s not a sliver of a lie!”

“…Is that all?”

“Y, yes…”

Svik raised his head and cleared his throat once.

The magic that blocked the noise would soon lose its effect.

“I see. Then, die now.”

“What do you m-”

*Swoosh-!*

A flash of light and a sound tearing through the air erupted.

But it was soon silenced by the pre-laid soundproofing magic.

Red blood spread across the floor of the detention center.

Consumables like Hrókr were easy to handle, but they had loose lips.

It was reasonable to silence them before information leaked.

“I have to dispose of useless waste that couldn’t even handle the task I ordered.”

Svik pretended to dust off his hands and left the detention center with light steps.

“I don’t know how the mistress will react…”

If Hrókr’s words were true, killing Elsie would be extremely difficult.

Fading away as if blending into the surrounding environment, he vanished in an instant.

Not long after, the city was abuzz with the murder that had taken place inside the guardhouse, even inside the detention center.

***

Several days passed.

The underwater events hidden in the shadows of the city passed as if they were completely unrelated to Elsie.

Elsie was half-listening to a history lesson amidst the flow of time and a bit of good luck that had come her way.

“Hundreds of years ago, the gods of this land came up with an ingenious plan to permanently eliminate Ragnarok, the inevitable end foretold.”

“…I explained this last time, so I hope everyone remembers?”

The broken house had been repaired, the furniture that Han Doyun had broken was scheduled to be replaced, and the clothes that she had been forced to buy by Thrud had been delivered.

Thinking about the house being tidied up one by one, she felt an inexplicable sense of fulfillment.

In the meantime, it was fortunate that she had found several Aesir Saga gold coins at the very bottom of her inventory space.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to fix the house and repay the debt she owed to Thrud.

‘I don’t have a penny left…’

But it was a satisfactory result.

Elsie smiled quietly as she recalled Thrud, who had stubbornly refused the gold coins she had offered to repay her debt.

Thrud had vehemently refused, saying that she hadn’t helped in the hopes of getting something in return, and had even swung her fist.

She was only able to convince her after persuading her to accept it as a token of friendship.

“…So, the gods gave up their divinity to prevent the end. By the gods disappearing, Ragnarok also disappeared, and the divinity they gave up was scattered throughout the nine worlds!”

*Thump!*

The history teacher, excited by the heated lesson, struck the podium and continued.

Startled by the sound, Elsie, who had been lost in idle thoughts, snapped out of it and began to pay attention to the lesson.

“The divinity scattered throughout the world can be found today, very rarely, in people who have awakened their divinity! So… Elsie?!”

Elsie felt her hair stand on end at the sound of the history teacher’s assertive voice suddenly calling her name.

“Y-yes-?!”

As the only divinity awakener in the class, or perhaps in the entire academy, Elsie was receiving considerable attention from the teachers.

Naturally, it wasn’t a welcome situation.

Elsie’s face slowly turned red under the gazes pouring down on her.

“What do you think happened to the gods who gave up their divinity?”

It was a kind question to refresh the class, but it was a surprise attack for Elsie.

“W, well… didn’t they leave somewhere or disappear…?”

*Thwack!*

“Exactly! That’s it!”

“Hiccup!”

Was that the answer she wanted to hear?

Elsie, startled by the excited history teacher’s enthusiastic podium smashing, began to hiccup.

“Almost all the gods disappeared somewhere. Forseti, the city lord, is an exception…”

The history teacher, once again intoxicated with her lesson, began her long speech.

Elsie sighed deeply and covered her cheeks to soothe her flushed face.

“Hiccup-”

Thrud, who was sitting next to her, gently patted Elsie’s back as she hiccuped.

“Shy.”

“I can’t help it, it’s my nature. Sigh…”

‘Still, scattered divinity and disappeared gods…’

It was still worth investigating.

Feeling the persistent gaze that still hadn’t left her, Elsie scanned her surroundings with sharp eyes.

“…?”

“What’s wrong?”

Thrud tilted her head at Elsie’s actions of looking around.

“Maybe it’s just my imagination…”

Recently, she had often felt a persistent gaze that was difficult to explain.

Twirling her hair with her fingers, Elsie pulled her chair closer and sat down, feeling the persistent gaze again.

Elsie, who had been tense, displayed superhuman reaction speed and quickly turned her head.

All she could see was the back of a head of black hair, diligently concentrating on the lesson.

Elsie nodded.

“It’s just my imagination.”

It was clearly the result of her introverted personality and excessive self-consciousness.

Feeling her back and shoulders stiffen, Elsie rested her chest on the desk.

“Hooah-”

It felt like the weight on her chest was disappearing.

Feeling at ease, she became languidly relaxed.

Ignoring the stinging gaze she felt again, she aimlessly stroked her long silver hair.

Elsie closed her eyes slightly, using the history teacher’s enthusiastic lesson as background noise.

Sleep came little by little.

Elsie had been particularly vulnerable to sleep since she had taken over this body.

“Chief God Odin… Thor and Loki this and that… Baldr… Tyr and Frey….”

*Chatter-*

The names of the gods seeped in like a lullaby and scattered like a dream.

***

[Useless bitch.]

A woman with striking red hair had a venomous look on her face and poured the wine in her glass.

[Why are the head of the family and your brother so protective of you? What value do you have?]

The woman’s words flew like daggers and pierced her heart.

She couldn’t refute the woman’s harsh words.

In a family that valued ability, all she had was the slim possibility that she might manifest divinity.

[Look at your half-sister, my proud daughter! She has already awakened as a Skjaldmær and is bringing honor to the family!]

She blamed herself for being pathetic, and even if she made her own efforts to change the situation, nothing changed.

Therefore, she wanted to become like the dreamlike version of herself that often appeared in her dreams.

Like the dazzling version of herself in her dreams, who roamed the battlefield, swept away enemies, and enjoyed battle-

***

*Rustle, rustle.*

Elsie slowly opened her eyes, feeling a touch on her hair.

She felt like she had had a very uncomfortable dream, but she couldn’t remember it.

Only a stuffy chest and a choking feeling remained, disturbing Elsie’s mood.

“Umm…”

Anyway, who is brushing my hair so carefully?

“So soft-”

A slightly low, beautiful voice trailed off in admiration.

“Thrud?”

“You’re awake? Just stay still for a moment.”

Elsie stretched her back and yawned like a cat, tilting her head.

“Wh, what are you doing?”

*Rustle, rustle-*

The touch of hands arranging her soft silver hair occasionally brushed against her neck.

Elsie’s cheeks began to turn red in the very embarrassing situation.

*Clack!*

The moment she felt her scalp being gently pulled, she heard a sound of something elastic snapping into place.

“Done!”

“Oh… Ooh?”

Elsie’s eyes widened as she felt a lightness around her neck, and she moved her head from side to side.

“Ta-da!”

Thrud held out a small hand mirror, and Elsie saw her long silver hair tied up in the reflection.

Elsie, now sporting the same ponytail as Thrud, turned to her with a surprised expression.

“Elsie, you’re short and your hair is long, so it’ll be inconvenient if you go into the forest like that.”

Elsie frowned at the unnecessary comment about her height, then suddenly felt a sense of doubt and stood up.

Of course, she was small, not even comparable to Thrud.

“…But, go into the forest?”

“It’s free activity time now. So, our class decided to go monster hunting in the forest near the Academy.”

You were asleep, so you didn’t hear –

Thrud poked Elsie’s cheek with her finger, smiling playfully.

Elsie’s head tilted further and further as she looked at Thrud, her question still unresolved.

“Monster… hunting?”