Editing Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume18 Chapter6 (section)

===Part 3===

Port Areishia, the town affiliated with Areishia Spirit Academy, was commonly called the Academy town.

It was a planned city built with the Academy's school buildings as the center and designed to serve both spirits and elementalists.

In one part of the town, Undine district, students and some of the teachers had erected sturdy road barricades to keep up resistance against the Imperial Knights.

The conflict started from the Imperial Knights, that had effectively occupied the Academy, arresting student organizations that were protesting in front of the school building. With this as the trigger, all the resentment against the Imperial Knights' injustice exploded in one go, turning into a riot that even roped in teachers.

The fires of conflict instantly spread. Right now, the situation had turned into something the entire Empire was watching.

Unable to use militarized spirits against students, who hailed from noble families, the Imperial Knights had to catch rebels one by one. At the same time, the students had home field advantage because they were deeply familiar with the Academy town's complicated layout.

However, the Empire could not possibly allow this to continue for long.

Now that news had spread throughout the Empire, within twenty-four hours, the Empire would probably steel itself to mobilize militarized spirits to solve the problem.

Late at night, in the Academy town that was filled with false peace, a traveler was on the road.

She was petite, wearing a gray hooded cloak.

She also had a silver mask on her face.

Given the current situation, no would be going out alone. The Imperial Knights usually took action in squads of three or more, whereas the students would not leave their barriers to go outside the barricades.

The gates of the Academy town were all sealed. In theory, no travelers could get in or out.

The traveler walked in darkness. Carried at her waist was a crimson long sword with ominous decoration. Compared to her petite figure, it looked quite mismatched.

Just then, three knights in military uniform appeared in front of the girl.

A squad of Imperial Knights. They were patrolling the streets.

"Who are you?"

The leader questioned.

Without saying a word, the masked figure lightly drew the crimson long sword at her waist.

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