Acquired the EX-class attribute ‘Transcendence Copy’

34 – A Clue to Victory

Geo Strandal

My current status is a first-year freshman who just entered the academy.

However, his true form is an executive of Angra Mainyu, a cult that the Church of the Sun searches for with lights on.

His mission is to observe the dynamics of the academy, recruit students in sight to the school, or assassinate them.

Since he had just infiltrated the academy, he was carrying out an operation to collect as much information as possible, and quickly made a list of people of interest. Naturally, freshmen with top grades in the academy were on the list.

Sarah Leoris, Arsha Swordhorn, Born Zaborg, and Johann Baker.

The above four were the people he was focusing on observing.

“A three-on-three department exchange match. I risk the use of the training ground and the honor of the department.”

As Geo Strandal mentioned the word exchange, Professor Xenia smiled in contemplation.

The department exchange competition is one of the long-standing traditions of the academy, and it is a large-scale duel in which students representing departments compete for supremacy. Professor Xenia also participated in exchange matches on behalf of the spearmanship department when he was a student, and there were many occasions when he made remarkable achievements.

“Department exchange exhibition! Good idea!”

Professor Xenia looked at Professor Izumi with a confident expression. ‘How are you going to get out of here again!?’ She asked with a look in her eyes.

“Hey hey… ! Department exchange exhibition… ! Uh, what should I do? ?”

Looking at the reaction, it seems that he doesn’t even come up with a poor excuse.

Professor Izumi looked back at the students with a very withdrawn expression.

“It’s a big deal… !”

“There is a top student on our side, right~! Squeeze and accept!”

Ellie pats my back and shouts with a confident voice.

Professor Izumi poured cold water on Eli’s words.

“At least 3 people must participate in the department exchange exhibition… ! The method is to add the victory points obtained by three contestants in a 1-on-1 duel with the opponent…. In other words, even if student John wins, one of the other two must win to win. .”

“Eh!? That, such an unfair… ! Can’t we just do a grand battle!?”

When I shouted that while raising Eli’s complaint, Geo Strandal threw a snarky answer with a shady smile.

“Departmental exchange matches are different from individual duels. The purpose of the exchange competition is to compare the average level of departments and determine which one is superior. If the department’s honor is at stake, shouldn’t it be decided through exchanges?”

“Ugh… ! That, that….”

Unable to spot the loopholes in her opponent’s logic, Ellie groaned. Sierra also made a worried expression.

“Wouldn’t it be better to just get out of here?”

In the first place, it is a thief department that has no honor. It is better to step down than to burn the heat in a competition with a low practicality and low win rate.

“Keukkeuk. It looks like he’s already thinking about running away.”

“Isn’t that sane guy over there the ace over there?”

“Who? The guy who robbed Miss Swordhorn of her chief seat?”

“Ah, I think I know why that guy entered the thief department. He stole someone else’s seat. Rogue is perfect.”

“Is that how it works? Ha ha ha!”

When the Thieves Department students showed signs of backing down, the Spear Department students bit them like a wildcat that found its prey. In particular, the male students’ jealousy towards John raised the heat of such criticism.

Pajik–!

Sierra’s eyes became dead eyes. She felt something in her head cut off.

You can curse yourself as much as you like. However, swearing at John is unforgivable.

“The bugs dare to….”

“Hey! Miss Sierra! All of a sudden, he’s making a face that looks like he’s going to be soaked in people~! This is the power of love!?”

Sierra walked towards the spearmanship department. As the woman, who was bleeding from the cold of May’s frost, approached her dead eyes, the students who had been criticizing Yohan in unison took a step or two back with a hardened look on their faces.

“What, what?”

“Department exchange exhibition. I’ll accept it. Staking the honor of the department, right?”

This is the first time I have been so confident in front of an aristocrat. Sierra fired at them with bloodshot eyes.

“If we win, apologize for swearing at John.”

“Then, do you think we will be scared? Good. Apologize I’ll hit my head on the ground and apologize! But, if we win, I’ll admit that John! You took the chief position of Miss Swordhorn through a cowardly trick!”

“Ha! It’s forced! Yohan became the chief on his own!”

“Don’t be ridiculous! How could a commoner surpass Miss Swordhorn or Miss Leoris!? Surely, they must have mobilized the poor number!”

At the words of the spearmanship student, Yohan nodded.

“Okay. I admit it. If I lose.”

“Hey hey… ! Yo, student John! Are you still okay? ?”

Professor Izumi was surprised by John’s reaction and asked back.

John became chief on his own. It is usually not humiliating to deny such a fact with one’s own mouth. He only spoke the truth, but if he was stigmatized as a liar, who wouldn’t feel unfair?

Interchange battles are not something that can be won only with individual strength. Only when one department becomes one team can we win. Therefore, apart from John’s strength, John’s choice seemed to be a risky act that betrayed his own honor.

“Of course. You can win.”

—

“I’m sorry, John.”

Sierra bowed her head and apologized.

“Why all of a sudden?”

“I emotionally received the match! I’m too angry to curse at Yohan, so stop….”

Is that something to apologize for?

On the contrary, Sierra’s mind thinking of me was virtual and commendable. I smiled and reached out and stroked Sierra’s hair.

“Eh! The operation time is less than 10 minutes, but it’s an act of love! Will I live alone because I’m sad~!”

Beside her, Ellie gives her thumbs down and criticizes us.

“Now think of a strategy for victory… !”

Professor Raina said that while peeking at the spearmanship department where we had a strategy meeting on the other side.

Exchange is one of the main contents of the legend route. The beginning of the strategy to win the department exchange match is to anticipate the opponent’s entry. Professor Reina cleverly pointed out that fact.

“Perhaps the participants in the spearmanship department will be Born Zaborg, Saad Bild, and Geo Strandal… !”

“Is Sade Bild a family of the Bilt family?”

“That’s right, the clothes… ! I know you got a decent score in the entrance exam… ! It’s probably number two in the spearmanship department….”

“Who is Geo Strandal? Is this your first name?”

“I am the student who proposed the first exchange exhibition. ! I know your entrance exam grades are pretty good. ! I’m from a commoner… !”

As expected, even Professor Reina doesn’t have much information about Geo Strandal.

“I will place Student John last. ! The leader of the spearmanship department is Born Zaborg! Probably will participate in the final match…! I must win, clothes… !”

“We will live up to your expectations!”

“I believe in student John clothes… ! The problem is getting one of the remaining 2 coins….”

It won’t be easy right now.

It depends on how the opponent turns out.

Operation time ended and both sides submitted their entries. Our entry is Ellie, Sierra, and Na in that order. It is an entry that assumes that Born Zaborg, the greatest power over there, will enter the great battle. That way, Sierra and Ellie can deal with one of the two that are relatively weak.

“Hey… ! I think it was eaten at our Benpick clothes… !”

The entries for the Spearmanship Department were Born Zaborg, Sad Wild, and Geo Strandal in that order. Since there is no Ben, shouldn’t we just call it a pick fight?

“Whoops! I’m far above Jjambab before exchange! Since I was a student, I have participated tremendously!”

Professor Xenia, who had won the entry fight, exhaled her snort vigorously.

The spearmanship department’s strategy is to give away Geo Strandal to private seats, and to secure victory on the side of Born and Sade.

If the born card is against me, it will be over if either Sade or Geo is defeated, but by making Born a perfect 1-win card, it is a strategy to reduce the variable as much as possible. If THAAD wins, my turn will not come, and even if THAAD loses, I have one more chance.

If Born’s victory takes the momentum fight, it’s a great entry to finish the game with two wins in a row. Indeed, we lost in the entry fight.

“Hey hey hey! My opponent is Zaborg-kun!!! It is unbelievable!!!”

Ellie fell into a panic to the point that she wondered if she had become Professor Reina for a moment. I gave a thumbs up to Ellie.

“Good job.”

“Yo, John! Is there any way? A brilliant way to poke Zaborg-kun’s gap!?”

It seems that Ellie’s abilities are a bit overpowered right now.

“Can you tell me how to fit without getting hurt?”

From noble mtl dot com

“No, no need for that! Hey! Now that it’s like this, I’ll show you my guts as the mascot of the Janet team! Hey, Eli Janet! Never lose easily!”

Ellie said that and she stepped forward with a very confident look. The judging of the duel is jointly supervised by Professor Reina and Professor Xenia. Originally, a third party had to be recruited, but since it was an impromptu exchange, the two decided to do it.

“Eh, Student Ellie…. Are you ready? Clothes… ?”

“Elisanette! I will raise the honor of the thieves department!”

As Ellie and Born finished preparing, Professor Janet exclaimed vigorously.

“The rule is 1v1 unlimited dueling. Lose if you miss your weapon, fall unconscious, or hit your back on the ground. The duel begins!”

The duel has begun.

As soon as the duel started, Born’s spear moved like it was dancing.

“1 Spear soul, crescent moon cut!”

“Hoo-gae~!”

The match was over in one second. Born’s attack, which she did her best from the beginning, Ellie did not have the ability to block. It was a shabby defeat that was different from his bold appearance.

Well, I knew it would turn out like this. Born Zaborg is a talented person who would have taken three seats among the incoming students without me.

Ellie’s wish for victory must be beyond her overeagerness.

“This is the victory of Zaborg student clothes….”

Professor Reina declared in a dead voice.

Next up is Sierra vs. THAAD Build. I patted Sierra’s stiff shoulder and opened her mouth.

“Sierra. Don’t be too nervous.”

“Ugh… ! Is it the end if I lose!? Whoa…. I don’t want to be nervous, but I am nervous myself. I can’t do this….”

Unlike Born Zaborg, the lead and playable character of Legend Route, the skills of Saad Bilt, a sub-character, are not so overwhelming.

Of course, she will be stronger than Sierra in terms of abilities and skills, but the gap is much smaller than the gap between Ellie and Born. In other words, there is Bibil Hill.

What Sierra needs now is a little hack to reverse that narrow gap. I whispered the tip in Sierra’s ear.

“Just remember this. Therefore….”