I Became the Academy’s Pink Airhead

“I couldn’t stop the prophet… Please help Clara trapped inside the World Tree…!! Stop the prophet trying to put all nine worlds to sleep with the World Tree—!!”

“What do you mean trapped inside the World Tree?!”

At that moment.

A huge vibration rang out from the distant giant World Tree.

It was the sound of the world’s collapse accelerating.

Boom—!!

“…?!”

“…?!”

All the students looked at the distant World Tree.

The sky full of opaque veils. Sparks erupted as ether and abyss collided in the World Tree faintly glowing beyond the horizon.

The World Tree that was thought no one could move with the power of fate… The prophet was moving it.

The true divinity… that moves the laws of this universe.

As the group realized the meaning of that and fell silent, and the door burst open roughly again. The tense group reflexively looked that way.

Crash—!!

Anna leapt into the spire with her blonde hair flying about. She had run in from far away carrying someone in her arms.

Bell glared at her resentfully and screamed.

“Kyaaaah?! Why is everyone startling me since earlier!!”

But Anna had no time to answer that resentful comment.

“Ow ow ow…! That hurts…! A-Anyway! Everyone, big trouble!! You see—!”

Before Anna could urgently continue, another pink girl poked her head out from her arms.

“…Everyone has gathered. Is this fate too.”

The Sword Spirit, Verdandi. She had a determined expression, not her usual pure one.

“Now, it has begun.”

“…!”

Though it was an abrupt statement, there was no one who couldn’t notice the various meanings contained in it.

Verdandi toddled towards Rota in the center of the Sage’s Room. And she looked at the three students from shining ruby red, navy blue, and orange respectively.

“…So in the end the [Three Heroes] gather like this, and destruction begins.”

The one who refuted those words was Alvit.

“…We won’t be destroyed.”

“…”

“Because our seniors, you, us… prepared like that.”

“…That’s right.”

Verdandi smiled sadly and stroked Urd’s head who was lying face down on the floor.

“You went against fate and came back. Thanks to you, I was able to meet ‘him’… Thank you.”

“…!”

Urd trembled and lowered her head.

“I, I…”

“You also wanted to become a star watching over these children, right?”

“…!”

“Let’s help together. Awaken the fate of the last Saintess… Norn, and stop him. So that this land no longer needs a [Saintess of Sacrifice]…”

“…Okay!”

Hearing those words, Urd began to cry. And she clasped her small baby-like hands together.

Then she began to shine brilliantly with rainbow light.

A fate that could only watch over others. The divinity that could only powerlessly cheer shone.

Flash—!!

Verdandi spoke within that light.

“[Bifrost]… I feel the power of the guardian.”

“Clara…!”

Rainbow spirals appeared around the bodies of those who had known Clara the longest among the people in the room.

Flash—!

Eir.

“Whoa, what’s that sound…?!”

Freya.

“R-Really always bossing me around…”

Astrid.

“Of course I must help a friend! That is what a noble of the night does—!!”

Anna.

“Ahaha… So I’m going like this again. Not that I mind…”

And Hilde.

She looked at that spiral eagerly.

“…Lara.”

And a huge sound rang out again from outside. This time it was a sound from very close by.

Boom—!!

A heavy voice echoes.

Something rises from the giant abyss along with an earthquake.

Where the black waves begin.

Where echoes start to resound.

Rumble…!

The dragon ruling over death has awakened.

He spoke, raising his mountain-like body.

『You must not interfere with the prophet.』

[Nameless Hawk] raised its feathers in shock hearing that voice. Even being just a remnant, it was an unforgettable voice.

“Have you risen. O dragon…!”

『It’s just a half-baked revival. You, and I… Isn’t that so.』

“…”

『Now, even fighting like this is meaningless. Soon the world will fall asleep. An outsider who transcends fate… will bring us rest…』

[Nameless Hawk] rebuked the dragon rising from the ground.

“Is that… Do you truly believe that giving up so powerlessly is salvation?!”

『For my children, that is salvation. O sworn enemy.』

“Peep—!! You made them believe that is salvation!!”

『…』

The dragon who had been moving his huge body slightly answered quietly.

『…Perhaps. Even so, I must fulfill those children’s wishes.』

Rumble—!!

The long, giant body kicked off the ground and rose.

A straight line of darkness.

Countless tentacles extend below it.

Tentacles extending from the body whose form can’t even be distinguished due to the darkness move. Tentacles that raise the souls of the dead and steal the energy of the living kicked off the abyss and rose.

『…I must stop you all.』

Boom—!!

As the body hundreds of meters long moved.

All the surrounding abyss shook and surged.

Thousands, tens of thousands of chaos insects rose in answer to the call.

Swoosh—!!

Grooaar—!!

Dragon Crouched in the Abyss.

He howled as his mouth moved at the end of his body filled only with jet blackness.

『…!!!』

Then the darkness shook, the sky shattered and answered the call.

It was dyeing space itself with death.

An overwhelming sight.

“…”

Hilde was holding a shining spiral in one hand, but couldn’t bring herself to answer.

-Let’s protect this place together—☆

‘Lara, should I stay here?’

I want to go to you right now…

Would I be of help even if I, who am not the strongest, went there?

I’m not sure if that’s what you want.

“…”

What ended Hilde’s agonizing was Alvit.

“Go. Hi-Hilde… Senior.”

“Alvit.”

She looked at Alvit who spoke to her.

She still seemed awkward about calling her by a nickname.

But…

Alvit spoke looking at Hilde who had taught her about student council work until now.

“We can’t just keep receiving help from behind our seniors forever, right?”

“…”

Though she spoke not just to Hilde, she spoke encouragingly to everyone gathered in the room.

“We… have been preparing hard until now, right? Though bigger things than we thought happened, and we got a little discouraged, made some mistakes… It became much harder than expected.”

Words for people discouraged by the dragon’s overwhelming appearance.

Those words were gradually being transmitted through the magic of the beastkin female students connected as one. They were also being conveyed to the minds of students on the giants and airships.

“But we did our best, and were able to gather this many people, right?”

Alvit grinned and showed her holy sword.

“I don’t know about prophecies or fate… But the juniors taught by our seniors won’t go down so easily.”

“…”

Hilde smiled and answered those words.

“…Thank you.”

Then the rainbow spiral shone brilliantly and took her to the place she had to go.

The remaining five colors also threw words of encouragement as they disappeared into the light.

“Hmph, what an impudent junior! But if you beat me, you should do at least this much!”

“Th-Then… I’ll be going… If you make a mess while I’m gone, you’re dead for real…”

“Oh~ Hohoho!! The noble of the night shall answer the call of friendship!!”

“Everyone… Be safe!!”

Flash—!!

The five colors disappearing one after another. But even with the academy city’s strongest disappearing, hope still remained.

“Phew…”

Alvit still remained there.

[Nameless Hawk] approached carrying Urd and Verdandi on its back. It was a determined expression it had never shown before.

“O hero…! The two goddesses will help you!”

“I-I don’t know if I’ll be of much help—☆”

“Ditto—☆”

Kara and Rota also spoke to Alvit.

“Well, though the opponent is grand… Isn’t it the same as usual? If I lead my comrades and draw attention.”

“And I scatter them with magic?”

“And Comrade Alvit finishes off the opponent with the flash sword. Other companions do what they need to do in their own positions.”

“What… It really is.”

Just like always.

Everyone smiled hearing those words.

The pink girl who suddenly reappeared in the academy city. Was the education she subtly instilled while stirring things up here and there for this day?

Alvit looked back.

The dragon is beyond a single window far away.

Somehow seeing that sight, the words her Senior had told her until now come to mind.

“…”

Everything was for this moment now.

“…Everyone, listen to me.”

Alvit instructed through communication magic transmitted to beastkin female students’ ears while watching where the dragon was.

“…Help us in your own ways. That’s all I want to ask.”

It was probably the first order she was giving as the one leading the academy city.

A foolish instruction.

An order to judge and act on your own as you please.

But…

-Hyaaah—!! Of course!!

-Let’s gooo!!

-Really, doing as you please. Then we’ll move on our own too.

-Justice!! We’ll fight for justice!!

It was the best order for the willful academy city students.

Alvit drew her two swords and ran outside. Ruby wings blazed like flames on her back.

“Let’s begin!!”

Following behind her were Bell, Sieglinde, and Erda.

“Really, what is all this—!”

“It’s time to fight!”

“Focus.”

Kara waved her flag and jumped down from the spire. Navy blue waves were flowing out like waves.

“Hahaha!! Let’s go, comrade!!”

The one carrying Kara on her shoulder was a steel giant wearing a bread hat.

“Yeah! Kara! I’m so happy to be of help like this!!”

Boom!

And orange light flowed out from the spire, combining numerous ether skills into one.

Even now with the strongest five colors gone somewhere.

The academy city still didn’t lose hope.

Flash—!!

Alvit flew up into the air, her wings on her back shining brilliantly. [Nameless Hawk] followed behind carrying the blessings of the two goddesses.

* * *

The centipede old man shook his body and danced. Then he sucked in the abyss from the ground and created new chaos insects.

Numerous adult chaos insects crawled forward in swarms. They all had the authority to steal ether.

Grafvolud shouted in an impassioned voice.

[Don’t underestimate the power of erosion—!]

“I never underestimated it—☆”

Seriously…

You’re the only one who’s made me so mentally exhausted.

‘You damn centipede geezer.’

I wish you’d disappear from my nightmares.

Thinking that as I ran, a silver girl followed me. She ran sliding along, wrapped in blue-white lightning.

“Lara!!”

“Yeah!”

We don’t need words between us—♪

“[Bifrost]—!”

As I pointed at Hilde with my hand, a rainbow flash sparkled.

Sparkle☆

“Freya!! I’m borrowing it!”

“I’m busy so just use whatever—!!”

Hilde slid and pulled out a spear from among numerous purple weapons. Then she quickly threw it with lightning wrapped around the tip.

Boom—!!

Thunderclap shaking the ground greatly.

Countless chaos insects disappear in the flashing lightning. The mobs were dealt with in one go, and a path opened all the way to the centipede geezer.

Seeing that sight, I spoke to Anna summoning a giant ether tree in the distance.

“Anna~☆ I’m borrowing—♪ [Bifrost]—!”

“Whoa?!”

A giant longbow appeared in my hand, and Anna whose hands suddenly became empty nimbly leapt between the oak trees she had already summoned.

I raise the longbow and aim at the centipede geezer’s head. And his soft-looking leg joints.

I fire while delaying the ether skill.

Bang—!!

With a sound ripping through the air, two giant arrows were fired.

And the longbow returned to Anna’s hands.

Thud!

Thud!

Arrows shining with pink ether pierced the centipede’s head and one of his many leg joints.

Then Grafvolud moved his teeth and pulled out the one stuck in his head. The arrow that had dug into his carapace was pulled out futilely.

[Ugh…! Of all places, the joint…!]

“You’re afraid of joints when you have so many legs—☆”

I snapped my fingers just like that.

“[Ydalir]☆”

Then the ether arrow stuck in the leg joint shone and became a tree. Grafvolud panicked, flustered by the tree suddenly growing from his knee.

Eir didn’t miss that opening and rushed in nimbly, shouting. A flame wheel was already endlessly spinning in her hand.

“[Laevateinn]!!”

Boom—!!

A trajectory of flames rushing in like an explosion. The white flames burned up the ether tree stuck in Grafvolud.

Flames imbued with the power of purification.

The centipede writhed in pain there.

[Gaaaah…?!]

And similar screams were echoing identically in the distance. The green mantis was floundering in yellow fog.

[Damn this! In front of my eyes?!]

A yellow greatsword and numerous purple weapons attacked from the endlessly sparkling fog. And the moment a gap appeared, white flames changed positions and charged.

“Oh~ Hohoho!! How does this lady’s fog taste?!”

“Y-You crazy bug bastard cutting up someone else’s school…!”

“Hyaaah—!! [Laevateinn]!!”

Seeing that sight made me laugh.

The five friends who came running at my call.

With them together… There was nothing to fear.

Grip…!

I put that feeling into, creating a pink spiral in my fist.

Countless hearts intertwine and melt into the giant spiral.

Rumble—!!

And I threw it towards Grafvolud.

“[Pink Lemon Sherbet]—!!”