Masa singkat antara kelulusan dan kembalinya musim semi. Bahkan Constel punya libur musim semi. Bagi para siswa Constel yang mengabdikan bahkan masa libur mereka untuk berlatih dan belajar, libur musim semi yang singkat ini benar-benar waktu istirahat yang berharga. Frondier juga memutuskan untuk menikmati masa istirahat ini. Ada proses menyerap dan mencerna apa yang telah ia pelajari dari para Ksatria Roach dan Azier, tapi selain itu, ia punya banyak waktu untuk bersenang-senang. ──Tentu saja, hanya karena Frondier beristirahat, Bukan berarti semua orang bisa beristirahat selama libur musim semi. "Ha, tidak ada siapa-siapa di sini..." Di ruang dewan siswa Constel. Theo de Blanc, mantan ketua dewan siswa, menghela napas sambil memegang setumpuk kertas. Kertas yang ia pegang berisi informasi pribadi beberapa siswa. "Sudah kubilang pilih penerusnya dari awal." Theo membalas bendahara, Byzant, yang mengomelinya dari samping. Lalu, setelah berpikir sejenak, ia menatap Byzant dan berkata, "Kamu mau melakukannya? Jadi ketua dewan siswa." "Kamu sudah gila? Kita angkatan yang sama!" "Lalu kenapa?! Aku juga lulus!" Mata Theo membelalak mendengar kata-kata Byzant. "Kamu... lulus...?" "Oh, jadi kamu mau mendekorasi ulang ruang dewan siswa, ya?" Saat Byzant benar-benar mulai mengumpulkan Mana, Theo melambaikan tangannya sambil tertawa. Namun, matanya segera jatuh diliputi kekhawatiran dan helaan napas. "...Dengar, aku ini jelas 'mantan' ketua dewan siswa, kan?" "Jadi posisi ketua dewan siswa kosong, kan?" "Benar. Kamu tidak menunjuk penerus, dan Constel terus menunda pemilihan dewan siswa sampai akhirnya dibatalkan." Constel sangat sibuk tahun ini. Insiden pencurian golem, pencarian pengkhianat yang tersembunyi di dalam sekolah, pertahanan terhadap serangan, dan di atas itu semua, Indus. Karena itu, pemilihan dewan siswa terus tertunda. Kampanye pemilihan dan pemungutan suara memakan waktu lama. Ada sedikit waktu sebelum libur musim dingin, tapi Constel tidak mengadakan acara apa pun di akhir semester dua. Entah bagaimana, pemilihan dibatalkan, dan sekarang mereka menyuruh Theo untuk memilih penerus saja. "...Sebenarnya aku tidak ingin mengatakan ini, tapi..." "Dewan siswa Constel benar-benar tidak populer." Pandangan Byzant beralih mendengar keluhan itu. Ke samping, ke arah di mana wajah Theo tidak sepenuhnya terlihat. Saat ia mengalihkan pandangannya ke sana, ia melihat sebuah gunung jauh di luar jendela. Wah, kenapa gunung yang kemarin ada di sana, hari ini masih ada juga? Sungguh menakjubkan, "Hei! Jangan mengabaikanku!" "Aku bisa apa! Sebagian besar siswa yang bersekolah di Constel datang ke sini bercita-cita menjadi pro! Bahkan selama liburan, mereka begitu fokus pada latihan mereka sendiri, menurutmu mereka peduli bagaimana sekolah ini dijalankan!" Seperti kata Byzant, dewan siswa tidak populer di Constel. Lebih dari segalanya, fakta bahwa tidak ada yang peduli posisi ketua dewan siswa telah lama kosong adalah bukti terbesar. Bahkan, para siswa masih mengira Theo adalah ketua dewan siswa. Ia sebenarnya masih mengerjakan pekerjaannya. "Kamu juga sama. Kamu bisa saja berhenti dari dewan siswa dan tidak datang ke sini, kenapa kamu bertahan sampai lulus?" "Bagaimana kalau guru memintaku? Mereka memintaku bertahan sedikit lagi karena penerus akan segera datang, jadi apa yang bisa kulakukan?" "'Sedikit lagi' itu berubah menjadi kelulusan, lho." Kenyataan bahwa dewan siswa tidak populer berarti, dengan kata lain, jumlah anggota dewan siswa sedikit. Mereka tidak bisa memaksa siswa yang tidak mau untuk bergabung dengan dewan siswa. Tentu saja, ada siswa tahun pertama dan kedua di dewan siswa, tapi tidak ada dari mereka yang ingin menjadi ketua dewan siswa. Mereka takut setelah melihat Theo menangani semuanya sendiri. "Bahkan jika kamu menunjuk penerus, jangan buat mereka melakukannya sepertimu. Itu hal yang buruk." "Jadi, kamu bilang aku telah melakukan hal buruk pada diriku sendiri selama ini?" "Itu benar. Minta maaf pada dirimu sendiri." Kata-kata Byzant tidak mengandung sedikit pun pertimbangan. Theo menghela napas. Mereka harus menunjuk penerus, apa pun yang terjadi. Sampai sekarang, meskipun ia adalah mantan ketua dewan siswa, ia masih di Constel, jadi garis keturunan dewan siswa tetap terjaga. Namun, sekarang Theo akan lulus. Waktu yang secara fisik tidak mungkin telah tiba. "...Apa benar-benar hanya anak itu?" "Aku rasa dia tidak akan mau." "Kamu bahkan tahu siapa yang kubicarakan?" "Kamu memilih dari siswa tahun kedua, kan? Kalau begitu sudah jelas." Mendengar kata-kata Byzant, Theo berpikir, 'Itu benar,' dan berhenti. Kandidat penerus ketua dewan siswa yang sedang dipikirkan Theo saat ini. "Bahkan jika kamu bertanya, apakah Ellen mau? Dia bahkan bukan anggota dewan siswa." "Tapi tidak ada seorang pun di dewan siswa saat ini yang ingin menjadi ketua dewan siswa. Beban kerjanya berat karena aku saat ini melakukan apa yang dulu kulakukan, tapi jika ada ketua dewan siswa baru, beban ini juga akan berkurang. Ellen populer dan ternyata teliti, jadi aku rasa dia akan melakukannya dengan baik." Byzant merenung sejenak mendengar kata-kata Theo. Ellen Evans. Sosok yang paling bersinar di antara siswa tahun kedua. Ellen sudah terkenal di Constel bahkan sebelum adiknya Aster datang ke sini. Bukan karena adiknya, tapi karena keterampilan murninya sendiri. Ellen memiliki naluri jenius dalam hal menggunakan pedang, dan dikatakan bahwa ia telah mencapai tingkat menyatu dengan pedang. Jumlah Mana yang ia miliki sedikit, tapi ia menutupi semuanya dengan keterampilannya. Ia memiliki somnambulisme, tapi itu bukan masalah dalam kehidupan sehari-harinya, dan tidak ada yang pernah dirugikan atau terluka karenanya, jadi mungkin itu bahkan bukan somnambulisme. Meskipun ia selalu bersikeras itu bukan. Masalahnya adalah Ellen sangat sibuk, sama seperti keterampilannya. Ia sudah memiliki jadwal magang pro, dan kudengar ia sangat sibuk karenanya bahkan selama liburan ini. Ia mungkin bahkan tidak tahu dewan siswa itu ada, apalagi punya minat terhadapnya. "Tetap saja, kita harus setidaknya bertanya." "Yah, itu benar, tapi." Pada saat itu, seseorang mengetuk pintu ruang dewan siswa. Theo dan Byzant saling memandang. Ini masih libur musim semi, jadi jarang ada siswa yang datang ke Constel, dan hal yang sama berlaku untuk para guru. Bahkan jika mereka datang ke Constel, mereka jarang ada urusan dengan ruang dewan siswa. Theo berbicara seperti biasa untuk saat ini. Pintu ruang dewan siswa terbuka, dan orang yang masuk adalah. Yang mengejutkan, itu Ellen Evans. Theo sedikit panik ketika orang yang baru saja mereka bicarakan masuk. Apakah dia mendengar mereka berbicara di luar? Tidak, mereka tidak akan berbicara sekeras itu. Tidak, tapi dengan indra Ellen yang sensitif, mungkin... "Halo, saya Ellen Evans." Ellen membungkuk dengan sopan kepada Theo. Theo menerima sapaannya dengan canggung. "Ya, saya Theo de Blanc. Ada apa kamu datang ke dewan siswa...?" Theo berbicara sambil menatap mata Ellen yang berkedip. Ia pernah bertemu dengannya sekilas sebelumnya, tapi saat itu ia biasanya tertidur, jadi ini pertama kalinya Theo melihat matanya begitu jernih. Bibir yang perlahan terbuka itu juga terlalu asing bagi Theo. "Saya ingin menjadi ketua dewan siswa, apa yang harus saya lakukan?"
Bab 374
The brief period between graduation and the return of spring. Even Constel had a spring break. For Constel students who dedicated even their vacations to training and studying, this short spring break was a true respite. Frondier also decided to enjoy this period of rest. There was a process of absorbing and digesting what he had learned from the Roach Knights and Azier, but other than that, he had plenty of time to enjoy himself. ──Of course, just because Frondier was resting, It didn't mean everyone could rest during spring break. "Ha, there's no one here..." In the Constel student council room. Theo de Blanc, the former student council president, sighed while holding a stack of papers. The papers he held contained the personal information of several students. "I told you to pick a successor beforehand." Theo retorted to the treasurer, Byzant, who was nagging him from the side. Then, after thinking for a moment, he looked at Byzant and said, "Do you want to do it? Be the student council president." "Are you out of your mind? We're in the same year!" "So what?! I'm graduating too!" Theo's eyes widened at Byzant's words. "You... graduating...?" "Oh, so you want to redecorate the student council room, huh?" As Byzant actually started to gather Mana, Theo waved his hand with a laugh. However, his eyes soon fell with worry and a sigh. "...Listen, I'm clearly the 'former' student council president, right?" "So the student council president position is vacant, right?" "Right. You didn't appoint a successor, and Constel kept postponing the student council vote until it was eventually cancelled." Constel had been extremely busy this year. The golem theft incident, the search for the traitor hidden within the school, the defense against the attack, and on top of that, Indus. Because of that, the student council vote kept getting postponed. Election campaigns and voting took a long time. There was a little time before winter break, but Constel didn't hold any events at the end of the second semester. Somehow, the vote was cancelled, and now they were telling Theo to just pick a successor. "...I didn't want to say this, but..." "Constel's student council is really unpopular." Byzant's gaze shifted at that complaint. To the side where Theo's face wasn't fully visible. When he shifted his gaze there, he saw a mountain far away outside the window. Wow, why is the mountain that was there yesterday still there today? It's really amazing, "Hey! Don't ignore me!" "What can I do! Most of the students who attend Constel come here aspiring to be pros! Even during vacation, they're so focused on their own training, do you think they care how the school is run!" As Byzant said, the student council wasn't popular at Constel. More than anything, the fact that no one cared that the student council president position had been vacant for so long was the biggest proof. In fact, the students still thought Theo was the student council president. He was actually still doing the work. "You're the same. You could've just quit the student council and not come here, why are you holding onto it until graduation?" "What can I do when the teacher asks me to? They asked me to stay just a little longer because a successor would come soon, so what could I do?" "That 'just a little longer' turned into graduation, though." The fact that the student council wasn't popular meant, in other words, that the number of student council members was small. They couldn't force students who didn't want to do it to join the student council. Of course, there were first and second-year students in the student council, but none of them wanted to be the student council president. They were intimidated after seeing Theo taking on everything by himself. "Even if you appoint a successor, don't make them do it like you did. That's a bad thing." "So, you're saying I've been doing a bad thing to myself all this time?" "That's right. Apologize to yourself." Byzant's words contained not a single ounce of consideration. Theo sighed. They had to appoint a successor, no matter what. Until now, even though he was the former student council president, he was still at Constel, so the student council's lineage had been maintained. However, now Theo was graduating. A physically impossible time had come. "...Is it really only that kid?" "I don't think she'll do it." "Do you even know who I'm talking about?" "You're choosing from the second-year students, right? Then it's decided." Hearing Byzant's words, Theo thought, 'That's true,' and stopped. The student council president successor candidate Theo was currently thinking of. "Even if you ask, will Ellen do it? She's not even a student council member." "But no one in the current student council wants to be the student council president. The workload is heavy because I'm currently doing what I used to do, but if there's a new student council president, this burden will also decrease. Ellen is popular and unexpectedly thorough, so I think she'll do well." Byzant pondered for a moment at Theo's words. Ellen Evans. The most shining figure among the second-year students. Ellen was already famous at Constel even before her younger brother Aster came here. Not because of her brother, but because of her own pure skills. Ellen had a genius sense when it came to wielding a sword, and it was said that she had already reached the level of becoming one with the sword. The amount of Mana she possessed was meager, but she made up for it all with her skills. She had somnambulism, but it wasn't a problem in her daily life, and no one had ever been harmed or injured because of it, so it might not even be somnambulism. She always insisted it wasn't, though. The problem was that Ellen was incredibly busy, as much as her skills were. She already had a pro internship scheduled, and I heard she was extremely busy because of it even during this break. She probably didn't even know the student council existed, let alone have any interest in it. "Still, we have to at least ask." "Well, that's true, but." At that moment, someone knocked on the student council room door. Theo and Byzant looked at each other. It was still spring break, so it was rare for students to come to Constel, and the same went for teachers. Even if they came to Constel, they rarely had business with the student council room. Theo spoke as usual for now. The student council room door opened, and the person who entered was. Surprisingly, it was Ellen Evans. Theo was a little flustered when the person they had just been talking about entered. Did she hear them talking outside? No, they wouldn't have been talking that loudly. No, but with Ellen's sensitive senses, maybe... "Hello, I'm Ellen Evans." Ellen bowed politely to Theo. Theo awkwardly accepted her greeting. "Yes, I'm Theo de Blanc. What brings you to the student council...?" Theo spoke while looking at Ellen's blinking eyes. He had encountered her in passing before, but she was usually asleep at those times, so this was the first time Theo had seen her eyes so clear. Those slowly opening lips were also too unfamiliar to Theo. "I want to be the student council president, what should I do?"
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