Volume 4 - CH 52

Act 4-52: Babel’s Aftermath

【Babel】’s Top Floor.

Chloe, overlooking the scenery below had heaved who knew how many sighs already.

The last event became a herald for various changes, namely a revolution, in various means in Babel.

First was the sudden disappearance of the vice headmaster, Krab Ahnstein and his cronies, which were later discovered in the form of corpses that appeared to have experienced hell on earth. At the same time, the fact that the vice headmaster and his faction received requests from several influential figures to murder examinees during the current entrance exam, which become the trigger of that event, was found. That news shook Babel from its very core, and caused the investigation to all of the staff in Babel without exception, excluding the headmaster.

As a result, an unheard scandal of receiving a commission from a certain royalty to kill an examinee student was unearthed.

Though it was only known by an insider, that certain royalty was none other than Amelia Kingdom’s 1st prince, Gilbert. The reason was his grudge toward Kai Heineman who made him lose his image in public. Naturally, anyone who got a peek at that aberration’s true nature wouldn’t even dare to think about assassinating him.

Well, it’s not like that monster would be enraged at a little rabbit that tried to bite him. The only reason he was so enraged was the fact that the stupid prince went as far as involving Lyla Hellner. And then, upon knowing that stupid prince even wanted to kill other examinees including his own guardian knight, Somni Barrel, his rage was so great that he purged the mastermind who hired the assassins, the vice headmasters and his faction, and left none of them was spared, all of them died in the most gruesome way one can imagine.

As a result, Inea-sama and co from the headmaster faction could finally put the vice headmaster faction, who in fact got too arrogant as of late in its place.

But, since Inea-sama did so by inciting the rage of the strongest transcendent in history, she retired from her eternal headmaster position as a form of apology. The headmaster’s seat never changed since the formation of Babel was now left vacant. And that was the culmination of chaos in Babel’s tower.

During the 『Magic Academy Gathering』 which included the vice headmaster faction-the reason for the power split in Babel’s tower- we publicly announced that this incident had nothing to do with us, everything was due to Krab Ahnstein’s doing.

As a result, there was heated political strife between the headmaster faction and vice headmaster faction, which ended with the election of the temporary headmaster.

The result of the election was Chloe-who forced by the headmaster faction to announce her candidacy- won by a small margin, and became the new headmaster of Babel.

「Inea-sama, I want to retire already.」

Inea-sama was stripped of her fangs after that event and lost her previous passion that felt like it was pricking my skin just by standing near her, and transformed into a calm personality as if gaining enlightenment.

She even said with a strangely refreshed look on her face that she could finally research what she always wanted to do in her mansion on the outskirt of Babel. In a certain meaning, Inea’s current lifestyle was the future that Chloe envisioned. At least, she didn’t have to constantly make a decision that feel like it would be bad for her gut.

She looked at the piece of paper in her hand,

「Kai Heineman, and other people who gained zero marks in the practical tests were assigned to D-rank academy―― Ouboro university eh…」

She slapped the piece of paper on her table after reading its content.

Realistically speaking, Kai Heineman could enrol into 『Tower』 with his ability but, Babel also couldn’t overlook the fact that the result of his practical test was zero. Since even his aptitude test was amongst the lowest, Babel had no choice but to place him into Ouboro academy, or as it was commonly called Onboro(tattered) academy.

Babel truly had no choice but to be impartial in accordance with the result of the tests since they really couldn’t afford to lose more trust from Kai Heineman. All they could do was show him that they really are a proper educational institute, not pawns of political powers.

Although both Sigma and Bri were dissatisfied with this result, I ended up forcing them to accept it.

I mean, knowing that transcendence’s personality, this was the best choice we had in our hands. Yeah, that’s what I believe.

Moreover, I hate the tendency of the academy that assigns rank. First, if the result of the entrance exam decided one’s future, then this Babel had already lost its meaning as an educational institution. Thus, I should use this chance as some sort of camphor medicine to erase this trend bit by bit. I had to be very careful too in order not to recieve heart attack just because I went too far like Inea-sama.

Nevertheless, the interference of 『Magic Academy Meeting』, who had no idea about the viciousness of Kai Heineman was the source of many of Chloe’s headaches.

Thus, Chloe had a thought.

「Inea-sama, you should take responsibility till the end after you messed up everything.」

As she stared at the scenery of the streets far below, the corners of Chloe’s lips rose up as she muttered so.