Horizon:Volume 1 Chapter 02

Chapter 02: The Wrecking Crew in the Classroom

Class continues until the bell rings.

But if the bell is broken.

What then of class.

Point Allocation (Classroom)

There was a classroom made of wood.

The scenery seen from the classroom's windows was filled with a white sky. This classroom was on the aerial ship of Musashi. In other words, a classroom of the Musashi Ariadust Academy.

This particular classroom was a small room, however it did not give the impression of being cramped as the number of students per class barely reached twenty. In the back row, a few vacant seats were evident.

A short female teacher stood in front of the blackboard. A nametag with 'Sanyou' written upon it was attached to her. With a world history textbook on one hand, she was talking.

"...In the past, humans descended to the earth from the heavens to this land, the Far East. However, the environmental conditions outside this land proved to be inhospitable, so humanity was unable to leave the Far East. Because of this, humanity copied the Far East to a different space doubling the amount of land, so from that point they started to live in the Real World and the Harmonic World. But humanity wondered if they will be able to ascend back to heaven one day. With this, the people had proposed an idea. If they walked the same road that people in the past had treaded before, in other words, by recreating their history, they would be able to return to heaven one day. The thing they made for this purpose was..."

Sanyou paused, touching the blackboard with the chalk she has in her hand, and then continued.

"...the Testament. A history book that have recorded every aspect of the Former Earth Age's history."

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Sanyou tapped the blackboard. She circled the word Testament twice for emphasis.

"The people in that time thought they could go back to the heaven by recreating the same history, that's why they made the seven sets of Old Testaments and New Testaments, which recorded the history of the B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D (Anno Domini) periods respectively."

Sanyou wrote the words: 'walkthrough to history'. When she did, she spoke.

"Having said that, if people know what will happen in the future, there will be some people who will take advantage of it. So in order to avoid this problem, humanity rendered the information of the Testament unreadable except the events of the coming hundred years. Yet, they could not leave the renewal of the display of information to people, as said people will be liable to exploit it. However, they solved this by using the leylines, as they govern all things, as intermediaries to successfully bind the Testament with fate."

Sanyou turned to face the class. Their faces, lined up in a row before her, were frowning.

Faced with this, Sanyou bathed in their confused stares.

...This is bad. As I thought, all this "fate" talk was hard to comprehend, after all? Maybe it was too early to discuss such abstract topics. I guess I shouldn’t mention the excerpt?

She tensed inside. Then she reviewed in her mind the lesson outline that she prepared for this lecture. After taking a breath,

"Do you know what fate is? Let's see... Abe-kun, what is the first thing to come in mind when you hear the word fate?"

She asked one of her students. Then the male student responded bashfully...

"...Marriage?"

Is that sarcasm against me, who just got dumped by a guy a few days before?

For a moment, Sanyou's surroundings dropped to absolute zero. However, laughs spilled out from around the boy. Even surrounding students started calling him "Marriage Man". That will be his nickname for the rest of his school days, she bet.

"Hey, Marriage Man!"

Sanyou collected herself, letting loose a bitter smile as she noticed the classroom became lively. Then she resumed the lecture.

"Okay... In other words, when he associated fate with marriage, he meant that marriage is..."

'Unavoidable' is what she's going to say.

"Un.. Un... Unavoid... But it's avoiding me, Goddamnit!, God failed when he made a character like me!"

"S-Sanyou-sensei! Please don't sink into self-loathing because of reality!"

Shut up you all! Anyone can get married while still young. That's right... I'm still 24. Yes, still young. It's within the range of "still young", right? I haven't yet spent half of 50 years of human life.

For the meantime, Sanyou regained herself, and continued,

"Anyway, to sum it up. Fate means something that is inevitable."

For some reason, the students nodded with sympathetic gazes to Sanyou, but Sanyou convinced herself that it was just a mere illusion.

"It is known that fate actually exists. This has been proven already back in the Age of Gods. We also know that it is fundamentally changeable. The existence of fate is the very reason that there is a beginning and an end to everything. Together with space and time, we can access it through the leylines that rule all creation."

So...

"As the fate will continue to flow as long as this world exists, the people in the past linked it with the Testament, so matching with the flow of fate, the Testament shows us the history of the coming century."

Sanyou resumed writing on the blackboard.

"In history recreation, the Testament was given the same position as the major religious scriptures that existed in the Former Earth Age. However, because different gods truly existed in the age when humanity ascended, all churches lost their status. Therefore in history recreation, people do not really worship God, but instead..."

She wrote this on the board:

• They believe in the Testament's history recreation itself.

"...This is how things have turned out. In religions like Shinto where multiple gods are necessary, they responded to the new knowledge by shifting the gods' domains to the gods in the ascended period.

Because of the fact that gods exist and the belief in the Testament, religious organizations and groups are known as Doctrine Scores or Churches and their believers are called musicians... In the Far East, Shinto is more accurately described as the Shinto Church, and shrines are Shinto Church religious communities. Consequently, people who are able to use its power are Shinto musicians."

Furthermore,

"As far as religions outside the Far East goes, most of them have their names spelled backwards to what their counterparts were known during the Former Earth Age. The reason behind that is, not only in the dichotomy with their counterparts in the Former Earth Age, but the origin stems from the people who had moved to the altered space known as the 'Harmonic World'. Those who had moved to the parallel world read the name backwards because they took the meaning of its inverse as a blessing, that they would one day be able to leave this different world, like they had in the past. The inverting of names signified retrogression.

The Testament-worshipping Tsirch denomination, the offshot Murasai domination and the anti-Testament factions kept the backwards reading even after leaving the Harmonic Divine States to avoid the confusion that would result from a change. The current principal churches are..."

• Pro-Testament. Tsirhc branches :
  • Sion : Primarily demons. They favour the Old Testament. Nomadic race.
  • Catholic : Mainly K.P.A Italia, Tres España, and Hexagone Française. Worships saints.
  • Protestant : M.H.R.R. Favours the entire Testament. Subdued but very good at commerce.
  • Orthodoxia : Sviet Russia. Favours holy paintings. Russian interpretation of Catholicism.
  • Anglican Church : Mainly England. Divorce is legal. Officially a protestant but inclines towards Catholic.

• Pro-Testament Offshoot :
  • Murasai : Mainly the Middle-East. Five prayers every day and a month of fasting.

• Anti-Testaments
  • Dunhi : India. The cycle of life and death. Curry.
  • Oat : China. Full of sages. Ramen.
  • Shintoism: The 800,000 gods of the Far East. Unexpectedly spontaneous.
  • Buddhism: Far East's version of the path of Samsara. Packed with many spells.

"Well, if you're living in Musashi, you're pretty much a Shintoist. If someone isn't, people mostly don't care as long as they're not involved."

Sanyou continued her talk.

"Humanity started to recreate the history of the Former Earth Age as it was written in the Testament. The passing away of country leaders or their citizens as recorded in history were treated as retirements. Most wars were carried on with mutual agreement between belligerents, although with a safety net. So in the beginning, things were compressed in this manner, but they got serious starting at 0 AD."

Let's see, Sanyou checked the pace of students copying down the notes on the blackboard. She looked at one, to the next one, and then to the next, she passed her gaze across the entire class.

...Am I going too fast?

She confirmed that the place she was standing, on top of the teaching platform, was not blocking anyone’s view. After a bit of pause, she walked across the room to give everyone enough time to write down notes.

When Sanyou reached the back of the room, she thought to herself,

...Is the order of the curriculum I'm teaching alright?

She was a bit perplexed.

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...It's very complicated.

If she, a teacher, finds the lesson difficult, so what does the students copying down the notes think?

Last year, Sanyou made a blunder. According to the second year's curriculum, World History starts from Rome while Far East history starts from Nara period. However, they had spent too much time discussing about the former and the Heian period, so she was forced rush through the last half of the course.

...I couldn't help it. Those chapters were very interesting. Especially when we got to the foundation of Roman Empire, that famous line Julius Caesar spoke to Brutus during his assassination, "You again, Brutus?, was very memorable. The assassination of key figures leads to their protection through 'retirement', and I explained that concept very thoroughly.

...But third years have their future career consultations, so it'll be bad if that happens again.

In three years of her teaching, she had taught first years and second years already. But this was her first time teaching the third year.

Will it be alright? The future of my students will be affected if I mess up here.

"..."

The class was currently copying down the notes on the board, and the air was filled with tension.

She looked at her students taking notes. Looking at them from this way, she can easily identify their distinctions.

Far Easterners and Asians were usually black-haired. There are quite a few exceptions and some people who had dyed their hair but usually it is black.

However, this group of students barely filled half of the classroom. Looking around the room, other hair types that are present are blonde, brunette, red-haired, and even white-haired.

Lastly, there are some people that has no hair... or rather, were innately born like that.

The majority of half-dragon and devil races have scaled skin and cannot grow hair. The same goes for the Slimes or sprite races. Conversely, half-beasts races have hair all over their bodies, in tortoise-shell patterns or stripes, long and short. The varieties are rich.

As she watched her students, she realized that in the past, her teacher must have been watched her the same way she is looking at her students right now.

...But I feel like my teacher at that time was more capable than I am right now.

Sanyou let out a sigh. As she approached the locker, she heard a voice coming from the next classroom. It is the voice of another teacher having a lecture.

...3rd year, Class Plum. It's Makiko-senpai's class.

In the faculty room, Sanyou and Makiko Oriotorai's seats are next to each other. To Sanyou who just got hired two years ago, Oriotorai was an existence with which she had enough of an age gap that she could safely refer to their relationship as one between a senior and a junior. There were many times that she helped Sanyou out in predicaments, Oriotorai often let her observe classes and she was irregularly reliable when it came to Sanyou’s weak areas.

The voice she could hear now belonged to Oriotorai.

"Long story short, right now, the capital is being ruled by the P.A. ODA."

No, that’s not really true Oriotorai-senpai. The Akechi family of P.A. ODA has acknowledged their own autocracy.

...Makiko-senpai, please take your lecture seriously!

She's teaching them the Far East's history, right? Sanyou guessed.

Sanyou hit the nail right on the head. Musashi Ariadust Academy's teachers were limited. As such, all the lessons were taught by the classroom teachers.

Oriotorai's lectures were always noisy. However, Sanyou secretly envies how she gets along well with her students.

...What's her secret? Like, right now, ...I wonder what kind of lesson they’re having right now.

The previous day was a lesson were the losers had to bungee-jump. But what I could hear now was Oriotorai and the girls' voices.

"Strip! Strip! Strip!!"

...Seriously, what kind of lesson are they having!?

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Oriotorai's lecture basically has a high-risk-high-return, penalty kind of system. Her way of teaching was simple.

1. She teachs.

2. She asks a question to someone, who is required to respond.

3a. If the student is unable to answer correctly, his grades will be not penalized but he will receive punishment instead. Nicknamed 'execution'.

3b. If they answered correctly, they will receive a grade in proportion to the punishment they submitted.

Regarding the punishment, they will submit their preferred way of punishment during every first day of the month.

Although you have freedom with your choices, you can't really lower your guard because the content will be reviewed by gathering everyone in class minus the submitter, and make changes accordingly if needed. As such, favours and connections are important to have beforehand. Sometimes if the punishment submitted was lenient, those people who have gathered will make it ten times harder just for their entertainment, so none of them could let their guard down.

If you decided to write a harder punishment, then your grades would go up every time you could answer.

Also, a special characteristic in Oriotorai's lessons was the so called 'presentation'.

"Okay everyone. In Far East history today we'll cover the 'Harmonic Unification War' and the sequence of events leading to the provisional rule of the Divine States."

Oriotorai sat in a chair beside the teacher's desk.

"Let's see... Suzu. It’s fine if you just talk about what you know, please give your presentation."

"E-Eh!? ...Sensei, ah, y-yes! A-About the Harmonic Unification War, right?"

Continuing to face downward, the girl, Suzu, stood up, her movements panicked. She was blushing.

"A-According to w-what I know...um, a long time ago, the world was divided into two, the Divine States in the Real World and the Harmonic Divine States, in the Altered Space. T-The latter was repro...duced by controlling the power of the l-leylines to exist in a separate plane than the former. F-Far Easterners inhabited the Divine States while people from another countries re-resided in the Harmonic States. They got along p-pretty well, I think, um, is that fine?

"You're all good. To summarize it, that's how people solved the problem of scarcity of land, while thinking of a countermeasure to the harsh environment outside the safe Divine States and recreating the Testament descriptions in the real world and the other world."

Everyone nodded when Oriotorai finshed talking. Some voices even were saying, 'you did great!'

Sitting in the window seat of the row of seats all the way to the back, Toori was opening the guide to the game he had bought with a smile on his face.

"Hey, Bell-san. Rest assured! If you blunder, I'll take her punch in your stead. I'll be fine! At least, I’m not gonna die today till I get to the first branch of this eroge, at the very least!"

"You! Stop saying lines that reeks of 'impending-death flag' and listen to my lecture once in a while. And what are you doing opening a game guide in place of textbook, and to top it all, even filling in the survey!?"

Hearing Oriotorai’s words, Toori raised his voice.

"Sheesh, I just want this membership bonus disk they're giving for free. Can you leave me alone, Teach?"

"Aha... yeah. Actually as much as I want to do that, I can't... this is my job."

"You're blunt, Teach! Job? You said job!? I’ll say this really clearly then... adults're dirty!"

Toori stood in his chair, pointing Oriotora with his two index fingers.

"Is money everything!? Teach, you’re just getting money from the school by teaching classes, aren't you!?"

"I’m pretty sure that that’s what being a teacher’s about" everyone whispered, but Toori didn't appear to be listening. He continued inspecting the game manual as he rose it up against the sun.

"Damn. It's not giving me any hints at all, this game is absurd! No matter what I do, I can't score that class president character! What's more, I can’t change the name of the protagonist in the middle of the game! I was planning to go through the death-ending in my first playthrough, that's why I put in Tenzou's name."

"W-Why use my name, Toori-dono!? You know that I'm the one in charge of busty blondies!!"

"It's fine, don’t worry about it, Tenzou! I'll use Urquiaga's name in the next playthrough. Then we'll go for that male character!"

"Preposterous! You know that we decided that I am in charge of older sister characters!!"

Shirojiro, the Student Council's treasurer, raised his head towards the three idiot's commotion. He looked at Toori disapprovingly, and said.

"Pipe down, you three. I'm in the middle of work here. For some reason, during this docking, we haven’t been exporting anything to Mikawa compared to the goods that are coming in. The struggle to reserve warehouses is fierce. Save it for later... Heidi, what's that look?"

"Hmm... you know, Shiro-kun, we're in the middle of class too."

"You guys need to shut up...", Neshinbara muttered in reproach, but Toori, as usual, wasn't listening.

Her eyes still hidden, Suzu spoke, a small smile on her face. After her shoulders stopped their slight tremble, she took a breath.Her tiny shoulders trembled, and after a while,

"Um, i-it’s fine, then?"

Suzu waited for everyone to settle down before speaking.

"The N-Nanbokucho War was the start of everything."

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Everyone glanced at their textbooks.

Nanbokucho War.

"Back in the days of the Divine States, which is the old name of Far East, there were two representatives of the Emperor, and this war was the struggle between them."

In the Divine States, the legitimate emperor uses Three Sacred Treasures to manage the environmental gods, thereby, controlling the world's leylines in the process.

However, the Emperor refused to take part in politics. Being both man and god, he was a living god isolated from everything in this world.

Therefore, it was the task of the representatives that had been acknowledged by the imperial palace to recreate the role of Emperor in the Testament's description of history.

"But, d-despite North and South reached a truce agreeing to share power alternately, the northern court b-broke the promise as the Testament's description said, deliberately not relinquishing power to the souther corut, and announced their dictatorship... And.. in 1412...? The southern court started a r-rebellion."

Suzu spoke the next words clearly.

"As the Testament description said, in 1443, the southern court assaulted the Imperial Palace and usurped the Sacred Treasures from the Emperor. In turn, u-until they were was taken back in 1457, t-they lost control of the leylines. The Harmonic Divine States in the other world, w-which had its stability supported by the leylines, collapsed towars the original Divine States."

"...And then, what happened?"

"More than half of it completely collapsed and was obliterated. H-However, the remaining portion overwrote and fused with these Divine States, still retaining the weather and other conditions that it had had when it was still part of the other countries. Because of this, there are many p-points where the land of the Harmonic Divine States exist. T-These are called Harmonic Territories. Those pillars with a different sky that we see a l-lot, the earth beneath the sky included, are Harmonic Territories."

And then,

"The people of the other countries who had been lving in the Harmonic Divine States s-swarmed into the Divine States at once. Even if they were just escaping from sanger, they demanded yo the Divine States responsibility for their actions, as well as providing them a refuge. The Divine States refused, war raged across the land, and u-ultimately, the Divine States surrendered to the invasion armies of the Harmonic Divine State countries. This event is known as the Harmonic Unification War. Yet..."

However, the countries around the world couldn't completely annex the Divine States.

It was simply because it was not written in the Testament decriptions.

So in order to circumvent the Divine State's military and political suppression, the countries invaded all the Divine States and established the Academies, training areas for military and political matters. These Academies were made the highest institution of the country. Their pretext for that is "A peace and stability through bestowment of knowledge". All this was done in order to avoid a Divine States' coup through military or political means.

"A large part of the Divine States is subjected to the provisional rule by by the Academies of the other countries and the Union of the Testament, who controlled the Academies. Currently, the Chancellors and Academies of the Far East and the other countries are..."

She had spoken to that point when Oriotorai prompted her.

"Can you tell me?"

"Ah, y-yes."

World Map

Counting them off her fingers, Suzu listed them.

Shimazu - Africa Union - Kyushu: A land of plant-type race beings. Possesses abundant labor force.

Oouchi, Ootomo - Tres España - Shimonoseki: Reigned by Felipe II. A country with great debt as the king invested in developing the New World.

Mouri - Hexagone Française - Chuugoku: Ruled by the updown duo of Louis XIV and Terumoto Mouri.

Hashiba - M.H.R.R (Holy Roman Empire) - Kinki: Current emperor under house arrest. Catholics and Protestants are in disarray.

Oda - P.A. ODA - Kinki ~ Tokai: Eight years ago, Nobunaga inherited his name and half-ceded from the Testament Union.

Houjou - Alliance of Indian Countries - Tokai ~ Kanto: The elves of the Houjou have an automaton based civilization. They are the ones behind the Alliance.

Uesugi - Sviet Russia - Hokuriku: The SakraRaitei-san does a good job in ruling this land with fear.

Aki - K.P.A Italia - Setouchi: Alliances of cities led by the head of the Tsirhc Catholics, the Pope.

Takeda - Qing - Kanto: A large country based around the moving city-states of the elven races.

N/A - England - Floating Island: Ruled by the Fairy Queen Elizabeth. A country of fairies and magical races.

Matsudaira - Far East - Tokai, Kanto: The representative of the Far East. Formed an official alliance with P.A. ODA 10 years ago.

Suzu took a breath.

"Also, b-because of the history recreation, there are still lands that the T-Testament Union cannot occupy, d-due to the fact that they have not been explored yet."

N/A - Siberia - Touhoku Region - Arctic land sparsely inhabited by unconventional races.

N/A - New World - Hokkaido Region - Mostly uncharted lands, but recently, an incipience of potential power is seen there.

N/A - Savage Land - Shikoku Region - Mostly filled with barren Harmonic Territories. Primarily inhabited by silicon-based races.

Suzu took a break in speaking. Oriotorai nodded, and asked,

"Why is there not a corresponding land of the Far East for England?"

"A-Ah, J-Jud, that's because... In the Harmonic Divine States, England was located in Tsushima. But Tsushima was too small for them to accommodate, so I t-think they raised the bottom of the sea. When the Harmonic Divine States collapsed, they only moved the whole island here and renewed the leylines. They didn't lose their land so in turn, they didn't take part in the provisional rule. U-Umm... they took a neutral position instead, acting as a mediator for both the Far East and other countries."

"That's right. Because of that they are getting various technologies like the floatation of their island, from IZUMO and other countries."

Jud., replied Suzu, who was still standing.

"Good job. Much better than if I’d done it. Maybe I should count on you again next time~"

Hearing Oriotorai speak, Suzu loosened her body, sighed a breath of relief and sank back to her seat.

But at the same time, Toori stood up and spoke.

“Teach, you’re dirty…!”

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"Eh!?"

Everyone looked towards Toori, whose both index fingers pointed at Oriotorai.

"Just because you are idiot, sucking up to Bell-san like that and exploiting her just to save your ass is dirty! Really, adults are so stained. But I’ll point it out! I promise this!"

"...Uh, Toori. You've been continuously jabbering nonsense like that and about your confession plan ever since this morning. Do you really want to die that much?"

"Huh!? Why would I want to die, Teach? Oh wait, don't tell me you're planning on murdering me if I confess to another girl!? What kind of jealousy is that!? Do you want me that much, Teach!?"

"Ahahaha. This is starting to get seriously old, Yes I want you dead right now."

"I-Is that something a teacher should say to a student!? Teach, wow you're so cool!"

Toori clapped his hands once, glanced at everyone and he announced more politely.

"Well then everyone! Let's have a party tonight in celebration of my confession's eve. The place will be--- "

Not even turning back to look at Toori, Shirojiro said this.

"Anywhere that costs money is a no. I'll hang your neck in the stern if the place exceed our budget."

"A-All right! The place will be here then! Should we do another test of courage like last year!? I know it's outta season, I guess."

"...Umm, Toori-kun. I don't think it's a good time for that."

Asama raised her hand. She summoned Hanami, and displayed torii-shaped signframes, each filled with statistics.

"There has been an increased occurrence of supernatural phenomena lately. If we do something like that, a real ghost might appear."

"Let’s have an exorcism, then!"

Toori spoke and Asama tilted her head in puzzlement.

"There's a lot of us that have those kinds of skills, right? So... let’s exorcise the school grounds tonight so those kinds of things won’t happen! If a spooky one appears, we'll just have exorcise it, simple as that. Teach, it'll be okay to stay at school tonight with that purpose in mind right? This is gonna be part of student council activities as well!"

"Hmm... Actually, I was actually thinking that it was about time to be doing that."

"Is that so?"

Asama asked, with hetero-chromatic eyes open wide. Oriotorai shrugged her shoulders and said

"I mean, the Seven Mysteries are very popular myths in every academy, right? Jugding from the rate of phenomena now, the teachers were suspecting it might happen here too."

"You should have asked our shrine if that was the case."

"But doing that will cost money, right? Plus it's not confirmed yet whether there are really phenomena or not. I was thinking of doing an investigation first, that is why I already signed up for night watch today."

"It's settled! We'll have some ghost-busting tonight!"

"Ah, right. I'll give you the permission. In return, please do the night rounds patrolling around at night and replace the charms on the nameplates of all the classrooms in my stead, okay? Ah, and if you come across a shrine in the classrooms, don't forget the worships as well. Sensei will have some errands to do while you do that. I have to do an offering to the Gods, so this Miki that I bought with my own money needs to be disposed."

"Y-You’re the worst teacher ever!!"

Shouted everyone. Oriotorai ignored it with a handwave.

"You all do your best tonight. Spirits do really exist, you know?. In fact, there might actually be a Mitama guarding our academy. The reason why we have Shinto altars and talismans here and there is because of that. They are in there, even if we can't see them. Respecting that kind of 'nobodies', is actually one value taught in Shinto. Anyway, in case one pops out and it's not a bad one, just act normally. Is that fine?"

After saying that, Oriotorai crossed her arms. With her chin, she pointed at Toori.

"Now that this is settled. Toori, it's punishment time."

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Hearing Oriotorai, everyone fell silent.

Everyone is questioning Oriotorai that with their gaze and Oriotorai scratched her head.

"Back in Suzu's explanation? The northern court actually declared dictatorship in 1413. It was a small mistake."

Ah, Suzu gasped with a soft exclamation on her lips. Seeing this, Oriotorai waved her hand lightly.

"Don't worry, with that impressive presentation, you were more than able to make up for it. Besides, you don't get punished for messing up in the 'presentation', remember? ...But, we have an idiot here who said he'd get punched if you blundered."

Oriotorai picked up the notebook of the attendance record that was lying on top of the teacher’s table, checking its contents.

"...Toori's submitted punishment this month is... to strip."

"Uwaaah!? Did I write something softcore like that again? I should've written a very hardcore or even better, adamant-core ones for starters."

Toori stood up and shouted, a grin on his face.

Everyone thought for a moment. After a little while, the class said.

"Then, if the punishment is to strip..."

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"Strip! Strip!"

Sanyou heard those voices from beyond the wall. After a few seconds of silence, she heard the students beyond shouting cheers of praise.

......Eh? That would mean, someone really stripped!? W-Would that be alright!? Like, isn’t that like child...!?

"Wow!!"

...Another layer!?

"Wow!"

.......Eh!? H-Hold on a bit!

Sanyou looked at the male students who were earnestly copying down the notes on the board.

The male uniform of the Far East was constructed in this manner. Umm, a jacket, a shirt, pants, and underwear... altogether four pieces. There have been three shouts already.

"Wow!?"

......The fourth one, why this time is a question...!?

The moment she formed that doubt in her mind.

The wall in her left and the locker was blown away, together with the full-naked boy, forming a big 大-shaped hole in the wall.

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The sound of splintering accompanied the wooden fragments of the lockers and debris flying through the air.

"-!!"

The boys that had been copying down notes stood up, and the girls rocked backward.

The nude boy who had come flying in rolled three times before he flew into the back row of the rows of desks. However, he only sent a few seats flying, because the students that had been at the point of impact had scrambled out of the way. To describe his movements, he smashed into a desk and was sent into the air, impacting the remainder of the desks with his limp body.

The sound of destruction and landings of blown seats after tail-spinning, reverberated.

What remained, were bent piles of seats and desks.

Along with the sound of silence.

After a while, the girls took a peek at the naked boy that was sprawled down just like the character ‘大’ and they brought their hands to their cheeks.

Their first reaction was to pull their bodies back. The next moment, they said this in unison.

"Kyaahh!! Sensei!! It’s a pervert! O-Our pervert Chancellor's... it's spinning around!"

Sanyou, still taken aback upon witnessing the unexpected event, thought after hearing the student's cries.

…Yes, I can see that too. He was spinning. Vertically too.

"S-Sensei! Please do something!!"

Eh!?, Sanyou couldn't help but feel troubled. There was a nude boy lying face-down in front of her. His butt was in clear view.

...Eeh!? B-But what am I supposed to do in this situation...?

Sanyou's whole body broke into sweat. In the three years of experience as a teacher, and even during the time of her internship, she had never learned anything that could help her deal with a fainted naked boy that came flying through a blown wall.

But looking around, the hopeful eyes of her students are all looking at her, in expectation that her, being older than them, would take care of this.

They were all looking at her.

Bathed with expectant gazes from every direction, and as the volume of the sweat in her back increased, Sanyou thought.

...I've been relied many times before by my students, but this situation right now is probably the toughest one I have to face!

Answering my student’s hopes and dealing with a pervert…can these two things be thought of on the same wavelength?

But she was the person responsible for this classroom. Therefore, Sanyou approached the fallen nude, keeping her body low by pulling her hips back. In between the splinters of wood that had scattered everywhere and the fallen chairs and desks, there lay the butt of the fallen nude.

The butt displayed no movement.

...Then...

...For the meantime, let's check if he's still alive or not.

She moved closer, squatted in front of the man, and after inhaling some air,

“U-Um...”

“Wooooooooooooah, that was seriously surprising...! Would a normal teacher seriously kick her student!!”

The nude boy sprang up to his feet with the force of a spring-loaded doll and turned towards Sanyou.

Since Sanyou is squatting down, his hips were thrust right before Sanyou’s eyes.

"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"

She screamed in reflex.

"Uh?", said the naked man, as if he just noticed something.

"Hey, hey. If it isn't Sanyou-sensei. Why are you screaming like that? Did something happened? Come on, tell me. I'll handle it."

"Hyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!"

At the same time of the second shriek, the naked boy was blown away by a strike of a sheathed longsword coming from behind.

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Toori recovered immediately from the blow he got. He's looking at Oriotorai hugging Sanyou in attempt to calm her down.

Oriotorai was speaking to the crying Sanyou as her breathing was ragged and tears were spilling from her eyes.

"Everything's all right now, Mitsuki. Calm down."

"She's right, Sanyou-sensei. If you don’t stop crying then we’ll be seriously troubled!! Take a look!"

He had thrust out his hips, but looking at his groin, you could not see skin, just a square bundle of light.

"See? This is an Amaterasu-type divine spell, which can manipulate sources of light, so I can make use of optical camouflage! Or as is called in English, God Mosaic! Shiro's prepared a whole bunch of charms for me, and I do a lot of stripping, so no matter what kind of massive damage I take I’m fine due to the power of the Idiot's Spell!"

"Ah, no. Rather than tat..."

Sanyou was staring at the area around Aoi's left shoulder.

"Is your shoulder alright?"

"Eh? Ah, you mean this?"

The thick line on Toori's shoulder has a length that circled around Toori's armpit. This 5-centimeter wide scar, was a vestige of laceration.

Toori showed the scar to Sanyou.

"I got it a looooooong time ago. Since it was so far back, the scar got bigger as I got bigger. That’s all."

Toori nodded at her and Sanyou finally managed a nod faltering only a little.

And then, from the holed wall appeared a person. It was Heidi.

Heidi looked around, confirming the total damage of the classroom as she counted with her fingers. Then said.

"Sensei. Azuma-kun has arrived. I just saw him walking in the courtyard."

"...Heidi, did you calculate the total repair cost just now?"

"Eh?"

Heidi flashed a smile.

"The Bertoni Company is backing DYI ventures after all. If we settle this using the school’s repair fees, we’d be in really big trouble. Should I make arrangements now?"

"Yes, please." Oriotorai nodded. Seeing this, Toori asked her a question.

"Teach, he is coming?"

"You heard that right, but for the meantime, could you wear something and think up of a good way to repair this wall?"

"Repair, huh?" Toori mumbled. He approached the locker and noticed a roll of Japanese paper inside. He took it out.

"Repair, huh..."

Murmuring it again, Toori took one of the scrolls and held it up to Sanyou and Oriotorai.

"For now, let's cover the hole with this. It’d be like a massive sliding door. What do you think, Teach?"

"Good idea", as Toori unrolled the scroll of Japanese paper in front of her.

Spreading it wide with his hands, Toori slid the paper between his legs, effectively straddling it. With his next motion, he wedged the paper between his butt and groin, pulling it up and squeezing it tight. Having done this, he rolled it back up.

"Then with this…"

"Hold on, hold on! what the hell did you just do!? Didn’t you just do something really weird!?"

"Huh!? What is it, Teach? Leave me alone for now, okay? I'm by myself!"

"Umm... Sensei. Azuma-kun will be arriving soon."

Ah, Oriatorai raised her head. She released Sanyou, and with her eyes narrowed, looked at Toori.

"You're going to be in the same class as Azuma starting today. Make sure you don't try anything funny, got that?"

"I get it. I get it." Toori answered with a smile. Standing in front of Sanyou and Oriotorai, whose narrowed eyes were fixed upon him, he was still completely nude.

"Azuma is the son of the emperor, after all. There's no way I'll do anything weird to him."

Answered Toori, smiling. Then a voice came from Class Plum's classroom.

"Sensei! Azuma's here! Together with the king!!"

Hearing that, Oriotorai lightly tapped the grip of the longsword in her shoulder.

"I'll go greet Azuma and the king. After that, make sure you come back here. Until then, do something to keep that wall from being exposed."

As Oriotorai checked the clock in the classroom and found out the time is approaching noon, she said,

"At this rate, Masazumi will be absent the whole day. Well, it couldn't be helped. She was sent to Mikawa as a representative of our student council, together with Principal Sakai, the head of our Academy. I guess I'll put her as excused today. I wonder what she's doing right now."

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Study - Musashi's Administrative Divisions

Toori: "Nee-chan! Nee-chan! Teach us about... uhh, what was it called? Mu-Muchachi's A...Aninstrative...Invasions! Ah, that last part sounds erotic!"

Kimi: "Fufufu, my foolish brother, your super forced joke is simply wonderful. Musashi's Administrative Divisions, then?"

Toori: "...C'mon, nee-chan. Getting down to topic already? I thought you would play along with me for a bit longer. You're quite the killjoy."

Kimi: "And you’re so noisy. I'm going to start the explanation now, so sit there like a good boy and listen."

Musashi's Internal Politics Division

• Academy (Chancellor's Board, Student Council and Student Committee)
  • Authority split into Executive, Judicial, and Legislative power divisions.

• Provisional Council (Assembly of Academy's influential alumni)
  • Leaders of the bureaucrats that assists Academy in making and executing decisions.

• King of Musashi (Yoshinao)
  • Has the management rights for Musashi, and can veto the Academy's decisions.

Kimi: "Our Academy is regarded as the heart of the nation, so the members of the student committee were originally the bureaucrats. But in the Far East isn't unlimited like the other countries. We graduate at 18 years of age, so a bureaucratic organisation that doesn't have the power to make or pass motions, the provisional parliament, was made. And then... well, Musashi's King is a division specific to Musashi. The other countries don't have someone that can veto like the Musashi's King."

Toori: "What happens if there is one?"

Kimi: "In other words, there will be someone who can stop you if you make a crazy decision. The kings from other countries aren't nuts like you, that's why they don't need one."

Toori: "...Hey, someone, anyone, listen up ...This sister of mine is really incredible sometimes."

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