68. School Violence!

68. School Violence!

“Priscilla, how much further until we see the culprit?”

We seemed to have walked quite a bit, but there was no sign of the culprit. When I asked Priscilla, she replied with a somewhat exasperated look.

“… You won’t see them right away. We only know the direction they went.”

“I see.”

After a few more minutes of walking with Priscilla leading the way.

I suddenly looked back at Iris, who was following behind me. She seemed quite out of it since earlier, so I needed to check periodically if she was keeping up.

Fortunately, Iris was following closely behind me with short, steady steps without any issues. I playfully tickled Iris’s nose with my tail and then looked forward again with a smile. I saw Priscilla.

“Priscilla, when will we see the culprit?”

“I told you, you can’t see them…?”

Priscilla’s firm reply. It seemed it would take a long time to find the culprit.

Well, Priscilla was the one who directly heard the information, so she would probably handle everything. I just needed to follow Priscilla without having to think too hard.

I walked along the path, wagging my tail back and forth.

“Priscilla, the cul….”

“They’re not there!!”

Why is she getting angry?

After walking a bit further, I suddenly felt a strange sensation near my tail.

It wasn’t the sensation of someone touching or massaging my tail. Yes, if I had to describe it, it felt like something was tickling me.

But it wasn’t always touching me. When my tail swung left and right, reaching its furthest point with a gentle sway, something lightly tapped the tip of my tail.

“Hmm.”

I rested my chin on my hand and pondered. What could be touching my tail?

It felt like gently touching a thick brush to paper, with only the tip brushing and brushing against the paper.

I don’t know why it felt like this, but it was strange.

I continued to swing my tail. A peculiar ticklish sensation traveled up my tail. It was ticklish.

“Achoo!”

A sneeze from behind. Judging by the small, cute voice, it was definitely Iris. I was dying of heat, but was Iris very cold?

… It can’t be helped. As her older sister, it would be right to help Iris here.

I moved my tail and picked up Iris. My tail was fluffy and warm, so it would help alleviate Iris’s cold. However, I would be very hot in return.

“Uh, Sister?”

“You won’t be cold anymore.”

Holding Iris, I extended my tail forward. Iris, dangling from my tail, reached me, and I hugged Iris along with my tail.

Iris’s neck, now exposed white, was gently bitten by me for no particular reason. A clear red mark was left on her soft baby skin.

“Sister… you left a mark….”

“It’s okay. It’s nothing. Girls often do this to each other.”

I also had many such marks from my time in the North. Freya had told me that girls often bit each other like this, so it wasn’t strange, at least.

As the marks on Iris’s neck gradually increased, Priscilla shouted.

“Up ahead!”

My gaze followed. I looked forward. I saw a noblewoman with brown hair lying on the ground. She looked familiar.

Yes, that is….

“Ah.”

It was the same girl who, while I was walking down the street, had suddenly given Ella a deep kiss. I remembered Ella muttering that it wasn’t enough after giving the kiss.

But why was she lying here?

Judging by the lump on the noblewoman’s head, it seemed the culprit had knocked her out, just like Ella.

Looking around, I saw the academy buildings, partially destroyed.

Traces of the culprit, surrounding destroyed buildings.

Then, perhaps the culprit who bothered Iris also destroyed the academy buildings!

“No, Skadi is the one who destroyed the buildings a few days ago. The damage was so extensive that it seems to be taking a long time to repair.”

“….”

I wiped the sweat dripping from my forehead. The weather was very hot.

Meanwhile, Priscilla examined the unconscious noblewoman. After touching the lump on her head and examining her hair, Priscilla stood up and said.

“It seems to be the same method of knocking… Gyaaaaaaak!”

“My… Ella… Give her back…!”

Before the unconscious noblewoman could wake up. The noblewoman, upon opening her eyes, knocked Priscilla to the ground and climbed on top of her, muttering. Seeing her talking about Ella while looking at Priscilla, her consciousness seemed to be fluctuating.

Iris and I stood by and watched as Priscilla and the noblewoman rubbed against each other. Iris seemed to particularly enjoy it.

“Don’t just watch, help me!!”

“Ah, yes.”

I tightened my fingers and flicked the noblewoman’s forehead hard. A thud followed, and the noblewoman, finally regaining her senses, looked around.

“Where is this…?”

“Are you okay?”

The ancient technique passed down from my past life, the so-called “hit it to fix it.” It seemed to work well on people too. I helped the noblewoman up and asked about the incident.

“What’s your name?”

“S-Sara….”

“Yes, Sara. What happened?”

Sara, who had been hesitating and unable to speak, finally opened her mouth under my unspoken pressure.

“I have a friend named Ella who I like….”

“Yes.”

“Someone dared to steal my Ella….”

“Yes.”

“So I tried to pick a fight to get revenge….”

“Yes.”

“I got hit by magic and fainted….”

“Yes.”

In short, it was a love triangle. Given the circumstances, the person who knocked Sara out was undoubtedly the culprit who bothered Iris. I didn’t know exactly what happened between Ella, Sara, and the culprit, but I figured I could get some meaningful information.

“What did that person look like? I’m looking for them urgently.”

When Priscilla asked, Sara closed her eyes and began to recall the appearance. Soon, Sara’s mouth opened.

“Black hair, black eyes, black wolf ears and tail. Average height, but slightly short… Ah! She looked similar to the Grand Duchess.”

“Wolf ears? Is she a beastman?”

“Yes. My consciousness was a bit hazy at the time, but I remember that clearly.”

Black hair and eyes, slightly shorter than average, resembling me, a magic-using wolf beastman…?

In that case, perhaps…!

“It seems there’s another wolf beastman from the North. I didn’t expect this.”

“That’s right… Still, if she’s a beastman, she’ll be easier to find. There are no beastmen at the Academy other than you, Skadi, and Henir!”

I knew that wolf beastmen rarely left the North, so I wondered if something had happened in the North recently.

However, even if she was a wolf beastman from the North, it was unforgivable for her to bother students, especially Iris. At least she should pay the price for it.

For example, a kiss, a peck, or naked-

Anyway.

Later, Sara pointed towards the training grounds and told us that’s where she saw the culprit heading. After parting ways with Sara, we headed to the training grounds.

On the way, broken brick fragments were scattered everywhere. The varied colors of the fragments suggested that they were a mix of building debris and pavement fragments.

“It seems the culprit went on a rampage. The Academy is in ruins.”

“No, Skadi is the one who did that.”

“I’ll have to scold the culprit when we catch them.”

“That’s why Skadi did it… No. Never mind.”

I stroked Iris’s head, which was cradled in my arms, and continued walking forward. Soon, the noisy training grounds came into view.

“There they are.”

The suspect came into view. As described, it was a black-haired wolf beastman with a staff, of average height.

If I had to compare, she looked similar to my sister. Although I could only see the back of her head.

“The person in front… is it Sorina? Why is she there?”

“Who knows?”

Surprisingly, blocking the culprit was Golden Sun, holding a steel sword in one hand. From what I could overhear from a distance, they seemed to be having a duel.

“Golden… No, Sorina can’t fight. Why are they fighting?”

“I don’t know either. Shouldn’t we stop them?”

Golden Sun takes swordsmanship classes, but it’s only as a hobby. It would be difficult for Golden Sun to defeat the culprit who even managed to defeat the skilled Ella.

“Wait. I’ll stop them.”

I picked up a piece of stone from the ground. A relatively blunt stone that wouldn’t cause serious injury even if it hit someone.

Crunch, crunch.

Still, to be safe, I applied force to the stone with my hands, grinding down any parts that seemed even slightly sharp. Satisfied with the perfectly smooth and harmless stone, I smiled.

Looking ahead, the duel seemed to have already begun. The culprit slammed their staff onto the ground, and green magic spread towards Golden Sun, while I threw the stone.

Crack!

The shield shattered, and the culprit slowly tilted towards the ground.

“Got them. Caught them.”

“That’s a relief!”

We ran towards the unconscious culprit.