Magika No Kenshi To Shoukan Maou:Volume 5 Chapter 3
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Chapter 3 – Tally of Votes
Part 1
Passing through the promised one week, when the end of days of his monitoring of Karin, or it could be possibly likened as accustoming a wild animal to eat food given by humans, anyway when the end of those days came, Kazuki returned to his usual normal days once more.
And then in this school day that he had missed for quite long―it was also the same day for the voting of the Chief Student Council President after the election battle.
“Well then, after the distribution of the blank voting paper, write the name of the candidate that you support.”
After Liz Liza-sensei said so, she distributed the voting paper to the students in the classroom.
The paper also reached to Kazuki who was sitting in his missed chair that he hadn’t sat on for a week.
From his surrounding, he began to hear the rhythmical sounds of pen’s tips dancing around on the voting papers.
…Should I vote for myself? In front of the voting paper, Kazuki felt lost.
But after he became a candidate, it might be irresponsible if he couldn’t puffed out his chest and claimed that [I am without a doubt fitting as the Chief Student Council President]. Finally Kazuki wrote down his own name with what-do-I-care attitude.
*chon chon[1]*, Kazuki’s back was poked. Behind Kazuki was the seat of Koyuki.
“…In the period while Kazuki took a break, the academy gone through serious situation you know?”
“Serious situation?” Kazuki replied without turning his head.
“Because of Takasugi brothers, they conducted an extensive election campaign…”
After the battle election tournament ended, it wasn’t like the candidates couldn’t do any appeal anymore. Public address, pamphlet distribution…in this one week there was many things that could be done.
“Every time it was break time, the Takasugi brothers kept repeating speech with unpleasant contents. Those days were tedious period.”
“Ah, I can imagine it. …Though I left my election campaign to Mio and the others, was it going well I wonder?”
Kazuki entrusted the election campaign to his teammates Mio and Kohaku as his representatives.
The advocacy that Kazuki wanted to convey―[The Magic Division and the Sword Division’s equality and friendship]
[Research of tactics unbounded by Heaven and Earth Formation and the class to incorporate it]
[Flexibilisation of the treatment and application toward illegal summoning of Diva outside the Solomon 72 Pillar]
[Commencement of Sacred Treasure’s experimental use continuously and, tactic research to make use of it] ―those matters.
Sure enough, could the students agree with those advocacies? Including the matter of how he didn’t show his face at all in front of the students in this one week, there was no doubt that it was disadvantageous for Kazuki.
“It’s fine. Amasaki-san did it properly. She also made a poster.”
Koyuki handed him some kind of paper from behind.
When he opened the folded up poster, there was a printing of Kazuki’s illustration inside that was drawn in awfully shoujo manga[2] chick pattern. Painting of anime tone. Eyes that were twinkling brightly. Nose and jaw that tapered angularly. Tall and thin body proportion that looked like walking stick…
Beside the illustration, it was accompanied with speech balloon that said [Follow me!]. The background was the universe for some reason.
“…It became like this while I was resting? I…”
Beside Kazuki who was trembling all over, the girls who were in the neighboring seats were chuckling. “We are going to follow you until the end of the space you know, Chief Student Council President!”
The girl in the other neighboring seat was also looking this way. Even more than Hayashizaki-kun’s advocacy, it was an election campaign that conveyed more of the fact that Amasaki-san like Hayashizaki-kun so very much right?”
“Well, it got you favorable reputation?” Koyuki said. “It has more than just formality, there is also intimacy in it.”
Intimacy…. He had quite a feeling that to have the intimacy in it was the most important thing compared to anything else.
Noticing this side’s conversation, Mio who sat in the front row of the classroom looked back and waved her hand.
“Kazuki! That poster, I was the one that drawn it you know! How is it!?”
“Shut your mouth you trashes! Don’t talk of unrelated matter!! Don’t do any discussion too!!”
Having Liz Liza-sensei’s scolding flew, Mio shrunk her shoulder in fluster and fixed her gaze back to the front.
Before long the voting paper was folded until the content couldn’t be seen and it was collected.
And then in the afternoon of that day, the student general meeting was conducted. Finally the voting result would be announced.
In the seats of the auditorium, all the students except the third years lined up. The third years of the Knight Academy were going through practical training in the form of rotation to the Knight Order of the whole country, their appearance also couldn’t be seen in this day. It became that their vote didn’t get counted in the total tally.
The sixteen candidates including Kazuki were sitting on a row on top of the stages that overlooked the students.
Headmaster Amasaki and Board Chairman Takasugi appeared on the center of the stage in turn, they each made the greeting for their own inauguration.
And then it became the programme of the voting’s result announcement.
The auditorium returned to deadly silent. However, the presenter Headmaster Amasaki who was standing in front of the mike didn’t open his mouth.
Before long Liz Liza-sensei came running from the wing of the stage, she informed the lateness of vote’s tally.
The students were noisy. For some reason it seemed that the announcement of the voting result would still take some time.
Kazuki who was on top of the stage was also feeling his own nervousness kept rising.
Nervousness―Kazuki was someone that was recommended by Headmaster Amasaki rather than stepping forward by his own will. Kazuki himself naturally also had feeling like [I who just enrolled this academy for around two months am…].
But if there were people saying to him that he was fitting to become the Chief Student Council, a feeling that he wanted to answer those expectations also becoming stronger day by day when he went through the battle election.
Kazuki took a glance at the rivalscandidates that were sitting in a row beside him.
He wouldn’t mind if he lost to Kaguya-senpai or Hikaru-senpai.
But the other thirteen candidates were mixed with enemies that he had doubt of.
The first was of course, Takasugi Shūsui who he didn’t want to get elected.
And then those others senior from the Sword Division―Mino Tamiya, Shiraha Sekairi, Oguma Tokaku, and Mikogami Daizen too were also dangerous characters that had high possibility of being intimate with the new Board Chairman Takasugi.
It seemed that they were doing [Anti Magic Division] speech in the period of election campaign.
The candidates from his own Magic Division, Miyamoto Reina, Kiritani Natsuo, Yumeno Shiori, and Tsukimiya Shion, these four people were all right people. Those girls were included in the group that assaulted him in the middle of date with Hikaru-senpai.
In short they were candidates that were brainwashed by Hayashi Shizuka. They were already released from that brainwashing.
The next was the group of delinquent student from the Magic Division. …They were not even brainwashed, having said that it were unclear what they even wanted to do if they got elected as student council president, probably they didn’t even have any purpose when becoming candidate, a doubtful group of students.
That Mibu Akira was [wanting to show her good side in the battle election], but the other candidates, Iwatami Reiko, Akihita Hibari, and Karino Mika were not limited to that kind of reason. They might be pawn candidates that were encouraged or bribed by Board Chairman Takasugi.
Saying it broadly, Hayashizaki Kazuki – Otonashi Kaguya – Hoshikaze Hikaru – Miyamoto Reina - Kiritani Natsuo - Yumeno Shiori - Tsukimiya Shion - Mibu Akira, these eight people were characters that were not related with Board Chairman Takasugi’s scheme for certain.
And then the remaining eight people, some were included in grey zone, but they were Kazuki’s [political opponent] so to speak.
If he thought of it properly, Kazuki was the champion of the tournament, the second place was Mibu-senpai, third place and fourth place were Kaguya-senpai and Hikaru-senpai, so he ought to have no need to worry. However this battle election was shadowed by suspicious happening from the start till the last. Owing to that even now Kazuki couldn’t wipe his uneasiness yet.
…Was there still some kind of plot remaining that would made a complete reversal of this situation….
“The tally is over!” A voice colored with exhaustion could be heard, Liz Liza-sensei came running from the wing of the stage. Headmaster Amasaki received the paper of the tally’s result and informed “Then I will conduct the announcement”. The inside of the auditorium returned to silence. Kazuki too felt dryness inside his mouth, he gulped his saliva audibly.
“I will only announce the five top names in the number of votes obtained.”
What was important was only the first place. Even if the lower rank’s vote tally were announced it was nothing more than a public humiliation.
“Fifth place, Takasugi Shūsui. Number of votes obtained, 23 votes.
Fourth place, Yumeno Shiori. Number of votes obtained, 25 votes.
Third place, Hoshikaze Hikaru. Number of votes obtained, 76 votes.
Second place, Otonashi Kaguya. Number of votes obtained, 112 votes.
First place―Hayashizaki Kazuki. Number of votes obtained, 263 votes.
That’s all, possessing the majority of the votes, Hayashizaki Kazuki is elected as the Chief Student Council President.”
After a moment of silence, the auditorium was enveloped with loud cheers. Even on top of the stage…Kaguya-senpai and Hikaru-senpai and Yumeno-san, the other candidates gave a round of applause to Kazuki.
Kazuki was being dazed and listened to the loud cheers and applause for a while, after that the self-awareness of the fact that he was being elected came late. He was being elected properly without any incident…
…Then the matter this time, could he say that he had finally reached a checkpoint where he could pause with this? Everything was over…?
“Chief Student Council President, the general policy speech.”
He was urged by Headmaster Amasaki. Kazuki brazenly walked to the center of the stage and stood in front of the mike.
He faced about the applause that reverberated through the auditorium. Already, he couldn’t act overly humble or servile anymore.
There were people that thought of him. Answering that and making great effort, gave birth to bond―
Right now, he was standing right here.
“I receive this appointment to become the Chief Student Council President because of the supports from everyone.”
Even in the case that they were not elected, all the candidates were told to think of the content of their speech beforehand. Kazuki read out loud the script inside the memory of his head.
“I have enrolled this academy for less than two months, honestly there are still many things that I don’t have any idea about. I would likely going to rely on many things to both the student council president of the Magic Division and the Sword Division. Even so I intent to understand the things that I should do by myself and the things that I want to do.
The fifteen year where magic was born in this world, along with the cooperation of Solomon 72 Pillar this academy was established. The time has come where we should stop being in the age where we are just wielding about this new principle of the world without any idea of what we are doing. Magica Stigma has to stop being haughty of their own power, the swordsmen has to have pride of their own training, both sides joining hand together. The strong power to cut through this [new era of sword and magic] has to be grasped within the two hands joining together.
I think it is the professional duties of this Knight Academy’s Chief Student Council President to be the keystone of that turning point.
To cause a change that had never been seen until now by our own hand is going to be accompanied with the feeling of walking inside the darkness groping about blindly. However even inside the darkness, as long as you advanced without letting go of the hands of your comrades, you should be able to discover the light without fail. The Chief Student Council President as the existence that connected the Magic Division and the Sword Division, the one who stood as the vanguard inside this darkness, right here I will declare my resolve to face this challenge.”
Even while choosing decorated words, Kazuki intended to insert his own will inside those speeches.
“…For the last, to those people that reached out their warm hands, accepted, and supported this me that is of different nature when seen in various surface as far as this academy concerned, once again I expressed my gratitude. With all my heart, thank you very much.”
With a lowering of his head with a bob, the applause that was stopped in the middle of the speech returned with the vigor of heavy thunder.
{Leme is going to get troubled if you don’t live up even more to Leme’s expectation okay? Shine, o future Harem King!”
Inside Kazuki’s head, Leme’s encouraging voice also rang out.
Part 2
Translator's Notes and References
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