“Yes, judging from the analysis of the traces of magic—”
She is interrupted when the ring tone of a mobile phone echoes within the room. It seems like the ring tone is coming from Rossweisse-san. “Cough, I’m sorry. Hello……”
Rossweisse-san answers it by making a cough. ……Who is it from? When I became curious—
“O,Oba-chan! Whatz wrong? Did something happen?”
G-Granny? Also it seems like her words have some accent in it…… That wasn’t just my ears, and Rossweisse-san continues to speak in countryside dialect! “Ya, me in important meeting now. Wha? Job? No worry, me, doing well. Oba-chan no need to worry, ya know?”
The meeting has been halted because of Rossweisse-san’s dialect, and it became a situation where everyone has shock in their eyes! That’s because she was a cool beauty (100 yen maniac) who seems to match well with the city, but now she’s speaking in a countryside dialect!? Of course we will be shocked! “Boss of me place me work now, she is important person, and ya know me salary is better than me earlier job ya? So, me can send me money over there, ya know. No prob, no prob! Nothin' is in the countryside, ya? Buy somethin' with the money me send ya, and if ya doing well, me is happy with that, ya know?”
I open my eyes wide, and Asia tells me. “I heard this a while ago, but it seems like Rossweisse-san is sending her money back to her homeland and……”
Xenovia continues after her. “I heard her homeland is a place where there is nothing. Since her grandmother is living there alone, it seems like she is sending the money she earned from her job as a Devil.”
Irina also explains. “Since her parents are warriors who serve the Norse Gods, they rarely come home, so she told me that she was mostly raised by her grandmother. That’s why she is a granny’s girl. Her dream is to build a discount store in her homeland which has every good imaginable.”
Seriously? It’s my first time hearing about this. She’s a granny’s girl, a countryside girl, and she is also sending her an allowance……! That’s why she is so attached to money! More importantly, she wants to build a discount store in her homeland…… So the reason why she is fixated with 100 yen is due to that reason. “……I found out about this for the first time. Rossweisse-san’s dream.”
While muttering it, I can’t help myself but to feel fellowship from the former Valkyrie who is showing more of her character. Damn you, geezer Odin! For you to leave such a good person like her……! But, it’s certain this is an unfortunate side of her! They can settle the problem by saying that the one who was ditched was just “Rossweisse-san”! But she is a good person! Rossweisse-san who has finished talking on the phone coughs. “……I’m sorry. I never thought I would suddenly receive a call from home…… Also, I asked my grandmother, who was a magic user, about a spell which could break through powerful security……and she gave me quite a severe opinion. I did think that it is a possibility as well……”
“What would that be?”
When I ask Rossweisse-san,
“—a traitor.”
Sona-kaichou answers instead. Everyone’s gaze concentrates at Kaichou. ……So a traitor huh. “This whole region is under the jurisdiction of the alliance of Three Great Powers, and there are many staff members here besides us. There is a powerful barrier within the whole town while having this school as the focal point, and it’s made that anyone can be notified if someone suspicious steps foot in this area. There is a factor where it is hard to find them if they enter by hiding themselves, but it will be restricted by the few possible ways of coming inside here. First is to enter by force. This is possible for those with strong enough powers. But this method of entering will give them away immediately, so that's not what happened in this incident.”
Yeah, if someone dangerous like that comes in, even we will notice their presence. Sona-kaichou continues. “The second method is a case where the person who lives in this town or one of the staff leaves the barrier and gets captured where they get controlled to enter here. Regarding this method, we didn’t get any response from the civilians, the students, and staff. If that’s the case, then it means the traitor became the middle person to allow them to enter the school.”
“Is such a thing possible?”
Sona-kaichou narrows her eyebrows. It certainly seems like it is a severe opinion. “It will be possible if it’s the core members who can pass the barrier without a problem. In other words, only the core members from the Gremory group, Irina-san, Ravel-san, we the Sitri-group, and Azazel-sensei, are the ones that can arrange such a large scale assault.”
“Are you saying there is a traitor among us! ?”
Saji shouts. His face says that he can’t believe it. Me too, Saji. There’s no way I can believe it. For there to be a traitor among us who went through life and death situation together——. Kaichou who heard Saji’s shout, puts on a gentle expression. “I also don’t believe there is a traitor. But the culprit is someone we can’t let our guard down against. We also don’t know whether their target is Ravel Phoenix-san. Though, we are not so naïve that we will let this go through. Now, about Toujou-san and the other two who were taken away—.”
“Kaichou!”
The [Bishop] Kusaka-san appears while interrupting Kaichou who stops her explanation there. Kusaka-san who has the attention of everyone says while feeling nervous. “……We have received contact from those who abducted the first years of the Occult Research Club.”
The situation starts to move! Midnight—. We, the Occult Research Club, and the members of the Student Council have come to the station nearest here. The reason for this is that the culprits have contacted us and told us to come here. What they said was,
[If you want to take back Toujou Koneko, Gasper Vladi, and Ravel Phoenix, come to the underground station with only the members of the Gremory-group, Shidou Irina, and the Sitri-group.] That’s what they said. ……It was a message which specifically told us to come. Underground station. That must be the station connected to the Underworld located under the basement of the station nearest to here. During summer holidays, we entered the Underworld using the train located in the basement of this station. ……I never thought they would be there. Kaichou mutters in front of the station. “I never thought they would choose this place. The staff are investigating the other underground spaces used specifically by Devils……and there has been several traces of magic. There have been traces that they have been using it to hide themselves temporarily.”
“So they have been digging into the underground from the land and then trespassed by coming from the underground? Or did they trespass from the Underworld side—the train route? By passing through the dimensional gap……?”
I ask but Kaichou shakes her head to the side. “No, it probably wasn’t either method. Just like I thought, was someone used by them……?