Evade The Hero and Flee!

Chapter 65

Chapter 65

RATH 65

TL: Eevee

8. If you do it, it works. (4)

#5 Their story: A certain judiciarys story.

The history of the schools titled the Four Great Academies appearing at the imperial festival is a very old one.

At the time they werent even called the Four Great Academies, it was just that they were invited to the imperial festival simply because they were located close to the imperial capital.

But perhaps it was because they consistently appeared on one of the greatest stages in the empire?

The four academies began to grow incredibly quickly, and later on they would be called the empires Four Great Academies.

Thanks to that, it became regarded as the best place for commoners to try to turn their lives around, and for nobles, a chance to create connections, and that reputation remained true even today.

Because of that, one of the empires judges would participate in the academies preparatory meeting as a symbolic gesture that all schools would engage in a clean and fair contest.

But unlike the nice intentions, right now I was pretty much just a decoration.

No, this time we need to increase the number of individual events to demonstrate individual skills!

No, we need more team events that fit better with the spirit of teamwork within academies!

Arucis, the academy called the greatest, and Marcis that was hot on their tails.

The two student council presidents from these two schools were arguing back and forth that their opinions were right.

Even if they taught the usage of spears, maces and all sorts of various weapons, the weapon that the majority of students used in Arucis was the sword.

And naturally their individual skills will be better, and are overwhelmingly superior in individual events where they were not surrounded by enemies.

And with that specialty in mind, of course Arucis would be the beneficiary of an increased number of individual events.

On the other hand, in Marcis and Yugrasias cases, they were the schools of magic and summoning respectively so they were better at team events.

Because of this, every year there is a giant fight between Arucis who wants more individual events, and the other academies that wanted more team events.

And since the teachers that were there for advice and supervision were of the same mind as the students, of course they wouldnt stop them.

Because of that, we the judges have the bloody annoying task of mediating all this!

Although Arucis was always slightly on the back foot due to majority opinion, the heated arguments between students that were all here to secure favourable conditions for themselves was always annoying to deal with.

And once everything is over, were always the ones to blame for everything!

If its the majority opinion, Arucia always complains that we always rule against them!

And if we listen to Arucia then the other schools complain that the judge in attendance is biased in favour of Arucis!

Since we get complaints no matter who we side with, there cant be anything more annoying than this!

But at my seniors words that someone had to continue with this tradition someone had to be a sacrifice, and this years sacrifice was me!

Damn it, just next year and my name would be closer to the top of the list than the bottom and I wouldnt have had to do this shit!

I just had to survive this year, why the hell did I get pulled up in my last year!

As I whined about my life I looked at the two student council presidents that were staring daggers at each other.

Hang on? Two?

Does the representative of Yugrasia have no opinion to put forward?

I realised that something was strange.

Yugrasia, the academy that was called the weakest of the current Four Great Academies.

Thanks to that, I heard that their student council president was ordered to gain more advantageous games even more than the other schools.

But even while Arucia and Marcis was fighting, he was yawning as if to say he had nothing to do with all this?

Hmm. Has he given up?

Yugrasias position in the imperial festival was perennially third.

If we considered the fact that Mercaria, a school that had nothing to do with fighting was also included in those rankings that meant that Yugrasia was basically always last.

And as if my predictions were on the mark, Yugrasias student president yawned and nodded to me.

It doesnt matter what kind of events are on.

A complete declaration of surrender.

Summoners were considered to be even weaker than magicians before the brought out their summons.

And so Yugrasias strategy so far was to aim for team events, and in particular the ones that went on for extended periods of time.

Giving up on those was the same as giving up on the imperial festival.

What, Nerkia. I heard that Yugrasia got an overhaul this year, did nothing happen even after you guys changed things?

As if I wasnt the only one thinking that, Arucias student president said to Yugrasias student president in a mocking tone.

Looking at his expression, it was filled with expectations of having more events that were advantageous to Arucia this year.Cheêck out latest novels on

Really? Are you giving up just like that?

Al, alright I get it. I get it!

Nerkia looked at the fearfully retreating Marcis student council president and clicked his tongue as if he was truly regretful.

Th, then Yugrasia, Mercaria have no comment, Arucia proposes to add more individual events, and Marcis proposes to add more team events.

All of a sudden it felt like allowing the Yugrasia student council president to say anything more would result in a very bad ending.

I thought that the Marcis team would make an objection, but perhaps because of the Yugrasia student council president, surprisingly enough no objection came.

Then, for the fine details of the events in question, including the current compulsory events

Although there was some objection from Marcis, they were pretty much the same thing that Arucia normally said for similar reasons.

When arguments that Marcis had used up until now came from the mouth of the Arucis student council president almost word for word, the Marcis student council president scowled and reluctantly took a step back.

Then, do the student council presidents of Yugrasia and Mercaria have no further opinions on the matter?

Yes.

Yes, it doesnt matter.

Marcis student council president made a slightly regretful face at that answer, but the Yugrasia student council president didnt care one whit for that.

If one were to look at him scribbling lets go home already onto a piece of paper as if he was bored, it really seemed as if Yugrasia would be victorious at this years imperial festival.

Should I take a bet on it

When you looked at the odds for last year, if you excluded Mercaria that wasnt even included in the betting odds, the odds for Arucia was 1.2 times, 1.4 for Marcis, and a whopping 4.2 times for Yugrasia!

And legend had it that the people who were baited by those odds and bet Yugrasia were completely ruined!

But for some reason, they seem oddly trustable this year.

Because no academy had ever shown that kind of confidence in the history of the imperial festival!

And as I pondered, the Yugrasia student council president said something even ballsier with an equally deadpan face.

Nerkia, even so, wouldnt it be good to add in some events thats favoured for Yugrasia in case things go south?

Hm? Our aim is total victory anyway, so who needs advantages?

What?

The Marcis student council president had said that to increase the number of team events even by one, but what came back in return was a declaration of total victory.

Depending on the day, the events in the imperial festival had a different number of points of them, which led to the possibility of a situation where a comeback was possible at any time.

But there was one way to prevent the differences in points from ever mattering.

Total victory.

If you were to win in every single event, then no matter how wildly the points changed per event, you were sure to win.

But that was very much a what if situation, there was no one who thought had ever thought that was possible.

No matter how many powerful individuals you had, they only had one body.

And since multiple events were held at the same time, the maximum number of events a single person could take part in a day was two.

And even then that was only when the first event ended very quickly, that you could barely make it in time for the last event of the day.

Moreover, no matter how strong you were, you could end up using all your strength in the first event and end up losing pathetically in the next one.

And since the other academies could specifically send in counter matchups against that person, mind games were essential!

Win the events that you absolutely had to win, and steal away the events your opponents had to.

By calculating upon even more calculations, one had to choose your events to win and cut your losses wisely.

That was how the academies had won in the imperial festivals thus far.

But total victory!

No academy so far had ever managed to accomplish that feat.

And, the one to do that would be Yugrasia, the school judged to be the weakest?

If I bet on that then odds of at least a hundred to one would be guaranteed!

D, do you think thats possible?

The Arucia student council president said in a shocked voice, but the Yugrasia student council president simply nodded his head.

Yep.

Everyone in the room was rendered speechless.

Just where was that baseless confidence coming from?

And that silence stretched on until the person who created the silence in the first place asked just when this meeting was going to be over.

And so the meeting ended.

[Betting ticket Yugrasia total victory odds 128:1]

In the end, I bought one of these.