“Are you really going to say something like that right now~?”
– Zzzuuuuuuk….!!
“That guuuuuaaack…..!”
Eve’s finger was tightly pulling my cheek.
Baeck Sia was right in front of me, but her presidential dignity has utterly disappeared.
‘So, please save me, Baeck Sia…!’
You wanted to try this out on someone, didn’t you?
You want to prove that your creation works on strong people, don’t you?
You want to fight, don’t you? That’s what your instincts are screaming.
I stared at Baeck Sia, who had disassembled her armor, and she held my hand while speaking.
“Today, it’s better if you rest a bit.”
Ah.
“Sia, that’s a great choice.”
“Thank you. Even I, as the president, wouldn’t be reckless enough to fight the president whose mana is almost depleted… Besides, the president does look quite exhausted.”
“But, mana can be restored with a potion…”
-Zzzuuuuuuk~
‘No, I can’t speak.’
“How many bottles of that potion did our student council president drink today~?”
“…Seven of the highest quality?”
Right after hearing the answer, the strength in Eve’s hand started to increase significantly.
“You know this and still want to drink a mana potion?! If you drink too many mana potions, the naturally regenerating mana capacity greatly decreases! You should have clearly learned that in the first year’s lessons!”
“Ugyaaaah….!”
I am dragged towards the dormitory with Eve holding my cheek.
‘Please, save me…!’
I flailed my body, pleading with my eyes for salvation towards Baeck Sia, but…
“Ah, Director. Please take this, it’s the leftover mithril from the refining process.”
“Ooh, leftover mithril? Thank you~”
Baeck Sia had already handed over the leftover mithril to Eve and returned to the dormitory.
‘After all the help I’ve given!’
It was me who activated the smithy, refined and compressed the mithril, and did so many other things—it added up to more than 400 billion worth of free work—and now she’s leaving me here like this!
After that, I was forcibly summoned to my room by Eve.
“If you have any discomfort, go talk to Ayul in the next room.”
“…..These ropes are uncomfortable.”
I had to be confined in the room until the re-made earrings arrived, restrained all over my body.
“Sorry, I need the earrings to be able to move freely. Also, I noticed recently that your sleeping hours have decreased a lot. No matter what, you should sleep at least eight hours a day.”
“….. Is there a biometric sensor attached to the earrings?”
“Secret~”
Thus, I had to spend my precious weekend lying on the bed.
“Se-ah, whose hair is this…? This isn’t Ayul’s hair, and it’s not Director’s color either.”
“Firstly, please put away that grotesque sword before continuing the conversation.”
While enduring harassment from Yi Seo-yoon, who suddenly burst into the room demanding clarification on the source of the unidentified hair.
This weekend, I learned that Yi Seo-yoon wasn’t blind, that if she seriously unleashed her power, she could open her squinted eyes, and that her irises were yellow.
…
…
…
In the student council room, a startled student found that the earrings they had always worn were missing and asked about their whereabouts.
“President, you’re not wearing the earrings you wore the other day, right?”
“Ah, they were broken during sparring, so I sent them in for repair.”
Saying this, I touched around my neck, feeling something like a band around my fingers and an uncomfortable tightness around the neck, which was rather unpleasant.
‘…I have to wear this choker until the earrings are repaired.’
Fortunately, it’s just a band-like type that can be covered by clothing, otherwise, if bells were added to it, it would just be like a dog collar. Even worse, the bells would sound with every step, making it quite a dilemma to manage.
“…..Phew.”
Thanks to that, my attire is currently a situation where I’m wearing a black polo shirt that goes up to the neck under the school uniform, which is quite constricting.
“Ah, that’s right, by the way, I should check the time…”
A student council member who remembered something urgent went out, and I hurriedly pulled my polo shirt inside to let in some cool air.
“Phew… If it weren’t for the ventilation magic, my clothes would have been soaked by now…”
It was supposed to arrive today, so how much longer do I have to endure this?
-Hustle and bustle
‘By the way, it’s noisy outside.’
Did someone launch a confession attack in the hallway?
-Creeeeak
“The notice for the student council president election and the participation application forms have been uploaded to the central screen-!”
“What? Did you really see the notice and the list of participants and still decide not to participate?”
‘Ah.’
So there was a reason.
The student council member who just posted the poster and had just finished eating lunch came in, emitting the scent of jeyuk-bokkeum all over their body: Kang Ayul.
-Plop
After throwing her bag into the locker, Kang Ayul lied down on the student council sofa.
“How many candidates do you think there will be this year?”
Without caring about crumbs or anything, she leisurely ate a cookie and asked the student council member.
I’m the one who will have to clean this up.
“I’m not quite sure either, but with the president not participating, I guess several students quite weak in psychokinesis might challenge, don’t you think?”
And as if to prove her words, within ten minutes of revealing the application forms, more than forty applications had already been sent via email.
“Phew… They’re piling up too much already. We probably should change the minimum eligibility to top 100 ranked students or something…”
Already looking at the emails coming through, Kang Ayul sighed.
‘Well, I now have free time because I’ve quit my job.’
In two weeks, once the student council president election is over, these tedious responsibilities of being the student council president will finally end.
‘Now I can easily take care of the protagonist.’
My chest pounds at the thought of handing over various hidden peace treaties and special abilities to the protagonist.
“I’ll help with summarizing the participation list.”
“Sure. Let’s see… About 78 have come so far. I’ll check the odd numbers, and you check the even ones.”
She goes through each of the application forms piled up in the mailbox.
‘The main characters must have all participated.’
Seong Ah-rin decided to participate using one of the privileges of the student council president, ‘If the interim evaluation grade is good, one can substitute the course with that interim evaluation grade’ to sleep peacefully.
Baeck Sia participated because of the criticisms and sarcastic remarks from classmates. Yoo Eun-ha participated in order to defeat Yoon Se-ah.
Ecclesia and Sakura participated to showcase their value to visiting academy inspectors.
Kang Ayul participated to take the student council president’s position away from Yoon Se-ah, as per the original work.
And the player protagonist… just to fight strong people.
‘Yoo Eun-ha might not participate this time.’
In the original work, her goal since she was adopted into Yoon Seong-ho’s family was to knock down Yoon Se-ah, who looked at her unfavorably, and to prove her worth.
However, I never tormented Yoo Eun-ha, and thanks to that, she entered the academy normally and joined the protagonist group.
‘If she were to participate… she might join after receiving a proposal from the protagonist and pretend to lose.’
Anyway, this year’s student council president election… is already considered over before it has even begun.
[Application Form]
Name: Kang Ayul
Grade: 2
Rank: 2
Last year’s student council president election final ranking: 2
Weapon: Sword
“Ayul, did you also submit your application form while organizing the applications?”
“…Well, when else would I apply?”
After adding Kang Ayul’s application form to the list, I looked at the next application and saw a familiar name.
[Application Form]
Name: Yi Seo-yoon
Grade: 2
Rank: 10 (Temporary)
Last year’s student council election final ranking: Did not participate due to transfer
Weapon: Sword
‘There are many variables.’
Another promising contender with equal strength to Kang Ayul has appeared; this could bring a fresh breeze to this year’s student council president election.
‘Will the final be a four-way battle between Kang Ayul, Yi Seo-yoon, the protagonist, and Baeck Sia?’
Seong Ah-rin is not much more than a first-year with an obscene amount of magical power since ‘that incident’ hasn’t happened yet… Baeck Sia, thanks to my early involvement, should be stronger than Baeck Sia during the student council president election timeline, but whether her armor’s attack will be effective against Kang Ayul or Yi Seo-yoon remains questionable.
No matter how much her armor’s performance is enhanced… Hmm, or is that not the case?
‘The additional parts I saw back then were clearly designed to enable both bombardment, attack, and defense.’
In truth, Baeck Sia’s power can be considered so strong that she could easily defeat the protagonist without skill assistance.
‘This is problematic. If one of the main characters becomes the student council president, it would be impossible for them to wander around with the protagonist.’
That must never happen.
Since becoming the student council president means shouldering heavy responsibilities and all sorts of miscellaneous tasks… If that happens, in my position where I need to feed hidden peace treaties to the protagonist, it might end up where I can’t give them due to the hidden peace treaties mostly being located inside the gate.
‘The most stable ending would be either Kang Ayul or Yi Seo-yoon becoming the student council president…’
In that case… the biggest variable in this student council president election this time will be Baeck Sia and the protagonist Jee-an.
‘Initially, Baeck Sia’s main purpose was to prove her existence to the classmates in her class… So, there’s also the possibility that she’ll only fight her classmates, disqualify herself, and exit the election in the final stages.’
As a last resort…
“Phew…”
[Student Council President Election Participation Application]
Name: Yoon Se-ah
Grade: 2
Rank: 1
Last year’s student council president election final ranking: 1st place
Weapon: Staff
I’ll have to step in personally.
If I throw the right people (Jee-an, Baeck Sia, and other main 1st-year characters) off balance and then withdraw citing health issues, won’t that work?
