I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 39. An Unknown Premonition

‘A strange silver-haired man carrying a large chicken is targeting female students at the academy. Be careful.’

That was Reginleif’s message after returning from the faculty meeting.

The academy, already in turmoil due to Fenrir’s disturbance, was buzzing.

And exactly one day passed.

The story, inflated and distorted among the students, expanded into a rumor of a grotesque figure riding a giant chicken and attacking female students.

The troublesome fact was that despite each teacher conveying accurate information, most of the students began to believe the distorted rumors more.

“Elsie, did you hear?”

“About what?”

Elsie, anticipating what kind of story would come out of Thrud’s sparkling eyes, answered lukewarmly and walked ahead.

“About the pervert who’s attacking female students! I heard a story from the dormitory…”

“What’s been upgraded this time? Does the chicken he’s carrying breathe fire or something?”

The distorted rumor, which had transformed the suspicious pervert into a supernatural monster overnight, was almost turning into a myth or legend.

“It’s similar but a little different!”

“Haha, it is similar…”

“If the chicken threatens the female student by breathing fire… a silver-haired man with his shirt off-”

“Wait, shirt off? Wasn’t he neatly dressed until yesterday?”

Thrud simply shrugged at Elsie’s bewildered question.

Her playful expression showed that she was half enjoying it.

“Well, I guess he leveled up in the meantime.”

“Unbelievable.”

“Well, if someone’s targeting academy students, shouldn’t they be at least that capable to be realistic?”

Many of the academy students are not only outstanding in their respective fields but also possess a certain level of combat power, although there are large deviations.

Therefore, it might not be wrong to say that someone would need to be at least that capable to leisurely harass the students.

“So, for the sake of that realism, you made a neatly dressed silver-haired pervert carry a chicken and turned him into that state?”

Elsie, shaking her head, admired the senses of the academy students.

The rumors had been so arbitrarily inflated that even Elsie was starting to lose track of the characteristics of the pervert that Reginleif had told her about.

“Then, is the story that the city guards are chasing him also an added setting?”

“No, that’s real. The headmaster put a lot of pressure on the city to protect the students, I heard.”

“Haha… I guess I should be glad that at least that’s real.”

“So, Elsie, you have to stick with me for a while?”

Elsie’s eyebrows twitched.

For a while? Hadn’t they never walked around separately until now?

‘Or does she mean she’s going to follow me even more persistently than usual?’

Elsie felt like the tall, pink-haired stalker was going to become scarier than the shirtless silver-haired pervert carrying a chicken.

The destination after the pointless talk about the rumors was the cafeteria store.

Thanks to this, Elsie was spared from hearing more nonsense about the pervert stealing panties while the giant chicken subdued female students.

“There are too many people.”

Elsie, with her hands on her hips, frowned as she looked at the bustling crowd.

Students were swarming as if they had all gathered at the cafeteria store instead of going to the dining hall.

“It’s so different from what I heard…? I thought it would be deserted…”

“It must be because a new product came in today, and everyone flocked here.”

Thrud pointed to a poster attached to one wall of the cafeteria store with a determined expression.

**[Muspelheim Eximus Magma Hotdog]**

-The same taste guaranteed by Sol Valtiva, the best honorary chef of the year representing Eldjötnar.

In the background, a large fire giant, presumably the chef, was depicted wielding a hotdog instead of a cooking knife.

“….”

Elsie, momentarily taken aback by the design sense that left her speechless, turned her head back to look at the bustling crowd.

Her momentum, which had been fueled by her determination to spend all her money and buy Thrud’s share as well today, waned.

“Elsie, where do you even have money to treat at the cafeteria store?”

“W-Who do you think is a beggar?! I still have money left, you know?”

“What are you going to do after you spend all that money? How are you going to live…”

“I’m going to get a part-time job! Don’t look at me like I’m unemployed…!”

Elsie, momentarily tearful about her poor wallet situation and her pathetic situation without a job, overlooked one thing.

“Elsie… people don’t usually consider academy students unemployed…”

“Ugh! If you don’t have money, you’re unemployed!”

Elsie, momentarily enraged, charged in to buy that new product, the Muspelheim Eximus Magma Hotdog.

Her determined appearance was like a small cat challenging a large wall.

“M-Me too… hotdog!”

Thud.

However, Elsie, who couldn’t even penetrate the surface of the crowd, bounced off someone’s butt and fell to the ground.

“Ugh!”

“Elsie…”

Thrud, trembling at the sight of the unimaginably pathetic scene, helped Elsie up.

Cute. It was such a cute sight.

‘My brain is going to melt.’

“Damn it! If only I could use energy manipulation!”

Elsie was forbidden from using energy manipulation after receiving additional warnings from the school nurse.

Nidhogg’s venom that remained in her body had weakened her body’s recovery ability more severely than expected,

and therefore, she had to suppress energy manipulation until her self-healing ability returned to normal to some extent.

‘I won’t stop you if you want to permanently ruin your body’s balance.’

There was no way she could use her strength after hearing such words.

Elsie, filled with determination, charged again.

Elsie collided with the wall of people as resolutely as when she used Blóðörn on Fenrir.

Thud.

Once again, she bounced off someone’s leg and fell to the ground.

It was a moment to realize her weakness.

‘Was this how the dead Elsie felt?’

Elsie tried to get up, filled with frustration.

Then, Elsie discovered Eir, who had been bounced off and was rolling on the floor just like her.

Seized by an unknown sense of kinship, she looked at Eir with pitiful eyes.

“Elsie…”

Eir, with a tearful face, also looked at Elsie with teary light yellow eyes.

“I, I lost the bet… and Randgrid told me to buy one for her…”

‘So she’s become Randgrid’s hotdog shuttle.’

She couldn’t help but cheer for her lonely challenge.

Elsie returned to Thrud, who was holding her stomach and trembling behind her with her head bowed.

And she casually threw out a word as if she was greeting her while looking up at her.

“I can’t break through.”

“Pfft!”

“Puh-huh!”

Thrud, who had been trembling, finally couldn’t hold back her laughter and burst out laughing.

At the same time, Han Doyun, who was sitting on a bench far away in the cafeteria store and munching on a hotdog, also burst out.

Elsie sensed Han Doyun hiding far away and glared at him sharply.

He showed such an embarrassing sight, yet he was hiding and laughing at people.

“Hey, you jerk! You sneaked away with your friends and were hiding in the cafeteria store eating hotdogs?”

Elsie, approaching the bench where Han Doyun and his friends Jaime and Pajolt were sitting, began to argue.

“And on top of that, you’re laughing at people? Do you know how hard it is to break through that human wall?”

Their eyes widened, and they choked on the hotdog they were swallowing, drank water, and waved their hands.

“N-No! Elsie, it’s not that we were laughing…!”

Elsie looked at Doyun, who was vehemently denying with a flushed face, with a nonchalant expression.

“You laughed. After seeing my pathetic appearance of falling twice. Twice.”

Elsie, emphasizing “twice,” briefly turned to look at Eir, who was being bounced off for the third time.

“….”

Doyun wanted to explain that it wasn’t that he was laughing, but that her pathetic appearance of being bounced off was cute, but he couldn’t bring himself to say it.

While he was hesitating, Thrud ran to Elsie.

“Cute! How can everything you do be so pathetic and cute?!”

Wham-!

“Ugh?! T-This girl is starting again! Let, let go!”

“E, Elsie…”

Thrud, who glared at Doyun for a moment, picked up Elsie like a doll and turned away before he could even open his mouth.

“Eir, you come here too!”

Thrud, who picked up Eir, who was frustrated on the floor, disappeared into the cafeteria store, breaking through the crowd with tremendous strength.

“Elsie is cute.”

“If I were the monster from the rumors, I would have only targeted Elsie.”

Jaime and Pajolt muttered.

Doyun, who was blankly looking in the direction where Elsie disappeared, snapped his head around.

“Monster?!”

“Is your neck okay? It looks like it turned to an angle it shouldn’t have…”

Now the rumors had become so distorted that it was impossible to distinguish what was true, the silver-haired pervert chicken monster.

Even he couldn’t figure out what was real anymore, but there was a characteristic that everyone agreed on.

The heinous and terrible act of subduing female students with a giant chicken and taking off their panties in the meantime.

It was a threat that could very well happen to that oblivious Elsie.

‘She said she can’t use her strength… Thrud is sticking with her, but it might be dangerous…’

A futile delusion about the nonsense rumors unfolded fiercely in his head.

Meanwhile, Elsie came out of the crowd with a sullen expression, holding three hotdogs in both hands.

“To think I could break through so easily…”

Elsie handed one to Thrud and walked near Doyun with two hotdogs.

“H-How did you get two?”

Despite the strict rule of only one hot dog per person due to limited quantity, Elsie somehow managed to get two, thanks to the store clerk’s stubbornness.

“The dwarf ajusshi said I was p-pretty, so he gave me a s-service…”

Elsie hesitated as she answered, sitting down on the bench.

“That’s the luck of having a Dvergr as a store clerk!”

Thrud, sitting on the bench, patted Elsie’s head and smiled.

One of the Nine Worlds, the dwarf race of Svartalfheim, the Dvergr.

Excellent artisans, inventors, and merchants, they were also a race that couldn’t resist beautiful things.

They were noticeably more proactive than other races when it came to dealing with beautiful women.

But at the same time, it was hard to imagine receiving a service without any compensation from them, as they were also skilled at getting what they wanted.

“No way…”

Doyun and his friends, well aware of the store clerk’s stubbornness, couldn’t hide their surprise.

In any case, Elsie looked at the hot dog with a slightly satisfied expression, having achieved her goal.

“Muspelheim Eximus Magma Hot Dog… who even comes up with these names.”

Elsie grumbled blandly, tucking her hair behind her ear and swallowing hard.

The name might be weird, but her heart fluttered with anticipation for what unique flavor it would have.

Just as Elsie, filled with anticipation, slowly opened her mouth to take a bite of the hot dog…

Thump!

Han Doyun, who had been sitting quietly on the next bench, fell over.

“What the fuck.”

His face flushed red with embarrassment, he staggered to his feet.

“Hey, are you okay?”

“Yeah, uh… sorry. I’m fine…”

Falling over while just sitting there.

His almost-finished hot dog was rolling on the ground.

He would have no choice but to throw it away now.

‘That unlucky bastard.’

Spear guy and hammer guy, Han Doyun’s friends, didn’t fall, but they swayed, their faces red, and their hands trembled as they hung their heads.

“Did you guys have some kind of mass hallucination?”

“I-I’m fine, so don’t worry about us and enjoy your food… sorry.”

Doyun, having gotten up, picked up his hot dog that had been rolling on the ground and sat back down on the bench.

He still seemed embarrassed, glancing sideways at Elsie, as if worried about what she thought.

“Alright, Elsie! Don’t mind them and let’s eat!”

“Uh, yeah. But it’s a bit much to eat two by myself…”

“You can share with me, right?”

Elsie, now aware of how small her stomach was, was delighted by Thrud’s suggestion.

Just as she was about to take another bite of the hot dog, Thrud’s face approached Elsie’s hot dog.

Crunch.

Thrud suddenly bit off the bottom part of the hot dog.

Elsie’s eyes widened as she had the hot dog in her mouth.

“What are you d…!!!”

The warm juice and spicy flavor filled her mouth, and Elsie couldn’t finish her sentence, quickly chewing and swallowing the hot dog.

“What are you doing-!”

“We’re sharing, right?”

“Are you crazy, how can you just bite off what I’m about to eat!”

Elsie, flustered, retorted, but Thrud just laughed heartily.

“Ahaha! Surprise sharing!”

“Don’t you have any shame? Ha- seriously!”

“We’re going to share anyway, what’s wrong with friends doing this?”

“Hey! Do friends bite off each other’s hot dogs?!”

Elsie waved the hot dog, bitten from both ends, and argued.

Then, as if feeling frustrated, she turned her head to look at Han Doyun.

“Han Doyun! You’re more reasonable! Does it make sense for friends to bite off each other’s hot dogs?!”

Doyun, whose face was red for some reason, answered with a blank expression.

“Ah, usually not…”

“Right! It’s not normal! I’ll eat half and give it to you, so don’t do anything weird and eat your own hot dog first!”

“Haha, okay-”

Elsie, huffing, shoved the large hot dog into her mouth.

“Cough?!”

Elsie, trying to quickly eat half to give to Thrud, coughed as she swallowed forcefully.

Doyun, who had been intently observing her, felt the need for cold water to dunk his head in.

It seemed like he wouldn’t be able to leave the bench for a while.

***

The silver-haired man was panting in the forest.

“How did it come to this?!”

[Dane. I understand how you feel about your sister… but frankly, it was a bit perverted.]

Vedrfolnir, sitting on the nameless eagle that had shrunk to the size of an adult man, shook his head.

Dane, who had tried to enter the academy without permission, was stopped by the guards and desperately explained to them about his sister.

It seemed quite earnest.

Thanks to Dane’s appeal, he almost moved the hearts of the academy guards.

Until he passionately recited and described Elsie’s physical characteristics.

[That… anyone would see you as a perverted stalker, not an older brother looking for his sister.]

“I, I just wanted to see Elsie so desperately-”

[That desperation is why you’re being chased by the city guards now. The main academy must be really serious about protecting its students.]

Dane lowered his head.

‘Come to think of it, isn’t it all the nameless eagle’s fault for forgetting the location?’

Dane looked at the nameless eagle with slightly resentful eyes.

But the eagle brazenly met his gaze.

It was his insides that were burning.

“This time it’s clear, right? I don’t want to accidentally go to the wrong house again and be mistaken for a robber like last time.”

Dane, having spent a whole day wandering around and finally reaching a secluded house in the forest, asked desperately.

It was a house with a recently eagle-ed fence and a very thick-looking door.

It was close to the residential area and the academy, but hidden in an excessively remote forest.

[I think I remember this house.]

Positive thoughts were conveyed from the nameless eagle as well.

“F-Finally!”

Dane’s face lit up.

He was about to explode with frustration at how he could forget such a uniquely remote house, but the anticipation of finally seeing Elsie blew away his anger.

Dane’s grinning face looked a bit lecherous, and Vedrfolnir quietly shook his head.

[I’m worried he’ll get reported by his own sister.]

“Haha, don’t be ridiculous. How much does Elsie trust and follow me!”

[Didn’t you abandon that sister for half a year? Have you ever thought that she might resent her brother?]

Vedrfolnir’s question hit the nail on the head, and Dane’s face, which had been painted with happiness, instantly turned gloomy.

It was truly an amazing change of expression.

His lovely sister, who had given him a bouquet of freesia flowers and cheered him on as he went away.

There was no way that kind Elsie would have come to hate him.

Dane, having regained his expression, sparkled his blue eyes.

“Wait for me, Elsie!”

He walked towards the secluded house in the forest with energetic steps.

***

“Ugh?!”

“What’s wrong?”

“I, I suddenly got goosebumps…”

Elsie, shuddering from the goosebumps that ran through her entire body, rubbed her neck.

Was the sudden ominous feeling just her imagination?

Elsie tilted her head, then tilted it once more before biting into the hot dog.