Chapter 16: Glass Cannon

Kwaaaang!!!(sound word)

An electric storm that swept through the area, emitting intense light.

Its power was strong enough to destroy one side of the warehouse wall.

…Wow.

Seeing that, I couldn’t help but admire it.

This time, I used the technique with all my might, without specifically controlling my strength.

And its power far exceeded my expectations.

The smoke gradually disappeared, and the appearance of where the electricity swept through began to be clearly visible.

The half-broken wall.

And the kidnappers sprawled on the floor.

‘…I hope they’re not dead, right?’

I suddenly became worried, but.

Fortunately, the fallen guys were occasionally twitching their bodies, so it seems they were still alive.

I turned my back on the guys who had fainted, their eyes rolled back.

I approached where Elena and her maid were tied up.

“Thank you for saving us…!”

“…….”

As soon as she saw me, Olly thanked me.

But I didn’t answer.

There’s no need to take the risk of revealing my identity.

First, I checked the condition of Elena, who was still unconscious.

Fortunately, her clothes were a little wrinkled, but there were no other traces, including wounds.

Thank goodness.

I let out a small sigh.

I was worried that they might have done something bad to her, but.

Fortunately, it seems I wasn’t late.

For some reason, I was receiving Olly’s gaze, who was staring at me, and I cut the ropes that were binding them.

Thud.

“Thank you…!”

Now that I’ve confirmed that Elena is safe.

Shall I go back….

Fatigue is starting to creep in due to too much mana consumption.

If I push myself any further here, I might collapse again.

But.

Just as I was about to leave quickly.

Weeeeng Weeeeng

What’s this sound again…?

Suddenly, a sound like a siren coming from somewhere.

I had a puzzled expression.

“Ah! The guards! Over here!”

What? The guards?

I began to panic at the sudden appearance of the guards.

It seems that the guards have been dispatched here due to someone’s report.

I didn’t commit any crime.

So, there’s nothing wrong with the guards arriving.

Then why am I so flustered?

‘Because my identity might be revealed…!’

The already set story has gone completely wrong.

At least, in order to hold on to a glimmer of possibility and somehow connect Elena and Ed, it is not necessary for the person who saved her to be revealed as me.

That’s why I put on this stuffy helmet.

So.

I shouldn’t meet the guards.

It’s obvious that my personal information and everything will be revealed during the investigation.

‘First…. Let’s run!’

Taking advantage of the fact that people’s attention was focused on the guards.

I secretly escaped the warehouse.

“Haa…. Haa….”

I wasn’t discovered….

‘It seems like it, right?’

I quickly escaped from the scene and immediately hid my body in a nearby alley.

After confirming that there were no guards chasing me, I finally took off the metal helmet that covered my entire face.

Oh, I thought I was going to die from the stuffiness.

My face was covered in sweat because of the helmet, which had no ventilation at all.

And my neck, which felt the weight of the metal, felt stiff.

‘Knights used to wear armor on top of this. How did they even fight?’

As you walk down the street, you can often see knights wearing shiny armor all over their bodies.

Usually, I only thought they were cool, but.

When I actually wore the helmet that the knights use, it was really stuffy.

Is it because I lack strength?

Or were they stronger than I thought….

It seems that the latter is correct, but.

I decided not to think about it any further.

I shook my throbbing head and leaned against the wall.

Ah, this damn mana.

Mana-deficient Louis ran out of mana after just one technique.

The power of the technique was stronger than I thought, but it’s meaningless if my body becomes like this after using it once.

A glass cannon.

Firing a strong shot and then becoming weak.

The word that best suits me right now.

‘I need to solve the mana problem quickly.’

Now that too many variables have arisen.

Increasing mana is the only way.

But my body is in terrible condition right now.

I just feel like collapsing on the bed and resting.

Feeling that my mana had returned, I forcibly dragged my unmoving legs and barely returned to the academy.

The next day.

The school was turned upside down, perhaps because yesterday’s incident was known through the guards.

The fact that a student of the academy, and the daughter of a Count family at that, was kidnapped was enough to instill a sense of crisis in them.

Eventually.

The academy took a drastic step to restrict students’ outings for the time being.

Thanks to that, my plan to go out on the weekend to find an item that would increase my mana was also ruined.

In the comic, Ed quietly subdued the kidnappers with his neat swordsmanship, so there was no dispatch of guards, but.

It seems that the story has gone this way because I used the technique flashy.

But I don’t regret using all my strength.

If I hadn’t dealt with the kidnappers at once, I would have been in danger on the contrary.

There is a more important problem than that.

Why didn’t Ed come to the scene last night?

Could he have been caught up in some kind of incident I don’t know about?

While staggering and barely returning to the dormitory, I held onto my mind, which was about to collapse, and used

the Sage’s Bookmark.

What the hell was Ed doing while all that was going on?

And the answer that came back.

-Physical. Training.

…What?

I was dumbfounded by the very concise answer.

The kid who is the main character was only training while the heroine was kidnapped during an important incident?

Hearing the answer from the bookmark, all sorts of thoughts came to my mind.

What if I hadn’t gone there, thinking maybe?

A crisis situation. What if I had been a little late in saving Elena?

As the thought crossed my mind, goosebumps began to rise on my spine.

This is not something to take lightly.

The aftermath is too great to simply say that the future has not gone as planned!

and lightly pass it by.

The moment I realized the seriousness of this matter.

I made a decision.

Now, I will stop the foolish act of believing in a predetermined future.

My simple purpose of connecting Ed and Elena to see the end of the story that I couldn’t see.

It may be necessary to change the direction a little in the future.

From the morning, Elena escaped from her maid, who was chattering excitedly in her ear, and headed to the academy.

Last night.

During the time she was briefly unconscious due to an unexpected attack.

Someone of unknown identity rescued them from the crisis, and since then, Olly has been repeating the same thing.

“Then, suddenly, that person appeared like a knight-. Kyaak…!!”

Olly, screaming kyaak kyaak next to her and making a fuss.

Elena was a little tired of her continued fuss.

Of course, it’s a very thankful thing.

A man who suddenly appeared to save them, who had no acquaintance.

She thinks that it’s like a hero who would only appear in the novels she had read since she was young.

Someone who doesn’t tolerate injustice and saves people.

Such a righteous person.

I want to express my gratitude to him right away.

But for some reason, the person who saved them quickly left the scene, so she couldn’t even say a single word of thanks to him.

No one could see his face, which he had tightly hidden with a helmet.

But unlike herself, the only clue that Olly, who was conscious, remembers.

He uses a fairly powerful electric-type technique, and.

That he uses a sword.

Other than that, no other clues were found.

Who is he?

Who saved her?

There are so many things I want to say to him if I meet him.

“Good morning, Elena!”

“Good morning, Vivian.”

Elena greeted her friend who was sitting in the back seat.

There was an incident yesterday where she was almost kidnapped, but.

Fortunately, thanks to the consideration of the academy, it was not revealed that Elena was the victim of the incident.

But everyone knows that there was a kidnapping incident because of the ban on going out throughout the academy.

Therefore, there are some students who are now eager to find the person involved in the incident.

Why are they looking for that?

Elena couldn’t understand them.

“Ah! Hello, Louis?”

Louis, her partner.

He sat next to her with a tired face.

“You came to school today?”

“Hmm? Of course, I have to come to school?”

What is Louis talking about all of a sudden?

Louis’s expression hardened as if he realized his slip of the tongue late.

“Ah, I’m sorry. I’m a little tired right now, so I’m out of it.”

That can happen.

Because he’s a diligent Louis.

He must have been training late yesterday as well.

Elena didn’t have any doubts.

She prepared for class.

Cold sweat runs down my back.

I almost made a mistake.

Ordinary students don’t know that Elena was the victim of yesterday’s kidnapping.

But I was vaguely thinking that she would be absent for a day or so due to the aftermath of yesterday’s work.

In addition, because of my blurry head due to fatigue, I had doubts when I saw her sitting in her seat.

Be careful.

I was a little relaxed and made a mistake right away.

I need to get my act together.

Ddrrrk.

“Good morning. Professor!”

“Yeah, how have you all been?”

Just then, Professor Dominic appeared, and morning assembly began immediately.

“As you all heard, there was an accident yesterday where a student of this school was almost kidnapped.”

As expected, the topic is yesterday’s incident.

But I, who know all the truth of the incident, let those words go in one ear and out the other.

The episode, which was the trigger for Ed and Elena to become close, has flown away.

Then.

Is there any way to make Elena and Ed get close even now?

While letting Professor Dominic’s words flow in one ear and out the other, I was lost in thought, but I came back to

my senses at a word that suddenly came to my ears.

“-So today, we’re going to choose a class representative to represent the class.”

Wait a minute.

Class representative…?

…That’s it!

A good idea came to mind.