"Don't screw with me! …This kind of thing should not have happened!!"
―A voice of an old man rang out behind the closed door of the headmaster's office.
"If there was even a little mistake, my Mio-tan would… ehem, my step daughter would have died! For Germany's Einherjar to attack our students in the middle of the quest…!!"
"How could Board Chairman Amasaki know about… Aah, I see. So the two knights mentioned in the report are your protégés, is that so?"
Headmaster Otonashi responded so while leaning his back in the cushioned creaking chair.
"…Those knights were the kids I taught previously. I called them from other provinces."
"I see. That bit was the only thing incomprehensible in this incident. Even though all the members of the knights in the metropolis were already gathered into Loki's subjugation team and got informed about Beatrix's movement, why were those knights loitering on that quest uninformed… By any chance, will you always rely on your former students to shadow and protect your step daughter everytime she challenged a quest?"
"Not always, this is the first time. She failed on those quest before so… it can't be helped! Because Mio-tan formed a party with a useless rank E! Taking into account that risk… this is a reasonable measure!!"
"So you call your step daughter something like [Mio-tan] habitually… I received the report about Amasaki Mio's personality, but… I think I see how that personality could take form."
"Fuh, there are also things I want to say about you bastard's training plan for your daughter, but right now it doesn't matter. Why did Germany's knight attack the students? I never heard anything about this. Don't joke around, you knew this before it happened."
"A gag order was planned for the aftermath, but there was no danger to their life. The Einherjar had been informed that the only one that could be killed was Lotte. Nonetheless, I guess there was still the risk of those battle-crazy savages going overboard, they didn't change at all since they were still called Vikings. Those rabble are really the same as the ones told about in Norse Mythology."
"Stop your bullshit! …In the worst case… Shit, she got swallowed in this kind of plot because she grouped together with that kind of brat…!"
Board chairman Amasaki changed the brunt of his wrath because he realized there was nothing he could do by himself about the diplomatic relations between Japan and Germany. If Mio was not in the same party with Hayashizaki Kazuki, then she wouldn't be in any danger.
Headmaster Otonashi twitched his eyebrows toward those words.
That kid was certainly a hindrance…
It was not the same stupid reason because he had similar tastes about his daughter, like this old man.
There was no way in the world that they could welcome the likes of a 15 year old kid as the [King of Magica Stigma].
Knight Academy, Knight Order, government… all those organizations had already possessed [vested interests] regarding the Magica Stigma. All the people had already solidified their status up to this point, then suddenly they were told that they had to serve a 15 year old kid, who in the world could do that…
The power and influence of the King must be chipped off as much as possible.
The extremist like Liz Liza Westwood advocated that they [ought to support] the King. But [Reduce the power of the King], that was the consensus of all the people that stood at the top of the organizations.
"…Your knight protégée shouldn't make their report regarding the quest public."
"That's obvious, do you think we can report that kind of thing? Is there something wrong with that?"
A new scheme came to mind inside Headmaster Otonashi's brain.
"…There is something interesting from the report of those knights. If we could use that a little, we could also get rid of that eyesore child from this academy while also taking care of Charlotte at the same time. Your daughter could also move into a more proper girl-only party then."
This old board chairman also shared the common position of not welcoming the King after all.
And then the step daughter he doted on above all things could stay far away from Hayashizaki Kazuki.
Nonetheless, Hayashizaki Kazuki was also one of the students that he needed to protect as a teacher.
For a while, Board Chairman Amasaki's eyes were wavering in hesitation while feeling the weight of his duty.
But in the end― he nodded for the sake of his step-daughter. Headmaster Otonashi smiled.
Translator's Notes and References
1.Japanese short sword
2. President
3. another type of short sword, Usually, samurais brought this together with their normal katana.
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_fibrillation
5. Automatic External Defibrillator
6. Japan's bullet train
7. Shinto shrine archway
8. Megin is the norse word of might or power
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megingj%C3%B6r%C3%B0
10. I'm using smashed magic as the phrase for the magic backlash when someone's defensive magic power was hit by a strong attack