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A bear girl. Emma’s days were always leisurely.

From the first day I entered the academy to the moment I was about to graduate, even though I slept face down on my desk throughout class, the teachers’ evaluations were not bad.

Rather, he received a positive evaluation as a student who does what he does even though he looks like that on the outside.

The same was true for the police officers in charge of trainees from the academy.

It’s not that I look lazy, I’m really lazy. I was a kid who did what he had to do.

Even though I lie down at my desk every day, I have never been called out for causing trouble.

The same thing happened when a report came in that they were being chased by brainwashed combatants.

It was Emma who was dispatched from the police station, and it was Emma, a police officer trainee, who received the on-site report from Supreme Fox, who had subdued the brainwashed combatants.

In the short time he was dispatched to the scene, he was excellent enough to analyze the hero’s activity records and find out that he was an A-class hero who had been handing over brainwashed combatants to the hospital as victims of a brainwashing villain organization instead of taking them as trophies.

As soon as I heard that the brainwashed combatant had been subdued, I went straight to a convenience store and bought meat dumplings, but there was no problem.

Although the fox beast failed because he was a member of the Megacorp Hero Association and not a hero of Sky City, Emma’s work was perfect as she tried everything she could as a member of the security force.

A senior who may be lazy but can be trusted to have your back.

A bear girl who has been evaluated as such. Emma appeared at the disciplinary committee meeting held at the police station today.

**

Whether it was a villain or a civil servant, the opponent was a person.

It was different from dungeons where you just kill monsters and open reward boxes.

Even if you were a Combat Department academy student, even if it was a dungeon created with a low-difficulty dungeon pass for academy students, it was even more so because you could hire a porter to handle most of the chores.

So, training as a police officer is more troublesome than dungeons.

The reason why lazy Emma applied to train as a police officer at the academy, where she was selected through an internal interview, was simple.

Emma, who was asleep every day during class and recess, was different from the transformed heroine who was interviewed by her guardian due to poor grades.

I was able to use as many technical skill books as I wanted, and I knew exactly what types of potions were available.

Although he was a student of the Combat Department and not an engineer, he knew perfectly well which weapon was faster: laser or plasma.

It’s embarrassing just to look at it. Emma was such an excellent student that she knew why the latex armor that androids proudly wore was advantageous against energy damage.

The fact that he was selected as a police officer trainee, which boasted an extremely competitive rate, was proof that he was an honor student.

There was more to come back to practice.

Experience is one thing, but here was an experience that money could not buy.

It was a lucrative business because I was able to receive lessons whenever I had time from the security forces who kept refusing requests to show their skills at the academy.

In order to get permission to register as a hero as quickly as possible, it was common to sign up for practical classes unless you were a transformed heroine whose self-awareness straddles the line between human and non-human and whose communication and thought processes were reduced to a minimum.

The reason why Emma appeared before the disciplinary committee was similar to the reason why the Red Magic Tower became the second security drone of the Megacorp Hero Association.

Nothing special happened.

Sky City’s archive museum was attacked, and precious cultural heritage was dropped on the dungeon altar and could not be restored.

There was no problem with waiting on the expected route instead of chasing the drunk adventurer after drinking the potion of courage, but a problem arose when the teacher in charge of training continued to point out.

The problem was his nature of going into a convenience store and buying meat dumplings after receiving a call from Hero, a fox beast who had solved the case first.

Emma entered the convenience store.

As always, I order meat dumplings. Humanoid for convenience stores also turned on the microwave from the moment they saw the lazy bear beast.

While the convenience store Humanoid was putting meat dumplings in the microwave. The adventurer, who was very drunk, changed his destination as instructed by the potion of courage.

It was a dungeon.

When Emma, who barely caught up, threw herself, she had already fallen on the altar.

There was no way to restore the cultural heritage that was used as an entrance ticket to the Memorial Dungeon.

Before the bear girl’s delusion of wanting to turn back time began, officials from the disciplinary committee arrived in order to decide on disposition.

**

Emma sat down in her seat, looking so shrunken that she could be called the defendant.

Excluding the Humanoid standing on a footrest charger as a fixture of the police station, there were two types of seats.

It was an opportunity to defend Emma, a student in the academy’s combat department, and to accuse Emma, a police officer trainee, of her crimes.

All officials began to enter the room one by one, one by one.

The first person to come in was Emma’s academy homeroom teacher.

He was also the teacher who woke Emma up from her sleep and told her to solve the problems written on the blackboard, but she actually left her alone.

“Let’s not worry too much. Emma?”

“…Teacher.”

“It’s not Emma’s fault, right? No, well… after everything came in.”

The homeroom teacher of a bear girl who was about to graduate sat next to Emma.

I don’t know what kind of mistake he would be recognized as having done, but he couldn’t understand how his student would end up like an adventurer who committed a crime while drunk.

While thinking about the logic I would present to the police officer in charge of training in my head, I stroked Emma’s round but fluttering ears.

It was so stiff and cold that I wished I could have been sleeping happily while drooling during class.

“Ah. hello. teacher. Emma too… You can’t even hear what I say like this”

The next person to come in was the security officer in charge of trainee Emma.

Before the homeroom teacher spoke, the police officer in charge of the training also sat down next to the bear girl, who looked more lifeless than a mannequin.

“I can hear you…”

Lazy but smart Emma came to a pretty bad conclusion.

The fact that the police officer in charge of training sat down to defend himself was the same as saying that the person sitting across from him was a higher-ranking person.

Because he didn’t do that, he must have judged that if he didn’t take Emma’s side, he would be subject to an absurd punishment… Ema thought.

The girl who was a bear beast stiffened like a heroine who lost to a noble lady with a mannequin fetish.

While Emma was making inferences that were accurate, but even if she got the answer right, her mind turned completely white, the next person came in.

Everyone sitting in their seats could not help but hold their breath.

I thought it would end with a few more police officers with more years of service coming in, but an assistant police officer came in.

“Isn’t this guy’s fault?”

The magistrate, who was not even seated, first acknowledged the argument that the homeroom teacher and the practicum police officer had prepared in their mouths.

The frozen atmosphere suddenly loosened.

“If you think about it, it’s a cost issue, right? Even if you go up, it’s still the responsibility of the Hero Association that gave you the request… There’s nothing, right? Let’s just end it here, right?”

It was the same as Sky City’s statement that it acknowledged that Ema was not at fault for destroying precious cultural heritage.

He relaxed his stern expression at the thought that at least he would not end up like the magic tower owner who had been cut off from news since Emma, whom he had taught, was handed over to the Small Body Exchange and sold to the Free Artificial Intelligence Association.

Contrary to the teachers sighing in relief. Emma froze as she understood what it meant that an assistant magistrate was sitting next to her.

If everyone had agreed, the disciplinary committee would not have been held in the first place.

Nevertheless, there was a reasonable reason for the creation of Emma’s disciplinary committee, which determines the level of punishment.

“What does that have to do with the reason you are sitting on that side?”

The fact that the second-highest magistrate in the police station was defending him meant that it was the magistrate who was demanding his punishment.

If everyone had agreed, the disciplinary committee would not have been held in the first place.

Nevertheless, there was a reasonable reason for the creation of Emma’s disciplinary committee, which determines the level of punishment.

“But, magistrate. You are planning to expel him from school.”

Sky City’s local magistrate held a disciplinary committee meeting for Emma.

It is a common position as it is grouped into a number of constituencies. On the contrary, it was the position with the highest authority in matters related to local security.

**

“Expulsion? Please think again. Magistrate!”

“I graduated next week after working hard for over a month, but being expelled is a bit… right?”

“It’s a problem related to attitude toward practice. And the word expulsion has never been mentioned.”

The magistrate clarified why Emma’s disciplinary committee was held.

The homeroom teacher’s statement acknowledging that the incident was not Emma’s fault was quicker than the sheriff’s officer taking out the recording device.

Evidence was presented in front of Emma.

It was a photo of a bear beast happily accepting meat dumplings.

From the point of view, it was clear that the recorded data was recorded by Humanoid for convenience stores.

Everyone present understood why the disciplinary committee had arisen.

It was not about holding the trainees responsible for failing to protect cultural heritage.

Trainee Ema was not responsible even if a criminal was missed right in front of her eyes, or even if valuable cultural heritage was destroyed to the point where the Red Magic Tower was sent to the Soche Exchange.

The magistrate was pointing out Emma’s hands-on attitude when she went into a convenience store and bought meat dumplings in an emergency situation.

“Emergency dispatch. You did it right?”

“…Yes.”

Emma admitted honestly.

“Stop practice… No. Let’s cancel.”

However, Emma, a student at the Combat Department, said to the magistrate, ‘That’s okay, right?’ He avoided that gaze.

I have no right to claim that I don’t want to accept it so shamelessly, but after looking at the picture presented, I said yes. That’s right. I couldn’t nod my head as if I had acknowledged the evidence.

The relaxed atmosphere became tense due to the magistrate’s decision to cancel practice.

“Isn’t expulsion a bit like that?”

“You don’t have the authority to do that in the first place?”

“Ah… It’s not expulsion. It’s the same as expulsion, right?”

There was no one to scout out graduates who had a record of discontinuation of training, or even a record of being kicked out during training at the police force.

It might be different from other training sites, but being kicked out during training at the police force, where the most fair judgment is made, meant something like that.

So the smart bear beast prepared hard.

After investigating the character of the assistant magistrate, he deliberately did not bring a lawyer.

A lawyer with ‘persuasion’ skills would have a clear advantage over the homeroom teacher, but that was not the case.

It was of less value than having a magistrate sit alone at a table requesting disciplinary action.

He took advantage of the fact that he had a different personality from the magistrate across the street who had gone to a fantasy world and kicked the imperial princess to the brink of death in an arena.

“Please. Isn’t this a more severe punishment than expulsion? Graduation will be soon, so please think again!”

“Originally, trainees were supposed to work in groups… That was because of our circumstances, right?”

“Even though it looks like he sleeps every day, he is a student who works hard!”

I really felt sorry for the magistrate who was sitting there dumbfounded when saying one thing was met with tenfold rebuttal, but it was something that could not be helped for the sake of his future.

After making excuses in her mind that no one would listen to, Emma hid her face under her knees.

If things continued like this, it was clear that the practice would naturally end with either having to restart from the beginning or receiving the lowest grade.

These were all annoying actions, but in the current situation, they were also very wise actions.

It had to happen again.

“I don’t know why they sent me here as soon as I came in.”

… was the limit of what Emma could expect.

It was not calculated that the magical girl who was hiding in the anonymity of transformation and unleashing wide-area magic even destroyed the ground escalator of the Megacorp Hero Association.

“I thought it would come with that Supreme Fox.”

“Is Sky City safe even if brainwashed combatants pop out in the back alleys?”

He also didn’t find out that the magistrate had told him to send the head of the Megacorp Heroes Association, who brought about incidents every day, whether he liked it or not, when he came.

“So. why. Peace officer?”

“What do you think about this situation?”

His remark that he was an irrelevant outsider and should be sent away was interrupted by a police officer who asked to hear the opinion of the Hero Association president.

Emma had no right to speak, and the others had no reason to speak.

As planned, the head of the Megacorp Hero Association sat next to the magistrate, who was sitting alone.

“Wouldn’t it be okay to just pretend you weren’t a trainee from the beginning?”

“?”

We combined the opinions of the magistrate, who wanted to cancel the training, and Emma, who wanted to avoid canceling the training, which was equivalent to expulsion.

The suggestion was that since she was a prospective graduate, it would be okay to treat Emma like a hero hired by Sky City.

The opinion was that, instead of treating it as a training period, there would be no problem if the payment was calculated as a hero hired as an emergency request.

Instead of being immediately kicked out for canceling training, Emma was treated as an E-class hero hired by Sky City to maintain security.

It was the same as saying that the special abilities and bonus experience points that could be received at the completion ceremony when you successfully completed training as a police officer disappeared.

My wallet got bigger, but I failed to get the permanent stat bonus that was my original goal.

It was clear that the teachers would not allow me to apply again next quarter, just days before graduation.

**

Some information came to that bear girl.

It was a story about the special training one could receive at the Megacorp Hero Association.

I was aware of the existence of academy students entering dungeons wearing latex bodysuits that reveal their entire body lines from early on.

They were wearing visor helmets that completely hid their faces, perhaps because they knew they were embarrassed. It was clear that instead of items, they were putting the Academy’s Beginner Difficulty Pass into the altar.

It was impossible to hide the size of the two distinctive breasts with their pink hair visible.

There is a story that one of them was a magical girl, but I also found out that it was Yuna, a second year student, who was clearly written in the life record as a transformed heroine.

What Emma wanted to know was what kind of training she received during the week at Megacorp that made her not bring a beginner difficulty pass.

He also added that he would like to receive special training if possible.

“I know it’s an unreasonable request, but…”

“I will tell you something. Senior Ema.”

Yuna, who became shiny for a reason other than bodysuit polish, took pictures of Emma with a visual module.

The information of academy students who wanted to receive special training was uploaded to the server.