I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 32. Magical Beast Subjugation (2)

The bottom of the Nine Worlds.

Wicked monsters that sprang from the abyss of Ginnungagap, where Yggdrasil took root.

Collectively, they are called Magical Beasts.

After the death of the first Jötunn Ymir, only evil beings were born in Ginnungagap.

Reginleif, who had led the students to the sports field, flicked her fingers.

“You all know that a significant number of Magical Beasts flowed into Midgard due to the Magical Beast Flood last month, right?”

A large number of Magical Beasts emerge from Ginnungagap at regular intervals.

They ride on the unstable dimensional strands of the Bifrost and spread throughout the Nine Worlds.

Thus, the Magical Beast Flood occurs.

It was a disaster of the Nine Worlds that could be predicted to some extent but could not be controlled.

The faces of some students, including Doyun, stiffened.

“Don’t be so nervous. Today, let’s investigate the forest near the school and, if possible, catch some Magical Beasts, shall we?”

Reginleif put her hands together and smiled.

“Weren’t all the Magical Beasts exterminated by the subjugation force during the flood?”

“Good question, Miss Radgrid. The city’s subjugation force is not always perfect. It’s too much for them to catch all the fleeing Magical Beasts.”

A large number of Magical Beasts flooded, and most of them just rampaged indiscriminately, but some Magical Beasts fled, avoiding the subjugation force.

The Magical Beasts that survived in this way, like bandits or highway robbers, became a great threat to the citizens.

“…So, there have been several reports of Magical Beasts being sighted in the nearby forest recently.”

Radgrid nodded as if she understood Reginleif’s explanation.

“So, we’re not just going into the forest recklessly.”

“Of course not. The teachers have already completed a preliminary investigation. It will be a good experience for everyone.”

Elsie, who had been listening to the conversation between the two, crossed her arms and thought.

‘Magical Beasts… Magical Beasts, huh… It might be good training.’

Her tied-up silver hair fluttered softly.

Elsie, who needed to build strength in this weak body, began to look forward to it little by little.

“And Elsie!”

“Yes?!”

Reginleif, who had finished speaking, pointed at Elsie and shouted firmly.

“Don’t get excited and rampage when you find a Magical Beast and destroy everything like last time?!”

Due to her record of tearing up the academy on her first day of school, Elsie was already infamous among some teachers as a troublemaker.

Elsie only fidgeted with her fingers and nodded.

“Well, shall we go? It seems like other classes are also participating in the investigation, so let’s hurry!”

***

Two large ravens flew into the principal’s office, which overlooked the academy.

“Oh my, Huginn and Munin! It feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you!”

A woman with striking bright orange bobbed hair poked the two large ravens that had landed on the table.

Then, she turned her gaze back to the window and carefully watched the group of students leaving the academy.

A very beautiful silver-haired female student who stood out even from afar.

The woman’s eyes narrowed as she looked at her.

“That’s the child, isn’t it? The student who has awakened Thor’s divinity, as well as Odin’s divinity.”

The two large ravens, Huginn and Munin, flew to the shoulder of the principal, who was looking out the window, and landed.

“I also found out a few days ago, thanks to the Gungnir’s wave that occurred in the commercial district.”

Woden Alfodr, the principal of the main academy, stroked his white beard and watched Elsie carefully until she disappeared, then turned his head.

“And please call me Woden, Forseti. I’m not someone who continues to fulfill their duties even after relinquishing their divinity like you.”

“Haha, I’m sorry. I was also nervous after feeling Gungnir’s wave after a long time.”

Forseti, the current mayor of Glitnir and once the god of law and order, shrugged.

Since she hadn’t come to see Woden for idle chatter, she went straight to the point.

“The mass murder that occurred in the city guard’s detention center a few days ago. You already know about it from Huginn and Munin, right?”

Woden answered with silence to Forseti’s low voice.

“After looking into it, it turns out that the murdered people were the ones who attacked that child’s house at night.”

“…Something’s involved.”

Forseti nodded with a serious face.

“I am only responsible for the safety of the city and focus on management, so I don’t intend to get deeply involved, but…”

Traces of magic remained in the guardhouse.

Blatantly, like cutting off a tail, a very bold murder and extermination.

“That child is being targeted by those who don’t care about methods. Maybe…”

“…Maybe, it’s related to the existence that tampered with the academy. Is that what you want to say?”

Forseti’s orange eyes and Woden’s golden eyes briefly met.

It was a reasoning close to a hunch that it might be.

At least, there were no ominous movements confirmed in Glitnir, let alone Midgard.

“That child ‘accidentally’ destroyed the spells that someone secretly installed in the academy, right?”

“Yes, if those spells hadn’t been destroyed, there would have been a bloodbath that I don’t even want to think about.”

The person who installed all kinds of magic and spells without the teachers of the academy, including Woden, noticing.

Their identity and purpose were unclear.

However, it was a definite circumstance that they had planned a terror that could cause a significant number of casualties.

Because of this, an investigation was launched to identify the circumstances of the terror, involving academies in other worlds, and the scheduled martial arts tournament was postponed indefinitely.

“That child Elsie, whether by chance or not, completely ruined the plan of the big shot who was trying to play with the academy where Woden is.”

***

Elsie’s class was divided into 5 groups of 5 people each, exploring the forest and subjugating Magical Beasts.

Elsie, Thrud, Han Doyun, his best friend Jaime the spearman, and Pajolt the hammer wielder.

Elsie’s group, consisting of 5 combat-aptitude students, advanced the fastest and deepest into the forest.

A black Magical Beast suddenly jumped out of the bushes.

Hideous claws, growing haphazardly, were swung at Elsie.

Valkyrie Armament Summon: Brynja-hildr.

*Clang!*

A golden chain shield appeared and deflected the Magical Beast’s claws.

At the same time, she unleashes an energy-filled kick towards the faltering Magical Beast.

*Bang!*

With a cheerful sound, the Magical Beast flew away, collided with a tree, and fell.

The Magical Beast’s black blood spread.

The corpse, lying on the ground, rapidly emitted black smoke and withered away.

“Ugh-?!”

It was a bizarre appearance and reaction that differed from any monster seen in the Aesir Saga.

Surprised by this, Elsie distanced herself with a slightly disgusted look.

“It seems like there are more than the teacher said, don’t you think?”

Thrud, who had knocked down a Magical Beast with an iron fist, shouted.

There were more Magical Beasts than they had heard.

The more they entered the forest, the more frequent the encounters became.

“Don’t you think these disgusting guys keep coming from the same direction?”

Elsie, who had gathered her arms towards her chest, wore a suspicious expression.

Aside from being disgusting and unpleasant, the encounter route of these violent Magical Beasts, which were no different from beasts, seemed artificially contrived.

Doyun, who had been quietly looking down at Elsie’s white neck as she walked ahead, quickly came to his senses and answered when she turned her head.

“W-Well, we are definitely continuing to move straight towards the center of the forest, unlike the other groups. Considering that, it is strange.”

The deepest part of the forest.

Elsie’s group was heading straight towards the center.

The appearance of Magical Beasts continued from the opposite direction of their progress.

The frequency increased as they went further.

“Magical Beasts are violent, but they don’t immediately try to attack people as soon as they see them…”

Thrud also muttered with her chin resting on her hand.

Although its aggressiveness is so strong that it is not very noticeable, these Magical Beasts of the black abyss sometimes avoid those stronger than themselves.

Especially in the case of Magical Beasts that were not subjugated during the Magical Beast Flood and hid in deserted places like this forest, they tend to be more careful.

Amidst the doubts, Elsie slowly looked at her group members.

The continuous battle with the Magical Beasts slowly drained their stamina.

Excluding Thrud, who seemed to be immune to fatigue, Han Doyun still seemed to have energy to spare.

However, Doyun’s two friends were breathing heavily, as if their stamina was slowly running out.

“Are you guys okay?”

Elsie approached Jaime and Pajolt with a worried face.

“I’m still okay…”

“I can handle it too…”

The two, whose faces were slightly flushed, got up, pretending to be okay.

“Still, it would be better to fall back to the rear. The name is… uh…”

‘What were their names again?’

She must have been introduced when the group was formed.

They were even the kids she saw when she went to Doyun’s seat on her first day of school.

‘One is a spear… one is a hammer, so…’

“Spear-soo and Hammer-soo!”

“”No, we’re not!””

Elsie smiled awkwardly and patted the two on the shoulders.

Feeling a little foolish, Elsie entrusted the two with guarding the rear and turned her head at the persistent gaze she felt again.

Han Doyun, with wide eyes, was looking at her.

“What.”

“…Y-Your hair looks good.”

“I was wondering what you were going to say… Behind you!”

A Magical Beast rushed in again.

At the same time as Elsie’s shout, Doyun rotated his body and swung Balmung, cutting down the Magical Beast while dodging.

*Thump!*

The bizarre demonic beast, throwing its heavy black body without a sound, was a factor that made this forest an even more chilling place.

It was a rather dangerous place to continue chatting, so Elsie’s group slowly began to advance again.

“It’s strange no matter how I look at it.”

The closer they got to the center of the forest, the more the movements of the demonic beasts felt, unbelievably, urgent.

“Shouldn’t we go back and report to the teacher that the inside of the forest is strange?”

It was surprising that there were so many demonic beasts in the forest, but the strange behavior of the demonic beasts seen as they went deeper raised even more questions.

It was already too far to go back and report the anomaly.

If they got separated from the teacher and the other groups, things would get troublesome.

Elsie quietly spoke what she had been thinking about for a while.

“Don’t the demonic beasts seem to be… running away? From the center of the forest.”

Demonic beasts rushing in from the same direction, without even making a sound.

If they were really running away, what were they running away from?

It was the moment when the gazes of Elsie, Thrud, and Han Doyun, who were walking ahead, crossed.

*Clap!*

Suddenly, the sound of clapping came from beyond the bushes right in front of them.

“I was wondering who was approaching this remote place… but it was an academy student.”

“Who is it?!”

A man with a strange impression, wearing a black robe, walked out from the direction the demonic beasts had emerged from.

He was a man with unique white hair.

Beyond his glasses, mysterious jade-colored eyes were shining.

Without saying anything, the man quietly examined the three of them, and finally, after checking Elsie’s face, his eyes widened.

Elsie felt an unknown eeriness from his gaze, coming from deep within.

“Be careful…”

Her instincts warned her. It’s dangerous.

A crow flew onto the suspicious man’s shoulder.

As the crow whispered something in the man’s ear, the man’s jade-colored eyes sparkled, and he looked at Elsie again with interest.

“I was right after all. The cutie who twisted my plan.”

A sticky and unpleasant energy emanated from the man.

Elsie felt a suffocating sensation and took a deep breath.

“Huh-!”

“Elsie!”

“Identify yourself!”

Thrud and Doyun, who were very nervous from the overwhelming feeling they had never felt before, blocked Elsie and shouted.

However, the unidentified man didn’t care and only said what he wanted to say.

“But it’s amazing. You drank Nidhogg’s poison that I went to the trouble of getting, but you didn’t die and you’re still alive… and to think you’re the cutie who ruined my efforts? What a coincidence.”

“What…?”

She didn’t know what he was talking about, saying that she twisted his plan, but the story about Nidhogg’s poison made Elsie’s heart beat violently.

The man put his thumb and forefinger together to make a circle and began to watch Elsie as if observing her through it.

“How are you alive? Hmm… okay, let’s take you. If I strip you and examine you slowly, I’ll know how you endured Nidhogg’s poison.”

A sinister smile spread across the man’s face as he muttered as if he wanted them to hear.

**Weapon Enhancement: Járngreipr!**

*Fzzzz-!!*

“Balmung! Gram!”Chwaaa!”

Thrud and Doyun, their eyes dizzy with anger, deployed their powers.

“Jaime! Pajolt! Go back and tell the teacher-!!!”

It was fortunate that Jaime and Pajolt were following from a distance behind.

Doyun, who shouted loudly, glared at the man with the magic swords Balmung and Gram in each hand.

“Identify yourself! What are you doing here!”

The man raised his glasses and shrugged.

“I was going to do something, but thanks to you guys, I’ve changed my mind. First, shall we take that cute lady?”

Elsie trembled at the man’s words.

She seemed to be trembling with fear, and Thrud and Doyun glanced at Elsie with worried expressions.

“……Huh?”

Elsie’s muttering was heard.

The man’s eyes narrowed at the small voice.

“What did you say…”

“Were you the one who prepared that damn Nidhogg’s poison?”

“Yes, I…”

“You son of a bitch.”

“What-”

Elsie was not trembling with eeriness and fear.

Her eyes were burning with anger.

“You’re dead!”

Heat Ray Emission!

In an instant, the light concentrated in her eyes became a powerful ray and was fired.

*_Kwaaaa!!_*

The man, who had disappeared like a mirage, appeared in a distant place.

“A feisty little girl. You have a foul mouth.”

The man narrowed his brows and snapped his fingers.

“The schedule has been completely messed up, but I was going to let it run wild anyway, so this will be fun in its own way.”

Koo-oong-!

A huge reverberation was heard from inside the forest.

[Grrrrr…]

A deep and low roaring reverberation spread out, becoming a vibration that shook their lungs.

“Wake up already-”

Magic burst from the man’s fingertips.

The huge recognition interference barrier that had been concealing the center of the forest began to disappear quickly as it revealed its appearance.

“Fenrir.”

The silhouette of a huge wolf soared into the sky, and a shadow fell over Elsie’s group.

The giant wolf that will devour the world.

Vánagandr, Fenrir, howled.