## Chapter 244 – Mademoiselle (13)
“Are the preparations complete?”
“Yes, they are.”
“And the mages?
The girls?”
“Of course.
They are standing by.”
“Then everything is ready?
Go and make it happen.
Let’s give that cheeky girl a taste of her own medicine, shall we?”
“Yes, Madam.”
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The academy, as bright and clear as ever.
Within its walls, countless students were attending classes, nurturing their hopeful dreams.
Yet, amidst them, was someone with a hunted look.
This someone, clad in a suspicious black spandex suit straight out of a detective manga, cautiously opened a door and slipped inside.
“It’s lunchtime…
Good… Just like I heard, no one’s here…”
The figure scurried around the spacious room, gathering parchments and items from here and there, stuffing them into a trunk half the size of their torso.
“Got… everything…?”
After a long moment of nervous lip-licking, the person hoisted the trunk into their arms, constantly glancing back as they headed for the door they’d entered through.
Footsteps echoing, they stepped towards the open doorway, but at that very moment…
– WEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOO
An alarm blared, filling the corridor, startling the figure into a momentary freeze before they bolted forward.
The deafening sound carried beyond the building, drawing people in droves.
Likewise, the noise startled someone else awake.
“Ugh…!! Ughhh…?
Wha… What time is it…?
Lunch…? Ah… Morning class…!!
Ughhh… Oww…”
Frowning at the noise, she opened her eyes, glanced at a small wind-up clock beside her, and leaped out of bed.
A sudden cramp in her lower abdomen made the girl clutch her stomach even in her dazed state.
Realizing she was still in her uniform, Carla flung open the door and rushed outside…
“Ugh… What’s that noise…”
Her grumbling was drowned out by the blaring alarm as Carla stumbled out the door.
“Kyaaaaaaah!!”
“Get out of the way!!”
It didn’t take long for her to realize something was terribly wrong.
The chaos and confusion unfolding before her were reflected in her clear, brown eyes.
– KRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Then, as if in slow motion, a large form tumbled before her amidst a cloud of dust.
Carla, collapsing onto her rear, was filled not with fear, but with utter bewilderment at the situation.
“Eh…?”
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At the same time, chaos reigned as various colors of blood splattered across the floors and walls of the once-peaceful academy.
Charlotte, holding an artifact, urgently amplified her voice through the magic communication device.
“How is the evacuation of the students proceeding?”
“This is the Head of the Swordsmanship Department. The evacuation of the lower grades is complete.
The upperclassmen of the Swordsmanship Department are voluntarily engaging in combat.
The upperclassmen of the Engineering and Medical Departments are also holding their ground in their respective buildings.”
“This is the Head of the Medical Department. So far, there are some minor injuries, but no serious ones…
First aid is being administered on-site.”
Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief at the news that there were no fatalities yet.
Then, another voice echoed through the artifact.
“Ah!! Ah!! This is the Head of the Magic Department.
Can you hear me? Respond.”
“We hear you clearly!! Head of the Magic Department!!
Are you aware of the current situation!?”
Fortunately, the old man’s voice connected quickly, and Charlotte urgently pressed him for information.
“Evir!! Pukorone!! Ugh…!! Annoying things.
They can even withstand a lightning strike once in a while.”
The old man seemed displeased with the situation, his voice crackling with occasional bursts of electricity as he continued his report to Charlotte.
“Several monsters being bred for research in the Medical Department have escaped.
Fortunately, the news spread quickly, and we’ve taken action, so don’t worry…
I am currently moving to the Magic Academy in the center of the academy.
I plan to target the escaped monsters with the destructive waves of the wide-area magic circle that protects the academy,
so it won’t be difficult to subdue them soon.
However…”
“What is it? Please, tell me quickly…!!”
“At the same time, a theft alarm went off in Professor Fantini’s laboratory.
The assistants and Professor Fantini himself are currently investigating the anomaly.”
“So, they weren’t released by accident?”
“I can’t say for sure. Given the timing…
Inevitably, there may be some unsettling aspects.
Come to think of it, we’ve been receiving a lot of strange anonymous tips lately.”
The Swordsmanship Department Head’s uneasy voice echoed through the artifact, seemingly realizing what the old man’s words implied.
Then, another voice broke in, presenting Charlotte with two choices.
“This is the Engineering Department.
We have two pieces of information: bad news and very bad news.
Which would you like to hear first?”
“I don’t think this is the time for jokes.”
“Indeed. Then, I should first inform you that there was a document leak from the Engineering Department office.
Of all the luck, I ran into him while he was making his escape.
And it was a student. A commoner student, no less.
We had a deep and honest conversation in the Room of Truth…
It seems the target of the leak was technology for the academy’s economic independence.
In our case, it was the latest rare mineral refining technology and the ratio formulas for some special alloys.”
“What…?”
“That can’t be…
So, some of the tips were correct.”
Only the department heads and their direct professors knew that the academy was attempting financial independence.
Currently, they were compiling a list of the academy’s numerous intellectual properties and products, maximizing the elements that could contribute to the finances and investigating operational efficiency.
Amidst this, the news of industrial espionage in the Engineering Department caused exclamations of disbelief from the other department heads.
“It is likely that similar problems occurring in other departments are also related to that.
Hey!! Hit that hammer a bit harder!! That’s it!! Nice shot!!
Ah, excuse me. And I came to the scene and looked around a bit…”
Everyone listened intently to the Engineering Department Head’s continued report.
His voice, though trying to sound cheerful, was heavy with gloom as he delivered shocking news to them.
“About the monsters that escaped…
I think it’s safe to say it wasn’t an accident.
The lock on the Medical Department’s monster cage was cut very cleanly.
As the Head of the Engineering Department, I can guarantee that it was done by a person.”
“That’s… How could this happen…”
“According to the Head of the Medical Department, there were quite a few monsters that escaped…
Unfortunately, they’re running amok everywhere, causing chaos in all sorts of places.
It will take some time to subdue them, even to prepare for any potential dangerous situations.
Thankfully, we received a tip, so we were able to start quickly.
But I’m a little curious who tipped us off.”
“Please be careful in your subjugation efforts.”
In response to the Swordsmanship Department Head, who was at the forefront of the monster subjugation in the academy, Charlotte offered a word of encouragement and let her hand holding the artifact fall limply.
“Did you… have to go this far…?”
Although it was only circumstantial evidence, the circumstances clearly pointed to Laratina’s scheme.
A fierce light flashed in the girl’s eyes as she bit her lip, but she quickly regained her composure and began evacuating the students around her.
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The full story was as follows.
At the same time as Eloise’s laboratory in the workshop building was being ransacked, similar situations began to occur in the professors’ laboratories and faculty offices in other buildings.
Commoner students, likely under Laratina’s orders, were succeeding in catching their targets off guard.
At the moment Eloise’s laboratory, which had stricter security measures than any other laboratory, was being ransacked,
A loud alarm began to sound, drawing people’s attention, and as if on cue, the research monster cages in the Medical Building were opened, throwing the entire academy into chaos.
I, who was able to obtain such information through the Kernel Worms scattered throughout the academy’s underground, was watching the immediate situation and slowly gauging the timing for my actions.
Students running here and there, monsters chasing them or scattering in all directions.
And even some who were taking advantage of the chaos to start acting, who clearly weren’t academy personnel.
‘It seems to have begun.’
“They’re moving faster than I thought.
Lanie has gone to guard the main gate.
Students evacuating outside will be gathering there…
And so will the spies trying to extract information, hidden among those students.
I don’t think you have to worry about that side.”
Vivian, who had already covered her entire body with a sleek, black membrane, was examining the blade of a sword she had drawn from its scabbard.
‘Good. What about Aurora?’
“I’ve told Aurora to rush over here immediately, so she should be safe.
Besides, Aurora is a Henia now, and she’s at least strong enough to run away from monsters.
The New Enic’s lair has been emptied and sealed off.”
‘Then, what we have to do now is…’
“Give Laratina, that bitch, a taste of her own medicine.
She must have poured a lot into this, and if it fails, she’ll suffer quite a loss.
I’ve prepared everything to make sure everything she does fails.
If we just block the people coming in from the outside, it’s our complete victory.”
Vivian had already secretly tipped off the academy about the places where Laratina’s scheme was likely to occur, ensuring a quick response.
The content of the tips themselves was absurd enough to make people wonder, ‘In the academy, of all places?’, but the fact that it was actually happening meant that the academy would immediately take swift action.
Confident Vivian blinked her blue eyes and said one word, and I, as a spider perched on her shoulder, nodded my torso up and down.
Then, I climbed onto Vivian’s outstretched hand and arrived at her crotch as her hand guided me.
I quickly spread open her pure vulva, which was revealed through the parting black membrane, and began to burrow inside.
“Ughhh… Right before a fight…”
‘Haha… Sorry…’
“I’ll think of it as your blessing.
It’s said that knights… receive the blessing of their loved ones before going into battle.”
It was customary for knights who risked their lives to create memories with their loved ones, be they lovers or family.
Lovers would share a passionate memory in the middle of the night, and married couples would conceive a new family member.
But I don’t know if this lewd blessing of mine will really help Vivian.
However, I was able to feel relieved as I listened to her voice with a bright smile, and I quickly turned my mind elsewhere to move on to the next step we had prepared.
