Chapter 369

When Sion looked up at the sky, there were five giant flying spiritual beasts flying in formation.

They looked like bombers that were about to pour down bombs at any moment.

“Wow! It’s a Cloud Crane!”

“I think that one is a Thunderbolt Bird?”

“Why are creatures like that flying together like that?”

The students, who knew nothing, were just amazed, but Sion, who realized their identity, became urgent.

“Noeul-ie, Pallangi, come here! Ripi, Riel! You guys get ready too!”

“Huh?”

Sion hurriedly hugged Noeul-ie and Pallangi, who were playing nearby, in her arms.

And she unknowingly turned to look at Roan.

Having Bell and Charlotte fly on both sides of him, he grinned and asked.

“What are you doing?”

‘I-Is the world about to end?’

Looking at the ominous shadows cast everywhere and Roan’s smiling face, such a thought naturally came to mind.

Of course, that was not the case.

“Aren’t you going to dodge?”

Leaving only those words, Roan immediately used the Empty Body of the Void.

*Flash—*

A brilliant beam of light seemed to emerge from Roan’s chest, and soon his body became blurry like fog.

“You guys follow me closely.”

[I understand, Master!]

*Kirik—!*

Bell and Charlotte replied vigorously.

Since they were the Abyssal Dragon and the Heavenly Sword Peacock King after all, they wouldn’t be hit by stray objects falling from the sky.

*Sliip—*

And Roan, emitting light from his chest, instantly began to move toward a safe place.

“Look at that!”

“It looks somewhat like a Darc, but it’s cool!”

The students, still not knowing the reason, were amazed as they watched Roan’s magic.

As always, not many people realized a disaster until it struck.

‘I didn’t expect Kaina to be helpful, but it’s nice to be able to use intermediate magic at will.’

It was right after that.

*Boom—! Crash—!! Bam, bam—!*

Onto Acherandir’s Playground 13, where the students were gathered, all kinds of animal carcasses and ingredients to be used for cooking began to pour down like a bombardment!

“Ro-Roan! How can you just go by yourself!”

*Boom—!*

“Kyaah, everyone, let’s go!”

“Y-Yes, Sion!”

“Understood!”

And a step late, Sion and her friends also moved busily to avoid the huge objects falling randomly.

Playground 13 literally became a shambles.

At least the students near Alphard could catch their breath by hiding behind the shield he deployed.

“A-A wild boar is falling!”

“A bear! It’s a bear!”

“Argh! Why is a log falling?!”

The students who couldn’t do so had no choice but to run for their lives to dodge the shadows.

Roan watched the scene from a distance, away from the area where the ingredients were falling intensively.

Occasionally, something fell even here, but since he had used the Empty Body of the Void, he could just let it pass right through him.

*Boom—!!!*

‘Hmm, isn’t this a bit dangerous?’

“It-It’s too dangerous!”

“Is dodging this a pop quiz?!”

It was certainly dangerous.

No student would die from this, but the experience of being crushed under a house-sized animal wouldn’t be very pleasant.

However, the danger Roan thought of was a bit different from that of the students.

‘Food falling like rain from the sky…’

Because it reminded him of a scene from an Earth animated film.

He hadn’t thought much of it when just looking at it through “God and Devil,” but standing in this place in person, it was certainly quite a grotesque and terrifying scene.

*Pitter-patter— pitter-patter—*

In fact, the time the ingredients fell was not very long.

Was it at most around 15 seconds?

However, after a time had passed that felt to the students as if the end of class was already approaching,

an even more ominous sound than before was heard from the sky.

“Pee-ree-heet! Ho-ooo-ooo—!!!!”

The battered students looked up at the sky with extremely tired eyes.

…Among them, there were many who were already crushed under boars or bears, struggling to move their heads.

“W-What is falling this time…”

“Hearing how loud it is, is it about the size of an elephant?”

“If I get crushed by that, I’ll really die…?”

However, contrary to the students’ expectations, the final entity signaling the end of the rain—or bombardment—of ingredients was not that large.

“Paree-heet! Pee-u-hu!”

*Tap!*

Because the one who landed lightly while making an unidentified sound was none other than Nia, who had colorful feathers and scales on her body.

Nia greeted the students, who were in a miserable state, with a bright face.

“Pee-roh-ui, Pee-nia!”

…Of course, whether the students understood that greeting was a completely different matter.

While the students were looking at Nia and wondering, ‘Is that a human-like holy beast?’

*Pee-ro-it— Pee-ri-at—!*

Suddenly, the crane-type spiritual beasts ran over and cried out in protest to Nia.

Then, Nia put her hands together and apologized as if she were extremely sorry.

“Bee-ree-hyat! Pee-bee-bee!”

…Naturally, it was not an apology within the category that the students could understand.

In any case, the crane spiritual beasts that had protested fiercely to Nia turned their heads and cried primly.

*Pebebet— Bee-hee-eu…*

It meant something along the lines of ‘If you put it that way, I guess it can’t be helped,’ but it goes without saying that the students did not understand this at all either.

“She’s apologizing quite politely.”

“D-Darc understood that?!”

Except for Roan, that was.

Roan looked at the few startled students around him with a cold expression and said,

“It doesn’t hurt to study a foreign language.”

…?

The students tilted their heads at an even greater angle than when they heard the conversation between Nia and the spiritual beasts.

”’What kind of foreign language lets you talk to a spiritual beast…?”’

Just then, Sion, Rafia, and Riel, who had been busy fleeing, ran toward Roan.

“Roan!”

“How could you run away by yourself?!”

“Too much!”

Roan apologized in a feigned apologetic tone.

“I’m sorry. The situation was too urgent.”

Not expecting Roan to apologize immediately, his friends looked back on the situation just now.

Indeed, when house-sized beasts suddenly rained down, even Roan wouldn’t have had many options.

”’Are we relying too much on Roan?”’

No matter how they thought about it, that was the only conclusion.

“Th-The situation was very urgent…”

“I’m sorry, it was a problem we should have solved on our own…”

As his friends apologized while feeling embarrassed, Roan waved his hand naturally as if telling them not to worry.

“Don’t mention it. It is fine, so do not pay it any mind.”

“””???”””

His friends tilted their heads.

It was true they were the ones who apologized, but wasn’t it a bit strange for him to react so matter-of-factly?

While the girls had complex expressions, Roan looked around and asked,

“By the way, where are Demona and Hector?”

“Huh?”

“Ah?”

Only then did they realize the two were missing.

“Where did they go? Sion, did you happen to see them?”

“I don’t really…”

“They were here until a moment ago…”

Honestly speaking, even if they weren’t here, it wasn’t a big deal—in fact, it was rather good—but since people had disappeared, he had to make a show of looking for them.

Roan led his friends back to the place where they had originally stood.

Fortunately (?), it did not take very long to find them.

“Roaaaan!!! I’m here!! Save meee!”

“Roaaan! I am here! Save me before that heretic!”

“What? You crazy fanatic!”

There was no need to look for them, as they were bickering and shouting at the top of their lungs even while crushed in locations quite far apart from each other.

Hector’s voice came from beneath a large brown bear, while Demona’s voice came from beneath a relatively small roe deer.

A roe deer was something Roan and his friends could move without much trouble if they combined their strength.

[I will help too!]

*Kirik—!*

The spiritual beasts, including Bell and Charlotte, also lent a hand, making it even easier.

Their friends praised the spiritual beasts.

“Good job, good job~”

‘I don’t think you need to be that good.’

Helping out was fine, but did they really have to go as far as saving someone like Demona?

In any case, several followers who were crushed together with Demona also stood up and breathed a sigh of relief.

“Whew, I thought I was going to die.”

“We almost couldn’t graduate on the same day.”

“That wouldn’t do~”

Next was Hector’s turn.

Confirming Hector’s state, Rafia ran over in surprise.

“Hector! How on earth did you get crushed for your face to end up in this state?!”

Rafia squatted with teary eyes, grieving over Hector’s injury.

“…Rafia, I appreciate your worry, but where on earth are you looking?”

…In fact, what Rafia was looking at was not Hector.

She was worrying over the head of the bear that crushed Hector.

“Ripi.”

Riel, approaching from behind Rafia, pointed to a spot.

Hector was crushed on the opposite side.

It was hard to blame Rafia, though.

‘He is covered in dust, so he does look similar to the bear.’

In any case, Rafia realized the fact late and shuffled over to Hector while remaining in a squat.

“O-Of course I was looking at you! I’ll get you out right now!”

“You were looking at me, right?”

“O-Of course! Since you’re crushed, you must not have seen me clearly!”

“That could be. I can hold out, so you can rescue me slowly.”

Hector had an extremely suspicious look, but since there was nothing he could do, he had no choice but to maintain a low posture.

However, the bear’s size was so large that even if his friends combined their strength, it was quite difficult to lift.

*Hiss— Flash!*

“Wow! The professor is incredibly strong!”

“The strongest golem, Alphard!”

“I am the Sacred Combat artificial intelligence—Alphard.”

Alphard also began in earnest to pull the students out, but it seemed it would take a long time for him to reach this side.

At that moment,

“Pee-ree-ret?”

right behind the back of Roan, who was pondering how to lift the bear, the language of the avian race was heard.

It was Nia, whose movements were so excellent that one couldn’t even tell when she had approached.

“Kyaah! Senior Nia?!”

“Wh-When did she!”

Rather than Roan, Sion, Rafia, and the others were more startled and took a couple of steps back.

“I-It’s a holy beast ghost! Run!”

“Run awayyy!”

Demona was running away in the exact same pose with her followers.

Roan nodded calmly.

“Yes, I would be grateful if you could help a bit.”

*Kirik— Kee-reek—!*

Charlotte rejoiced, gesturing something along the lines of, ‘To understand even that language, as expected of Master!’

Nia smiled brightly and nodded.

“Pe-ri-rit, ppit-ppit-ppyat!”

“Still, I cannot go to the mountains. I have too much work to do.”

“Bee-hee…”

Although it was somewhat disappointing, Nia grabbed the bear’s hide with both hands.

And then,

*Heave—!*

She lightly lifted the giant bear!

“W-Wow!”

“Th-That’s amazing!”

Since they had tried to move it themselves, the sight of her lifting it so effortlessly made it look even more incredible.

Sion, Rafia, and Riel clapped in unison.

Nia set the bear down to the side as if it were nothing, then looked at Riel and asked,

“Bee-ee-yat, bet?”

Roan could roughly understand it, but politely requested for the sake of the other friends.

“Could you speak in the Imperial language?”

“Ah, sorry! I forgot again! I was just wondering if that friend really likes it~”

Nia seemed unfamiliar with Riel, who still had almost no change in her expression.

Riel said, feeling extremely flustered,

“Li…”

Nia was equally flustered.

“St-Still, even if I’m your senior, calling me a liar is a bit much, isn’t it?”

“That’s…!”

Riel looked extremely aggrieved.