I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 14. The Foiled Plan

Jötunheim’s sky was filled with snow clouds.

Somewhere, where dead trees grew thick, someone’s footprints trailed across the snowfield.

At the end of those footprints stood a man cloaked in black robes.

Suddenly, there was a faint ripple as the Bifrost tore through dimensions.

Sensing it, the man slowly opened his eyes.

“They’re coming soon.”

Pushing up his glasses with a finger, his eyes gleamed with a jade light.

Flap!

A raven landed on his shoulder, scattering black feathers.

“Huginn, you’re back. What’s the situation at the Main Academy?”

“…May I be frank?”

“Come now. Why are you hesitating? Surely, that crazy headmaster… Woden Alfodr hasn’t caught on?”

“Of course not. When I’m determined to act as ‘Huginn’, there’s no way that old man can figure it out.”

“Then what’s the problem? I only told you to check if the pre-arranged spell formations, magic circles, and other equipment were intact, didn’t I?”

At the man’s question, Huginn, in the form of a raven, looked troubled.

But he soon realized that it was difficult to make proper expressions in raven form.

“Well… I only have bad news. Do you really need to hear it?”

“Hugin. What happened that you’re making jokes that aren’t like you… It is a joke… right? Tell me quickly.”

Huginn recalled the morning he arrived in Midgard and began monitoring the Main Academy.

The terror devices that his master had painstakingly planted in the academy.

The academy would surely be devastated the moment they were all activated.

That would bring them one step closer to the stagnant prophecy.

He needed to check one last time to make sure there were no problems with the devices.

It wasn’t a difficult task.

He just had to check if the spell formations and magic circles were in place…

But then, a duel between students became a problem.

Crash! —Boom!

“Huh?”

Clang! Boom boom!

“Uh oh…”

Kaaaaaa—!!

“Shit…”

It was only half a day, from morning to lunchtime.

In that short time, the devices he had painstakingly prepared were all destroyed…

Huginn squeezed his eyes shut, recalling the impressive silver-haired female student who had been at the center of the commotion.

“Huginn. Say something. If it’s not a joke, is it just one or two magic circles or spell formations that are damaged?”

“Well…”

“Or has the placement of the equipment been changed? That level of minor variable is all within expectations.”

What on earth had happened that Huginn was hesitating so much?

Frustrated, the man grabbed him and shook him.

“Ugh! N-no! That’s not it! Not at all!”

“Then what is it!”

“Everything.”

“What…?”

“I’m saying everything’s been smashed to pieces. The magic circles and spell formations I secretly inscribed, the equipment I placed. All of it.”

All smashed.

Huginn could only look at his master’s blank expression with lukewarm eyes.

“Ha! Haha! It was a joke after all! It has to be plausible for me to believe it!”

“It’s real, though.”

“…Nonsense. Even if the equipment is gone, all the magic circles and spell formations I went through so much trouble to inscribe?”

Nod nod. Huginn nodded firmly.

“No, wait, really? I inscribed them to withstand almost any attack?”

“I’m telling you, it’s real! The summoning barrier magic circle in the training ground, the poison curse jar in the cafeteria, the illusion magic circle in the warehouse, the cursed box and explosive devices in the annex. All smashed to pieces!”

“Does that even make sense?”

One or two might be possible due to an accidental mishap.

But is it possible for all the devices placed in various locations to be smashed to pieces?

“It would be one thing if they were all in one place… and they weren’t easy to break…”

“They broke them just fine. Hitting, smashing, tearing down, burning them, just…”

Then there was only one possibility.

He had been caught by the headmaster, or that troublesome chain-wielding woman.

“Didn’t you say you definitely wouldn’t be caught?”

“Yes. I wasn’t caught by the headmaster or any other teachers. It was all students… or rather, one student who smashed everything.”

It was the most absurd thing he had heard recently.

Devices that had never been detected before, not by a teacher, but by an academy student?

“An academy student found and dealt with my spells… Who is this kid?”

“She’s pretty, but a little scary.”

The man’s eyebrows twitched.

“Not your personal opinion! Tell me the information you found out!”

“No, she is pretty… Cough!”

“Huginn, tell me properly before I beat you to a pulp. If it’s true that she neutralized all the devices, then in some ways, that student is someone we need to pay more attention to than the headmaster.”

“L-long silver hair! Blue eyes! Her name is… Elsie! Elsie!”

“Elsie… Family?”

“I didn’t hear. She was smashing everything wherever she went, and shooting beams from her eyes, so I didn’t have a chance to approach.”

Then, after briefly remembering something, Hugin confidently continued.

“But I did manage to give her one good hit at the end. I landed on the top of her head and pecked her with my beak!”

“Pecking with your bean-sized beak? I doubt that worked. But beams from her eyes… a Skjaldmær Awakened in Midgard? Rare…”

“The eye beam’s power was no joke.”

The man shrugged and released Huginn.

As if the Main Academy wasn’t troublesome enough, now there was one more headache.

‘Still, silver hair and blue eyes… not common…’

“Elsie… Elsie, huh… She really ruined my plan to wipe out half the academy…”

The man’s jade eyes flickered with annoyance.

***

“Ah, achoo!”

Elsie sneezed, letting out an uncontrollably cute sound.

Since becoming this body, a refreshing sound that she couldn’t control with her will alone would often leak out.

Every time that happened, Elsie was mortified.

“I still can’t get used to it, really…”

Elsie had learned about the past of this world’s Elsie a few days ago.

The shock of discovering Nidhogg’s poison bottle was still vivid.

She could feel her heart pounding and her breathing a little faster.

“Haa… It’s understandable. It’s a body that died once from that poison…”

This Elsie was a pitiful child.

Unable to awaken her abilities, she was eventually abandoned by her family, and to top it off, she drank poison and died.

It was so different from her character Elsie, who had shone so brightly in the game.

Truly a tragic fate.

“Damn bastards.”

She could only curse when she thought of the family’s letter.

But it was different now.

The current her had no reason to suffer such humiliation any longer.

Trembling with hatred for the cruel Adorencia family, Elsie activated her skill.

**Exalted Acceleration!**

A faint silver energy began to swirl around Elsie’s body.

At that moment, Elsie’s figure disappeared from the yard.

Self-acceleration beyond perception had begun.

She circled the forest around the house with incredible speed and movement.

It was an overly inefficient skill to use simply for movement, but it was suitable for ‘experimentation.’

Exalted Acceleration, a buff skill that momentarily super-accelerated the body, only lasted for 2 seconds in the game.

‘3 seconds… 4 seconds…’

But this was a world free from the constraints of the game.

It was possible to maintain Exalted Acceleration for longer than the duration.

“Ugh!”

However, Elsie felt an unimaginable burden on her body and collapsed.

Elsie, who had appeared and collapsed a short distance from her initial position, flickered.

She had only slightly exceeded the duration, but it was difficult to move as she wanted.

Moreover, the burden on this body was too great a risk.

“Hah, haaa… I see why the duration was 2 seconds… My body is hot…”

Staggering to her feet, Elsie brushed the dust off her uniform before Thrud came looking for her.

After learning about the information on the martial arts tournament and the past of this Elsie, she had been testing her abilities whenever she had the chance.

“What’s this? A letter…?”

As Elsie was about to enter the house, flicking her skirt, she found a dirt-covered letter lying in a corner of the yard.

The Adorencia family’s poisoning letter that she had read a few days ago came to mind, and Elsie frowned.

“Why isn’t this sealed and rolling around outside?”

Looking closely, the pattern of the seal was slightly different.

But Elsie didn’t feel like reading it.

‘Elsie was treated like that by her family. This probably isn’t good news either.’

The past Elsie was presumed to have been quite isolated within the family.

A letter that arrived for such an Elsie would not contain any valuable content.

Elsie casually threw the sealed letter into the house and came outside to lean against the fence.

And she pondered, soothing the side effects of using Exalted Acceleration excessively.

She had possessed this world’s Elsie.

Judging from the circumstances, she had possessed Elsie sometime after she was banished to Midgard, drank Nidhogg’s poison, and died.

“The problem is that it’s not a normal possession.”

Feeling the energy flowing within her, Elsie spread her palm and stretched out her arm.

This Elsie had no power.

She was physically weak and her abilities were only potential.

But the Elsie who had been possessed was different.

Because she had possessed this Elsie with the abilities of the game character Elsie from the Aesir Saga.

This fragile body might remain the same, but it was at a level where her abilities could compensate to some extent.

Moreover, there was one more unique aspect.

Perhaps because she had possessed Elsie with the abilities of a game character, Elsie possessed some game-like characteristics.

The status window did not open.

But what about the inventory?

“Open.”

Elsie murmured the command in a gentle voice.

Whoosh—

Without warning, a black hole about the size of a head appeared in the air.

“Is this even… possible…?”

It was a fact she had confirmed yesterday.

But it was still hard to believe even when seeing it.

“Nothing new can be put in… and you can only take out what’s already there…”

The Aesir Saga character’s inventory was small.

Therefore, most items were stored in a vault.

To make matters worse, the equipment that the original game character had equipped was nowhere to be found, perhaps because of the possession.

“So, there aren’t many items here that I can take out and use…”

Why did such an ambiguous function come along when things like the status window didn’t open?

There were so many things that wouldn’t be answered even if she questioned them.

Frustrated, Elsie emptied her mind and reached into the black hole, taking out what was inside.

“Hmm… Brísingamen, Járnsaxa, Bríða Skjöldr, Gambanteinn… is that all?”

Tilting her head, Elsie put her head into the inventory space to examine it, then poured out the remaining items.

Clatter!

“Colada, Tizona, El Cid’s Shield. These three are ambiguous because they’re event rewards… Oh, well!”

For now, even if she poured out all the items, she couldn’t think of a suitable way to use them.

Elsie, having put the items back in, felt the burden from the over-operation of Exalted Acceleration still lingering.

Her body was heating up as if it were overheating, and her vision was dizzy.

Her breathing became rapid.

“Haa…”

Unable to bear it, Elsie clutched her chest and knelt down.

Thump!

“Elsie?”

Just in time, Thrud, who had come to pick up Elsie, arrived.

For some reason, Han Doyun was there as well.

Sensing a situation where unnecessary misunderstandings could arise, Elsie grabbed her head.