Editing Kenkoku no Jungfrau:Volume 1 Chapter 1 (section)

===Part 7===

Fortunately or not, since school time had already started, there weren’t a single person around. If there were students around, it would definitely become a huge fuss and reach the school in due time, which would definitely cause some troubles.

Passing through the gate, and approaching the building with the medical office, people who were probably male and female teachers came out with confused expressions.

“Gillette-sama, how did something like this happen!?”

“Hurry up and call the doctor!”

Gillette replied to the teachers who were shrieking and screaming with a tedious tone.

“I can walk by myself. Rather than that, call Lutile.”

“Lutile still hasn’t come to school yet. There seemed to be some kind of incident outside…”

“Then call her and bring her here.”

At Gillette’s word, the female teacher immediately dashed out the gate. The male teacher cut in opposite of Heath and supported Gillette. 

Eventually they reached the medical office and lay the knight down on the bed. The teacher inevitably turned towards Heath.

“Now then, what in the world does this mean!”

Certainly, the only one who knew the entire story other than Gillette was only Heath. He could not bring himself to ask for an explanation from the injured Gillette, and while Heath was starting to speak disorderly, Gillette suddenly cut in.

“Sensei, he is the same age as one of your student’s right? Could you not let him change into those clothes?”

After hearing that, Heath finally remembered what kind of appearance he had. There was blood on his head. Blood marks still remained after he walked here.

The teacher probably also came to his senses at Gillette’s words. He raised his eyes awkwardly.

“Certainly, it would be troublesome if you walk around the school in that figure. There are some student uniforms on that left shelf. Please use them.”

After bowing to the teacher, Heath opened the closet. There were probably Female use uniforms on the left closet.

The teacher began to treat Gillette’s wounds,  and the hot water bowl was passed to Heath too.

As he washed, the bowl was stained red.

–By the way, you’re a face I haven’t seen before. A newcomer?   

It was the blood of the gatekeeper who frankly spoke that line. But he had suddenly attacked Gillette as if he was a different person.

Was it sympathy towards the dead gatekeeper? Or perhaps mortifications towards the traitor? Or was it just because it was a scary experience? Even he himself could not tell.

As he washed away the blood from his face, the door of the medical office was knocked.

“Is it Lutile?”

Speaking of which, Gillette had called for the person name Lutile. He remembered that they were told she hadn’t yet come to school but, did she arrive already?

–By Lutile, that <Knight Princess>?

Lutile Afnar – She was the lone women in the <Knights of the Round Table>. He had heard that she lived in the King’s Capital, but to think she went to this school, he started doubting his own ears.

Hesitating to be in such a sloppy appearance in front of a Knight of the Round Table, it was when Heath had become confused after putting on the school uniform.

“Wh-what on earth is this–?”

The teacher who had opened the door, creamed in a muffled voice.

“Eh…?”

Turning around, Heath could not comprehend what had just occurred.

Bleeding from his chest, the teacher collapsed.

The headless body of the gatekeeper stood beyond the door.

“Oops, that was a mistake. Wrong person.”

The headless body talked in a cheerful tone. After looking carefully, it’s arm was holding its head which was sliced off, and the one talking was the head.

“You bastard, you were a Clown!”

The knight who was lying on the bed leaped up. But his knees were shaking and his complexion was pale too. The poison was spreading. 

But even with that, Gillette took off the gloves on his left hand and shouted out

“Come forth, <Steinbock>!”

After he shouted out, particles of light purple colour formed in the knight’s hand.

It was a single spear. The spearhead wasn’t a bladed edge, but a round cone. It casts away the ability to parry and slash down, but puts all the power in the forward thrust. 

Gillette threw that spear aiming the gatekeeper.

「Shuu」

The body disappeared from the guard who was already a corpse. 

The scattered light did not stop at the destruction of the guards body but also went through the wall behind.

-<Omen>? But his eyes are…?

Gillette’s eyes were still blue just like in the past. Then he should not be an <Omen Talker>.

Facing the knight who blasted away the guard, Heath doubted his eyes.

A single blade had pierced the knight’s body.

“Gillette Nii-chan!”

“Guh-“

Coughing out blood, the knight fell to his knees.

It was probably the guards. A dagger was stabbed into Gillette’s chest. Before Heath could even rush up to him, he fell on the ground.

“Shit…In a place like this…Sorry…Luti..le…”

After muttering something, strength left from his senior’s body.

Even someone from afar could tell that he had died.

The person he had admired since he was a child passed away from this world in a moment without any herald.

–No,no way……?

Heath had been completely stupefied.

If one would say the name of Gillette of the Knights of the Round Table, they would think of a person with the title of <Kazakiri>, having a slim stature but wielding a long sword unfit for him, he was an owner of the anecdote that was able to be called by many heroic episodes.

Even though he had received a surprise attack and poison, was he really the type to be defeated like that?

“…?”

As he was overcome with surprise, the knight’s right hand started to let out a faint light.

“Uwah-”

The light eventually started to glow brilliantly and then leaped towards Heath.

As he was covering his eyes, the light pierced Heath’s arm without any shock.

“–hmm?”

As he timidly opened his eyes, he only saw the knight and the fallen teacher there. There were neither pains nor any visible wounds.

But he certainly felt that the light didn’t only glow but took form and clashed into him.

–Wha-what was that, just now?

He was bewildered by the light that had vanished without any sound, but this time he heard a laughter that ringed his ears.

“Hihihi, so the possessor this time is you huh? Yes, yes, what a mediocre person to be selected.”

Noticing where that voice was coming from, Heath turned bloodless.

“Oh dear, I be hurt if you make such a gloomy face. Even though I am like this, I have a rather delicate heart you know.” 

It was the gatekeepers head.

Even though the body was blasted away without a trace, the head still moved as if it was alive.

“But, this too is fate. And to make that fate more entertaining is my duty.”

While experiencing a feeling of nausea, Heath stepped near the head.

Due to all that happening in succession, even his normal thought process might have been paralyzed.

“Just, just what in the world are you?”

“Hmm? You seem surprisingly calm. You ask who I am? I am calling myself ‘Clown’”

A clown, the girl last night and the ghost in front of him, claiming they were the same thing was unpleasant. 

“Was this you’re doing? Why… why are you doing all this?!”

“I have done nothing. But, this person who desires the <Engraved Blade>…Oops! He doesn’t have any remains to indicate to- In anycase, I only taught this person where the possessor of an <Engraved Blade> would show up.”

After saying that, he once again started a creepy laughter.

“Oh, there was one other thing. I gave another chance to the corpse in return of lending me the head, but this was another unexpected end.”

The living head the pointed towards Heath’s right arm with its eyeballs.

“As for Gillette, he lived for three month. Well, I wonder how many days you will survive?”

“Survive?...What are you talking about?”

“Oh my! You still haven’t realized it yet? Then please, take a look at your right hand.”

Though he didn’t have any intention of obeying the living head, Heath reflexively turned his sight towards his hand.

“This is.!?”	

“Hihihi- That <Engraved Blade> is you possession from now on. Use it, it is up to you whether you want to use it for wealth and fame, you are free to give it up to someone else too. Remember, for as long as the <Engraved Blade> is in your hands, many people summon you, and furthermore, many people will target you.”

Heath raised a voiced that seemed to be yelling.

“I-I have no need for such a thing! You take it.”

“Hmm, It is a matter of great sorrow that, that cannot be realized. I myself am something like a heat haze. I do not have a vessel in order to take up a <Kenkoku>.”

Saying that, the living head started laughing weirdly. 

“Well, if you are so reluctant about waiting that why not hand it over to someone else? Someone who wants it tries to get it even if the other party is killed…Now then, it’s about time we end our talk.”

As he said that, footsteps could be heard from the corridor.

“Then, I will be watching you from the shadows. Till the time you fall.”

“H-Hey wait! Hand it over? But how-“

But he couldn’t finish his sentence.

“It’s a murder! Someone was killed!”

After yelling that, the living head turned into a corpse.

In that moment, the footsteps turned into a sprinting sound.

Heath then finally realized the situation in the medical office. There was a knight and a teacher who were killed. And only he was alive. On top of that, he was possessing an <Engraved Blade>.

-I have to escape.

He did not know what people would think he was seen with the <Engraved Blade> on his right hand.

Besides, he would be treated as the criminal because of that living head.

Heath did not take even one look around when he leaped through the window and ran away outside the academy.




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