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432 p1. Noble Faction and New School Year [5]

「…Ria, Rose, I’ll handle this.」

「O-Okay.」

「They’re still our senpais. Don’t be too hard on them.」

I nodded in response and headed over to the two problem children.

「Excuse me, I have something to ask.」

「Huh? What the hell you gonna say–」

「If you have any complaints, then–」

Lilim-senpai and Ferris-senpai’s faces turned pale as they turned around and saw me.

「Senpai, you both look like you’re having a lot of fun, though?」

「Live to fight another day!」

「Getting caught means death…」

The two of them fled at full speed without a second’s delay.

「–Dark Shadow.」

My tentacles of darkness stretched out like an amoeba and grabbed Lilim-senpai’s and Ferris-senpai’s legs.

「E-Eeeeek, so-somebody please help– mogo!」

「W-We’re going to be… k-killed– mugyuu!」

I covered their mouths with darkness so that they couldn’t scream. With this, the capture is complete.

「Now then…..we’re standing out too much here, so let’s go over there for a bit.」

「「Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm……」」

Lilim-senpai and Ferris-senpai desperately tried to resist, but they were unable to escape from the restraints of darkness.

「C-Crap… the two members of the student council are going to be purged…」

「Don’t stare too much. It might be you next…」

「It’s scary… His smile is super scary…」

After taking the senpais to a secluded area at the back of the school building, I gave them a lecture.

「Senpai, just what do you two think of yourself? If you just think with some common sense, you would know that talking about someone in a way that will lead to a bad reputation when they are absent is–」

「Yes, yes… we’re sorry.」

「We promise we won’t do it again, though…」

The two of them apologized while on the verge of crying, but…

I’m sure once they go to sleep tonight, they’ll forget about their promise the next morning.

「Haa, goodness… If you do something like that again, I’ll seriously get angry, okay?」

The lecture was over.

I released Lilim-senpai and Ferris-senpai and returned to Ria and Rose.

「Sorry, I made you two wait.」

「Don’t worry about it. You had it hard.」

「Those two simply do not change.」

After that, we briefly checked the solicitations from several other clubs. When it was time to return to the student council room―.

「P-Please stop!」

「What are you people doing…」

Right in front of the main school building, some kind of trouble seems to have occurred.

As I looked closely, it seemed that brawny men in white judo uniforms surrounded a group of first-year boys.

「Rock-like pectoral muscles, strong quadriceps, well-developed hamstrings!」

「There is no doubt! You guys were born to do judo!」

「Come join the Judo Club right away! Our sacred place, the judo hall, is right over there!」

The members of the Judo Club seemed to be soliciting enthusiastically.

「E-Excuse us, we’re going to see the Practice-Swing Club…」

「Please let us pass.」

The new students tried to move away quickly, but the group of well-balanced physiques wouldn’t allow it.

「Wait, wait! The Judo Club is currently carrying out a super-bargain new entry campaign!」

「If you join the club during the campaign period, you’ll get a month’s worth of special protein and a special shaker for free!」

「Don’t you think it’s a good deal? For those who still can’t make up their minds, you can join the club as a trial first!」

Quite a forcible and vicious solicitation.

「They’re not supposed to do that, are they?」

「It looks like something clearly against the rules.」

Ria and Rose said so and turned towards me.

「Yeah, let’s go see what’s up.」

Ria, Rose and I approached the Judo Club as they still continued their forcible solicitation.

「Excuse me, can I have a minute?」

As the vice-president of the student council, I spoke on behalf of us three.

The person who turned around was–.

「…Tessa?」

「A-Allen…」

Tessa Vermond.

My old friend, who belongs to the same 2nd year class A as me, was there.

He was in a clear panic. His pupils were trembling.

「W-Why are you… why are you doing this…」

Tessa has had a bad past where he, unable to endure the harsh solicitation, ended up joining the Judo Club as a new recruit last year.

Why would someone like him, who should know more about this pain than anyone else, commit such an offense?

「No, you’re wrong, Allen! There is an actual reason for this――」

Just as Tessa was about speak his justification,

「—So you came again this year too, student council!」

A muscular man who boasts a huge body forced his way between us.

「I am Mole Bison. The one entrusted with the tradition and honor of the head of the Judo Club.」

Mole Bison.

With short-cropped black hair, thick black eyebrows, a large, straight nose, and a body of nearly two meters tall, a pure white judo uniform suited him well.

He was kind of a very thick person overall.

「I am Allen Rodore, the vice-president of the student council. I would like to talk a little about the Judo Club’s excessive solicitation activities—」

「Hmph, you guys are always like that! Whenever you open your mouth, you’re always saying rules this rules that! Are rules truly that important!」

「Well, yes.」

Thousand Blade Academy has a very large number of students, and the academy rules have been established so that everyone can live comfortably.

If this academy becomes a lawless area with no rules, it will be impossible to learn swordsmanship in a composed manner.

Or rather, terrible solicitations that cause trouble for others are not morally desirable in the first place.

「Gu, nunu… If we keep quiet, we’ll be in a lot of trouble… The Judo Club’s members have decreased because the student council is making enemies of us and also severely oppressing us. Don’t you guys have any kind of human empathy!?」

「I don’t think that has anything to do with us though…」

If they continue with such aggressive solicitations, the popularity of the club will naturally decline.

「Nuu…I can’t stand it any longer! Allen Rodore, I challenge you to a duel!」

「Umm, why is that?」

「If you win, I will retire from the Judo Club on this day itself!」

「No, you don’t have to do such a thing. If you can just carry out clean solicitation from here onwards―」

「However! If I win, you’ll have to turn a blind eye to even the slightest radical solicitations!」

「No, I’ve never practiced judo in the first place–」

「The match will be held at the judo hall! It’s too late to regret it now! Severe oppression creates a strong rebellion… The student council has gone too far!」

……Yeah, this guy is not listening to me at all.

While I was at a loss, Ria and Rose, who were standing behind me, put forth an unexpected opinion.

「It doesn’t matter even if you have a match with him. If he loses in judo, the thing which he is good at, he’ll surely become quiet from then on.」

「I agree. And I’d also like to see Allen in a judo uniform.」

「E-Ehhhh…」

In the blink of an eye, the stage was set. Currently, I was in the men’s changing room in the judo hall, changing into a borrowed judo uniform.