Ch.8383 – Flag Battle

# 83 – Flag Battle

Oknodie’s team, with the most flags, became the primary target for all teams.

“I’ll knock down whoever comes at us first.”

“Can I shoot?”

“H-hey, I’m a martial artist too!”

“Cross this line and I’ll kill you all!”

After drawing a line on the floor with chalk and making threats, one of Massgakki’s followers reported to the principal.

“Principal! She said she’s going to kill us!”

-Oh my. No killing allowed!

“Hmph. Really?”

-You’re all still freshmen, aren’t you?

“Oh right. We are, aren’t we?”

The students were shocked by this exchange with the principal.

“So if we weren’t freshmen, murder would be allowed?!”

“From which year?”

“So that’s why Gift Academy has high dropout rates and low graduation rates!”

The shock didn’t last long.

Honer FriedChicken, a member of one of the Empire’s three meritorious families and highly competitive, stepped forward with his spear.

“There, I crossed it. What are you going to do?”

“He crossed the line. Punish him, Hestia!”

Hestia walked out with an expressionless face.

The way she casually held her large double-bladed axe like a metal pipe was quite intimidating.

Not wanting to lose the psychological battle, Honer twirled his spear shaft to show off.

In response, Hestia pulled out a hand axe from her waist and threw it at Honer.

CLANG!

“T-that’s dangerous!”

“It was meant to be dangerous, you know?”

So he wasn’t just showing off with that spear twirling.

Everyone was impressed by Honer’s skill in deflecting the hand axe, but I could see it.

The cold sweat on Honer’s face.

This guy just got lucky with that block!

“Want to try blocking the next one?”

When Hestia showed three more hand axe handles tucked at her waist, Honer turned pale and shouted.

“What are you all staring at? Charge!”

“He’s in our faction but that’s really shameful…”

“If he’s going to be like that, he shouldn’t have stepped up.”

“He seems like a sucker, but he’s still our team leader, so let’s at least keep him alive.”

His teammates reluctantly followed him.

Bang!

A bullet hole appeared at their feet.

“Toot toot~ No passing beyond this point. I’ll shoot you for real!”

“You already shot!”

“The red-haired pirate with the triangular captain’s hat… I have a grudge against him for snatching our flag last time.”

“Today will be different, Zigoku.”

“Attack him first!”

“Wait, guys? Where are you going? Weren’t you coming to help me?!”

As the FriedChicken team members rushed toward Zigoku, the now-isolated Honer deflected a double-bladed axe that was swinging with enough force to cut his body in half.

“Ow, that hurts so much!”

“My thigh has a hole in it…!”

“You idiots. You should dodge the line of fire by watching the gun barrel!”

As expected of the senior class, there was one student who skillfully avoided Zigoku’s gun barrel while charging forward.

WHACK!

“Lotta! Where is your imperial noble dignity, protecting a pirate from the frontier?!”

“Shut up. You think I want to protect him? I have no choice if I want to avoid penalty points!”

“Gahahah! Well done, fistfighter! If you ever board my pirate ship, I’ll give you the position of deck boss!”

“I don’t need that at all?!”

While bickering, Lotta pushed back students trying to get to Zigoku with close combat.

They all worked so well together that I didn’t need to step in as they practically demolished one team.

“Is everyone just going to watch?!”

“Hmph. What a waste of the name of one of the Empire’s three meritorious families.”

“That guy was merely the weakest among us.”

“I haven’t lost yet?!”

Ignoring Honer’s cries, Cheddar PotatoPizza with his grotesquely large hands and Reph in plate armor stepped forward.

“Princess Yayoi. I, Cheddar PotatoPizza, member of one of the Empire’s three meritorious families, will help with the attack. I’ll flatten their weapons like dough with my <Dough Flattening>.”

“Frontier brats, taste my Reph CharcoalBBQ’s iron plate charging technique!”

At their feet lay Andersen Pretzel’s team, who had been instantly flattened as they shouted gallantly.

“Ugh. Be careful, Oknodie. These guys are strong fighters who even I, who took the <How to Use Holy Magic Without Faith> lecture, couldn’t handle.”

“…Are you sure you’re not just weak because taking that lecture drained your strength?”

Don’t take lectures about rolling around physically when you don’t believe in gods, then complain about being weak when it matters!

“Damn. I shouldn’t have taken the same lectures as the Grand Duke…”

“If I’d known this would happen, I wouldn’t have fought bulls with brute strength and just cheated with the power of faith…”

“I can’t muster any strength because I couldn’t sleep well after taking the <How to Sleep Well Anywhere> lecture that I followed Andersen Pretzel into…”

You took that too?!

You took every landmine lecture there is!

“You’ll regret not selling us your flags. We’re going to teach you a lesson!”

“Lotta. It’s sad to see you tending to a lowly pirate after being expelled from the group. Let me end the disgrace of my fallen former comrade with my own hands.”

From the Vanilla team that tried to buy flags at the last minute, to Lotta’s former gang member.

Unlike her energetic teammates, team leader Princess Yayoi didn’t budge from in front of her team’s basket.

“I’m sorry, Miss Oknodie. It seems you’re the next target.”

“Powerless princess, just guard the basket and watch carefully. Witness the true strength of the heirs of the Empire’s three meritorious families!”

With Cheddar’s spirited shout, Yayoi’s team began their charge without Yayoi herself.

As Hestia, Zigoku, and Lotta each marked one opponent, Cheddar PotatoPizza with his mouth-watering name charged at me alone.

“Group leader Oknodie. Let me show you clearly the power of my <Dough Flattening>!”

Cheddar’s Dough Flattening is a technique that flattens an opponent’s weapon like pizza dough when grasped.

The PotatoPizza family’s secret technique uses mana cultivation to destroy the structure of materials and instantly transform them, turning even expensive swords into garbage.

Fighting him would definitely be disadvantageous.

So I decided.

“Are you running away?!”

Yes, I’m running away.

I absolutely won’t fight you.

“Face me fair and square!”

“Fair and square while fighting 4 versus 9? Did you flatten your conscience like dough too?”

“As group leader, you should be able to handle it!”

Since things had come to this, I was planning to join hands with Giselle’s team for an alliance, but what’s this?

Giselle’s situation was even worse.

“…Princess Massgakki is right. Having suffered losses due to fake flags, I won’t let you pass this assignment without penalty points.”

“Ice user, stop binding my feet cowardly and fight me fair and square in hand-to-hand combat!”

Son Ocheon had his feet bound by Northern Grand Duchess Irene.

“Let’s melt the ice with salt!”

“Where would we get precious salt in a place like this?”

“Oh, Isabelle has plenty of salt. She lent me some this morning for cooking.”

“You think I’ll let you use it? Everyone, attack!”

“Don’t let the monkey get free!”

Massgakki, the Empire’s Second Princess, and her followers rushed to attack Isabelle and Giselle who were trying to help Son Ocheon, beating them mercilessly.

“Dorothy, take the basket and run… ugh!”

“I feel bad targeting Di directly, but I have no problem targeting you, her friends. Blame your situation on being teammates with the unscrupulous merchant who sold fake flags.”

“Meow meow punch!”

“I’ll let you taste the lightning punch of the Lightning Thunder Heaven God Church.”

Giselle’s team, targeted by multiple teams in the senior class full of named characters, failed both in escape and resistance, and were pathetically beaten.

“Hey, when are you going to let go of the basket? I’ll keep poking until you do.”

“Ow! I’ll let go, isn’t that enough?!”

Zhang, who was poking Dorothy’s side with his dagger handle as she clutched the basket tightly.

Finally snatching the basket, Zhang dumped out all the fake flags.

“Ah, Oknodie?!”

I ran into Zhang at that exact moment.

Zhang in front, Cheddar PotatoPizza behind.

A crisis with nowhere to go.

Zhang slowly backed away.

“What are you doing! Can’t a frontier hick even properly block someone’s path?!”

Despite Cheddar’s provocations, Zhang backed away even further.

Zhang’s reaction was clearly…

He’s giving me a pass because we took the same lecture!

“Thanks, Zhang!”

“Thanks? Don’t tell me… you’re in cahoots with that woman!”

Cheddar, who had zero trust in others, swung his hand at Zhang.

Sliding smoothly to avoid the attack, Zhang’s eyes darkened.

“Don’t regret this. You started it.”

“Big talk from a frontier hick… huh?!”

Zhang’s flying dagger came without a sound.

As Cheddar tried to dodge with his feet, he got caught in the sticky ground.

Quickly moving just his upper body to avoid it, he was surrounded by Zhang’s continuous attacks, alternating between throwing black cloth strips and daggers to block his vision and strike at openings.

“Huh~? Why are you two fighting each other during a joint attack? You attention deficit♥ idiots don’t even remember what you were trying to do♥”

“He started it!”

“Sort out your fight later and tell me which way Oknodie ran♥”

Zhang, finally calming down after Massgakki’s scolding, pointed in the direction I had fled.

“Probably that way…”

“There’s nobody there♥”

“Huh? No? Was it this way?”

“Nobody here either♥”

“Eh? Huh? What?”

Zhang was confused.

But I didn’t think Zhang would be able to find me no matter how long he looked.

[You have hidden under Dragon Principal’s giant face for 1 minute.]

[Hiding experience +3]

[Guts experience +10]

Everyone freaks out just making eye contact with Dragon Principal, so who would look here!