I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 51. Battle Competition (3)

As the large axe swung, Elsie jumped into the air.

The female student who came out as Elsie’s opponent seemed to have been waiting for it, as she separated the long handle of the axe from the blade.

‘A hybrid-type transforming weapon! I’ve seen it often in the Aesir Saga!’

Elsie smiled involuntarily at the quick change of attack.

Thud-!

The large blade part of the separated axe fell to the floor with a loud noise.

In an instant, the handle, which had turned from an axe into an iron bar, was swung at Elsie.

Swoosh-!

“This is Jondo’s revenge! Die!”

The moment the female student’s confident blow struck, Elsie spun at high speed.

A feat only possible for Elsie, who had the fastest reaction speed in the Aesir Saga.

Evasion skill, Spin Evasion activated.

She spins her body, which has self-accelerated along with the high-speed rotating internal energy, to deflect the attack.

“Kyaa!”

Like swinging a heavy bar in empty air, the opponent loses her balance and staggers.

Elsie, not missing the gap, landed and stretched out her long legs to kick.

Paang! The female student flew away with a refreshing sound of air exploding.

“I know you’re excited, but saying ‘die’ in a sparring match is a bit much, don’t you think?”

Elsie, who had kicked the female student into the spectator seats where the students from the neighboring class were sitting, which was also the waiting area for the competition participants, muttered as she retracted her leg.

That was the fifth one already.

Each time she knocked out the courageous challengers who came up to the training arena, the cheers for Elsie grew louder.

Especially the cheers from the boys were thunderous, regardless of whether they were from the same class or the opposing class.

“Elsie! Kick her towards our class this time!”

“What are you talking about! If you kick her towards your class, we won’t be able to see her—I mean, it’ll be harder to take our classmate away!”

“I want to be kicked.”

“…?”

Elsie blushed at the boisterous scene, but it wasn’t an unpleasant feeling.

‘It feels like I’m back in the Aesir Saga tournament arena.’

She didn’t know what they meant by asking her to kick them in their direction, but her consciousness, switched to battle mode, quite liked this heightened atmosphere.

Just then, Thrud, her pink hair fluttering, strode up and grabbed Elsie’s shoulder.

“Elsie… I told you so many times, but you’re still not careful when you fight!”

“W-what?”

“…Never mind. I’ll go next. I can’t stand watching, I’m too anxious.”

“I’m still full of energy, though?”

Elsie tilted her head with an innocent look, not understanding what was going on.

Thrud shook her head.

“It’s not your stamina I’m worried about! What am I going to do with this innocent girl?”

In the end, Thrud couldn’t stand it and pulled Elsie’s cheek.

“Mmphyaa- Sthop… Sthop ith!”

“Okay, then… If you knock out all the opponents in the competition by yourself, would that even be a class?”

“That’s… certainly…”

“So, it’s my turn now.”

Elsie, who was sad to end the continuous battles, pleaded with Thrud with a slightly desperate expression.

“C-can’t I go out just one more time…? Just one more time…”

Thrud, her heart softened by Elsie’s desperate plea, turned her head away, avoiding her gaze.

“Thrud…”

Elsie’s voice calling her desperately.

Thrud, unable to ignore it any longer, slightly opened one eye.

Elsie was clasping her hands together, her eyes glistening with tears.

Was she really that fond of fighting?

It was truly an unstoppable obsession.

“C-cough-! Okay, just one more time!”

Thrud, unable to resist the plea, coughed and let go of Elsie.

“But! There’s a condition!”

“A condition?”

“No kicking! Even if you have to use it, retract your leg immediately!”

“W-what’s with that condition?”

“It’s because your movements are too big when you kick, Elsie, so everyone can see it every time. Just think of it as a restriction and accept it!”

“See? What?”

Thrud staggered at the innocent question.

She still wasn’t aware of it to this extent.

“Your panties!”

“Huh?!”

Elsie jumped and covered her skirt. She realized it quickly enough.

“You can easily pull it off without showing anything, but sometimes your movements are too exaggerated, like a boy.”

Thrud, holding her head, explained calmly.

“Considering your physique, such exaggerated movements are actually wasted movements in battle. It’s a bad habit, both in terms of stamina and the completeness of the technique, okay?”

“I just got too into using the kicking as a technique…”

Pure Strike, a combat skill that used to only work with punches.

Perhaps it was because she had too much fun using it with kicks.

Besides, Thrud’s harsh criticism made sense.

‘I did use it with unnecessarily exaggerated movements…’

“You said you’d make them forget about ‘Butt Girl’… but you can’t be doing dangerous acrobatics while teasing them by showing it off!”

Nod, nod.

Elsie, covering her butt, nodded diligently.

The aftermath of realizing something after having no idea is always great.

The reason why the cheers were especially loud whenever she finished with a kick, the shouts asking her to kick them in their direction.

‘It was because of this…?!’

Elsie belatedly realized the truth and her face turned red with embarrassment.

*

Kwaang-!

“Damn it! Elsie! Can’t you fight a little more calmly?!”

Dane, who had been watching his combat-apt younger sister’s fight with a silly grin, slammed the floor and screamed.

The surrounding beasts were looking at him with puzzled faces.

An unnamed eagle and Vedrfolnir, a pair of ravens Huginn and Muninn, and even the white wolves Geri and Freki.

Dane, who had almost become a beast tamer, twisted his body in the bushes.

“R-right… Elsie never really had a chance to experience combat properly… That’s why… sob.”

Dane, focusing his energy even more with his eyes, struggled to lift his head and observe Elsie again.

Elsie was kicking with such a joyful face.

The corners of his mouth stretched almost to his ears and then narrowed at his pure younger sister’s bright expression.

The students cheering for Elsie’s kick.

Especially the enthusiastic male students.

Dane’s face instantly contorted.

“You bastards! You, you dare look at Elsie, whom I’ve cherished, with those eyes… with those eyes…!”

[Dane. Let’s stop watching and go. The wolf gentlemen are waiting, aren’t they?]

Vedr patted Dane’s shoulder with his front paw and said.

“B-but Elsie…”

[Is this the time to be stubborn after trespassing into the academy and getting caught? You should be grateful that those wolf gentlemen have waited this long.]

The pair of white wolves that appeared to Dane, Geri and Freki, suggested that he meet with Headmaster Wodan in exchange for overlooking the trespassing.

“Sob, Elsie… I have no choice… As Elsie’s guardian, I have no choice but to go to the interview with the academy headmaster.”

Dane, his shoulders drooping, glanced at Elsie, who was being held by the pink-haired girl, and disappeared.

*

“I am Eldjötnar, the fire giant mage Sverdí! You better not think of lulling me into complacency with that face like the other guys!”

A fire giant female student with impressive orange hair, standing at 2 meters tall, came up to the arena.

The students watching swallowed hard at the desperate height difference that surpassed Jondo, who she had sparred with first.

“No matter how cute you are… I! Won’t be charmed!”

“O-oh… okay.”

Elsie could only nod awkwardly at the sight of the large Sverdí glaring fiercely with a flushed face.

‘Anyway, this is the first time I’m properly fighting a mage on this side!’

Elsie was a little excited.

‘If it’s combat magic, will she shoot magic bullets like the Valkyrie Ölrún…?’

Elsie, recalling the Valkyrie Ölrún raid in the Aesir Saga, which was almost like a laser show, was a little nervous.

In the Aesir Saga, most giant players preferred warrior classes over magic classes.

So Elsie was very much looking forward to seeing what kind of battle a giant mage would wage.

Valkyrie Armament Summon: Brynja-hildr!

Elsie summoned the most responsive armament, not knowing what kind of magic would unfold.

As the two students finished preparing, Hildebrand, who had mechanically walked out, prepared the signal.

“…Elsie student?”

“Yes?”

“You’re not thinking of ending the competition by yourself… are you?”

Elsie swallowed hard at Hildebrand’s question. She wanted to if she could…

Elsie glanced at Thrud, who was watching her with her arms crossed, and shook her head.

“No. This is the last one.”

Hildebrand breathed a sigh of relief at Elsie’s answer.

If one student defeated all of his class students, he wouldn’t be able to save face in front of Teacher Regin.

“Ahem! W-well then, shall we begin!”

No sooner had Hildebrand’s signal dropped than Sverdí, who had been eagerly waiting, stretched out her finger towards Elsie.

“Flame Emission, Eldrósa!”

Whirr-

A small flame bloomed from the tip of Sverdí’s finger.

‘That… Brynja-hildr will have a hard time with that, won’t it?’

The small flame soon turned into a huge stream of fire and began to spew out.

To express it in Elsie’s memory, it was literally a flamethrower.

Paaaa-!

Brynja-hildr, which is focused on physical defense, cannot perfectly respond to that flame emission.

Elsie immediately deployed the inventory space and took out the staff that would finally serve its purpose.

“Staff of Nullification, Gambanteinn!”

The flames that had come close were surging.

The blue gem of the Gambanteinn, stretched into the flames, began to emit a fierce light.

Sverdí, looking at Elsie, who had been swallowed by the flames, with a satisfied face, put her hand on her waist.

“Hehe, it’s over! I did it!”

“…No!”

As if responding to her confident voice, Elsie’s voice was heard from within the flames.

“H-how?!”

Elsie, who was thought to have been swallowed by the flames, was unharmed.

It was only because the flames caught by the Gambanteinn were covering her appearance that it looked that way.

Whirr!

The Gambanteinn is capable of deflecting or extinguishing attack magic.

‘There’s a limit to the output, though!’

“Here’s a present!”

Cheeeing-!

The blue gem embedded at the end of the Gambanteinn flashed with a fierce sound.

Immediately, Sverdí’s flames that had been caught were spewed out in the opposite direction.

Attack magic returning to herself.

The swirling flames were reflected in Sverdí’s red eyes.

Hwaaaak-!

“Kyaa!”

Sverdí, who was swallowed by her own flames in reverse, disappeared into the flames.

It was a terrifying sight for everyone watching, but Elsie did not let her guard down.

‘There’s probably little damage.’

Racial trait.

Eldjötnar, the fire giant, has tremendous resistance to fire-type magic, as the name suggests.

It is not a complete resistance, so she would take some damage with her innate racial resistance alone, but the story would be different if she had raised her fire resistance even a little.

Especially if she was a mage, who would inevitably have high resistance to magic…

Whirr-

“Hehe… Hehehe!”

As Elsie expected, Sverdí’s calm laughter was heard from within the blazing flames.

Hwaak! In an instant, the flames cleared, and Sverdí appeared, unharmed and even calm, despite her whole body being on fire.

“It’s no use! What do you think fire giants are! I shower with flames every day!”

Elsie’s eyes widened at Sverdí’s confident appearance.

“No way…”

Elsie’s blue eyes, flustered, trembled.

Sverdí, not missing it, released flames once again, and this time Elsie was swallowed by the flames.

“Elsie!”

As if responding to Thrud’s scream-like shout, Elsie burst through the flames and jumped out in front of Sverdí.

Elsie was also on fire, but her condition was better than Sverdí’s.

So-

“Sverdí…? You have near-perfect fire resistance, but that has nothing to do with your clothes, right?”

Sverdí, who was also on fire, could only shrug at Elsie’s calm words.

“You’re stating the obvious! Stating the obvious… stating… wait-”

Only then did Sverdí lower her head to check her clothes, and her face gradually turned red.

Her school uniform, which was burning black and starting to crumble.

The ends of her blackened skirt were gradually turning to ash and falling off.

“Kyaaa-!!!”

No matter how sturdy the academy uniform was made, it was bound to be damaged if exposed to flames for a long time.

Even if her body was unharmed if her clothes burned away like this…

‘My mind can’t take it!’

Sverdí, screaming, began to roll around on the arena floor.

“See, what did I tell you… I mean, my clothes are burning too!!!”

Elsie, who was somewhat tolerant of the flames, also started to rampage when she saw her clothes starting to burn.

“Hwaaaak!”

Everyone could only watch the tremendous spectacle of the two female students rolling around on the floor with bewildered faces.

“No, bring water first!”