Chapter 94 – 9.4 Call of the President
“Knives.”
“Woohyo?!”
It’s a surprise.
As I was about to pass the academy gate, someone suddenly started talking to me from behind.
There are very few people in the academy who would sneak up behind me like this. At this point, I knew roughly who the opponent was.
When I turned around, there was a suspicious figure who pulled up a shiny spandex that stuck to his body and covered his face like a mask. If he hadn’t been wearing a women’s academy uniform over spandex, it wouldn’t have been strange if he had been arrested as a behavioral suspect.
“Kunokuno-senpai. You were surprised.”
“I told you not to call me that.”
Bean. Kunokuno-senpai hitting my forehead with the handle of the kunai.
“Ouch.”
I stroked the affected area and frowned.
“To hit a cute junior with a weapon. You are doing too much.”
“Because you are doing the right thing.”
“You don’t deny that you’re a cute junior.”
“There’s nothing that isn’t cute as long as you keep your mouth shut.”
“Oh my gosh. I got a confession from Kunokuno-senpai. Ouch.”
Bean. Hit the right spot again.
“It hurts.”
“If you don’t want to get hit, mess around in moderation.”
This is Kumon Kikuno. Rune Academy High School 4th year.
She is a slender beauty who always hides half of her face, suspicious at worst and mysterious at best.
I don’t show my face her, but when it comes to being beautiful, it’s better to be beautiful than ugly.
This person is a character with the concept of a kunoichi (female ninja), just by looking at her name and attire her, and I gave her the nickname Kumon Kikuno = Kunokuno alongside Shinozaki Shinobu = Shinoshino.
“By the way, saying that Kuno-senpai came…….”
“It’s a call from the chairman.”
“Eh.”
If the student council president has Shinoshino, the head of the bodyguard, the president has Kunokuno-senpai, the head of the intelligence department.
This person also took the new director’s seat instead of the previous head of the intelligence department during the major cleaning last year, so his career his is not long.
However, in terms of skill, she is so outstanding that she cannot be compared to Shinoshino, who is also a rookie. To the extent that you can sneak up behind me like you do now.
With Kuno-senpai, we worked hand in hand until last year, so we were able to get quite close.
Compared to Shinoshino, who snarls at me, I’d say she’s a fairy.
However, being close and calling the chairman are separate issues.
“Sorry. I have to go to class soon.”
I was trying to run away, but I was grabbed by the back of her back by my senior.
“It was only after the second period was over that I wandered around to school, so what was the class about? Don’t talk and follow me.”
“Crying.”
Kunokuno-senpai put a rope around my neck and pulled me, as if dragging a criminal away.
Do you think someone will run away? Of course, I would run away if I had the chance.
“Reel? Aren’t you going to the chairman’s office?”
However, the direction I went was different from usual.
The building with the chairman’s office is over there.
“Today is the president’s office.”
“Ah~ It’s been a while since I’ve been nagging.”
The president of Rune Academy, Ryoko Mizuki, is, as her name suggests, the mother of the student council president Kyoko Mizuki.
However, she is strict enough to make one wonder if she is actually her mother-in-law her, not her mother her. She restrains Chairman Mizuki. To be honest, if you look at her from her side of her, she feels sympathy for the president.
Growing up under such a mother, the president also has a personality that is a bit…… It must have been weird
Umm… Poor Chairman.
-Smart.
Arriving at the student council president’s office, Kuno-senpai knocks on the door.
In front of the president’s office, 1.5 times more SS guards than usual were guarding their seats in a strict atmosphere about 15 times the usual.
For the members of the SS, it would be similar to the situation where the division commander visited the unit without warning. I secretly prayed for the welfare of the senior members of the SS.
“Chairman. I brought a troubled child.”
-It’s sweet.
Upon entering the student council president’s office, there was the president with a gloomy expression, Shinoshino with a very nervous expression, and president Mizuki with a slightly annoyed expression.
“It’s a problem. Where is a model student like me?”
‘Nives… !’
When I grumbled, Shinoshino gave me a terrifying glare.
Mmm. I guess I should shut up because I don’t want to be scolded by Shino later.
– Whoa.
The chairman of the board of directors, who is sitting at the top of the table, sucks on a smoking pipe and exhales smoke.
When I pretended to follow the smoke by waving my hand in front of my nose as if to show off, the chairman said heheh and smiled leisurely.
Today, Chairman Mizuki was wearing a colorful kimono with red flowers on a white background. He exudes a decadent atmosphere with a smoking pipe in one hand that looks luxurious even at first glance.
Mmm. This person also looks unrealistically young like Sana-san, perhaps because of the original game.
Just by looking at his face his, he was almost indistinguishable from Chairman Mizuki. If there was no mole under his right eye his, would n’t even his husband his, President Mizuki, be able to tell them apart?
Isn’t President Mizuki also pretending to be mistaken and hugging his daughter instead of his wife his?
Shame on you. Can’t forgive
“Knives Windsor. It looks like you had a flashy accident while I was away.”
Chairman Ryoko Mizuki began to nag softly in her characteristic polite tone of her.
The Chairman of the Board has been away for the past few weeks as he has toured academies in developed countries in Europe and North America.
Of course, I didn’t mean to cause an accident while the chairman was away. It was just a coincidence that the times overlapped. Above all, it was not an accident.
“It’s not an accident. For the sake of peace in the academy—”
When I tried to say something back, Shinoshino from the other side fired lasers from his eyes as if to say, “Please shut up!”
“Hmm. Sorry. I couldn’t communicate with them, so I had no choice but to use my hand.”
“Whoops. I must have. ‘As always’.”
Haha….”
Ryoko Mizuki, the chairman of the board, laughs and responds to my obvious report.
The chairman is not a regular soldier, but he is a brigadier general in terms of wartime rank. He means that he is higher than me, whether as a civilian or as a soldier.
Of course, unlike the president and Shino, he knows my true identity well. Above all, he was my boss and even commanded the operation, so it can be said that he knows my personality better than anyone else.
“Well, that’s fine. There is nothing wrong with taking care of a few trash people.”
“It’s trash…… Well, it was trash.”
I’m sorry, Lieutenant Shuji. I won’t forget your performance.
I don’t know what kind of activity it was.
“By the way, there was a girl this time too?”
“Ah……Yes, what….”
“It’s a big deal. The world’s ‘KW’ killed a girl.”
I shrug my shoulders at the chairman who smiles at me about what is interesting.
“Because I deserved to die.”
“So, she deserved to die, so she brought the boy she killed back to life and made her plaything?”
“Words that anyone who hears will misunderstand. That’s not true.”
Shinoshino looks at me with eyes like looking at trash.
It’s not like that.
Oh, did you usually have those eyes when you look at me?
Chet.
“Nives. Do you know what runes are for me and Kyoko?”
“…… Yes. Of course.”
At this point, I was already feeling uneasy.
Usually, parental runes are passed down to children.
Mother’s runes to her daughters, father’s runes to her sons.
And the rune of Mizuki Ryoko and Mizuki Kyoko mother and daughter is the ‘Revival Rune’ side by side.
This revived rune is famous for being one of the rarest runes in the world, and at the same time difficult to use.
You can use this rune to bring the dead back to life.
Instead, the user who used the rune dies.
It was the ultimate and extreme rune of sacrificing one’s own life to save the other person.
“Nives. Hand over Akane Tsukimiya.”
The chairman said bluntly.
“I don’t like it.”
And I flatly refused.
I had already read through my mind what the chairman was going to say and even the plan behind it, so I was able to refuse the order without hesitation.
“Is it a refusal? Why?”
“Akane Tsukimiya is mine. I am not handing it over to anyone.”
Tension runs in the room.
Shinoshino. It’s no use trying to Because it is a non-negotiable issue.
– Tok.
The chairman shakes the cigarette ash from the smoking pipe on the floor of the chairman’s room.
You have a bad habit. What will my daughter learn from watching?
Chairman Mizuki let out a light sigh and spoke as if addressing a stubborn child.
“Akane Tsukimiya is an important sample. Now that the scientists who brought her back to life are gone, we need even the samples they left behind to unlock the mechanism that brought her back to life.”
“No. Akane did n’t survive. Right now, Akane is just a doll that imitates a human and stops when her magic power her runs out. The dead do not come to life.”
The revived runes of the chairman and chairman are very special runes, but there was no room for controversy.
A person of national importance, such as the emperor, prime minister, national hero, etc.
When such a person dies, if someone can take the place of that death, can there be no one who wants someone to die for him?
I don’t think so.
And Chairman Mizuki was also concerned about that.
“Congratulations. I don’t think Revive Rune’s share price will go down.”
Now, there is a reliable breakwater called the husband of the president of the ruling party, but it is impossible to be safe forever in the ever-changing situation. In fact, even in the original game, the Mizuki family fell due to political maneuvering.
So, the chairman wanted a sample named Akane. Even if you don’t use the Revive rune, if you figure out a way to resurrect people, then her daughter her, Chairman Mizuki, won’t have to worry about getting unreasonable demands in the future.
Heh The chairman laughed lightly.
“It doesn’t fit right in front of you. If the child is really just a doll, why reject it? I’ll give you enough compensation, and I’ll prepare a ‘living person’ to replace the doll.”
“Even a doll is my doll. It’s natural for a man to protect his woman his. And there is no one who can replace Akane. Oh, I would think about it a little if the chairman or the president did it for me.”
Shinoshino started to tremble.
Shinoshino is in charge of reactions today.
The chairman asked, narrowing her eyes and glaring at me.
“What if the state enforces it?”
“Then it will be an all-out war. I will fight to the end with the determination to be with the country.”
“If I did, I would lose everything and regret it, right? Is losing everyone trying to protect one person the ending Knives wants? Or, that the country can defeat even its opponent?”
“No. It is a proportional deterrence strategy.”
Proportional deterrence strategy.
After the development of nuclear weapons, nuclear powers cannot recklessly engage in war.
Even if you can surely destroy the other country with nuclear weapons, your own country will also suffer irreparable damage from the nuclear weapons launched by the other country.
Then, no matter how easy the opponent is, it will not be able to touch it. That is a proportional deterrence strategy.
I told the chairman of the board with the feeling of France that if Russia launches a nuclear bomb on Russia, even if Russia is destroyed, Moscow will be blown up.
“If even one thing is taken from me, I will fight with the determination to destroy everything of the person who took it from me. Regardless of whether the opponent is a country or whatever.”
If you give up even one, you can’t keep any.
So, I don’t lose a single person.
That’s my way
